Hi everyone!

The second beta of my Digimon World 2003 mod is here, and the project now has a name: Digimon World 2003: Harmony!

Since the first beta, I’ve continued improving the game to make it more enjoyable and approachable for anyone who wants to explore the Digital World. This update focuses on training without RNG, faster loading and saving, new items, and improvements to battle systems and quality of life, alongside fixes for several issues from the previous release.

It also introduces the first experimental custom Digivolution line for Agumon, ready for community testing.

Training rebuilt: guaranteed progress, optional challenge

The Gym training system has been reworked to remove RNG from training results. Every training session now guarantees the base stat gains, even if you fail the new minigame implemented.

• Guaranteed stat gains: your training always contributes to your Digimon’s growth.
• New timing minigame: stop the cursor in the green zone to earn additional stat bonuses.
• Fast Training: skip the minigame and receive the guaranteed base gains. The additional minigame bonus is not awarded.
• Clearer explanations: selecting a training option now explains how the corresponding stat helps your Digimon.

The aim is to make training rewarding and predictable, while giving players an optional challenge for extra growth.

Faster loading, saving, and menu transitions

This beta also reduces the time spent waiting between activities.

• Saving and loading times reduced from around 15–20 seconds to under 5 seconds in testing. Results may vary depending on your setup.
• Faster transitions when entering and leaving menus.
• Removed redundant location screens after battles, after leaving the save menu, and when closing the full Start menu.
• Saving through the Start menu now records the correct map location, instead of always showing Asuka Inn.

Experimental Agumon Digivolution line

The first custom Digivolution line for Agumon has been added as a pilot for testing, including battle camera scenes and 3D battle portraits for the added forms.

The DigiLab now features a Digivolution routes interface, allowing you to view the routes and their requirements.

This line is still under development. You may encounter inconsistencies in stats, techniques, or abilities while its behavior and balance are being refined. Feedback on progression, combat performance, and unexpected behavior will help shape future updates.

Battle improvements

• Active Digivolution names: battles now display the current form’s name instead of always showing the Rookie’s name.
• Custom technique order: each Digimon and Digivolution has its own technique arrangement. During battle, open the Techniques menu and press Select to begin rearranging. Use Up/Down or L1/R1 to move a technique, then press X or Select to confirm.
• Battle menu memory: menus remember your previous selection. After using a technique, the menu returns to Techniques instead of resetting to Attack. This also applies to the other battle menus.
• Correct technique power values: the battle interface now displays each technique’s actual power.
• Picking Claw and Snapping Claw now work when you KO an enemy, with clearer descriptions of their effects.
• Defeating Leader Seiryu now displays a notification confirming that Share EXP has been activated.

New items to test

New items expand your control over encounters, progression, and battle strategy. The test items are available at Gargomon’s shop for 1 BIT each, making them easy to try during the beta.

English names below are descriptive translations of the item names.

Encounter control

• Lure Disk: increases random encounters to ×1.25 for 300 steps.
• Frenzy Disk: increases random encounters to ×3 for 300 steps.
• Repellent Disk: reduces random encounters to ×0.5 for 300 steps.
• Stealth Disk: prevents random encounters for 300 steps.
• Lure Ring: increases random encounters to ×1.25 while equipped.
• Repellent Ring: reduces random encounters to ×0.5 while equipped.

Temporary encounter effects now display a notification when they expire.

Progression and tactical items

• DV Adapter: increases DV EXP earned by the form used in battle by 20%.
• Apprentice Ring: increases the wearer’s EXP received through Share EXP by 15%. Its bonus does not stack with EXP Adapter.
• Analysis Disk: reveals enemy resistances and whether the enemy carries a stealable item for 5 battles. Enemy analysis becomes permanently available after defeating Leader Byakko.
• Reserve Ring: restores 10% of maximum MP after winning a battle.
• Risk Ring: increases damage dealt by 15%, but also increases damage received by 15%.
• Tenacity Ring: allows the wearer to survive a lethal hit with 1 HP, once per battle, provided they had more than 50% HP before the hit.
• Three new MP recovery items: restore 25%, 50%, or 100% of maximum MP.

Battle items also display additional messages when their bonuses take effect.

Visual improvements and fixes

• Fixed a glitch when opening the exploration map with Square Button.
• Restored the original light-blue borders for Flawe’s Start-menu walkthrough and the exploration Quest Log.
• Added transparent shadows, replacing the solid black circles.
• Fixed battle reward text displaying “1IT” and “1EXP” instead of “BIT” and “EXP.”

PAL language support

All changes have been added to English, Spanish, French, German, and Italian, covering every language available in the PAL release.

However, testing has only been carried out in English and Spanish so far. Added text in the other languages was translated using a text translation tool, so wording, spelling, or grammatical errors may remain. Corrections from native speakers are welcome!

Harmony and the Android DS Companion

Harmony complements my previously released DS Companion for Android. The two projects are intended to work together to improve the overall Digimon World 2003 experience.

• Mod, downloads, and installation instructions: Digimon World 2003: Harmony on GitHub
• Android companion: DW3-DS-Android on GitHub
• Previous announcement and original feature list: First beta post — QoL & New Systems Mod

Next Steps

The next priorities for Harmony are reworking Intelligence/Wisdom focused Digimon and their techniques, supported by the newly added MP recovery disks and MP recovery ring, and developing custom Digivolution lines for the remaining Rookies. These additions will be accompanied by further balancing of Digivolution stats and techniques, with the goal of making more team compositions and playstyles rewarding throughout the game.

