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  1. While Miss ICSW is away, please do not hesitate to ask me, Dev Steffi, for an assistance! Enjoy your time away in Ceolis.
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  2. Reuploaded DDDL and Spork DDDL: -another Delicia VS sprite update made by Palletite -Isaac trainer sprite updated by Steffi (is the one in Steffi's post above!) -the Hippopotas at the pie-eating contest is now the green shiny one (overworld sprite made by Steffi) -added a few more guards at the Party District, along with a small dialogue addition about the trespassers waiting until the guards were changing shifts to try getting in (I thought it was weird I only put one guard there) -all uses of Trainer(s), and Ability/Abilities when referring to Pokemon Abilities are now capitalized SPORK: Updates: -new Elite Four and Champion rooms made by Enigma -all ZA Mega Evolutions are now in (includes a new Isaac event for Eelektrossite, and a new Brutus event for Lucarionite Z) -custom shiny Lunatone and Solrock made by me -custom shiny Relicanth made by Mr. Fahzy -Genesect quest rewrite: you find Genesect while exploring the Classic Park cave with Lime; Anthony shows up to explain Genesect's situation and asks you to retrieve the drives; after doing so, you obtain Genesect after a battle where it uses all four of its drives -all Planet Spork simulations for ZA characters now have their Mega Evolutions -added more NPCs and items to Tullborn City -added missing party/summary screen icons (most Mega Evolutions, some female Pokemon for ones that have gender differences, Cosplay Pikachu, Primal Kyogre and Groudon, Origin Dialga and Palkia, alternate forms for Arceus, Silvally, Castform, and Vivillon; also added canon shiny icons for the Zubat and Sandile lines) -added Tatsugiri NPCs to the Sea Star Society Meeting Section that can change Tatsugiri's form -added expanded choice menu to the X Items ingredient mixer in the Vitamin Factory, and the game now mentions not needing any items if you picked the Flareon Sign -added text to the statues in front of Ryoko's Castle and the Hydreigon statues in the throne room -added a link to the wiki in the game folder -all uses of Trainer(s), and Ability/Abilities when referring to Pokemon Abilities are now capitalized -team updates: Ashley: Litleo/Pyroar and Darumaka/Darmanitan changed to shiny Charcadet/Armarouge (nickname Robot) and Combusken/Mega Blaziken (nickname Swords) Wendy now has Mega Scolipede in her postgame rematch Professor Mangrove's Relicanth is now shiny Eva: Toxicroak changed to Toxtricity Low Key Fixes: -Fairy Arceus now has sprites -all Arceus and Silvally form sprites are now in the correct order; half of them were one off from what they were supposed to be because of an unused "QMARKS" form that I didn't know existed -Carnivine's shiny front and back sprites are now consistent -in Shiny Scouting, Blacephalon is now grouped with Spork's custom shinies instead of with the other UBs -can no longer walk on a few cliff tiles in Tullborn City -corrected typo for one of Silk Studio's trainers who said "sylish" missing the t in stylish -corrected wrong name in the player's Nosy Nosepass interview, where if you ask if you can adopt him, he mentioned Julian from "Alumia's birthday party" instead of Crolea's The new E4 rooms I mentioned last month have now been added! Arnalda has a wrestling arena with seating, Triston's is inspired by the Abyssal Ruins but with a gothic style, Seamus' room is based on the legend of leprechauns and the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow (with the different colored flowers symbolizing the rainbow), Peach's has a bunch of copies where you need to find the real Peach, and Agne's is surrounded by a space background. The battle with Emily is in a new hallway before a warp panel that takes you to Agne. A couple things to note: -For Peach's room, Surf is removed from