Pokemon Vintage White Final Version Documentation
Author: notsuicuu
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If you are reading this, then you are probably intending to play my ROM hack, Pokemon Vintage White. Before you begin, I want to cover a few things.
Difficulty:
First off, this hack is meant to be nuzlocked. All of the fights in the game (with the exception of a select few that don't matter) have been revamped. This means that all boss trainers (i.e. gym leaders, E4, etc.) have teams that present far more of a challenge than in most games. Additionally, all of the regular trainers have teams that can be extremely difficult as well. To accommodate for this, I have included a document titled VW Trainer Docs that I would encourage you to use. This game is not easy and you will probably wipe multiple times if you plan on using harder nuzlocke rules.
Pinwheel Clause:
For those of you that feel that doing Pinwheel Clause isn't a viable thing to do, you're in luck. Outer Pinwheel Forest has now been aptly changed to Not Pinwheel Forest and the met location reflects this.
Available Pokemon:
Only Pokemon available in Gens 1-3 (and their gen 4 evolutions) are available in the main game of the hack. For those of you who wish to go further, the postgame includes the remainder of the Gen 4 Pokemon and all of the Gen 5 Pokemon as well as revamped boss fights, a whole new Elite 4, and a lot of trainers to fight.
Starter Pokemon:
When you begin your adventure and you get to the screen where you choose your starter Pokemon, worry not, the images don't actually reflect the Pokemon that you will receive. Your starter will be a Hoenn starter that corresponds to the starter type that you choose and the text associated with them will reflect that.
Level Curve:
The level curve is extremely steep in this hack and with Gen 5 exp gain, grinding would be a massive pain. I would encourage you to hack in Rare Candies (either via PKHaX or an AR Code) so that you don't spend most of your time grinding.
Where's the Weather?:
Weather, as a mechanic, is extraordinarily busted. Permanent Weather is even more busted. Therefore, I have removed all access to permanent weather abilities from the player. The AI will still have access to these abilities, but the player will have access to the Weather TMs to counteract this.
Anyways, good luck and have fun.
Important Links
Showdown Calc: https://notsuicuu.github.io/vinwhitecalc/?gen=5
Layout Docs: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1p5UzmM3LCf3SvlG3BM3cz3aubMg0vndCAovpTfKK0Eo/edit#gid=1967663477
Local Showdown Calc (Download the folder, unzip it, and open index.html): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lAcZuPqVuJKS_8jobw2ySlWFqal6dEZc?usp=sharing
Changelog
April 7, 2023 8:36 PM EST: Fixed TM44 Rest not appearing on Victory Road
February 21, 2022 1:20 AM EST: Fixed Nidoking's attack stat
February 1, 2022 3:00 PM EST: Changed Ninjask's learnset so that it learns more Fighting- and Bug-type moves at earlier levels Moved the Choice Scarf to Victory Road, the Choice Band to Route 7, and the Choice Specs to Celestial Tower Replaced the Choice Items on Route 4/in Desert Resort with the original items Buffed Power Gem's Base Power Fixed Dugtrio's TM Learnset and gave Ninjask compatibility with TM94 and TM65 Patched out a bug letting the player get the Plume Fossil before Postgame Changed Crit Rate back to 1/16
