What is Pokémon Renegade Platinum (And How to Install it)

Trainers, in another article here, The Game Haus delivered information on Team Luminescent’s Luminescent Platinum Mod. It turns any copy of Brilliant Diamond into the remake of Platinum that players deserve. However, Team Lumi made this mod using Renegade Platinum as a base. In this article, readers will find out what Pokémon Renegade Platinum is.

[Related: What is Pokémon Luminescent Platinum?]

What is Pokémon Renegade Platinum?

Pokémon Renegade Platinum is a ROM hack made by Drayano. It is a difficulty mod meant to give players a more enriching challenge, along with adding extra story beats and NPCs. They also change certain Pokémon’s typings such as Luxray’s (Electric to Electric/Dark). Players can also get all 4 sets of starters from Kanto to Sinnoh.

Other Renegade Platinum Features

Here are some other things that Drayano implemented:

• All 493 Pokémon Available
• Revamped Trainer Battles
• Harder Boss Battles
• Pokémon Modifications

  • In addition, The Fairy-type from the Gen 6 games and later has been added in Renegade Platinum, replacing what was previously the ??? type.
  • All Pokémon have had their typing, base stats and wild held items updated to match what they are as of Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon.
  • Pelipper and Torkoal also gain their new Drizzle and Drought abilities from Gen 7.
  • A lot of Pokémon gain their Hidden Ability from Gen 5 and later as a secondary standard ability in this hack.

• Quality of Life Changes
• Increased Shiny Rate
• Increased Gameplay Speed
• New Events and NPCs
• New Events and NPCs

  • A number of small events have been added to the game, including an additional event with Team Galactic, small events to obtain starters and legendaries, more in-depth events to get mythical Pokémon such as Mew, Celebi and Arceus and more.
  • Some new events have also been added that change the story flow slightly.
  • You also now battle Lucas or Dawn and each of the stat trainers.
  • There are lots of small events that allow you to obtain Pokémon. For example, you can get an Eevee early in the game that is being taken care of by the player’s mother.
  • There are also a number of additional NPCs that will do things such as sell you evolution items, items unique to certain Pokémon, and a whole new training NPC in Solaceon Town’s Pokémon Daycare who will help you train your Pokémon in levels or EVs

• Evolution Modifications
• Move and Item Modifications
• Trade Modifications

Full details can be found here on Project Pokémon.

How to Install Renegade Platinum

Installing Renegade Platinum is not that difficult of a task. First, players will need to find an emulator. DesMume is a good overall choice and Open Emu is good for Mac users. After getting one, players will then need to get a ROM file of Pokémon Platinum.

They can either extract the .nds files from their own cartridge or try to find one online (Game Haus cannot give out site names as the writers here are not pushing people to do anything within the realm of piracy). Once that is done, all they have to do is patch the ROM with the hack files. They can now play Renegade Platinum on their computers.

Conclusion

This is all of the core information about Pokémon Renegade Platinum and how to install it. This is one of many difficulty hacks Drayano has made. And it still serves as one of the peak examples of his programming skills. Everyone enjoying Luminescent Platinum in 2023-2024 owe that to the existence of Renegade Platinum in 2018.

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