Things have been a bit rocky for Pokémon Sword and Shield. Originally, Game Freak found fans getting upset about the fact the new game wouldn’t include all Pokémon from previous games. Things escalated when players who got hands on the game early started leaking character models that appeared to be reused assets from Pokémon Sun and Moon and Let’s Go games. Game Freak had previously stated that they were making the characters from scratch, so this resulted in #GameFreakLied trending on Twitter last week.
While many fans seem to be enjoying the game, it seems someone has been busy ensuring the left out Pokémon are included. This comes only days after the games launch with videos surfacing from a modder named ScriesM. Their videos show Omastar, one of the characters cut from Pokémon Sword and Shield, within the Nintendo Switch game.
Omastar’s inclusion shows full animations working in Sword and Shield and the character model is from the Let’s Go games. According to ScriseM, no additional changes were needed to import the character.
Well, that wasn’t so hard.
Needs a ton more work, of course, but it’s pretty cool to see it functioning. pic.twitter.com/KYm1nkMsXO
— Michael (@SciresM) November 18, 2019
The initial tweet was posted on November 18 and shows Omastar in the Pokédex within Sword and Shield. They then updated the tweet to include the below video of the character flaunting its animations within the Pokédex.
Yay, animations! pic.twitter.com/5D3Cv0r56Q
— Michael (@SciresM) November 18, 2019
SciresM then shows off a battle taking place with Omastar but acknowledges that the animations are a bit broken and stats are broken due to not fixing the personal entry.
Animation on entering battle is pretty broken, but it works okay other than that.
Obviously stats are broken (didn’t fix the personal entry yet), and this was originally an edited yamper that I didn’t bother giving legitimate moves. pic.twitter.com/m1C8CzDQCt
— Michael (@SciresM) November 18, 2019
They mention that the battle animation above is an edited Yamper which hasn’t been given legitimate moves yet. But they do go on to confirm that despite editing Yamper to show Omastar, Yamper remains in the game.
Since apparently this needs clarification: yamper is still in the game with this edit. This is a new entry inserted into the model table using Omastar’s species ID (139).
The one in my party/shown in battle was a yamper that I just lazily edited the species of with PKHeX.
— Michael (@SciresM) November 18, 2019
They do go on to explain that a lot more work and research is needed.
Bringing back old pokemon seems hard but doable to me.
It’ll require:
-Tool dev, to work with the formats and to be able to use USUM models.
-Community sourced animations/etc for capture withdrawal/battle entry.
-Textures could probably use waifu2x or similar for a first pass?— Michael (@SciresM) November 18, 2019
So while the base game doesn’t include all of the Pokémon that fans are dearly missing, it seems like with more tinkering from modders they’ll be on track with introducing more characters to the game. Of course, with modding game files, I’m always very wary about breaking the game, so it’s probably worth ensuring you’re comfortable with making such changes to the game files.
Pokémon Sword and Shield is out now exclusively on Nintendo Switch.
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