NEW ROMHACK RELEASED - DO NOT USE SACRED SWORD/KING'S SHIELD

BETA RELEASE V. 1, By Kobazco & Phives, with help from Drayano
Works for both Sword & Shield
NO POST GAME
YES, YOU NEED A MODDED SWITCH
Follow here for updates (Twitter)
THIS ROMHACK IS CURRENTLY BEING ENTIRELY REWORKED. AS SUCH, THIS CURRENT VERSION/ROMHACK IS NOT SUPPORTED PAST SWORD/SHIELD 1.0, AND NO UPDATES WILL MADE. I AM USING THIS THREAD TO SHOWCASE UPDATES ON THE REWORK, WHICH WILL BE A MUCH MUCH MORE INDEPTH EXPERIENCE. PLEASE BE PATIENT UNTIL THE REWORK COMES OUT.

NOTICE: I likely will not be updating this mod to work with new patches until all of (or maybe just one of) the DLC is out. When the DLC releases, we will have a LOT more Pokemon to work for in terms of team building and editing wild Pokemon. With that in mind, I hope everyone looks forward to the DLC. Until then if you want to use this mod, please make sure you are on the base version of the game.
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Context time! I made popular (But not too indepth) romhacks for SM & USUM, most notably Rising Sun & Waxing Moon. However, this time, things are different! This time I bring to you all a fully featured difficulty hack. Hundreds of Pokemon have had their Hidden Abilities made easily obtainable, stats buffed, abilities buffed, and enhanced movesets! For all of these changes & more, see the gdrive folder with the download and all documentation.

Changes:

• All important trainers have 6 Pokemon and and are much more difficult. (Hop begins to have 6 after the 1st gym)
• Important trainers also have manually changed movesets, abilities, natures, and even IVs and EVs assigned. They also have the smartest AI assigned to them.
• Level curve expected to naturally provide you with high level Pokemon. Trainers will have Pokemon around and usually slightly higher leveled than that of your own. (GROSSLY SUBJECT TO CHANGE, PLEASE RELAY TO ME WHAT THE LEVEL CURVE IS LIKE IN YOUR EXPERIENCE. THIS SHOULD NOT REQUIRE AN INSANE AMOUNT OF GRINDING)
• Hundreds of Pokemon have had their stats buffed, hidden abilities made available, and enhanced movesets. Some even have type changes, or completely new abilities available.
• Evolution methods changed for trade Pokemon. See documentation.

Spoiler: Screenshots

Videos:

Disclaimer & Important Information

• The post game is currently unedited.
• The wild Pokemon are currently unedited in terms of level and where they appear.
• This has been made in mind with the exp share enabled and usage of Max Raid battles to gain exp candies. If you are falling behind in levels, go to the wild area and grind on raids. The no EXP share patch is completely optional and this hack was not made with it in mind.
• This is a first beta release, please give any and all feedback, especially on the existing level curve.
• I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY BANNED CONSOLES. OBVIOUSLY DO NOT PLAY ONLINE WHILE USING THIS ROMHACK.

Instructions:

• Download the Pokemon Sacred Sword & Kings Shield.rar in the gdrive folder.
• Rename the folder in the .zip file to the proper titleid if needed. Sword: 0100abf008968000 Shield: 01008db008c2c000
• Place this titleid folder in atmosphere\titles or sxos\titles depending on what cfw you use.
• Launch the game with CFW active!
• If you want only the trainer edits, go into the romfs folder and delete the folder titled "pml"

Credits:

• Kurt & SciresM for creating & updating pkNX
• Phives for doing the majority of the work on the implemented Pokemon changes.
• Drayano for allowing us to use this Renegade Platinum changes and provide guidance when asked.

Download & Documentation​

 

[Cyberjynx]

Unfortunate bug on my end. When I fight Team Yell for the first time, the first guy will use the exact same Pokemon as me, so will the second guy and then once you do a doubles fights with Hop, both of them will use the same as me then crash... Weird and I can't figure it out at all. Just FYI, no issues at all up until this point, I'm using Yuzu and I have the game on 1.0.

 

[Kobazco]

Unfortunate bug on my end. When I fight Team Yell for the first time, the first guy will use the exact same Pokemon as me, so will the second guy and then once you do a doubles fights with Hop, both of them will use the same as me then crash... Weird and I can't figure it out at all. Just FYI, no issues at all up until this point, I'm using Yuzu and I have the game on 1.0.

