Gold and Silver had no label-keyed string table at all. The manifests
carried no text section, RomExtractorGen2 had no extractText, and
game.data.text was never assigned, so every call through
src/core/RomText.lua fell back to the literal written beside it. The only
Gen 2 text the cache held was the script text in data/generated/text.lua,
keyed by bank:address for the overworld VM, which nothing can look a battle
line up in.
make_gold_manifest.py now walks data/text/'s five dialogue files for their
labels, the way make_rom_manifest.text_metadata walks pokered's, and embeds
each one's symbol. 889 labels, all of them resolving in both editions.
make_silver_manifest.py inherits the list unchanged and re-resolves the
addresses from pokesilver.sym.
RomExtractorGen2:extractText decodes them into data/generated/rom_text.lua.
The mechanism is the one extractOakSpeech already used for _OakText1-7:
resolve the label, decode from the cart, key by name. What is new is that
the list comes from the manifest rather than being written out in Lua, so
all of data/text/ arrives instead of seven strings.
decodeGen2Text also emits the three runtime name slots it used to drop.
PlaceMoveUsersName, PlaceMoveTargetsName and PlaceEnemysName (home/text.asm)
substitute a battler's name as the line prints, so <USER>, <TARGET> and
<ENEMY> are markers, not glyphs. Skipped as control glyphs, SubTookDamageText
decoded as "The SUBSTITUTE / took damage for" with nothing after it.
Game2:load assigns the table to self.data.text, which is what makes the
existing shared RomText helper work on Gold and Silver at all.
The new cache file is listed in the Gold override rather than bumping
CACHE_FORMAT, so caches built before this stage re-import themselves and Red,
Blue and Yellow are left alone.
Implemented a new deinterleave function in ImageWriter to restore row-major order for PNGs. Updated RomExtractorGen2 to utilize this function for extracting Slot Machine graphics, and added new functions for padding and writing graphics sheets. Updated the ROM manifests to include necessary symbols for Slots and Card Flip assets.
Silver: derived import manifest (tools/make_silver_manifest.py re-resolves
the Gold manifest's symbols from pokesilver.sym), silver GameVersion row,
generation-keyed extractor routing, required-files override, edition save
stamping (a Silver playthrough no longer writes into the Gold save),
checkver-driven edition data, SILVER/KAMON/OSCAR/MAX presets, GOLD rival
default, edition credits banner, Lugia title screen (OAM layouts, bob,
trail, palettes as title.lua data keys with Gold defaults so old caches
need no re-import), packaging for every build target, docs, and tests.
Launcher: the installed-mods list is one continuous scroll (rows culled to
the viewport) instead of a pager with an inner scroll viewport; the pad
cursor's edge-scroll no longer runs it to the bottom. The game dropdown
shows just the initial and caret. Find-tab behavior unchanged.
Title tempo: a sprite-anim frame shows duration+1 ticks
(engine/sprite_anims/core.asm GetSpriteAnimFrame), which locks both
editions' 64-tick wing beat to the 64-tick sine bob; the title screens no
longer run fast and out of phase.
Colson Rice
bryanthaboi
1jamie