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Welcome to the Polished Crystal Wiki!

This is a community-driven wiki for Polished Crystal — by players, for players.

Not all information might be entirely up to date. The only fully accurate, fully up-to-date information is the source code in the master branch for the game.

The official FAQ is available in the repo. Take a look at that first!

If you have a question about playing Polished Crystal, or think you've found a bug, please read this FAQ first.

— Polished Crystal dev team, FAQ.md

General Gameplay Notice

Main article: FAQ § Which file do I need to play?

• Read the release page. The most recent build is v3.0.0-beta (as of Sept. 2024).
  • You can run a full playthrough in v3.0.0-beta, only with some unfinished elements for additional side quests and features.
  • polishedcrystal-3.0.0-beta-xxxxxxxx.gbc is the main modified version and includes some Pokémon type and base stat changes.
  • polishedcrystal-faithful-3.0.0-beta-xxxxxxxx.gbc is the alternative faithful version which keeps the canon (vanilla) Pokémon stats and move attributes.
  • It's GitHub's fault that it's tagged Pre-release instead of Latest, unfortunately.
• Do NOT play the debug build (polisheddebug) unless you're testing for the devs.
• v2.2.0 was finished in Sept. 2016 — it's obsolete and out of support.
  • The completion date of each version is shown on the Tags page; that of older ones shouldn't be confused with their "release date" shown on GitHub, which were all given later in 2017.
  • An upgrade of your save file from v2.2.0 to v3.0.0-beta is NOT available.
• Cheating is NOT officially supported. See the .sym file guide for details.
  • Cheatcodes for the vanilla would NEVER work for Polished because of the different data structure. In other words, if you use vanilla codes on Polished, you almost certainly mess up your game/save, RIP 🪦
  • The game may update the data structure time after time and therefore has NO cheatcode lists.

Alpha-test Info

• The current dev branch is the 9bit branch. It'll be the next batch of updates on v3.0.0-beta.
• It began as the 9-bit Pokémon ID project and has been implementing more and more features and side quests. Though still in the alpha phase, it already offers a richer experience than the current v3.0.0-beta.
• You may alpha-test it at your own risk, by building it by yourself or by visiting the #testing-9bit Discord channel.
• This wiki won't provide data exclusive to it. Browse that branch on the repository instead.

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