Pokémon Divine Sword & Blessed Shield (Version 1.1 Major Update! EXP. Candies Return!)

Pokémon Divine Sword & Blessed Shield - v1.1
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I can't believe I am finally writing this, but Phives and I are proud to finally present Pokémon Divine Sword & Blessed Shield, a difficulty romhack. Why release another romhack when Sacred Sword & King's Shield is out, you may ask? Well to be quite honest, that project was rushed and is not something we are particularly proud of. So, we have been working on an entirely new one ever since the release of the Crown Tundra. Now, over half a year later and a LOT of hours sunk into playtesting, we are finally ready to release the first version!

Intro - What is Pokémon Divine Sword & Blessed Shield?
Pokémon Divine Sword & Blessed Shield is a difficulty romhack, taking inspiration mostly from Drayano's work. However, I also played Radical Red last year and took some inspiration from that, although outside of QoL features those are purely optional. So don't worry if you want to play in Switch mode and use healing items in battle! We've made edits to nearly every Pokemon, mainly focusing on making egg and tutor moves available through normal level up movesets as well as providing buffs and new moves to tons of different Pokémon. Of course, there is documentation for everything included in the google drive folder with the download. We've of course redone the team of every single trainer in the game, and hope to encourage team building in order to over come these challenges. However, it is important to remember that all of this is done within the confines of Sword & Shield. We cannot make the AI super smart, nor can we force certain aspects like a level cap, etc. However, we have gone to great lengths in order to make it the best we possible could.

Notable Features:
  • Completely reworked Raid rewards system
  • All 600 Pokémon from Sword & Shield (including DLC) catchable outside of the Isle of Armor and Crown Tundra
  • Overhauled boss battles
  • Quality of life features such as purchasable EV reducers
  • Shop overhauls in order to make competitive items easily accessible
  • Healing items disabled during trainer battles (THIS IS OPTIONAL)
  • Battle Items removed from the game (not optional, as X items are the new purchasable EV reducing items)
  • Edited Adventure Guide for in game documentation
  • Edited Pokémon & various buffs/moveset edits.

Screenshots (there are lot of them and they are BIG so here is your warning):
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v1.1 Changelog: Return of the EXP. Candies

!!SELL ALL OF YOUR "MEDICINE" ITEMS THAT ARE IN YOUR "ITEMS" POUCH PRIOR TO UPDATING IF YOU DO NOT USE THE USABLE HEALING ITEMS PATCH!!

Healing items have been moved back to the "Medicine" pouch, and are still not usable in battle without the patch.

EXP. Candies make their return, obtainable through shops in every Pokecenter. They appear as you get Gym badges in the following tiers:
  • XS - 0 Badges ₽600
  • S - 2 Badges ₽1,000
  • M - 4 Badges ₽3,000
  • L - 6 Badges ₽9,000
  • XL - 7 Badges ₽27,000
All changes regarding EXP. Candies are tentative and subject to change. Please provide your feedback!
In addition, all Nature Mints are now purchasable from the start of the game at all Pokecenters for ₽7,500.
Wishing Pieces are also in every Pokecenter for ₽5,000

As a test, Ballonlea's Pokecenter has a new NPC behind the left counter that will offer to feed your pokemon Max Soup for 3 Max Mushrooms.
Max Mushrooms can be purchased at any Pokecenter after receiving 5 Gym Badges.
In future updates, this NPC will be in all Pokecenters.
Max Mushrooms are now in the "Items" pouch.


Hammerlocke City - Centeral Pokemon Center (Right Counter) Now has the following items:
  • Power Bracer
  • Power Belt
  • Power Lens
  • Power Band
  • Power Anklet
  • Power Weight
  • Destiny Knot
  • PP Up
  • Razor Claw
  • Protector
  • Reaper Claw
  • Whipped Dream
  • Sachet

Motostoke City - Souther Pokemon Center (Right Counter) Now has the following items:
  • Speed Down
  • HP down

Hammerlocke City - West Pokemon Center (Right Counter) Now has the following TMs:
  • Bounce
  • Fling
  • Power Swap
  • Guard Swap
  • Speed Swap
  • Drain Punch
  • Trick Room
  • Wonder Room
  • Magic Room
  • Razor Shell
  • Mystical Fire

Hammerlocke City - East Pokemon Center (Right Counter) Now has the following TMs:
  • Fire Punch
  • Ice Punch
  • Thunder Punch
  • Solar Blade
  • Self-Destruct
  • Giga Drain

Video Detailing the Changes

Details for how to install are in the README included in the Google Drive folder. Please read it. Documentation is also in that folder, which is linked at the bottom of this post.

Credits & Thanks
  • The amazing creators of pkNX, this project would not be possible without their hard work
  • Drayano, for allowing us to reference some of their changes from Renegade Platinum.
  • The creator of Radical Red, soupercell, for allowing us to use certain Pokémon edits from their romhack in ours
  • https://twitter.com/__Toner___ for the logos

Pokejobs being broken is an intentional feature in order to prevent an EXP/EV exploit.
The only part of the Post Game that is currently finished is the Hop & Sordward/Shielbert section. Champions Cup rematches and such are not edited yet.

 
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For future note, maybe put this in the ReadME if you feel necessary, but if not:

if anyone has this issue, Simple Mod Manager doesn't work and doesn't install the mod properly. Fixed now just by using built-in Atmosphere compatibility, apologies for not doing strictly as told in the first place
Update: Simple Mod Manager does work for this mod and many others
 

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For future note, maybe put this in the ReadME if you feel necessary, but if not:

if anyone has this issue, Simple Mod Manager doesn't work and doesn't install the mod properly. Fixed now just by using built-in Atmosphere compatibility, apologies for not doing strictly as told in the first place
UPDATE: SimpleModManager does indeed work and does install the mod properly.
 

