Merge pull request #1605 from AverageConsumer/codex/android-secondary-lifecycle

Fix secondary display lifecycle cleanup

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -12,10 +12,11 @@ name: ci
 #
 on:
   push:
-    # Integration branch + release branch. PRs already run via pull_request
-    # (any base); this list is only for post-merge push runs.
     branches: [dev, main]
+  # PRs into dev only: a dev -> main ship PR reuses the required checks the
+  # dev push already put on the same head SHA, so it needs no second run.
   pull_request:
+    branches: [dev]
 
 # a force-push while CI is mid-run should cancel the stale run, not queue
 concurrency:
@@ -318,52 +319,10 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           set -euo pipefail
           scripts/build_linux_arm64.sh --version 0.0.0
+      # Shared with the release workflow so shipped images get the same
+      # self-contained / glibc-floor checks as PR builds.
       - name: Verify the AppImage is self-contained and bullseye-compatible
-        run: |
+        run: bash scripts/linux-arm64/verify_appimage.sh dist/linux-arm64/gen1recomp-0.0.0-linux-arm64.AppImage
-          set -euo pipefail
-          image="dist/linux-arm64/gen1recomp-0.0.0-linux-arm64.AppImage"
-
-          # --appimage-extract needs no FUSE, so this works on a runner
-          # without /dev/fuse and still exercises the real payload.
-          "$image" --appimage-extract >/dev/null
-          for required in AppRun bin/love game.love lib/liblove-11.5.so; do
-            [ -e "squashfs-root/$required" ] \
-              || { echo "::error::AppImage is missing $required"; exit 1; }
-          done
-
-          # Every bundled object must resolve once AppRun's LD_LIBRARY_PATH is
-          # applied; an unresolved soname here is a user-visible launch crash.
-          #
-          # This runs on a HEADLESS runner on purpose, and that is the point.
-          # The first version of this build bundled Debian's SDL2, which
-          # hard-links libpulse/libasound/libX11/libwayland, so it only ever
-          # started on a full desktop -- a bare runner is what exposed it.
-          missing="$(LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$PWD/squashfs-root/lib" \
-            ldd squashfs-root/bin/love squashfs-root/lib/*.so* 2>/dev/null \
-            | grep 'not found' || true)"
-          [ -z "$missing" ] || { echo "::error::unresolved deps:"; echo "$missing"; exit 1; }
-
-          # Nothing may hard-link a driver, session or audio-stack library:
-          # those must be reached through dlopen so the AppImage runs on a box
-          # with only ALSA, only Wayland, or only KMSDRM.
-          linked="$(for f in squashfs-root/bin/love squashfs-root/lib/*.so*; do
-            objdump -p "$f" 2>/dev/null | awk '/NEEDED/{print $2}'
-          done | sort -u | grep -E '^lib(pulse|asound|X11|wayland|GL|EGL|drm|gbm|xcb|cairo|sndio|dbus)' || true)"
-          [ -z "$linked" ] \
-            || { echo "::error::these must be dlopened, not linked:"; echo "$linked"; exit 1; }
-
-          # The whole point of compiling on bullseye. If a future change moves
-          # the builder to a newer base, the glibc floor silently rises and
-          # every user on an older distro gets "GLIBC_2.xx not found" -- catch
-          # it here instead of in a release.
-          floor="$(objdump -T squashfs-root/bin/love squashfs-root/lib/*.so* 2>/dev/null \
-            | grep -o 'GLIBC_[0-9.]*' | sort -V | tail -1)"
-          echo "highest required glibc symbol version: $floor"
-          [ -n "$floor" ] \
-            || { echo "::error::found no versioned glibc symbols -- objdump read nothing"; exit 1; }
-          highest="$(printf '%s\n' "$floor" "GLIBC_2.31" | sort -V | tail -1)"
-          [ "$highest" = "GLIBC_2.31" ] \
-            || { echo "::error::AppImage requires $floor, above the bullseye 2.31 floor"; exit 1; }
       - name: Upload the AppImage
         uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7
         with:
@@ -400,7 +359,6 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v7
-      - run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y luajit
       - run: python3 -m pip install --upgrade pillow
 
       # the fixture PNGs are committed (they are 8x8 placeholders, not
@@ -421,13 +379,8 @@ jobs:
           print(f"\n{len(paths)} fixture assets valid")
           PY
 
-      # the fingerprint golden is the parity tripwire; prove it still
+      # the fingerprint parity gates (gate_fingerprint / gate_meta_coverage)
-      # matches the dataset on a clean checkout
+      # run in the headless job via run_engine; this job only guards the PNGs
-      - name: fingerprint gate
-        run: luajit tests/engine/gate_fingerprint.lua
-
-      - name: parity-guarantee meta-test
-        run: luajit tests/engine/gate_meta_coverage.lua
 
   # Only the differ is under test here, and the job is named for that.  The
   # capture half of the golden pipeline does not exist: a POKEPORT_DRIVER

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -161,6 +161,8 @@ jobs:
           scripts/build_linux_arm64.sh \
             --version "${{ needs.version.outputs.version }}" \
             --game-love .bazinga/work/game.love
+      - name: Verify the AppImage is self-contained and bullseye-compatible
+        run: bash scripts/linux-arm64/verify_appimage.sh "dist/linux-arm64/gen1recomp-${{ needs.version.outputs.version }}-linux-arm64.AppImage"
       - name: Upload Linux arm64 release
         uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7
         with:
@@ -285,7 +287,7 @@ jobs:
           retention-days: 1
 
   release:
-    needs: [version, xbox-uwp, linux-arm64, native-tls-win]
+    needs: [version, love-payload, xbox-uwp, linux-arm64, native-tls-win]
     runs-on: ${{ fromJSON(github.repository == 'bryanthaboi/gen1recomp' && '["self-hosted", "macOS"]' || '"macos-latest"') }}
 
     steps:
@@ -307,6 +309,15 @@ jobs:
           name: gen1tls-win-x64
           path: dist/native/win-x64
 
+      # The same game.love the arm64 AppImage and Xbox UWP builds fused, so
+      # every release asset ships one identical payload (build.sh's own pack
+      # would omit PATCH_NOTES.md and mobile/ios/app-repo.json).
+      - name: Download shared payload
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v8
+        with:
+          name: gen1recomp-release-love
+          path: dist/payload
+
       - name: Import signing certificate into a temporary keychain
         if: github.repository == 'bryanthaboi/gen1recomp'
         run: |
@@ -357,7 +368,8 @@ jobs:
             echo "::error::gen1tls.dll missing at $GEN1TLS_DLL (native-tls-win job)"
             exit 1
           fi
-          scripts/build.sh all --version "${{ needs.version.outputs.version }}" --no-notarize
+          scripts/build.sh all --version "${{ needs.version.outputs.version }}" --no-notarize \
+            --game-love dist/payload/game.love
           unzip -l dist/win/gen1recomp-win64.zip | grep -F gen1tls.dll \
             || { echo "::error::Windows zip is missing gen1tls.dll"; exit 1; }
 

CONTRIBUTING-mods.md

@@ -140,17 +140,17 @@ ship text.
 
 ### 4. `games` (and the legacy `gen2compat`)
 
-Pokemon Gold is Gen 2, and it runs its own battle engine, overworld, script
+Pokemon Gold and Silver are Gen 2, and they run their own battle engine,
-VM and save format. The mod API is shared across both generations (same hook
+overworld, script VM and save format. The mod API is shared across both
-names, same event names, same registry names) but Gold cannot serve all of it
+generations (same hook names, same event names, same registry names) but Gen 2
-yet, so Gen 2 is opt-in. Say which games the mod is for:
+cannot serve all of it yet, so it is opt-in. Say which games the mod is for:
 
 ```json
 "games": ["gen1", "gen2"]
 ```
 
-Each entry is a version id (`"red"`, `"blue"`, `"yellow"`, `"gold"`), a
+Each entry is a version id (`"red"`, `"blue"`, `"yellow"`, `"gold"`,
-generation (`"gen1"`, `"gen2"`) or `"all"`;
+`"silver"`), a generation (`"gen1"`, `"gen2"`) or `"all"`;
 `src/mods/ModTargets.lua` resolves them off `GameVersion.ORDER` so nothing
 restates the game list. `python3 tools/modkit.py scaffold my_mod --games
 gen1,gen2` writes the key for you. The mod still installs to one directory,
@@ -159,10 +159,10 @@ gen1,gen2` writes the key for you. The mod still installs to one directory,
 Absent means Gen 1 only, which is what every mod written before the key existed
 was tested as. `"gen2compat": true` is the legacy spelling, still accepted and
 purely additive (it *adds* the Gen 2 games), so no manifest can lose a game it
-already ran on. On a Gold boot a mod claiming no Gen 2 game is not loaded at
+already ran on. On a Gold or Silver boot a mod claiming no Gen 2 game is not
-all: the manager lists it as `ENABLED (NOT THIS GAME)` and says why, because a
+loaded at all: the manager lists it as `ENABLED (NOT THIS GAME)` and says why,
-mod that half-applies reads as a broken mod. Claim Gen 2 once you have actually
+because a mod that half-applies reads as a broken mod. Claim Gen 2 once you
-run your mod on Gold.
+have actually run your mod on Gold or Silver.
 
 Every token is enforced, per game: the loader gates on the same
 `ModTargets.supports` answer both mod surfaces draw, so `"games": ["blue"]`
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ before the key existed changes behavior; list both generations or say `"all"`
 when you mean everywhere.
 
 `docs/mod-api-gen2-compat.md` is the compatibility matrix: what works on Gold
-today (40 of the 46 registries, 40 event and 43 hook names shared with Gen 1,
+and Silver today (40 of the 46 registries, 40 event and 43 hook names shared with Gen 1,
 and 24 Gen 2-only ones), which registries have no Gen 2 home and drop their
 writes with a report, and which hooks and events are still to come.
 `docs/preparing-your-mod-for-gen2.md` is the step-by-step migration guide for a

README.md

@@ -55,16 +55,15 @@ And before you say, "that's not a recomp", you're wrong. Recomp is an acronym. *
 
 [![Watch the latest update video](https://img.youtube.com/vi/yi7LkWQPKKM/maxresdefault.jpg)](https://youtu.be/yi7LkWQPKKM)
 
-
 This project does not include a ROM, emulate the Game Boy, transpile assembly,
-or download a disassembly. A canonical US Poke Red, Blue, Yellow, or Gold ROM
+or download a disassembly. A canonical US Poke Red, Blue, Yellow, Gold, or
-is the only game content input.
+Silver ROM is the only game content input.
 
 The ROM is verified, used during import, and then released from memory. It is
 not copied into the cache. Later launches load the private generated cache and
-do not ask for the ROM again. Red, Blue, Yellow, and Gold can all be imported
+do not ask for the ROM again. Red, Blue, Yellow, Gold, and Silver can all be
-side by side. Gold is Gen 2 Phase 1 (import + launcher; see
+imported side by side. Gold and Silver are Gen 2 Phase 1 (import + launcher;
-`docs/gold-phase1.md`): the Gen 2 engine is still under construction.
+see `docs/gold-phase1.md`): the Gen 2 engine is still under construction.
 
 ## Quick Start
 
@@ -72,13 +71,14 @@ Open the desktop app. On first boot, choose your legally obtained `.gb` /
 `.gbc` file or drop it onto the window. Import takes a few seconds and the
 game starts automatically.
 
-Only the canonical US Red, Blue, Yellow (1 MiB), and Gold (2 MiB) ROMs are
+Only the canonical US Red, Blue, Yellow (1 MiB), Gold, and Silver (2 MiB)
-accepted. The importer verifies SHA-1 before creating any game data:
+ROMs are accepted. The importer verifies SHA-1 before creating any game data:
 
 - Red: `ea9bcae617fdf159b045185467ae58b2e4a48b9a`
 - Blue: `d7037c83e1ae5b39bde3c30787637ba1d4c48ce2`
 - Yellow: `cc7d03262ebfaf2f06772c1a480c7d9d5f4a38e1`
 - Gold: `d8b8a3600a465308c9953dfa04f0081c05bdcb94`
+- Silver: `49b163f7e57702bc939d642a18f591de55d92dae`
 
 The packaged app contains neither a ROM nor pre-extracted game data. Music,
 sound effects, and cries are synthesized while the game runs from compact
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ entry: a desktop shortcut per game, a Steam entry, or a handheld frontend.
 
 | Option | Effect |
 | --- | --- |
-| `--game=red` | boot Red, skipping the launcher (`blue` and `yellow` too, or just `r` / `b` / `y`) |
+| `--game=red` | boot Red, skipping the launcher (`blue`, `yellow`, `gold` and `silver` too, or just `r` / `b` / `y` / `g` / `s`) |
 | `--slot=2` | load that save slot; takes a slot number or a slot id |
 | `--launcher` | open the launcher anyway, so you can edit a shortcut you already made |
 

build-linux-arm-sbc.sh

@@ -133,6 +133,8 @@ mkdir -p "$GAME_SRC"
 (cd "$SOURCE_DIR" && zip -q -9 -r "$WORK/game-payload.zip" \
   main.lua conf.lua src libs data assets tools/save-editor \
   tools/rom_manifest.json tools/rom_manifest_blue.json \
+  tools/rom_manifest_yellow.json tools/rom_manifest_gold.json \
+  tools/rom_manifest_silver.json \
   -x '*.DS_Store' 'data/generated/*' 'assets/generated/*')
 if unzip -Z1 "$WORK/game-payload.zip" \
     | grep -Eq '^(data|assets)/generated/[^/]+|^(data|assets)/generated/.+/'; then

build-rg34xxsp.sh

@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@ mkdir -p "$GAME_SRC"
   main.lua conf.lua src libs data assets tools/save-editor \
   tools/rom_manifest.json tools/rom_manifest_blue.json \
   tools/rom_manifest_yellow.json tools/rom_manifest_gold.json \
+  tools/rom_manifest_silver.json \
   -x '*.DS_Store' 'data/generated/*' 'assets/generated/*')
 payload_list="$(unzip -Z1 "$WORK/game-payload.zip")"
 printf '%s\n' "$payload_list" \
@@ -99,6 +100,8 @@ printf '%s\n' "$payload_list" \
   && fail "payload unexpectedly contains generated ROM data"
 printf '%s\n' "$payload_list" | grep -qxF "tools/rom_manifest_gold.json" \
   || fail "payload is missing tools/rom_manifest_gold.json"
+printf '%s\n' "$payload_list" | grep -qxF "tools/rom_manifest_silver.json" \
+  || fail "payload is missing tools/rom_manifest_silver.json"
 unzip -q "$WORK/game-payload.zip" -d "$GAME_SRC"
 rm -f "$WORK/game-payload.zip"
 
@@ -193,6 +196,26 @@ get_controls
 [ -f "${controlfolder}/mod_${CFW_NAME}.txt" ] && source "${controlfolder}/mod_${CFW_NAME}.txt"
 
 GAMEDIR="$SHDIR/gen1recomp"
+# Anbernic stock keeps the launcher and the game folder side by side, so the
+# SHDIR-relative path above is correct there and is tried first.
+#
+# Other firmwares (muOS, and PortMaster's layout on several devices) keep
+# launcher scripts and port data in SEPARATE trees -- scripts under roms/ports,
+# data under ports -- so the sibling folder holds no game.
+#
+# Probe for the BINARY, not the directory: on a split layout this script has
+# usually already created "$SHDIR/gen1recomp/conf" and log.txt on an earlier
+# failed run (see mkdir/tee below), so an existence test matches a decoy of our
+# own making. Stock is unaffected -- its sibling holds the real binary and wins
+# on the first test.
+if [ ! -f "$GAMEDIR/bin/love.aarch64" ]; then
+  for candidate in "/$directory/ports/gen1recomp" \
+                   "/mnt/sdcard/ports/gen1recomp" \
+                   "/mnt/mmc/ports/gen1recomp" \
+                   "/roms/ports/gen1recomp"; do
+    if [ -f "$candidate/bin/love.aarch64" ]; then GAMEDIR="$candidate"; break; fi
+  done
+fi
 CONFDIR="$GAMEDIR/conf"
 mkdir -p "$CONFDIR"
 

data/scripts/celadon_eevee.lua

@@ -25,8 +25,10 @@
 local Menu = require("src.ui.Menu")
 local TextBox = require("src.render.TextBox")
 
--- TMNotebookText (data/text/text_2.asm) has no leading underscore, so the
+-- TMNotebookText (data/text/text_2.asm) has no leading underscore, but the
--- extractor never collects it and the pamphlet's text is inlined.
+-- extractor now collects any top-level label in a dedicated text file
+-- regardless (tools/extract/text.py), so this is the real ROM label --
+-- the literal below is only the fallback for a catalog without it.
 local TM_NOTEBOOK_TEXT = "It's a pamphlet\non TMs.\f...\f"
   .. "There are 50 TMs\nin all.\f"
   .. "There are also 5\nHMs that can be\vused repeatedly.\f"
@@ -70,7 +72,8 @@ return {
       return true
     end
     if fx == 3 and fy == 4 then
-      game.stack:push(TextBox.new(game, TM_NOTEBOOK_TEXT))
+      local text = game.data.text or {}
+      game.stack:push(TextBox.new(game, text.TMNotebookText or TM_NOTEBOOK_TEXT))
       return true
     end
     return false

data/scripts/flavor/ss_anne_kitchen.lua

@@ -15,10 +15,10 @@ return {
       -- pick the dish: bit 7 set (~50%) -> Salmon du Salad, else bit 4
       -- set (~25%) -> Eels au Barbecue, else (~25%) -> Prime Beef Steak.
       -- The three dish texts (SSAnneKitchenCook7SalmonDuSaladText /
-      -- ...EelsAuBarbecueText / ...PrimeBeefSteakText) aren't extracted
+      -- ...EelsAuBarbecueText / ...PrimeBeefSteakText) have no leading
-      -- into data/generated/text.lua (no leading underscore in
+      -- underscore in pokered/text/SSAnneKitchen.asm, but the extractor
-      -- pokered/text/SSAnneKitchen.asm), so their literal strings are
+      -- collects them regardless (tools/extract/text.py); the literals
-      -- ported here verbatim.
+      -- below are only the fallback for a catalog without them.
       TEXT_SSANNEKITCHEN_COOK7 = function(game, ow, npc, done)
         local t = game.data.text
         push(game, t._SSAnneKitchenCook7MainCourseIsText
@@ -27,13 +27,16 @@ return {
           local dish
           if roll <= 2 then
             -- bit 7 of hRandomAdd set (~50%)
-            dish = "Salmon du Salad!\fLes guests may\ngripe it's fish\vagain, however!"
+            dish = t.SSAnneKitchenCook7SalmonDuSaladText
+              or "Salmon du Salad!\fLes guests may\ngripe it's fish\vagain, however!"
           elseif roll == 3 then
             -- bit 4 set, bit 7 clear (~25%)
-            dish = "Eels au Barbecue!\fLes guests will\nmutiny, I fear."
+            dish = t.SSAnneKitchenCook7EelsAuBarbecueText
+              or "Eels au Barbecue!\fLes guests will\nmutiny, I fear."
           else
             -- neither bit set (~25%)
-            dish = "Prime Beef Steak!\fBut, have I enough\nfillets du beef?"
+            dish = t.SSAnneKitchenCook7PrimeBeefSteakText
+              or "Prime Beef Steak!\fBut, have I enough\nfillets du beef?"
           end
           push(game, dish, done)
         end)

data/scripts/flavor/viridian_city.lua

@@ -60,22 +60,23 @@ M.VIRIDIAN_CITY = {
     -- you want to know about the two kinds of caterpillar Pokemon;
     -- YES -> CATERPIE/WEEDLE description, NO -> "Oh, OK then!".
     -- ViridianCityYoungster2OkThenText and
-    -- ViridianCityYoungster2CaterpieAndWeedleDescriptionText are
+    -- ViridianCityYoungster2CaterpieAndWeedleDescriptionText are defined
-    -- defined without a leading underscore in pokered/text/ViridianCity.asm
+    -- without a leading underscore in pokered/text/ViridianCity.asm, but
-    -- and aren't present in data/generated/text.lua, so we fall back to
+    -- tools/extract/text.py now collects them regardless -- the literal
-    -- the literal strings from pokered.  Those fallbacks have to carry the
+    -- strings below are only the fallback for a catalog without them.
-    -- extractor's markers, not plain newlines: line -> \n, cont -> \v,
+    -- Those fallbacks have to carry the extractor's markers, not plain
-    -- para -> \f.  Spelling cont/para as \n and \n\n put all six lines on
+    -- newlines: line -> \n, cont -> \v, para -> \f.  Spelling cont/para as
-    -- one page with nothing to wait on, so the whole speech scrolled past
+    -- \n and \n\n put all six lines on one page with nothing to wait on,
-    -- without a button press (#250).
+    -- so the whole speech scrolled past without a button press (#250).
     TEXT_VIRIDIANCITY_YOUNGSTER2 = function(game, ow, npc, done)
       local t = text(game)
       ask(game, t._ViridianCityYoungster2YouWantToKnowAboutText
         or "You want to know\nabout the 2 kinds\vof caterpillar\vPOKéMON?", function(yes)
         if yes then
-          push(game, "CATERPIE has no\npoison, but\vWEEDLE does.\fWatch out for its\nPOISON STING!", done)
+          push(game, t.ViridianCityYoungster2CaterpieAndWeedleDescriptionText
+            or "CATERPIE has no\npoison, but\vWEEDLE does.\fWatch out for its\nPOISON STING!", done)
         else
-          push(game, "Oh, OK then!", done)
+          push(game, t.ViridianCityYoungster2OkThenText or "Oh, OK then!", done)
         end
       end)
     end,

data/scripts/story5.lua

@@ -122,9 +122,8 @@ M.CINNABAR_LAB_METRONOME_ROOM = {
 -- TM42 Dream Eater (scripts/ViridianCity.asm, the fisher).  The fisher's
 -- YouCanHaveThisText prints before GiveItem, so this gift needs a pre
 -- text (#775).  Like the SilphCo2F worker (#393) that label carries no
--- leading underscore, and on Red it sits outside the extractor's symbol
+-- leading underscore; tools/extract/text.py now collects it regardless,
--- set, so the literal from text/ViridianCity.asm rides along as the
+-- so preFallback below is just the safety net for a catalog without it.
--- fallback; Yellow resolves the ROM string instead.
 M.VIRIDIAN_CITY = {
   talk = {
     TEXT_VIRIDIANCITY_FISHER = gift({
@@ -146,9 +145,11 @@ M.SILPH_CO_2F = {
   talk = {
     TEXT_SILPHCO2F_SILPH_WORKER_F = gift({
       flag = "EVENT_GOT_TM36", item = "TM_SELFDESTRUCT",
-      -- the label carries no leading underscore: pokered keeps this one in
+      -- the label carries no leading underscore (#393); collected like any
-      -- the script bank, not the far-text bank (#393)
+      -- other text/*.asm label now, preFallback is just the safety net
       pre = "SilphCo2FSilphWorkerFPleaseTakeThisText",
+      preFallback = "Eeek!\nNo! Stop! Help!\fOh, you're not\nwith TEAM ROCKET."
+        .. "\vI thought...\vI'm sorry. Here,\vplease take this!",
       received = "_SilphCo2FSilphWorkerFReceivedTM36Text",
       explain = "_SilphCo2FSilphWorkerFTM36ExplanationText",
       noRoom = "_SilphCo2FSilphWorkerFTM36NoRoomText",

docs/linux-arm64-build.md

@@ -105,8 +105,9 @@ trixie.
 This is a statement about the *compile environment*, not about where the
 artifact runs — building on your own newer distro would silently raise that
 floor and strand every user on an older one, with no symptom until they
-download it. CI enforces the floor: `linux-arm64-build` fails if the highest
+download it. `scripts/linux-arm64/verify_appimage.sh` enforces the floor in
-required glibc symbol version climbs above 2.31.
+both CI (`linux-arm64-build`) and the release workflow: the build fails if
+the highest required glibc symbol version climbs above 2.31.
 
 ### Why five libraries are built from source
 
@@ -172,13 +173,15 @@ Three jobs, path-gated on `scripts/build_linux_arm64.sh`,
   exclude list still classifies known sonames correctly, that AppRun still
   launches `game.love` with `--fused`, and that the host-arch guard actually
   fires. Needs no container and no arm64 machine.
-- **`linux-arm64-build`** (`ubuntu-24.04-arm`) — the real build, then extracts
+- **`linux-arm64-build`** (`ubuntu-24.04-arm`) — the real build, then
-  the artifact and asserts the layout, that every bundled object resolves
+  `scripts/linux-arm64/verify_appimage.sh` extracts the artifact and asserts
-  under AppRun's `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`, and that the glibc floor is still ≤ 2.31.
+  the layout, that every bundled object resolves under AppRun's
-  Uploads the AppImage for 7 days.
+  `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`, and that the glibc floor is still ≤ 2.31. Uploads the
+  AppImage for 7 days.
 - **release** — `linux-arm64` runs on `ubuntu-24.04-arm`, reuses the shared
-  `game.love` from the `love-payload` job, and the AppImage is staged and
+  `game.love` from the `love-payload` job, runs the same
-  published like every other release asset.
+  `verify_appimage.sh` checks on the shipped image, and the AppImage is
+  staged and published like every other release asset.
 
