Kanto Gear 2.3.3 — A World in Color

Kanto Gear 2.3.3 — A World in Color

This release makes the companion screen feel much closer to the games it is
following while also making Kanto Gear safer around heavily customized menus.
Everything here is contained in the mod; no custom Recomp host is required.

Native color where it belongs

• Party, Guide, map and badge artwork now keeps the game's native palette when
  the host exposes one. Unknown Pokémon remain silhouettes.
• The Gen 2 region-map player marker now uses its proper color palette instead
  of appearing monochrome.
• LOCAL maps use a fixed cartographic palette instead of inheriting the current
  UI theme: water, walkable ground, blocked terrain and exits are immediately
  easier to distinguish.
• LOCAL shading still uses the existing map detail, so the new colors do not
  replace or simplify the renderer.

Safer compatibility with replacement UIs

• Kanto Gear now validates the data contract of party, bag, PC, naming and
  move-learning screens before taking them over.
• If another mod has replaced a screen with an incompatible data model, that
  mod remains authoritative and Kanto Gear falls back safely instead of
  drawing mismatched controls or crashing.
• The checks are generic and do not identify or special-case individual mods.
• Vanilla menus and compatible replacement menus keep their existing behavior.

Downloads

Component	Required?	File
Kanto Gear 2.3.3	Yes	kanto_gear-2.3.3.zip
Official Gen1Recomp	Yes	Choose the package for your platform
Kanto Gear Deutsch 0.2.5	No	kanto_gear_de-0.2.5.zip
Kanto Gear Español (España) 0.2.5	No	kanto_gear_es-0.2.5.zip

Import only kanto_gear-2.3.3.zip unless you also want one of the optional
language packs. Both language packs are unchanged and included again for a
complete installation set.

Verified

• Kanto Gear compatibility: 225/225 checks passed.
• Gen 2 compatibility: 33/33 checks passed.
• Desktop compatibility: 2/2 checks passed.
• German and Spanish integrations: 11/11 checks each.
• Both language catalogs: 300 strings checked each.
• Red and Gold were confirmed on an AYN Thor with the exact release Lua payload.
• Every archive was built with the official Modkit and has a published SHA-256
  checksum.

No ROM, ROM-derived data or save is included.