
Slight changes in the game's plot, although they are minor and the only reason they were made is to adapt the scripts to the capabilities of the base ROM.įairy type inserted (with all its weaknesses and strengths). Similarly, the wild Pokémon will differ (although to a lesser extent) the original, with more variety in the different towns and routes and other ways to find wild Pokémon (such as honey trees, Headbutt, fishing.). This leads to the Pokédex will be a little more difficult to complete, having a total of 807 Pokémon to capture from all generations.ĭue to these new Pokémon, now trainers have different Pokémon parties from the original game, and in the majority of cases, they will be much stronger.

All those that appeared in the GBA version will appear in this version, these new Pokémon come from the seven different generations. There are almost 450 Pokémon more than in the original version. Due to its success -partly because it was one of the few that managed to be completely finished- and that, in recent years, the NDS hacking has gained much more capabilities, I am now remaking this hack in this platform for people who have not played the GBA version yet, and partly to encourage people to start in this new platform begin to investigate further and explore it.Īlthough the plot, locations, characters and other features are almost the same, there are many changes (some small, some more noticeable) with respect to the original version: From what I can tell, this is usually configured by game_config.txt for traditional GBA games, but I don't know how to add an entry for a romhack into it.Pokémon Light Platinum is a GBA hack launched in 2011 by the ROM hacker WesleyFG. Advice on how to do this would be appreciated, as attempting to search for how to do this hasn't gone anywhere.

I've already determined the way to get it to work on a PC-based emulator like Visual Boy Advanced is to change the Save Type of the emulator to Flash 128K, and confirmed that this works with Visual Boy Advanced while testing the rom on my computer, however I am unsure how to get this to properly work on my Retropie. How to replicate the problem: Attempting to start a Pokemon romhack I acquired called Light Platinum results in the game just going white on any emulator I run it through on the Retropie. \retropie\roms\gba\Pokemon Light Platinum.gba Error messages received: White screen after GBA startup screenįile.
