See what grew overnight, understand each level-up, and explore with fewer heavy redraws.
- Berry and apricorn markers in Explorer. In Gold, Silver and Crystal, tap a fruit marker to see its translated item name and whether it is ready to pick or already harvested today. Filled and hollow markers distinguish the two states. The daily reset follows the game's state, including before the first tree interaction of a new day. Renewable harvests do not change permanent item totals or Stamps progress.
- Japanese Gear menus, with English fallback. Thank you to Theeohn for PR #33! All 337 contributed translations are included unchanged. Including the language label, Japanese currently covers 338 of 721 interface keys (46.9%); the remaining 383 display English. Select Japanese under Settings → Appearance → Language. Game translations remain separate. The completion file lists the remaining keys.
- Actual stat gains on level-up. Gen 1 and Gen 2 show each stat's change alongside its new value, including maximum HP. Gains use the actual previous stats; an unavailable previous snapshot does not produce an invented bonus.
- Less work while exploring. Opening native game menus now preserves cached map terrain. Real map changes and save loads still invalidate it. Gen 2 place-name lookups avoid rebuilding the whole location table, and Stamps album calculations run in small steps while the album is visible. Diagnostic recording is disabled in this public build.
Credits
Japanese interface translation: Theeohn. The existing language contributors remain credited in the README.
Thank you to TakWolf for Fusion Pixel and Ark Pixel, and to Num Kadoma, Mark Li, Cen-cyun Liu / Luke Liu, and Lee Minseo (quiple) for the contributing fonts. The HGSS image fonts also credit Robert Matthew Pelloni and Akshay Oppiliappan. The ZIP retains FONT_CREDITS.txt and the applicable copyright and license notices.
Validation and installation
Automated checks cover Gen 1/2 compatibility, fruit selection and daily resets, language switching and persistence, font coverage, level-up gains, Stamps, map caching, and display transfer. Light/Dark previews were inspected. The performance fixes were also measured on an AYN Thor during development; this is not a guarantee against all host or system frame drops.
Import kanto_gear-3.2.3.zip, or update through the Mod Index once its listing refreshes.
Notes drawing still requires a host that forwards continuous pointer movement on the secondary display.