Table of contents
PROLOGUE
Once you start the game, it will show you a list of warnings, then ask if you would like to skip the prologue. If this is your first playthrough, I would recommend playing through it, but skipping it does not affect any story decisions later on.
After reading through the Zorua and Pangoro story, take Maria downstairs to talk to Mom. Afterwards, enter the bottom room on the left wall and go down the stairs. Go up and interact with the strange table in the center of the room.
Climb back up the stairs and go into the top room along the left wall to talk to Dad, then return to the kitchen to talk to Mom. Go back to your room upstairs. After a short cutscene where you’ll hear the sound of breaking glass, go back downstairs to talk to a mysterious figure. Return down to the room with the strange table.
Go down, right, and up towards the entrance and watch the end of the prologue.
INTRO AND PASSWORDS
The game will now ask you what difficulty you would like to play on. I recommend Story mode for those that are more interested in the story, characters, and lore and are not interested in spending too much time figuring out hard battles, and Classic Mode for those that would like a bit more challenge and enjoy a puzzling battle or two. Regardless of what choice you make, you will be able to change the difficulty later. This guide will cover battles as they appear in Classic Mode.
Before registering, you’ll have a chance to review and rebind your controls with ‘F1.’ Register yourself as a trainer by picking your gender, character design, and name.
You’ll be asked if you want to put down any passwords. Passwords are used to change the game by adding or removing difficulty, providing QOL, or introduce other possibly strange interactions. Here are the following available passwords and what they do:
Quality of Life
- Receive 5 of each Nature Mint at the start of the game after speaking to Tesla on the docks:
- mintyfresh
- mintpack
- Receive the Exp. All at the start of the game:
- freeexpall
- Receive the Shiny Charm at the start of the game:
- shinycharm
- earlyshiny
- Receive the Mega-Z Ring at the start of the game:
- freemegaz
- Receive the golden tools that remove the need for HM users on your team at the start of the game:
- easyhms
- nohms
- hmitems
- notmxneeded
- Receive the Remote PC at the start of the game:
- freeremotepc
- Receive thethe EV training keycards at the start of the game:
- powerpack
- Enables the incubator at the daycare to hatch eggs immediately:
- antidote
- nopoisondam
- Disables overworld poison damage:
- nodamageroll
- norolls
- rolls
- Disablesdamage variation in battle:
- nodamageroll
- norolls
- roll
- Allows you to gain Exp. Candies from level-up trainers without having the battle them:
- pinata
Difficulty
- Opponent Pokémon will be set to always have 0 EVs and 0 IVs:
- litemode
- noevs
- emptyevs
- All money earned from winning battles is 20% of the original amount:
- nopenny
- All opponents will have 252 EVs in each stats and 31 IVs in each stat:
- fullevs
- Stops the player from using medical items in battle:
- noitems
- Doubles all the money earned from winning trainer battles:
- moneybags
- richboy
- doublemoney
- All Pokémon obtained will have 31 IVs in each stat:
- fullivs
- 31ivs
- allivs
- mischievous
- All Pokémon obtained will have 0 IVs in each stat:
- emptyivs
- 0ivs
- noivs
- Allows the player to add or subtract levels from all trainers:
- leveloffset
- setlevel
- flatlevel
- Allows the player to increase or decrease levels by a set percentage:
- percentlevel
- levelpercent
- Prevents the player’s Pokémon from gaining EVs:
- stopitems
- Prevents the player’s Pokémon from gaining EXP:
- noexp
- zeroexp
- 0exp
- nodamageroll
- All opponent Pokémon will have 85 EVs in each stat:
- flatevs
- 85evs
- Allows the player’s Pokémon to gain 252 EVs in each stat:
- noevcap
- gen2mode
Miscellaneous
- Weather now lasts indefinitely in battle unless changed by another move or ability:
- gen5weather
- Speeds up the day/night cycle by not tying it to the user’s PC time:
- eeveepls
- Field boosted moves are more powerful and weakened moves are weakened even more:
- fieldfrenzy
- morefield
- Skips the S.S. Oceana intro and starts the player at East Gearen Docks (You’ll miss out on Friendship Value with Mom):
- nointro
- skipintro
- Allows the user to play as Ana, a secret protagonist:
- 9494
- Skips to the start of the Terajuma story arc where you’ll be able to choose from a Renegade or Paragon playthrough, and has a pre-set team depending on protagonist sprite. You will miss out on certain items and not recommended for 100% a specific playthrough:
- terajuma
- Enables an inconsistent Easter Egg:
- hello eizen.
Password Packs
- Combines the noitems, fullivs, easyhms, and norolls passwords:
- casspack
- goodtaste
- Combines the fullivs, moneybags, litemode, and stopitems passwords:
- easymode
- Combines the noitems, nopenny, fullevs, and emptyivs passwords:
- hardmode
- Combines the easyhms, nopoisondam, and freeexpall passwords:
- qol
If this is your first playthrough, I wouldn’t stress too much about passwords. Focus on the QOL ones if you’d like to make life a little easier for yourself or if you have a need to change the difficulty a little bit. You’ll be able to add or remove passwords later. Don’t enter the same password again if you’re using a password pack.
S.S. OCEANA
After you’re done registering, exit the room to talk to your mom. The game will teach you about friendship values and how dialogue will affect how other characters will see you. Depending on your actions and dialogue you might see music notes above a character’s head. Blue or gold music notes mean that you’ve gained favor with that character, while red notes mean that you’ve lost favor. Friendship values affect a variety of things, so respond how you would like, but just know that it’ll have consequences either way!
I’ll be writing out each dialogue option with the amount of points that you can gain or lose. If a dialogue branch doesn’t affect the friendship values of a character, I won’t be mentioning it.
Friendship Value Choices
- I’m fine. (Mom +2)
- … (Mom -1)
After talking to Mom you’re free to explore the S.S. Oceana. I highly recommend getting in the habit of talking to everyone and investigating places that seem to be of interest. You’ll gain lots of new information that way, as well as discovering new Pokémon and obtaining items.
For example, if you go downstairs to the room on the far left and up you’ll see a small crack on the wall where you’ll be able to overhear a conversation between a mysterious figure named Crescent and your mom. Heading into the room directly below that and interacting with a similar crack in the wall will allow you to overhear another conversation between a trio of suspicious figures.
Once you’re ready to proceed, head upstairs to the third level and talk to Captain Augustus. He’ll explain a few of Rejuvenation’s mechanics if you want. Head back downstairs and through the double doors to talk to Nancy and get the farewell banquet started.
Watch the cutscene, then follow the only available path through the ship until you’re whisked off it.
OCEANA PIER
After you finish talking to Tesla, feel free to explore the pier, but you won’t be able to interact with much until you get your starter. Now’s a good time to look through your settings if you haven’t already. You can access the photosensitivity/streamer mode here if you need it.
If you’d like to get the world’s quickest game over, head over to the yacht on the right side of the pier and talk to the guide. FREE TRIP! FREE TRIP! FREE TRIP!
Head north through the gate when you’re ready, time to get our first Pokémon!