- Decode evolution lists from the ROM; all 251 match the pinned PRET source.
- Compare CalcMonStats and CalcExpAtLevel against the original routines in
the reference emulator.
- Add a continuous opening playthrough from the intro to the catching
tutorial, reloading a JSON save after every stage.
- Port player switching in battle: the PKMN menu, forced choices after a
faint, Shift mode's offer and double faints, with the original texts.
- Port HP and status healing items in battle through the ROM's ItemEffects,
HealingHPAmounts and StatusHealingActions tables.
- Add the battle party menu and the Items pocket to the UI.
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A new game now runs NewGame's InitGender and OakSpeech natively before
the bedroom: Boy or Girl, InitClock's hour and minute steppers with
their YES/NO confirmations, Oak's speech with Wooper, and NamePlayer's
preset names or naming field (a blank name takes CHRIS or KRIS). Texts,
menus and time strings come from a new INTRO profile table verified by
check:reference; Oak's and the player's pictures decode from
TrainerPicPointers, ChrisPic/KrisPic and TrainerPalettes.
The chosen time is kept as a minute offset from the device clock, which
time of day, the weekday, NPC hours and the daily reset now read. The
intro runs only when nothing is saved; a save made during it starts it
again. Saves gain intro and clock.minuteOffset, migrated by absence. The
shell's name and character fields are gone. Intentional change: the
steppers start at the device time rather than 10:00.
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Port forced movement (turn delays, bumps, ice, currents, pits), dynamic
return warps, elevators, Surf, Cut, Strength and cycling rules, working
map blocks with changeblock/changemapblocks, and the remaining NPC
movement types and movement commands.
Add tileset animation from the ROM's command tables, grass sprite
priority and special map palettes; room decorations with ownership, the
bedroom PC and save migration; and Key Items access to the Bicycle.
Fourteen original-engine traces compare positions, facing, actors, event
flags and scripted poses. Tile animation matches original VRAM for four
tilesets, and LoadMapPals matches 192 palette cases. skyfall_top now
keeps the $60 sprite offset its step function leaves behind.
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Map trainers run the ROM's TalkToTrainerScript and SeenByTrainerScript.
_CheckTrainerBattle runs before tile events at the end of each step and
on idle ticks; TrainerWalkToPlayer builds wMovementBuffer natively, and
writeobjectxy keeps the trainer where it stopped. The interpreter gains
the trainer header commands, wRunningTrainerBattleScript and hidden
items (HiddenItemScript).
Trainers with several Pokémon send out the next one through
EnemyPartyMonEntrance and FindMonInOTPartyToSwitchIntoBattle, including
its BattleRandom fallback. AI_SwitchOrTryItem, CheckAbleToSwitch and
AI_Switch are translated with their original bugs, and wPlayerUsedMoves
is recorded. The Shift-mode switch offer, trainer items, Pursuit on a
switch, Perish Song and Spikes remain refused.
Route 30 and its Berry house are enabled; Mr. Pokémon's house and
Route 31 stay closed. A refused trainer sighting does not restart until
the player moves, so a rollback cannot trap the player in view.
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- Random walks and spins from SpriteMovementData, with random sleeps.
- CanObjectMoveInDirection: side walls, land, objects' current and
previous tiles, the radius (stored plus one) and the screen edge.
- Objects freeze while text is open and during applymovement, and
return home when both they and their home leave the object window.
- Wandering positions are not saved; test helpers replan around NPCs.
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- Enable Route 29, its Route 46 gate, Cherrygrove City and its buildings.
- Run item balls through FindItemInBallScript and fruit trees through
FruitTreeScript, with a native daily reset of the daily engine flags.
- Port the Pokémon Center nurse (HealParty with the PP Up clamp,
CheckPokerus, phone-call checks) and record the whiteout spawn on
entering a Pokémon Center, as EnterMapWarp does.
- Port standard Poké Marts with keyboard, D-pad and pointer menus.
- Add the recoil battle command (Struggle) and VAR_BOXSPACE.
- Save fruit trees, the daily reset day and the last spawn map; older
version-3 backups migrate by absence.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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