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Releases: Universal-Team/pkmn-chest

Easy config access, favorite folders, and various bug fixes

07 Jul 04:00
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Pokémon Chest, a Pokémon bank for the Nintendo DS(i)

What's new:

  • The config menu can now be accessed with SELECT on the top menu
  • Directories can now be added to the top menu as favorites
  • The Fateful Encounter status of a Pokémon can now be changed
    • In Generation 3 Mew must be a Fateful Encounter to obey
  • Updated the chest to use PKSM's latest bank version
  • A warning will now be shown before turning off if an exception is thrown

Bug fixes:

  • Fixed party Pokémon's stats not updating until moved to/from the PC
  • Fixed the kerning on some characters in the font
  • Fixed Korean being called 한국 instead of 한국어
  • Fixed TM/HM pocket being called Poké Balls
  • Fixed HMs not showing correctly in some Generation 3 games
  • (@remicalixte) Fixed shiny star not hiding after moving off a shiny Pokémon
  • Several bug fixes in PKSM-Core

Side notes:

  • Nightly builds are available in the extras repo & releases.
  • Report any bugs you find here, and you can join our Discord server here

Added Chinese and Polish and widescreen on 3DS

23 Apr 04:15
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Pokémon Chest, a Pokémon bank for the Nintendo DS(i)

What's new:

  • Added top screen widescreen support on 3DS
  • Added Polish and Chinese (Simplified & Traditional)
  • Chinese (Simplified) and Korean will now be used as the default language on DSi's from those regions in DSi mode
  • Added a held item indicator in the boxes

Changes:

  • Redesigned / rekerned some letters (mostly unused ones)
  • Corrected arrow positioning in sort and filter menus
  • The .cia version's title ID has been changed from #### to WPKA so you may have two copies on your home menu after installing this update, feel free to install the old one
  • Now /_nds/pkmn-chest/pkmn-chest.nds will be checked if pkmn-chest.nds is found in the current directory but is outdated

Bug fixes:

  • Fixed crash when viewing a female Frillish or Jellicent
  • Fixed party Pokemon showing on the dump message in the party
  • Fixed generated Gen. 3 Pokemon not having an ability and single ability Gen. 3 Pokemon's abilities being removed
  • Fixed not updating party info after editing
    • Fixes problems like requiring a level up / putting in the box before exp would update

Side notes:

  • Nightly builds are available in the extras repo & releases.
  • Report any bugs you find here, and you can join our Discord server here

April fools 2020: New look and sound!

01 Apr 05:00
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Pokémon Chest, a Pokémon bank for the Nintendo DS(i)

What's new:

  • All graphics have been redesigned for a new and exciting look!
    • Even the app icon!
  • Instead of the boring old songs there's just one now that's so much better!
    • It's so much better that you aren't allowed to turn it off now!
    • Also new sound effects to better match the new music
  • Switched to a much better looking font
  • Removed all the useless languages that no one would bother using
    • English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish have been removed

Bug fixes:

  • Just got rid of all of them, why would you even want bugs anyways? Don't bother reporting them in this version since I already got rid of them all

Side notes:

  • Nightly builds are available in the extras repo & releases.
  • Don't bother reporting any bugs you find here, and you can join our Discord server here
  • Check the date (that this was released)
  • If you're checking out this April Fools joke in the future, be warned that using old versions may cause problems for your config, banks, etc

Bug fix update: Black Kyurem crash

22 Feb 04:08
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Pokémon Chest, a Pokémon bank for the Nintendo DS(i)

What's new:

  • The NitroFS rom (sd:/_nds/pkmn-chest/pkmn-chest.nds)'s version is now checked and a warning will be shown if its outdated

Bug fixes:

  • Fixed Black Kyurem causing the app to crash

Known bugs:

Side notes:

  • Nightly builds are available in the extras repo & releases.
  • Report any bugs you find here, and you can join our Discord server here

Generation three support!