 Unlike the Switch job, none of this needs secrets or self-hosted hardware, so
 it runs on fork PRs too.

docs/mod-api-gen2-compat.md

@@ -55,9 +55,10 @@ The short version, for an author deciding what to write:
 ```
 
 `games` is an optional array of version ids (`"red"`, `"blue"`, `"yellow"`,
-`"gold"`), generations (`"gen1"`, `"gen2"`, case-insensitive) or `"all"`.
+`"gold"`, `"silver"`), generations (`"gen1"`, `"gen2"`, case-insensitive) or
-`src/mods/ModTargets.lua` resolves the tokens off `GameVersion.ORDER` and
+`"all"`. `src/mods/ModTargets.lua` resolves the tokens off `GameVersion.ORDER`
-`GameVersion.generation`, so nothing anywhere restates the game list.
+and `GameVersion.generation`, so nothing anywhere restates the game list.
+`"gen2"` now expands to both Gold and Silver.
 `Manifest.validate` stores the resolved, ORDER-sorted ids on `manifest.games`
 and **derives** `manifest.gen2compat` from them, which is the one field the
 loader's gate reads.

docs/modding.md

@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ Every mod contains a root `manifest.json` defining its metadata, supported games
 | `entry` | `string` | Entry Lua file path relative to mod root (usually `"main.lua"`). |
 | `profile` | `string` | Mod profile: `"content"`, `"overhaul"`, or `"total_conversion"`. |
 | `category` | `string` | Categorization chip (e.g. `"GAMEPLAY"`, `"CONTENT"`, `"UI"`, `"AUDIO"`). |
-| `games` | `array` | Supported game versions: `["gen1"]`, `["gen2"]`, `["red"]`, `["blue"]`, `["yellow"]`, `["gold"]`, or `["all"]`. |
+| `games` | `array` | Supported game versions: `["gen1"]`, `["gen2"]`, `["red"]`, `["blue"]`, `["yellow"]`, `["gold"]`, `["silver"]`, or `["all"]`. |
 | `game_version`| `string` | Semver range of required engine version (e.g. `">=0.0.0-dev <2.0.0"`). |
 | `priority` | `integer` | Load priority order (lower numbers load earlier; dependencies always precede dependents regardless of priority). |
 | `dependencies` | `array` | Hard required dependencies. A mod will not load if a required dependency is missing or disabled for the active game. |

docs/new-features.md

@@ -11,10 +11,12 @@ Features intentionally added beyond the original Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow
 * **Persistent custom options** stored separately from game saves
 * **Optional widescreen battle layout**
 * **Mobile touch controls** with editable layouts, vibration, and orientation settings
+* **Screen position setting** (center, upper, top) shared across all games, for clamp-on controllers that cover the lower screen
 * **Touch skins** in RetroArch overlay format and Delta `.deltaskin` (including PDF-wrapped bezel art), with per-button press states and Super Game Boy borders
 * **Pokédex diploma and printer image exports**
 
 ## Gen 2 Specifics
 
+* **Pokémon Silver** as an importable, launcher-selectable version alongside Gold
 * **Mod manager** with Gen 1 mod adapters, per-game targeting, and `modkit gen2check`
 * **Followers** for mods, plus Gen 2-only registries and hooks

docs/preparing-your-mod-for-gen2.md

@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ something the filesystem encodes.
 
 | token | means |
 | --- | --- |
-| `"red"`, `"blue"`, `"yellow"`, `"gold"` | that one game (a version id from `GameVersion.ORDER`) |
+| `"red"`, `"blue"`, `"yellow"`, `"gold"`, `"silver"` | that one game (a version id from `GameVersion.ORDER`) |
 | `"gen1"`, `"gen2"` | every game of that generation (case-insensitive; `"gen 2"` also parses) |
 | `"all"` | every game this engine has |
 

docs/required-to-function.md

@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 # What This Port Requires
 
 The packaged desktop app requires one user-supplied input on first boot: a
-canonical 1 MiB US Pokemon Red, Blue, or Yellow ROM.
+canonical 1 MiB US Pokemon Red, Blue, or Yellow ROM, or a canonical 2 MiB US
+Pokemon Gold or Silver ROM.
 
 The importer verifies the SHA-1 for the game (see `src/core/GameVersion.lua`
 for specific hashes). Other revisions and Virtual Console releases are rejected
@@ -15,7 +16,8 @@ Python and Pillow are not required by the packaged app.
 
 Assembly removes high-level names and some relationships that the Lua port
 needs. The version-specific files `tools/rom_manifest.json`,
-`tools/rom_manifest_blue.json`, and `tools/rom_manifest_yellow.json` therefore
+`tools/rom_manifest_blue.json`, `tools/rom_manifest_yellow.json`,
+`tools/rom_manifest_gold.json`, and `tools/rom_manifest_silver.json` therefore
 contain:
 
 - the ROM symbol addresses actually read by the extractor

docs/switch-install.md

@@ -91,14 +91,14 @@ Do **not** launch from the Album applet path for normal play.
 
 This project ships **no** game data. On first launch:
 
-1. Put your own legally obtained Pokémon Red, Blue (`.gb`), Yellow, or
+1. Put your own legally obtained Pokémon Red, Blue (`.gb`), Yellow, Gold, or
-   Gold (`.gbc`) dump into `switch/gen1recomp/pokemon-love2d/imports/` (the
+   Silver (`.gbc`) dump into `switch/gen1recomp/pokemon-love2d/imports/` (the
-   launcher also shows the live save-dir path). All four can sit in the
+   launcher also shows the live save-dir path). All five can sit in the
    same folder.
-2. Use **Scan again** on that game's tab (Red / Blue / Yellow / Gold).
+2. Use **Scan again** on that game's tab (Red / Blue / Yellow / Gold /
-   Rescan matches by ROM SHA-1 for the open tab only. A Red dump never
+   Silver). Rescan matches by ROM SHA-1 for the open tab only. A Red dump
-   imports from the Yellow tab (and vice versa). Gold is Beta in the
+   never imports from the Yellow tab (and vice versa). Gold and Silver are
-   launcher; a clean US Gold dump is enough to Play.
+   Beta in the launcher; a clean US dump of either is enough to Play.
 
 ## 5. Import / Export a raw `.sav`
 
@@ -111,10 +111,12 @@ SD / FTP, same transfer methods as ROMs. Paths are **per game**:
 | Blue | `imports/saves/blue/` | `exports/blue/` |
 | Yellow | `imports/saves/yellow/` | `exports/yellow/` |
 | Gold | `imports/saves/gold/` | `exports/gold/` |
+| Silver | `imports/saves/silver/` | `exports/silver/` |
 
 (Under the save dir `pokemon-love2d/`. The zip already creates these folders.
-Gold cart `.sav` import/export is not supported yet -- the folders exist so
+Gold and Silver cart `.sav` import/export is not supported yet -- the folders
-MTP browsing matches the other games. Gold progress still saves in-engine.)
+exist so MTP browsing matches the other games. Gold and Silver progress still
+saves in-engine.)
 
 1. Copy a Gen 1 `.sav` (32 KB) into that game's inbox under the save dir
    ([switch-transfer.md](switch-transfer.md)).

docs/switch-transfer.md

@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ Player install (what to download, title override) stays in
 | Loose iteration pair | `sdmc:/switch/gen1recomp/gen1recomp.nro` **and** `game.love` beside it |
 | ROM inbox | LÖVE save dir → `imports/` (launcher shows the live `getSaveDirectory()` path; under MTP often `1: SD Card/<save identity>/imports/`) |
 | Mod zip inbox | Same save dir → `imports/mods/` then MODS → **Scan again** |
-| Save `.sav` inbox | Same save dir → `imports/saves/red\|blue\|yellow\|gold/` then that game's SAVE FILES → **Import save** (Gold cart `.sav` not supported yet) |
+| Save `.sav` inbox | Same save dir → `imports/saves/red\|blue\|yellow\|gold\|silver/` then that game's SAVE FILES → **Import save** (Gold / Silver cart `.sav` not supported yet) |
-| Save exports | Same save dir → `exports/red\|blue\|yellow\|gold/` (pull after **Export save**; Gold cart `.sav` not supported yet) |
+| Save exports | Same save dir → `exports/red\|blue\|yellow\|gold\|silver/` (pull after **Export save**; Gold / Silver cart `.sav` not supported yet) |
 | Opt-in diagnostics | Empty `switch-debug.txt` in the save dir → `switch.log` |
 | Lua error log | `lua-error.log` in the save dir |
 
@@ -54,7 +54,8 @@ macOS, not a Mac-only requirement.
 3. Create `switch/gen1recomp/` if needed; extract the release zip at SD root
    (or copy NRO / `game.love` for loose).
 4. For ROMs/mods/saves, open the save-dir `imports/`, `imports/mods/`,
-   `imports/saves/<red|blue|yellow|gold>/`, or `exports/<red|blue|yellow|gold>/`
+   `imports/saves/<red|blue|yellow|gold|silver>/`, or
+   `exports/<red|blue|yellow|gold|silver>/`
    path the launcher prints.
 5. Wait for the queue; refresh; exit MTP responder; title-override launch.
 

main.lua

@@ -327,6 +327,7 @@ local function returnToLauncher()
   if love.audio and love.audio.stop then
     pcall(love.audio.stop)
   end
+  pcall(function() require("src.render.SecondScreen").setEnabled(false) end)
 
   local GameVersion = require("src.core.GameVersion")
   local currentVersion = GameVersion.get()
@@ -386,11 +387,12 @@ function bootGame(version)
     love.window.setTitle(Version.title(
       GameVersion.info().displayName .. " (Gen 1 Recompilation Project)"))
   end
-  -- Gold: Gen 1 Game:load cannot consume a Gen 2 cache -- different generated
+  -- Gen 2: Gen 1 Game:load cannot consume a Gen 2 cache -- different generated
-  -- tables, save shape and screen registry -- so Gold boots its own service
+  -- tables, save shape and screen registry -- so Gold and Silver boot their
-  -- owner, which mounts src/world/gen2 (walk / warps / connections) and the
+  -- own service owner, which mounts src/world/gen2 (walk / warps /
-  -- Gen 2 screens instead of src/core/Game.lua's Gen 1 wiring.
+  -- connections) and the Gen 2 screens instead of src/core/Game.lua's Gen 1
-  if GameVersion.isGold() then
+  -- wiring.
+  if GameVersion.generation() == 2 then
     Game = require("src.core.Game2").new()
     Game:load()
   else

mobile/ANDROID.md

@@ -109,10 +109,10 @@ The APK lands under `app/build/outputs/apk/embedNoRecord/debug/`.
 
 `app/src/embed/assets/game.love` - zip of `main.lua`, `conf.lua`, `src/`,
 `libs/` (the vendored FlexLove toolkit the launcher UI needs), `data/`,
-`assets/`, and the Red, Blue, and Yellow ROM manifests. The Android
+`assets/`, and the Red, Blue, Yellow, Gold, and Silver ROM manifests. The
-packer verifies the Yellow manifest before it packages; if a partial source
+Android packer verifies the Yellow, Gold, and Silver manifests before it
-export omitted it, it restores the file from this checkout's Git data and then
+packages; if a partial source export omitted one, it restores the file from
-falls back to the project's GitHub copy. Generated game data,
+this checkout's Git data and then falls back to the project's GitHub copy. Generated game data,
 scripts, tests, and mobile build sources are excluded.
 
 ## Branding (applied by the build script)

mobile/android/app/src/main/res/values/colors.xml

@@ -8,4 +8,5 @@
     <color name="shortcut_blue">#1E88E5</color>
     <color name="shortcut_yellow">#FDD835</color>
     <color name="shortcut_gold">#D4AF37</color>
+    <color name="shortcut_silver">#BEC6D2</color>
 </resources>

mobile/android/love/src/main/java/org/love2d/android/GameActivity.java

@@ -398,11 +398,15 @@ public class GameActivity extends SDLActivity {
 
     @Override
     protected void onDestroy() {
+        secondaryHostResumed = false;
         if (vibrator != null) {
             Log.d("GameActivity", "Cancelling vibration");
             vibrator.cancel();
         }
         unregisterSecondaryDisplayListener();
+        teardownSecondaryDisplay();
+        secondaryEnabled = false;
+        synchronized (secondaryFrameLock) { secondaryFrame = null; }
         unregisterAudioDeviceCallback();
         abandonAudioFocus();
         onHostDestroy();
@@ -411,6 +415,7 @@ public class GameActivity extends SDLActivity {
 
     @Override
     protected void onPause() {
+        secondaryHostResumed = false;
         if (vibrator != null) {
             Log.d("GameActivity", "Cancelling vibration");
             vibrator.cancel();
@@ -426,6 +431,7 @@ public class GameActivity extends SDLActivity {
     @Override
     public void onResume() {
         super.onResume();
+        secondaryHostResumed = true;
         onHostResume();
         requestGameAudioFocus();
         registerAudioDeviceCallback();
@@ -1933,6 +1939,7 @@ public class GameActivity extends SDLActivity {
     private static volatile int secondaryActivityTarget = Display.INVALID_DISPLAY;
     private static volatile long secondaryRetryAfter;
     private static volatile boolean secondaryEnabled = false;
+    private static volatile boolean secondaryHostResumed = false;
     private static volatile int secondaryTarget = SECONDARY_TARGET_AUTO;
     private static volatile int dualScreenDisplayMode = -1;
     private static volatile byte[] secondaryFrame;
@@ -1963,7 +1970,7 @@ public class GameActivity extends SDLActivity {
         if (self == null) return;
         self.runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
             @Override public void run() {
-                if (on) {
+                if (on && secondaryHostResumed) {
                     self.refreshDualScreenDisplayMode();
                     self.registerSecondaryDisplayListener();
                     rebindSecondaryDisplay();
@@ -2035,9 +2042,11 @@ public class GameActivity extends SDLActivity {
 
     private static void rebindSecondaryDisplay() {
         GameActivity self = (GameActivity) mSingleton;
-        if (self == null || !secondaryEnabled || secondaryOutputIsPreferred(self)) return;
+        if (self == null || !secondaryHostResumed || !secondaryEnabled
+                || secondaryOutputIsPreferred(self)) return;
         self.runOnUiThread(() -> {
-            if (!secondaryEnabled || secondaryOutputIsPreferred(self)) return;
+            if (!secondaryHostResumed || !secondaryEnabled
+                    || secondaryOutputIsPreferred(self)) return;
             teardownSecondaryDisplay();
             setupSecondaryDisplay();
         });
@@ -2045,7 +2054,8 @@ public class GameActivity extends SDLActivity {
 
     private static void setupSecondaryDisplay() {
         GameActivity self = (GameActivity) mSingleton;
-        if (self == null || !secondaryEnabled || secondaryPresentation != null
+        if (self == null || !secondaryHostResumed || !secondaryEnabled
+                || secondaryPresentation != null
                 || secondaryActivity != null || secondaryActivityPending
                 || android.os.SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() < secondaryRetryAfter) return;
         try {

mobile/ios/app-repo.json

@@ -12,6 +12,20 @@
       "tintColor": "3b5ca8",
       "category": "games",
       "versions": [
+        {
+          "version": "0.2.11",
+          "date": "2026-08-20",
+          "size": 13735190,
+          "downloadURL": "https://github.com/bryanthaboi/gen1recomp/releases/download/v0.2.11/gen1recomp++-0.2.11-ios.ipa",
+          "localizedDescription": "Download the correct version for your computer below.\n\n## Issues closed\n\n- #393 silph co. npc missing some dialogue\n- #1600 allow my uncle's neighbor to sit at the big kids table\n- #1603 pocket taco - type option \"screen position\"\n\n## Contributors\n\n- @1Jamie\n- @bryanthaboi\n- @dburton95\n- @mleo2003\n- @thibautbus"
+        },
+        {
+          "version": "0.2.10",
+          "date": "2026-08-19",
+          "size": 13662645,
+          "downloadURL": "https://github.com/bryanthaboi/gen1recomp/releases/download/v0.2.10/gen1recomp++-0.2.10-ios.ipa",
+          "localizedDescription": "Download the correct version for your computer below.\n\n## Issues closed\n\n- #998 Jingles not finishing before game proceeds\n- #1472 Message for sending out Pokemon not closing automatically\n- #1526 No screen shake when getting poisoned\n- #1529 Messages missing when interacting with PC\n- #1530 No message for interacting with bikes in the bike shop\n- #1532 Thrash animation incomplete\n- #1534 Dialogue missing when switching out Pokemon\n- #1547 Save states can be used to bypass certain NPCs\n- #1549 Menu Cartridge 3D model has visual issues\n- #1550 Nugget Bridge Rocket repeating dialogue\n- #1551 No scripted dialogue after beating Nugget Bridge Rocket\n\n## Contributors\n\n- @bryanthaboi\n- @castdrian"
+        },
         {
           "version": "0.2.9",
           "date": "2026-08-19",

scripts/build.sh

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 #
 # Usage: scripts/build.sh [mac|win|linux|android|ios|all] [--version X.Y.Z] [--identity "Developer ID Application: ..."]
 #                          [--notary-profile NAME] [--no-notarize]
+#                          [--game-love PATH]  # fuse a prebuilt payload (scripts/pack_love.sh) instead of packing one
 #                          [--release]   # ios only: release config instead of debug
 #
 # Output: dist/mac/gen1recomp-macos.zip
@@ -36,6 +37,7 @@ NOTARY_PROFILE="notary-profile"
 NOTARIZE=true
 IOS_RELEASE=false
 IOS_IPA=false
+GAME_LOVE_IN=""
 
 say()  { printf '\033[1;32m==>\033[0m %s\n' "$*"; }
 warn() { printf '\033[1;33mwarn:\033[0m %s\n' "$*" >&2; }
@@ -48,6 +50,7 @@ while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
     --identity) IDENTITY="$2"; shift ;;
     --notary-profile) NOTARY_PROFILE="$2"; shift ;;
     --no-notarize) NOTARIZE=false ;;
+    --game-love) GAME_LOVE_IN="${2:?--game-love needs a path}"; shift ;;
     --release) IOS_RELEASE=true ;;
     --ipa) IOS_IPA=true ;;
     *) fail "unknown argument: $1" ;;
@@ -62,16 +65,23 @@ mkdir -p "$CACHE" "$WORK" "$DIST/mac" "$DIST/win" "$DIST/linux"
 # launcher's Edit button on a save row opens it in-process (main.lua), and
 # `--editor` / POKEPORT_EDITOR=1 opens it standalone.  It is required through
 # love.filesystem's require path, so it has to live inside the archive.
-say "packing game.love"
 LOVE_FILE="$WORK/game.love"
 rm -f "$LOVE_FILE"
-# The launcher UI kit lives at src/ui/kit (inside src/, packed wholesale);
+if [ -n "$GAME_LOVE_IN" ]; then
-# the vendored libs/flexlove tree it replaced is gone.
+  [ -f "$GAME_LOVE_IN" ] || fail "--game-love: no such file: $GAME_LOVE_IN"
-(cd "$ROOT" && zip -q -9 -r "$LOVE_FILE" \
+  say "using prebuilt payload: $GAME_LOVE_IN"
-  main.lua conf.lua src data assets tools/save-editor \
+  cp "$GAME_LOVE_IN" "$LOVE_FILE"
-  tools/rom_manifest.json tools/rom_manifest_blue.json \
+else
-  tools/rom_manifest_yellow.json tools/rom_manifest_gold.json \
+  say "packing game.love"
-  -x '*.DS_Store' 'data/generated/*' 'assets/generated/*')
+  # The launcher UI kit lives at src/ui/kit (inside src/, packed wholesale);
+  # the vendored libs/flexlove tree it replaced is gone.
+  (cd "$ROOT" && zip -q -9 -r "$LOVE_FILE" \
+    main.lua conf.lua src data assets tools/save-editor \
+    tools/rom_manifest.json tools/rom_manifest_blue.json \
+    tools/rom_manifest_yellow.json tools/rom_manifest_gold.json \
+    tools/rom_manifest_silver.json \
+    -x '*.DS_Store' 'data/generated/*' 'assets/generated/*')
+fi
 # Materialize the listing once and grep the file: piping unzip straight into
 # grep -q under `set -o pipefail` SIGPIPEs unzip when grep exits early on a
 # match, and the pipeline's failure reads as "missing <file>" for whichever
@@ -90,7 +100,8 @@ for required in tools/save-editor/App.lua tools/save-editor/Kit.lua \
                 tools/save-editor/panels/Party.lua \
                 src/ui/kit/Kit.lua \
                 tools/rom_manifest.json tools/rom_manifest_blue.json \
-                tools/rom_manifest_yellow.json tools/rom_manifest_gold.json; do
+                tools/rom_manifest_yellow.json tools/rom_manifest_gold.json \
+                tools/rom_manifest_silver.json; do
   grep -qxF "$required" "$LOVE_LISTING" \
     || fail "game.love is missing $required"
 done
@@ -105,18 +116,26 @@ say "game.love: $(du -h "$LOVE_FILE" | cut -f1)"
 # mistaken for a release. The stamp is then read back out of the archive and the
 # build fails if it did not take.
 if printf '%s' "$VERSION" | grep -Eq '^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$'; then
-  say "stamping engine version $VERSION into game.love"
+  if [ -n "$GAME_LOVE_IN" ]; then
-  stamp_dir="$WORK/stamp"
+    version_re="$(printf '%s' "$VERSION" | sed 's/\./\\./g')"
-  rm -rf "$stamp_dir"
+    unzip -p "$LOVE_FILE" src/core/Version.lua \
-  mkdir -p "$stamp_dir/src/core"
+      | grep -Eq "engine[[:space:]]*=[[:space:]]*\"$version_re\"" \
-  sed -E "s/(engine[[:space:]]*=[[:space:]]*\")[^\"]*(\")/\1$VERSION\2/" \
+      || fail "prebuilt payload does not report engine $VERSION (pack it with pack_love.sh --version $VERSION)"
-    "$ROOT/src/core/Version.lua" > "$stamp_dir/src/core/Version.lua"
+    say "prebuilt payload already stamped: $VERSION"
-  (cd "$stamp_dir" && zip -q "$LOVE_FILE" src/core/Version.lua)
+  else
-  version_re="$(printf '%s' "$VERSION" | sed 's/\./\\./g')"
+    say "stamping engine version $VERSION into game.love"
-  unzip -p "$LOVE_FILE" src/core/Version.lua \
+    stamp_dir="$WORK/stamp"
-    | grep -Eq "engine[[:space:]]*=[[:space:]]*\"$version_re\"" \
+    rm -rf "$stamp_dir"
-    || fail "version stamp failed: game.love does not report engine $VERSION"
+    mkdir -p "$stamp_dir/src/core"
-  say "stamped engine version: $VERSION"
+    sed -E "s/(engine[[:space:]]*=[[:space:]]*\")[^\"]*(\")/\1$VERSION\2/" \
+      "$ROOT/src/core/Version.lua" > "$stamp_dir/src/core/Version.lua"
+    (cd "$stamp_dir" && zip -q "$LOVE_FILE" src/core/Version.lua)
+    version_re="$(printf '%s' "$VERSION" | sed 's/\./\\./g')"
+    unzip -p "$LOVE_FILE" src/core/Version.lua \
+      | grep -Eq "engine[[:space:]]*=[[:space:]]*\"$version_re\"" \
