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Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl for Nintendo Switch are a pair of remakes of the original DS games. One of the new features that the games added back in the day was the Pokétch — and that came back in the remake, of grade.
For those who didn't play the original, the Pokétch was a device on the bottom screen of the DS that was basically like a pocket Pokémon Palm Pilot Smartwatch, with a calculator, a clock, and various apps that would help you become the very best, like no one e'er was.
In this Pokétch guide nosotros'll particular all the new and returning apps.
Massive hat tip to Bulbapedia and Serebii, whose knowledge and images were invaluable in putting together this guide, and our reviewer Jordan Middler for help with screenshots.
How to become the Pokétch
At Jubilife City, go to the Trainers' School, and give your mum's parcel to your rival to get the Town Map. Then, make your way to the centre of the metropolis to observe a chap continuing in the middle of the road — this is the president of the Pokétch Company, and he'll task you with finding three clowns.
Where to find the clowns, and how to answer their quiz questions
- In the northern area of Jubilife, to the right of the Pokémart door
- Caput north and take a left to discover the Telly station in Jubilife Urban center — he'll exist continuing in front of the large TV screen
- Head left from the Television station to detect the concluding clown in front end of the Pokétch office
The reply to all their questions is "Yeah".
How to remove the Pokétch from the screen
The Pokétch is in the height right of the screen, but you can press and concord R (the correct shoulder push button) to hide information technology, and bring it dorsum by pressing R over again.
New Pokétch apps
Of course the developers have added new apps — just we might not get to learn about them until the games come out...
Hidden Moves
The Hidden Moves app lets you lot use HMs that wild Pokémon know. Or, well, more specifically, Bidoof (and the evolution, Bibarel, for Surf), which is a nice affect.
This is, honestly, a game-changer: it means that you no longer accept to sacrifice space in your political party or infinite on your Pokémon's move list to exist able to traverse the world, and y'all can instead rely on the local wild fauna. We can't imagine just trusting a large beaver to ferry u.s.a. beyond a river in real life, simply nosotros don't actually take to.
Hidden Moves Locations
Rock Boom
Defeat Gym Leader Roark in Oreburgh City.
Cut
Defeat Gym Leader Gardenia in Eterna City, and then speak to Cynthia outside the Team Galactic building in Eterna City,
Strength
Defeat Gym Leader Byron in Canalave Metropolis, and so talk to an old lady on Road 209.
Fly
Defeat Gym Leader Maylene in Veilstone City, then head to the Galactic HQ warehouse. The HM is just inside the entrance on the right.
Defog
Defeat Gym Leader Crasher Wake in Pastoria City, and then head to the Bully Marsh. There is an NPC in the Safari Zone who will give you the HM for Defog.
Surf
Give the Old Amuse to Cynthia's grandma in Celestic Boondocks and she will give you the Surf HM.
Rock Climb
Defeat Gym Leader Candice in Snowpoint City, then get to Route 217. The Rock Climb HM is virtually the Hiker'south house.
Waterfall
Defeat Gym Leader Volkner in Sunyshore City, and then talk to Jasmine, who can be found on the northern beach.
Returning Pokétch apps
Digital Watch / Analogue Sentinel
You lot'll never gauge what this 1 does...
It's a sentry! For telling fourth dimension! Uhhh... that'southward well-nigh it.
The digital watch is included from the showtime, and the Analogue Watch can be obtained from a resident of Celestic Boondocks. Press the screen, and it'll light up.
Calculator
Sometimes you demand to add numbers, and where else would y'all become, other than the reckoner app on the Pokétch in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl on the Nintendo Switch? Information technology's just so dang handy. This 1 is included with the Pokétch from the commencement, and has all your basic functions: improver, subtraction, multiplication, and sectionalisation.
The secret feature of this app is that, if an reply is the same equally a Pokémon'south number in the Pokédex, it will make the weep of that Pokémon. Oasis't yous always wanted a computer that screams at you?
