mamesj/pokemon-fulldex android-v1

Pokémon Fulldex for Android

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Pokémon Fulldex for Android: all seven DS games (Black 2, White 2, Black, White, SoulSilver, HeartGold, Platinum) and the GBA games (Emerald, FireRed, LeafGreen, Ultra Violet) in one app, as one widescreen picture at 60 fps.

The same program as the Switch and PC downloads, for an Android phone: start it and pick the game from a list. Nothing of the games is in it: you bring your own ROMs.

Update (30 October)

• A new name: Pokémon Fulldex, now that it plays GBA games as well as DS ones. Nothing moves: your ROMs, saves, settings and the download's file names are where and what they were.
• New: GBA games. Pokémon Emerald, FireRed, LeafGreen and Ultra Violet in the same list, in widescreen at 60 fps. Put the ROMs in the same ROM folder (FireRed and LeafGreen 1.0 or 1.1; Ultra Violet's .gba, or its .ips with a FireRed 1.0 ROM beside it). Other GBA games play too, without widescreen.
• New: RetroAchievements. RETROACHIEVEMENTS in the pause menu: turn it on, LOG IN with your RetroAchievements account, and unlocks pop up as you play (casual mode: save states, fast forward and cheats still work). ACHIEVEMENTS lists the game's achievements; A on one shows what it asks for, when you unlocked it and how rare it is. You can also log in before playing: SETTINGS > RETROACHIEVEMENTS in the game list.
• New: SOUND > VOLUME, in the pause menu and the game list's settings: a slider from off to 100%.
• Fast forward on the touch controls: hold the >> button beside R at the top of the screen (up to 4x). R stays the DS's R.
• The game list in tabs: ALL (a heading per console), DS, GBA and 3DS. Tap a tab to change it. Pokémon Omega Ruby is in the 3DS tab, COMING SOON.
• New: the game list's look. SETTINGS > GAME LIST: COLOUR (red, blue, green, purple, gold, pink or teal) for the game list and the pause menu, and BACKGROUND: a picture of yours behind the games (background.jpg or .png in your ROM folder; best at 1920 x 1080).
• New: no version exclusives. OTHER VERSION POKEMON in the pause menu (SoulSilver, HeartGold, Black, White, Black 2, White 2): where the two versions' wild Pokémon differ, each encounter can be either version's.
• SoulSilver, HeartGold and Platinum: the European English copies work too.
• Widescreen fixes (Black, White, Black 2, White 2): no more flicker at the sides as you walk (the ground, a tree and the rail on the stairs up to Aspertia's lookout); from the lookout, the sky and mountains reach both edges without stretching or cut-offs; rocks and lamp posts no longer vanish before they leave the screen.

Earlier: 29 October

• New: change any controller button. CONTROLS > KEYS AND BUTTONS in the pause menu: give any DS button, the pause menu, fast forward or swapping the screens another button (triggers too). Giving one a button another one had swaps the two; RESET ALL puts them back.
• Button prompts match your controller: the PlayStation symbols on a PS4 or PS5 pad, A / B / ZL / ZR on a Switch-style controller, Xbox names on others.
• The pause menu in groups: RESUME, SAVE STATE, LOAD STATE and FAST FORWARD up top, then DISPLAY, GRAPHICS and CONTROLS, each a page of its own. The settings page in the game list opens on the same groups.
• Game list: any gamepad works in it now.
• Change buttons from the game list too: SETTINGS > CONTROLS > KEYS AND BUTTONS, before you start a game.
• New: cheats (Action Replay codes). Put usrcheat.dat (the R4 / DeSmuME cheat database) or your own codes in a cheats folder inside your ROMs folder (beside saves), then turn them on with CHEATS in the pause menu. The README explains the files.
• SoulSilver and HeartGold: Running Shoes from the X menu. The touch screen's button for them is out of view, so with the X menu open, Y (or a tap on RUN ON / OFF beside the menu) turns them on and off.
• SoulSilver and HeartGold: the title screen and the opening film fill the view, with both of the DS's screens in it instead of one.

Download

• pokemon-ds-wide-android.apk (Android 7.0 or newer, 64-bit phones)

Install

1. Download the APK on your phone and open it. The first time, Android asks you to allow installing apps from your browser or Files app: allow it, then install.
2. Put your ROMs in a folder on the phone (any names), for example ROMs in its internal storage.
   • Black 2, White 2, Black, White: any English copy (US or Europe).
   • SoulSilver, HeartGold, Platinum: any English copy (US or Europe).
   • Emerald, FireRed, LeafGreen, Ultra Violet: in the same folder (see Update above).
3. Start Pokémon Fulldex, tap the screen, allow access to files, and pick that folder. Tap a game twice (or press A on a controller) to play.

New builds install over this one and keep your saves and settings.

Controls

• Touch: on-screen buttons (D-pad, A, B, X, Y, L, R, START, SELECT, and MENU at the top for the pause menu). Tap the picture itself to touch the DS's touch screen.
• Controller (Bluetooth or USB: Xbox, PlayStation, Backbone, Razer Kishi and others): plays as a DS and hides the on-screen buttons. Start opens the pause menu, the right trigger fast forwards.
• Settings: SETTINGS at the top right of the game list (or Y): every option in the pause menu, each explained.

Use your own save

Carry on from your own save: from another emulator, a flash cart or your real cartridge. Copy it into the saves folder inside your ROMs folder (made for you on the first start) under the game's name.

• Which files work: a plain .sav, as melonDS, DeSmuME (Export Backup Memory), flash carts (TWiLight Menu++, R4 and the like) and cartridge dump tools (Checkpoint, JKSM, GodMode9) make it. A DraStic .dsv first goes through tools/bw2/convert_save.py.
• Check it worked: the game list shows SAVE FOUND under the game (NEW GAME: not found).
• Back up first: a save copied in replaces the one there under that name.

How fast a phone?

The 3D world is drawn by the processor, at 720P to start (3D RESOLUTION in the settings; turn on LOWER RES WHEN BUSY, off to start, to drop it for a moment instead of slowing down). Tested on a Pixel 9 Pro XL, where it runs at full speed. Other phones are not timed yet: please tell us how yours runs in a bug report, with your phone's model and the game.log from Android/data/io.github.mamesj.pokemonds/files.

Known limits

• Tested on one phone so far (a Pixel 9 Pro XL) and Android's emulator.
• Platinum: the Pokétch (the watch on the touch screen) isn't shown during normal play.
• SoulSilver and HeartGold: at map borders (e.g. Route 29 / New Bark Town), parts of the neighbouring map pop in and out at the sides of the wide view.

Also on iPhone and iPad, Nintendo Switch and PC, Mac, Steam Deck and handhelds.

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Free software under the GNU GPL version 3, built on melonDS. A fork of ClickingMaster/ssrecomp. Pokémon is a trademark of Nintendo, Creatures and GAME FREAK; this project is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.