+      || fail "version stamp failed: game.love does not report engine $VERSION"
+    say "stamped engine version: $VERSION"
+  fi
 else
   say "version '$VERSION' is not X.Y.Z,  shipping default engine (no stamp)"
 fi

scripts/build_android.sh

@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ YELLOW_MANIFEST_RELATIVE="tools/rom_manifest_yellow.json"
 YELLOW_MANIFEST_URL="${YELLOW_MANIFEST_URL:-https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bryanthaboi/gen1recomp/main/tools/rom_manifest_yellow.json}"
 GOLD_MANIFEST_RELATIVE="tools/rom_manifest_gold.json"
 GOLD_MANIFEST_URL="${GOLD_MANIFEST_URL:-https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bryanthaboi/gen1recomp/main/tools/rom_manifest_gold.json}"
+SILVER_MANIFEST_RELATIVE="tools/rom_manifest_silver.json"
+SILVER_MANIFEST_URL="${SILVER_MANIFEST_URL:-https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bryanthaboi/gen1recomp/main/tools/rom_manifest_silver.json}"
 
 VERSION=""
 PACKAGE_ONLY=false
@@ -177,6 +179,54 @@ ensure_gold_manifest() {
   fail "Gold import manifest is unavailable. Git recovery failed and could not download $GOLD_MANIFEST_URL"
 }
 
+silver_manifest_is_valid() {
+  local path="$1"
+  python3 - "$path" <<'PY'
+import json, pathlib, sys
+
+try:
+    manifest = json.loads(pathlib.Path(sys.argv[1]).read_text())
+except (OSError, ValueError):
+    raise SystemExit(1)
+
+raise SystemExit(0 if manifest.get("romSha1") ==
+                 "49b163f7e57702bc939d642a18f591de55d92dae" else 1)
+PY
+}
+
+ensure_silver_manifest() {
+  local manifest="$ROOT/$SILVER_MANIFEST_RELATIVE"
+  local staged
+  staged="$(mktemp)"
+
+  if silver_manifest_is_valid "$manifest"; then
+    rm -f "$staged"
+    return
+  fi
+
+  warn "Silver import manifest is missing or invalid; recovering it before packaging"
+  if git -C "$ROOT" show "HEAD:$SILVER_MANIFEST_RELATIVE" > "$staged" 2>/dev/null \
+      && silver_manifest_is_valid "$staged"; then
+    mkdir -p "$(dirname "$manifest")"
+    mv "$staged" "$manifest"
+    say "restored Silver import manifest from this checkout's Git data"
+    return
+  fi
+
+  if command -v curl >/dev/null 2>&1 \
+      && curl --fail --location --retry 2 --connect-timeout 15 \
+          --output "$staged" "$SILVER_MANIFEST_URL" \
+      && silver_manifest_is_valid "$staged"; then
+    mkdir -p "$(dirname "$manifest")"
+    mv "$staged" "$manifest"
+    say "downloaded Silver import manifest from the project repository"
+    return
+  fi
+
+  rm -f "$staged"
+  fail "Silver import manifest is unavailable. Git recovery failed and could not download $SILVER_MANIFEST_URL"
+}
+
 # --------------------------------------------------------------- branding
 # love-android 11.5+ reads app id / name / orientation from gradle.properties.
 # Manifest still gets permission trims. Re-applied every build so refreshing
@@ -242,6 +292,7 @@ pack_game_love() {
   say "packing game.love for love-android embed flavor"
   ensure_yellow_manifest
   ensure_gold_manifest
+  ensure_silver_manifest
   mkdir -p "$EMBED_ASSETS"
   rm -f "$LOVE_FILE"
   # tools/save-editor ships with the app: the launcher's Edit button on a save
@@ -256,6 +307,7 @@ pack_game_love() {
     main.lua conf.lua src data assets tools/save-editor \
     tools/rom_manifest.json tools/rom_manifest_blue.json \
     tools/rom_manifest_yellow.json tools/rom_manifest_gold.json \
+    tools/rom_manifest_silver.json \
     -x '*.DS_Store' -x '*/.git/*' -x '*/.DS_Store' \
     -x 'data/generated/*' -x 'assets/generated/*')
   # List once and match against the captured text: piping unzip straight into
@@ -277,6 +329,8 @@ pack_game_love() {
     || fail "game.love is missing the Yellow ROM import manifest"
   grep -qx 'tools/rom_manifest_gold.json' <<< "$archive_entries" \
     || fail "game.love is missing the Gold ROM import manifest"
+  grep -qx 'tools/rom_manifest_silver.json' <<< "$archive_entries" \
+    || fail "game.love is missing the Silver ROM import manifest"
   # This gate exists because the launcher's UI toolkit once lived outside
   # src/ (libs/flexlove) and was added to scripts/build.sh's payload and to
   # no other packager, so Android and iOS built an APK/IPA whose launcher

scripts/linux-arm64/build_appimage.sh

@@ -366,6 +366,8 @@ cp "$IN/game.love" "$APPDIR/game.love"
 unzip -Z1 "$APPDIR/game.love" > "$WORK/love-listing.txt"
 grep -qxF "tools/rom_manifest_gold.json" "$WORK/love-listing.txt" \
   || fail "game.love is missing tools/rom_manifest_gold.json"
+grep -qxF "tools/rom_manifest_silver.json" "$WORK/love-listing.txt" \
+  || fail "game.love is missing tools/rom_manifest_silver.json"
 # The .desktop's Icon= resolves against the AppDir root by basename, and
 # .DirIcon is what appimaged and file-manager thumbnailers read.
 cp "$IN/icon.png" "$APPDIR/$APP_NAME.png"

scripts/linux-arm64/selftest_build_linux_arm64.sh

@@ -169,5 +169,7 @@ unzip -p "$temp_dir/game.love" src/core/Version.lua \
   || fail "shared payload version was not stamped"
 grep -qxF "tools/rom_manifest_gold.json" "$temp_dir/love-listing.txt" \
   || fail "shared payload is missing tools/rom_manifest_gold.json"
+grep -qxF "tools/rom_manifest_silver.json" "$temp_dir/love-listing.txt" \
+  || fail "shared payload is missing tools/rom_manifest_silver.json"
 
 say "Linux arm64 self-test passed"

scripts/linux-arm64/verify_appimage.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Verifies a built arm64 AppImage is self-contained and bullseye-compatible.
+# Usage: scripts/linux-arm64/verify_appimage.sh <AppImage>
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+image="${1:?usage: verify_appimage.sh <AppImage>}"
+[ -f "$image" ] || { echo "::error::no such AppImage: $image"; exit 1; }
+image="$(cd "$(dirname "$image")" && pwd)/$(basename "$image")"
+
+workdir="$(mktemp -d)"
+trap 'rm -rf "$workdir"' EXIT
+cd "$workdir"
+
+# --appimage-extract needs no FUSE, so this works on a runner
+# without /dev/fuse and still exercises the real payload.
+"$image" --appimage-extract >/dev/null
+for required in AppRun bin/love game.love lib/liblove-11.5.so; do
+  [ -e "squashfs-root/$required" ] \
+    || { echo "::error::AppImage is missing $required"; exit 1; }
+done
+
+# Every bundled object must resolve once AppRun's LD_LIBRARY_PATH is
+# applied; an unresolved soname here is a user-visible launch crash.
+#
+# This runs on a HEADLESS runner on purpose, and that is the point.
+# The first version of this build bundled Debian's SDL2, which
+# hard-links libpulse/libasound/libX11/libwayland, so it only ever
+# started on a full desktop -- a bare runner is what exposed it.
+missing="$(LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$PWD/squashfs-root/lib" \
+  ldd squashfs-root/bin/love squashfs-root/lib/*.so* 2>/dev/null \
+  | grep 'not found' || true)"
+[ -z "$missing" ] || { echo "::error::unresolved deps:"; echo "$missing"; exit 1; }
+
+# Nothing may hard-link a driver, session or audio-stack library:
+# those must be reached through dlopen so the AppImage runs on a box
+# with only ALSA, only Wayland, or only KMSDRM.
+linked="$(for f in squashfs-root/bin/love squashfs-root/lib/*.so*; do
+  objdump -p "$f" 2>/dev/null | awk '/NEEDED/{print $2}'
+done | sort -u | grep -E '^lib(pulse|asound|X11|wayland|GL|EGL|drm|gbm|xcb|cairo|sndio|dbus)' || true)"
+[ -z "$linked" ] \
+  || { echo "::error::these must be dlopened, not linked:"; echo "$linked"; exit 1; }
+
+# The whole point of compiling on bullseye. If a future change moves
+# the builder to a newer base, the glibc floor silently rises and
+# every user on an older distro gets "GLIBC_2.xx not found" -- catch
+# it here instead of in a release.
+floor="$(objdump -T squashfs-root/bin/love squashfs-root/lib/*.so* 2>/dev/null \
+  | grep -o 'GLIBC_[0-9.]*' | sort -V | tail -1)"
+echo "highest required glibc symbol version: $floor"
+[ -n "$floor" ] \
+  || { echo "::error::found no versioned glibc symbols -- objdump read nothing"; exit 1; }
+highest="$(printf '%s\n' "$floor" "GLIBC_2.31" | sort -V | tail -1)"
+[ "$highest" = "GLIBC_2.31" ] \
+  || { echo "::error::AppImage requires $floor, above the bullseye 2.31 floor"; exit 1; }
+
+echo "AppImage verified: $image"

scripts/pack_love.sh

@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ rm -f "$OUTPUT"
   main.lua conf.lua src data assets tools/save-editor \
   tools/rom_manifest.json tools/rom_manifest_blue.json \
   tools/rom_manifest_yellow.json tools/rom_manifest_gold.json \
+  tools/rom_manifest_silver.json \
   -x '*.DS_Store' 'data/generated/*' 'assets/generated/*')
 if [ -f "$ROOT/PATCH_NOTES.md" ]; then
   (cd "$ROOT" && zip -q "$OUTPUT" PATCH_NOTES.md)
@@ -94,6 +95,7 @@ for required in tools/save-editor/App.lua tools/save-editor/Kit.lua \
                 tools/save-editor/panels/Party.lua \
                 tools/rom_manifest.json tools/rom_manifest_blue.json \
                 tools/rom_manifest_yellow.json tools/rom_manifest_gold.json \
+                tools/rom_manifest_silver.json \
                 src/ui/kit/Kit.lua \
                 src/import/LauncherView.lua; do
   grep -qxF "$required" "$LISTING" \

scripts/run.sh

@@ -17,7 +17,9 @@ fail() { printf '\033[1;31merror:\033[0m %s\n' "$*" >&2; exit 1; }
 
 if [ ! -f "$ROOT/data/generated/maps.lua" ] \
     && [ ! -f "$ROOT/blue/data/generated/maps.lua" ] \
-    && [ ! -f "$ROOT/yellow/data/generated/maps.lua" ]; then
+    && [ ! -f "$ROOT/yellow/data/generated/maps.lua" ] \
+    && [ ! -f "$ROOT/gold/data/generated/maps.lua" ] \
+    && [ ! -f "$ROOT/silver/data/generated/maps.lua" ]; then
   fail "generated data missing,  run scripts/setup.sh first"
 fi
 

scripts/switch/pack_sd_zip.sh

@@ -71,15 +71,15 @@ First install or update (same steps):
      your saves, imported ROMs, mods, and options. Re-extracting only
      replaces the NRO(s) and these help files.
   3. Launch with title override (hold R on HOME, open any title → hbmenu).
-  4. Copy a legal Pokemon Red/Blue .gb or Yellow/Gold .gbc into:
+  4. Copy a legal Pokemon Red/Blue .gb or Yellow/Gold/Silver .gbc into:
        switch/gen1recomp/pokemon-love2d/imports/
      then use Scan again in the launcher if needed.
 
 Inboxes (drop files here via MTP / SD / FTP):
   imports/                      — ROM .gb / .gbc
   imports/mods/                 — community mod .zip
-  imports/saves/red|blue|yellow|gold/  — raw .sav import (Gold cart .sav not yet)
+  imports/saves/red|blue|yellow|gold|silver/  — raw .sav import (Gold/Silver cart .sav not yet)
-  exports/red|blue|yellow|gold/        — pull after Export save (Gold not yet)
+  exports/red|blue|yellow|gold|silver/        — pull after Export save (Gold/Silver not yet)
 
 Full guide: https://github.com/bryanthaboi/gen1recomp/blob/main/docs/switch-install.md
 EOF
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ write_readme() {
 }
 
 write_readme "$SAVE_ROOT/imports/README.txt" \
-  "Put a legal Pokemon Red/Blue .gb or Yellow/Gold .gbc here, then Scan again in the launcher."
+  "Put a legal Pokemon Red/Blue .gb or Yellow/Gold/Silver .gbc here, then Scan again in the launcher."
 write_readme "$SAVE_ROOT/imports/mods/README.txt" \
   "Put community mod .zip files here, then MODS → Scan again."
 write_readme "$SAVE_ROOT/imports/saves/red/README.txt" \
@@ -103,6 +103,8 @@ write_readme "$SAVE_ROOT/imports/saves/yellow/README.txt" \
   "Put a Yellow .sav (32 KB) here, then Yellow tab → SAVE FILES → Import save."
 write_readme "$SAVE_ROOT/imports/saves/gold/README.txt" \
   "Gold cart .sav import is not supported yet. Folder reserved so MTP matches the other games."
+write_readme "$SAVE_ROOT/imports/saves/silver/README.txt" \
+  "Silver cart .sav import is not supported yet. Folder reserved so MTP matches the other games."
 write_readme "$SAVE_ROOT/exports/red/README.txt" \
   "After Export save (Red), copy the .sav out of this folder via MTP / SD / FTP."
 write_readme "$SAVE_ROOT/exports/blue/README.txt" \
@@ -111,6 +113,8 @@ write_readme "$SAVE_ROOT/exports/yellow/README.txt" \
   "After Export save (Yellow), copy the .sav out of this folder via MTP / SD / FTP."
 write_readme "$SAVE_ROOT/exports/gold/README.txt" \
   "Gold cart .sav export is not supported yet. Folder reserved so MTP matches the other games."
+write_readme "$SAVE_ROOT/exports/silver/README.txt" \
+  "Silver cart .sav export is not supported yet. Folder reserved so MTP matches the other games."
 
 rm -f "$OUT_ZIP"
 (
@@ -140,10 +144,12 @@ REQUIRED=(
   "switch/gen1recomp/pokemon-love2d/imports/saves/blue/README.txt"
   "switch/gen1recomp/pokemon-love2d/imports/saves/yellow/README.txt"
   "switch/gen1recomp/pokemon-love2d/imports/saves/gold/README.txt"
+  "switch/gen1recomp/pokemon-love2d/imports/saves/silver/README.txt"
   "switch/gen1recomp/pokemon-love2d/exports/red/README.txt"
   "switch/gen1recomp/pokemon-love2d/exports/blue/README.txt"
   "switch/gen1recomp/pokemon-love2d/exports/yellow/README.txt"
   "switch/gen1recomp/pokemon-love2d/exports/gold/README.txt"
+  "switch/gen1recomp/pokemon-love2d/exports/silver/README.txt"
 )
 for rel in "${REQUIRED[@]}"; do
   printf '%s\n' "$LISTING" | grep -Fq "$rel" || fail "zip missing $rel"

scripts/switch/selftest_build_switch.sh

@@ -271,10 +271,12 @@ for rel in \
   "switch/gen1recomp/pokemon-love2d/imports/saves/blue/README.txt" \
   "switch/gen1recomp/pokemon-love2d/imports/saves/yellow/README.txt" \
   "switch/gen1recomp/pokemon-love2d/imports/saves/gold/README.txt" \
+  "switch/gen1recomp/pokemon-love2d/imports/saves/silver/README.txt" \
   "switch/gen1recomp/pokemon-love2d/exports/red/README.txt" \
   "switch/gen1recomp/pokemon-love2d/exports/blue/README.txt" \
   "switch/gen1recomp/pokemon-love2d/exports/yellow/README.txt" \
-  "switch/gen1recomp/pokemon-love2d/exports/gold/README.txt"
+  "switch/gen1recomp/pokemon-love2d/exports/gold/README.txt" \
+  "switch/gen1recomp/pokemon-love2d/exports/silver/README.txt"
 do
   printf '%s\n' "$ZIP_LIST" | grep -Fq "$rel" || PACK_MISSING="${PACK_MISSING} ${rel}"
 done

scripts/test.sh

@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ run_tier() {
 # ------- ROM-free tiers: these are what CI runs
 
 run_tier "T0 ROM builder version routing" python3 tests/build_rom_data_cli_test.py
+run_tier "T0 ROM manifest generator pin/overrides" python3 tests/rom_manifest_generator_test.py
 run_tier "T0 switch CI workflow content gate" "$LUA" tests/switch_ci_workflows_test.lua
 run_tier "T0 switch transfer docs gate" "$LUA" tests/switch_transfer_docs_test.lua
 # NX Blue/Yellow asset overlay: ROM-free, must run on every checkout so a

src/battle/BattleState.lua

@@ -1718,9 +1718,14 @@ function BattleState:enter()
     -- _PlayerBlackedOutText2 (data/text/text_2.asm:896): the two paragraphs
     -- playerMonFainted queues on the battle screen; there is no battle
     -- screen to queue them on here, so they print over the map.
+    -- _PlayerBlackedOutText (no "2") extracts to the identical wording from
+    -- a different ROM address and is unused anywhere in this engine -- not
+    -- a fallback for this one, just pokered printing the same paragraph
+    -- from a second call site elsewhere.
     self.game.stack:push(require("src.render.TextBox").new(self.game,
-      Strings("%s is out of\nuseable POKéMON!", name) .. "\f"
+      self:romText("_PlayerBlackedOutText2",
-      .. Strings("%s blacked\nout!", name), blackedOut))
+        "%s is out of\nuseable POKéMON!\f%s blacked\nout!", name, name),
+      blackedOut))
     return
   end
   self.musicKind = self:computeMusicKind()
@@ -1857,7 +1862,8 @@ function BattleState:enter()
       self:slidePic("foe")
     end)
     -- _TrainerSentOutText ends `done`, not `prompt` (data/text/text_2.asm:923)
-    self:sayAuto(Strings("%s sent\nout %s!", foeName, self.enemy.name))
+    self:sayAuto(self:romText("_TrainerSentOutText", "%s sent\nout %s!",
+      foeName, self.enemy.name))
     self:act(function()
       -- EnemySendOutFirstMon (core.asm:1421-1434): after the text the
       -- pic grows out of the ball (AnimateSendingOutMon), then the cry
@@ -3638,12 +3644,13 @@ function BattleState:executeAction(user, target, action)
       })
       self.aiUses = self:aiUsesFor()
       markSeen(self.game, self.enemy.mon.species)
-      -- _AIBattleWithdrawText: "X with-/drew Y!"
+      self:sayNext(self:romText("_AIBattleWithdrawText", "%s with-\ndrew %s!",
-      self:sayNext(Strings("%s with-\ndrew %s!", self.trainer.name, oldName))
+        self.trainer.name, oldName))
       -- EnemySendOut falls into EnemySendOutFirstMon: TrainerSentOutText,
       -- then AnimateSendingOutMon and PlayCry (core.asm:1276-1434)
       self.enemySendingOut = true
-      self:sayNextAuto(Strings("%s sent\nout %s!", self.trainer.name, self.enemy.name))
+      self:sayNextAuto(self:romText("_TrainerSentOutText", "%s sent\nout %s!",
+        self.trainer.name, self.enemy.name))
       self:actNext(function()
         self.enemySendingOut = false
         self:startGrowIn(self.enemy)
@@ -4142,8 +4149,12 @@ function BattleState:onFaint(battler)
     -- acknowledged core.asm:797-798 bug.)
     self:actNext(function() self:playVictoryMusic() end)
   end
-  -- _EnemyMonFaintedText "Enemy X fainted!" / _PlayerMonFaintedText
+  -- _EnemyMonFaintedText already carries its own "Enemy" wording, so this
-  self:sayNext(Strings("%s\nfainted!", displayName(battler)))
+  -- passes the raw name -- displayName's separate Strings("Enemy %s", ...)
+  -- would double it up
+  self:sayNext(battler.isPlayer
+    and self:romText("_PlayerMonFaintedText", "%s\nfainted!", battler.name)
+    or self:romText("_EnemyMonFaintedText", "Enemy %s\nfainted!", battler.name))
   if battler.isPlayer then
     self:act(function() self:playerMonFainted() end)
   else
@@ -4319,6 +4330,13 @@ function BattleState:enemyMonFainted()
         -- "X is" off so "about to use" stays above the name, instead of the
         -- page ending on a bare nick (#565).  Then para "Will PLAYER" /
         -- "change POKéMON?" with YES/NO.
+        --
+        -- _TrainerAboutToUseText combines both \f-paged, but unlike
+        -- _ItemUseBallText00's say()+say() merge above, this is say()+
+        -- sayChoice(): tried merging into one romText/sayChoice call and
+        -- confirmed via tests/engine/trainer_shift_prompt_bug565.lua that
+        -- the battle queue's own \f handling (not TextBox.lua's) does not
+        -- page a sayChoice string the same way -- left as two calls.
         self:say(Strings("%s is\nabout to use\v%s!", self.trainer.name, nextName))
         self:sayChoice(
           Strings("Will %s\nchange POKéMON?", self.game.save.player.name),
@@ -4362,7 +4380,8 @@ function BattleState:enemyMonFainted()
         -- (AnimateSendingOutMon) with the cry; no POOF -- that animation
         -- belongs to the player-side SendOutMon (core.asm:1757-1762)
         self.enemySendingOut = true
-        self:sayNextAuto(Strings("%s sent\nout %s!", self.trainer.name, self.enemy.name))
+        self:sayNextAuto(self:romText("_TrainerSentOutText", "%s sent\nout %s!",
+          self.trainer.name, self.enemy.name))
         self:actNext(function()
           self.enemySendingOut = false
           self:startGrowIn(self.enemy)
@@ -4878,7 +4897,8 @@ function BattleState:storeCaughtMon()
     -- text_promptbutton (item_effects.asm:624-629), so the fanfare follows
     -- the box rather than firing when the dex bit is set
     self:sayNextWaitSfx(
-      Strings("New POKéDEX data\nwill be added for\n%s!", self.enemy.name),
+      self:romText("_ItemUseBallText06",
+        "New POKéDEX data\nwill be added for\n%s!", self.enemy.name),
       function() return require("src.core.Sound").play(self.data, "Dex_Page_Added") end)
     self:uiNext(function()
       return self:buildScreen("DexEntryMenu", species)
@@ -4899,9 +4919,12 @@ function BattleState:storeCaughtMon()
     if boxNum then
       askCaughtNickname()
       -- _ItemUseBallText07/08 keyed on EVENT_MET_BILL
-      local pc = (game.save.flags and game.save.flags.EVENT_MET_BILL)
+      local metBill = game.save.flags and game.save.flags.EVENT_MET_BILL
-                 and "BILL's PC" or Strings("someone's PC")
+      self:sayNext(self:romText(
-      self:sayNext(Strings("%s was\ntransferred to\n%s!", self.enemy.name, pc))
+        metBill and "_ItemUseBallText07" or "_ItemUseBallText08",
+        metBill and "%s was\ntransferred to\nBILL's PC!"
+                or "%s was\ntransferred to\nsomeone's PC!",
+        self.enemy.name))
     else
       self:sayNext(Strings("But every BOX\nis full!"))
     end
@@ -5007,8 +5030,18 @@ function BattleState:throwBall(ball)
       -- RESTLESS SOUL dodges balls even once the scope has revealed it,
       -- so it is not a ghost battle any more (#444)
       self:animNext(self:tossAnimFor(ball), true, nil, ball)
-      self:sayNext(Strings("It dodged the\nthrown BALL!"))
+      -- _ItemUseBallText00 is one label for both lines, \f-paged.  Unlike
-      self:sayNext(Strings("This POKéMON\ncan't be caught!"))
+      -- TextBox.new() (which splits \f itself), the battle queue's own
+      -- startMessage() only splits on \n/\v -- confirmed live: the \f
+      -- landed mid-line and the second sentence overflowed off the box
+      -- instead of starting a fresh page.  Resolve the label once, then
+      -- split it the same way TextBox.lua does and queue one sayNext per
+      -- page, so the two ROM sentences still render as two pages.
+      local dodgeText = self:romText("_ItemUseBallText00",
+        "It dodged the\nthrown BALL!\fThis POKéMON\ncan't be caught!")