your inventory when you enter and given back when you leave. This is to prevent the player from being able to surf in the room, as it has surf properties in order to use water reflections. -These are specifically the E4 rooms; the revamped Party City maps are ongoing. Enigma made these in advance last month while taking a break from the Team Portal HQ The "Next" signs you can see in one of the screenshots were inspired from the Arena modes in Kirby games that show your next opponent from the waiting room. Arnalda will also have one when the Starlight Citadel is mapped in the future. Thanks to Enigma for making these, they definitely give the feeling of a final challenge after a long journey! I think Arnalda's makes an especially strong (Fighting pun intended) impression with the wrestling arena, and imposing statues of the Machop line being the first thing you see when you enter the room! Shiny Lunatone is based on a strawberry micromoon! Once in a while, the moon will be visible in rare colors at certain times of the year. I looked at an image of which ones will happen this year and Steffi picked strawberry micromoon, so that's the one I did! Shiny Solrock is based on a total solar eclipse. For Relicanth, a community member named Mr. Fahzy posted a shiny Relicanth he made several years ago in the Creative Works section. I saw it back when it was posted and really liked the added treasure map details. I've been thinking recently that it would be perfect for Professor Mangrove with their treasure hunting hobby, and was able to reach out to Mr. Fahzy on Discord to ask if I could add it to Spork. Thanks to Mr. Fahzy for making it all that time ago, and for allowing me to add it! For Ashley's team changes, the shiny Armarouge is to match Kayla's shiny Ceruledge. I had been planning on giving her Mega Pyroar when ZA came out, but then I thought Blaziken fit her more, since it's known for footwork and can learn Swords Dance. I'm not sure what my reasoning was for giving her Pyroar in the first place. I did once read that lions can leap 36 feet, so maybe I thought leaping was kind of a related skill to dancing? Either way, I think Blaziken is a way better fit. I hope you all like the new E4 rooms as much as I do!
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  3. Early reupload since I'll be away for around 2 weeks starting tomorrow DDDL: -added (canon) shiny Mareep party screen icon Spork: -custom shiny Tropius made by Palletite -Aretha's Tropius is now shiny and nicknamed Dragonfruit -Steffi added a third skin tone for Scientists and male Tourists -added more NPCs to the Pokemon Research Institute and Astral Observatory -added party screen icons for Mega Kangaskhan, (canon) shiny Mareep line, and (canon) shiny Chansey -started making party screen icons for Spork's custom shinies. So far made Seel line, Kangaskhan, Articuno, Hoothoot line, Togepi line, Sunkern line, Forretress, Happiny + Blissey, Ralts line, Skitty line, Plusle, Minun, Trapinch line, Lunatone, Solrock, Tropius, Relicanth, Bidoof line, Finneon line, Leafeon + Sylveon, Darkrai, Sewaddle line, Gothita line, Durant, Cobalion, Meloetta, and Hatenna line -updated Steffi's Pokemon games graph in the Temple of Time with Winds and Waves: The shiny Tropius is based on dragonfruit (Steffi's idea)! Not only did the colors change, but the fruit did too! Thanks to Palletite for making it, I think it came out amazing and hopefully the party screen icon I made does it justice! The third skin tones for NPCs and the shiny party screen icons will be done a few at a time across reuploads. For the shiny icons, I surpassed my starting goal by a lot. I was originally thinking I'd do around 5 or 6 shiny icon lines per reupload, but I already got 27 done! Some of them only take a few minutes and others are more challenging, but I've been having fun making them! I'll be able to continue working on Spork when I get back in a couple weeks!
