Version history

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The version history contains the older versions of the game and what they added in terms of content and bugfixes.

All changelogs are directly copied from nilllzz' Blog.

Alpha versions

Version	Release date	Summary
0.21	15.01.2013	New features: Azalea Town Second gym Slowpoke well Flinching A few new moves Cut can be used in the overworld Ilex forest Gate map between Azalea Town and Ilex forest a few changes to battle mechanics… Bugfixes: fixed: Super Repel and Max Repel don’t work fixed: When quickly exiting the New Game dialog the title music doesn’t play fixed: Full turn (S) doesn’t work in “free camera mode” fixed: The game crashes when you choose to not learn a new move fixed: Crash bug when loading Pokémon from files fixed: Lugia’s sprite fixed: Pokédex doesn’t get updated fixed: Talking to Mr. Pokemon from any side besides the one where the door is still starts the normal script, causing Prof. Oak to talk into oblivion and the player facing at random directions fixed: When a Pokemon is defeated and replaced the game crashes fixed: Various Pokemon create a black line on the battle screen fixed: Pokemon sprites don’t change when animations are turned off, the first Pokemon is used for every Pokemon instead fixed: Poison and Burn damage is calculated wrongly fixed: Brn/Psn Status doesn’t kill the affected Pokemon properly fixed: Synthesis/Recover heals the enemy Pokemon fixed: Route 32:The angler in the Pokemon Center has a typo (“finshing”- fishing) fixed: Attacks can not miss/fail fixed: Alakazam, Farfetch’d and Mr. Mime crash fixed: Wing attack being a physical attack fixed: Poison type Pokémon can get poisoned fixed: A Pokémon can forget an HM move and a few more bugfixes/typos
0.20	08.01.2013	Battle related: Switch out Pokémon after defeating opponent Pokémon animations can be turned off more than 100 new moves display which shows how many Pokémon a trainer carries status ailments most battle mechanics are overhauled or completely redone difficulty setting: bring the trainer battles to a whole new level (literally) Type ineffectivenesses (dat word) (ghost - normal, fighting - ghost, ground - flying) work new movesets for every Pokémon Maps: Finished Route 32, 33 and 36 Union Cave with wild Pokémon and trainers School in Violet City battle areas for Route 32, 33, Darkcave and Union Cave houses in Cherrygrove City Berry house on Route 30 Other new features: Changed Guide Gent script Friend Ball and Heavy Ball now obtainable from Kurt new moves for Falkner’s Pokémon Bugfixes: fixed: Rename screen placement errors fixed: Pokémon can learn moves twice fixed: co-op speech bubble appears randomly on the map fixed: when encountering a trainer and a Pokemon at the same time, the game crashes fixed: Totodile Pokedex description fixed: Dratini and Dragonair sprites fixed: Can walk through trainers that walk to the player fixed: Pokémon summary showing wrong Pokémon in battle fixed: Pokémon cannot evolve fixed: Pokédex crash bug fixed: Nidoran not having an animation fixed: Badge display on main menu fixed: Pokémon evolutions not working and of course a lot more bugfixes…
0.19_1	01.01.2013	Bugfixes: fixed: battle related bugs
0.19	01.01.2013	New features: First gym battle 251 Pokemons Complete Violet City (NPCs, houses) Status icon above co-op player's head New Moves (Water Gun, Bite, Tail Whip, Defense Curl, Pound and Harden) Reworked pokemon moveset Bugfixes: fixed: Co-op player entity fixed: some typos fixed: repeating network dialogue fixed: a bunch of music/sound related bugs More bugfixes...
0.18_1	26.12.2012	New features: Pokémon cries Bugfixes: Removed NPCs are still present but invisible
0.18	25.12.2012	New features/changes: trainer battle enhancements Joey vs. Joey event on Route 30 Rival battle + name rival Story for: New Bark Town, Route 29, Cherrygrove City, Route 30, Route 31 New Attack notification Enhanced trading screen for market The environment isn’t that dark anymore when it’s raining at night new Pokémon: Bellsprout, Hoothoot new moves: Growth, Vine Whip, Bubble new trainers in: Route 30, Route 31, Sprout Tower new battle environment: Sprout Tower rearrangement of the choose able skins. Bugfixes: fixed not getting Pokédex fixed Hoppip’s evolution fixed fullscreen games to crash while battle initialization fixed stat modifier bug fixed houses/links in: Violet City, Route 32, Azalea Town fixed missing stairs in Union cave fixed NPCs not facing the correct direction in conversations sometimes fixed crash bug in the inventory in battles
0.17	18.12.2012	New features/changes: You can stop evolutions rename Pokémon new Pokémon: Hoppip Achievements Auto camera align while talking finished Kurts Apricorn interface new map: Sprout Tower Sudowoodo on Route 36 Mystery egg and Pokédex Trainer battles Youngster Joey on Route 30 Bugfixes: Camera and scriptblocks bugs fixed fixed: do not obtain the Mystery Egg/Pokédex fixed: sounds don’t mute when pressing the M key. fixed: music keeps getting quieter when pressing escape key twice. fixed: no sound for healing machine in Prof. Elms lab. fixed: almost no female Pokémon.
