From 4a84ac922cbb1bd8da4c5366a699e22505ee96ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bryanthaboi Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:58:43 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] doc update --- README.md | 2 +- docs/new-features.md | 28 ++-------------------------- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 68bca5b1..e4999481 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ Options menu and persist in `options.lua`. **Low-end devices:** **OPTIONS > PERFORMANCE** scales the optional extras for weaker hardware (HIGH, BALANCED, LOW, or AUTO, the default). It only changes presentation; game logic is identical on every tier. Details in -[docs/new-features.md](docs/new-features.md#performance-tier-low-end-devices). +[docs/new-features.md](docs/new-features.md). ## Documentation diff --git a/docs/new-features.md b/docs/new-features.md index 19969bc1..a3265052 100644 --- a/docs/new-features.md +++ b/docs/new-features.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # New Features -Features intentionally added beyond the original Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow games: +Features intentionally added to the games themselves, beyond what the original cartridges shipped with: * **Survey zoom** with connected-map rendering and configurable void fill * **Perspective tilt mode** for an HD-2D-style overworld @@ -10,40 +10,16 @@ Features intentionally added beyond the original Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow * **V-SYNC row and a DISPLAY frame cap**, for panels whose refresh is not a multiple of 60Hz * **LOGIC CLOCK option** (60HZ or the cart's 59.73HZ vblank rate) on every game's options screen * **Peer-to-peer LAN link play** for trades and battles between Red, Blue, and Yellow -* **Online lobby** in the launcher for battles, spectating and tournaments -* **FireRed/LeafGreen online** over the relay (Union Room, Direct Corner, wireless minigames, PIN-locked private matches, launcher and in-game invites) +* **FireRed/LeafGreen online** over the relay (Union Room, Direct Corner, wireless minigames, PIN-locked private matches, in-game invites) * **FireRed/LeafGreen Mystery Gift** on the main menu after the first save: WONDER NEWS right away, WONDER CARDS once the questionnaire passphrase is in -* **Persistent custom options** stored separately from game saves * **Optional widescreen battle layout** -* **Mobile touch controls** with editable layouts, vibration, and orientation settings -* **Screen position setting** (center, upper, top) shared across all games, for clamp-on controllers that cover the lower screen -* **Touch skins** in RetroArch overlay format and Delta `.deltaskin` (including PDF-wrapped bezel art), with per-button press states and Super Game Boy borders * **Pokédex diploma and printer image exports** -* **Deleting a synced save deletes it everywhere**, a slot removed in the launcher is dropped from the server and from every other linked device on its next sync -* **Shareable mod lists** over save sync, optionally carrying the options set for those mods, which the receiving device is asked about before anything is changed -* **Custom carts**, a named mod set saved from the mods tab and picked from a game's page, with its own shell colour, label art, save slots and export file -* **Install required mods**, one press on a cart that will not start, fetching every pinned mod at the pinned version and refusing any archive whose hash is not the one the cart recorded -* **Browse carts in Find mods**, a Mods / Carts switch on the same community index, searched and filtered by base game, installing the cart file straight into that game's cart list -* **Filter Find mods by game**, a generation or single-game filter of its own, with every listing showing the games and tags it declares -* **Update all** in one press from the MODS tab, installing every outdated mod and every installed cart the index lists ahead of it, with a summary of what failed -* **Rebindable GAME SPEED shortcuts**, SPEED - / SPEED + rows in CONTROLS that move the shoulder hotkeys to any pad button or switch them off * **Fast-forward locks to 1X in link play**, every link or online battle, link session and the FireRed/LeafGreen Union Room on every game * **40-player Union Room** on FireRed and LeafGreen online, a larger square room where every trainer keeps a fixed spot and anyone can be talked to -* **Key bar on the touch pad**, a corner toggle that slides out SAVE, LOAD, SPEED, COLOR, TILT and ZOOM for phones with no keyboard -* **Save editor item verbs**, sorting the bag and PC by item number or name, filling one stack or every stack to x99, and a coin editor on every game -* **Save editor bag / PC move**, a PC / BAG button on every item row that moves the stack across, clamped to the stack and slot caps -* **Shortcuts sync before they boot**, a `--game` launch syncing saves (and, with `--update`, taking a release) first, skippable with any button -* **`--update-mods`**, a launch flag that runs Update all before the game boots -* **Mod load order**, a Load order sort in the launcher MODS tab and LOAD EARLIER / LATER in the in-game manager, no manifest editing ## Gen 2 Specifics -* **Pokémon Silver** as an importable, launcher-selectable version alongside Gold -* **Pokémon Crystal** as an importable, launcher-selectable version alongside Gold and Silver -* **Mod manager** with Gen 1 mod adapters, per-game targeting, and `modkit gen2check` -* **Followers** for mods, plus Gen 2-only registries and hooks * **Battle screen options** on Gold, Silver and Crystal: BATTLE SIZE (fixed or window-filling) and BATTLE BG (white, black or the dimmed map as the surround) * **Widescreen battle layout** on Gold, Silver and Crystal: BATTLE LAYOUT -> WIDE spreads the HUDs and bottom windows across a 304-wide screen * **Extended battle HUD** on Gold, Silver and Crystal: BATTLE HUD -> EXTENDED docks the WIDE layout's foe panel to the top of the window and the text area and player panel to the bottom -* **Importers**, a launcher tab that reads a dump of another game you own and exports its sprites, tiles and sound as versioned asset packs mods can require * **Event tickets** on Emerald: OPTION -> EXTRAS -> EVENT TICKETS lets the Lilycove Mystery Gift man hand out the Eon, Aurora and Mystic tickets and the Old Sea Map