FAQs

What games are supported?

As of 6.2.1 the following games are supported

• Gen 4
  • Pokemon Diamond, Pearl, Platinum
  • Pokemon Heart Gold, Soul Silver
• Gen 5
  • Pokemon Black, White,
  • Pokemon Black 2, White 2
• Gen 6
  • Pokemon X, Y
  • Pokemon Omega Ruby, Alpha Sapphire
• Gen 7
  • Pokemon Sun, Moon
  • Pokemon Ultra Sun, Ultra Moon
  • Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu, Let's Go Eevee

Are flash carts supported?

No, and they will never be supported. This is due to programmatical restrictions, not lack of effort

Will you add support for the virtual console games?

There are currently no plans to support the virtual console games

That being said, if someone wishes to contribute and add support via a pull-request we will consider merging it.

To give a little more detail on why there are no plans to add this, it has to due with the backwards compatibility, the data structure for Pokemon (such as the stats) had a major overhaul going from Generation 2 to 3 (hence why you could never officially trade between these games). It would involve writing a heavy amount of code that our main developer just doesn't have time for as of 2020.

Again, if you'd like to help add in Generation 1 and 2 support, we encourage you to do so, and you can submit a pull-request once it is finished.

How do I add custom music?

Place your custom music tracks in MP3 format in /3ds/PKSM/songs. Relatively small file sizes are recommended, as are sampling frequency of 44100Hz and a bitrate of 96kbps. These are recommendations, not constraints; you can generally toss whatever you want in MP3 format in there and PKSM will do fairly well.

What backup folder corresponds to which game?

For 3DS games, backup folders are in the format 0xXXXXXX, where each X is a hexadecimal digit. These are shortened title IDs. The full list of title IDs PKSM can work with, and their corresponding game names is

3DS IDs

0x0055D - X
0x0055E - Y
0x011C4 - OR
0x011C5 - AS
0x01648 - Sun
0x0175E - Moon
0x01B50 - Ultra Sun
0x01B51 - Ultra Moon

DS games backup folders' names are in the format XXXX, where each X is a character. The first three letters are unique to each game, and the last is a language character, which can be one of 'E', 'S', 'K', 'J', 'I', 'D', 'F', or 'O'. The unique game codes are

DS IDs

ADA - Diamond
APA - Pearl
CPU - Platinum
IPK - HeartGold
IPG - SoulSilver
IRB - Black
IRA - White
IRE - Black 2
IRD - White 2