0.16	11.12.2012	New features/changes: new maps: Route 46, Route 37, Gate between Route 29 and 46, Mr. Pokémons house, Violet Gym, Violet Center, Violet Mart Kakuna + Rattata can evolve now. Weather enhancements + new particle animations (see screenshot above) Wild Pokémon on Route 30 battle music, gym music, cave music, new sounds repel items see hold items in storage system get transported to latest Pokécenter after being defeated (violet center is not working with this mechanic) status fall/rise animations in battles lots and lots of fixes (eg battle enter crash, plant apricorn crash, glitch out of map, loose Pokémon when shutting down PC and a lot more.)
0.15	27.11.2012	New features/changes: Pokémon catching completed Union cave map New Pokémon switch menu in battle Removed camera shaking in third person mode Removed ability to surf without a Pokémon knowing the move “Surf” in the party Battle menu is aligned correctly in full screen mode Fixed a bug with DirectX Some texture loading/drawing improvements
0.14	20.11.2012	New features/changes: catch Pokémon (not finished though) animated Pokémon sprites redid damage calculation Bugfixes: co-op battle player entity fix fixed a bug with only one fainted Pokémon causes player to black out.
0.13	13.11.2012	New features/changes: Union cave Battle animations new battle dialogues new battle animations exp exchange when using more than one Pokémon in battle black out when every Pokémon is fainted The player gets transparent when running against an object in the world while in third person mode.
0.12	06.11.2012	New features: Azalea Town Apricorn items Apricorn trees Kurt (crafts Apricorns to Pokéballs) Launcher integration Icon for the window Bugfixes: shader bug Changes: increased render distance decreased snow height in battles added shader for darker nights better texture loader
0.11	30.10.2012	New features/changes: Evolve Pokémon! Switch Pokémon in battles Antidote item PP loose in battle removed flickering while moving the 3rd person camera removed ghost NPCs changed version number system (0.010a -> 0.11) a few tweaks to the battle system.
0.010a	23.10.2012	New features: 3rd person mode (switch with [F5]) skin changing + skin sync via co-op you can choose your skin while creating a new game. new render distance setting: extreme (level 4); increases distance from 35 to 50! co-op commands (/weather, /give, /tp, /disconnect, /wear) tweaked movement level up + item use in battle TM/HM integration exp gain + HP drain animation in battles IsDark option for darker levels (you’ll have to use Flash to make them bright again) Hilbert and Hilda skins you can let Pokémon free finished: darkcave.dat, route32.dat added signs and a NPC to Route 30 new maps: Route 36, Route 33 Bugfixes: Pokémon don’t tilt up and down in use item screen wrong textures at water edge corners crash bug in inventory Trainercard showing weird image -> shows the current skin now. Step-Inside-Corner model has wrong texture coordinates Changes: hold items are shown in save screen changed bag order and item categories berries grow only one berry when you plant them in snow. They grow more than normal, when planted while rain. added blue shading for shadows at night overhauled Pokémon storage system changed a few scripts and texts new wild Pokémon encounter formula engine improvements (runs faster than before) mouse will stay in window while battle is initializing roofs for houses in New Bark Town.
0.09a	16.10.2012	New features: shadows (currently used at Sproud Tower and the bridge on Route 32) items are now useable + you can give them to Pokémon so they can hold them. new menus for item using. overhauled battle system: it is as far developed as it was before, but I want to finish it in the next three weeks! Yeay :D battle camera controls: use arrow keys to look around Bugfixes: crash bug in co-op a lot of smaller bugs you can open the connection menu and connect again even if you are already connected. weather is not visible in battle mouse it not fixed in the window while in a battle Changes: changed fonts to pixel fonts.
0.08a	09.10.2012	New features: FPS debug profiler [F3] shader for objects (this is not used right now, can be used in the future to make shadows or color different objects) new maps: Route 32, Dark Cave, Last house in New Bark Town Bugfixes: game crashes when using Space/Enter on Load Game/Continue without having save states. FPS drops while snow Changes: Rewrote the weather code including the additional snow layer, which performs better now. weather changes less often snow is visible in fast graphics mode.
