Pokémon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl – v1.1.1 + Ryujinx/Yuzu Emus for PC-HohohoGames

Original Size: 13.9 GB

Repack Size: 2.7 GB

Languages: ENG/MULTI9

Companies: ILCA, The Pokemon Company

Experience a nostalgic story reborn in Pokemon Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl on Nintendo Switch! Set off on a mystery-filled adventure through the Sinnoh region, as you catch Pokemon, battle against the region’s strongest Pokemon Trainers and uncover the truth behind Team Galactic’s nefarious plans!

Based on two Nintendo eShop digital releases: 8.6 GB, thanks to Hermietkreeft!
Two updates to v1.1.1 (4.8 GB) applied over
Ryujinx (v1.0.7106, November 16, 2021, 47 MB) and Yuzu Early Access (v2222, November 19, 2021, 90 MB) Switch emulators are included
Switch Firmware v13.1.0 (320 MB) added as a requirement for Ryujinx
Booting up any of the games will take time on both emus since OpenGL takes time to render the assets and, the shader cache also takes time to build up, so be patient. (Vulkan doesn’t sit well and may cause crashes with both the games)
Try Yuzu preconfig from “_Ready Config for Yuzu” folder in case you have troubles with default config or don’t know how to set up the config.
To boost performance on Yuzu emu, as soon as you get into the game press ‘ctrl + u’ to remove fps lock and subsequently unlock more FPS. (You can see the unlocked status next to your FPS counter)
To boost performance on Ryu emu, disable the V-sync option either before boot up or while playing to see the FPS difference. (Screen tearing may happen, so beware)
Test both emus and use the one which performs better on your system
100% Lossless, but NOT MD5 Perfect: encryption was removed for better repack size
NOTHING ripped, NOTHING re-encoded
Smaller archive size (compressed from cumulative 13.9 to 2.7 GB)
Installation takes 3-8 minutes
After-install integrity check so you could make sure that everything installed properly
HDD space after installation: 10.2 GB
Language can be changed in games settings
At least 2 GB of free RAM (inc. virtual) required for installing this repack

Download Mirrors

It is recommended to always use Magnet for downloads, and we suggest the following open-source clients: Gopeed

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Website links

https://diamondpearl.pokemon.com/

Precautions and recommended settings

Always recommend using magnet links to download games for faster and more stable speeds. Recommend pure, open-source, ad-free download software (such as Gopeed or BitComet).
Before running the game, evaluate the game’s system hardware requirements. If your computer only has 2G of RAM, you basically cannot expect to run large next-gen games smoothly.
Extracting high-compression packages consumes a lot of memory. You must enable virtual memory and manually set it to 1 to 1.5 times the physical memory.
Example: If the computer has 8G RAM, suggest increasing to 12GB – 16GB; if 16G RAM, set to 24GB (both initial and maximum values fill in 24576 MB).
When extracting the game, the hard drive needs 2-3 times the free space of the game installation package. For example, if the package is 10G, the target drive needs at least 20-30G of free space.
The hard disk partition format must be NTFS. The outdated FAT32 format cannot write single files larger than 4GB, which will cause the extraction to freeze.
During game installation, temporarily disable Windows Defender or third-party antivirus software, or add the “game download directory” and “target installation directory” to the antivirus exclusion list.
If the computer has less than 4G RAM, or high-end computers frequently report extraction errors, be sure to check “Limit installer to 2 GB of RAM usage” on the first interface during installation. This slightly limits extraction speed but greatly improves stability and solves 90% of memory overflow errors.
When running setup.exe, always right-click the icon and select “Run as administrator” to ensure the installer has full system read/write permissions.
The absolute path of the game installation cannot contain any Chinese characters, special symbols, or extra spaces.
Correct example: “D:\Games\Steam”
Wrong example: “D:\游戏\赛博朋克 2077”
During the extraction process, the CPU and memory are pushed to the limit. At this time, strictly prohibit playing other large games, background rendering, or opening many browser tabs, otherwise it can easily cause resource contention leading to instant errors (such as Unarc.dll) or even a blue screen.
At the checkbox interface at the end of installation, be sure to check the installation of DirectX and Visual C++ Redistributable (runtime library suite). Many players successfully extract but cannot open the game (popping up 0xc000007b or missing various .dll files) because of missing these basic runtimes.
If the installation completes smoothly but double-clicking the game icon has no response, 99% of the time it is because Windows Defender silently quarantined or deleted the “crack patch” (such as steam_api64.dll) in the game directory right after extraction. Go to the “Protection history” in Windows Security and select “Restore and allow” for that file.
After encountering an Unarc.dll error, never download this DLL file alone from the internet and place it in the system drive. The game compression mechanism uses highly customized dedicated libraries; generic DLLs downloaded online are useless and can easily infect the system.
If you have strictly followed all the above configurations and requirements and still stubbornly get an Unarc.dll error during installation, you basically can only consider reinstalling a pure version of the system.
If it still does not work, then consider installing on another machine.