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.
SummaryData looks a move or ability description up as MOVE_<name> / ABILITY_<name>, built from the name the summary shows. A translation mod renames moves in place (the moves registry writes Pokemon._moveNames), so with one enabled the key became MOVE_<translated name>, nothing matched, and the summary and TM Case showed "---" instead of the description.
Pokemon.install now keeps a copy of the ROM's English move and ability names before any mod patches them, exposed as Pokemon.romMoveName / romAbilityName, and the description lookups use it, falling back to the name passed in when the pack has none.
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.
- Align CacheContract firered overrides with pure ROM extraction
- Fix door animation extraction tile sizes, palettes, and strides
- Update storage chrome, pokedex, summary, and battle chrome extractors
- Ensure 100% self-contained ROM extraction without external dependencies
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