Everyday Features

Getting around and saving

Running shoes: hold B to run. Mother gives them to you in a new scene when you first leave your bedroom.
Always Run is available in Options, so you do not have to keep holding B. With it enabled, hold B to walk instead; running still requires the running shoes.
Interact with trees, water, and boulders to get Cut, Surf, and Strength prompts.
Poison no longer damages Pokémon while walking.
Pokémon Centers heal without an extra confirmation question.
Trainers face you when they notice you.
Saving has fewer prompts and less waiting, with a brief result display.
The pause menu no longer has a separate EXIT entry.
Maximum playtime is 99,999:59:59.

A graphical Bag with four pockets: Items, Balls, Key Items, and TMs/HMs.
Room for 50 item stacks, 10 Ball stacks, 21 Key Items, and 55 TMs/HMs. Ordinary stacks can hold 255 items.
Item descriptions stay visible, with pocket-capacity and scrolling indicators.
SELECT inside the Bag moves stacks and merges matching ones. Key Items and TMs/HMs use single entries.
The player's item PC is removed. Its Super Potion is now a hidden item at the bedroom PC.
The Master Ball is in the Balls pocket and cannot be sold or tossed.
Register one Key Item for quick use with SELECT in the overworld. Open the item's action menu and choose Select; doing this again clears the shortcut. Choosing another item replaces it, and the assignment is saved.
Supported shortcuts: Bicycle, Itemfinder, Old Rod, Good Rod, Super Rod, Type Chart, Town Map, Coin Case, and Poké Flute.
The Bicycle opens a Use / Select menu. Choose Use to mount or dismount. Normal restrictions still apply to shortcuts, including where cycling or fishing is allowed.
A Repel renewal prompt offers to use another of the same Repel when it wears off.
Itemfinder turns you toward a detected hidden item.

The Viridian school teacher gives you a reusable Type Chart after Grandpa's catching demonstration and school escort.

Use it from the Key Items pocket or register it to SELECT.
Shows all 15 types and their single-type matchups on one screen.
Read the attacking type on the left, and the defending type across the top.
Green: super effective. Red: resisted. Black: immune. White: normal damage.
Works with all four display modes, including readable monochrome labels.
A or B closes it. It cannot be consumed, sold, tossed, or used in battle.

TMs are reusable, with no remaining quantity displayed.
Added Zinc and X Special Defense for the new Special Defense stat.
Healing amounts: Super Potion 60 HP, Hyper Potion 120 HP, Fresh Water 30 HP, Soda Pop 50 HP, Lemonade 70 HP.
Updated prices using Generation IX values where applicable. Items sell for one quarter of their purchase price, previously one half.
Start with 5,000, and carry up to 9,999,999.
Redesigned shops show item information and quantity selection. LEFT/RIGHT adjusts quantities by 10.
Celadon Mart 2F sells other supplies instead of TMs, including Rare Candy and PP Up for 9,999 each.

Buy 500 coins for 10,000.
Pokémon prizes are level 25: Ditto 1,337; Pinsir 2,500; Scyther 2,500; Eevee 4,600; Dratini 6,500; Porygon 9,999 coins.
TM prizes show move names: Dragon Rage 3,300; Hyper Beam 5,500; Substitute 7,700 coins.

A four-page, Generation II-inspired status screen with natural stats (DVs), training stats (EVs), move types/categories, power, and accuracy.
Switch pages and browse party members without closing the screen. Cries do not hold up navigation.
Colored page markers and faster sprite loading.
A redesigned move-learning screen shows power, accuracy, and effect descriptions before you replace a move.
SELECT swaps Pokémon directly in the party list, replacing the separate SWITCH command.
Party submenus wrap around and return to the party list when canceled.
A Move Relearner and Move Deleter live in Saffron's Pidgey house. Relearning costs 1,000; deletion is free and can remove HM moves.

Expanded entries show base stats, types, evolution information, moves learned on evolution, and level-up moves.
Press SELECT on any entry page to preview normal or shiny colors.
Height and weight use meters and kilograms.
Updated entry layout and caught-Pokémon symbol, improved AREA information, and faster loading.

Bill's PC has a Generation III-style graphical interface, with Pokémon pictures and individual minisprites.
Store 216 Pokémon in one collection, browsed as 12 pages of 18 slots in a 6 × 3 grid.
Manage the party alongside stored Pokémon.
SELECT picks up a Pokémon to move it between pages or between storage and the party. Move onto an occupied slot to swap.
Context menus provide summary, movement, release, and printing actions.
Clearer selection, page navigation, cancellation, and faster loading.

Choose a boy or girl, with matching player graphics and animations, plus four suggested names.
Expanded naming characters and automatic uppercase/lowercase switching after the first letter.
Dialogue uses normal capitalization throughout the game.
Faster text, with FAST selected by default; battle style defaults to SET.
Choose between two fonts, original and NES-inspired, and 15 text-box frames.
Four color modes: Uncorrected, GBC correction, DMG Green, and Black/White.
Options and Cheats support holding directions to scroll.

Replaced Pokémon front sprites and updated selected back sprites and colors.
Unique Pokémon party minisprites, expanded overworld Pokémon graphics, and additional Gym Leader sprites.
Separate overworld graphics for Bill, books, the Town Map, and the Pokédex.
Updated player sprites, battle graphics, map tiles and colors, title screen, and Super Game Boy border.
NPC colors are independent of the player's colors.
A custom intro with revised music, Pokémon cries, and animation polish.
Elite Four battles use the Gym Leader battle theme.
The title/main menu includes a version identifier and a GitHub QR code.
Smoother transitions and faster loading throughout the menus, Pokédex, status screen, and storage. For machine locations and prices, see TMs Locations. For full move values, see Moves List.