smoldice/platinum-reforged-anvil v0.5.0-alpha

Platinum Reforged 0.5.0-alpha

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BW2's bag, party menu and summary, register multiple items, the Linking Cord, the BATTLE MENUS option back, and bug fixes. Still an alpha, so expect things to break, and please report anything that goes wrong.

What's new

• BW2's bag. Poké Balls, Mail and Battle Items now go in the Items pocket, and the Free Space pocket holds whatever you put there. Lucas and Dawn carry their own bags from Platinum on the bag screen.
• The Y button, as in BW2. Register key items, bag pockets, and summary or Pokédex pages. With more than one registered, Y opens BW2's shortcut menu, and SELECT reorders it.
• The party menu and the summary are BW2's, with new Contest Moves and Ribbons pages adapted to BW2's menus. The Stats page ranks each stat's IV from S down to F and marks the stats your Pokémon's nature raises and lowers.
• BATTLE MENUS is back in the options. GEN V, where it starts (saves from earlier versions too), gives battles BW2's touch-screen menus, battle bag and party list. PLATINUM keeps the look of the last releases.
• A new option, FOLLOWER, turns your following Pokémon off (#38). When someone in a scene walks into it, it now steps out of the way instead of hopping.
• The Linking Cord, sold at a new counter on the 4th floor of Veilstone Department Store, evolves the Pokémon that evolve by trading (#47).
• Pokémon can forget HM moves (#47).
• Surfing is on BW2's surf Pokémon, with its wake behind you.
• Wild Pokémon in the overworld grow into view instead of coming out of shaking grass since they could get confused with phenomena with the previous animation. When the BOTH option is selected for wild encounters, random encounters in grass and caves come about a third as often (#34).
• More trainers move in battle (CUSTOM SPRITES): the Galactic Grunts and Commander Mars are animated, and the Waiter, the Twins and both Swimmers battle as BW2's, in Platinum's colours.

Fixes

• Two trainers spotting you at once: each one's speech bubble points to them when the GEN V frame is selected (#33).
• GEN V message boxes no longer leave small black lines on the field (#35).
• Surfing straight onto rippling water starts its battle (#39).
• Rock Climb onto a wild Pokémon bumps it aside and starts the battle (#40).
• The double battle beside Barry at Spear Pillar no longer gets stuck on "What will (Pokémon) do?" (#42).
• "CANNOT BATTLE" is no longer cut off in the battle's Pokémon list (#43).
• The darkness outside cave walls stays black when a battle starts while surfing (#44).
• Your following Pokémon goes into its ball before anyone heals your party, not only the nurse (#45).

Thanks to @TwinleafTrainer (#33, #34, #35), @tambo221 (#38) and @MrSAP2 (#47) for reporting and suggesting these 🙌