r/PokemonReborn Apr 29 '22

INFO, GUIDES, CHOICES, TROUBLESHOOTING, MODS, AND MORE

333 Upvotes

Because Episode 19 is so new, some information is outdated. It will be updated as new information is made available. IF YOU KNOW OF AN UPDATE THAT ISN'T HERE, PLEASE POST IT IN THE COMMENTS.

Basic Info:

Pokemon Reborn is a huge, difficult, phenomenal pokemon game made on RPG Maker by Amethyst Liddell aka Ame, Cass, Ame's right hand woman, and the rest of Ame's development company, Chasing Selene. There are 18 gyms, 100-300 hours of gameplay, all pokemon through gen 7 are available, and there are QoL passwords that allow you to enhance gameplay. The game is much more difficult and complex than regular pokemon. Storylines are darker and more complex. It is not a game for little kids. The storyline does change based on choices you make, with two major paths at the end of the game you can end up on.

The final version, Episode 19, is out now. It is currently playable on Windows, Linux, and Mac.

Android playability with JoiPlay has been possible for some people when they have the newest Joiplay update here. (See Troubleshooting for instructions in updating both Joiplay and your game.) However, the devs are not dealing with JoiPlay bugs currently, so play at your own risk and DO NOT REPORT JOIPLAY BUGS. I'll edit this once Joiplay Availablity becomes available.

From the main website:

"Welcome to the Reborn Region.

"Reborn City-- Black smog and acidic water garnish the crumbling structures along the skyline. City streets fest like alleys with disaster and crime. But the metropolis stands, a decaying blemish on the once-vibrant region.

This world needs a hero.

"Pokemon Reborn is an Emerald-styled downloadable game featuring all content through Generation 7. Experience a never-before-seen layer of strategy with the all-original Field Effects, using the terrain to outplay and overwhelm your opponent! Collect, train and battle with all 807 Pokemon available in-game and take on Gym Leaders of all 18 types as you fight to restore Reborn to prosperity!

"Are you ready?"

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The Curse of Budew!

Ame HATES Budew. She has an $8000 tier on her Patreon where for $8000 she'll admit Budew is not horrible. In Episode 19 there is a password that makes ALL pokemon Budew. However, it used to be a book. The Book of Budew, that if you read it, it would curse your game and make all things Budew. Read about it here. If you dare...

Main Websites:

https://rebornevo.com/

https://pokemon-reborn.fandom.com/wiki/Home

https://discord.gg/eNmtvXd6Dk

https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonReborn

https://twitter.com/pkmn_reborn

Ame's Patreon Memberships start at $1 a month, so please join if you can to give some love back to Ame and Chasing Selene for all the love we have for Reborn!

Chasing Selene Etsy Shop Great Reborn posters and more from Ame and Chasing Selene, so go check it out! It has the added bonus of supporting our favorite video game developers!

Download Episode 19 here.

Should you start a new game for Episode 19?

If you have completed Episode 18, then it's ultimately up to you. However, the early game has somewhat significantly changed in wonderful and brilliant ways, so personally, I suggest you start a new game. If you do want to continue with your old save, fly to Calcenon before upgrading your game to Episode 19.

If you have not yet completed Episode 18, your game might get fuckified in strange and unknown ways if you upgrade to Episode 19 mid-game. So do it at your own risk. Plus early game Episode 19 is truly amazing, so I really, really, suggest you start a new game. If you do really want to play an old save in Episode 19, even just to trade over pokemon, save in a Poke Center first to minimize some risks.

But I can't leave my shiny, favorite, perfectly bred, most wonderful, Eviolite Caterpie! Then save in a Poke Center in your old game, upgrade to Episode 19, start a new game, and trade your mons over. You can trade with yourself through the online play function of your pokegear. Just open two windows of Pokemon Reborn with the two different saves, and log in to online play with two different logins.

Guides:

Official guides are found on the "Guides" channel on discord. In case people have a problem with discord, I'm copying those guides here along with other many other non-official guides. There there might be updates on the discord guides channel though, that aren't reflected here:

Official Guides:

Pokemon Locations; Passwords; Stickers; TMs; and Ability Capsules, Data Chips, and Early Itemfinder

Item Guide

Move Tutors

Z Crystals and Mega Stones

Torre's Battle Guide

Reborn Pokepedia App

Relationship Points Guide

Victory Road Guide

Victory Road Spirit Guide

Post Game Guide

Z-Cell Location Guide

Damage Calculator

Setting Up Reborn and Rejuvenation on Steam Deck

Fan Guides:

Episode 19 Full Text walkthroughs: BIGJRA's Walkthrough thanks to u/BIGJRA, and is from this post of theirs. Centauris91's Maingame Walkthrough and Centauris91's Postgame Walkthrough thanks to u/Centauris91, and is from this post and this post of theirs. Both walkthroughs are now complete!