19 Feb 22:12
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Pokémon Chest, a Pokémon bank for the Nintendo DS(i)

What's new:

  • Added generation three save support!
    • This works from both save files and real cartridges (cartridges only on DS (Lite))
  • Custom theming support
    • Check the wiki for info on how to make a theme
    • You can customize all images, colors, and add custom background music
  • After dumping Pokémon it now shows an info box to let you know where it was dumped to
  • Added Pokémon Center (Gen. 3) song
  • Made a boxart for TWiLight Menu++
  • .pk6 and .pk7 files can now be injected, however Pokémon added in generation 6 or 7 will not show correctly
  • Added setting a Pokémon's OT to the current trainer from the summary
  • Added pressing START on the top menu to exit the app
  • A please wait message is now shown while dumping a save

Changes:

  • Changed Deutsche to Deutsch in the language names
  • Japanese and Korean now use and respecively instead of Pokédollars
  • The core save code is now using a submodule shared with PKSM, PKSM-Core
  • Some options in summary were moved, now the nickname is changed by clicking it above the Pokémon

Bug fixes:

  • Fixed the first item from the next pouch showing in the previous pouch
  • Block editing Key Items with touch
  • Fixed wallpaper selection palettes
  • Fixed Poké ball palettes being wrong
  • Fixed palettes for changing forms
  • Fixed nature selection in the filter menu
  • Fixed ability changing not working correctly in generation 5
  • Fixed Italian DS's defaulting to Spanish and Spanish DS's defaulting to English

Side notes:

  • Nightly builds are available in the extras repo & releases.
  • Report any bugs you find here, and you can join our Discord server here

New update for the new decade!

01 Jan 06:00
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Pokémon Chest, a Pokémon bank for the Nintendo DS(i)

What's new:

  • Added Party Pokémon management from within the box screen
    • This means you can now move Pokémon to / from the party
    • Also removed the Party menu from the X Menu
  • You can now type using the buttons
    • Controlled with D-Pad + face buttons with L/R for modifiers
    • Letter arrangement and 4 / 8 direction modes configurable in settings
  • You can now type Hangul
    • The input should work exactly the same as macOS 10.14's 2-Set Hangul input, including combining things into groups of 3+ letters, but as many of the more complex letter groups aren't in the font they won't show, once you type the next letter to split it out it'll show back up, though (ex. won't show, but on typing it'll split to 포케)
  • A preview of the flick character is now shown on 10-key keyboards
  • The missing letters from Lithuanian and Russian have been added
    • Cyrillic was completely redesigned to better match the style of the Latin letters
  • You can now browse in subdirectories when injecting from pk* files
  • You can now edit the items in your bag!
  • You can now filter Pokémon based on types, stats, etc
  • You can now sort Pokémon based on types, stats, etc
  • Added a notice to close and reopen the console if saving freezes

Changes:

  • Changing 's form now goes instead of
  • Slot-1 isn't scanned when a flashcard is being used
    • Fixes some flashcards such as the R4i Gold 3DS Plus
  • The kerning on many characters have been improved
  • Light background lists now have dark backgrounds so as not to need two graphics for lists
  • Config has been changes to use a .json file instead of a .ini
    • This means your settings from v1.0 won't be able to be loaded
  • Switched background graphics to use 256 color layers and graphics
    • This means flashcards and DSi SD can now both use all graphics as it freed up a lot of RAM
  • Added Indonesian translation

Bug fixes:

  • Fixed type images being in the wrong language sometimes
  • Fixed non-base stats being in the wrong order
  • Fixed the last move / Pokémon / item / etc not showing in lists sometimes
  • Fixed now clearing the release Pokémon prompt when clicking with touch

Side notes:

  • Nightly builds are available in the extras repo & releases.
  • Report any bugs you find here, and you can join our Discord server here
  • Happy new year 🎉!

Out of beta!

30 Sep 16:30
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Pokémon Chest, a Pokémon bank for the Nintendo DS(i)

What's new:

  • Added editing a Pokémon's held item
  • Box wallpapers are now supported and can be edited
  • Added Portuguese and Lithuanian* translations
    • *Some characters used in the Lithuanian translation don't have graphics yet
  • Changing a Pokémon's gender now makes sure the gender is possible for that Pokémon
    • Changing species also makes sure to use a valid gender
  • The system language is now used as the default language
  • Added Twinleaf Town's song and re-added Pokémon Center gen. 5's song
    • (a new mod of the gen. 5 pokécenter song)

Changes:

  • Backups are now saved named the current date and time in a folder for the save
  • The sound effects and music volumes have been lowered to ~75%
  • Flashcards are now able to use more proper graphics due to some RAM savings
  • On flashcards chests are now limited to 50 boxes (they use too much RAM if you go higher)
  • Money now has a Pokédollar symbol
  • Updated the nitroFSInit() failed message
  • Box top bar can now be touched to bring up the menu

Bug fixes:

