Homebrew GeneriDex | Pokédex mediocrity.

[saviorkross]

GeneriDex

This is a homebrew containing all 493 pokemon from GenIV and below. Any and all feedback is appreciated.

Status update as of 4-16-11

• Back to work once more. The data portion of the skills and locations is put in. Now I just need to do the graphical side of it; such as it appearing on the map. With luck, the rest is just a matter of programming simple things and making everything aesthetically appealing. I suppose I should add the 5th generation in as well, lol.

Download:
You'll need winRAR to extract it.

• Download v0.2 (4.32MB RAR, 10.4MB unRAR'd)

Change log (v0.2):
-Addition of 'Name That Pokemon' and 'Name That Cry'
-A few aesthetic changes
-Fixed a few descriptions
-Removal of redundant files

Known bugs/oddities:
-Some pokemon abilities are listed twice.
-It's possible to get the same name multiple times in the list of answers. This is a problem if the multiples are the pokemon you're guessing.
-Version still reads as '0.1'.
-Slowpoke apparently evolves into Jumpluff instead of Slowking
-Slowking is replaced by Sunkern in the evo u_u

Spoiler: Keys

• Up - Scroll Up
• Down - Scroll Down
• Left - Scroll up by 10
• Right - Scroll Down by 10
• X - Pokemon Cry
• L & R - Cycle through alt. forms.
• Touchscreen/Stylus for pretty much everything else including clicking on a pokemon in the list.

Spoiler: Random Information

• Moves and Loc aren't implemented yet. I definitely want to do it via a map, but it seems like a bit of a shitstorm to be honest.
• There's well over 23,000 individual pieces of information regarding the pokemon. I'd be willing to bet I've screwed up quite a bit Feel free to message me/post regarding this.
• The unown forms can be seen via pressing 'L' or 'R' at their main sprite screen.
• Alternate forms will adjust the stats and such accordingly.
• IVs range from 0-31; EVs range from 0-255; Nature can be negative(-), neutral(o) or positive(+); Level ranges form 1-100. More on this here.
• Mr. Mime and Mime Jr. both need spaces and periods for the minigames. The male and female symbol will put (m) and (f), respectively, onto the end.
• With that being said, I uploaded v0.2, sans the search functionality. Easy mode for the mini-games provides you with 6 names, one being the correct pokemon. Hard mode has you input the name yourself.

Spoiler: Credit

• mark2512 | His post pertaining to loading bgs via fat.
• Serebii.net | Various references.
• Bulbapedia | Various references.
• legendarypokemon.net | Their database collection.
• Veekun | A wonderful collection of information.
• Pokefans.net | The main sprites.
• The PALIB community | Searching through past posts helped quite a bit.
• fincs | Helping get me started with EFS and his other work on PALib.
• Dr.Killa | Mini-game suggestions
• Nintendo and Game Freak | For this wonderfully addictive series. Show your thanks by buying the games; they're worth it.
• All of you. | For using it.
  
• And many others I'm probably forgetting.

Cheers,
Anthony

 

[Wabsta]

Awesome! Reminds me of my project a while ago, lost it tho.
I'm wondering, what did you use to store all the info in? I ended up using XML, but with a shitload of pokémon, it was to slow.

 

[saviorkross]

Awesome! Reminds me of my project a while ago, lost it tho.
I'm wondering, what did you use to store all the info in? I ended up using XML, but with a shitload of pokémon, it was to slow.

A rather large multi-dimensional char array. It was something like 531x41. Certainly not the best way to go about it as it eats a good bit of the ram, but it worked out nonetheless.



//edit

As of summer '10, I switched to 500 or so txt files, and bundle them all in 1 file. Then I just read from it by offsets.

 

[Wabsta]

Awesome! Reminds me of my project a while ago, lost it tho.
I'm wondering, what did you use to store all the info in? I ended up using XML, but with a shitload of pokémon, it was to slow.

A rather large multi-dimensional char array. It was something like 531x41. Certainly not the best way to go about it as it eats a good bit of the ram, but it worked out nonetheless.

Aaah, yea, tried that too, but I wasn't really fond of having all the data in the actual code.
Anyway, I'm gonna try it out in a few hours and leave some feedback

 

[jurassicplayer]

Omg! For 5 posts you are one wicked ass person xD. It sounds like Benjifs has a new competitor.

