Four of the 22 Easy Chat groups carry no text of their own: POKéMON,
POKéMON (NAT), MOVE 1 and MOVE 2 are lists of species and move ids, and
pret prints them through gSpeciesNames and gMoveNames. The extractor
resolves them the same way, so easy_chat_data.lua ended up holding 807
copies of names the dataset already has -- copies that go stale the
moment anything renames a species or a move. A mod that renames them,
a translation filling the species_names and move_names catalogs first
of all, changed every screen but this one: the picker still offered
the cart's English names, and the profile read back in them.
Resolve those two kinds of word at draw time instead, against the same
Pokemon.name / Pokemon.moveName the party screen and the Pokédex use.
When the dataset has no entry for an id it answers with a placeholder
("POKéMON 063", "-------"), which is worse than the word the cart
shipped, so that case keeps the extracted text. An entry that names
the group ("easyChat.POKéMON|PIKACHU") still wins over both, since a
species name may need a wording other screens do not use. A bare-key
entry does not: bare keys are shared with menu labels this engine
already translates (CUT, FLASH, STRENGTH), and one of those should not
decide what a move is called here.
tools/modkit.py keeps emitting those 807 rows, since the species and
move catalogs it writes come from the Gen 1 dataset and do not list a
Hoenn species or a Gen 3 move; its note now says an empty entry shows
the game's own name, so a translator only fills the ones nothing else
renames.
bryanthaboi