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dex now has all the current Pokemon included! That’s data for a total of 493 Pokemon spread across 4 generations! I also wrote a routine to replace Pokemons names within their dex entries, so all Pokemon are now “encounterable” in the GTP minigame. If a random Pokemons name appears in it’s dex entry, the Pokemons name is replaced with “[...]“, or else this game would be too easy

Shows GTP's new masking system

I also added Egg Hatching info in this build. You can now see how many steps you need to take in order to hatch a given Pokemon. Egg hatching information applies to all Pokemon games where you have access to eggs (Every Pokemon game except Gen 1: Red, Blue, Green, Yellow)

As you may know, every Pokemon game describes Pokemon information differently, therefore I’ve only added the description for each Pokemon from the Generation it originally appeared in:

• Gen 1 (1-151) descriptions are taken from Pokemon Red
• Gen 2 (152-251) descriptions are taken from Pokemon Gold
• Gen 3 (252-386) descriptions are taken from Pokemon Ruby
• Gen 4 (387-493) descriptions are taken from Pokemon Diamond

The next thing that will be added are attacks, though I’m having a hard time finding a parseable list of attacks, with Name, Type, Power, Accuracy, PP and description, and there’s no way in hell I’ll manually add all the attacks, there are a shitload of them.

Blargh, I want my goddamn NanoNote already!

After adding Gen 2 and 3 Pokemon today, I’ve decided that the GuessThatPokemon minigame will only contain the 251st Pokemon, as virtually every single Generation 3 Pokemon has their name listed in their Pokedex entries. This may be fixable by parsing through the Pokedex entry and change any references to the the chosen Pokemons name into asterisks or other wildcard character, but this has low priority as of now, though it will probably be  implemented in a second release.

Screenshot of the latest dex-build, showing the minigame GTP. Click the picture for full size.

As you just read, I just finished adding Generation 2 and 3 Pokemon to the index. We now have a list of all the 386 first Pokemon names, Pokedex entries, weights, heights, kinds and types! Information about evolutions, moves and how many steps to hatch a given Pokemons egg will be added in a future release.

As the release of dex is closing in, I thought I’d let you know that it’ll be released with full, GPL’ed source code, along with a Windows binary and a Ben NanoNote binary. Since the source is written in ultra-portable C, you could probably compile it for any operating system that has a C compiler. Dingoo/Dingux release isn’t very high up on the priority list right now, but I will get around to it.

Here’s an update on my dex application for the Ben NanoNote. As per request from urandom_ on the #qi-hardware channel @ freenode, I have added a small game to the dex, where you are presented with a dex entry, and you are to guess the name of the Pokemon that that entry belongs to. Below is a screenshot.

GuessThatPokemon, a new minigame in dex. Click the picture for full size.

I will release dex as soon as I’ve had a chance to actually test it on the real hardware (I still haven’t recieved my NanoNote), added more Pokemon, and tweaked the source a bit. Look forward to it! Thanks to urandom_ for the idea!

I’m currently making progress on my aptly named PokeDex for the NanoNote, “Dex“. I finally was able to wrap the PokeDex entries words to that of 18 characters (that’s the line length in the Pokemon games on the GBX), with loads of help from noclaf of the DreamInCode forums, and Ayla of #dingoonity@freenode.

This program will (at first) be a command line tool for the Ben NanoNote. I might wrap an SDL GUI around it if I can be bothered to later, so it would work on Dingux aswell.

Here’s an idea of what it’ll look like:

Screenshot of dex

I’ve added all the 1st generation Pokemon (Red, Blue, Green, Yellow) to the application, and the framework seems to work fine. After I’ve added Gen 2 and possibly Gen 3 Pokemon, it will be available for download.

Feature requests are welcome!