  • Fixed Pokémon sprites sometimes looking corrupted
  • Fixed the yellow cursor mode being able to overwrite Pokémon
  • Fixed crashing when changing the species when creating a Pokémon
  • Fixed Castform's alternate form's data
  • Fixed the arrow sprite overflowing into the shiny star sprite
  • Fixed Korean saves not working
  • Fixed BP using a u32 for Generation 5 games
  • Fixed year being set wrong if not changed
  • Fixed crashing if the met location was higher than the max in the vector
  • Fixed box jump in chest not moving the cursor back

Side notes:

  • Nightly builds are available in the extras repo & releases.
  • Report any bugs you find here, and you can join our Discord server here

[beta] New font and yellow cursor mode

09 Sep 08:10
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Pokémon Chest, a Pokémon bank for the Nintendo DS(i)

What's new:

  • The app's font has been updated to now support Kanji and Korean characters!
    • Other characters generally look better too, however the Cyrillic is incomplete
    • The scaling code has been updated so scaled text looks much better now too
  • Yellow cursor mode has been added!
    • This functions like in the real Pokémon games where you can move several Pokémon all at once
    • Press Select twice on the box screen to enter this mode
  • You can now type Japanese Kana on the keyboard!
  • Pokémon info can now be in Korean (No one's translated the app text yet)
  • Castform's form can now be changed

Changes:

  • Pokémon location in the box and party are no longer cached
    • This slightly increases load times but fixes form changes not updating
  • Changing species is now done from a searchable list
  • The Kana style keyboard's look has been updated
  • The box around the Pokémon info is now filled in light gray on flashcards

Bug fixes:

  • Alternate form sprites in the summary are now fixed
  • Touch input while searching in a list has been fixed

Known bugs:

Side notes:

  • Nightly builds are available here & here
  • Report any bugs you find here, and you can join our Discord server here

[beta] Improved load times! (especially on flashcards)

21 Aug 04:50
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Pokémon Chest, a Pokémon bank for the Nintendo DS(i)

What's new:

  • You can now change a Pokémon's ability
  • Egg Pokémon are now shown as eggs

Changes:

  • Pokémon sprites are now loaded from a singled file
    • SD: This means the initial load is much faster!
    • Flashcards: This means switching boxes is much faster!
    • The file is just a bunch of 16 color bmps all combined into a single file
  • The German translation has been updated
  • Changed some ugly graphics when used on a flashcard
  • Alternate form is now set to 0 when changing species
  • File paths are now shown in the top bar on the top menu
  • Removed the App's Title ID and Product Code, this means it can now be launched from YSMenu and flashcard kernels

Bug fixes:

  • Fixed not being able to move a Pokémon to the same spot on the other screen
  • Fixed X menu messing with the Pokémon in the Chest's spot 6, 2's sprite
  • Fixed Wormadam's type & level being displayed wrong for alt forms

Known bugs:

Side notes:

  • Nightly builds are available here & here
  • Report any bugs you find here, and you can join our Discord server here

[beta] Fixed on flashcards & more editing

12 Aug 12:41
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Pokémon Chest, a Pokémon bank for the Nintendo DS(i)

What's new:

  • Pokémon's moves, hidden power type, and met info can now be edited
  • Jumping to a specific box (to help with loading sprites being slower on flashcards now)

Changes:

  • The cursor now starts on the previously selected ball/nature/form when editing them
  • Cut generation 5 Pokémon center song, and showing background images on flashcards so as to not run out of RAM
  • Flashcards now load individual Pokémon sprites instead of from a smaller sprite sheet to save RAM and as it looks better (it is a bit slow, though)
  • The striped background is now used for ball/nature selection
  • Stat editing is now accessed with a button on the summary screen instead of being a second page
  • Touch has been added to some things that didn't have it
  • Nightly builds will now show which commit they're for

Bug fixes:

  • Fixed Japanese font not showing dakuten/handakuten (は, ば, ぱ all looked the same)
  • Fixed editing a Pokémon's form breaking moving Pokémon
  • Fixed alternate form types being broken in generation 5 saves
  • Fixed not making fat:/_nds/pkmn-chest/in/
  • Fixed created Pokémon missing info
  • Fixed DeSmuME saves not working (they've got a footer that made them too big)

Known bugs:

Side notes:

  • Nightly builds are available here & here
  • This is a beta, while backups are made, it is possible something could go wrong and break your saves
  • Report any bugs you find here, and you can join our Discord server here