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Yes, SkyTemple notoriously sets off false positives on antiviruses. This may also cause SkyTemple to be quarantined by your AV. Reporting false positives is appreciated to help make this issue go away. If these false positives are stopping you from installing SkyTemple on Windows, check [[Installing newer versions on Windows|the guide for installing newer versions on Windows]].

 

 

SkyTemple (and the SkyTemple Randomizer) use [https://pyinstaller.org/en/stable/ PyInstaller]. PyInstaller is coincidentally also used by many viruses, causing antiviruses to flag most programs that use it as viruses, even if they are not. This unfortunately includes SkyTemple, resulting in the false positives.

There’s also some community-made tutorials available [[:Category:Tutorials|on this wiki]] and on our Discord server, and more will be hopefully added in the future.

You can get some roles by going to the “Channels and Roles” section of the server and answering the customization questions. You can find an explanation about how the most common roles in the server work in the #roles channel (available under Server Guide). If you want to know how to get a role that isn’t listed there, ask the mods.

The move list cannot be expanded at the moment, but there's some unused move slots that can be replaced without any side effects. They are the following:

If you need even more slots, you can also replace existing regular moves with entirely new ones. If you choose to do so, keep in mind that some moves have hardcoded checks that will cause problems if you replace them, so you should probably shouldn't touch those. Here's the list of moves with known hardcoded behavior:

The list of entities, Pokémon, items... that can be placed in fixed rooms (which you can edit by double clicking the “fixed rooms” option) can’t be expanded, so you will need to replace some entries there if you want to add new bosses. The Pokémon list has some unused Groudon entries starting at #101 that you can replace. Also, entries #31 and #84 are both Primal Dialgas with the same stats (The first one is use at the end of the main story, the second one is used at the end of special episode 5). This means you can change the entry used in fixed room #36 (SE5 final boss) to #31 to repurpose entry #84.

To change the data of these Pokémon, as well as which dungeons add them to your team, you can use the "Lists > [[Guest Pokémon List|Guest Pokémon]]" menu, available after applying the [[EditGuestPokemon]] patch.

The vanilla quiz is not part of the script engine, it's hardcoded. You can individually change each question and answer in text strings, but not the test logic or weights assigned to each answer, or any other parts of it such as the background or BGM. Starter choices can be modified in “Lists” → “[[Starter List|Starters]]”.

 

However, it's possible to reimplement the quiz as a script using [[QuizMenuTool Tutorial|QuizMenuTool]], which provides much more flexibility.

Open [[Script Engine Debugger|the debugger]] and go to script “S02P01A”, then under “[[Acting Scene|Acting (ssa)]]” open “m00a01a”. Scroll down until you see “case 28” (Should be line 270 if you haven’t made any changes to that file yet). Copy the contents of case 28 except its last line, which should be<syntaxhighlight>

</syntaxhighlight>Then go back up until you see <code>forever {</code>, which should be on line 36. Select everything from that line (including the line itself) to the line <code>switch ( message_Menu(MENU_PERSONALITY_TEST_END) ) { }</code> (also included, should be line 319) and delete it. Then paste the code you copied from case 28 where you deleted that chunk of code. You can optionally fix the indentation by pressing shift+tab a few times. Save the script and start a new game, the quiz will be automatically skipped and you will have the default player and partner as your team.

See section "[[Frequently Asked Questions#Problems ROM patching|ROM Patching]]" under "Common problems and solutions" for some common issues that you might experience while trying to apply a patch.

StatsUtil is a tool created by PsyCommando as part of [https://github.com/PsyCommando/ppmdu_2 his ppmdu suite]. It can be used to export some of the game’s binary files and scripts to XML files and then import them back into the game after making changes. SkyTemple can now do almost everything that StatsUtil can, so there’s no need to use it unless SkyTemple isn’t working for you, you want to manually edit some data without an UI, or you want to mass import and export scripts.

Unlike SkyTemple, StatsUtil is a command line tool, it doesn’t have an interface and must be run using the terminal or batch files to execute commands. Under Windows, the easiest way to use it is to download [https://projectpokemon.org/home/applications/core/interface/file/attachment.php?id=45770 Psy’s modding setup folder], which contains StatsUtil + Ndstool (needed to unpack the rom so StatsUtil can read and write the files) + Some .bat files you can use to run StatsUtil without having to type commands yourself.