0.07a	02.10.2012	New Features: Weather (rain + snow) underwater environment general overhaul of the whole environment code graphics setting in the options menu trade menu to buy/sell items NPC in the market new house + NPCs in New Bark Town Lavender Town Bugfixes: You cannot play together with different versions of the game now (e.g. 0.06a -/- 0.07a) added Tackle move for Pokémon appearing on Route 31 to prevent crashes. display bugs in the chat fixed screenshots not working in fullscreen removed invisible network player entity when not playing online fixed inside corner model displaying wrong textures warp command in scripts Changes: Added CapsLock support for chat, also redid the arrangement of trigger keys: Alt -> Shift/CapsLock -> Normal game messages hide while taking a screenshot (you cannot capture them anymore) changed debug screen
0.06a	25.09.2012	New features: co-op mode new co-op GUI changed the multiplayer script in the PokéCenter and added the possibility to connect via the PC in your room. new co-op textures and objects chat connection activity panel / [Tab] menu to show connected player entities counter in debug screen market map Bugfixes: display bug in the load menu 3 berry planting related bugs Changes: separated GUI visibility [F1] and debug visibility [F3]. changed the colors from the text in the load menu added healing machines for the PokéCenter and Elms Lab redone the spawning algorithm (not encounter rate)
0.05a	18.09.2012	New features: Designed your home (kitchen + living room) mother event + rival in New Bark Town Render distance setting. Added scripts for furniture in your room Tweaked the objects in your room (+ added a secret) Added a very early version of the battle system Save the “Show Debug Screen” setting Town map Bugfixes: Ceiling in gate map some performance drops Changes: scroll bar and index save in option screen new logo tweaked the maps in the main menu changed the amount of potions of the aide from 5 to 1
0.04a	11.09.2012	New features: Your room (yourroom.dat) with furniture overworld of Violet City (without NPCs and sign texts) added potion the gate map between Route31 and Violet City turning signs for every mart, gym and PokéCenter. Bugfixes: The game doesn’t create the folder Save and the file Options.dat. item displaying bug in the inventory M mutes music while entering the name some entities in the game got wrong rotation detection you can click anywhere on the pause screen to trigger the currently selected button Changes: standard volume changed to 50% game saves mute option every time you change it a few changes are done to the display functions to improve the performance changed Prof. Elms NPC sprite get potions before leaving prof elms lab put potions on Route 29 and removed MoonStone from Route 31. the textbox can be proceeded by pressing Space / Enter
0.03a	04.09.2012	New features: background music in almost all places in the world. Elms lab start Pokémon event old guide gent mute music anywhere using the M key. Bugfixes: Sky doesn’t use FOV setting from the option menu. wrong decimal number rounding Changes: Hide cross hair while hiding the debug monitor market in pokecenter (work in progress) Internal: new textures: Textures\lab, Textures\NPC\12, Textures\NPC\5 added AML tag: “visible” (optional) for ENT data type new NPC type: Pokéball new songs: Songs\barktown, Songs\center, Songs\cherrygrove, Songs\elmslab, Songs\RouteMusic0, Songs\RouteMusic1, Songs\title
0.02a	28.08.2012	New features: new map: cherrygrove_center.dat scriptblocks (invisible) detailed info in the load menu status view in battle you can create a new game improved camera: you can move during “free camera mode” (available pressing C) Options screen, options are: FOV, text speed and mouse speed crosshair Pokémon PC storage system Bugfixes: battle restarts after pressing escape twice running bug fix in battle textbox shows up after quitting to the main menu while the textbox is visible a few camera related bugs steps can be jumped over from the wrong direction under certain circumstances. Jigglypuff is #40 in the Pokédex game does not reset temp variables after loading another save state (like cursor positions in menus) Changes: slide improvements in every map file reworked route sign save camera rotation new background levels in the main menu panorama view slowed down standard camera movement speed dialogues can be proceeded with Enter / Spacebar changed colors in load menu if the Pokédex is empty, it doesn’t show up any entries texts in dialogues can be skipped by pressing Enter/Space/Left mouse removed white frame around buttons and menus location names are saved made changes in ChooseBox dialogues made your house not a dead end Internal: new textures: Textures\NPC\49, Textures\Center, GUI\Intro\intro, GUI\Overworld\Particles, GUI\Menus\Box reworked script system completely changed error message new folder called “Scripts”.