February 1, 2022 4:41 AM EST: Buffed Dugtrio's attack stat and added the Fighting type to it Changed Diglett's/Dugtrio's movepool to match Dugtrio's new typing Fixed Golduck not learning Hydro Pump at level 63 and Wonder Room at level 69 Buffed Psyduck's/Golduck's movepools Replaced Blaziken's Speed Boost with Sheer Force Replaced the Static Darmanitans in Desert Resort with Sudowoodo Fixed Lileep and Anorith appearing in Moor of Icirrus instead of Omanyte and Kabuto Made all trainers have 31 IV Pokemon Changed Clay's team slightly Upgraded the teams for N and Ghetsis to match the difficulty of final bosses Removed the TM Clerk from the Mistralton City Pokemon Center Replaced the TMs for Bulk Up, Hone Claws, Calm Mind, and Double Team with the TMs for Hail, Sunny Day, Rain Dance, and Sandstorm Updated the Showdown Calc (Fixing some issues and Adding New Changes) Changed Crit Rate back to 1/16
January 7, 2022 6:00 PM EST: Moved the Cut Tree in the Dreamyard Buffed Victreebel Fixed Unfezant's typing Yawn is now 70 accuracy and instant sleep Switched the locations of TM12, Taunt and TM44, Rest Made it so the AI will use speed lowering moves even if faster Added ground moves to the Baltoy line levelup learnsets Fixed Aron line not having Stone Edge Changed the PP for all setup moves, weather moves, Rest, Taunt, and a few other moves The girl on Route 1 now gives the player 10 max repels instead of 1 potion Blocked off the Battle Subway entrance Removed Spikes, Toxic Spikes, and Stealth Rock from all learnsets Multiple Encounter Changes:
- Replaced Corsola in Striaton with Slugma
- Replaced Whismur in Dreamyard with Vulpix
- Replaced Chikorita in Dreamyard with Houndour
- Replaced Seedot on Route 3 with Mareep
- Switched Meditite/Diglett/Machop and Rhyhorn/Onix/Phanpy in the Wellspring Encounter Table
- Replaced Seedot/Lotad/Hoppip with Mankey/Machop/Makuhita in Not Pinwheel Forest
- Moved Relic Castle B2F Encounters down to B3F
- Replaced Tyrogue/Swablu with Teddiursa/Tyrogue in Not Pinwheel Forest
- Replaced Zangoose with Meowth on Route 5
- Replaced Swablu with Mareep on Route 5
- Reworked Guidance Chamber Dust Cloud Encounters
- Replaced Aerodactyl with Kabutops/Omastar on Route 10 (Badge Gate)
- Replaced Lapras with Qwilfish in Iccirus City/Moor of Iccirus/Route 8
- Switched Staryu and Lapras in the Driftveil City Encounter Table
- Replaced some of Swablu with Aipom on Route 5
- Replaced Skarmory with Togetic on Route 5
- Added Qwilfish to Lostlorn Forest
- Reduced the encounter rate of Goldeen and Magikarp in Lostlorn Forest
Changed Crit Rate back to 1/16
October 28, 2021 2:53 PM EST: Minor fixes to some Trainers' Pokemon's moves, abilities, items, and levels Changed the moveset of Burgh's Dustox Fixed some moveset/tmset errors Fixed Grass Pledge's BP not being 100 Added Murkrow to some encounter tables Removed Sableye from most encounter tables Changed Crit Rate back to 1/16
August 29, 2021 11:20 PM EST: Fixed N's team not being updated Fixed various Post-game teams that didn't have the correct abilities Fixed some documentation errors Changed Crit Rate back to 1/16
August 19, 2021 12:10 PM EST: Fixed text inconsistencies/formatting issues Changed Crit Rate back to 1/16
August 17, 2021 6:56 PM EST: Added an NPC in Accumula Town that gives gift Pokemon Changed Crit Rate back to 1/16
August 3, 2021 3:45 PM EST: Fixed TM90
July 19, 2021 10:53 PM EST: Removed all access to Weather Abilities from the player Replaced a protein in Cold Storage with TM07, Hail Revamped a few trainer teams Fixed the Cheren multibattle partner on Route 5 Changed Crit Rate back to 1/16
June 26, 2021 2:54 AM EST: Fixed a problem with the Plasma Grunt double battle in Wellspring Cave Changed Crit Rate back to 1/16
June 25, 2021 7:43 PM EST: Updated AI