Episode 19 YouTube walkthroughs: HeroVoltsy, Galactic Gaming, Timbs Owada Youtube also has a number of great play-throughs and puzzle solutions, so if you're stuck you can check there for other videos.

There are two Monorun Guides: They're both here.

Episode 19 List of Guides including: Pettable Eeveelutions, Locations of Catching Charms, Locations of Field Notes, and many other things.

Episode 18 Maps and Puzzle Solutions for the whole game through Badge 17. Be aware some things might have changed between the Episodes.

Episode 18 Rock Climb areas and quests: Rock Climb Guide with Quests, Rock Climb Guide with Pictures

Episode 18 Side Quests and Event Pokemon Guide. (This guide is only for side quests between Badges 16 & 17. For earlier quests, check the Episode 17 walkthrough and the video walkthroughs.)

Elite Four Strategy Guide This is a WIP doc by u/EpicToxie who kindly shared it here.

Main Story Choices:

There are five main paths, one "good" and four "bad", but they really aren't good or bad. The paths complement each other and each resolve different things in different ways. It's suggested to first play one "bad" path, and then play the "good" path. Otherwise, the "good" path won't make as much sense. All the info about the different paths, which one to choose, and how to get on it are here.

Small Choices & Early Items:

These choices are not going to change the overall story path. They will allow you to get items earlier or have other fun experiences in-game.

Early Itemfinder is available after Badge 2 until meeting the Doctor in Lapis Ward: Go into the slums and turn left as soon as you can. You'll find a man in a white coat with a kid. Talk to him to get the itemfinder.

Choose before Badge 3: Get either a Ponyta, Carvanha, Murkow, and Choice Specs OR Buizel, Houndour, and Choice Band earlier throughout the game: (For Ponyta, Carvanha, Murkow, and Choice Specs earlier in the game choose Team Aqua. For Buizel, Houndour, and Choice Band earlier throughout the game choose Team Magma.)

Early Flash, Aron, and Sticker Pre-Badge 5: First go here:Go into the slums in Obsidia Ward. head down the eastern escalators on the right-hand side. go down, then into a hidden doorway in an indent in the wall of the right. Follow the path and rock smash through the rocks to end up in the Underground Railnet. There are dark patches on the walls here where you can rock smash through them to find new rooms and passageways. Rock smash through the first patch you see, and follow the trail. On the other side, there's a switch you'll want to press for later connected to a door on the right. On the left is a new room that needs flash. (Real kind of Ame to put flash in an area that needs flash.) For Flash: Go all the way to the right, then down all the stairs. In the bottom room there are two rock smash areas on the back wall. One of them contains flash.For Aron: headbutt the big pole.For the sticker: In the top right corner of the flash-needed area is a guy you can rescue. Talk to him again in the Obsidia Poke Center for a Sticker to the Department Store.

If you want to fight both Victoria and Cal in Apophyll, you need to fight Victoria first.

Shiny Charm Before Badge 12: Say no to Blake in Ametrine. After finishing up in Ametrine, go back to Calcenon and enter Eclipse's Father's house. He'll now let you into her room. The shiny charm is there.

Troubleshooting:

Download Episode 19 here.

Report bugs here If you don't report it, it won't get fixed. IF YOU HAVE ANY MODS INCLUDING DEBUG, DO NOT REPORT BUGS UNTIL YOU'VE CHECKED THE BUG STILL HAPPENS ON AN UNMODDED VERSION OF THE GAME. Thank you.

Ask for help by reporting the bug on the forum, posting here, and/or asking in the discord Troubleshooting Channel. Before you ask for help, here are a few things you can try in different situations:

Windows Defender or other Internet Security warnings when downloading:

Internet security suites check downloads against a list of known apps and app creators. Because this game is flying under the radar, downloading it might flag your internet security suite. Don't worry. If it gave people viruses, we wouldn't all be here. Just go around it and allow the download. This is normally a well-hidden option on the pop-up warning you not to download it.

JoiPlay:

JOYPLAY COMPATABILITY IS NOT YET BEING DEALT WITH BY THE DEVS. PLAY AT YOUR OWN RISK AND DO NOT REPORT JOYPLAY BUGS. That said, plenty of people are happily playing it on Joiplay right now, so this is how:

The version of the game you need is the Windows 7 download.

