Keep your own adventure notes, and use Kanto Gear alongside translated games. Version 3.2.0 brings Notes to the HGSS Silph Store and displays Japanese, Korean and other translated game text using the active translation mod's font.
What's new
- Notes: write general notes or attach them to your current route or area. Add checklists through Tasks → + Task, check off completed tasks, and delete notes with Undo. Notes are saved separately for each playthrough.
- Drawing: six colors, two pen sizes, stroke erasing and Undo on surfaces with continuous pointer input. Finished strokes are cached, and storage writes wait until a stroke ends.
- Translation compatibility: translated Pokémon, item and move names can use the game mod's font when Gear's own pixel fonts lack the required characters. Text measurement and fitting use the same font as rendering.
- Better text layout: long descriptions wrap within their fields; narrow type badges fit their labels; mixed-script Notes use consistent wrapping and caret positioning.
- Clock format: choose your preferred clock display in Gear's settings.
Install
Import kanto_gear-3.2.0.zip, or update through the Mod Index once its listing refreshes. The same ZIP supports Red, Blue, Yellow, Gold, Silver and Crystal. Existing Gear settings and Home layouts are retained.
Open HGSS Silph Store → Notes → Get to add Notes. Install a matching game translation mod separately. Gear's own menu language is selected under Settings → Appearance → Language; English, German, Spanish and French are included.
Compatibility notes
- AYN Thor / Android secondary-screen drawing: a host update must forward continuous pointer movement from the lower screen. Without that support, drawing reports HOST MISSING LIVE DRAWING INPUT. Text notes and checklists work; this ZIP does not update Recomp itself.
- Game translations supply their own wording and coverage. Missing or incorrect translations remain the responsibility of those packages. Japanese and Korean game text can display in Gear; Japanese and Korean Gear menu translations are not included in this release.
- Existing generator 0.8.2 RBY packages keep English type labels in Gear. Gear now supports contextual type-display strings when a translation package provides them; this requires an update to those packages.
Validation
Gear's regression suite and the automated language/edition matrix passed, including real-font offscreen rendering. The compatibility changes were also checked on an AYN Thor with the standard Japanese translation package. The release ZIP's full payload was checked against its release commit and the final Thor-tested Gear build; only the package version changed.