Development Rolling Release

This is the current Polished Crystal development rolling release – strictly for testing and development purposes. These builds are experimental and are provided to help developers and testers verify the latest changes and features. Do not use these builds for regular gameplay. The assets all have an 8-character commit hash at the end to identify the exact code they're built from.

Important: Save game compatibility is not guaranteed in these builds, and the official save patcher will not support them upon release.

The .gbc assets are ROMs. If you just want to play the game, download one (regular, -faithful which omits some non-canon changes, or noir which is in grayscale) and load it in BGB, mGBA, Gambatte, or another accurate Game Boy Color emulator. (Do not use VBA or VBA-M.)

The .sym assets are "symbol files". They're useful for debugging or for discovering cheat codes, although cheats are not officially supported and may cause bugs or crashes. (Do not ask the developers for cheat codes.)

The .patch assets are 3DS Virtual Console patches to enable trading and battling over Wi-Fi. You can bundle the .gbc and corresponding .patch into a playable .cia file using poke-cia.

The debug assets are ROMs and symbol files with extra features to help debug the game. Do not download these just to play; use them to help the developers diagnose and fix bugs, or to create new features.