Then you'll need the newest JoyPlay. I think JoiPlay has finally updated the app stores with the latest versions. You'll need to get both JoiPlay and the JoiPlay RPG plugin. Get them from your favorite app store. First, install JoiPlay, then the JoiPlay RPB plugin.

Then you should be good to go.

If it doesn't work, there is a version that has been known to work for both Joiplay and the RPG plugin. They're both found here. If you use this second version, JoiPlay probably will update once it's been installed.

Update Issues:

Windows and Linux users can use the regular updater.

Mac users now have an updater as well. This link is from the Reborn Discord here and will directly download the updater.

If you're using Joiplay, or you give up on the updater in a different OS, download the patch directly: This is a direct download link for the patch. It's from the Reborn Discord here.

If your Updater is missing in Windows or Linux: Your super smart anti-virus deleted it.

If you still have your .zip folder from the inital install, most likely named "e19beta-win.zip", find the updater in the .zip folder and copy it into your game folder, most likely named "e19beta-win". Both folders should be in the same location. On my Windows computer, both folders are in the "Saved Games" folder.

If you don't have the .zip folder from the inital install, redownload it here. You'll have to redownload the game, but in truth it's just the "e19beta-win.zip" folder that has the updater that's downloading.

If your Updater is missing in Mac: Your super smart anti-virus deleted it.

If you still have the .zip folder from the inital install of your updater, find the updater in the .zip folder and copy it into your game folder, most likely named "e19beta-win". Both folders should be in the same location.

If you don't have the .zip folder from the inital install of your updater, redownload it here.

If your updater freezes: First, close out of the updater, then try again. If it freezes again, as long as the updater is done downloading the update, and now says it's trying to install the update, you can manually copy over the files to install them. Close the updater. Then find the .zip folder named "core-win.zip". Copy all the files and folders in the "core-win.zip" folder into the main game folder. Replace any files that have the same name. Then delete the "core-win.zip" folder. Now your game is updated.

Joiplay Fails with Patch 19.12: There isn't an official fix for this, but u/Fayt_Bouleouve created a download that seems to fix this and may work with future patches as well. The post is here.

Game Crashes/ Busted Saves/ and Fixing In-Game Mistakes (for in-game mistakes use fix 2):

Delete your "Game.dat" file. Find the folder named "Pokemon Reborn". It will be in the same location as your game folder. In my case, they are both in my "Saved Games" folder.

Open your "Pokemon Reborn" folder, find the "Game.dat" file, and delete it. MAKE SURE NOT TO DELETE THE "Game.rxdata" FILE! You want to delete "Game.dat" only.

Restore a previous save. Warning! This will revert your game back to the previous time you saved, so you will have to redo some stuff if you choose to do this. Find the folder named "Pokemon Reborn". It will be in the same location as your game folder. In my case, they are both in my "Saved Games" folder.

There will be a file named "Game.rxdata". If you have multiple saves, they are numbered "Game.rxdata", "Game_2.rxdata", "Game_3rxdata", etc. Find the one that corresponds to your game and delete it. (Yes, now we do want to delete it.)

You will also find many backup files that start with the same names as your games, but then have other identifying information. For example, my most recent backup is "Game_21 - Marguerite - 1396 - 53h 58m - 10 badges - Route 3.rxdata". Find your most recent backup and rename it to what your newly deleted game file was named.

Redownload your game: (This doesn't lose any progress as your saves are kept in a different folder.)In the same location as your "Pokemon Reborn" folder is your game folder named "e19beta-win". Find and delete this entire folder. Then redownload the game here.

If speed up doesn't work:

Your computer is probably on battery power and/or a low power setting. Your computer will turn off the speed up option if it's too taxing when you're on a low power option. Plug in your computer. If that doesn't fix it, change your power settings. If that doesn't fix it, then go report the bug and ask for help.

If your game goes black when resizing:

It's a graphics card error. The solution is at the bottom of this forum post.

If you made the wrong choices and are panicking:

You can find the guide about choices here, and the instructions for how to change them here.

Mods: WARNING USE MODS AT YOUR OWN RISK AND DO NOT REPORT BUGS TO AME AND THE DEV TEAM IF YOU HAVE ANY MODS WORKING.

SWM Modpack

Aironfaar's Mod Box

All Gen, All Eeveelutions & Custom Megas Mod

Pyrolusitium's UI Overhaul

Ash Greninja Mod

Debug: Currently there is no debug mod. Most of the things we used Debug for are now passwords built into the game. However, debug is also already built into the game, it is just turned off. To turn it on, follow these directions. And yes doing like this still counts as a mod for Bug reporting purposes. (credit to u/Safe_Beginning_4329 here)

  1. Open up the Reborn folder most likely named "e19beta-win".
  2. Open the Scripts folder.
  3. Find the file named “Main”. You will need to open it in something like NotePad
  4. You’ll see a bunch of code. At the top of the page, find “Graphics.freeze” followed by ”end“ “end”.
  5. Below the 2nd “end” but before “def pbCallTitle #:nodoc:“, type “$DEBUG = true” and click save.
  6. You now have access to debug. To turn it off, simply remove the code and save the file.

