Kanto Gear comes to Hoenn! This update adds Pokémon Emerald support and improves battle messages, Pokémon summaries and menu updates.
A note on Gen 3: Emerald, FireRed and LeafGreen are still early integrations and have not been extensively playtested. I'd love feedback from your playthroughs! If something looks wrong or a control does not work, please report your game, Recomp/Gear versions, display mode and other active mods, ideally with a screenshot and steps to reproduce it.
What's new
- Emerald support: live Hoenn maps, Party, Bag, Pokédex, trainer information, route stamps and Explorer progress, with controls adapted to Emerald's native menus.
- Emerald summaries: access all four pages, including Contest Moves. Tap a move to see its contest category, appeal, jam and description.
- Full Gear battle messages: text now covers the action buttons while keeping the HP cards visible, across all supported generations. Supported Gen 3 double battles show all four combatants' HP cards.
Fixes and polish
- Correct Emerald naming-keyboard targets, including page switching and OK.
- Restore bottom-screen dialogue advancement when Gen 3 is waiting for confirmation.
- Remove leftover Emerald action/move-menu borders when Gear owns those controls.
- Refresh mirrored menus when their visible contents change, fixing delayed bag and pocket updates without increasing the polling rate.
- Keep Gear's standalone Bag overview complete when another mod filters the shared inventory list to one pocket. This is a limited compatibility fix; it does not claim to resolve every Kanto Reforged bag-menu interaction.
- A shorter, cleaner README with the essentials in one place.
Install and known limits
Import kanto_gear-3.4.0.zip and enable it for your game. Emerald requires official Gen1Recomp 0.3.33 or newer and the supported US 1.0 ROM. Other supported games retain the 0.3.20 minimum.
Ruby and Sapphire are not supported. Specialized native screens, including unadapted PokéNav, contest and Battle Frontier menus, stay on the game screen. Growing berry trees do not yet have a dedicated Gear view. New labels may fall back to English until translated.
Automated native-data and UI checks cover Emerald, FireRed, LeafGreen and Gen 1/2 regressions, alongside initial Thor testing. They do not replace full playthrough testing. Font credits and license notices remain included; no new bundled assets were added.