Pedometer
This one won't count your bodily steps, similar the Pokéwalker — information technology'southward a total of your in-game steps. This might seem useless, only information technology's important for hatching eggs (which is based on your step count) and getting items from your partner Pokémon in Amity Square, likewise every bit checking how many steps you've taken in the Neat Marsh Safari Zone, where you'll be booted out subsequently 500 steps.
The Pedometer is i of the few apps you have from the beginning.
Pokémon List
This is one of the basic apps that come pre-installed on the Pokétch, and it does exactly what it says: it lists your Pokémon. "But isn't that simply the same as the Pokémon carte?" you enquire — and you lot are correct, it is. It displays the icon of each Pokémon, their HP level, whether or non they are belongings an particular (but not what the item is), and the status of the Pokémon, including whether they're poisoned, paralysed, sleeping, or fainted. Useful? Non actually.
Memo Pad
I of the all-time features of the DS was that y'all could accept notes, and Pokémon Diamond and Pearl leaned right into that with the Memo Pad.
Later on obtaining the Coal Badge from the first gym, you'll go the Memo Pad as a reward, allowing you to write downwardly whatever Pokémon-related notes yous have. However, if y'all turn off the game or change the application you're using, it will erase the message. We were hoping they'd modify that for the remake...
Friendship Checker
Here's an app we wish existed in real life: it lets y'all check how much your Pokémon like yous. Friendship is pretty important, because it tin can determine evolutions, ribbons, items, and even how effective a motility can exist.
Your Pokémon are displayed as icons roaming effectually the screen, and you can tap them to see their friendship level. Two large hearts around your Pokémon mean that yous've maxed out on friendship, and double-tapping makes them all jump. Lovely.
This app can be obtained from a adult female in Eterna City's Pokémon Eye.
Dowsing Motorcar
There are two kinds of people in this globe: People who love the item-finding in Pokémon games, and people who are incorrect.
The Dowsing Machine, given to yous when you reach Route 206, is Diamond & Pearl'southward version of the Itemfinder, and touching the screen will allow out a radar-like "ping" that can tell you lot how shut you are to a hidden detail, and where it is in relation to the player. This mechanic is even used later in the game to find lost items, so become used to using information technology!
Egg Monitor
Information technology'due south exhausting to take to fly or walk back to the Twenty-four hour period Care Center every now and again to check on your Pokémon, but with the Day-Care Checker, you lot don't take to bother with all that travelling nonsense — or waiting effectually outside the place, furiously cycling up and downward.
Y'all go this i from the Day Care in Solaceon Town (plain) and it shows y'all all yous need to know.
These details include the Pokémon currently in the Day Care, their current levels, and whether or not at that place'southward an Egg waiting for y'all.
Pokémon History
This one is given to you by a resident of Solaceon Town. Y'all can find this gift-giving resident near the southern archway (he's the ane with the hat).
It tells you the most recent twelve Pokémon you added to your collection in society, whether that'south through catching them in the wild, evolving them, trading for them, or hatching them from an Egg.
Useful for something, we're sure... we but can't recall what. This one's perhaps more of a novelty.
Also, if you bear on the icon of a Pokémon, you tin can hear their cry! Fun.
Counter
Talk to the person at the counter on the second floor of the Veilstone Department Store to get the Counter, which is just a manual counter with a four-digit brandish.
You tap the plus sign to add i. If you want to count things, this is... well, it does that. Handy if you've got stuff to tot upwards, we suppose. Mayhap you're a bouncer counting people into a Poké Guild or something.
The counter will be reset if you close the game or switch apps, though, and then... simply carry that in listen.
Marking Map
After you've won three Gym Badges, you'll receive the Marking Map — a simplified version of the Sinnoh Map that you tin add pins to.