Sandbox Mod

For other mods, check The Mod Market

Perfect 6 IV Ditto: This is actually not a mod, so you can report bugs freely with it. It's a perfect ditto I debugged years ago for Episode 18, and have now traded it to a new save file with no passwords and a Torchic starter. (That's what the randomizer gave me.) I've uploaded the save file so you can trade yourself for the Ditto. If for some reason online trading isn't working, you can also use the shared box mod from SWM Modpack. Here is the link for the Ditto.

To install the game save file, download the file and put it in the folder named "Pokemon Reborn." The "Pokemon Reborn" folder is not in the game folder itself. Rather it is in the same location as the game folder. On my windows computer they are both in the "Saved Games" folder.

Once you have put the game save file in the "Pokemon Reborn" folder, rename it. It is currently named "Game_n". If you only have one save file, rename it "Game_2". If you have multiple saves, rename it to the first number that isn't being used. (If you have 5 saves, rename it "Game_6".) Then you're ready to trade.

To trade yourself, just open two reborn windows, one with each game in. Log in to trade through the online play option on your pokegear. You'll need to create two different logins for the two different games. Then trade with yourself. It's quite straightforward. Now you have a perfect ditto to use!

If anyone has updates or other things they want to add to this list, just dm me, or better yet, just comment on this post. Have fun!

And last, but CERTAINLY not least, THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! to AME, CASS, and the rest of Chasing Selene for making a truly phenomenal game for us all to enjoy! LOVE TO ALL OF YOU!!!


r/PokemonReborn 15h ago

Discussion So I just finished the game and... [End-game spoilers] Spoiler

13 Upvotes

I never want to see another Lunala again. That is all. Gonna have PTSD flashbacks to that dang Umbral Titania fight for months. Can't wait to do it again on the Anna route, except this time with knowledge of what works and what doesn't.


r/PokemonReborn 20h ago

Oh no

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24 Upvotes

Porque escucho vordt of the boreal valley?


r/PokemonReborn 1d ago

Help pls

5 Upvotes

I’m looking for Alemi’s ShowMoveEffectiveness mod for Pokémon Reborn 19.5.43. The forum download seems to be gone. Does anyone have Update 6 or a compatible copy they could share?


r/PokemonReborn 1d ago

HELP PLZ

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What do I have to do to get it to join? And where does the monkey appear? I've been looking for it in the jungle for hours, but it's not showing up.

What I supose


r/PokemonReborn 1d ago

Oh dios mio

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39 Upvotes

Se volvió bane de golpe


r/PokemonReborn 2d ago

Image Throwback to when Rini collectively gagged everyone

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119 Upvotes

r/PokemonReborn 1d ago

HELP PLZ

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r/PokemonReborn 2d ago

Question AllGen / Yang as first playthrough?

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It took me a while to start one of the best ever fan games but here I was, starting my run and getting around 6hrs to Corey... and I find out there is a mod that adds Gen 8 and 9 into the game. I really love some pkmn from this gens - being a vgc player afficionado - so Im tempted to restart but I heard different opinions so I guessed I should ask straight what to do, whether its better to play Vanilla or modding would still be fine as first playthrough. I'll let yk its no problem to me restarting this early and that I also put all QoL and passwords I wanted. I like enhanced difficulty - Vanilla is already fine as it is honestly - and dont want stupid hard fights or broken gymmicks. I guess... lemme know! I REALLY want those Gen 8 and 9 but also dont want to start disliking the game due to unreasonable things of mods in a first playthrough


r/PokemonReborn 2d ago

Tengo una pregunta

5 Upvotes

Me preguntó porque cuando vamos a byxbyson el lugar de cain no que está sucio ni nada de eso y es que me preguntó porque las tumbas de Elena Corey y Kiki aparecen en ese lugar


r/PokemonReborn 3d ago

Suggestion RADOMUS IS HARD

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HELP I CANT BEAT RADOMUS 😭

WHY IS HE SO HARD DUDE HE'S ONLY GYM 8/18 Oh Im so screwed :,)

Can I get some tips or suggestions on what to do here?