    2 points
  4. Reuploaded: -Isaac trainer and overworld sprites updated by Steffi (as seen in Steffi's post above!) -Professor Mangrove's Relicanth is now shiny -Ashley: Pyroar and Darmanitan changed to shiny Armarouge (nickname Robot) and Mega Blaziken (nickname Swords) -Wendy now has Mega Scolipede -all uses of Trainer(s) are now capitalized
    2 points
  5. UPDATE - 2/16/26 This update focuses mainly on technical improvements and overall polish. Follower movement is smoother, more efficient, and behavior is more consistent. Shadow Pokémon follower sprites are now supported! (Use _a in the filename) Talking to Pokémon now has more dynamic and varied dialogue, and happiness affects responses more strongly. Party menu changes now refresh followers instantly when the menu is closed. Followers temporarily disable before battles and restore afterward, preventing party order changes from affecting gameplay outside the overworld. Followers avoid spawning inside NPCs/events when possible. Followers avoid stacking and relocate to a nearby safe tile if needed. Fixed “chain nudging” where followers repeatedly pushed each other or stood in front of the player. Followers maintain consistent order while walking instead of visually swapping positions. Followers will never remain on the player’s tile. Followers animate immediately after appearing. Followers are now semi-solid. You cannot walk through them, but they step aside when possible instead of blocking movement. They also become passable during cutscene movement, so events don’t break. NPCs now properly react to followers and no longer walk through them. Followers correctly hide and restore during dialogue, cutscenes, and HM usage. Followers automatically resync after map transitions. Up to four Pokémon can now follow the player! Partner trainer behavior improved. Cycling follower mode once after a partner joins stabilizes positioning behind them. After battles, followers will automatically reposition correctly either way. Improved sprite lookup caching for smoother overworld performance. Download Link
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  6. In order to view the #emotional-support channel on our community discord, users will need to have the Trusted role on the server. In order to get the trusted role, users must be verified, have less than 3 active warning points, and must read the following:
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  7. Bug report: Metagross should be able to learn Psychic Fangs, but can not. Overqwill should be able to learn pain split, but can not
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  8. Re-upload! Update log for E3.1 -Sizable batch of E3.1 is made -Some items have their price drastically adjusted (TMs, some held items, and vitamins). -Sprites for Mega Raichu X and Mega Raichu Y has been updated! -Added a sidequest in Pixie City Now, you may notice that the version has changed to "episodes", and that's because I feel like having a version as high as at least 13 doesn't make sense since they were mostly short content. So, this is how I divided those "version" into: Episode 1 -1.1) Ouiet Vacation -1.2) Feeling the Heat -1.3) Shrouded in Black -1.4) Shock Factor -1.5) Splash Diving -1.6) Absolute Zero -1.7) Beyond the Galaxy -1.8) Verdant Meadow -1.9) Memories Restored -1.10) Treasures Unveiled Episode 2 -2.1) Sylvic Clash -2.2) Fairy Deluxe Tournament Preliminaries -2.3) Fairy Deluxe Tournament Finals Episode 3 -3.1) Eevee Meadow -3.2) Glacy Fields -3.3) Helium Heights This hypothetically covers up to 15 "badges", and whatever leftover slots for the last three "badges" is up to what I can think of. Next up is price adjustment. What I changed will be blown out of proportion. I recall Vince was able to make all 100 TMs accessible throughout Sylph Islands in various parts of your adventure. So what happens to the TMs that are in Pixie City West? Their TM prices are multiplied by a hundred times (100). No, I am not joking. Those prices are around six figures, and for something that can be used as many times as you like, even the way Pokemon Black & White handled it is still way too lenient price-wise. On the other hand, the price of Vitamins have dropped from 9800 to 4900 to line up with how Oildroll City in Spork prices things; though the only exception is PP Max, which is 14700 instead since they provide three times as much than PP Up. And lastly, the only held item(s) that I can think of that increase in price is those type-boosting items like Miracle Seed and the like, in which they're 9800 just like Charcoal. So far, these are the only changes that I've made. Then there's the Mega Raichu sprites. I've got to thank Pokemon Spork for eventually being able to somehow find those mega sprites related to Mega Dimension. As such, you are no longer confused as to which form they are when they Mega Evolve. The sidequest that I've added in Pixie City NorthEast is also based on a similar mini-quest in Pokemon Spork in which you have to show someone certain Pokemon. Whilst in Spork, a NPC in Liliech City wants you to show Eevee and their Eeveelutions, a NPC Aroma Lady in Pixie City NorthEast will ask you to show a variety of Grass-type Pokemon. Once you finished showing her a variety of Grass-types, she'll then give you various rewards and, ultimately, the insta-healing feature, which can be turned on or off at your leisure. I made sure to include an event for each map that performs insta-healing. For the next batch, it's still gonna be me dealing with making mystery dungeons and mapping in a similar matter of Bloons Super Monkey 2 Mobile Frozen Fields. As such, this will take a long while for me to get the next one out. I hope you enjoyed this recent upload!
