- Wild encounters and Trainers are completely redone. - Pokémon changes are inherited from Renegade with minor tweaks (some from SwSh). - Features back from Renegade include Fairy-type, some newer moves, x999 TMs, 1/512 shiny rate, the training NPC, less reliance on HMs and more.

Script events do not necessarily match the original. For example, Elm now gives you the Eevee instead of Cynthia. New features include the SwSh move relearner/deleter/name rater NPC, the JPN Game Corner map (still w/Voltorb Flip) and a difficulty toggle for notable battles.

The reason for the total remake is that the original has some bad technical stuff under the hood, as well as the x999 TMs/Fairy type needing some things to be reworked. I also learnt a lot from Renegade. Platinum and HG/SS are built similarly, so it feels better to start afresh.

In terms of technical complexity, I'm aware of recent breakthroughs such as the fantastic DS Map Studio by Trifindo, and the new mechanics in hacks like Mind Crystal and Heart Gold Rebooted. This hack *won't* include these (at least initially). It'll be on par with Renegade.

I'll also mention that save files from the current version of SG/SS will *not* be compatible with v2. Other than that, I'm up to about Ecruteak City right now, so still a while to go! I may release a v2.0.0-beta when I get Johto done, followed by the rest sometime later.

P.S. I realise I said I'm retiring from new projects, and would only focus on updating my old ones. That's gone out the window... as while I'm updating an old project, it's also effectively a new one! Having a little extra time from current world events does help, though.

@Drayano60 Ok but wheres Spirit Gold 2.0 :p

@Hardytack I'll just pretend that one doesn't exist 🤔

@Drayano60 👀 will this include your Arceus grand finale still? :D

@The4thGenGamer Aye, that'll likely stay mostly the same. Probably going to abandon some of the daft text about the legendary Trainer or whatever but it'll lead towards the same goal.

@Drayano60 Amazing to hear this! Will there be a 'Vanilla' version of the patch that only includes offical stat/type changes that were included up to SuMo/SwSh and won't include custom rebalances?

@Lexaraj It'll be in the same style as Renegade so it'll only omit changes to stats/abilities/types that are non-canon, but yep, that'll be included.

@Drayano60 I already retweeted this, but I love Renegade Platinum so much, I'm really excited for this! Honestly RP inspired me to learn how to do some very basic romhacking, so I can't wait! I've heard Fairy is kinda hard to add to BW, but are you considering remakes of VW/BB as well?

@TheMajesticMrL Possibly down the line yeah. There is knowledge available for how to add it to B2/W2 although it is a little glitchy, but it's something I might look at doing once I'm done with SG/SS.

@Drayano60 As long as the difficulty isn't beyond as Stupid as it was in Renegade I'm hopefully excited.

@Neptuni52201678 I'm intending for it to be a little easier than Renegade, at least early on.

@Drayano60 Are you going to keep the pop culture references like Carly Rae Jepsen or Taylor Swift? Those cracked me up a lot when I played it years ago.

@CommanderJuago Ah I'm a bit undecided on this one! I'm trying to sprinkle in some more up to date stuff in a few parts but it probably won't be quite as in your face as before.

@Drayano60 Dray do you plan to revisit BB/VW1 btw? Because I love BW1 and BB/VW was the first back back in the day I played and even today I love so much that hack... But the triple battle idea... I'm so sorry but sucked. I would love to revisit Unova with a more "up to date" planning.

@patomenza Not sure atm because B2W2 supercedes it gameplay-wise, and there's a Fairy tutorial for B2W2 but not BW. But if I do happen to work on it then yeah, I'll do overworld encounter legendaries and probably single battles for the leaders (maybe with an optional patch).

@Drayano60 Has this been cancelled or still on the way. What's the ETA looking like?

@OkokOko63205705 Not cancelled but no ETA yet

@Drayano60 Drayano any idea( just a ballpark) of when you think you will be done with this? I never played your original sacred gold/storm silver and was holding out for this one so just curious

@AwobokunFey Ehh I still don't really want to give a date until I've actually got an end in sight. Definitely would like to get it out before the end of 2020 though... but we'll see

@Drayano60 Will rival/gym leaders be even more difficult too? And keep up the great work!

@xtankid Depending on the difficulty setting, yep.

@Drayano60 Will this be compatible with randomizers?

@irfanf_ Not directly, it'll require file transplants like the other hacks do. The randomizer is the issue here as it doesn't know what locations to look at in the game to randomize stuff! It's not possible to make a hack compatible naturally unless it barely changes anything.