His starter was wrong, too. Professor Rowan hadn't offered Turtwig, Chimchar, or Piplup. Instead, three grey Poke Balls sat on the table, each containing a Shadow Pokémon: a Shuppet with hollow eyes, a Magnemite sparking with black lightning, and a Ralts weeping spectral tears.
He never played a ROM hack again. But sometimes, at 3:00 AM, his save file folder contains a single, corrupted file named . pokemon diamant etincelant rom
The screen went black.