


After defeating her, a Cipher researcher drops a Data ROM, which Krane and Michael take back to the Pokémon HQ Lab to analyze. Michael saves Krane defeating Cipher administrator, Lovrina in the process. Michael travels to a Cipher base in the desert where he battles Cipher supporters, most of whom have Shadow Pokémon. Michael goes out to save Krane, purify the Shadow Pokémon and defeat the Cipher syndicate. Shortly after this, Krane is kidnapped by Cipher agents. Krane gives Michael the responsibility to capture and purify these Shadow Pokémon and is given the Aura Reader, an eye piece scanner used to differentiate and identify them from normal Pokémon. Krane also introduces the Snag Machine, which is used to legally capture Shadow Pokémon to purify them of their corrupted status. The criminal syndicate, Cipher is responsible for corrupting Pokémon and redistributing them as Shadow Pokémon with an aim for world domination. He introduces the problem of Shadow Pokémon (Pokémon whose hearts have been artificially closed). Michael first meets Professor Krane, his mother's boss and head professor. The story begins 5 years after the events of Pokémon Colosseum with the introduction of Michael, the main protagonist. Whereas the multi-player mode consists of strictly battles against those with Pokémon Ruby Version, Pokémon Sapphire Version, Pokémon Emerald Version or Pokémon FireRed Version and Pokémon LeafGreen Version game paks. The adventure mode is an RPG where you assume the role of a young trainer called Micheal as he tries to stop Cipher from creating the ultimate Shadow Pokémon XD001 (Shadow Lugia). It features an adventure mode and a multiplayer mode. Inaccessible in-game, can be accessed with cheats.Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness is a game for the GameCube and is the sequel to Pokémon Colosseum. Dummied/beta items ported from Explorers of Sky have been restored.Item icons and many descriptions ported from Super Mystery Dungeon.Friend Rescues do not work currently, but are being looked into. Pre-patched with Wiimmfi and RiiConnect24 for ease of event access.These can now be found by hitting the Wii Home button, then pressing the “Operations Guide” button. New “Change Nickname” option added to party menu.Team name limit expanded to 8 characters (Japanese 5).Pokémon nickname limit expanded to 10 characters (Japanese 5).Other features of the translation include: The team has also worked with the Wiimmfi and RiiConnect24 teams in order to restore the event Pokémon that were distributed for this game. Finally the Japan-exclusive WiiWare Pokémon Mystery Dungeon titles, the Adventure Squad series, have been translated! Patches for each game have been released after months and months of hard work from fans of the series.
