launcher editor and widescreen battle

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@@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ migrated once into `options.lua` on load.
- Music / SFX volume
- Music Filter
- OG GLITCHES on / off (Gen 1 quirks vs. modern-clean battle rules)
- BATTLE LAYOUT (OG / WIDE); see "Widescreen battle layout" below
- COLORS (OG RED / SGB / ADVANCED / OG / OG INV / SGB INV / CLASSIC), also
hotkey `2` (OG RED = GBC boot-ROM look; ADVANCED uses pokered-gbc
SuperPalettes + per-species mon colors)
@@ -183,6 +184,36 @@ void outside the OG wipe fills in lockstep. Once the battle state is up,
letterbox voids around the battle canvas fill **white** instead of black
so the whole window reads as one continuous battle screen.
## Widescreen battle layout
Options **BATTLE LAYOUT** picks the battle screen's composition: **OG**
(the default: the original 160×144 arrangement, unchanged) or **WIDE**,
which gives battles a 304×144 native-pixel surface and a Gen 3-style
arrangement on it:
- the foe's status box upper left, the foe's picture upper right;
- the player's picture lower left, the player's status box lower right,
with a longer HP bar and the numeric HP under it;
- a full-width message window;
- a split "What will X do?" prompt / 2×2 command window;
- a 2×2 move menu, navigated with all four directions, with a PP and type
panel attached to its right.
Only the composition changes. Pictures, palettes, HP-bar colors, font
pages, window borders, sounds, animations, timing and every battle rule
stay the engine's, so a COLORS mode or an asset mod still owns the look.
Each side's picture keeps its original pixels and placement math and is
composited into its own region of the wider battlefield -- nothing is
scaled or squeezed -- and animations, which are authored in the original
160-pixel space, shift as one rigid group onto whichever side they play
on. The whole screen is drawn at the window's integer fit scale for the
wider surface, so a 304-pixel screen is drawn a step smaller than a
160-pixel one in the same window.
The wide surface is live only while the battle itself is the screen on
top: a party menu, the bag or a nickname prompt is a 160×144 screen and
brings the classic surface back with it.
## On-screen touch controls (mobile)
On Android/iOS the game draws a translucent d-pad (bottom-left), A/B
@@ -230,3 +261,48 @@ be packed). `--refresh` re-harvests after an engine update, keeping
existing translations and parking orphaned keys rather than dropping them.
See the wiki's Translations guide.
## Save editor (bundled, reachable from the launcher)
The save editor ships inside every build instead of being a developer-only
script, and the launcher's SAVE SLOT card grows an **Edit** label next to
Delete on every slot that actually holds a save. Edit suspends the
launcher, opens that slot's file in the editor, and **Close** hands the
process back to the launcher with the slot list re-read (a rename, a badge
or a dex change shows up on the row immediately). Unsaved edits arm a
confirm first, so leaving cannot lose work. `love . --editor` still opens
it standalone, where Close quits instead; `--save <path>` points it at any
file, and a save can be dragged onto the window.
The editor now wears the launcher's visual language - the same navy radial
field, 16px translucent cards, tri-colour version rail and green/yellow/red
semantics - so the two windows read as one app. Six tabs:
- **Party**: the roster with sprites, HP bars and level chips on the left,
and the mon inspector permanently docked on the right instead of floating
over the list. Species, level, DVs and moves all round-trip through the
Gen 1 formulas, so the inspector can never show illegal stats.
- **Boxes**: the 12 PC boxes as a 5x4 grid with a fill meter per box and a
party dock, so deposit and withdraw live in one place. Empty slots are
clickable and create a mon there.
- **Items**: money, a searchable item picker (replacing the arrows that
cycled one id at a time through ~250 items), the 20-slot bag, PC storage
with no slot cap, and the eight badges as toggle chips.
- **Events**: flags, defeated trainers, taken items and per-map object
toggles, with a real filter field and a two-column paged grid.
- **Map**: any map rendered with the game's own renderer, warps followable,
and the player / lastHeal / lastOutdoor spawn points settable by clicking
a cell. Setting lastOutdoor on a map the game would not accept as an
outdoor source is refused with the reason.
- **Dex**: seen / owned completion meters and a four-column grid; owning
implies seen and un-seeing clears owned, exactly as the game requires.
Two rules run through all of it. Every mutation goes through one funnel
that sets the dirty flag and writes the status line together, so nothing
changes silently and no branch can quietly no-op - "Party is full", "Bag is
full", "click a cell first" all say so. And every destructive verb (Remove,
Release, Clear all, Wipe dex) arms on the first click and commits on the
second, relabelling itself to `Confirm?` in between.
A validation pill in the tab rail mirrors what the running game would
quarantine on load; clicking it jumps to the tab holding the first problem.