Silph Connect brings a small window into Recomp's online community to Kanto Gear: see visible players, their game and reported status while you keep playing.
This is an online display proof of concept. Silph Connect does not offer a friends list, invitations, trading, battles or chat. Those interactions need supported integration from Gen1Recomp before we can add them to Gear. This release demonstrates the companion UI; it does not promise when those features will become available.
Silph Connect app and widget
- Install the optional app through Silph Store, open it and choose Connect. Works with Red, Blue, Yellow, Gold, Silver, Crystal, FireRed and LeafGreen.
- Browse visible players and tap a card for their full name, edition, reported location and status.
- Add the Silph Connect Home widget to see the visible count and up to three names with status. Tap it to open the full list.
- The connection and player list stay active when you switch to another Gear app during gameplay. The app and widget share Recomp's existing connection; no extra lobby polling is added.
- Offline, reconnecting and empty-list states are shown explicitly. The count excludes yourself and only includes players made visible by Recomp's service, not necessarily everyone online.
- “Recomp Menu” means the player is at Recomp's main menu. “Not Available” is the reported availability state, not proof that a particular battle or trade is happening.
Standard Recomp online restrictions remain unchanged. Silph Connect does not unlock Kanto Gear in online modes where the host disables UI mods.
Also included
- Notes is no longer marked as New.
- Improved Home and Store title placement for the full Silph Connect name.
- English, German, Spanish and French labels for the new app. New Japanese online labels currently fall back to English; existing Japanese translations remain intact.
Install
Requires official Gen1Recomp 0.3.20 or newer. Import kanto_gear-3.3.1.zip and enable it for your game. Existing Home layouts and settings are preserved.
If importing an update reports could not write pack.json, fully close and reopen Recomp, then import again. This is a host re-import cache issue; this mod release does not change the importer.
Automated checks cover presence updates and listener cleanup, background updates without unnecessary redraws, Home integration across Gen 1/2 and both FR/LG editions, and FR/LG online compatibility. Light/Dark previews were inspected. A live player listing was also confirmed on Thor.
No game ROMs or extracted game assets are bundled. Existing asset/font credits and license notices remain included. Asset scan: no prohibited assets detected; the scanner retains the known review flag for the unchanged, licensed font atlas.