It's useful for remembering where of import places are, like the Day Care Eye, the Department Shop, the Casino, and so on, but information technology'due south also where y'all'll find the current locations of the roaming Legendaries: Cresselia, Mesprit, and the legendary birds Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres.
The location changes as soon equally you movement between areas, though, so it's only useful if you're already in that location.
Coin Toss
Use Rock Climb to scale a hill in Valor Lakefront (Route 213) and you lot'll notice a secluded house. Go into the house to run across a couple, ane of whom will give you lot the Coin Toss app, which functions exactly the aforementioned as a coin... which you lot can get pretty much anywhere. In fact, a coin is more useful, because you can spend it on things when you lot become bored of flipping it.
Tap the screen, and a Magikarp money with heads and tails (or "Magikarp" and "nothing") on it will be flipped, helping y'all choose between 2 things, if y'all're into that.
Chain Counter
When you enter Ramanas Park, which is correct at the cease of the main story, Prof Oak will give you lot the Chain Counter, which counts how many times in a row yous have met the same Pokémon.
True trainers volition know that this is useful for chaining, which is a method used to raise the charge per unit of Shiny Pokémon — this app will besides show your current chain if you're using the Poké Radar, which is another Key Item in the game that'due south used for hunting Shinies.
Agenda
Do you e'er get so invested in Pokémon that you lot forget which solar day it is? Bear witness a Serious Pokémon to a chap in Sunyshore Metropolis to become the Agenda (y'all'll need Rock Climb to get to him), and you'll never accept that problem again, yous big nerd.
The electric current 24-hour interval (presumably obtained from the Switch's own internal clock and calendar) is highlighted with a box effectually it.
Spinner
Prove that guy in Sunyshore a Pokémon with a Quirky nature to go Roulette, which is a little spinning wheel that you lot tin can draw on. If the Coin Flip isn't enough for you, maybe this tin help yous make decisions?
If y'all depict actually detailed, tiny markings on the cycle, yous could always run a gambling ring from within Diamond and Pearl. We won't tell Nintendo if you don't!
Dot Artist
Show the same guy in Sunyshore Metropolis a Pokémon with a Naive nature to become the Dot Artist app, which lets you draw extremely archaic pixel art.
It's all in black-and-white (or, well, green-and-green, because it's styled like a Game Male child screen) and you can change the darkness by tapping multiple times on the aforementioned square.
It's limited... but that doesn't mean that people haven't fabricated great art with it however!
Kitchen Timer
Show a Snorlax to a girl in Ramanas Park and y'all'll receive this Snorlax-themed Kitchen Timer, which counts downward the amount of time you've set, ending with an alarm.
When the alarm goes off, Snorlax will drum his belly, which automatically makes this i of the best apps you can get on the Pokétch. It'due south very cute. Anybody loves a Snorlax.
In Diamond and Pearl, Snorlax tin can only be obtained by evolving Munchlax. Luckily, Munchlax is relatively piece of cake to find.
Color Changer
Show the same girl a Kecleon and she'll give y'all the Color Changer, an app that lets you change the background color of the Pokétch to yellow, orange, red, purple, blue, teal, or grey. Y'all can change information technology back to green, too.
Kecleon is a little hard to come past, just you tin can find him in the original Diamond on Route 210 by using the Poké Radar. In Pearl, y'all had to trade to get him, and in Platinum, he was made available in the Neat Marsh after obtaining the National Pokédex. He could too exist found in the late-game Ramanas Park, only but past transferring him from other games.
Original Apps We Haven't Seen
These ones were in the original games, but we haven't discovered them in-game yet.
Link Searcher
After winning five badges, you'll get the Link Searcher, which might non come to the Switch remake because information technology's non really as useful on modern consoles.
The Link Searcher listed the number of DSes around you lot who are also using wireless communications, which means that yous can interact with them to participate in the Hugger-mugger, boxing them, or make trades with them.