June 23, 2021 4:08 PM EST: Fixed an issue with the level at which Feraligatr learned Superpower Fixed Shedinja's BST Updated the calc so that Corsola has the correct stats Changed Crit Rate back to 1/16
June 17, 2021 1:29 PM EST: Minor text changes Fixed compatibility issues with the Bug Buzz TM Updated the Victory Road Trainer Documentation Updated both the local and online damage calculator Changed Crit Rate back to 1/16
June 16, 2021 9:22 PM EST: Updated the final N/Ghetsis Teams Removed Chingling from Dreamyard Nerfed Chimecho stats slightly Changed the encounters and encounter rates in Guidance Chamber and Celestial Tower (Roof) Put Retaliate and Facade back in their original locations Replaced items in Pinwheel Forest with TM76 and TM90 Changed TM90 from Substitute to Bug Buzz Reverted Struggle Bug to normal with updated BP Other move changes Burgh gives TM90 instead of TM76 Changed Marshal to a Ground-type E4 member and Marshal's room now has Permanent Sandstorm A few moveset changes Updated a lot of text inconsistencies Changed Crit Rate back to 1/16
June 10, 2021 8:34 PM EST: Perma sand in Clay's gym Nerfed wild Sableye encounter rates Blocked off Small Court and Big Stadium Blocked off the Pokemon Daycare Removed Leftovers from wild Munchlax/Snorlax Replaced an item on Route 3 with Leftovers (Post grunts) Changed Crit Rate back to 1/16
June 9, 2021 1:40 PM EST: Fixed Mawile and Sceptile having the wrong base stats Replaced Venonat with Growlithe on Route 2 Ledyba now gets Bug Bite at level 1 instead of Tackle Zigzagoon now gets Bite at level 1 instead of Tackle Replaced Tackle with Pound on Trainer School Cheren's Eevee Changed all evolutions via learning a move to Level Up Evolutions Changed Crit Rate back to 1/16
June 6, 2021 11:33 AM EST: Fixed Grumpig's typing
June 7, 2021 4:44 PM EST: Removed Choice Items as held items on the fossils Replaced items on Route 4 and in Desert Resort with Choice Items (Available Post Burgh) Fixed Iris's Dragonite not having Multiscale Fixed Bulbasaur and Ivysaur having Thick Fat instead of Chlorophyll Replaced the Dragon Claw TM in Victory Road with the Flamethrower TM Changed Crit Rate back to 1/16
June 6, 2021 12:28 AM EST: Removed Surf as a level up move from all Pokemon Replaced static Volcarona with Unown The Larvesta Egg has been replaced with a Smeargle Egg Many optional trainers are now mandatory (Including most of the Victory Road Trainers) Gave Burgh's Dustox Struggle Bug over Psybeam Lenora now has Shadow Sneak on Kecleon as intended Changed Feebas's evolution method Changed Piloswine's evolution method Fixed some trainers not having updated teams Life Orb is now held by wild Scizor instead of Baltoy Other assorted thief items have been updated Severely reduced the encounter rates of some of the extremely busted Pokemon Blaziken Line now gets Protect Changed Crit Rate back to 1/16
June 3, 2021 9:02 PM EST: Milotic second ability changed to Filter Heracross and Ledian swapped encounter rates in Lostlorn Forest and Route 10 Badge Gates Fixed some trainers not having updated Pokemon Replaced Rapidash with Simisear in Abundant Shrine Outer Pinwheel Forest now has the Met Location of "Not Pinwheel Forest" Changed Crit Rate back to 1/16
June 3, 2021 6:07 PM EST: Gliscor can now learn HM02, Fly Mamoswine, Goldeen, and Blaziken can now learn TM88, Pluck Encounter docs are updated to include the gift Smeargle in Dreamyard and Fake Pokeballs on Route 6 and Route 10 Lileep replaces Omanyte and Kabuto in Wellspring Cave Fixed Cyclist Hector having 6 Pokemon instead of 4 Changed Crit Rate back to 1/16