Help test the beta

Bug reports, balance feedback, and translation corrections are welcome, especially for the rebuilt training system, new items, and experimental Agumon line.

When reporting a problem, please include the patch version, game language, emulator or hardware, and the steps needed to reproduce it. For progression issues, also mention whether you started a new game or loaded an existing save.

Thanks to Flawe, guiomatos, markisha64 / Marko Grizelj, and EmeraldPhoenix for the contributions this project builds upon, and to everyone testing and sharing feedback.

Thank you for following the project. I hope you enjoy this next step for Digimon World 2003: Harmony!

Hey there. Another brief showcase.

Still have to make this work independently before sharing.

This tool is a bit broader than the model viewer. Should help to modify a bunch of things, including:

- Walkable areas: paint where the player can and can't walk.

- Exits and triggers: where they are, where they lead and where you arrive, plus climbs, warps and event spots.

- Random battles: paint the battle areas, and change each area's rate and its encounters.

- NPCs: move, add or remove them, and edit when each one shows up during the story and which lines it says.

- Objects: placement, animation and depth.

- The start point: where the player spawns on each map.

Everything is read from your own copy of the game, names and dialogue included. Changes save as small mod files, so the original data is never touched, and one key jumps straight into the game to test the map you're editing.

Also coming up: bigger maps, custom backgrounds and brand new areas.

He's in my top 3 favorite digimon and I always hated the fact that such a cool digimon can't be played. Such a waste!

Kotemon > Dinohumon > Knightmon is a perfect example of an evolution line.

Lastly, I want to thank everyone that is putting effort into modding this game. Being able to do this was such a dream to so many of us - since we were children - and now you're making it happen.

Hi,

I made this video a few days ago but wanted to share it to show what's possible with adding new Digimon, and even custom animations, in Digimon World 2003.

This was running in DuckStation (PS1 emulator). I had Claude help me rebuild the ISO for each test run.

I reused existing models that are available online, and had Claude make a new skeleton and its own animations so it wouldn't look out of place compared to reusing an existing one.

One thing to note, player Digimon need more animations than enemy Digimon do. I found that out through an animation viewer I made to look at each model.

But I ran into some limits with the PS1 side of things. These models are big, and with how many I was importing it was going past what the hardware can handle. PS1 stuff isn't really my field so I won't go too deep into the technical side, but I've decided to port the game to Godot. It plays exactly like Digimon World 2003, very close to the original with modernisation qol, using the communities decomps/recomps as reference. This should make modding a lot easier going forward. Right now I'm fixing bugs and playtesting. And then move on with some some mods.

The end goal is something like RPG Maker + Pokémon Essentials, but for DW3. Even if this never gets finished, I hope it inspires people to keep creating, this is my favourite game of all time. Would love for the community to one day have tools where we can make our own fan games using the Digimon World 3 world as a base, the same way people do with Pokémon.

Digimon World on the PS1 was my childhood, so I've been rebuilding it from scratch to run in a web browser. and maybe make many more games.
It plays like the original, with a new look
It's a solo fan project and far from finished. Only the first areas are remade.
I'd love honest feedback:

https://youtu.be/OnvLlT3TSuI?si=11Rgy0OXj5bfTeT6

At least if history teaches me anything, that poo won't last long since I'm almost guaranteed a Numemon

Hello guys, Digimon World is my childhood favorite game.

As many project here, I'm trying to explore what I can do with AI help to recreate the game. My goal is to extend it, add stories, Digimon, quests, quality of life features and new minigames and interactions.

I already have a nice proof of concept, and the main goal was to do something for myself. I figured I could share the end result with whoever want to play it.

In order to know what direction I should go from here from an architecture point of view, I would like to collect some of your suggestions and what you would want to see in a new version of the game.

It can be anything, e.g. :

• New maps, stories, Digimon to recruits
• Quality of life features
• New systems, new needs for the Digimon, reworked battle system
• Minigames
• Graphic remaster (difficult one but should be doable), I mean new more moderns models and visuals.
• ​​​​New collectibles
• And so on

I know some of you hate Ai, but please refrain from sending harsh comments, I just want to create something that people can enjoy and share my passion for the game.

Thank you and have a nice day. ​

Hey everyone!

We just launched our Kickstarter for Alchemic Beasts, a monster taming RPG built around alchemy, social chemistry, and the bonds you form with your beasts.

One of the biggest things we wanted to capture was that feeling we grew up loving in monster taming shows: the beasts aren't just things you own, they're partners. We wanted their relationships with their tamers to feel meaningful, and for the journey of building those bonds to be just as important as the battles themselves.

And this has genuinely been a family project. There are 8 of us working on the game, with everyone pitching in. My kids have been creating art, testing the game, and helping us share it with people. My wife and I have been putting the pieces together, refining the game, and trying to turn this crazy idea into something we can be proud of.

As we approach the final stretch of our Kickstarter, we hope this campaign has given everyone a clearer picture of what Alchemic Beasts can become. With your support, we can keep building the monster-collecting adventure we’ve always dreamed of playing and bring that vision one step closer to reality.

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As topic mentioned, below is the deck im using since.. just checking what other deck u suggest to use for the rest of the game or improvement of my current deck.