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Play Pokémon Platinum Version (US edition · Revision 1 · English) Online
Pokemon - Platinum Version
Play Pokémon Platinum Version online: choose your first Pokémon, catch a balanced team and challenge Sinnoh’s Gyms. Discover Giratina and the Distortion World in this Nintendo DS adventure.
Browser play
Nintendo DS (NDS) — EmulatorJS controls
Default Player 1 keyboard mapping. Change keys in Controller Settings.
| Console button | Keyboard |
|---|---|
| ↑ / ↓ / ← / → | ↑ / ↓ / ← / → |
| A / B / X / Y | Z / X / A / S |
| L / R | Q / E |
| START / SELECT | Enter / V |
| Microphone | Not assigned |
Open Controller Settings to configure your keyboard or gamepad. Touch controls are available on mobile.
How to Play Pokémon Platinum Version
Quick start
1. Press A or START and choose NEW GAME; name your trainer and rival. 2. Visit your rival's house in Twinleaf Town, then meet him on Route 201. 3. Professor Rowan stops you before entering the grass. Choose Turtwig, Chimchar or Piplup from his briefcase, then use FIGHT and a move in your first rival battle. 4. After returning home and visiting Lake Verity with your rival, travel east along Route 201 to Rowan's laboratory in Sandgem Town for the Pokédex. Follow the early errands and catching lesson; heal often and save with X > SAVE.
Controls
D-pad: move or select. A: confirm, talk, inspect and advance text. B: cancel; hold while moving to run after receiving Running Shoes. X: open the menu. Y: use a registered Key Item. L/R: cycle available selections, except in L=A button mode. Touch screen: select battle commands and use Pokétch applications. Choose SAVE from the X menu to save.
Pokémon Platinum Version — About this game
Travel across Sinnoh with a team of Pokémon that grows alongside you. Towns, caves and grassy routes connect a journey built around catching wild Pokémon, training them in turn-based battles and earning Gym Badges on the way to the Pokémon League. Each encounter asks you to consider move types, remaining HP and when to switch partners; weakening a wild opponent before throwing a Poké Ball makes capture easier. Pokémon Centers restore your team, while the Pokédex records the species you discover. Team Galactic interrupts the journey with plans that reach beyond an ordinary Gym challenge. Between major battles, explore side paths and use the touch-screen Pokétch to support your travels. Platinum reshapes the Diamond and Pearl journey around Giratina and the Distortion World, where unusual gravity turns exploration into a spatial puzzle. It expands the regional Pokédex, changes the Gym progression and adds the Battle Frontier, offering varied battle rules after the main story.
Pokémon Platinum Version Game manuals
Cheats
No cheats have been added for this edition.
Player verification and sources
Browser play was reviewed before this edition was published in the catalogue. The date below is the catalogue publication date, not the game’s original release date.
- Browser test and catalogue publication date
- Browsers and devices
- PC: Chrome, Edge and Firefox. Mobile: Chrome on Android and Safari on iPhone and iPad.
- Player engine and core
- EmulatorJS 4.3.0-pre · nds
- Tested by
- rwEmulator
Sources and editorial basis
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