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# pokecrystal-board
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pokecrystal-board is a board game engine for the GBC based on [pokecrystal](https://github.com/pret/pokecrystal).
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In pokecrystal-board **you will find**:
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- Content with new built-in features
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- Overworld board game engine: menus, movement, events, turn lifecycle, etc.
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- Level selection menu ("world map")
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- Game progression logic
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- Other supporting features
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- Empty canvas with pokecrystal-board placeholder content, or with no content
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- Actual levels and maps, and their design
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- Board space effects
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- Many GFX and SFX elements
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- Layout of transition screens and menus
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- ...
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- Empty canvas with pokecrystal placeholder content
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- The complete battle engine
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- Pokemon data and storage
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- Item data and storage
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- ...
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In pokecrystal-board **you will *not* find**:
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- A ready-to-play game
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- An engine that requires less ASM knowledge to use than the pokecrystal disassembly
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- Guaranteed compatibility with extensions to pokecrystal developed by the community
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- Definitive GFX and SFX assets for the pokecrystal-board features
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**How can you use and what can you do with pokecrystal-board**:
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- Use it as the base engine to develop your own game
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- Develop new features or expand existing features for the purpose of your own game
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- Develop new features or expand existing features to be incorporated into pokecrystal-board
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- Design assets to be incorporated in place of the placeholder GFX/SFX in pokecrystal-board (see issue #9)
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- Request or show your interest in specific features to be added to pokecrystal-board (open an issue for this)
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Compared to pokecrystal and the Pokemon Crystal ROM, the ROM built by pokecrystal-board uses a MBC5 chip and requires 64 KB of RAM (8 banks of 8KB each).
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pokecrystal-board requires RGBDS 0.7.0 to build. It has two build targets: *crystal*, and *crystal_debug*. The former builds a ROM with the *_DEBUG* symbol undefined, and the latter builds a ROM with the *_DEBUG* symbol defined. *crystal_debug* is meant to include additional content and configurations to facilitate testing during development, while *crystal* builds the ROM meant to be hypothetically released to the public. Other than that, refer to the [install docs from pokecrystal](INSTALL.md) for detailed instructions on how to setup and build pokecrystal-board.
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If you have specific questions about the usage of pokecrystal-board or how to contribute to it, feel free to open an issue or to contact me on Discord. But please, do not do this for questions that are rather in the domain of pokecrystal.
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If you are interested on developing on top of pokecrystal-board, the rest of this document details the different features. For generic changes made in pokecrystal-board (adaptations, cleaning up, etc.) refer to issues #1, #2, #7, #8. You can also navigate issues tagged with a "Feature" label to see commits pertaining specific features. Additionally, a rough list of new RAM addresses can be found in [docs/develop/index.md](docs/develop/index.md).
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## Level selection menu
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# Level selection menu
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The level selection menu is essentially a world map that the player navigates to select a level to play. The player can move through landmarks that correspond to unlocked levels in the level selection menu. The level seleciton menu can have multiple map pages each with their own landmarks. When the player moves from a landmark in one page to a landmark in another page, the new page is loaded during the transition.
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- *LevelSelectionMenu_PageGrid*: layout of all pages in the big picture. Each byte entry is the page number, or -1 for no page.
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- *LandmarkToLevelTable*: denotes the mapping between landmarks and levels.
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## Overworld
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# Overworld
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The overworld uses a turn-based system. Each level is composed of one or more maps, and the maps are designed with spaces in them, which are meant for the player to move through them. Each turn the player rolls a die and advances spaces accordingly. Events may occur as appropriate while the player is advancing and/or when it lands in a space.
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In addition to what is covered in this section, you can find more low level stuff about the pokecrystal-board overworld engine in the rough workflows described here: [docs/develop/index.md](docs/develop/index.md). The core of the overworld engine is in [engine/overworld/events.asm](engine/overworld/events.asm) and, in a way, the main logic occurs in *PlayerEvents*. New board logic in this context is in *CheckBoardEvent* and the state is defined by *BOARDEVENT_* constants. Again, for in-depth details refer to the aforementioned workflows or to the code itself.
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In addition to what is covered in this section, you can find more low level stuff about the pokecrystal-board overworld engine in the rough workflows described here: [docs/develop/workflows.md](docs/develop/workflows.md). The core of the overworld engine is in [engine/overworld/events.asm](engine/overworld/events.asm) and, in a way, the main logic occurs in *PlayerEvents*. New board logic in this context is in *CheckBoardEvent* and the state is defined by *BOARDEVENT_* constants. Again, for in-depth details refer to the aforementioned workflows or to the code itself.