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Hey everyone! I know its been a little bit. I'm still not really in a position where I can comfortably make changes fixing the shop issue and stuff, but I'm glad to see things are mostly doing good :)

Now then, onto the reason why I'm here... As of yesterday Yuzu emulator has multiplayer support! (Early access for now, full in a few days). And Phives and I have confirmed that Divine Sword & Blessed Shield work in said multiplayer!

And so, we were thinking of hosting a 1v1s and 2v2s tournament of sorts, though don't know how many people would be interested in it at this point. Go ahead and like this post if you would wanna participate! If we can gather enough potential entrants, we'll develop a ruleset as well.

Screenshot showing us playing online with a custom ability and all that, it worked flawlessly!
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I downloaded it a few days ago and I'm having a few issues, I'm playing on Yuzu and Ryujinx.
Wild Pikachu can't be interacted with and sometimes wild encounters such as Audino and Nidoran are shown as Pikachu.
Names of TMs and TRs aren't displayed.
Selecting the Box Link in key items displays a message " 's stats may have changed due to the effects of the None!"

Please let me know how to fix these.
 
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I assume everything major trainers rework does for the base game is covered by this, but would there be any issues applying it over this (not overwriting any conflicts), to get the DLC changes from that mod?
 

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Not sure if you guys take any requests, but would it be possible to add level limits? When I play difficulty rom hacks I like to know that I'm not accidentally over-leveling my Pokémon. Furthermore, I like to know that I can grind to my hearts content without making the game too easy.
 

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Is there a guide for the locations of certain pokemons for this mod?
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Is there a guide on where is a specific pokemon for this mod?
 

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Can anyone help.. I already use the step in notepad readme.. the problem is the game always stuck in save game.. can anyone help what is the problem?
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Can anyone help, I already use the step in notepad but the games always stuck in save games, or If I don't save is stuck in the first chapter when I tried to going out from home..

Can anyone help what the problem? And what should I do?
 

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I have the shops items updated but for some reason the prices aren't right. The mints and candies are all $20 which is definitely not correct. I honestly have no idea why this is. Anyone who has any ideas even if their just guesses please let me know
 

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Is poke job not working in this mod? Every time I choose the option in Hammerlocke the game would hang and the software will close due to error.
 

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I have been really enjoying this hack, but I made an account just to say this. The idea of causing the game to intentionally crash when using Pokejobs just to "prevent an exploit" is utterly insane to me. Couldn't you have just recommended people not use the exploit? In a game where you can literally grind to level 100 given enough time, what's the big deal if someone chooses to do something that saves them time in their own personal playthrough?

I was playing this hack as my first experience with SwSh (which I was quite enjoying), and now I don't even get the chance to know what that feature does, it's just removed from the game for no real good reason.

I know the chances of this being updated to change that are slim to none, but does anyone know if there's a certain file I can delete in the mod folder to get rid of the pokejobs crash?
 

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Hey, loving the rom hack. I'm noticing at Raihan though that it is soft locking mid battle? I don't know if it's from me trying to heal up twice in the same round or what but I keep freezing. Had it happen twice now
 

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does PkHex/PkHax work with Divine Sword?
Yes
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Is poke job not working in this mod? Every time I choose the option in Hammerlocke the game would hang and the software will close due to error.
Proposital crashes for balance Ev training
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Hello,
I'm currently playing Blessed Shield and I've noticed something
The kantonian Farfetch'd is Fighting/Flying type
Isn't it supposed to be of Normal/Flying type?
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Some pokemon have changes to balance in competitive way
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Hey, loving the rom hack. I'm noticing at Raihan though that it is soft locking mid battle? I don't know if it's from me trying to heal up twice in the same round or what but I keep freezing. Had it happen twice now
My experience to finish the game:
- Care about speed up the game %. Try use to finish battle more fast before ant crash.
- Dont do samething when return.
- In my pc with yuzu the game start lags before multiples crashes after several hours running. Restart pc solve.
- Shaders can be crash, just delete. I did it late game.

Pokemon scarlet violet have so many auto saves to catch and battle, that problem its easy to turning around
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I have been really enjoying this hack, but I made an account just to say this. The idea of causing the game to intentionally crash when using Pokejobs just to "prevent an exploit" is utterly insane to me. Couldn't you have just recommended people not use the exploit? In a game where you can literally grind to level 100 given enough time, what's the big deal if someone chooses to do something that saves them time in their own personal playthrough?

I was playing this hack as my first experience with SwSh (which I was quite enjoying), and now I don't even get the chance to know what that feature does, it's just removed from the game for no real good reason.

I know the chances of this being updated to change that are slim to none, but does anyone know if there's a certain file I can delete in the mod folder to get rid of the pokejobs crash?
I think its a ugly solution just crash . The game is hard but the path is linear about trainers, with good strategy, despite a regular/bad A.I. I think more Evs will change the difficulty to
early mid game
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-This mod was my first pokemon real experience if we talking about play with friends. I played online with a friend all game in similar time, trying solve the gyms, trading pokemon , raids etc. Best experience

The game give me love,but much hate to trying pass trainers with my favorite pokemon. or Technical problems with emulation

The mr rose( the villain of the game) send the lead as last pokemon, turning the strategy useless( why use hazards just in the end?)

Maybe the dream is a real battle tower with hard stuff to keep playing :P
 
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