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Welcome to the Polished Crystal wiki!

This is a community-driven wiki for Polished Crystal, so not all information might be entirely up to date. It is created by players, for players. 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, FAQ.md

General gameplay notice

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

• Be sure to play the latest build, namely v3.0.0-beta (as of Mar. 2021). You can run a full playthrough with some WIP elements for additional side quests and features.
  • polishedcrystal-3.0.0-beta-xxxxxxxx.gbc is the "Modified" version and includes some Pokémon type and base stat changes.
  • polishedcrystal-3.0.0-beta-xxxxxxxx-faithful.gbc is the "Faithful" patch which keeps the canon (vanilla) Pokémon stats and move attributes.
• Do NOT play the debug build unless you're testing for the devs.
• v2.2.0 was finished in Sept. 2016 — it's obsolete and out of support.
• 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.

Pages

Notice: the old community guide page is undergoing maintenance and this wiki is currently being updated with more information.

• Battle Facilities

• Bug-Catching Contest

• Contributing with a list of to-do lists of the project

• Headbutt Trees

• IVs and EVs

• Modifications

• Pokemon Learnsets

• Pokemon Types, Stats, and Abilities

• Regional Forms

• Tips and Tricks

• Updating Polished Crystal and Save Patching

• Wonder Trade

• …and more on the old community guide