v0.14.0

v0.14.0

Release Date: 21 August 2026

See installation instructions: https://github.com/Dechrissen/dexelect#installation

Features

• Added Emerald support (#1) (thanks, @mtheball)

v0.13.0

v0.13.0

Release Date: 15 July 2026

See installation instructions: https://github.com/Dechrissen/dexelect#installation

General

• Published Dexelect web app (now live at https://dexelect.derekandersen.net)

Features

• Added new web app UI option for local use (python main.py --ui=web) — same as the live web app

Changes

• Added a wall-clock time budget cap on generate_final_party in core.py (5s cap)
• Changed exported party text file template (added "web" or "desktop" to footer depending on source, added support link to footer, added version string to filename)

v0.12.0

v0.12.0

Release Date: 10 July 2026

See installation instructions: https://github.com/Dechrissen/dexelect#installation

Features

• [Core] Acquisition details now surface for Pokemon generated in the 'Random' generation modes, as long as that particular Pokemon is obtainable
• [CLI/GUI] Added milliseconds to party generation duration message if generation time < 1s
• [GUI] Added "(suggested)" markers to sphere mode dropdown in Spheres tab
• [Core] Added early_game / mid_game / late_game sphere modes for all games
• [GUI] Added 'Restore Defaults' button to Config tab to restore current config settings to their default values
• [GUI] Added 'Load Preset' dropdown button in Config tab for auto-populating config values according to bundled presets (these will be released starting soon)

Changes

• [Build] Added new build.sh script for building the binary locally, and modified instructions for installing into desktop environments with install.sh
• [GUI] Reorganized GUI help menu
• [Config] Default config and global settings now ship with each release. User-modified settings will persist.
• [GUI] Removed 'Reload from Disk' button in Config tab, since this was more of a CLI feature and isn't necessary

v0.11.0

v0.11.0

Release Date: 8 July 2026

See installation instructions: https://github.com/Dechrissen/dexelect#installation

Changes

• [GUI] Switch from customtkinter to plain tk for GUI to improve performance on older hardware and simplify visual design

v0.10.2

v0.10.2

Release Date: 8 July 2026

See installation instructions: https://github.com/Dechrissen/dexelect#installation

Fixes

• [GUI] Minor drag/resize window performance improvements for Windows GUI

v0.10.1

v0.10.1

Release Date: 7 July 2026

See installation instructions: https://github.com/Dechrissen/dexelect#installation

Fixes

• [Core] Add Gen 4 option to fetch-sprites in main.py so Gen 4 sprites download when building binaries on GitHub
• [GUI] Minor performance improvements for GUI on Windows

v0.10.0

v0.10.0

Release Date: 7 July 2026

See installation instructions: https://github.com/Dechrissen/dexelect#installation

Features

• [Core] Added Gen 4 support (Diamond/Pearl)
• [GUI] Added number of new species to headers in 'Spheres' tab to indicate how many new Pokemon are introduced per sphere
• [Core] Added new generation mode "Random (Obtainable)" which generates a fully random party amongst Pokemon obtainable in the current game (essentially those in the Regional Dex)
• [Core] Added new acquisition method 'repeatable_static_encounter' for Pokemon like Lapras in Union Cave

Changes

• [Core] Adjusted sphere boundaries for all games to help with balance calculations (e.g. Sphere 1 for all games is smaller, with its endpoint at Gym 1)
• [Core] Improved generation (speed and odds) by reducing available set of Pokemon to strictly obtainable Pokemon for a given game (to prevent searching through the full National Dex when it's not necessary)
• [Data] Moved roaming Pokemon to their own map indicating "random location + original starting point", e.g. Entei can be acquired via roaming on a map named RandomLocationStartingFromBurnedTowerB1F for Gold/Silver
• [Core] Renamed "Random" generation mode to "Random (National Dex)"

Fixes

• [Data] Changed Wobbuffet species line to Wynaut and updated its evo stage to 2 in Gen 3 data
• [Core] Changed acquisition method for Lapras in Union Cave (Gen 2), Drifloon at Valley Windworks (Gen 4) to new 'repeatable_static_encounter' method so those Pokemon can correctly appear more than once in parties if config settings allow

v0.9.0

v0.9.0

Release Date: 27 May 2026

See installation instructions: https://github.com/Dechrissen/dexelect#installation

Features

• [GUI] Added Dexelect logo to UI
• [GUI] Added Dexelect app icon to window title bar / application launcher
• (Linux only) Added /scripts/install.sh to integrate the pre-built GUI binary into your desktop environment (can run with application launchers or terminal alias dexelect)
  • Copies app to ~/.local/share/dexelect
  • Symlinks binary onto PATH
  • Registers a .desktop entry

Changes

• [GUI] Changed app-wide accent color from green to blue to match new app icon

Fixes

• [GUI] Added "Export party to text file" note to help popup

v0.8.0

v0.8.0

Release Date: 21 May 2026

See installation instructions: https://github.com/Dechrissen/dexelect#installation

Features

• [Core] Added 'HM Coverage' list to party stats output
• [Core] Added generation filter to restrict party Pokemon to a particular generation (e.g. Gen 2 Pokemon only)
• [GUI] Added clickable links to Pokemon names and sprites which open their pokemondb.net entries in your browser
• [GUI] Added 'Spheres' tab which surfaces a per-game sphere generation mode dropdown to the user; the per-game sphere map was also moved to this tab
• [GUI] Added 'Export Party' button in sidebar to allow saving party to a .txt file
• [GUI] Added 'Report a Bug' button in sidebar footer

Changes

• [Core] Removed SOFTBOILED and HEADBUTT as HMs in all games (seemed unnecessary — DIG and TELEPORT are still supported as HMs though)
• [GUI] Added conditional warning message in Generate tab when party size < 6 that generation success may be affected
• [GUI] Added general warning message to top of Config tab that overly-restrictive config settings may affect generation success
• [GUI] Removed 'Save Config' button from 'Config' tab; it now auto-saves upon changing any setting
• [GUI] Style and layout tweaks

v0.7.0

v0.7.0

Release Date: 3 May 2026

See installation instructions: https://github.com/Dechrissen/dexelect#installation

Features

• [Core] Added new config option: "Require at least one Pokémon in Sphere 1"
• [Core] Added new config option: "Type blacklist"
• [Core] Added new global config option: "Party Size" (in GUI left sidebar and CLI keybind 'P')
• [GUI] Added "Sphere Map" button to the right of the "Distribution" stat header (displays a list of every map in each sphere for the current game)

Changes

• [GUI] "Prescribed type" field now dims/disables when "Type distribution" is not set to "all_share_one_type"