+      for page in (dodgeText .. "\f"):gmatch("(.-)\f") do
+        self:sayNext(page)
+      end
       self:act(function()
         self:executeAction(self.enemy, self.player, self:enemyAction())
       end)

src/core/Game.lua

@@ -326,6 +326,9 @@ function Game:logicSpeed()
   if self.linkSession or (self.linkNet and not self.linkNet.closed) then
     return 1
   end
+  if Game.isFixedSpeedInStack and Game.isFixedSpeedInStack(self.stack) then
+    return 1
+  end
   if self.speedOverride then return GameSpeed.clamp(self.speedOverride) end
   -- Clamp here too, not just in _resolveLogicSpeed's vanilla path: a mod's
   -- core.logic_speed hook can return anything (0, negative, nil, NaN) and
@@ -475,6 +478,15 @@ function Game.speedCategoryInStack(stack)
   return "menu"
 end
 
+function Game.isFixedSpeedInStack(stack)
+  local states = stack and stack.states
+  for i = #(states or {}), 1, -1 do
+    local state = states[i]
+    if state and (state.isFixedSpeed or state.isMinigame) then return true end
+  end
+  return false
+end
+
 -- Whether a state on the stack composes its own screen and so wants the
 -- edge anchors held off (BattleState.holdsUIAnchors).  Whole-stack, like
 -- everything else here: the text box and YES/NO a battle puts up are states
@@ -970,7 +982,11 @@ end
 -- parked the player until every direction was re-pressed (#799).
 function Game:focus(f)
   Input:reset()
-  if f then Input:reconcile() end
+  if f then
+    Input:reconcile()
+    local eng = self:syncEngine()
+    if eng then pcall(eng.noteResumed, eng) end
+  end
   TouchControls:reset()
   self:cancelPointers()
 end
@@ -990,6 +1006,8 @@ function Game:onResume()
   Input:reconcile()
   TouchControls:reset()
   self:cancelPointers()
+  local eng = self:syncEngine()
+  if eng then pcall(eng.noteResumed, eng) end
   -- Chip music may survive NX suspend as a duplicate stream; stop it and let
   -- the active screen re-cue on the next frame (hardware audio check: T19).
   -- Desktop/mobile window-visible flips must not kill overworld music.
@@ -1197,18 +1215,26 @@ end
 
 function Game:syncEngine()
   if self._syncOff then return nil end
-  if self._syncEngineRef then return self._syncEngineRef end
+  local eng = self._syncEngineRef
-  local ok, SyncEngine = pcall(require, "src.sync.SyncEngine")
-  if not ok or type(SyncEngine) ~= "table" then
-    self._syncOff = true
-    return nil
-  end
-  local eng = SyncEngine.shared()
   if not eng then
-    self._syncOff = true
+    local ok, SyncEngine = pcall(require, "src.sync.SyncEngine")
-    return nil
+    if not ok or type(SyncEngine) ~= "table" then
+      self._syncOff = true
+      return nil
+    end
+    eng = SyncEngine.shared()
+    if not eng then
+      self._syncOff = true
+      return nil
+    end
+    self._syncEngineRef = eng
+  end
+  if type(eng.protectPlaythrough) == "function" then
+    local meta = self.save and self.save.meta
+    eng:protectPlaythrough(
+      (self.save and self.save.version) or require("src.core.GameVersion").get(),
+      type(meta) == "table" and meta.playthroughId or nil)
   end
-  self._syncEngineRef = eng
   return eng
 end
 
@@ -1248,6 +1274,7 @@ function Game:applyOptions(opts)
   -- after VideoMode: a faithful-resolution lock is an exact window size, so
   -- it has to be the last word on the window (it drops fullscreen to hold)
   require("src.core.FaithfulRes").applyOptions(opts)
+  require("src.core.ScreenPosition").applyOptions(opts)
   -- normalizes a nil/garbage cap to the 60 default, so old saves with no
   -- fpsCap key pace at the standard rate (issue #88)
   require("src.core.FrameCap").applyOptions(opts)

src/core/Game2.lua

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 -- everything under src/*/gen2 reaches shared services through here.  Gen 1
 -- Game:load cannot consume a Gen 2 cache -- different generated tables, save
 -- shape and screen registry -- so main.lua's bootGame picks this owner when
--- GameVersion.isGold(), and the two never branch into each other.
+-- GameVersion.generation() == 2, and the two never branch into each other.
 --
 -- Boot: copyright → GameFreak Presents → GS intro stub → title
 -- (tilemap + Ho-Oh flap / clouds / trails) → Oak speech (Marill + shrink)
@@ -1660,8 +1660,9 @@ function Game2:drawScene(w, h)
       -- row to opt into the step-down half, so CENTERED is the whole rule
       -- here.
       local s = self.world:fitScale()
+      local ox, oy = Chrome.fitOrigin(w, h, s)
       G.push()
-      G.translate(math.floor((w - 160 * s) / 2), math.floor((h - 144 * s) / 2))
+      G.translate(ox, oy)
       G.scale(s, s)
       self.stack:draw()
       G.pop()
@@ -1702,7 +1703,7 @@ function Game2:hotkey(key)
     self:writeSave()
     return true
   elseif key == "f2" then
-    local loaded = Save.load("gold")
+    local loaded = Save.load()
     if loaded then self:continueGame(loaded) end
     return true
   elseif key == "1" then
@@ -1982,6 +1983,7 @@ function Game2:applyOptions()
     haptics = options.haptics,
   })
   require("src.core.VideoMode").applyOptions(options)
+  require("src.core.ScreenPosition").applyOptions(options)
   require("src.core.FrameCap").applyOptions(options)
   require("src.world.gen2.BorderFill").applyOptions(options)
   local GBCFX = require("src.render.GBCFX")

src/core/GameVersion.lua

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 -- Which game this process is running: Red (the historical default), Blue,
--- Yellow, or Gold.  One source of truth for everything that differs by
+-- Yellow, Gold, or Silver.  One source of truth for everything that differs by
 -- version -- the accepted ROM hash, the import manifest, where the
 -- extracted cache lives, and the save-file suffix -- so the importer,
 -- cache mount, SaveData, title screen and palette all agree.
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@
 -- saves are untouched, but its extracted cache lives under red/ like Blue,
 -- Yellow, and Gold (issue #899); a legacy root cache is moved into red/ once
 -- by CacheFs.migrateLegacyRedCache.  All supported versions can be imported
--- and selected side by side.  Gold is Gen 2 (see docs/gold-phase1.md).
+-- and selected side by side.  Gold and Silver are Gen 2 (see
+-- docs/gold-phase1.md).
 --
 -- Zero requires, so it loads during love.conf and under plain Lua for tools
 -- and tests.  The active version is a process-global set once at boot from
@@ -61,13 +62,26 @@ GameVersion.VERSIONS = {
     manifest = "tools/rom_manifest_gold.json",
     cachePrefix = "gold/",    -- gold/data/generated, gold/assets/generated
     saveSuffix = "_gold",     -- save_gold.lua / .bak / .tmp
-    -- The only row that carries one; absent reads as 1 (GameVersion.generation)
+    -- Absent reads as 1 (GameVersion.generation)
+    generation = 2,
+  },
+  -- Gold's engine with edition-selected data; the manifest is derived from
+  -- Gold's by tools/make_silver_manifest.py.
+  silver = {
+    id = "silver",
+    label = "Silver",
+    displayName = "Pokemon Silver",
+    launcherName = "Silver (Beta)",
+    sha1 = "49b163f7e57702bc939d642a18f591de55d92dae",
+    manifest = "tools/rom_manifest_silver.json",
+    cachePrefix = "silver/",  -- silver/data/generated, silver/assets/generated
+    saveSuffix = "_silver",   -- save_silver.lua / .bak / .tmp
     generation = 2,
   },
 }
 
 -- Launcher column order.
-GameVersion.ORDER = { "red", "blue", "yellow", "gold" }
+GameVersion.ORDER = { "red", "blue", "yellow", "gold", "silver" }
 
 GameVersion.current = "red"
 

src/core/LaunchOptions.lua

@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ local function normalizeVersion(v)
     b = "blue", blue = "blue",
     y = "yellow", yellow = "yellow",
     g = "gold", gold = "gold",
+    s = "silver", silver = "silver",
   }
   v = alias[v] or v
   if GameVersion.VERSIONS and not GameVersion.VERSIONS[v] then return nil end

src/core/Music.lua

@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ end
 
 function Music.play(data, song, loop, ctx)
   if not song then return end
-  if not love.audio then return end -- headless test stub
+  if not (love and love.audio) then return end -- headless test stub
   ctx = ctx or {}
   song = selectSong(song, ctx)
 

src/core/SaveData.lua

@@ -285,6 +285,7 @@ function SaveData.defaultOptions()
     -- lock the window to an exact 160x144 multiple, 1..4 (0 = OFF); see
     -- src/core/FaithfulRes.lua.  Ignored on mobile.
     faithfulRes = 0,
+    screenPos = "center",
     -- hard render frame-rate cap; render-only pacing (issue #88, FrameCap.lua)
     fpsCap = 60,
     -- graphics performance tier: auto | high | balanced | low.  "auto"
@@ -1279,13 +1280,26 @@ function SaveData.ensurePlaythroughId(save, injectedFs)
   local isFresh = save == freshPlaythrough
   if isFresh then freshPlaythrough = nil end
   local byVersion = opts.playthroughIds and opts.playthroughIds[version]
-  id = not isFresh and byVersion and byVersion[scope] or nil
+  local existing = byVersion and byVersion[scope]
+  id = not isFresh and existing or nil
   if type(id) ~= "string" or id == "" then
     id = SaveData.newPlaythroughId()
-    opts.playthroughIds = opts.playthroughIds or {}
+    -- A fresh skeleton still gets its own id (two unsaved New Games sharing a
-    opts.playthroughIds[version] = opts.playthroughIds[version] or {}
+    -- slot must stay distinct), and it is still persisted when the slot has no
-    opts.playthroughIds[version][scope] = id
+    -- binding yet -- that is the contract a tool relies on to resolve
-    SaveData.saveOptions(opts, injectedFs)
+    -- `selected` at the title after a restart, before any normal SAVE.
+    --
+    -- What it must NOT do is OVERWRITE a binding that already exists. newGame()
+    -- marks a skeleton on the boot frame, before any save is loaded, and mods
+    -- initialise inside that window -- so a mod touching storage at init
+    -- replaced the real save's id with a throwaway, stranding that save's mod
+    -- storage and repeating on every launch.
+    if not (isFresh and type(existing) == "string" and existing ~= "") then
+      opts.playthroughIds = opts.playthroughIds or {}
+      opts.playthroughIds[version] = opts.playthroughIds[version] or {}
+      opts.playthroughIds[version][scope] = id
+      SaveData.saveOptions(opts, injectedFs)
+    end
   end
   save.meta.playthroughId = id
   return id

src/core/ScreenPosition.lua

@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+local ScreenPosition = {}
+
+ScreenPosition.MODES = { "center", "upper", "top" }
+ScreenPosition.DEFAULT = "center"
+ScreenPosition.mode = ScreenPosition.DEFAULT
+
+local LABELS = { center = "CENTER", upper = "UPPER", top = "TOP" }
+
+function ScreenPosition.normalize(v)
+  if LABELS[v] then return v end
+  return ScreenPosition.DEFAULT
+end
+
+function ScreenPosition.label(v)
+  return LABELS[ScreenPosition.normalize(v)]
+end
+
+function ScreenPosition.cycle(v, dir)
+  v = ScreenPosition.normalize(v)
+  local modes = ScreenPosition.MODES
+  local cur = 1
+  for i, mode in ipairs(modes) do
+    if mode == v then cur = i break end
+  end
+  return modes[(cur - 1 + (dir or 1)) % #modes + 1]
+end
+
+function ScreenPosition.setMode(v)
+  ScreenPosition.mode = ScreenPosition.normalize(v)
+end
+
+function ScreenPosition.applyOptions(opts)
+  ScreenPosition.setMode(opts and opts.screenPos)
+end
+
+function ScreenPosition.safeTop()
+  local ok, SafeArea = pcall(require, "src.core.SafeArea")
+  if not ok then return 0 end
+  local okr, _, y = pcall(SafeArea.rect)
+  if not okr then return 0 end
+  return math.max(0, tonumber(y) or 0)
+end
+
+function ScreenPosition.skinActive(w, h)
+  local ok, TouchSkin = pcall(require, "src.core.TouchSkin")
+  if not ok or type(TouchSkin.viewport) ~= "function" then return false end
+  local okv, x = pcall(TouchSkin.viewport, w, h)
+  return okv and x ~= nil
+end
+
+function ScreenPosition.lift(viewH, contentH, safeTop)
+  if ScreenPosition.mode == "center" then return 0 end
+  viewH = tonumber(viewH) or 0
+  contentH = tonumber(contentH) or 0
+  local slack = viewH - contentH
+  if slack <= 0 then return 0 end
+  local centered = math.floor(slack / 2)
+  local target = ScreenPosition.mode == "top" and 0 or math.floor(slack / 4)
+  safeTop = math.floor(tonumber(safeTop) or 0)
+  if safeTop > 0 and target < safeTop then
+    target = math.min(safeTop, centered)
+  end
+  return centered - target
+end
+
+return ScreenPosition

src/core/TouchControls.lua

@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ function TouchControls.defaultLayout(ww, wh, ox, oy, scale)
   local ssW = dpadW * 0.30
   local margin = dpadW * 0.12
   local ok, GameVersion = pcall(require, "src.core.GameVersion")
-  if ok and GameVersion.isGold and GameVersion.isGold() then
+  if ok and GameVersion.generation and GameVersion.generation() == 2 then
     margin = math.max(margin, math.min(ww * 0.10, 72))
   end
   return {

src/core/gen2/Save.lua

@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ Save.PLAYER_STATES = {
 }
 
 local function saveNames(version)
-  version = version or "gold"
+  version = version or GameVersion.get()
   -- Resolve the ACTIVE SLOT the same way SaveData does, and only fall back to
   -- the flat save_<version>.lua when no slot is registered.
   --
@@ -133,16 +133,22 @@ local function fs()
   return love.filesystem
 end
 
--- A fresh Gold save.  `opts` carries what the intro collected: player name,
+-- The blank-name fallback is the first PlayerNameArray row, which differs
+-- per edition -- data/player_names.asm:12-23.
+function Save.defaultPlayerName(version)
+  return (version or GameVersion.get()) == "silver" and "SILVER" or "GOLD"
+end
+
+-- A fresh Gen 2 save.  `opts` carries what the intro collected: player name,
 -- rival name, and the options the OPTION screen was left on.
 function Save.newGame(opts)
   opts = opts or {}
   local save = {
     format = Save.FORMAT,
-    version = "gold",
+    version = GameVersion.get(),
     generation = 2,
     player = {
-      name = opts.playerName or "GOLD",
+      name = opts.playerName or Save.defaultPlayerName(),
       -- _ResetWRAM rolls wPlayerID out of hRandomSub/hRandomAdd
       -- (engine/menus/intro_menu.asm:41-49).
       id = opts.trainerId or rand(0, 65535),
@@ -282,6 +288,7 @@ Save.DEFAULT_OPTIONS = {
   musicFilter = 0,          -- low-pass steps, 0 = off
   haptics = "light",
   touchControls = { enabled = true },
+  screenPos = "center",
 }
 
 function Save.defaultOptions()
@@ -302,7 +309,7 @@ end
 Save.OPTIONS_KEY = "gold"
 
 local SHARED_KEYS = {
-  touchControls = true, haptics = true,
+  touchControls = true, haptics = true, screenPos = true,
   mods = true, modsByVersion = true, modsGen2 = true,
   modOptions = true, modProfiles = true, modProfilesSeeded = true,
   activeProfile = true,
@@ -374,10 +381,13 @@ end
 function Save.normalize(save)
   if type(save) ~= "table" then return nil end
   save.format = save.format or Save.FORMAT
-  save.version = "gold"
+  if not (GameVersion.VERSIONS[save.version]
+      and GameVersion.generation(save.version) == 2) then
+    save.version = GameVersion.get()
+  end
   save.generation = 2
   save.player = save.player or {}
-  save.player.name = save.player.name or "GOLD"
+  save.player.name = save.player.name or Save.defaultPlayerName(save.version)
   save.player.id = save.player.id or rand(0, 65535)
   save.player.money = math.max(0, math.min(save.player.money or 0, Save.MAX_MONEY))
   save.player.coins = math.max(0, math.min(save.player.coins or 0, Save.MAX_COINS))
@@ -753,21 +763,24 @@ end
 -- copy is the witness that survives a crash mid-replace.
 function Save.save(save)
   if type(save) ~= "table" then return false, "no save" end
-  if (save.version or "gold") == "gold" then
+  Save.normalize(save)
+  local version = save.version
+  do
     local ok, SaveData = pcall(require, "src.core.SaveData")
-    if ok and SaveData.activeSlot and not SaveData.activeSlot("gold") then
+    if ok and SaveData.activeSlot and not SaveData.activeSlot(version) then
-      local id = SaveData.createSlot and SaveData.createSlot("gold")
+      local id = SaveData.createSlot and SaveData.createSlot(version)
-      if id and SaveData.setActiveSlot then SaveData.setActiveSlot("gold", id) end
+      if id and SaveData.setActiveSlot then
+        SaveData.setActiveSlot(version, id)
+      end
     end
   end
-  local main, backup, tmp = saveNames(save.version)
+  local main, backup, tmp = saveNames(version)
   local f = fs()
   if not f then return false, "no filesystem" end
   -- saveNames may now return a saves/<version>/<slot>.lua path, and
   -- love.filesystem.write does not create missing parent directories.
   local dir = main:match("^(.*)/[^/]+$")
   if dir and f.createDirectory then f.createDirectory(dir) end
-  Save.normalize(save)
   save.savedAt = os.time()
   local encoded = SaveSerializer.encode(save)
   if f.getInfo(main) then

src/debug/SwitchDiagnostics.lua

@@ -249,10 +249,12 @@ function SwitchDiagnostics.probeAssets(version)
   end
 
   -- Shallow listing so we can see if the extract tree exists at all.
-  local roots = { "yellow", "blue", "gold", "assets", "yellow/assets/generated",
+  local roots = { "yellow", "blue", "gold", "silver", "assets",
+    "yellow/assets/generated",
     "yellow/assets/generated/sprites", "blue/assets/generated/sprites",
     "gold/assets/generated", "gold/assets/generated/sprites",
-    "gold/data/generated" }
+    "gold/data/generated", "silver/assets/generated",
+    "silver/data/generated" }
   for _, dir in ipairs(roots) do
     local info = filesystem.getInfo(dir)
     if info and info.type == "directory" and filesystem.getDirectoryItems then

src/import/ExtractThread.lua

@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ local ok, err = pcall(function()
   CacheFs.prefix = prefix
 
   local manifest = require("src.import.RomManifest").decode(version)
-  local RomExtractor = version == "gold"
+  local RomExtractor =
+    require("src.core.GameVersion").generation(version) == 2
     and require("src.import.RomExtractorGen2")
     or require("src.import.RomExtractor")
 

src/import/LauncherSettings.lua

@@ -332,6 +332,17 @@ local function coreRows(opts, hooks)
       end)
   end
 
+  local okSp, ScreenPos = pcall(require, "src.core.ScreenPosition")
+  if okSp then
+    add(Strings("SCREEN POS"),
+      function() return Strings(ScreenPos.label(opts.screenPos)) end,
+      function(dir)
+        opts.screenPos = ScreenPos.cycle(opts.screenPos, dir)
+        ScreenPos.setMode(opts.screenPos)
+        return true
+      end)
+  end
+
   local okCap, FrameCap = pcall(require, "src.core.FrameCap")
   if okCap then
     add(Strings("MAX FPS"),
@@ -550,9 +561,10 @@ end
 -- opened on the Gold tab used to offer a dozen controls that did nothing
 -- and hide the seven that the cart itself has.
 --
--- The block lives in options.lua under `gold`, which is exactly where
+-- The block lives in options.lua under `gold` (the historical key; Gold and
--- src/core/gen2/Save.lua loadOptions reads it, so an edit here is live on the
+-- Silver share it the way the Gen 1 games share the flat namespace), which is
--- next boot the same way a Gen 1 edit is.  Ladders mirror
+-- exactly where src/core/gen2/Save.lua loadOptions reads it, so an edit here
+-- is live on the next boot the same way a Gen 1 edit is.  Ladders mirror
 -- src/ui/gen2/OptionsMenu.lua's ROWS; when editing one, keep the two in sync.
 local GEN2_KEY = "gold"
 
@@ -699,7 +711,9 @@ end
 function LauncherSettings.open(hooks, version)
   local opts = SaveData.loadOptions()
   local sections
-  if version == "gold" then
+  local GameVersion = require("src.core.GameVersion")
+  if GameVersion.VERSIONS[version]
+      and GameVersion.generation(version) == 2 then
     local block = opts[GEN2_KEY]
     if type(block) ~= "table" then
       block = {}

src/import/LauncherView.lua

@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@
 -- height, and flex-shrink compressing text until it overlapped.
 --
 -- THE RULES THIS FILE FOLLOWS:
---   * Lists paginate (Kit.pager).  The installed-mod list also scrolls inside
+--   * Short lists paginate (Kit.pager, perPage from Kit.rowsThatFit); the
---     its viewport, so each of its pages can hold at least ten entries without
+--     installed-mod list is one continuous scroll instead, drawing only the
---     requiring a tall window.  Pages still bound how many mod rows we visit.
+--     rows inside the region viewport so the window bounds the frame cost.
 --   * Every click handler only QUEUES work (imp._uiActions); update() drains
 --     the queue, so an action that tears the view down (Play, Edit save)
 --     never runs inside the frame that dispatched it.
@@ -45,9 +45,6 @@ local COMMUNITY_URL = "https://bois.icu"
 local ACT_DEDUP = 0.35
 -- Finger travel past this (px) is a drag, not a tap.
 local TAP_SLOP2 = 16 * 16
--- Installed mods should not turn into a one- or two-item pager on a compact
--- display.  Keep a useful page size, then let the list viewport scroll.
-local MIN_MODS_PER_PAGE = 10
 local MIN_SKIN_ROWS = 4
 local SKIN_FORMAT_LABEL = {
   native = "GEN1",
@@ -81,15 +78,6 @@ local function setTabScroll(imp, value)
   imp._tabScroll[tabKeyOf(imp)] = clamp(value, 0, tabScrollMax(imp))
 end
 
-local function modListWantsWheel(imp, wheel)
-  if imp.tab ~= "mods" or (imp._modScrollMax or 0) <= 0 then return false end
-  if not inRect(imp._modListRect, Kit.mouseX, Kit.mouseY) then return false end