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  9. I actually figured this one out. You can access all the moves you have learnt from tutors via the move tutor option found in the pokegear.
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  10. Hey Everyone! I've been loving the game so far, and I saw a mod request for an always mega patch. Not sure if this is needed or something people need, i play on controller and when i press the evolve button the game tends to not cooperate with me. All mods i make will be posted in this thread. Compatibility: All Gen 19.5 Decat Menu Multiple mega mod. Unsure at the moment, I'm working on compatibility for All Gen and I've made some good progress with adjusting the compiler to sideload specific mods that modify text files so they don't conflict with major mods or replace base game files. !!!Back up your save before using!!! ME FR jbd - alwaysmega.rb
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  11. Hello and welcome :) Regarding your question, not necessarily. You can only start a new game if: 1st - your game is corrupted; 2nd - the map where you last saved the game before updating has been modified and you can't exit; or 3rd - if there's a major update and you want to see how the game is (I've done this before). If you want to wait until the next update (which doesn't have an exact release date), you could play one of the other games. I would recommend Pokémon Reborn, as it's more or less a base to understand how the other two games work and it's already complete, okay? I hope I was able to help you. If you have any further questions, just let me know and I'll try to answer them as best I can.
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  12. Your options that don't require changing scripts are EVs and IVs, as well as the Light Ball. There is a partner Pikachu, but it is only available from the Terajuma password as Alain. If you wanted to edit the base stats, then you'd need to edit Pikachu's code in montext.rb, and compile via debug.
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  13. I love this mod, this and the Overseer Files Regional variants demo mod.
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  14. I don't have a witty joke to make here for this dev blog aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa it's the last one, too. As of typing this i only have a few events left to do (Note, they are all long and complicated and I may not get it right on the first try) But what have I been cooking? Well, a lot! Renegade has been complete. Like, fully. Maybe some battles need tinkering here and there, but all cutscenes have been made, all events have been done. I may go back and add a few easter eggs, item placements etc. But yeah! After Renegade, I needed a BREAK from main story stuff. A lot of the events in Renegade were very intensive on me to make. Not really from a story/mood perspective, but from an actual development side. I really pushed the limits of what I could do in Renegade. But as a result I did get burned out a little. I mean, if you see what I cooked, you'll understand! Really wanted to drop it around Christmas time as a present, but I'd rather get it right on the first try rather than try to fulfill some funny date dream. ======================= New Early Game Content: I said there would be no side content for v14, and that's kinda not true anymore. I mean, there are a few sidequests DURING v14, and are time sensitive to that, and by a few I think literally just 1 lol. But thats a lore sidequest-- I'm getting off topic. Anyways, this is to say that I actually did a few new events in the early game because Gen 9 kinda forced me to. Game is huge, but all the encounters are very tight. First off, there are new missions in East Gearen (Minor, non help center ones) Past Regrets: The week after I finished Renegade, I was desperateeeee to get out of v14 content, so I went back to the past and came to a conclusion. Man. These maps are really held back by my decision to keep them gen 3. I think the game really shines best when I put my own spin on things. And no, before you get worried. I did not remake all of the past (again). I did give it a texture update, though! For those confused by that, I simply mean that the maps are the same, I just made custom tiles instead of using default R/S/E tiles. This includes battle backgrounds as well. A comparison of Kugearen City: Skip Skip Skip!: There are other few things I have cooked, but I'm can't give away every surprise right? Okay, that beeing said. This is most likely going to be the final dev update before v14 releases. It will not drop this year. So do not expect that. But I estimate testing will begin sometime in December if I'm lucky. Again, no promises. Also no promises on how long testing will take. It will just take as long as it needs. It's a BIG chonky version. This game is a behemoth. But it is made for crazy people like me. I bid you adieu, with one final screenshot
