A Pokémon's level is printed on four Gen 1 surfaces -- both battle
healthboxes, the party rows, and both status pages -- and every one of them
prints it unconditionally. There is no seam, so a mode that wants the number
gone has two options today and both are bad: paint over the engine's own
pixels from render.hud (four rectangles, a background shade to match, and
the palette flashes and healthbox slide to survive), or monkey-patch the
render modules from inside the sandbox, which works and is exactly what
CONTRIBUTING-mods.md tells mods not to do.
The motivating case is a battle royale that scales every party to a shared
rung rising with its fog: the number is the same for everyone, it changes on
a clock, and it reads as a threat it is not -- a Lv37 opponent looks
dangerous to a player who has not worked out that their own team is Lv37
too. A randomizer keeping an encounter unreadable, a challenge run that
forbids level-checking and a blind Nuzlocke want the same switch.
New hook `pokemon.level_visible`, taking the shape the presentation
predicates on the battle screen already use -- battle.status_hud_visible,
battle.bottom_ui_visible, battle.caught_marker_visible: consulted behind
Runtime.wantsHook, default visible, only an explicit false suppresses. It is
not named battle.* because a level is not a battle-only readout, and it
carries the surface that asked (battle.enemy / battle.player / party /
summary) so a mode can hide an opponent's level and keep its own.
src/ui/LevelDisplay.lua holds the one definition of "visible", so the four
call sites are a one-line guard each rather than four copies of the same
five lines that can drift apart.
No layout moves. Each site keeps its own hand-rolled PrintLevel rule
(home/pokemon.asm:335-345), it just asks first. Two details are deliberate:
a status condition still replaces the level on a healthbox exactly as in the
cart, so hiding a level never hides PSN or BRN (the guard is an elseif on
the existing status branch); and on status page 2 the <to> arrow is hidden
with the level it points at, because an arrow with nothing after it is half
a sentence.
Gen 1 only. The Gen 2 screens and the Gen 1 PC box list -- where the level
is part of a row label rather than a drawn field -- keep their own readouts
and do not consult the hook. Both are stated as follow-ups in the RFC and
beside the hook in docs/modding.md, so a mod author reads the limit before
depending on it.
Verification: tests/modkit/cases/pokemon_level_visible.lua covers the
contract through the public mod API; gate_hooks picks the hook up on its own
because it walks the live catalog; gate_meta_coverage is satisfied by the
change that introduces the seam, so it never enters the DEBT ledger.
tests/run_modkit.lua 33/33, tests/run_engine.lua 327/331 -- the same four
audio/hostshell suites fail unchanged on dev without this branch.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add a ubuntu-24.04 linux-flatpak job that runs build_flatpak.sh from the
shared love payload, wire it into release staging/upload, and mirror a
path-gated Flatpak build in ci.yml when flatpak packaging changes.
Drop the pointless zip wrapper around the x86_64 AppImage, harden HostShell
so bundled curl keeps APPDIR libs while host curl scrubs LD_LIBRARY_PATH /
Steam LD_PRELOAD, and add a Flatpak channel with --device=all, bundled
curl, and AppStream releases metadata. Portable mode now probes writability
with a unique temp file and falls back soft on RO mounts / Flatpak.
bootGame's require("src.core.Game") was resolving to Gen2Compat's Game
facade after a Gold session, so the next Gen 1 boot got an empty proxy
whose rawget(load) is nil (iOS: "src.core.Game missing load after
reload"; Android: Game:load called on a nil value).
Two independent causes, both needed:
* callerIsMod decided "not under src/" meant "a mod", and main.lua is
not under src/, so the engine's own require was gated as a mod's.
Root chunks main.lua and conf.lua are now matched exactly, which a
mod's own mods/<id>/main.lua cannot collide with.
* devShim.generation was only ever set, never cleared, so the
generation Gold declared outlived Gold's session. Loader.endSession
drops it from SessionLifecycle.endMountedSession, and the facade
gate now requires generation == 2 rather than ~= 1.
Only platforms that return to the launcher in-process (Android, and iOS
since #1808) keep the shim alive across sessions; everywhere else the
process restart cleared it.
Drop Data:load from #1635/#1743 engine tests so headless CI without
data/generated/ can run them, and relax dig's #916 hide-ratio check for
white fade-in under spinDrop (#1644).
Inset save-editor chrome and pickers into SafeArea so Save stays tappable on punch-hole phones (#917), replace move cycling with a ranked search modal that reflows on phones/RGxxx, and omit the engine version from window titles on stamped release builds.
Seed Mt Moon Super Nerd dialogue (#1743), play item-use heal jingles
(#1635), use white fades for fly/teleport warps (#1644), add a
Yellow-only Advanced palette overlay (#1639), parse Yellow Super Rod
data including Safari Dragonair (#1074), and apply title rOBP0 when
baking Pikachu eye OAM so pupils stay black with white glints.
Stop joining ChipAudio on every EXIT GAME, always rebuild the Gen1 Game
module on Play-again, and treat iOS like Android for return-to-launcher so
release/mobile LOVE restarts no longer wipe Game.load or crash on quit.
Two decisions the OPTION screen and the cart make for the player, made
hookable so a game mode can make them instead: whether a faint offers the
SHIFT free switch, and whether a catch asks for a nickname. Guarded call
sites, file-local vanilla links, docs and a public-API modkit case.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01N1DVpYXGabigHqMwviDoKV
A capture the party cannot hold silently falls through to the box; the
new partyFullDestination seam lets a mode claim custody at that moment
instead, and pokemon.caught reports destination "mod" so the mode can
find the mon again. Guarded call site, file-local vanilla, docs and a
public-API modkit case.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01N1DVpYXGabigHqMwviDoKV
- Updated .gitignore to include new generated assets for the Surfing Pikachu minigame.
- Added new image assets for the minigame, including title background and intro frames.
- Implemented extraction of Surfing Pikachu title art in RomExtractor.
- Updated CacheContract to include new asset paths.
- Enhanced SurfingMinigame with new constants and functions for improved gameplay mechanics.
- Added unit tests for new features and ensured existing tests pass.
Stop fanning out arbitrary field:release() during Game/Game2 reset — shared
modules use :release as a handle API, and that teardown left the Gen1
singleton unbootable (Game:load nil) on Play-again. Harden bootGame and
endGameSession to rebuild the module if load is missing.
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