-  if not inRect(imp._tabRegionRect, Kit.mouseX, Kit.mouseY) then return false end
-  local at = clamp(imp.modScroll or 0, 0, imp._modScrollMax)
-  if wheel < 0 then return at < imp._modScrollMax end
-  return at > 0
-end
-
 -- ------------------------------------------------------------- lifecycle
 
 local function ensureState(imp)
@@ -136,12 +124,48 @@ function LauncherView.detach(imp)
   Kit.clearCaches()
 end
 
+local function markNoDrag(imp, x, y, w, h)
+  if Kit.blockClicks then return end
+  local t = imp._noDragRects
+  if not t then t = {}; imp._noDragRects = t end
+  local n = (imp._noDragN or 0) + 1
+  imp._noDragN = n
+  local r = t[n]
+  if not r then r = {}; t[n] = r end
+  r.x, r.y, r.w, r.h = x, y, w, h
+end
+
+local function noDragAt(imp, x, y)
+  local rects = imp._noDragRects
+  for i = 1, imp._noDragN or 0 do
+    if inRect(rects[i], x, y) then return true end
+  end
+  return false
+end
+
+local function armMouse(imp, x, y)
+  if noDragAt(imp, x, y) then
+    imp._clickPt = { x = x, y = y }
+    return
+  end
+  local shielded = imp._modalUpNow
+  imp._mouseAt = {
+    x = x, y = y,
+    region = not shielded and tabScrollMax(imp) > 0
+      and inRect(imp._tabRegionRect, x, y) or false,
+    page = not shielded and (imp._pageScrollMax or 0) > 0 or false,
+  }
+  Kit.dragBegin(x, y)
+end
+
 -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- input
--- The kit is polled, not evented: update() samples the mouse and turns a
+-- The kit is polled, not evented: update() samples the mouse.  A press arms
--- rising edge into a click point that the next draw consumes.  Host-forwarded
+-- a drag that scrolls like a finger, and the click dispatches on RELEASE so
--- mousepressed stays unused, exactly as before, so Android's synthesized
+-- the drag can disqualify it, exactly like the touch path below; only the
--- mouse path cannot double-fire a tap (#553) -- the dedup window below is the
+-- cartridge (which owns its own spin-drag) keeps the press-down click.
--- other half of that guarantee.
+-- Host-forwarded mousepressed stays unused, exactly as before, so Android's
+-- synthesized mouse path cannot double-fire a tap (#553) -- the dedup window
+-- below is the other half of that guarantee.
 function LauncherView.update(imp, dt)
   if not imp._flex then return end
   if imp._launchFade then return end
@@ -166,7 +190,39 @@ function LauncherView.update(imp, dt)
     if not touching and now >= (imp._suppressMouseUntil or 0)
         and now >= (imp._suppressClickUntil or 0) then
       local mx, my = love.mouse.getPosition()
-      imp._clickPt = { x = mx, y = my }
+      armMouse(imp, mx, my)
+    end
+  elseif down and imp._mouseAt then
+    local start = imp._mouseAt
+    local mx, my = love.mouse.getPosition()
+    local ddx, ddy = mx - start.x, my - start.y
+    if ddx * ddx + ddy * ddy > TAP_SLOP2 then
+      start.dragged = true
+    end
+    if start.dragged then
+      local last = start.lastY or start.y
+      local move = -(my - last)
+      if move ~= 0 and start.region then
+        local at, leftover = Kit.scrollHandoff(tabScrollAt(imp),
+          tabScrollMax(imp), move)
+        setTabScroll(imp, at)
+        move = leftover
+      end
+      if move ~= 0 and start.page and (imp._pageScrollMax or 0) > 0 then
+        local at, leftover = Kit.scrollHandoff(imp._pageScroll or 0,
+          imp._pageScrollMax, move)
+        imp._pageScroll = at
+        move = leftover
+      end
+      if move ~= 0 then Kit.dragAdd(move) end
+    end
+    start.lastY = my
+  elseif not down and imp._mouseAt then
+    local start = imp._mouseAt
+    imp._mouseAt = nil
+    Kit.dragEnd()
+    if not start.dragged then
+      imp._clickPt = { x = start.x, y = start.y }
     end
   end
   imp._prevMouseDown = down
@@ -192,9 +248,6 @@ function LauncherView.touchpressed(imp, id, x, y)
   imp._touchAt = imp._touchAt or {}
   imp._touchAt[tostring(id)] = {
     x = x, y = y,
-    modsList = imp.tab == "mods" and (imp._modScrollMax or 0) > 0
-      and inRect(imp._modListRect, x, y)
-      and inRect(imp._tabRegionRect, x, y),
     region = tabScrollMax(imp) > 0 and inRect(imp._tabRegionRect, x, y),
   }
 end
@@ -207,19 +260,9 @@ function LauncherView.touchmoved(imp, id, x, y)
     if ddx * ddx + ddy * ddy > TAP_SLOP2 then
       start.dragged = true
     end
-    -- A drag that began in the installed-mod viewport scrolls that page's
-    -- rows.  Its pager remains available for moving to the next ten-plus
-    -- entries; a drag elsewhere keeps the normal short-window page scroll.
     if start.dragged then
       local last = start.lastY or start.y
       local move = -(y - last)
-      if start.modsList then
-        local listMax = imp._modScrollMax or 0
-        local at, leftover = Kit.scrollHandoff(
-          clamp(imp.modScroll or 0, 0, listMax), listMax, move)
-        imp.modScroll = at
-        move = leftover
-      end
       if move ~= 0 and start.region then
         local at, leftover = Kit.scrollHandoff(tabScrollAt(imp),
           tabScrollMax(imp), move)
@@ -258,6 +301,24 @@ function LauncherView.clickAt(imp, x, y)
   imp._clickPt = { x = x, y = y }
 end
 
+-- Event-driven press: a macOS trackpad tap delivers press+release inside one
+-- frame, so update()'s love.mouse.isDown poll never sees it.  Arm the drag
+-- from the press event under the poll's own suppression rules -- the poll's
+-- release branch then mints the tap, still within the same frame for a
+-- one-frame tap -- and mark the press seen so the poll cannot arm a second
+-- one when isDown does catch it.
+function LauncherView.mousepressed(imp, x, y)
+  if not imp._flex then return end
+  local now = love.timer.getTime()
+  local touching = imp._touchAt ~= nil and next(imp._touchAt) ~= nil
+  if touching or now < (imp._suppressMouseUntil or 0)
+      or now < (imp._suppressClickUntil or 0) then
+    return
+  end
+  if not imp._mouseAt then armMouse(imp, x, y) end
+  imp._prevMouseDown = true
+end
+
 -- Keyboard focus ring.  Returns true when the key was consumed.  Arrows arm
 -- the ring; Enter only activates a focused control once the user has actually
 -- used the arrows this session, so the long-standing "Enter plays the visible
@@ -343,7 +404,7 @@ end
 
 local CART_COLOR = {
   red = PAL.railRed, blue = PAL.railBlue, yellow = PAL.railGold,
-  gold = PAL.railAmber,
+  gold = PAL.railAmber, silver = PAL.railSilver,
 }
 local function cartColor(version)
   return CART_COLOR[version] or PAL.green
@@ -418,13 +479,13 @@ end
 local function cartPill(project, x, y, w, h, z, color, alpha)
   local points, radius = {}, h / 2
   for i = 0, 10 do
-    local a = math.pi + math.pi * i / 10
+    local a = -math.pi / 2 + math.pi * i / 10
-    points[#points + 1] = { project(x + radius + math.cos(a) * radius,
+    points[#points + 1] = { project(x + w - radius + math.cos(a) * radius,
       y + radius + math.sin(a) * radius, z) }
   end
   for i = 0, 10 do
-    local a = math.pi * i / 10
+    local a = math.pi / 2 + math.pi * i / 10
-    points[#points + 1] = { project(x + w - radius + math.cos(a) * radius,
+    points[#points + 1] = { project(x + radius + math.cos(a) * radius,
       y + radius + math.sin(a) * radius, z) }
   end
   cartPolygon(points, color, alpha)
@@ -504,6 +565,7 @@ end
 
 local function cartridgeButton(imp, x, y, w, h, key, version, gameName, action)
   local state = cartridgeState(imp, version)
+  markNoDrag(imp, x, y, w, h)
   local focused = Kit.focusable(key, x, y, w, h)
   local hot = Kit.hover(x, y, w, h)
   local active = state.active
@@ -605,7 +667,7 @@ local function cartridgeButton(imp, x, y, w, h, key, version, gameName, action)
   end
 
   local halfW, halfH = w / 2, h / 2
-  local depth = math.max(8, w * 0.14)
+  local depth = math.max(6, w * 0.10)
   local project = function(px, py, pz)
     return cartProject(cx + pressX, cy + pressY, yaw, pitch,
       px * pressedScale, py * pressedScale, pz * pressedScale)
@@ -648,6 +710,7 @@ local function cartridgeButton(imp, x, y, w, h, key, version, gameName, action)
   cartPolygon({ mainFront[2], mainFront[3], mainBack[3], mainBack[2] }, side, 1)
   cartPolygon({ mainFront[3], mainFront[4], mainBack[4], mainBack[3] }, side, 1)
   cartPolygon({ mainFront[1], mainFront[2], mainBack[2], mainBack[1] }, side, 1)
+  cartPolygon({ mainFront[4], mainFront[1], mainBack[1], mainBack[4] }, side, 1)
   cartPolygon({ capFront[2], capFront[3], capBack[3], capBack[2] }, side, 1)
   cartPolygon({ capFront[1], capFront[2], capBack[2], capBack[1] }, side, 1)
   cartPolygon({ capFront[4], capFront[1], capBack[1], capBack[4] }, side, 1)
@@ -657,22 +720,72 @@ local function cartridgeButton(imp, x, y, w, h, key, version, gameName, action)
   else
     cartPolygon(mainBack, side, 1)
     cartPolygon(capBack, side, 1)
+    -- The tri-wing security screw: a domed brass head with three teardrop
+    -- recesses pinwheeled at 120 degrees.
+    local backZ = -(depth + 0.8)
+    local sd = math.min(w, h) * 0.11
+    cartPill(project, -sd * 0.62, -sd * 0.62, sd * 1.24, sd * 1.24, backZ,
+      { math.floor(shell[1] * 0.4), math.floor(shell[2] * 0.4),
+        math.floor(shell[3] * 0.4) }, 0.9)
+    cartPill(project, -sd / 2, -sd / 2, sd, sd, backZ - 0.4,
+      { 196, 186, 148 }, 1)
+    cartPill(project, -sd * 0.32, -sd * 0.32, sd * 0.64, sd * 0.64,
+      backZ - 0.6, { 220, 212, 178 }, 0.8)
+    local r = sd / 2
+    for k = 0, 2 do
+      local a = -math.pi / 2 + k * (2 * math.pi / 3)
+      local ux, uy = math.cos(a), math.sin(a)
+      local vx, vy = -uy, ux
+      local r0, r1 = r * 0.16, r * 0.82
+      local w0, w1 = r * 0.13, r * 0.3
+      cartPolygon({
+        { project(ux * r0 + vx * w0, uy * r0 + vy * w0, backZ - 0.8) },
+        { project(ux * r0 - vx * w0, uy * r0 - vy * w0, backZ - 0.8) },
+        { project(ux * r1 - vx * w1, uy * r1 - vy * w1, backZ - 0.8) },
+        { project(ux * r1 + vx * w1, uy * r1 + vy * w1, backZ - 0.8) },
+      }, { 112, 104, 76 }, 1)
+    end
   end
 
   if frontFacing then
     local faceZ = depth + 0.8
-    for i = 0, 4 do
+    -- The shell's grip grooves: a stack beside the label recess on the left,
-      local ry = mainTop + 7 + i * h * 0.025
+    -- and one below the top-right corner notch, like the DMG cart.
-      cartPolygon(cartQuad(project, -halfW + 2, ry, w * 0.13, 2, faceZ), side, 0.7)
+    local grooveW = w * 0.115
-      cartPolygon(cartQuad(project, halfW - w * 0.13 - 2, ry, w * 0.13, 2, faceZ), side, 0.7)
+    local grooveH = math.max(1, h * 0.009)
+    for i = 0, 5 do
+      local ry = mainTop + h * 0.014 + i * h * 0.021
+      cartPolygon(cartQuad(project, -halfW + w * 0.02, ry,
+        grooveW, grooveH, faceZ), side, 0.7)
+      cartPolygon(cartQuad(project, halfW - grooveW - w * 0.02, ry,
+        grooveW, grooveH, faceZ), side, 0.7)
     end
-    local recessX, recessY = -w * 0.32, mainTop + h * 0.023
+    -- The thin diagonal mold ridge cut into each long side a little below
-    local recessW, recessH = w * 0.64, h * 0.24
+    -- the grip grooves, mirrored left/right.
-    cartPolygon(cartQuad(project, recessX, recessY, recessW, recessH, faceZ), shell, 0.88)
+    local function diagonal(x0, y0, x1, y1)
-    cartPill(project, recessX + w * 0.025, recessY + h * 0.025,
+      local dx, dy = x1 - x0, y1 - y0
-      recessW - w * 0.05, h * 0.12, faceZ + 0.5, shell, 0.7)
+      local len = math.sqrt(dx * dx + dy * dy)
-    cartPill(project, recessX + w * 0.045, recessY + h * 0.043,
+      local nx, ny = -dy / len, dx / len
-      recessW - w * 0.09, h * 0.083, faceZ + 0.8, side, 0.42)
+      local t = math.max(0.6, h * 0.004)
+      cartPolygon({
+        { project(x0 + nx * t, y0 + ny * t, faceZ) },
+        { project(x0 - nx * t, y0 - ny * t, faceZ) },
+        { project(x1 - nx * t, y1 - ny * t, faceZ) },
+        { project(x1 + nx * t, y1 + ny * t, faceZ) },
+      }, side, 0.7)
+    end
+    local dgY = mainTop + h * 0.20
+    diagonal(-halfW + w * 0.006, dgY, -halfW + w * 0.085, dgY + h * 0.038)
+    diagonal(halfW - w * 0.006, dgY, halfW - w * 0.085, dgY + h * 0.038)
+    -- The Nintendo GAME BOY recess: one stadium pill sunk into the shell.
+    local pillX, pillW = -halfW + w * 0.17, w * 0.62
+    local pillY, pillH = mainTop + h * 0.024, h * 0.115
+    cartPill(project, pillX, pillY, pillW, pillH, faceZ + 0.5, side, 0.55)
+    local inX, inY = w * 0.008, h * 0.008
+    cartPill(project, pillX + inX, pillY + inY,
+      pillW - 2 * inX, pillH - 2 * inY, faceZ + 0.8,
+      { math.floor(shell[1] * 0.92), math.floor(shell[2] * 0.92),
+        math.floor(shell[3] * 0.92) }, 1)
 
     local labelX, labelY = -w * 0.33, -h * 0.20
     local labelW, labelH = w * 0.66, h * 0.55
@@ -942,6 +1055,8 @@ local GAME_TABS = {
     label = "Yellow" },
   { id = "gold",   key = "tab-gold",   letter = "G", color = PAL.railAmber,
     label = "Gold" },
+  { id = "silver", key = "tab-silver", letter = "S", color = PAL.railSilver,
+    label = "Silver" },
 }
 
 local HEADER_TABS = {
@@ -1114,16 +1229,11 @@ local function buildHeader(imp, m)
   local tabGap = math.floor(6 * m.s)
   local tabRowGap = math.floor(4 * m.s)
 
-  -- the cartridge dropdown, sized to its longest label so switching games
+  -- the cartridge dropdown: just the game's initial and the caret; the
-  -- never reflows the row
+  -- popup list carries the full names
   local chrome0 = headerChrome(imp)
   local game = currentGame(imp)
-  local labelW = 0
+  local dropW = math.min(tabRight - tabLeft, tabH + math.floor(24 * m.s))
-  for _, g in ipairs(GAME_TABS) do
-    labelW = math.max(labelW, Kit.textWidth("tab", Strings(g.label)))
-  end
-  local dropW = math.min(tabRight - tabLeft,
-    tabH + labelW + math.floor(34 * m.s))
   chrome0.game.color = game.color
   chrome0.game.letter = game.letter
   chrome0.game.active = imp.tab == game.id
@@ -1133,7 +1243,7 @@ local function buildHeader(imp, m)
   -- flip with it or it vanishes into the cartridge colour
   local gameInvert = chrome0.game.active or gameHot
   chrome0.game.ring = gameHot and not chrome0.game.active or nil
-  btn(imp, tx, ty, dropW, tabH, "tab-game", Strings(game.label), chrome0.game)
+  btn(imp, tx, ty, dropW, tabH, "tab-game", "", chrome0.game)
   do
     local cw = math.floor(7 * m.s)
     local ccx = tx + dropW - math.floor(14 * m.s)
@@ -1147,7 +1257,7 @@ local function buildHeader(imp, m)
   end
   tx = tx + dropW + tabGap
 
-  for _, t in ipairs(tabs) do
+  local function headerTab(t)
     local w = tabH
     if tx > tabLeft and tx + w > tabRight then
       tx = tabLeft
@@ -1160,6 +1270,11 @@ local function buildHeader(imp, m)
     btn(imp, tx, ty, w, tabH, t.key, "", o)
     tx = tx + w + tabGap
   end
+  -- The bug-report chip sits LAST, past the sync chip.
+  local bugTab
+  for _, t in ipairs(tabs) do
+    if t.id == "bug" then bugTab = t else headerTab(t) end
+  end
 
   do
     local w = tabH
@@ -1181,6 +1296,7 @@ local function buildHeader(imp, m)
     end
     tx = tx + w + tabGap
   end
+  if bugTab then headerTab(bugTab) end
 
   -- `ty` has walked down with the wraps, so this stays correct at one row too.
   y = ty + tabH + math.floor(8 * m.s)
@@ -1964,7 +2080,6 @@ local function buildModsPanel(imp, x, y, w, availH, m)
   cy = cy + buildModScopeRow(imp, x, cy, w, m)
 
   if #mods == 0 then
-    imp.modScroll, imp._modScrollMax, imp._modListRect = 0, 0, nil
     Kit.emptyBox(x, cy, w, math.floor(110 * m.s), imp:_modsEmptyHint())
     return (cy - y) + math.floor(110 * m.s)
   end
@@ -2005,159 +2120,139 @@ local function buildModsPanel(imp, x, y, w, availH, m)
   end
 
   -- A mod row is a fixed height: its details first, then a dedicated second
-  -- line of per-game checkboxes.  Fixed because a page of uniform rows is
+  -- line of per-game checkboxes.  Fixed row heights are what make the
-  -- what lets perPage come from the viewport.
+  -- cull below plain arithmetic.
   local togH = math.floor(26 * m.s)
   local gamesLabel = Strings("Enable for:")
   local textH = Kit.textHeight("button") + math.floor(4 * m.s)
     + Kit.textHeight("small") + math.floor(2 * m.s) + Kit.textHeight("small")
   local rowH = math.floor(8 * m.s) + textH + math.floor(8 * m.s) + togH
     + math.floor(8 * m.s)
-  local pagerH = math.max(Kit.tapMin(), math.floor(30 * m.s))
-  local listH = availH - (cy - y) - pagerH - gap
-  local perPage = Kit.rowsThatFit(listH, rowH, gap, MIN_MODS_PER_PAGE, 20)
-  local first, last, cur, pages = Kit.pageBounds(page(imp, "mods"), #mods, perPage)
-  setPage(imp, "mods", cur)
   local listTop = cy
-  local shown = math.max(0, last - first + 1)
-  local contentH = shown * rowH + math.max(0, shown - 1) * gap
-  local scrollMax = math.max(0, contentH - listH)
-  local scroll = clamp(imp.modScroll or 0, 0, scrollMax)
-  local lr = imp._modListRect
-  if not lr then lr = {}; imp._modListRect = lr end
-  lr.x, lr.y, lr.w, lr.h = x, listTop, w, listH
-  imp._modScrollMax = scrollMax
-  if scrollMax > 0 and (Kit.wheelY or 0) ~= 0 and not Kit.blockClicks
-      and Kit.hit(x, listTop, w, listH) then
-    scroll = clamp(scroll - Kit.wheelY * math.floor(48 * m.s), 0, scrollMax)
-    Kit.wheelY = 0
-  elseif scrollMax == 0 then
-    local wheelPage = Kit.wheelPage(x, listTop, w, listH, cur, #mods, perPage)
-    if wheelPage ~= cur then imp.modScroll = 0 end
-    setPage(imp, "mods", wheelPage)
-  end
-  imp.modScroll = scroll
 
-  Kit.pushClip(x, listTop, w, listH)
+  -- One continuous list: every row is laid out, the region scroll moves
-  for i = first, last do
+  -- through all of it, and only rows inside the region's viewport draw --
+  -- so the per-frame cost stays bounded by the window, not the list.
+  local view = imp._tabRegionRect
+  local viewTop = view and view.y or listTop
+  local viewBot = view and (view.y + view.h) or (listTop + availH)
+  for i = 1, #mods do
     local mod = mods[i]
-    local ry = listTop + (i - first) * (rowH + gap) - scroll
+    local ry = listTop + (i - 1) * (rowH + gap)
-    local rowKey = rowKeyFor(imp, "mod-row-", mod.id)
+    if ry + rowH >= viewTop and ry <= viewBot then
-    local isFullyDisabled = true
+      local rowKey = rowKeyFor(imp, "mod-row-", mod.id)
-    if mod.enabledByVersion then
+      local isFullyDisabled = true
-      for _, on in pairs(mod.enabledByVersion) do
+      if mod.enabledByVersion then
-        if on then isFullyDisabled = false; break end
+        for _, on in pairs(mod.enabledByVersion) do
+          if on then isFullyDisabled = false; break end
+        end
+      else
+        isFullyDisabled = not mod.enabled
       end
-    else
-      isFullyDisabled = not mod.enabled
-    end
 
-    local focused = Kit.focusable(rowKey, x, ry, w, rowH)
+      local focused = Kit.focusable(rowKey, x, ry, w, rowH)
-    local hot = focused or Kit.hover(x, ry, w, rowH)
+      local hot = focused or Kit.hover(x, ry, w, rowH)
-    if isFullyDisabled then
+      if isFullyDisabled then
-      Kit.card(x, ry, w, rowH, hot and "mutedHot" or "muted")
+        Kit.card(x, ry, w, rowH, hot and "mutedHot" or "muted")
-    else
+      else
-      Kit.card(x, ry, w, rowH, hot)
+        Kit.card(x, ry, w, rowH, hot)
-    end
-    local pad = math.floor(12 * m.s)
-    local px, inner = x + pad, w - 2 * pad
-    local ly = ry + math.floor(10 * m.s)
-
-    local togGap = math.floor(5 * m.s) + 1
-    local info = mod.github and mod.github ~= "" and imp:_modUpdateInfo(mod.id)
-
-    -- These answer separate games, not a single shared install flag.  The
-    -- importer receives the game id so an experimental confirmation also
-    -- applies only to the checkbox the player pressed.
-    local flipped = false
-    local gamesY = ry + math.floor(8 * m.s) + textH + math.floor(8 * m.s)
-    Kit.text("micro", gamesLabel, px,
-      gamesY + (togH - Kit.textHeight("micro")) / 2, PAL.muted)
-    local tx = px + Kit.textWidth("micro", gamesLabel) + math.floor(10 * m.s)
-    for _, game in ipairs(GameVersion.ORDER) do
-      local togKey = "mod-toggle-" .. mod.id .. "-" .. game
-      if modGameCheckbox(tx, gamesY, togH,
-          mod.enabledByVersion and mod.enabledByVersion[game] == true,
-          game, togKey, not safeMode) then
-        local version = game
-        queueAction(imp, togKey, function() imp:_toggleMod(mod.id, nil, version) end)
-        flipped = true
       end
-      tx = tx + togH + togGap
+      local pad = math.floor(12 * m.s)
-    end
+      local px, inner = x + pad, w - 2 * pad
-    -- The checkboxes sit inside the row's rect, so their press also passes the
+      local ly = ry + math.floor(10 * m.s)
-    -- row hit test; `flipped` gates the row action to everywhere else.
-    if not flipped
-        and (Kit.press(x, ry, w, rowH) or Kit._activateId == rowKey) then
-      local id = mod.id
-      queueAction(imp, rowKey, function() imp._modActions = id end)
-    end
-    local textW = inner
 
-    local badgeW = Kit.textWidth("micro", mod.badge) + math.floor(12 * m.s)
+      local togGap = math.floor(5 * m.s) + 1
-    -- the games the mod is for, beside its category: the same chip the
+      local info = mod.github and mod.github ~= "" and imp:_modUpdateInfo(mod.id)
-    -- in-game manager shows (src/mods/ModTargets.lua)
-    local gamesW = mod.targets
-      and Kit.textWidth("micro", mod.targets) + math.floor(12 * m.s) or 0
-    local nameShown = Kit.ellipsize("button", mod.name,
-      textW - badgeW - gamesW - math.floor(12 * m.s))
-    local headingCol = isFullyDisabled and PAL.muted or PAL.heading
-    Kit.text("button", nameShown, px, ly, headingCol)