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  15. Scroll to the bottom if you're here just for the list Preamble Hello, my name is Siewek, welcome to my megathread about my long standing archival initiative. In this thread I plan to go in detail about my experience delving into the deepest nooks and crannies of the internet in search of past versions of Pokemon Reborn. The initial plan was to have an archive ready for Ame's patrons to download old clients as a curiosity rather than an intended means of experiencing what Reborn has to offer. I'll be sure to provide sources when necessary. It is also important to know that Ame, dev team and supporters are aware that this has been an ongoing project, and everyone has been nothing but supportive from the very beginning. I will also provide a list of whats recovered and whats missing at the end as a TL:DR because not everyone is interested in the entire process. Who am I? I'm Siewek, lost media is one of my passions, I joined Reborn forums in 2021 but have been a fan since high school years. Over the last couple of years in addition to restoring old episodes I've done more archiving work for the website. As of writing this post, I do have some limited moderation powers given to me with trust to take care of "The Vault". What is the Vault? I'm so glad you asked, It's a forum category available for Patreon supporters, containing an organised list of threads depending on the topics, for example Game history, History of the online league. It's nothing anybody cant find on their own, it's just compiled into an easily digestable way of browsing. I've mostly restricted my forum activity to finding old threads, pieces of information, artwork, anything worth archiving and putting it in the vault. The Easy part This archival initiative isn't anything new, there have been couple of people interested in finding working versions of past episodes of reborn, but Im pretty sure it was never done on such a massive scale as I am looking for them, the plan is simple, find at least one working client of every episode from 1-19 and safely store them somewhere, or better, have patreon supporters download them so they don't go missing again. So with hope in my heart, I went on looking. And to my surprise, it was pretty easy, with some minor experience looking for old things very quickly some old threads containing mega.nz links with past episodes emerged, so within couple of days episodes 9, 10, 12-18 were recovered. But for some reason, episode 11 was missing from that list, the links to it were dead or lead to websites that didn't have them anymore. I did eventually recover episode 11 too, although it wasnt as simple as the previous ones, it is safely archived. More on that later.... The not so easy part Unfortunately, this is where things started going downhill and will have to expand on the concept of how past episodes operated. In the very beginning, before Pokemon Reborn was a game, and when the first iterations of the online league were running, Rebornevo was known as Poke-Place.com, It was given the Reborn name because people would leave during school months and then the community would be "Reborn" and come back around summer time. The first community ideas to make a video game centering around Reborn appeared in November 2011, then couple months later Ame drew a map of the Reborn Region and game plans were starting to form, it wasn't just a wild idea anymore. Ame very quickly provided the community with the first build of the game on April 16th 2012 which contained about 4 hours of gameplay (Note: The 4 hours of gameplay back then, was very different than what 4 hours of modern reborn would be, but this post isn't about gameplay), then episode 2 couple months later on may 28th 2012, and that was happening all the way up to episode 8 on may 22nd 2013. All those episodes were available to download under link Poke-place.com/game (which will redirect you here to a website couldnt be found page, but the link is viewable on waybackmachine), and that's pretty much it, this was the only place you could download the game from officially and with every newer release the old files were swapped for new ones under the same link. So why don't you download from the wayback machine if the link is still there? I hear you dear reader, and unfortunately, wayback machine in most cases doesnnt store binary files, only snapshots, the link leading to files PokemonReborn.zip or PokemonRebornS,zip (animated and static sprite versions) doesnt lead anywhere and definitely doesnt lead to files. You can view the website, but no download will actually work (except for some reason episode 14, that could be downloaded through wayback machine, painfully slowly but it worked, but it Im getting ahead of myself). In 2013 the website swapped domains it wasn't poke-place.com anymore, but PokemonReborn.com, that's why wayback machine snapshots for poke-place.com cut off at around 2013 and anything afterwads will redirect you to the new website. Episode 9 and why was it easy to find and Episode 8 isn't In the late stages of episode 8 and later when episode 9 released the game files weren't just downloadable from one link - Ame had started out using mirrors. Episode 8 had been hosted on GameFront.com, while starting with Episode 9 mega.co.nz was added as another mirror. Its also importand to add