Sorry, like the initial post says, this romhack isn't being worked on or supported anymore and I highly encourage everyone don't play it until our currrent, much more indepth is done.

 

[Xhakal92]

installation tutorial and how to play? Thanks

 

[Kobazco]

Condensed update:

For any and all interested in the progress of the Sword & Shield romhack, please go here!https://t.co/ea9BEMbTlo

— Kobazco (Kobe) (@Kobazco) March 11, 2021

 

[Kobazco]

So I accidently figured out how to edit shops.

Really excited about this, means I can do a ton of stuff I thought I may previously be unable to do.

 

[Purple_Heart]

hm if this releases in future...then i have to decide between this and a randomizer......

 

[Poro]

Bonsoir , je tiens tout d'abord à féliciter l'auteur et toute son équipe pour le travail sur les roms de ces jeux Pokémons qui ont de nombreuses qualités mais la difficulté du jeu inexistante ruine le plaisir du joueur , moi je préfère un jeu bien dure ou je dois chercher , réfléchir , tenter des choses pour avancer.
voici mes préoccupations
Est ce que la difficulté des combats ( dresseurs , champions d'arènes ) sont dur comme dans la hack rom pokemon black blaze 2 ?
Comment on fait pour savoir si ca marche ?, j'ai téléchargé le fichier , j'ai fait comme c'est expliqué , mais pour moi ca ne marche pas
Si ya un tuto vidéo complet pour l' installation ? je suis preneur aussi .

NB : je suis nouveau dans le hack de la switch alors , je suis pas très avancés merci de bien vouloir m'aider

 

[Poro]

[QUOTE = "iopyt, post: 8874225, membre: 506766"] Donc, quelqu'un qui a joué avec ce mod peut nous dire comment il se compare aux mods de difficulté précédents. La difficulté est-elle juste comme les mods de drayano ou artificielle et fastidieuse comme les mods de dio vento où chaque dernier entraîneur avait une équipe complète de mons compétitifs avec un maximum d'IV et d'objets? Merci [/ QUOTE]

je me posais aussi la même question

 

[Kobazco]

Does anyone else remember the Adventure Guide? No? Well I did somehow!

That's right, we'll have in game documentation!

Alsop the crossed out parts are the new name for the Romhack, no spoilers!

 

[sanderdsz]

Does anyone else remember the Adventure Guide? No? Well I did somehow!

That's right, we'll have in game documentation!

Alsop the crossed out parts are the new name for the Romhack, no spoilers!

Pretty awesome features you guys are tweaking huh?
Congratulations.

 

[Luxmoa]

loving the updates and cannot wait to play this hack!

 

[Noimus]

Super excited for the new version to come out!

Just curious, if we deleted the atmosphere/titles/[GAME ID] folder will it revert back to the original version of Sword/Shield?

 

[Kobazco]

Super excited for the new version to come out!

Just curious, if we deleted the atmosphere/titles/[GAME ID] folder will it revert back to the original version of Sword/Shield?

Yes

 

[MisterNyte]

Hi!
I am so excited about the update.
I played the first version and I want to play again with the DLCs.
Is there a percentage estimate to finish the job in mod / hack?
Sorry if that was asked before and thanks for your wonderful work!

 

[JerryUSA]

ditto on all of this. SO excited to see this. just found out about all these rom hacks for earlier generations and immediately wanted to know if someone was doing it for gen 8. crazy cool to see someone is!

 

[Kobazco]

Screenshot dump!

Also I'm going to be streaming some playtesting today. I don't know if I can post links here, but basically check out my twitter if interested.

 

[Crocling]

So I accidently figured out how to edit shops.

Oh, I would like to know how you did that! pknx doesn't seem to have this function yet, it seems you can only edit raid rewards with it currently.

Edit: Never mind. I read your other comment about using an hex editor to do it.

 

[Kobazco]

Here are probably the last of my shop changes.

One time use held items are mostly in shops, with some other less used ones being in raids etc.

Items that don't expire when held by a Pokémon (Toxic/Flame Orb, EV raising items) will be a 5% chance stealable from certain wild Pokémon, as you only have to find those items once.

Also a good time to remind people that certain abilities like Compound Eyes increase the odds of a wild Pokémon having an item.

 

[bad3ip420]

Noice! It's been more than a decade since I got excited over pokemon. Looking forward to it!

 

[Kobazco]