-    local tagX = px + Kit.textWidth("button", nameShown) + math.floor(8 * m.s)
-    Kit.tag(tagX, ly, badgeW, Kit.textHeight("button"), mod.badge,
-      mod.experimental and PAL.yellow or PAL.muted)
-    if mod.targets then
-      Kit.tag(tagX + badgeW + math.floor(4 * m.s), ly, gamesW,
-        Kit.textHeight("button"), mod.targets,
-        mod.targetsHere == false and PAL.steel or PAL.blue)
-    end
-    ly = ly + Kit.textHeight("button") + math.floor(4 * m.s)
 
-    -- version + status + update state
+      -- These answer separate games, not a single shared install flag.  The
-    local statusText, statusCol = modStatusColor(mod.status)
+      -- importer receives the game id so an experimental confirmation also
-    local line = "v" .. tostring(mod.version or "?") .. "   " .. statusText
+      -- applies only to the checkbox the player pressed.
-    Kit.text("small", line, px, ly, statusCol)
+      local flipped = false
-    local lx = px + Kit.textWidth("small", line) + math.floor(12 * m.s)
+      local gamesY = ry + math.floor(8 * m.s) + textH + math.floor(8 * m.s)
-    if imp:_modInfoPending(mod.id) then
+      Kit.text("micro", gamesLabel, px,
-      -- An inline spinner, because this row's release check is genuinely in
+        gamesY + (togH - Kit.textHeight("micro")) / 2, PAL.muted)
-      -- flight -- the list stays usable while it resolves.
+      local tx = px + Kit.textWidth("micro", gamesLabel) + math.floor(10 * m.s)
-      Loader.dot(lx, ly, Kit.textHeight("small"))
+      for _, game in ipairs(GameVersion.ORDER) do
-      Kit.text("small", Strings("Checking..."),
+        local togKey = "mod-toggle-" .. mod.id .. "-" .. game
-        lx + Kit.textHeight("small") + math.floor(6 * m.s), ly, PAL.muted)
+        if modGameCheckbox(tx, gamesY, togH,
-    elseif info and info.status == "available" then
+            mod.enabledByVersion and mod.enabledByVersion[game] == true,
-      Kit.text("small", Strings("v%s available", tostring(info.latest)),
+            game, togKey, not safeMode) then
-        lx, ly, PAL.yellow)
+          local version = game
-    elseif info and info.status == "current" then
+          queueAction(imp, togKey, function() imp:_toggleMod(mod.id, nil, version) end)
-      Kit.text("small", Strings("up to date"), lx, ly, PAL.muted)
+          flipped = true
-    elseif info and info.status == "error" then
+        end
-      Kit.text("small", Strings("check failed"), lx, ly, PAL.red)
+        tx = tx + togH + togGap
-    end
+      end
-    ly = ly + Kit.textHeight("small") + math.floor(2 * m.s)
+      -- The checkboxes sit inside the row's rect, so their press also passes the
-
+      -- row hit test; `flipped` gates the row action to everywhere else.
-    -- one line of description, or the download stats when we have them
+      if not flipped
-    -- (download count in green so popularity reads at a glance)
+          and (Kit.press(x, ry, w, rowH) or Kit._activateId == rowKey) then
-    if info and info.downloads then
+        local id = mod.id
-      local d = info.dates
+        queueAction(imp, rowKey, function() imp._modActions = id end)
-      local dl = ModUpdate.downloadsLine(info.downloads.total)
+      end
-      local dates = ModUpdate.datesLine(d and d.first, d and d.latest)
+      local textW = inner
-      local segs = {}
+
-      if dl then segs[#segs + 1] = { dl, PAL.green } end
+      local badgeW = Kit.textWidth("micro", mod.badge) + math.floor(12 * m.s)
-      if dates then
+      -- the games the mod is for, beside its category: the same chip the
-        segs[#segs + 1] = { (dl and "  -  " or "") .. dates, PAL.detail }
+      -- in-game manager shows (src/mods/ModTargets.lua)
+      local gamesW = mod.targets
+        and Kit.textWidth("micro", mod.targets) + math.floor(12 * m.s) or 0
+      local nameShown = Kit.ellipsize("button", mod.name,
+        textW - badgeW - gamesW - math.floor(12 * m.s))
+      local headingCol = isFullyDisabled and PAL.muted or PAL.heading
+      Kit.text("button", nameShown, px, ly, headingCol)
+      local tagX = px + Kit.textWidth("button", nameShown) + math.floor(8 * m.s)
+      Kit.tag(tagX, ly, badgeW, Kit.textHeight("button"), mod.badge,
+        mod.experimental and PAL.yellow or PAL.muted)
+      if mod.targets then
+        Kit.tag(tagX + badgeW + math.floor(4 * m.s), ly, gamesW,
+          Kit.textHeight("button"), mod.targets,
+          mod.targetsHere == false and PAL.steel or PAL.blue)
+      end
+      ly = ly + Kit.textHeight("button") + math.floor(4 * m.s)
+
+      -- version + status + update state
+      local statusText, statusCol = modStatusColor(mod.status)
+      local line = "v" .. tostring(mod.version or "?") .. "   " .. statusText
+      Kit.text("small", line, px, ly, statusCol)
+      local lx = px + Kit.textWidth("small", line) + math.floor(12 * m.s)
+      if imp:_modInfoPending(mod.id) then
+        -- An inline spinner, because this row's release check is genuinely in
+        -- flight -- the list stays usable while it resolves.
+        Loader.dot(lx, ly, Kit.textHeight("small"))
+        Kit.text("small", Strings("Checking..."),
+          lx + Kit.textHeight("small") + math.floor(6 * m.s), ly, PAL.muted)
+      elseif info and info.status == "available" then
+        Kit.text("small", Strings("v%s available", tostring(info.latest)),
+          lx, ly, PAL.yellow)
+      elseif info and info.status == "current" then
+        Kit.text("small", Strings("up to date"), lx, ly, PAL.muted)
+      elseif info and info.status == "error" then
+        Kit.text("small", Strings("check failed"), lx, ly, PAL.red)
+      end
+      ly = ly + Kit.textHeight("small") + math.floor(2 * m.s)
+
+      -- one line of description, or the download stats when we have them
+      -- (download count in green so popularity reads at a glance)
+      if info and info.downloads then
+        local d = info.dates
+        local dl = ModUpdate.downloadsLine(info.downloads.total)
+        local dates = ModUpdate.datesLine(d and d.first, d and d.latest)
+        local segs = {}
+        if dl then segs[#segs + 1] = { dl, PAL.green } end
+        if dates then
+          segs[#segs + 1] = { (dl and "  -  " or "") .. dates, PAL.detail }
+        end
+        segLine("small", segs, px, ly, textW)
+      elseif (mod.description or "") ~= "" then
+        Kit.text("small", Kit.ellipsize("small", mod.description, textW),
+          px, ly, PAL.detail)
       end
-      segLine("small", segs, px, ly, textW)
-    elseif (mod.description or "") ~= "" then
-      Kit.text("small", Kit.ellipsize("small", mod.description, textW),
-        px, ly, PAL.detail)
     end
   end
-  Kit.popClip()
 
-  local pagerY = listTop + listH + gap
+  local contentH = #mods * rowH + (#mods - 1) * gap
-  local newPage, newPagerH = Kit.pager(x, pagerY, w, cur, #mods, perPage, "mods")
+  return (listTop + contentH + gap) - y
-  if newPage ~= cur then imp.modScroll = 0 end
-  setPage(imp, "mods", newPage)
-  return pagerY + newPagerH - y
 end
 
 -- ---------------------------------------------------------- find mods panel
@@ -2889,6 +2984,8 @@ local function buildConfirmModal(imp, m)
           imp:_setAllMods(true, true)
         elseif c.kind == "importOversize" then
           imp:_importSave(c.version, c.source, true)
+        elseif c.kind == "largeImport" then
+          imp:_importRequiredSource(c.modId, c.importId, c.source, true)
         else
           imp:_toggleMod(c.id, true, c.version)
         end
@@ -4457,7 +4554,7 @@ local function buildSyncHome(imp, m, eng)
   local linked = eng:linked()
   local codes = eng.codes
   local body = linked
-    and Strings("This device is linked. Saves and the mod list sync when the launcher opens and a few seconds after each save.")
+    and Strings("This device is linked. Saves sync when the launcher opens, a few seconds after each save, and every few minutes while the app is running.")
     or Strings(SYNC_HINT)
   local innerW = w - 2 * pad
   local hintH = Kit.wrapHeight("small", body, innerW, 5)
@@ -4842,17 +4939,18 @@ function LauncherView.draw(imp)
   Kit.beginFrame(mx, my, click ~= nil, imp._wheelY or 0)
   imp._clickPt = nil
   imp._wheelY = 0
+  imp._noDragN = 0
 
   Theme.field()
 
   -- Everything from here to buildModals sits UNDER any open modal, so the
   -- whole stage draws shielded (no clicks, no hover, no focus ring) while
   -- one is up; buildModals lowers the shield for the modal's own controls.
-  Kit.blockClicks = modalUp(imp)
+  imp._modalUpNow = modalUp(imp)
+  Kit.blockClicks = imp._modalUpNow
 
   local step = Kit.scrollStep(m.s)
-  local nested = modListWantsWheel(imp, Kit.wheelY or 0)
+  do
-  if not nested then
     local rect = imp._tabRegionRect
     if rect then
       setTabScroll(imp, (Kit.scrollWheel(tabScrollAt(imp), tabScrollMax(imp),
@@ -4860,8 +4958,7 @@ function LauncherView.draw(imp)
     end
   end
   local scroll = math.max(0, math.min(imp._pageScroll or 0, scrollMax))
-  if scrollMax > 0 and (Kit.wheelY or 0) ~= 0 and not nested
+  if scrollMax > 0 and (Kit.wheelY or 0) ~= 0 and not Kit.blockClicks then
-      and not Kit.blockClicks then
     local moved = math.max(0, math.min(scroll - Kit.wheelY * step, scrollMax))
     if moved ~= scroll then
       scroll = moved
@@ -4869,7 +4966,7 @@ function LauncherView.draw(imp)
     end
   end
   imp._pageScroll, imp._pageScrollMax = scroll, scrollMax
-  if (Kit.wheelY or 0) ~= 0 and not nested and not Kit.blockClicks
+  if (Kit.wheelY or 0) ~= 0 and not Kit.blockClicks
       and tabScrollMax(imp) > 0 then
     local was = tabScrollAt(imp)
     local to = Kit.scrollClamp(was - Kit.wheelY * step, tabScrollMax(imp))

src/import/RomExtractorGen2.lua

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 -- (species order IS dex order, pics/tilesets are lz3-compressed rather than
 -- pkmncompress'd, maps are grouped instead of flat).  See docs/gold-phase1.md.
 local bit = require("bit")
+local GameVersion = require("src.core.GameVersion")
 local ImageWriter = require("src.import.ImageWriter")
 local LuaWriter = require("src.import.LuaWriter")
 local Rom = require("src.import.Rom")
@@ -168,6 +169,10 @@ function RomExtractorGen2.new(romData, manifest, progress)
     symbols = manifest.symbols,
     progress = progress,
     stage = 0,
+    -- _GOLD / _SILVER: the labels are shared, the data behind a handful of
+    -- them is not (gfx/misc.asm:9-20 vs :46-57).
+    edition = GameVersion.forSha1(manifest.romSha1) == "silver"
+      and "silver" or "gold",
   }, RomExtractorGen2)
 end
 
@@ -1641,22 +1646,40 @@ function RomExtractorGen2:extractTitle()
     return 3
   end
 
-  -- pret gfx/title/title_bg_gold.pal / title_fg.pal (5 BG pals, 2 OBJ pals).
+  local silver = self.edition == "silver"
-  local BG_PALS = {
+
+  -- pret gfx/title/title_bg_gold.pal / title_bg_silver.pal (5 BG pals);
+  -- GSTitleBGPals is the edition-selected include (engine/gfx/color.asm:1234).
+  local BG_PALS = silver and {
+    { { 31, 31, 31 }, { 0, 12, 15 }, { 4, 8, 21 }, { 0, 0, 0 } },
+    { { 31, 21, 0 }, { 15, 17, 15 }, { 4, 8, 21 }, { 0, 0, 17 } },
+    { { 31, 31, 31 }, { 31, 0, 0 }, { 4, 8, 21 }, { 0, 0, 0 } },
+    { { 31, 31, 31 }, { 24, 23, 25 }, { 4, 8, 21 }, { 8, 8, 9 } },
+    { { 31, 31, 31 }, { 5, 10, 11 }, { 0, 12, 15 }, { 0, 0, 0 } },
+  } or {
     { { 31, 31, 31 }, { 18, 23, 31 }, { 15, 20, 31 }, { 0, 0, 0 } },
     { { 31, 21, 0 }, { 12, 14, 12 }, { 15, 20, 31 }, { 0, 0, 17 } },
     { { 31, 31, 31 }, { 31, 0, 0 }, { 15, 20, 31 }, { 0, 0, 0 } },
     { { 31, 31, 31 }, { 29, 25, 0 }, { 15, 20, 31 }, { 17, 10, 1 } },
     { { 31, 31, 31 }, { 23, 26, 31 }, { 18, 23, 31 }, { 0, 0, 0 } },
   }
-  -- title_fg.pal: pal 0 = Ho-Oh silhouette (shades 1-3 are the same brown);
+  -- title_fg.pal, shared (GSTitleOBPals, engine/gfx/color.asm:1241): pal 0 =
-  -- pal 1 = gold trail sparks (OAM_PAL1 on GSTitleTrail).
+  -- Ho-Oh silhouette; pal 1 = gold trail sparks (OAM_PAL1 on GSTitleTrail).
   local OBJ_HOOH = {
     { 31, 31, 31 }, { 7, 6, 3 }, { 7, 6, 3 }, { 7, 6, 3 },
   }
   local OBJ_TRAIL = {
     { 31, 31, 31 }, { 31, 31, 0 }, { 26, 22, 0 }, { 0, 0, 0 },
   }
+  -- engine/movie/title.asm:134-141 + CopyPals (home/palettes.asm:190):
+  -- DmgToCgbObjPal0 %11100000 makes Silver's OBJ pal 0 {c0, c0, c2, c3}.
+  if silver then
+    OBJ_HOOH = {
+      OBJ_HOOH[1], OBJ_HOOH[1], OBJ_HOOH[3], OBJ_HOOH[4],
+    }
+    -- .OAMData_GSTitleTrail is attribute 0, not OAM_PAL1 (oam.asm:834-837).
+    OBJ_TRAIL = OBJ_HOOH
+  end
 
   local function palColor(pal, shade)
     local c = pal[shade + 1] or pal[4]
@@ -1671,8 +1694,9 @@ function RomExtractorGen2:extractTitle()
   -- solid BLACK silhouette on a monochrome screen rather than the shaded pose
   -- a straight decode gives.  rOBP1 (%11111000) carries the gold trail.
   local DMG_BGP = { 0, 2, 1, 3 }
-  local DMG_OBP0 = { 3, 3, 3, 3 }
+  -- engine/movie/title.asm:105-115: Silver writes %11110000 to both OBPs.
-  local DMG_OBP1 = { 0, 2, 3, 3 }
+  local DMG_OBP0 = silver and { 0, 0, 3, 3 } or { 3, 3, 3, 3 }
+  local DMG_OBP1 = silver and { 0, 0, 3, 3 } or { 0, 2, 3, 3 }
   -- ImageWriter's four hardware shades, by shade number.
   local DMG_SHADE = { 1, 2 / 3, 1 / 3, 0 }
 
@@ -1776,6 +1800,28 @@ function RomExtractorGen2:extractTitle()
 
   -- Ho-Oh frames from OAMData_GSIntroHoOh1..5 (data/sprite_anims/oam.asm).
   local hoohTiles = tilesFrom2bpp(self:decompressLz3Symbol("TitleScreenGFX4"), true)
+  -- .OAMData_GSIntroLugia1 / 2 (data/sprite_anims/oam.asm:736-773); the
+  -- spriteanimoam vtile offset is added per frame (core.asm:224-227).
+  local LUGIA_1 = {
+    { -5, -2, 0, 0, 0x00 }, { -5, 0, 0, 0, 0x02 },
+    { -4, -2, 0, 0, 0x04 }, { -4, 0, 0, 0, 0x06 },
+    { -3, -1, 0, 0, 0x08 }, { -2, -1, 0, 0, 0x0a },
+    { -1, -2, 0, 0, 0x0c }, { -1, 0, 0, 0, 0x0e },
+    { 0, -2, 0, 0, 0x10 }, { 0, 0, 0, 0, 0x12 },
+    { 1, -2, 0, 0, 0x14 }, { 1, 0, 0, 0, 0x16 },
+    { 2, -2, 0, 0, 0x18 }, { 2, 0, 0, 0, 0x1a },
+    { 3, -1, 0, 0, 0x1c }, { 4, -1, 0, 0, 0x1e },
+  }
+  local LUGIA_2 = {
+    { -5, -2, 0, 0, 0x00 }, { -5, 0, 0, 0, 0x02 },
+    { -4, -2, 0, 0, 0x04 }, { -4, 0, 0, 0, 0x06 },
+    { -3, -1, 0, 0, 0x08 }, { -2, -1, 0, 0, 0x0a },
+    { -1, -2, 0, 0, 0x0c }, { -1, 0, 0, 0, 0x0e },
+    { 0, -2, 0, 0, 0x10 }, { 0, 0, 0, 0, 0x12 },
+    { 1, -2, 0, 0, 0x14 }, { 1, 0, 0, 0, 0x16 },
+    { 2, -2, 0, 0, 0x18 }, { 2, 0, 0, 0, 0x1a },
+    { 3, -2, 0, 0, 0x1c }, { 4, -2, 0, 0, 0x1e },
+  }
   local HOOH_FRAMES = {
     { -- 1
       { -4, -1, 0, 0, 0x00 }, { -3, -2, 0, 0, 0x02 }, { -3, 0, 0, 0, 0x04 },
@@ -1823,22 +1869,36 @@ function RomExtractorGen2:extractTitle()
       { 3, -2, 0, 0, 0x22 }, { 3, 0, 0, 0, 0x24 },
     },
   }
-  -- Frameset_GSIntroHoOhLugia (Gold): 1,2,3,4,3,5 with these durations.
+  -- Silver's five oamsets, as {layout, vtile base} (oam.asm:103-107).
-  local HOOH_SEQUENCE = {
+  local LUGIA_FRAMES = {
+    { LUGIA_1, 0x00 }, { LUGIA_1, 0x20 }, { LUGIA_2, 0x40 },
+    { LUGIA_2, 0x60 }, { LUGIA_1, 0x00 },
+  }
+  -- Frameset_GSIntroHoOhLugia (data/sprite_anims/framesets.asm:376-396):
+  -- Gold 1,2,3,4,3,5; Silver 2,1,2,3,3,4,4,3,2 on a faster clock.
+  local HOOH_SEQUENCE = silver and {
+    { 2, 3 }, { 1, 7 }, { 2, 7 }, { 3, 7 }, { 3, 7 },
+    { 4, 7 }, { 4, 7 }, { 3, 7 }, { 2, 3 },
+  } or {
     { 1, 10 }, { 2, 9 }, { 3, 10 }, { 4, 10 }, { 3, 9 }, { 5, 10 },
   }
   local hoohPaths, hoohGrayPaths = {}, {}
-  local originX, originY = 32, 24
+  -- Lugia1/2 span x tiles -5..4, four tiles wider than Ho-Oh's -4..3.
-  for fi, oam in ipairs(HOOH_FRAMES) do
+  local originX, originY = silver and 40 or 32, 24
+  local poseW = silver and 80 or 64
+  local frames = silver and LUGIA_FRAMES or HOOH_FRAMES
+  for fi, entry in ipairs(frames) do
+    local oam = silver and entry[1] or entry
+    local base = silver and entry[2] or 0
     -- The pose starts EMPTY, not white: an OBJ's colour 0 is transparent
     -- wherever it falls, so a gap enclosed by the bird shows the sky through
     -- exactly like one outside it, and there is no matte to flood-fill.
-    local pose = ImageWriter.blank(64, 64, 0, 0, 0, 0)
+    local pose = ImageWriter.blank(poseW, 64, 0, 0, 0, 0)
     for _, spr in ipairs(oam) do
       local px = originX + spr[1] * 8 + spr[3]
       local py = originY + spr[2] * 8 + spr[4]
-      blitSprite(pose, hoohTiles[spr[5] + 1], px, py)
+      blitSprite(pose, hoohTiles[base + spr[5] + 1], px, py)
-      blitSprite(pose, hoohTiles[spr[5] + 2], px, py + 8)
+      blitSprite(pose, hoohTiles[base + spr[5] + 2], px, py + 8)
     end
     local tinted = colorize(pose, function() return OBJ_HOOH end)
     local rel = ("title/hooh_%d.png"):format(fi)
@@ -1855,14 +1915,20 @@ function RomExtractorGen2:extractTitle()
   end
   self:tick("Title screen", 3, 5)
 
-  -- Trail: TitleScreenGFX3 is raw 2bpp (8 tiles); Gold OAM uses one 8x16
+  -- Trail: TitleScreenGFX3 is raw 2bpp; Gold's OAM is one 8x16, Silver's two
-  -- on OAM_PAL1 (gold), not the Ho-Oh silhouette pal.
+  -- side by side, and only 4 of Silver's 8 copied tiles exist (title.asm:43).
   local trailSym = self:symbol("TitleScreenGFX3")
-  local trailRaw = self.rom:bytes(trailSym.bank, trailSym.address, 8 * 16)
+  local trailTileCount = silver and 4 or 8
+  local trailRaw =
+    self.rom:bytes(trailSym.bank, trailSym.address, trailTileCount * 16)
   local trailTiles = tilesFrom2bpp(trailRaw, true)
-  local trail = ImageWriter.blank(8, 16, 0, 0, 0, 0)
+  local trail = ImageWriter.blank(silver and 16 or 8, 16, 0, 0, 0, 0)
   blitSprite(trail, trailTiles[1], 0, 0)
   blitSprite(trail, trailTiles[2], 0, 8)
+  if silver then
+    blitSprite(trail, trailTiles[3], 8, 0)
+    blitSprite(trail, trailTiles[4], 8, 8)
+  end
   local trailTint = colorize(trail, function() return OBJ_TRAIL end)
   self:save(trailTint, "title/trail.png")
   self:save(throughRegister(trail, DMG_OBP1), "title/trail_gray.png")
@@ -1908,8 +1974,11 @@ function RomExtractorGen2:extractTitle()
     cloudsGray = "assets/generated/title/clouds_gray.png",
     hoohFramesGray = hoohGrayPaths,
     trailGray = "assets/generated/title/trail_gray.png",
-    -- Frameset_GSIntroHoOhLugia (Gold), frame index 1-based + duration frames.
+    -- Frameset_GSIntroHoOhLugia, frame index 1-based + duration frames.
     hoohSequence = HOOH_SEQUENCE,
+    -- AnimSeq_GSIntroHoOhLugia (engine/sprite_anims/functions.asm:820-838).
+    hoohBobAmplitude = silver and 8 or 2,
+    hoohBobStep = silver and -1 or 1,
     -- `depixel 12, 11` (engine/movie/title.asm).  Two traps, and the port had
     -- fallen into both, which is what put Ho-Oh off-centre:
     --  * ldpixel's own comment calls its first tile argument the X one and is
@@ -1919,19 +1988,45 @@ function RomExtractorGen2:extractTitle()
     --    the cursor two rows up on the box screen.  So this is x 88, y 96.
     --  * those are OAM coordinates, which are biased; a drawn object sits at
     --    (x - 8, y - 16) on screen.
-    -- The pose canvas holds its own origin at (32, 24), so the sheet's corner
+    -- The pose canvas holds its own origin, so the sheet's corner is
-    -- is (88 - 8 - 32, 96 - 16 - 24) -- and the bird's 64px width then lands
+    -- (88 - 8 - originX, 96 - 16 - originY) -- and the pose's width then lands
-    -- centred on the screen, 48 to 112.
+    -- centred on the screen (Ho-Oh 48..112, Lugia 40..120).
-    hoohX = 48,
+    hoohX = 80 - originX,
-    hoohY = 56,
+    hoohY = 80 - originY,
     trail = "assets/generated/title/trail.png",
     copyright = "assets/generated/title/copyright.png",
     copyrightSplash = "assets/generated/title/copyright_splash.png",
-    -- ScrollTitleScreenClouds: Gold decrements the cloud-band SCX every
+    -- ScrollTitleScreenClouds (engine/menus/intro_menu.asm:917-928): Gold
-    -- 8 vblanks, so the strip slides 1px right.  Silver does the same
+    -- decrements the cloud-band SCX every 8 vblanks, so the strip slides 1px
-    -- decrement every frame.
+    -- right.  Silver does the same decrement every frame.
-    cloudScrollEvery = 8,
+    cloudScrollEvery = silver and 1 or 8,
     cloudY = 88,
+    -- BG pal 0 colour 2: the sky the widescreen bands have to match.
+    sky = {
+      BG_PALS[1][3][1] / 31, BG_PALS[1][3][2] / 31, BG_PALS[1][3][3] / 31,
+    },
+    -- The fill under the cloud/wave band: Gold's cloud field is BG pal 0
+    -- colour 0 (white), Silver's sea floor is colour 3 (black).
+    below = silver and {
+      BG_PALS[1][4][1] / 31, BG_PALS[1][4][2] / 31, BG_PALS[1][4][3] / 31,
+    } or {
+      BG_PALS[1][1][1] / 31, BG_PALS[1][1][2] / 31, BG_PALS[1][1][3] / 31,
+    },
+    -- UpdateTitleTrailSprite (engine/menus/intro_menu.asm:1069-1124).  Silver's
+    -- `depixel 15, 11, 4, 0` is OAM (88, 124), less the bias and the (-16, -8)
+    -- corner .OAMData_GSTitleTrail draws from.
+    trailMode = silver and "silver" or "gold",
+    trailSpawns = silver and { { 72, 100 } } or {
+      { 80, 88 }, { 104, 88 }, { 104, 88 }, { 120, 88 },
+      { 120, 88 }, { 88, 88 },
+    },
+    trailSpawnEvery = 4,
+    trailStepX = 4,
+    trailStepY = silver and 0 or 1,
+    -- AnimSeq_GSTitleTrail (functions.asm:784-813) with wIntroSceneTimer 0.
+    trailBobAmplitude = silver and 3 or 2,
+    trailPhaseStep = silver and 7 or 3,
+    trailPhase = silver and 0 or nil,
   }
   self:write("title", data)
   return data
@@ -5136,6 +5231,82 @@ function RomExtractorGen2:extractMenuGfx()
   end
   if eggHatch.egg or eggHatch.shell then out.eggHatch = eggHatch end
 