that the game has started gaining popularity at that point so more and more people had the game and to this day when you ask a Reborn veteran about old clients, the most likely answer you'll hear is "The oldest episode I have i episode IX". Later in 2016 the website domain switched again to what we know and love now, Rebornevo.com. This is overall a good thing, but for an old post enthusiast like me, means that in every thread a link to PokemonReborn.com post goes nowhere, the linked thread does exist in Rebornevo the link is just different, and requires some knowledge of Decipher-Fu dark arts. For instance lets look at my profile, my user id is 100148, my profile on poke-place would look something like this: http://www.poke-place.com/forum/index.php?showuser=100148 (obviously this profile doesnt exist as I registered my account in 2021, long after poke-place became rebornevo), then similar story for pokemonReborn.com: www.pokemonreborn.com/forum/index.php?showuser=100148, but on rebornevo my profile would be: https://www.rebornevo.com/forums/profile/100148-siewek/ so if you found my hypothetical profile on the old domains, you would have to change the link to the rebornevo version to find me, this is the same story for every thread you can find on wayback machine. Okay, Siewek, but you said that episode XI was also gone? So what's with that if there's Mirrors and people dowloaded the game much more? True... and to be honest, I dont know why that specific episode was gone, at that point in time, in early 2014 the game was pretty huge in terms of popularity, some people did have it stored on their devices but for some reason, whenever someone posted a download link, it was broken. And here comes the absolute legend to save the day: MonkeyDog, owner of MonkeyPro.net MonkeyPro.net I cannot bring up MonkeyDog without calling him an absolute legend every time. MonkeyPro was an affiliate site to pokemonReborn, it was actually a community from which Ame started Poke-Place Reborn, the first iteration of the Online League was held there, back in late gen IV days, called MonkeyPro League, I can write a book about everything Online league related but this would be ramble of its own and I promise you Im trying to stay on the track as much as I can, it's just exciting talking about the League. From episode 10 onwars, MonkeyPro.net hosted one of the mirrors for Pokemon Reborn, When browsing old forums posts on MonkeyPro I eventually stumbled upon a post about a website steam group, I found it and joined it, made a post that Im looking for past reborn episodes and waited in the groupchat, not really expecting anything, after some time, Mr Legend MonkeyDog gets back to me, confirming that he did host the game on his website a while back and he should have some working clients somewhere, and surely enough, thanks to him, Episode XI is safely within the archives. Thank you MonkeyDog this is about as far as I'm gonna go into the future episodes, as all 9 onwards are archived and they're no longer relevant to the search, I will be focusing on episodes 8 and below from this point onwards. 10th anniversary of Pokemon Reborn There has been talks in the Chasing Selene patreon discord back in 2022, to ask Ame to rerelease episode 2, as she said she still had Episode 1 and Episode 2 (but not episode 3 onwards Smh my head Ame), and what better occasion than the 10th anniversary of Pokemon Reborn? Episode 19 was already out, most people completed it or were close to completing it, the hype was still very much there (I can argue ep19 hype never went away), It would be awesome to have a way of replaying an episode that's older than 9. On june 15th 2022 Ame made a patreon post containing a zip file with a dev version of episode 2 available for patreons. It is there and available, however since Ame's wish was to keep to to the patreons, I did not add it to the archives but consider it recovered. Why not episode 1 though? I'm gonna quote Ame as I think she said it best, taken from the patreon post: Which I think is fair, I officially drop episode 1 from the search. Also I would like to give special thanks to Cass who has been giving us impromptu performance updates to the episode 2 clients which made it more stable, it was pretty cool. Wait, did you say dev version? Ah, good eye, reader, yes, because it wasn't actually the episode 2 as released, they also had project files, and when playing through it, beating Florinia the game kept on going... and this is the part where normally episode 2 should've ended, and then it kept on going further, right until Taka encounter after which there was nothingness. Apparently this version of "episode 2" is actually partly into episode 3 development, which honestly is nothing to worry about, it was realeased as episode 2, it plays like episode 2 so Im counting it as episode 2. It's 2025 now though? That was 3 years ago Yes, and I wish I had better news, this is the time where pretty much all good news end, and it's just tedioussness and dead ends ahead. I've been doing this project on and off since very late 2021, Clawed through every bit of reborn on the internet I could find, visited every shady website, clicked