The Easy Chat editor (profile, questionnaire, battle-start message) drew all of its own text as literals: the screen's title and its two instruction lines, the "is as shown. Okay?" confirmation, the quit and delete-all confirmations, YES/NO, "Select a group." and the DEL. ALL / CANCEL / OK footer.
The per-screen strings are chosen when the screen opens, so they go through Strings() there. FOOTER_BTNS is a module-level table built before any catalog exists, so its labels are Strings.source and the draw loop looks each one up, the same shape as ItemsData.POCKET_LABEL; tests/game3_strings_module_tables_test.lua covers it.
The words the player picks are not touched: they come from the ROM's own Easy Chat word groups.
The title is still centred the way the cart centres it, but no longer starts left of the ribbon: the longest English title fills 118 of the header's 128 px, so a longer translation would have spilled out of the blue fill.
The popup shown on entering an area takes its text from MapSectionsExtract.SECTIONS, the cart's English section names, with the floor suffix map_name_popup.c adds (" 3F", " B1F", " ROOFTOP") glued on in English. Nothing in a translation mod could reach either.
getInfo now also returns the name before the suffix (baseName), and the popup passes it through Strings() and translates the floor as a whole label ("3F", "B1F", "ROOFTOP"): the European carts number floors differently (3F is "2E" in French, "2S" in German), so a template around the number could not say it. The forest preview's name window (MapPreviewScreen), which shows the ROM's English section name, and the summary's met-location fallback go through Strings() too.
Field move texts, item-use results, Pokédex and summary fallbacks, trainer class and send-out lines, step events (repel, whiteout, fainting), VS Seeker and multichoice labels were plain literals or string.format calls, so a translation mod could not reach them.
Messages built at call time now go through Strings() with whole-sentence templates. Tables built at module load keep English sources marked with Strings.source() and are translated when read: FieldMoves.TEXT through an __index proxy, the Oak's lab rival fallback dialogs when the trainer is built, and ItemsData.POCKET_LABEL by its caller. Nature names and ability/move descriptions are translated where the summary asks for them. Values the engine stores or compares (box names, identifiers, quest-log keys) are left as they are.
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