GameSpeed is a single fast-forward multiplier applied uniformly to the
whole logic clock -- overworld walking, menu navigation and battle turns
all scale together. A player who wants 4X battles but 1X overworld (so a
cutscene or NPC dialogue doesn't blur past) has no way to get both.
Splits save.options.speed into speedOverworld/speedBattle/speedMenu, each
cycling independently, with an automatic migration so an existing save's
speed choice carries over. Game.speedCategoryInStack resolves which
category is active by walking the state stack (the same idiom
wideBattleInStack/fillScaleInStack already use), so a menu opened mid-
battle inherits battle speed rather than resetting to whatever "menu"
defaults to. Adds a new core.logic_speed hook so a mod can read or
override the resolved multiplier for the current frame regardless of
which category produced it, sitting after the link-play and run-argument
overrides so neither is a seam a mod can defeat.
RFC 0007 status: Proposed.
CANCEL is appended after the `ui.options.rows` hook, deliberately -- that is
what stops a mod from orphaning the exit. But it also means no translation
mod can ever see it: there is no row for one to rewrite, and the hook has
already run by the time it is added.
The result is that a fully translated OPTIONS menu has exactly one English
word left on it, and it is the way out. I hit this with a Spanish catalog
where every row translated and the exit did not.
One call, matching how every other label on this screen is already built.
Nothing changes without a catalog loaded: Strings is an identity function
until a mod supplies one.
Follows the same reasoning as #791.
Wrap the battle stat box, the PC quantity footer and the dex metric
labels in Strings() (SummaryMenu -- and MoveEffects since #811 --
already do this); give the battle menu a 'battle' lookup context so a
translation can shorten FIGHT/ITEM/RUN independently of the pause menu;
align the metric dex rows with the imperial ones and make the No.
prefix translatable; make the title menu's recolor zone follow Menu's
auto-grown width; honor the declared-but-unread boot.title seam,
drawing an explicit versionRibbon as one centered piece. With an empty
catalog every path is pixel-identical to vanilla.
The launcher spent ~9ms per frame building and drawing, and the Find Mods
tab could hang the window for minutes. Both had the same root cause: a
retained UI tree rebuilt every frame, and blocking curl calls made from the
draw path.
Replace the vendored FlexLove engine (28.5k lines) with src/ui/kit/ (Kit,
Theme, Layout, Loader). The kit caches Text objects and all measurement,
allocates nothing in the steady state, and draws flat. Build+draw is now
under 1ms at every window size and on every tab (POKEPORT_LAUNCHER_PROF).
Move every network call off the render thread onto a love.thread pool
(src/net/Fetch.lua): mod index fetches, per-mod release checks, find-tab
stats, thumbnails and mod installs. Mod indexes prewarm at boot so the
Find Mods tab is populated before it is opened.
Paginate every list -- mods, find, save slots, settings, release notes,
versions -- with the page size derived from the real viewport height, so a
500-mod index costs what a 10-mod one does. Scrolling is gone.
Anything that waits now raises a non-dismissable loader; per-row background
work shows an inline spinner instead. The in-app updater moves to the top
right beside the settings gear and pulses when an update is waiting.
Theme is black with white outlines, no gradients or glows, and solid
colour-coded embossed buttons with bold labels. The game tabs keep their
cartridge colours. Everything is 1.3x larger. The save editor shares the
theme, and adding an item there is now a searchable pop-up like adding a
Pokemon.
Also:
- Reset rebinds, in Settings and under Touch Controls. Rebinds are additive
(Input:applyBindings layers them over the defaults), so there was no
in-game way to undo one.
- Launch options: --game red [--slot N] / POKEPORT_GAME boots straight into
a game for shortcuts and frontends, falling back to that game's tab when
its ROM is not imported.
Fixes found while porting:
- Ellipsis and letterspacing truncated bytes, not codepoints, so a
multi-byte mod name crashed the first frame on a Japanese index.
Measurement no longer throws on malformed input either.
- The new font set missed UiFont's kana fallback, rendering translated
builds as tofu.
- Fetch workers idle in Channel:demand() and LOVE waits for live threads at
exit, so the process outlived the window; quitting mid-download also
waited on curl's 300s ceiling. Shut the pool down in love.quit and bound
its transfer timeouts.
- In one column the save-slot card drew below the fold, over the footer,
with no scrollbar left to reach it.
The two FlexLove engine tests guarded a scroll manager and an auto-height
propagation bug that no longer exist; replace them with a kit suite covering
page bounds, viewport sizing and UTF-8 truncation, and retarget the NX test
to assert the dependency is gone rather than that its perf guards are set.
Opening Touch Controls dropped the launcher virtual cursor and swallowed
gamepad input while touch still worked. Share PadCursor with the save
editor, forward pad events, and centralize overlay handoff/resume so both
hosts park and re-arm the pointer cleanly.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
The scattered per-call-site prefix rewrites were a parallel track that any
future newImage("assets/generated/...") would silently bypass. Replace
them with NxAssetOverlay: installed once from love.load on NX only, it
wraps newImage / newImageData / newSource / filesystem.read / getInfo so a
missing assets/generated path falls back to the active version's
blue|yellow copy. Call sites return to plain love loader calls, and
Assets.resolve goes back to being the platform-free mod-override point.
Two deliberate exceptions remain: the chip-audio worker (separate Lua
state) keeps receiving the prefix explicitly via audio.programPrefix, and
data/generated module loads keep using CacheFs.readActive.
A new guard test (tests/engine/nx_generated_guard_test.lua) fails CI on
any direct love loader call with a literal assets/generated path, so the
class of bug cannot regress by accident. scripts/test.sh --quick is
green across all tiers.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Five more places called love.graphics.newImage directly on
assets/generated paths, bypassing the NX prefix rewrite:
- TradeAnim: cable/ball/bubble art
- TownMap: Kanto background, cursor, nest icon
- SurfingMinigame: surf bg/ob sheets
- BattleState: party ball row, substitute doll
All now resolve through Assets.resolve, which maps to the versioned
blue/ or yellow/ save-dir prefix on NX only. Desktop and Android keep
the mountVersion overlay behavior unchanged.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
The previous NX gate only rewrote image paths that go through Assets.resolve.
Pokemon Yellow still had no sound and a blank title screen because:
- ChipSynth reads programs.bin directly via love.filesystem.read, bypassing
Assets. On NX the unprefixed path is missing when the mount overlay fails,
so the engine never built and every song/SFX was silent.
- Sound.playPikaCry loads pika_cries WAVs with love.audio.newSource, also
bypassing Assets.resolve.
- TitleState, YellowIntro, and IntroMovie call love.graphics.newImage
directly on unprefixed assets/generated paths, so the Pikachu title and
intro atlases failed to load.
Fix: apply the same NX-only prefix rewrite in those four places.
Desktop/Android keep the existing mountVersion overlay behavior.
Also add ChipSynth._loadBanksForTest and tests covering the new paths.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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