Important
This release is on Hackdex: Pokémon Platinum Reforged on Hackdex.
New versions come out as patches there.
Wild Pokémon in the overworld, a battle look for every Gym, and bug fixes. Still an alpha, so expect things to break, and please report anything that goes wrong.
What's new
- Wild Pokémon in the overworld. A new option, WILD POKéMON: at VISIBLE, wild Pokémon come out of the grass and caves and wander around near you, up to six at once, and you battle one by running into it. Shinies sparkle. RANDOM keeps Platinum's random encounters (the default), and BOTH has both. Roaming Pokémon are still met in the grass.
- Every Gym has its own battle look, a background and platforms that fit the Gym. The Elite Four's and Cynthia's platforms now look like Platinum's, and the Elite Four's backgrounds take their rooms' colours.
- Your following Pokémon gets a reflection when it's a large one, and a friendly one makes a bite likelier when you fish, both as in HGSS.
Fixes
- Ball Capsule seals now show when your Pokémon come out in battle (#12).
- Speech bubbles: a trainer above you talks from a bubble at the top of the screen (#20).
- Battle transitions keep dark caves dark before Flash (#29), the fog before Defog (#30), and Eterna Forest's shade, Oreburgh Gate's dim lower floor, Route 217's blizzard, Route 227's ash and Route 228's sandstorm (#31).
- The low-HP music plays when your Pokémon starts a battle already in the red, instead of Platinum's beeps (#32).
- Platinum's messages for Defog (#11) and for status moves that fail (#10).
- Growl, Roar and Hyper Voice play the cry once instead of cutting it off and starting it again (#22).
- A fainting Pokémon's cry sounds lower, as in BW2 (#23).
- Your following Pokémon keeps up when you water a row of berries (#21) and on Iron Island's lifts (#26).
- Learning a move on evolution shows Platinum's touch screen, not BW2's (#25).
- Running from a Safari Zone or Pal Park battle no longer plays the victory music (#28).
- Special battle intros, the legendaries' and Team Galactic's, stay Platinum's with TRANSITIONS at GEN V.
- Dust clouds and wild Pokémon stay off cave stairs.
Thanks to @TwinleafTrainer (#21) and @Aliaxiner (#23) for reporting these 🙌