on every safe or unsafe link, checked every archive, fan game pack, rom hack collection and there is no trace of episodes 3-8 anywhere to be found. I wish that the archive could be complete, but unfortunately I don't think tht will come to fruition ever, but that doesnt mean Im gonna stop trying, let me now talk about all the leads apart from the random websites that may or may not have had the link The best leads Remember when I said I wasn't the only one curious about the old episodes? There are couple of threads on the forums with people asking about them, some even provided some (now dead) links, but because episodes 3-8 were only available to download from poke-place.com/game and then swapped when new episode came out, the best chance for any episode to be recovered, is to start asking people who played the game in 2012-2013 if they still have any files to share, and that's what I've been doing for 2 years now (and continue to do so). I browsed old topics found users active in that timeframe. If you want to help looking for old episodes, please let me ask you to Not be contacting members of the community that are not your friends. Because there is a very high chance that I already contacted them, and it would get really annoying if someone gets multiple messages asking for the same thing, especially when they checked and replied that they don't have it anymore. A lot of people replied to me when I asked them, unfortunately nobody had any game clients I'm looking for, but a lot of other cool stuff unrelated to the game itself was recovered that way, and whenever that happens I count it as a win. There are also other communities that Ame posted about Reborn releases in, like PokeCommunity. Pretty much the same story there, I did manage to get in contact with couple of the people who replied to the Reborn thread on their website, some got back to me, some didint, but everyone who did had the same sad news that they did have it at one point, but not anymore. Sadly this is to be expected as those clients are 12-13 years old now and pretty much everybody swapped their main PC at least once in that timeframe. Sadly, there is nothing to be found on Pokecommunity Reborn clients related anymore, Thank you to everyone who replied to me though. It is unfortunate, but the best lead still is a very very slight chance that maybe, MAYBE someone kept the files on their device, just gotta keep banging my head against the wall and who knows, maybe I'll get lucky. Time unfortunately isn't on my side, as I have a real life that sometimes needs my attention (like a full time job etc etc), and also the older the clients get, the higher chance that they get removed if they werent already. This sucks. Gamefront.com I actually managed to get in contact with a GameFront dev, because there was that link to a file they hosted at some point... and maybe the links were just moved rather than files removed.... and it unfortunately turned out to be another dead end. He went into detail about what happened and why it's not there anymore, I will quote what he said when I provided the links where the files used to be: Unfortunately, episode 8 was stored as Ame's personal link, and it's gone forever. Youtubers Pokemon Reborn has started gaining popularity largely after Shofu started playing it back in episode 7, this is probably my biggest hope that at least episode 8 and maybe episode 7 are still findable, the problem is, people who were interested in playing the game without being part of the community... are kind of hard to find. I did email Shofu's buisness email at some point asking whether maybe he has it, unsurprisingly this email went unsanswered. Shofu has a subscription discord server, to which I have no access because I am not one of his twitch subscriber. I may be letting you down slightly dear reader, but this is I think the only lead that came to my mind that I didn't explore yet, I did not join that discord and I didnt ask... yet. There is a very very slim chance someone thete might have it, but there has been so many slight chances by this point that I will get my hopes up only when I see the files. But Shofu wasn't the first youtuber to play Reborn, there were couple of them before, mainly FrickingNick and TheGamersTree. where they have content that goes as far as episode 4, which is crazy. I am pretty sure Tristen from TheGamersTree is the earliers recorded lets play of Reborn, so there's the live proof that they DID have the game at one point, but like I said, I was out of good news, I talked to both Nick and Tristen and unfortunately they didn't have it anymore. Very cool guys though. As far as random videos go, there are some 12 year old guides on how to install pokemon Reborn, but they link poke-place.com/game as their source, and as we established already, the files are gone. Lost media communities This lead has some potential, but Im afraid not a lot, I did make a post on r/help_me_find and r/lostmedia which didn't get a single bit of attention, and even if they would, Im afraid that because the timeframe of the episode 3-8 is so short, at being only 1 specific year before the game got very popular, the actual