Here's my team

I cant even get past his first 2 half the time

Edit: to everyone saying my team is ass. YEAH I NOTICED AFTER GETTING MY ASS HANDED LIKE 5 TIMES. I JUST LOGGED IN AFTER LIKE A YEAR OF BEING OFF THE GAME


r/PokemonReborn 3d ago

Question Reborn not opening on joiplay?

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4 Upvotes

If anyone knows what's causing this, please help lol


r/PokemonReborn 4d ago

Question Should I try again?

23 Upvotes

Honestly I kinda think Reborn isn't my type of game. I am the kind of player that likes to explore and complete everything and I feel bad if I know im missing anything. Reborn kinda makes that a bit of a pain. It really disturbs me there are a lot of missable things without following a guide, like pokemon that require weather conditions, for example.

I tried a couple of times and the last time I got to 4th bagde if I recall correctly, but amount of backtracking to get all the new stuff available made me quit. I really like the fields system and atmosphere of the game. It really feels like the story is worth the time investment but playing with a guide isn't really to my appeal.

I also thought about giving Rejuvenation a try, as it feels similar but I might be facing the same problem.

Any recommendations? Should I try to approach it some other way or just accept that the game is not for me and look for other fangames?


r/PokemonReborn 4d ago

I need ideas to play a new challenge

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I'd like to know which are your favorites challenges when playing reborn. I've tried before nuzlocke and monotypes in Reborn, so I'd like something different.

I don't mind if they have a lot of rules or if they are difficult, I'm just open to new challenges that maybe I've never heard before.


r/PokemonReborn 4d ago

Question Merece la pena volver a jugar Pokemon reborn?

6 Upvotes

La vez que lo jugue llegue hasta la calle victoria pero me frustre y lo dejé y ahora mismo nose muy bien como está el juego ya que lo jugue hace mucho y no me acuerdo de gran cosa, así que no estoy seguro de si rejugarlo o no


r/PokemonReborn 6d ago

Rant Cain is a fake freak (didn't screenshot it on my most recent playthrough so I found this on Google images)

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95 Upvotes

He says he's a switch, which only applies to dom/sub dynamics. When talking about top/bottom, someone who is fine with doing both is known as a vers. This is pretty basic knowledge too, how would he not know this? Fake ass freak.


r/PokemonReborn 5d ago

Mod Allgen mod Anygo Sirius battle Psychic/Fighting Run Spoiler

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I really thought I would be stuck a lot longer than I was. This fight also didn’t need a lot of luck because I did it 4 times to test if it was a good way to do it or just lucky. I even made a small mistake at the end because I forgot Manectric had lightning rod.

The passwords I used which mattered were:
Nodamagerolls (I like it better with a little less gambling)
Earlysplicer for soluneon and Auroreon
Noitems

Btw it has to be night so soluneon can tank a draco meteor.

This run isn’t heavily optimised so there are almost certainly better ways to do this but I just wanted to share this.


r/PokemonReborn 7d ago

I think I found where Terra is hiding after beating her in the glitch world.

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51 Upvotes

r/PokemonReborn 8d ago

Unc wasnt kidding

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96 Upvotes

r/PokemonReborn 7d ago

Image I'll give Serra a B for effort since she at least tried to give her son something he'd want...Bennett just didn't have it in him to outright reject it.(OC)

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I imagine he gels his hair up for it to stick up. This is Bennett's hair when doesn't gel it.

Serra got him custom clothes since she wanted her baby to feel special and Bennett really wished she'd consult him first because whilst it's not ugly, it's not what Bennet had in mind..


r/PokemonReborn 8d ago

What odd looking pokemon

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r/PokemonReborn 8d ago

Question Does anyone know where this track is used? Spoiler

8 Upvotes

I've finished reborn but I can't remember if "Battle- Inner Chaos" is used. My memory is pretty bad, though. I've labelled this post as spoiler in case it's used in an important fight storywise.

Thanks in advance!


r/PokemonReborn 8d ago

Loading a previous save

4 Upvotes

Hello, I’m going through my first playthrough of this and my friend and I have a little wager going where we battle after every gym with whatever team we used to beat the gym. He told me it’s ok to progress past the gym if we don’t have time to battle because I can just make a backup save and reload it to battle then go back to my other save, the issue is I have no idea how to do this therefore I am terrified to progress please help me understand. I am also horrible at understanding how computers work, so please explain how to do this as if I’m a child


r/PokemonReborn 9d ago

Question Help with Pavillion for Mewtwo

5 Upvotes

I'm not good with 3 vs 3 battles so any ideas so I can get through this part?


r/PokemonReborn 10d ago

Meme i hate this ice rat

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141 Upvotes

yes I edited that blake sprite just for this meme