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### Board menu
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## Board menu
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The board menu is shown to the player at the beginning of each turn. In allows for several choices. The only ones that are specific to the pokecrystal-board engine are "roll die", "view map", and "exit level". The other three choices point to the party menu, bag menu, and pokegear, and are placeholders from pokecrystal. The board menu can be navigated horizontally. All menu options are accessed by selecting the corresponding icon of the menu, except for "view map" which is accessible via the Select button. All menu options except for "roll die" and "exit level" eventually return back to the board menu.
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The implementation is located in [engine/board/menu.asm](engine/board/menu.asm). Icon tiles are drawn over the background of the textbox as if they were font characters. The current menu item is highlighted with a colored overlay using objects. This file includes also the animation logic for rolling a die when the "roll die" option is selected. These animations leverage the overworld sprite animation engine from pokecrystal. Finally, [gfx/board](gfx/board) contains GFX assets.
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### Board spaces
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## Board spaces
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The spaces of each map are defined in the map file (in the [maps](maps) directory) under *\*_MapSpaces*. The definition of each space uses the *space* macro. An example:
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When a player lands on a space, it turns into a "grey space" with no effect should the player land on it in a later turn.
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#### Regular spaces
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### Regular spaces
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Regular space scripts have a check for whether the player has finished the movement according to the die roll and thus landed on the space. The actual effect is only executed when it is determined that the player has landed on the space.
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#### Branch space
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### Branch space
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A branch space triggers even if the player has not completed the movement. A branch space additionally does not count as an actual space in the movement (so it can't be landed on either). In a branch space, the player is prompted to choose a direction to continue the movement. Some of these directions can be made locked until the player has unlocked a specific technique (Cut, Surf, etc.). Directions that can be followed are represented in the game with a colored arrow, whereas directions that are locked due to techniques are represented with a grey arrow.
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Each *branchdir* entry includes: direction, next space id, techniques required. The order of entries is irrelevant, but do not put the same direction more than once in the same branch struct (all but the last entry using that direction will be ignored).
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#### End space
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### End space
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Landing on an end space means that the player has cleared the level. Like the branch space, the end space effect triggers even if the player has not completed the movement. It transitions the player to a post-level screen (and then back to the level selection menu.)
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The space-specific argument in the *space* entry of an end space indicates the stage of the level to be cleared by reaching this end space. An *ES\** constant from [constants/space_constants.asm](constants/space_constants.asm) is used for this.
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### Board movement
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## Board movement
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The player moves in the board according to the next space id value of the last space passed through. Given ``SpaceA[NextSpaceId] = SpaceB``, if the movement to follow between SpaceA and SpaceB is linear (all steps in the same direction), the movement is automatic. On the other hand, for non-linear transitions between spaces (e.g. to make a turn or to avoid an obstacle), something called anchor events have to be used.
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This simple board movement logic is located in [engine/board/movement.asm](engine/board/movement.asm) and is part of *DoPlayerMovement* in [engine/overworld/player_movement.asm](engine/overworld/player_movement.asm).
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#### Warp events and connections
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### Warp events and connections
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The player can traverse warps as part of a movement between two spaces, or cross the connection between two maps. The way you define map connections and warps in maps of pokecrystal-board is the same as in pokecrystal, and the underlying engine behind warps and connections is also the same.
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While the above example showcases a regular space, this same logic can be extrapolated to branch spaces using the *branchdir* macro explained beforehand.
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#### Technique events
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### Technique events
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Technique events in pokecrystal-board represent the equivalent of hidden machines in Pokemon Crystal. A technique like Cut, Surf, Rock Smash, etc. can be unlocked through game progression (how exactly is unspecified), enabling what you can imagine i.e. cutting trees, surfing over water, smashing rocks, etc. Technique constants are defined in [constants/technique_constants.asm](constants/technique_constants.asm).
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Techniques are implemented in different manners. Cut and Rock Smash use objects entirely and are implemented through *CheckFacingTileEvent* in *PlayerEvents*, queuing the corresponding script. Surf (start/stop surfing) and Waterfall are also implemented in *CheckFacingTileEvent* alongside specific collision values carried over from pokecrystal. Flash is instead implemented as a map setup command.
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### Object events
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## Object events
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#### Trainer events
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### Trainer events
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#### Talker events
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### Talker events
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### View map mode
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## View map mode
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### Map state preservation
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## Map state preservation
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## Game navigation and progression
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# Game navigation and progression
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## Other features
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# Other features
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### Window HUD
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## Window HUD
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### Overworld textbox
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## Overworld textbox
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### RGB palette fading
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## RGB palette fading
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### Tilesets
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## Tilesets
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### OAM management
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## OAM management
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## Design aspects
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# Design aspects
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This section covers miscellaneous design aspects not yet fully covered in other sections.
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### Levels
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## Levels
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### Game currency
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## Game currency
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### Time counting
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## Time counting
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### Game autosaving
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## Game autosaving
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