Item Changes
Nuvema Town Xtransceiver > Super Rod
Striaton City Oran Berries > HM01 HM01 > TM46 TM83 > TM54 Pal Pad > Bicycle
Dreamyard Pokeball > TM23 Parlyz Heal > TM88 Repel > TM59 Potion > TM83
Route 3 Heal Balls > TM95 Awakening > Leftovers
Wellspring Cave TM46 > TM10
Nacrene City Chesto Berries > TM47
Pinwheel Forest Parlyz Heal > TM76 Moon Stone > TM17 Miracle Seed > TM27
Castelia City Smoke Ball > TM89 TM76 > TM90 (Now Bug Buzz) TM44 > TM12
Route 4 X Accuracy > Claw Fossil Great Ball > Root Fossil
Relic Castle Cover Fossil > HM06 Plume Fossil > HM06 TM04 > TM18 (Postgame)
Nimbasa City Bicycle > HM02
Route 5 Hyper Potion > TM93
Route 16 Rare Candy > TM03
Driftveil City HM02 > Rare Candy
Cold Storage Protein > Hyper Potion TM01 > TM11 (Postgame)
Route 6 Hyper Potion > TM53
Route 7 Ultra Ball > Choice Specs
Celestial Tower Revive > Choice Band
Route 17 TM06 > Rare Candy
Route 14 TM32 > TM37 (Postgame)
Icirrus City TM79 > TM13
Opelucid City TM82 > TM02
Victory Road TM93 > TM82 TM02 > TM35 TM12 > TM44 Ultra Ball > Choice Scarf
Route 12 TM53 > TM06
Route 14 TM08 > TM07 (Postgame)
Important Item Locations
After Gym 1 Oran Berry - Zigzagoon Sitrus Berry - Zigzagoon Pecha Berry - Poochyena Chesto Berry - Whismur Cheri Berry - Taillow Persim Berry - Rattata Aspear Berry - Oddish Rawst Berry - Growlithe Lum Berry - Slakoth Babiri Berry - Growlithe Charti Berry - Taillow Chilan Berry - Rattata Chople Berry - Poochyena Coba Berry - Wurmple Colbur Berry - Bellsprout Haban Berry - Ekans Kasib Berry - Spearow Kebia Berry - Oddish Occa Berry - Caterpie Passho Berry - Wingull Payapa Berry - Weedle Rindo Berry - Carvanha Shuca Berry - Pidgey Tanga Berry - Ralts Wacan Berry - Hoothoot Yache Berry - Ledyba Exp. Share - Porygon Lucky Egg - Wingull Rare Candy - Mudkip/Treecko/Torchic Mystic Water - Mudkip Miracle Seed - Treecko Charcoal - Torchic TwistedSpoon - Abra Poison Barb - Tentacool Stardust - Staryu Star Piece - Staryu DeepSeaScale - Chinchou DeepSeaTooth - Carvanha Hard Stone - Corsola
Wellspring Cave Quick Claw - Sandshrew TinyMushroom - Paras Big Mushroom - Paras Balm Mushroom - Paras Soft Sand - Diglett Everstone - Geodude Lagging Tail - Slowpoke Pearl - Shellder Big Pearl - Shellder Thick Club - Cubone Comet Shard - Lunatone/Solrock Big Root - Lileep
Route 3 Leppa Berry - Skitty
Not Pinwheel Forest Eviolite - Koffing/Munchlax Black Sludge - Grimer Smoke Ball - Koffing Light Clay - Stantler Spell Tag - Shuppet
Pinwheel Forest Wide Lens - Yanma Berry Juice - Shuckle Heart Scale - Luvdisc
Route 4 Rawst Berry - Numel Sticky Barb - Cacnea
Desert Resort Life Orb - Scizor
Relic Castle Metal Coat - Beldum
Route 5 Stick - Farfetch'd Light Ball - Pikachu
Driftveil Drawbridge Sharp Beak - Doduo
Driftveil City Dragon Scale - Horsea
Cold Storage Grip Claw - Sneasel
Route 6 Moomoo Milk - Miltank
After Acquiring Surf SilverPowder - Butterfree King's Rock - Poliwhirl Lucky Punch - Chansey Dragon Fang - Bagon
Victory Road PP Max - Steelix
Patching Instructions
Download and unzip the xdelta UI file. (You can use 7zip or Winrar to extract the files)
Download a Clean Pokemon White ROM that does not have the AP patch. Such a ROM could not be found at this link: https://www.reddit.com/r/Roms/comments/7hxzro/some_pokemon_roms/
Go to https://www.marcrobledo.com/RomPatcher.js/
Click browse next to "ROM File:"
Select the clean Pokemon White ROM. Make sure you are opening a .nds file and not a .rar or .zip file.
Click open next to "Patch File:"
Select the Pokemon Vintage White.xdelta patch and click open.
Click "Apply Patch"
Open the downloaded file in your emulator of choice.
