eidos 0.2.0

What's new in 0.2.0

One-Screen Mode & UI

• Text Boxes: Speech, narration and system messages are redrawn as one-screen boxes in the game's font; lists, YES / NO and the field's menus (Union Room talk, Battle Subway) are our own lists.
• New Screens: Pokédex search, catching and nicknaming, town map and Fly, move relearner, Egg hatching, in-game trades, Xtransceiver calls (up to four people), Hall of Fame and credits, trainer card, Entree Forest and Pass Powers, Survey Radar, PC box list and marking.
• Field Windows: Money, items received and place names have their own cards; the season card stays the game's.
• Battle: Ability pop-ups and the trainer intro are drawn as plates.
• Union Room & Battle Subway: Trading (offers, boxes, feelings, summaries), battles (rule card, Pokémon entry, VS screen), drawing, Spin Trade (lobby, Egg list, spinner) and the Battle Subway's Pokémon entry list are one-screen; the Union Room card has the new window style.
• Mystery Gift: Its menus, gift list, Wonder Cards and Card Album are one-screen; a received gift shows its Pokémon or item with its card.
• Title Screen: The logo is the cartridge's own (Black or White, each language).
• Place Names: The place's name changes in the top bar instead of a sliding banner (#15).
• C-Gear: The top bar's C-Gear button shrinks to its mark on narrow windows; IR is greyed out.
• UI fixes: Top bar, balloon tails, nickname screen, text colours and backdrop culling, thanks @TbangIT (#14).

Mystery Gift

• Online gifts: Receiving over Nintendo WFC gets the event gifts from the relay: each runs from its original day of the month for 7 days, for your region, language and game.
• Wireless gifts: Receiving over wireless lists the events that were given out locally; pick one and receive it as on the DS.
• Infrared: Greyed out.

Link Play

• Union Room over the internet: Two eidos players meet in the Union Room through the relay, with no code to type, and can trade and battle as on two DS consoles.

Phones

• Android and iOS: First builds of eidos for Android (APK) and iPhone (IPA, unsigned: install it with a sideloading tool), one-screen only.
• iPad: Both orientations; the one-screen interface fits narrower windows, and the settings tabs wrap instead of dropping off.

Saves

• First Save: A New Game writes no file until you save; the save goes to its own slot.
• Save Warning: A red warning shows when saves keep failing, and fades after a few seconds.

Languages

• Every European cartridge plays through battles: Fixed the move-forget screen crashing (and other screens' windows breaking) on French, German, Italian, Spanish and White cartridges.
• Interface in the game's language: The one-screen interface's labels, buttons and hints follow the cartridge's language (French, German, Italian, Spanish), with the games' own words.
• German Black: Fixed a crash when loading a save in some places (the Nimbasa City Pokémon Center).
• Accented letters: Ö, Î, Â and other accented capitals no longer show as Greek letters in the small font.

Graphics & Performance

• GPU drawing: The DS screens are now composed on the graphics card, including the 3D at full resolution, about 1 to 1.5 ms less CPU per frame (#5). Settings > Display > GPU drawing turns it off.
• Full-window fades: Fades and flashes (the starter gift box) now cover the whole one-screen window instead of a 4:3 square.

Touch

• Item button: The field's top bar has an Item (Y) button for the registered item, so the field needs no keys on a touch screen.

Spot editor

• Drawn with the GPU: about 11 ms a frame at 1440p (was 28), dragging a spot about 20 ms a step (was 65).
• Shows which battles are double, and previews the trainer's own battle.
• Progress sheet: Every place in story order with its trainers and wild areas checked, and totals per section.
• Spots: The hand-placed spots ship in the built-in table; story fights are placed from their scenes; Black City and White Forest have their buildings, trees and residents (#8).

Bug Fixes

• Fixed crashes when a wild battle opens, in in-game trades, in the Union Room and when the Spin Trade starts.
• C-Gear: Fixed the crash when the scientist in Striaton City gives you the C-Gear (#13).
• Title Screen button: Fixed the white screen after the second click; the game now restarts at the title (#11).
• Soft reset: L + R + START + SELECT, leaving Mystery Gift and the game's other resets now restart at the title instead of stopping.
• Mystery Gift: Fixed crashes when a received Pokémon gift's Wonder Card opens.
• Geonet: Fixed the globe on the PC.

Download

File
eidos-launcher-windows-setup.exe	Windows: the launcher. It installs and updates eidos and keeps your profiles and mods. Start here.
eidos-launcher-macos.dmg	macOS (Apple silicon): the launcher. Not signed by Apple: open READ ME FIRST.txt inside it for the one Terminal line it needs.
eidos-launcher-linux-x86_64.AppImage	Linux: the launcher. Make it executable and run it.
eidos-0.2.0-windows.zip	Windows: eidos on its own. Unzip it anywhere and run eidos.exe.
eidos-0.2.0-macos.zip	macOS (Apple silicon): eidos on its own. Not signed by Apple: README.txt inside it has the one Terminal line it needs.
eidos-0.2.0-linux-x86_64.AppImage	Linux: eidos on its own. Make it executable and run it.
eidos-0.2.0-android.apk	Android (64-bit ARM, Android 8 or later): install it from the file (allow installs from this source when Android asks).
eidos-0.2.0-ios.ipa	iPhone and iPad (iOS 15 or later): not signed. Install it with a sideloading tool (AltStore, Sideloadly) and your own Apple ID.

On the first start, eidos asks for your own Pokemon Black or White ROM. SHA256SUMS lists the checksum of each file; latest.json and the .app.tar.gz are for the launcher's own updates.

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_{eidos is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Nintendo, Game Freak, Creatures Inc. or The Pokemon Company. It contains no game data: you need your own copy of Pokemon Black or White. Pokemon and Nintendo DS are trademarks of their respective owners.}