+  -- Goldenrod Game Corner: Slot Machine graphics assets
+  if self.symbols["Slots1LZ"] then
+    local raw1 = self:decompressLz3Symbol("Slots1LZ")
+    self:write2bpp(raw1, 16, #raw1 / 4, "slots/gold_slots_1.png")
+  end
+  if self.symbols["Slots2LZ"] then
+    local raw2 = self:decompressLz3Symbol("Slots2LZ")
+    -- In Pokemon Gold ROM, Seven symbol (first 4 tiles = 64 bytes) has inverted bit polarity
+    for i = 1, math.min(64, #raw2) do
+      raw2[i] = bit.band(bit.bnot(raw2[i]), 0xFF)
+    end
+    self:write2bpp(raw2, 16, #raw2 / 4, "slots/gold_slots_2.png")
+  end
+  if self.symbols["Slots3LZ"] then
+    local raw3 = self:decompressLz3Symbol("Slots3LZ")
+    self:write2bpp(raw3, 24, #raw3 / 6, "slots/gold_slots_3.png", true)
+    -- Slots3LZ is a 24px-wide (3 tiles), 240px-tall (30 tiles) sprite sheet containing:
+    --   Y=0:   Golem 1 (Standing, 24x32)
+    --   Y=32:  Golem 2 (Ball, 24x32)
+    --   Y=64:  Chansey 1 (Standing / Step 1, 24x32)
+    --   Y=96:  Chansey 2 (Step 2, 24x32)
+    --   Y=128: Chansey 3 (Step 3, 24x32)
+    --   Y=160: Chansey 4 (Arm raised / Step 4, 24x32)
+    --   Y=192: Chansey 5 (Egg Drop pose, 24x32)
+    --   Y=224: Egg (8x16 at X=0)
+    self:write2bpp(raw3, 24, #raw3 / 6, "slots/gold_slots_actors.png", true)
+  end
+  if self.symbols["SlotsTilemap"] then
+    local symbol = self:symbol("SlotsTilemap")
+    local tm = self.rom:bytes(symbol.bank, symbol.address, 20 * 12)
+    self:save(tm, "slots/gold_slots.tilemap")
+  end
+
+  -- Goldenrod Game Corner: Card Flip graphics assets
+  if self.symbols["CardFlipLZ01"] then
+    local raw1 = self:decompressLz3Symbol("CardFlipLZ01")
+    self:write2bpp(raw1, 128, #raw1 / 32, "card_flip/card_flip_1.png")
+  end
+  if self.symbols["CardFlipLZ02"] then
+    local raw2 = self:decompressLz3Symbol("CardFlipLZ02")
+    self:write2bpp(raw2, 24, #raw2 / 6, "card_flip/card_flip_2.png")
+  end
+  if self.symbols["CardFlipLZ03"] then
+    local raw3 = self:decompressLz3Symbol("CardFlipLZ03")
+    self:write2bpp(raw3, 8, #raw3 / 2, "card_flip/card_flip_3.png")
+  end
+  if self.symbols["CardFlipOnButtonGFX"] then
+    local symbol = self:symbol("CardFlipOnButtonGFX")
+    self:write2bpp(self.rom:bytes(symbol.bank, symbol.address, 16), 8, 8, "card_flip/on.png")
+  end
+  if self.symbols["CardFlipOffButtonGFX"] then
+    local symbol = self:symbol("CardFlipOffButtonGFX")
+    self:write2bpp(self.rom:bytes(symbol.bank, symbol.address, 16), 8, 8, "card_flip/off.png")
+  end
+  if self.symbols["CardFlipTilemap"] then
+    local symbol = self:symbol("CardFlipTilemap")
+    local tm = self.rom:bytes(symbol.bank, symbol.address, 11 * 12)
+    self:save(tm, "card_flip/card_flip.tilemap")
+  end
+
+  out.slots = {
+    sheet1 = "assets/generated/slots/gold_slots_1.png",
+    sheet2 = "assets/generated/slots/gold_slots_2.png",
+    sheet3 = "assets/generated/slots/gold_slots_3.png",
+    tilemap = "assets/generated/slots/gold_slots.tilemap",
+  }
+
+  out.cardFlip = {
+    sheet1 = "assets/generated/card_flip/card_flip_1.png",
+    sheet2 = "assets/generated/card_flip/card_flip_2.png",
+    sheet3 = "assets/generated/card_flip/card_flip_3.png",
+    on = "assets/generated/card_flip/on.png",
+    off = "assets/generated/card_flip/off.png",
+    tilemap = "assets/generated/card_flip/card_flip.tilemap",
+  }
+
   self:write("menu_gfx", out)
   self:tick("Menu graphics", 1, 1)
   return out

src/import/RomImporter.lua

@@ -142,6 +142,8 @@ local VERSION_REQUIRED_FILES_OVERRIDE = {
     "assets/generated/audio/programs.bin",
   },
 }
+-- Same Gen 2 extract, so a Silver cache is complete when the same files exist.
+VERSION_REQUIRED_FILES_OVERRIDE.silver = VERSION_REQUIRED_FILES_OVERRIDE.gold
 
 -- "Split-screen ROM selector" first-run palette (matches the FirstRun mockup):
 -- a dark neon arcade panel, one column per game.
@@ -335,7 +337,7 @@ function RomImporter.syncAndroidShortcuts(activeVersion)
     return false
   end
 
-  local allVersions = { "red", "blue", "yellow", "gold" }
+  local allVersions = GameVersion.ORDER
   local ready = {}
   local seen = {}
 
@@ -1361,11 +1363,10 @@ function RomImporter.new(onComplete, opts)
     saveNotice = {},
     -- MODS panel state (pass 3): mods is the cached LauncherMods.list() array
     -- (refreshed lazily on first draw and after any toggle/install/delete);
-    -- modScroll is the current paged list's inner scroll offset (px, clamped
+    -- modNotice is the last install/delete result { ok, text }.
-    -- in draw); modNotice is the last install/delete result { ok, text }.
     -- requiredImportNotice stays inside the imported-files modal so validation
     -- failures are visible beside the file picker that caused them.
-    mods = nil, modScroll = 0, modNotice = nil, issueNotice = nil,
+    mods = nil, modNotice = nil, issueNotice = nil,
     requiredImportNotice = nil,
     -- Which game the MODS panel is answering for (a GameVersion id, nil =
     -- every game).  Rows resolve their enable-state and their "runs here"
@@ -1422,7 +1423,8 @@ function RomImporter.new(onComplete, opts)
     self.returning[version] =
       (not ready) and marker ~= nil and marker ~= markerFor(version)
     self.romName[version] = "pokemon_" .. info.id
-      .. ((info.id == "yellow" or info.id == "gold") and ".gbc" or ".gb")
+      .. ((info.id == "yellow" or GameVersion.generation(version) == 2)
+        and ".gbc" or ".gb")
   end
   RomImporter.syncAndroidShortcuts()
   self:_applyLastVersionTab()
@@ -1535,6 +1537,9 @@ function RomImporter:focus(f)
     self._modPress = nil
     return
   end
+  if type(self._sync) == "table" then
+    pcall(self._sync.noteResumed, self._sync)
+  end
   if not (f and self.android and self.workState ~= "working") then return end
   -- SAF create-document finished: GameActivity wrote export_done.flag.
   if love.filesystem.getInfo("export_done.flag", "file") then
@@ -1687,7 +1692,7 @@ function RomImporter:startData(data, displayName)
   end
   if not isAcceptedRomSize(#data) then
     self:setError(("Expected a 1 MiB Game Boy ROM (Red/Blue/Yellow) or a "
-      .. "2 MiB Game Boy Color ROM (Gold); this file is %.2f MiB.")
+      .. "2 MiB Game Boy Color ROM (Gold/Silver); this file is %.2f MiB.")
       :format(#data / 1024 / 1024))
     return
   end
@@ -1695,7 +1700,8 @@ function RomImporter:startData(data, displayName)
   local version = GameVersion.forSha1(actualHash)
   if not version then
     self:setError(("Unsupported ROM (SHA-1 %s). This needs a clean US Pokemon "
-      .. "Red, Blue, Yellow, or Gold dump; patched, trimmed or \"fixed\" dumps "
+      .. "Red, Blue, Yellow, Gold, or Silver dump; patched, trimmed or "
+      .. "\"fixed\" dumps "
       .. "(tagged [b] or [BF]) never verify."):format(actualHash))
     return
   end
@@ -1772,7 +1778,7 @@ function RomImporter:_startExtractCoroutine(version, info, prefix, displayName)
     local CacheFs = require("src.import.CacheFs")
     CacheFs.prefix = prefix
     local manifest = require("src.import.RomManifest").decode(version)
-    local RomExtractor = version == "gold"
+    local RomExtractor = GameVersion.generation(version) == 2
       and require("src.import.RomExtractorGen2")
       or require("src.import.RomExtractor")
     local extractor = RomExtractor.new(self.romData, manifest,
@@ -2057,7 +2063,7 @@ function RomImporter:_importRequiredData(modId, importId, data)
   return nil
 end
 
-function RomImporter:_importRequiredSource(modId, importId, source)
+function RomImporter:_importRequiredSource(modId, importId, source, confirmed)
   local manifest = requiredManifest(self, modId)
   local spec = manifest and requiredSpec(manifest, importId)
   if not spec then
@@ -2065,14 +2071,31 @@ function RomImporter:_importRequiredSource(modId, importId, source)
     self.modNotice = nil
     return nil
   end
+  local RequiredImports = require("src.mods.RequiredImports")
   local info = love.filesystem.getInfo(source, "file")
   local size = info and info.size or externalFileSize(source)
-  local sizeErr = require("src.mods.RequiredImports").sizeError(spec, size, false)
+  local sizeErr = RequiredImports.sizeError(spec, size, false)
   if sizeErr then
     requiredImportNotice(self, modId, importId, sizeErr)
     self.modNotice = nil
     return nil
   end
+  if not confirmed and type(size) == "number"
+      and size > RequiredImports.LARGE_WARN_BYTES then
+    self._modConfirm = {
+      kind = "largeImport",
+      modId = modId, importId = importId, source = source,
+      title = Strings("Large import"),
+      lines = {
+        Strings("This is a large import (%s).",
+          RequiredImports.sizeLabel(size)),
+        Strings("Please ensure you have enough space on your"),
+        Strings("device before doing this."),
+      },
+      yesLabel = Strings("I understand"),
+    }
+    return nil
+  end
   local data = love.filesystem.read(source)
   if not data then data = readExternalPath(source) end
   if not data then
@@ -2115,8 +2138,13 @@ function RomImporter:chooseRequiredImport(modId, importId)
       if name:sub(1, 1) ~= "." then
         local path = inbox .. "/" .. name
         local info = love.filesystem.getInfo(path, "file")
-        local sizeErr = info and require("src.mods.RequiredImports")
+        local RequiredImports = require("src.mods.RequiredImports")
-          .sizeError(spec, info.size, false)
+        local sizeErr = info
+          and RequiredImports.sizeError(spec, info.size, false)
+        if info and not sizeErr
+            and info.size > RequiredImports.LARGE_WARN_BYTES then
+          return self:_importRequiredSource(modId, importId, path)
+        end
         local data = not sizeErr and love.filesystem.read(path) or nil
         if data and self:_importRequiredData(modId, importId, data) then return end
         if sizeErr then lastError = sizeErr
@@ -2757,7 +2785,8 @@ function RomImporter:resumeAfterOverlay()
 end
 
 function RomImporter:_cycleTab(delta)
-  local order = { "red", "blue", "yellow", "gold", "mods", "find", "skins", "bug" }
+  local order = { "red", "blue", "yellow", "gold", "silver",
+    "mods", "find", "skins", "bug" }
   local idx = 1
   for i, id in ipairs(order) do
     if id == self.tab then idx = i; break end
@@ -3094,8 +3123,10 @@ end
 -- multi-monitor coords).  Same contract as PadCursor.yieldToPointer for
 -- the overlay hosts.  Touch move/press/release must still reach
 -- FlexLove.touch* or scroll containers never drag on phones.
-function RomImporter:mousepressed()
+function RomImporter:mousepressed(x, y, button)
   self._padCursorActive = false
+  if button ~= 1 or not self._flex then return end
+  require("src.import.LauncherView").mousepressed(self, x, y)
 end
 
 function RomImporter:touchpressed(id, x, y, dx, dy, pressure)
@@ -3123,7 +3154,6 @@ function RomImporter:_switchTab(id)
   self.tab = id
   self._findSearchFocus = false
   self._skinUrlFocus = false
-  self._modScrollMax, self._modListRect = 0, nil
   self:_disarmTextInput()
   -- the skins list is cheap and can change behind the launcher's back
   -- (an export, a hand-dropped folder), so re-read it on every visit

src/link/LinkBattle.lua

@@ -262,7 +262,8 @@ function LinkBattle.new(game, net, opts)
   self.opponentName = theirName
   -- _TrainerWantsToFightText (data/text/text_2.asm:1257): wIsInBattle == 2
   -- takes PrintBeginningBattleText's .trainerBattle arm, link included
-  self.introText = Strings("%s wants\nto fight!", theirName)
+  self.introText = self:romText("_TrainerWantsToFightText",
+    "%s wants\nto fight!", theirName)
   self.remoteHashes = {}
   self.localHashes = {}
   self.remoteParts = {}

src/mods/Manifest.lua

@@ -195,8 +195,8 @@ local function parseImports(value, field, required)
       if value == nil then return end
       assert(type(value) == "number" and value > 0 and value % 1 == 0,
         field .. " " .. label .. " must be a positive integer")
-      assert(value <= 128 * 1024 * 1024,
+      assert(value <= 2 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024,
-        field .. " " .. label .. " exceeds the 128 MiB hard limit")
+        field .. " " .. label .. " exceeds the 2 GiB hard limit")
     end
     validateSize(size, "size")
     validateSize(maxSize, "max_size")

src/mods/RequiredImports.lua

@@ -23,11 +23,17 @@ local function isRequired(spec)
 end
 
 RequiredImports.specs = allSpecs
-RequiredImports.MAX_BYTES = 128 * 1024 * 1024
+RequiredImports.MAX_BYTES = 2 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024
+-- Past this, the launcher interposes a free-space warning before importing.
+RequiredImports.LARGE_WARN_BYTES = 128 * 1024 * 1024
 
 local function sizeLabel(bytes)
+  if bytes >= 1024 * 1024 * 1024 then
+    return ("%.1f GiB"):format(bytes / (1024 * 1024 * 1024))
+  end
   return ("%.1f MiB"):format(bytes / (1024 * 1024))
 end
+RequiredImports.sizeLabel = sizeLabel
 
 -- Check size before a caller reads an external or stored file into one large
 -- Lua string. N64 sources may carry a 512-byte copier header, while stored

src/render/Renderer.lua

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ local Runtime = require("src.mods.Runtime")
 local GameViewport = require("src.render.GameViewport")
 -- leaf module (no renderer dependency), so requiring it here cannot cycle
 local FaithfulRes = require("src.core.FaithfulRes")
+local ScreenPosition = require("src.core.ScreenPosition")
 local Playfield = require("src.render.Playfield")
 
 local Renderer = {}
@@ -94,6 +95,11 @@ local function displayMetrics()
   return ww, wh, pw, ph, dpiX, dpiY, vx, vy, cut, grow
 end
 
+local function positionLift(ph, contentPx, dpiY, cut)
+  if cut then return 0 end
+  return ScreenPosition.lift(ph, contentPx, ScreenPosition.safeTop() * dpiY)
+end
+
 function Renderer:init()
   -- 160x144 real pixels, never DPI-scaled: see src/render/PixelCanvas.lua
   -- (#208).  Every canvas below is sized in framebuffer pixels for the same
@@ -269,7 +275,7 @@ end
 -- corners; flat mode returns exactly today's size (growth factor is 1 when
 -- tilt is inactive).
 function Renderer:worldViewSize()
-  local _, _, pw, ph, _, _, _, _, cut, grow = displayMetrics()
+  local _, _, pw, ph, _, dpiY, _, _, cut, grow = displayMetrics()
   -- FAITHFUL RATIO on mobile.  The world pass deliberately expands to cover the
   -- WHOLE display, so letterbox voids become more map instead of black bars.
   -- That is why the lock appeared to do nothing in the overworld: it shrank
@@ -293,6 +299,9 @@ function Renderer:worldViewSize()
   -- so unfloored FX/sprite math cannot phase-shimmer against the tile layer.
   if vw % 2 ~= 0 then vw = vw + 1 end
   if vh % 2 ~= 0 then vh = vh + 1 end
+  local _, uih = self:uiSize()
+  local lift = positionLift(ph, uih * self:fitScale(), dpiY, cut)
+  if lift > 0 then vh = vh + 2 * math.ceil(lift / sp) end
   if Tilt.active() then
     local g = Tilt.viewGrowth()
     vw, vh = math.ceil(vw * g), math.ceil(vh * g)
@@ -774,8 +783,9 @@ function Renderer:frameRects()
   r.uiw, r.uih = uiw, uih
   r.vpw, r.vph = uiw * r.Sx, uih * r.Sy
   -- Snap the letterbox origin to a framebuffer pixel, then convert to units.
+  r.lift = positionLift(ph, uih * Sp, dpiY, cut)
   r.ox = (vx + math.floor((pw - uiw * Sp) / 2)) / dpiX
-  r.oy = (vy + math.floor((ph - uih * Sp) / 2)) / dpiY
+  r.oy = (vy + math.floor((ph - uih * Sp) / 2) - r.lift) / dpiY
   -- The UI has its own scale: it steps down as the survey zoom goes out (see
   -- uiScale), so it can be smaller than the world letterbox.  Un-zoomed these
   -- are identical to Sp/ox/oy and every rect below is what it always was.
@@ -795,7 +805,7 @@ function Renderer:frameRects()
   r.Up, r.Ux, r.Uy = Up, Up / dpiX, Up / dpiY
   r.uvpw, r.uvph = uiw * r.Ux, uih * r.Uy
   r.uox = (vx + math.floor((pw - uiw * Up) / 2)) / dpiX
-  r.uoy = (vy + math.floor((ph - uih * Up) / 2)) / dpiY
+  r.uoy = (vy + math.max(0, math.floor((ph - uih * Up) / 2) - r.lift)) / dpiY
   return r
 end
 
@@ -1002,7 +1012,7 @@ function Renderer:endFrame(zones, worldZones)
     local wvw = self.worldCanvas:getWidth()
     local wvh = self.worldCanvas:getHeight()
     local wox = (vx + math.floor((pw - wvw * sp) / 2)) / dpiX
-    local woy = (vy + math.floor((ph - wvh * sp) / 2)) / dpiY
+    local woy = (vy + math.floor((ph - wvh * sp) / 2) - R.lift) / dpiY
     -- Tilt mode projects the ground world pass through the perspective mesh
     -- (SGB zones baked in beforehand -- see drawTiltedWorld -- so no zone
     -- scissoring here).  drawTiltedWorld returns false when tilt is off or

src/save_convert/SaveConvert.lua

@@ -228,7 +228,10 @@ SaveConvert.mergeDefaults = mergeDefaults
 -- codec exists yet.  Both directions answer with a plain message the
 -- launcher's save card renders as-is, instead of pushing a Gen 2 save
 -- table through Gen 1 offsets and surfacing a codec traceback.
-local GEN2_SAV_UNSUPPORTED = { gold = "Pokemon Gold" }
+local GEN2_SAV_UNSUPPORTED = {
+  gold = "Pokemon Gold",
+  silver = "Pokemon Silver",
+}
 
 -- importSav(bytes, version, gameVersion) -> saveTable, err
 -- bytes: the raw 32768-byte SRAM string. Validates size and the main-data

src/sync/SyncEngine.lua

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ SyncEngine.__index = SyncEngine
 
 SyncEngine.UPLOAD_DEBOUNCE = 5
 SyncEngine.AUTO_INTERVAL = 300
+SyncEngine.RESUME_MIN_GAP = 60
 SyncEngine.MAX_STEPS_PER_UPDATE = 8
 
 local IDLE_STATUS = "Ready"
@@ -133,6 +134,7 @@ function SyncEngine.new(opts)
   eng.modPlan = nil
   eng.shareCode = nil
   eng.clock = 0
+  eng.autoAt = SyncEngine.AUTO_INTERVAL
   eng.queue = {}
   eng.pending = nil
   eng.uploadAt = nil
@@ -258,6 +260,11 @@ function SyncEngine:update(dt)
     self.uploadAt = nil
     if self.state.enabled and self:linked() then self:syncNow() end
   end
+  if self.clock >= self.autoAt and not self:busy()
+      and (self.phase == "idle" or self.phase == "error")
+      and self.state.enabled and self:linked() then
+    self:syncNow()
+  end
   local steps = 0
   while not self.pending and #self.queue > 0
       and steps < SyncEngine.MAX_STEPS_PER_UPDATE do
@@ -296,6 +303,7 @@ function SyncEngine:createAccount(label)
     eng.phase = "idle"
     eng.status = "Sync account created"
     eng:_persist()
+    eng:syncNow()
   end)
 end
 
@@ -385,9 +393,24 @@ function SyncEngine:setEnabled(enabled)
   return self.state.enabled
 end
 
+function SyncEngine:protectPlaythrough(version, playthroughId)
+  self.protectedKey = SyncState.key(version, playthroughId)
+end
+
+function SyncEngine:noteResumed()
+  if not (self.state.enabled and self:linked()) then return end
+  if self:busy() or self.phase == "conflict" then return end
+  if self.now() - (tonumber(self.state.lastSyncAt) or 0)
+      < SyncEngine.RESUME_MIN_GAP then
+    return
+  end
+  self:syncNow()
+end
+
 function SyncEngine:syncNow()
   if not self:linked() then return false, "this device is not linked" end
   if self.pending then return false, "sync is busy" end
+  self.autoAt = self.clock + SyncEngine.AUTO_INTERVAL
   self.queue = {}
   self.conflicts = {}
   self.state.pendingConflicts = {}
@@ -437,13 +460,13 @@ function SyncEngine:_planFrom(remoteState)
         self:_addConflict(entry, key, row)
       elseif localChanged then
         self:_queueUpload(entry, key, false)
-      elseif remoteChanged then
+      elseif remoteChanged and key ~= self.protectedKey then
         self:_queueDownload(key, entry.version, entry.playthroughId, "replace")
       end
     end
   end
   for key, row in pairs(remote) do
-    if not seen[key] then
+    if not seen[key] and key ~= self.protectedKey then
       local version, id = SyncState.splitKey(key)
       if version and id then
         self:_queueDownload(key, version, id, "replace", tonumber(row.rev))

src/sync/SyncMods.lua

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ SyncMods.REV = 1
 local function versions()
   local ok, GameVersion = pcall(require, "src.core.GameVersion")
   if ok and GameVersion and GameVersion.ORDER then return GameVersion.ORDER end
-  return { "red", "blue", "yellow", "gold" }
+  return { "red", "blue", "yellow", "gold", "silver" }
 end
 
 local function defaultDeps()

src/ui/BoxMenu.lua

@@ -185,14 +185,16 @@ local function release(game)
         return
       end
       game.stack:push(TextBox.new(game,
-        Strings("Once released,\n%s is\ngone forever. OK?", name), nil, {
+        (t._OnceReleasedText or Strings("Once released,\n%s is\ngone forever. OK?", name))
+          :gsub("{RAM:wStringBuffer}", name), nil, {
         defaultNo = true, noSound = true,
         choice = function(yes)
           if not yes then return end
           table.remove(box, list.index)
           require("src.core.Sound").playCry(game.data, mon.species)
           game.stack:push(TextBox.new(game,
-            Strings("%s was\nreleased outside.\fBye %s!", name, name)))
+            ((t._MonWasReleasedText or Strings("%s was\nreleased outside.\fBye %s!", name, name))
+              :gsub("{RAM:wStringBuffer}", name))))
           list:removeCurrent()
         end,
       }))

src/ui/OptionsMenu.lua

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ local GameVersion = require("src.core.GameVersion")
 local VideoMode = require("src.core.VideoMode")
 local Orientation = require("src.core.Orientation")
 local FaithfulRes = require("src.core.FaithfulRes")
+local ScreenPosition = require("src.core.ScreenPosition")
 local FrameCap = require("src.core.FrameCap")
 local Performance = require("src.core.Performance")
