Pokémon Brilliant Diamond

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Pokémon Brilliant Diamond

Veemyu/strahlender-xnu

Pokémon Brilliant Diamond as a native app for iPad, iPhone, Mac, Linux, and Windows, made by static recompilation: the game’s own ARM64 code is translated ahead of time into native code and a small runtime replaces the Switch operating system and its graphics API (Metal on Apple devices, Vulkan on Linux and Windows). It is not an emulator. A graphical installer for macOS, Linux, and Windows guides you through keys, game files, and the build; the iPhone and iPad apps are built on a Mac with Xcode and signed with your own Apple ID, and the IPA export embeds the data from your own dump (about 5.3 GB, for your own devices only). It generates the app icons from your game data, supports swappable file mods (RomFS) and built-in code mods (ExeFS), and uses the Switch’s own system keyboard (it needs your firmware during the build). Linux aarch64 is experimental and Apple TV is planned. The README says the repository contains no game data, keys, or generated code, that the iPhone was tested on an iPhone 11 Pro Max and macOS only on macOS 26; the stated minimum systems haven’t been tried. It is built from parts of LASRecomp. Its latest release, from November 4, is installer 0.1.5 (the repository only publishes installers, in 8 releases since October 30, of about 100 MB each with Python included, and we haven’t checked inside them). None of its last 100 commits list Claude as a co-author. The repository replaced a Unity reimplementation that its author discontinued.

You needYour own copy of the game (XCI and, optionally, the update NSP) and your own prod.keys. For iPhone and iPad, a Mac with Xcode and your Apple ID, and about 5.3 GB free for the IPA with data; an iPhone 11 or newer (A13, 4 GB of RAM or more) with iOS or iPadOS 17 or later. For Mac, Apple Silicon and macOS 14 or later (tested only on macOS 26). For Linux, x86-64 with Vulkan 1.3; for Windows, 64-bit 10 22H2 or 11.

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Pokémon Brilliant Diamond

u2-bot/uDPRE

uDPRE is the Windows player of the uDPR project (the game rebuilt as a native Unity 2019.4 game) plus a converter that turns your own dump into the data that player reads. You press Convert once (about a minute on a fast desktop) and then Play. It updates itself, along with its mod packs, and supports console data mods, Luminescent Platinum and others and, in beta, an editor and randomizer, a Nuzlocke mode, LAN play and visible wild Pokémon in the overworld. The release (v0.5.4, October 29, a zip of about 77 MB) carries the player already built (Dpr.exe and GameAssembly.dll, with Unity’s and Wwise’s runtimes and the shader programs compiled for Direct3D 11) and the converter; the README says no file holds bytes of the game (textures, models, sounds, text or scripts) and that an audit checks it before every release. The player’s source is not published in this repository, which only has the Python converter and the release scripts; the game’s logic ships compiled inside the release. Shining Pearl isn’t supported yet.

You needYour own dump of Pokémon Brilliant Diamond with the v1.3.0 update applied (base game and update extracted together), in a folder with romfs (with Data inside); exefs isn’t needed. 64-bit Windows 10 or 11, a DirectX 11 graphics card, about 7 GB free, and 8 GB of RAM recommended.