audience was seasoned Rebornians who are in a lot of cases not active in the forums or on discord, the actual amount people who downloaded episodes 3-6 is pretty low. There is that slightly higher chance for episode 7 and 8, but considering that I had no luck finding episode 8 which is the latest one Im looking for right now, I don't think realistically this search can go much further by myself. The outcome looks bleak not gonna lie It has been around 4 years of searching for me, It's a very exciting journey and Im not saying Im ending it, I will continue to update this thread whenever something pops up. I dont think there has ever been a search conducted on such a large scale before, and the fact that going profile to profile asking "do you have an old reborn client" (more respectively than that ofc) is my best option doesn't fill me with much confidence, but every once in a while I get a new dose of inspiration and each time I come back to this, which I do more often than I thought I would, I discover something new, Reborn really is an endless source of curious info and I am never not impressed by the scale of this. Im getting towards the end I swear Okay, I wasn't entirely honest about that whole episode 8 thing, there is something I found, and it's pretty bizarre. When Episode 9 released, apparently there was a game breaking glitch with frames, and the solution for it was to boot up episode 8, change frames back to default and then update the game to episode 9. At one point Ame created a mockup version of episode 8 called FrameResetter, which was very very cropped version of episode 8 and I did find a stray link leading to it, because it wasn't hosted on the downloads page, but rather linked withint a forum thread. I do have the frame resetter, it does run you can technically play it, but there's no sound and I don't actually know how far it goes, since it was a mockup version of episode 8, Im not counting it towards restoration project but I thought it was important to mention this. So what's my point? I guess now that I wrote about the journey to right now, my point would be: If you played Pokemon reborn episode 3-8 at any point please please please check if you still have the files and reach out to me. This is the only realistic way the episodes may be restored, I've done all I can and it would mean the world to me if at least one more episode would resurface. Here's the list of what's archived and what's not: Episode 2: Archived Episode 3: Missing Episode 4: Missing Episode 5: Missing Episode 6: Missing Episode 7: Missing Episode 8: Missing Episode 9: Archived Episode 10: Archived Episode 11: Archived Episode 12: Archived Episode 13: Archived Episode 14: Archived Episode 15: Archived Episode 16: Archived Episode 17: Archived Episode 18: Archived Episode 19: Archived By Archived I mean that one OR MORE versions of that episode have resurfaced. Ame has greenlit publication of episodes 9 and up, enjoy. Link to the archives: Download Here Another important information about the old episodes, is that you DO NOT need the play through them to experience Pokemon Reborn as it was intended to be experienced, objectively the past episodes are worse in every way than the modern Reborn, and they should be treated as curiosities, a way to look at how things were back then and how good we have it now. Thank you so much for reading my post, I plan to be active within this thread and hopefully at least this was an interesting read.
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  16. Leaving this here for anyone else who needs it in the future as well. When you download Empyrean, in the main folder there should be a folder titled 'Mods' or something similar. Using Notepad (or TextEdit if you're using Mac), create a new file with a single line: $DEBUG = true exactly as written. Save it as a ruby file, (I used 000_debug_mode.rb). Make sure it saves as .rb and not .txt. Drag it directly into the Mods folder. If you boot it up, and it skips the title screen, that's a good sign that it worked. Once the game is loaded, pressing F9 should bring up the debug menu. Edited to add the premade file for anyone confused by the instructions. This will work for most fan games, you just may have to figure out exactly where to put it in others. 000_debug_mode.rb
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  17. Hi everyone, BIGJRA here. I'm excited to announce that I lied about that the walkthrough was not going to updated for V13.5... as I have completed the walkthrough through all of the game's current content! You can access the new version as usual on my site: https://bigjra.github.io/rejuvenation/. As I am just one guy playing through an utterly massive game there are bound to be things I missed, so I kindly ask that any mistakes you observe while playing and using the walkthrough are reported to me. I made a discord server earlier this year that you can join for more frequent updates and discussion - a link to it is on the site's banner. More details and a look inside the making of this walkthrough will be posted in the discord if you are curious. Cheers and enjoy!
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