Motion Tester
By now, a lot of battle-hardened Pokémon trainers have no doubt memorised the effectiveness of all the move types (with phrases like "Psychic beats Fighting because Encephalon beats Brawn"), but for those who still don't take it nailed downward, the Movement Tester — received subsequently getting the 7th Gym Badge — can assistance.
At the bottom is the type you want to test, and at the top are 2 categories that you tin can change, and you'll get an answer in semi-ambiguous format. Three exclamation marks ways that the motility is the regular amount of effective, and annihilation more is super effective.
Stopwatch
In Diamond and Pearl, if you already accept the Kitchen Timer, and you too have a Voltorb in your party, you could evidence it to the daughter in Ramanas Park to get this app: It'southward a Stopwatch themed around Voltorb, which counts upwards instead of down, like the reverse of the Kitchen Timer.
If y'all hold downward the push, Voltorb explodes, and makes the stopwatch unusable for a few seconds, which is exactly what yous want from a stopwatch!
Berry Searcher
Berries got complicated in Generation III and Iv, calculation over 50 new types to the mix, all with different effects, and needing to be planted in soft soil and watered to get more. The yield of the tree varies depending on how often it was watered, so you lot actually demand to keep an centre on your plants in order not to waste the initial investment!
The Berry Searcher, which yous get from the Berry Principal on Route 208, shows yous where you can observe mature Drupe trees — if you lot're on meridian of your planting and watering game, and you really savour making Poffins, this is a must-have; but sadly seems to be absent in Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl.
??? Apps
These last two were either released every bit location-specific events, or they were never released at all — that doesn't mean they definitely won't come to the remake, simply they're not guaranteed.
Matchup Checker
The Matchup Checker, which lets yous examine the breeding compatibility of Pokémon in your current party, was a Japan-merely release as part of a Nintendo issue in Pokémon Center stores.
The Luvdiscs are in that location for illustration purposes — the two Pokémon being matched up are the ones on the lesser.
Notwithstanding, it was included in Pokémon Platinum — take hold of five Pokémon in one Safari trip and you'll receive it equally a reward.
Alarm Clock
This Loudred-themed Alarm Clock was never released, but in keeping with the clocks and alarms theme, information technology will go off at a time that y'all set. The alarm rings for an entire minute unless you turn it off or switch apps.
Nosotros can't imagine anyone actually uses their Nintendo Switch as a viable wake-up solution, but maybe that'll change if this app makes it to the remake.
Fun fact nigh Loudred: he has a weird, stumpy tail with a hole in information technology, which is presumably styled subsequently the auxiliary input port that you might plug speakers or headphones into. Creepy!
We promise you constitute this Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl Pokétch guide informative!
This article is part of our Pokémon Vivid Diamond and Shining Pearl walkthrough and guide series, which includes every version-exclusive Pokémon in each version of the game, advice on the best Sinnoh starter Pokémon to cull, and all the onetime and new Pokétch Apps, plus how to get specific Pokémon such as Mew and Jirachi, Rilou and Lucario, Manaphy and Phione, Arceus, Eevee, Leafeon And Glaceon, Cresselia, Rotom, Ditto, Spiritomb, Heatran, Regigigas, and — of course — the mighty Feebas.
Nosotros too cover how to catch 17 Legendaries in Ramanas Park, where to discover the Defog HM and chain catching (or how to increase your chances of communicable Shiny Pokémon), plus how to earn money fast, how to crush the Elite Four, how the Bays Garden works, and how to get the DS sounds and Catching Amuse. Nosotros also accept a full and updated list of Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl Mystery Gift codes, plus nosotros tell you how to unlock the Mystery Gift function, too.
And finally, Where to Buy Pokémon Bright Diamond and Shining Pearl on Nintendo Switch, if for some reason y'all haven't even so picked up the game!
Source: https://www.nintendolife.com/guides/pokemon-brilliant-diamond-and-shining-pearl-poketch-all-the-apps-and-where-to-find-them
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