 

[nathanokane]

Sound brill but it will not load on akaio 1.6 rc2 or wil it load on the homebrewmenu.nds i wil test other carts as well that i have hope you can fix this and thanks for the efford to make this

 

[girugamarc]

great app

Not working on my Acekard though. I use AKAIO 1.6RC2. I even DLDI patched it and it didn't work.

 

[saviorkross]

Thanks for the support, and I'm looking into the problem now. That's what I get for testing it on an outdated flashcart(R4). Now to find my Acekard. e_e

Omg! For 5 posts you are one wicked ass person xD. It sounds like Benjifs has a new competitor.

I'm not really into the whole competition thing.

I enjoy his project, and will certainly have room for it when it comes out. The more pokémon homebrew the merrier!




//edit//
It seems the one without the cries is working on AKAIO 1.6RC2. ASlib, which is what I use to load sounds doesn't seem to be compatible with Acekard at the moment, so I'm off to look for a fix for it. I'll update the first telling people with Acekard to use the one without the cries for now.

 

[girugamarc]

oh ok. I was trying the one with cries that's why.

 

[basher11]

damn thats a smexy pokedex.

nice job!

ps. i see some pkm mystery dungeon pics XD

 

[AnalogMan]

HAHA, I was JUST wondering if there was one of these not two days ago. Though my main want for one is so I can look up moves and HMs and get a list of pokemon that can learn them when I don't have bulbapedia available.

Also a weakness chart maybe?

 

[Cryoburner]

It seems the one without the cries is working on AKAIO 1.6RC2. ASlib, which is what I use to load sounds doesn't seem to be compatible with Acekard at the moment, so I'm off to look for a fix for it. I'll update the first telling people with Acekard to use the one without the cries for now.

Yes, I think that is the problem. The AKAIO release candidates recently added homebrew soft-reset, which isn't compatible with some other programs as well. I mentioned in the AKAIO release thread that Morning Timer wasn't working either. If you want these programs to work with AKAIO 1.6 RC2, try disabling soft-reset for the time being. I imagine they'll likely have that fixed or provide a workaround by the time 1.6 Final is released.

 

[_Chaz_]

Wow, this looks absolutely stunning. I can't believe you made something like this!
Cheers!

 

[saviorkross]

The problem should be fixed now. I switched over to MaxMod instead of using ASlib.

Cry version tested and seems to be working on original R4 with YSM09.12.05 and Acekard 2.1 with AKAIO 1.6RC2.

HAHA, I was JUST wondering if there was one of these not two days ago. Though my main want for one is so I can look up moves and HMs and get a list of pokemon that can learn them when I don't have bulbapedia available.

Also a weakness chart maybe?

A weakness chart could be quite useful. I'll look into it. ^ As for the moves...eventually.

damn thats a smexy pokedex.
nice job!
ps. i see some pkm mystery dungeon pics XD
QUOTE(_Chaz_ @ Mar 28 2010, 09:27 PM)

Wow, this looks absolutely stunning. I can't believe you made something like this!
Cheers!

Why thank you.

 

[Deleted-236924]

I downloaded that right away!
I'm looking forward to the full version.

 

[Dr.Killa]

you should add minigames like "whos that pokemon" and "guess that cry"

 

[xFinch713x]

All moves, location, and I believe weaknesses and such can be found on Serebii. Only problem really would be going through and getting the data for each.. would take forever.

 

[Porobu]

GREAT APP

 

[dukemagus]

brilliant!

since my DS is a crimson version, maybe i could scare my younger bro saying it is a pokedex v2.0, just like the anime one.

maybe it can be useful someday...

 

[saviorkross]

Thanks for the support.

brilliant!

since my DS is a crimson version, maybe i could scare my younger bro saying it is a pokedex v2.0, just like the anime one.

maybe it can be useful someday...

April fools day is tomorrow. Perhaps that'll be the day

QUOTE(Dr.Killa @ Mar 29 2010, 06:44 AM) you should add minigames like "whos that pokemon" and "guess that cry"

Yes, and yes. ^

Spoiler

I'll release the next version including the little minigames once I put in some sort of search function. That'll probably be the last release until I figure out a presentable way to do moves and locations.

//edit//
Does anyone prefer the cryless version over the one with cries? I was just wondering if I should keep up support for it. I mean, it's not a /whole/ lot of work changing from one to the other, but it might not be worth it for a 4MB difference.