Let your monsters roam freely!
This is a collection of tools for editing generation 3 GameBoy Advance game save files. There is a pktools binary with various subcommands:
inspect- Look through data for boxes and party Pokemonextract- Take a Pokemon from a save file (deleting it) and save the data to a fileinsert- Insert a Pokemon's data into a specific save slot after extracting it into a file (from previous command).
The primary project for this repository is the pkroam application which intends to function and behave like the various Box/Bank/Home supplementary games for storing Pokemon data outside of the games themselves. I'm currently building out the backend with a CLI tool pkroam-cli which allows testing functionality as I build it.
$ target/debug/pkroam-cli
Usage: pkroam-cli [OPTIONS] <COMMAND>
Commands:
deposit
list-saves
list-mons
help Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
Options:
-c, --config-dir <CONFIG_DIR>
--enable-debug
-h, --help Print helpEventually, this project will also include a graphic tool which utilizes pkroam-backend in order to administer Pokemon binary data in a user-friendly manner.
PKHex is a great tool! It allows modifying Pokemon save files and the Pokemon inside arbitrarily. You can boost a Pokemon to level 100, give it moves it doesn't normally have, or just give yourself infinite Master Balls. The tool primarily functions as a one-stop shop for save editing.
In contrast, this tool intends to give a "vanilla" save editing experience. Pokemon can be taken from a save file and stored, then later inserted into a different save file; perhaps of a different generation. For players who primarily use ROMs, this should give an experience more similar to console players and can be helpful for organization or tracking your collection.
That's all well and good, but it's a relatively large project. Right now I've managed to get initial storage of generation 3 Pokemon data implemented, but no further. I intend to get withdrawals added and then start working on generation 2 data. Following that, I want to come up with a conversion method similar to the way Pokemon Home handles data from generations 8 and 9, allowing backwards conversion with some resets to things like EVs, movesets, etc. Once those processes are figured out in a way that makes sense, is tested, and seems easy to maintain, I'll start adding support for more data formats. At some point along the line, there will be a need for a GUI, but I'm not hungry for that just yet.