threw together an Explorers of Sky piece for pmd day :-)

And of course……. Every riolu needs a partner to call their own……

I have yeah! It was only one time tho and iirc I didn’t get very far. I think I was a Darkrai hero (ironic considering. You know) and had a Kyogre partner? Legendary playthrough babyyy

I’m too attached to my team and all the characters in general so it just feels weird for them to be randomized into different Pokemon,, but I have seen some randomized playthroughs and they’re always really funny! I saw one where Grovyle got randomized into a Kricketune and I nearly cracked a rib laughing so hard lmao

Fogbound Lake. Bailey (Eevee) and Rex (Riolu)

All my DS games (like $1200 worth, not that it matters) got stolen last year, and I can't and will likely never be able to replace those cartridges. I tried an R4, but it was a time bomb. And this thing looks really promising - it should be delivered some time this week.

So I've been putting together a folder of all the games I want to play. This is primarily a project I wanted to do because, when I become a cranky old man with memory loss, I think that one thing anyone who is taking care of me will be able to give me to entertain myself is a DS. I can replay Renegade Platinum, Explorers of Sky, Crystal Chronicles EoT, Digimon Dusk, Animal Crossing - the list goes on and on. The DS had some truly great games.

And I also downloaded some I've never played! I'm particularly excited to try Phantasy Star Zero, Ghost Trick, and Solatorobo.

But for now, other than Renegade Platinum, I decided to make a small little Explorers of Sky Hack of my own - since I've always wanted to play through the game with Cherry, my favorite Pokemon and a shiny Buneary, as my partner. But I ended up going a little overboard - I got to thinking, I can make every single partner result exciting for old man me. I will likey forget some of these decisions and end up giddy as a child upon seeing some of them, too.

Imagine I get surprised by my personality quiz results and get a Popplio!! Or even a Bagon I think could be really cool. I grew to love Girafarig through PMD (because it was the first mon I was able to clear one of those super hard lv 1 dungeons with), so she felt fitting to add - all the other choices explain themselves. They're just my favorites. And Swablu and Altaria have some truly amazing portrait art courtesy of Emmuffin, gromchurch and tawnysoup. So a huge thanks to the PMD Sprite Repository for the sprites necessary to make this happen.

There's a small chance SkyTemple-edited roms can't actually be played on DS hardware - hopefully, that's not the case.