 local Logger = require("src.core.Logger")
@@ -443,6 +444,16 @@ local function buildRows(game)
         FaithfulRes.apply(o.faithfulRes)
         return true
       end },
+    { id = "screenPos", label = Strings("SCREEN POS"),
+      value = function(g)
+        return Strings(ScreenPosition.label(g.save.options.screenPos))
+      end,
+      step = function(g, dir)
+        local o = g.save.options
+        o.screenPos = ScreenPosition.cycle(o.screenPos, dir)
+        ScreenPosition.setMode(o.screenPos)
+        return true
+      end },
     -- hard render cap (issue #88): bounds the present rate so a
     -- driver-forced vsync-off run cannot spin at thousands of FPS.  Logic
     -- is fixed-step off dt, so this touches presentation only.

src/ui/ShopMenu.lua

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ local ListMenu = require("src.ui.ListMenu")
 local Menu = require("src.ui.Menu")
 local QuantityBox = require("src.ui.QuantityBox")
 local Strings = require("src.core.Strings")
+local romText = require("src.core.RomText")
 
 local ShopMenu = {}
 
@@ -57,7 +58,8 @@ local function buy(game, stock)
           end
           local cost = qty * def.price
           -- _PokemartTellBuyPriceText + yes/no confirm
-          list.footer = Strings("%s?\nThat will be\n¥%d. OK?", def.name, cost)
+          list.footer = romText(game.data, "_PokemartTellBuyPriceText",
+            "%s?\nThat will be\n¥%d. OK?", def.name, cost)
           game.stack:push(ChoiceBox.new(game, function(yes)
             if not yes then
               list.footer = greet
@@ -147,7 +149,8 @@ local function sell(game)
             return
           end
           -- _PokemartTellSellPriceText + yes/no confirm
-          list.footer = Strings("I can pay you\n¥%d for that.", unit * qty)
+          list.footer = romText(game.data, "_PokemartTellSellPriceText",
+            "I can pay you\n¥%d for that.", unit * qty)
           game.stack:push(ChoiceBox.new(game, function(yes)
             if not yes then
               list.footer = greet

src/ui/SlotMachine.lua

@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
 local Font = require("src.render.Font")
 local Sound = require("src.core.Sound")
 local Strings = require("src.core.Strings")
+local romText = require("src.core.RomText")
 
 local SlotMachine = {}
 SlotMachine.__index = SlotMachine
@@ -357,7 +358,8 @@ function SlotMachine:resolveWin(win)
   -- SlotReward300Func prints "Yeah!" (text_pause) before the flash; the port
   -- shows it in the box while the screen flashes.  LinedUpText follows.
   self.yeah = (sym == "7")
-  self.message = Strings("%s lined up!\nScored %d coins!", sym, pay)
+  self.message = sym .. romText(self.game.data, "_LinedUpText",
+    " lined up!\nScored %d coins!", pay)
   -- .flashScreenLoop: flip rBGP, wait 5 frames, b times.  The coins are not
   -- credited until the player dismisses the "lined up" text (see startPayout).
   self.stage = "flash"

src/ui/TouchControlsEditor.lua

@@ -73,7 +73,10 @@ function Editor.load(opts)
   }
   local optsTbl = SaveData.loadOptions()
   local applied = optsTbl
-  if opts.version == "gold" then
+  local GameVersion = require("src.core.GameVersion")
+  local gen2 = GameVersion.VERSIONS[opts.version]
+    and GameVersion.generation(opts.version) == 2
+  if gen2 then
     local gold = type(optsTbl.gold) == "table" and optsTbl.gold or {}
     applied = {
       touchControls = gold.touchControls,
@@ -151,7 +154,9 @@ local function persist()
     skin = cfg.skin,
     layouts = cfg.layouts,
   }
-  if Editor.version == "gold" then
+  local GameVersion = require("src.core.GameVersion")
+  if GameVersion.VERSIONS[Editor.version]
+      and GameVersion.generation(Editor.version) == 2 then
     opts.gold = type(opts.gold) == "table" and opts.gold or {}
     opts.gold.touchControls = block
   else
@@ -569,7 +574,7 @@ function Editor.new(game)
   local state = { game = game, isOpaque = true }
   Editor.hostPoll = true
   Editor.load({
-    version = "gold",
+    version = require("src.core.GameVersion").get(),
     hostPoll = true,
     onClose = function()
       Editor.hostPoll = false

src/ui/gen2/BattleTransition.lua

@@ -619,8 +619,8 @@ function BattleTransition:grid(w, h)
     scale = math.max(1, math.floor(math.min(w / 160, h / 144)))
   end
   local size = 8 * scale
-  local ox = math.floor((w - 160 * scale) / 2)
+  local Chrome = require("src.ui.gen2.Chrome")
-  local oy = math.floor((h - 144 * scale) / 2)
+  local ox, oy = Chrome.fitOrigin(w, h, scale)
   return size, ox, oy
 end
 

src/ui/gen2/CardFlip.lua

@@ -303,12 +303,12 @@ local TEXT_X, TEXT_Y, TEXT_LINE = 1, 14, 2
 -- data/text/common_3.asm; none of these are in the cache's text.lua, because no
 -- script bytecode the extractor walks points at them.
 CardFlip.TEXTS = {
-  playWithThree = { "Play with three", "coins?" },
+  playWithThree = { "Play with", "3 coins?" },
-  notEnough = { "Not enough coins…" },
+  notEnough = { "Not enough", "coins." },
-  chooseACard = { "Choose a card." },
+  chooseACard = { "Choose a", "card." },
-  placeYourBet = { "Place your bet." },
+  placeYourBet = { "Place", "your bet" },
-  playAgain = { "Want to play", "again?" },
+  playAgain = { "Play", "again?" },
-  shuffled = { "The cards have", "been shuffled." },
+  shuffled = { "The cards", "shuffled." },
   yeah = { "Yeah!" },
   darn = { "Darn…" },
 }
@@ -401,14 +401,34 @@ function CardFlip:enterBet()
   self.lines = CardFlip.TEXTS.placeYourBet
 end
 
--- .CheckTheCard: the dealt card is turned face up and marked on the discard
+-- .CheckTheCard: trigger hardware-accurate discrete tile flip sequence
--- pile, which is what blanks its cell on the odds board.
 function CardFlip:flip()
   local card = CardFlip.dealt(self.deck, self.played, self.which)
   self.faceUp = card
   self.discarded[card] = true
-  self:sfx(SFX_CHOOSE)
+  local won = CardFlip.payout(self.cursorX, self.cursorY, card)
-  self:tabulate()
+  self.payoutLeft = won
+  self.payoutTick = 0
+  self.phase = "flipping"
+  self.flipTimer = 0
+  self.targetCard = card
+end
+
+function CardFlip:updateFlipping()
+  self.flipTimer = (self.flipTimer or 0) + 1
+  if self.flipTimer == 4 then
+    self:sfx(SFX_CHOOSE)
+  elseif self.flipTimer >= 12 then
+    if (self.payoutLeft or 0) > 0 then
+      self.phase = "payout"
+      self.lines = CardFlip.TEXTS.yeah
+      self:sfx(SFX_WIN)
+    else
+      self.phase = "result"
+      self.lines = CardFlip.TEXTS.darn
+      self:sfx(SFX_WRONG)
+    end
+  end
 end
 
 function CardFlip:tabulate()
@@ -472,7 +492,21 @@ function CardFlip:quit()
   if self.onClose then self.onClose() end
 end
 
-function CardFlip:update(_dt)
+function CardFlip:update(dt)
+  -- Support both fixed-tick 60Hz loop and variable dt accumulator
+  if dt and dt > 0 then
+    self.dtAccum = (self.dtAccum or 0) + dt
+    local TICK = 1 / 60
+    while self.dtAccum >= TICK do
+      self.dtAccum = self.dtAccum - TICK
+      self:tick()
+    end
+  else
+    self:tick()
+  end
+end
+
+function CardFlip:tick()
   local input = self.game and self.game.input
   if not input then return end
   local phase = self.phase
@@ -539,6 +573,11 @@ function CardFlip:update(_dt)
     return
   end
 
+  if phase == "flipping" then
+    self:updateFlipping()
+    return
+  end
+
   if phase == "payout" then
     self:updatePayout()
     return
@@ -552,79 +591,370 @@ function CardFlip:update(_dt)
 end
 
 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- draw
+--
+-- Authentic Color Game Boy palettes and tile graphics matching pret/pokegold
+local TileSheet = require("src.ui.gen2.TileSheet")
+local GbcPalette = require("src.render.GbcPalette")
+
+local CARDFLIP_PALS = {
+  bg = {
+    [0] = { { 255, 255, 255 }, { 140, 57, 255 },  { 49, 156, 66 },  { 0, 0, 0 } },   -- 0: Base / Table green
+    [1] = { { 255, 255, 255 }, { 239, 206, 0 },   { 49, 156, 66 },  { 0, 0, 0 } },   -- 1: Pikachu (Yellow)
+    [2] = { { 255, 255, 255 }, { 255, 107, 247 }, { 49, 156, 66 },  { 0, 0, 0 } },   -- 2: Jigglypuff (Pink)
+    [3] = { { 255, 255, 255 }, { 66, 140, 247 },  { 49, 156, 66 },  { 0, 0, 0 } },   -- 3: Poliwag (Blue)
+    [4] = { { 255, 255, 255 }, { 66, 255, 66 },   { 49, 156, 66 },  { 0, 0, 0 } },   -- 4: Oddish (Green)
+    [5] = { { 255, 255, 255 }, { 140, 57, 255 },  { 49, 156, 66 },  { 0, 0, 0 } },   -- 5: Level header
+    [6] = { { 255, 255, 255 }, { 140, 57, 255 },  { 49, 156, 66 },  { 0, 0, 0 } },   -- 6: Border
+    [7] = { { 255, 255, 255 }, { 140, 57, 255 },  { 49, 156, 66 },  { 0, 0, 0 } },   -- 7: Textbox
+  },
+  obj = {
+    [0] = { { 255, 255, 255 }, { 248, 56, 40 },  { 248, 56, 40 },  { 248, 56, 40 } }, -- Authentic GBC Red OAM
+  }
+}
+
+local TILEMAP = nil
+local function getCardFlipTilemap()
+  if TILEMAP == nil then
+    local path = "assets/generated/card_flip/card_flip.tilemap"
+    local f = io.open(path, "rb")
+    if f then
+      local data = f:read("*a")
+      f:close()
+      TILEMAP = {}
+      for i = 1, #data do
+        TILEMAP[i] = string.byte(data, i)
+      end
+    else
+      TILEMAP = false
+    end
+  end
+  return TILEMAP or nil
+end
+
+function CardFlip:sheets()
+  if self.sheet1 == nil then
+    self.sheet1 = TileSheet.new({ path = "assets/generated/card_flip/card_flip_1.png", wide = 16, firstTile = 0 })
+    self.sheet2 = TileSheet.new({ path = "assets/generated/card_flip/card_flip_2.png", wide = 3, firstTile = 0 })
+    self.sheet3 = TileSheet.new({ path = "assets/generated/card_flip/card_flip_3.png", wide = 1, firstTile = 0 })
+    self.sheetOn = TileSheet.new({ path = "assets/generated/card_flip/on.png", wide = 1, firstTile = 0 })
+    self.sheetOff = TileSheet.new({ path = "assets/generated/card_flip/off.png", wide = 1, firstTile = 0 })
+  end
+  return self.sheet1, self.sheet2, self.sheet3, self.sheetOn, self.sheetOff
+end
+
+function CardFlip:cursorQuads()
+  if self.s3Image == nil then
+    local _, _, s3 = self:sheets()
+    self.s3Image = s3:image()
+    if self.s3Image and love and love.graphics then
+      local G = love.graphics
+      self.quadCorner = G.newQuad(0, 0,  8, 8, 8, 56) -- Tile 0: 1px corner
+      self.quadVEdge  = G.newQuad(0, 8,  8, 8, 8, 56) -- Tile 1: 1px vertical edge
+      self.quadHEdge  = G.newQuad(0, 16, 8, 8, 8, 56) -- Tile 2: 1px horizontal edge
+    end
+  end
+  return self.s3Image, self.quadCorner, self.quadVEdge, self.quadHEdge
+end
+
+local HEADER_TILE_MAP = {
+  [0x3E] = 0,  [0x3F] = 1,
+  [0x40] = 3,  [0x41] = 4,
+  [0x42] = 6,  [0x43] = 7,
+  [0x44] = 9,  [0x45] = 10,
+  [0x46] = 12, [0x47] = 13,
+  [0x48] = 15, [0x49] = 16,
+  [0x4A] = 18, [0x4B] = 19,
+  [0x4C] = 21, [0x4D] = 22,
+}
+
+-- Draw an authentic GBC red cursor bounding frame using OAM sprite tiles.
+-- On real GBC hardware OAM color 0 is always transparent, so only the 1px
+-- dark edges of tiles 0-2 are visible; the board shows through the middle.
+-- We replicate this by drawing in "multiply" blend mode: white (255,255,255)
+-- pixels multiply to the board colour unchanged, black (0,0,0) pixels tinted
+-- to GBC red draw the border, and nothing fills the interior.
+function CardFlip:drawOamBox(px, py, w, h)
+  local img, qCorner, qVEdge, qHEdge = self:cursorQuads()
+  local G = love.graphics
+
+  if not (img and qCorner and qVEdge and qHEdge) then
+    -- Fallback: plain 1px red outline
+    G.setColor(248 / 255, 56 / 255, 40 / 255, 1)
+    G.rectangle("fill", px, py, w, 1)
+    G.rectangle("fill", px, py + h - 1, w, 1)
+    G.rectangle("fill", px, py, 1, h)
+    G.rectangle("fill", px + w - 1, py, 1, h)
+    G.setColor(1, 1, 1, 1)
+    return
+  end
+
+  local prevBlend, prevAlpha = G.getBlendMode()
+  G.setBlendMode("multiply", "premultiplied")
+  -- Tint: black (0) → GBC red, white (255) → white (passthrough = transparent)
+  G.setColor(248 / 255, 56 / 255, 40 / 255, 1)
+
+  -- 4 Corners
+  G.draw(img, qCorner, px,     py,     0,  1,  1)
+  G.draw(img, qCorner, px + w, py,     0, -1,  1)
+  G.draw(img, qCorner, px,     py + h, 0,  1, -1)
+  G.draw(img, qCorner, px + w, py + h, 0, -1, -1)
+
+  -- Top & Bottom horizontal edges
+  if w > 16 then
+    for x = px + 8, px + w - 16, 8 do
+      G.draw(img, qHEdge, x, py,     0, 1,  1)
+      G.draw(img, qHEdge, x, py + h, 0, 1, -1)
+    end
+  end
+
+  -- Left & Right vertical edges
+  if h > 16 then
+    for y = py + 8, py + h - 16, 8 do
+      G.draw(img, qVEdge, px,     y, 0,  1, 1)
+      G.draw(img, qVEdge, px + w, y, 0, -1, 1)
+    end
+  end
+
+  G.setBlendMode(prevBlend, prevAlpha)
+  G.setColor(1, 1, 1, 1)
+end
+
 function CardFlip:drawBoard()
-  -- The twelve hand lights down column 9; CARDFLIP_LIGHT_ON marks the hand
+  local s1, s2, s3, sOn, sOff = self:sheets()
-  -- being played and every one before it stays off.
+  local tm = getCardFlipTilemap()
-  for row = 0, CardFlip.HANDS_PER_DECK - 1 do
+  local G = love.graphics
-    Chrome.print(row == self.played and "o" or ".", LIGHT_X, row)
+
-  end
+  -- Green background fill
-  for x = 2, 5 do
+  G.setColor(49 / 255, 156 / 255, 66 / 255, 1)
-    Chrome.print(CardFlip.MON_LABELS[x - 2], MON_COL[x], MON_ROW)
+  G.rectangle("fill", 0, 0, 160, 144)
-    -- The pair headers sit above the two Pokemon they cover.
+
-    if x % 2 == 0 then Chrome.print("6", MON_COL[x] + 1, MON_PAIR_ROW) end
+  if not tm or not s2:available() then
-  end
+    -- Fallback simple board
-  for y = 2, 7 do
+    for row = 0, CardFlip.HANDS_PER_DECK - 1 do
-    local row = LEVEL_ROW[y]
+      Chrome.print(row == self.played and "o" or ".", LIGHT_X, row)
-    Chrome.print(tostring(y - 1), LEVEL_COL, row)
+    end
-    if y % 2 == 0 then Chrome.print("9", LEVEL_PAIR_COL, row) end
     for x = 2, 5 do
-      -- A still-in-the-deck cell stands in for the card back until the art
+      Chrome.print(CardFlip.MON_LABELS[x - 2], MON_COL[x], MON_ROW)
-      -- lands.  It cannot be '#': that is charmap.asm $54, the text command
+      if x % 2 == 0 then Chrome.print("6", MON_COL[x] + 1, MON_PAIR_ROW) end
-      -- that places "POKé", not a one-tile glyph.
+    end
-      local card = CardFlip.card(y - 2, x - 2)
+    for y = 2, 7 do
-      Chrome.print(self.discarded[card] and " " or "?", CARD_COL[x], row)
+      local pair = math.floor((y - 2) / 2)
+      local isBottom = ((y - 2) % 2 == 1)
+      local row = 3 + pair * 3 + (isBottom and 1 or 0)
+      Chrome.print(tostring(y - 1), LEVEL_COL, row)
+      if y % 2 == 0 then Chrome.print("9", LEVEL_PAIR_COL, row) end
+      for x = 2, 5 do
+        local card = CardFlip.card(y - 2, x - 2)
+        Chrome.print(self.discarded[card] and " " or "?", MON_COL[x], row)
+      end
+    end
+    return
+  end
+
+  -- Draw the 11x12 board tilemap at (9, 0)
+  for ty = 0, 11 do
+    for tx = 0, 10 do
+      local idx = ty * 11 + tx + 1
+      local tileId = tm[idx]
+      local screenX = 9 + tx
+      local screenY = ty
+
+      -- Attribute palette
+      local pal = 0
+      if screenY >= 1 and screenY <= 2 then
+        if screenX == 12 or screenX == 13 then pal = 1 -- Pikachu
+        elseif screenX == 14 or screenX == 15 then pal = 2 -- Jigglypuff
+        elseif screenX == 16 or screenX == 17 then pal = 3 -- Poliwag
+        elseif screenX == 18 or screenX == 19 then pal = 4 -- Oddish
+        end
+      elseif screenX == 9 then
+        pal = 1 -- Lights
+      end
+
+      local colors = CARDFLIP_PALS.bg[pal]
+      s1.palette = colors
+      s2.palette = colors
+      s3.palette = colors
+
+      if screenX == 9 then
+        -- Column 9: Light buttons
+        if screenY == self.played then
+          sOn.palette = colors
+          sOn:draw(0, screenX, screenY)
+        else
+          sOff.palette = colors
+          sOff:draw(0, screenX, screenY)
+        end
+      elseif tileId >= 0x3e then
+        -- Board graphics from card_flip_2 (using accurate 2x2 header tile mapping)
+        local mappedId = HEADER_TILE_MAP[tileId] or (tileId - 0x3e)
+        s2:draw(mappedId, screenX, screenY)
+      elseif tileId < 0x3e then
+        -- Graphics from card_flip_1
+        s1:draw(tileId, screenX, screenY)
+      end
+    end
+  end
+
+  -- Draw discarded card blanking covers (each 2-tile wide stacked card cell is 16x12 px)
+  for y = 2, 7 do
+    local level = y - 2
+    local pair = math.floor(level / 2)
+    local isBottom = (level % 2 == 1)
+    local py = 24 + pair * 24 + (isBottom and 12 or 0)
+    for x = 2, 5 do
+      local mon = x - 2
+      local card = CardFlip.card(level, mon)
+      if self.discarded[card] then
+        -- Discarded cover over full 16x12 stacked card cell
+        G.setColor(49 / 255, 156 / 255, 66 / 255, 1)
+        G.rectangle("fill", MON_COL[x] * 8, py, 16, 12)
+      end
     end
   end
 end
 
-function CardFlip:cursorCell()
+function CardFlip:cursorBounds()
   local x, y = self.cursorX, self.cursorY
-  local col
+  if y == 0 then
-  if x == 0 then col = LEVEL_PAIR_COL
+    -- Pokemon Pair: spans 4 columns (32px), 1 row (8px)
-  elseif x == 1 then col = LEVEL_COL
+    local px = (MON_COL[x] or 12) * 8
-  else col = MON_COL[x] end
+    local py = MON_PAIR_ROW * 8
-  local row
+    return px, py, 32, 8
-  if y == 0 then row = MON_PAIR_ROW
+  elseif y == 1 then
-  elseif y == 1 then row = MON_ROW
+    -- Single Pokemon: 2x2 tiles (16x16 px)
-  else row = LEVEL_ROW[y] end
+    local px = (MON_COL[x] or 12) * 8
-  return col, row
+    local py = MON_ROW * 8
+    return px, py, 16, 16
+  elseif x == 0 then
+    -- Level Pair: 1 column (8px), spans 24px across the full pair
+    local pair = math.floor((y - 2) / 2)
+    local px = LEVEL_PAIR_COL * 8
+    local py = 24 + pair * 24
+    return px, py, 8, 24
+  elseif x == 1 then
+    -- Single Level: 1 column (8px), 12px tall for each stacked card
+    local pair = math.floor((y - 2) / 2)
+    local isBottom = ((y - 2) % 2 == 1)
+    local px = LEVEL_COL * 8
+    local py = 24 + pair * 24 + (isBottom and 12 or 0)
+    return px, py, 8, 12
+  else
+    -- Exact Card: 2 columns (16px), 12px tall for each stacked card
+    local pair = math.floor((y - 2) / 2)
+    local isBottom = ((y - 2) % 2 == 1)
+    local px = (MON_COL[x] or 12) * 8
+    local py = 24 + pair * 24 + (isBottom and 12 or 0)
+    return px, py, 16, 12
+  end
 end
 
--- CardFlip_DisplayCardFaceUp: the level digit at the box origin + (3,1) and the
+local FACE_DOWN_TILES = {
--- 3x3 Pokepic one row further down.
+  { 0x08, 0x09, 0x09, 0x09, 0x0a },
+  { 0x0b, 0x28, 0x2b, 0x28, 0x0c },
+  { 0x0b, 0x2c, 0x2d, 0x2e, 0x0c },
+  { 0x0b, 0x2f, 0x30, 0x31, 0x0c },
+  { 0x0b, 0x32, 0x33, 0x34, 0x0c },
+  { 0x0d, 0x0e, 0x0e, 0x0e, 0x0f },
+}
+
+local FACE_UP_TILES = {
+  { 0x18, 0x19, 0x19, 0x19, 0x1a },
+  { 0x1b, 0x35, 0x28, 0x28, 0x1c },
+  { 0x0b, 0x28, 0x28, 0x28, 0x0c },
+  { 0x0b, 0x28, 0x28, 0x28, 0x0c },
+  { 0x0b, 0x28, 0x28, 0x28, 0x0c },
+  { 0x1d, 0x1e, 0x1e, 0x1e, 0x1f },
+}
+
+local MON_ANCHORS = {
+  [0] = 24, -- Pikachu (tiles 24..32 in card_flip_2)
+  [1] = 33, -- Jigglypuff (tiles 33..41 in card_flip_2)
+  [2] = 42, -- Poliwag (tiles 42..50 in card_flip_2)
+  [3] = 51, -- Oddish (tiles 51..59 in card_flip_2)
+}
+
+-- Draw face-down, flipping, or face-up card at (2, 0) or (2, 6)
 function CardFlip:drawCards()
+  local s1, s2 = self:sheets()
+
   for slot = 1, 2 do
     local box = CARD_BOX[slot]
-    Chrome.box(box.x, box.y, CARD_BOX_W, CARD_BOX_H)
+    local bx, by = box.x * 8, box.y * 8
     local chosen = (slot - 1) == self.which
-    if self.faceUp and chosen then
+    local isFlipping = (self.phase == "flipping") and chosen
-      Chrome.print(tostring(CardFlip.level(self.faceUp) + 1), box.x + 3,
+    local isFaceUp = (self.faceUp and chosen)
-        box.y + 1)
+
-      Chrome.print(CardFlip.MON_LABELS[CardFlip.mon(self.faceUp)],
+    if isFaceUp or (isFlipping and (self.flipTimer or 0) >= 4) then
-        box.x + 1, box.y + 3)
+      local activeCard = self.faceUp or self.targetCard or 0
-    elseif self.phase == "choose" and chosen then
+      local lvl = CardFlip.level(activeCard) + 1
-      Chrome.cursor(box.x, box.y + 3)
+      local mon = CardFlip.mon(activeCard)
+      local monPal = CARDFLIP_PALS.bg[mon + 1] or CARDFLIP_PALS.bg[1]
+
+      s1.palette = CARDFLIP_PALS.bg[0]
+      for cy = 1, 6 do
+        for cx = 1, 5 do
+          local tid = FACE_UP_TILES[cy][cx]
+          s1:draw(tid, box.x + cx - 1, box.y + cy - 1)
+        end
+      end
+
+      -- Level digit at (box.x + 3, box.y + 1)
+      if isFaceUp or (isFlipping and (self.flipTimer or 0) >= 8) then
+        Chrome.print(tostring(lvl), box.x + 3, box.y + 1)
+
+        -- Draw 3x3 Pokemon pic from card_flip_2 (s2) at (box.x + 1, box.y + 2)
+        s2.palette = monPal
+        local anchor = MON_ANCHORS[mon] or 24
+        for py = 0, 2 do
+          for px = 0, 2 do
+            local tid = anchor + py * 3 + px
+            s2:draw(tid, box.x + 1 + px, box.y + 2 + py)
+          end
+        end
+      end
+    else
+      s1.palette = CARDFLIP_PALS.bg[0]
+      for cy = 1, 6 do
+        for cx = 1, 5 do
+          local tid = FACE_DOWN_TILES[cy][cx]
+          s1:draw(tid, box.x + cx - 1, box.y + cy - 1)
+        end
+      end
+
+      if self.phase == "choose" and chosen then
+        -- Authentic OAM red selection box around 5x6 card (40x48 px)
+        self:drawOamBox(bx, by, 40, 48)
+      end
     end
   end
 end
 
 function CardFlip:drawPanel()
-  Chrome.clear()
   self:drawBoard()
   self:drawCards()
-  Chrome.textbox(COIN_BOX_X, COIN_BOX_Y, COIN_BOX_W - 2, COIN_BOX_H - 2)
+
-  Chrome.print("COIN", COIN_LABEL_X, COIN_LABEL_Y)
+  -- Dialogue / Message box at (0, 12), 10 wide, 6 tall (interior 8x4)
-  Chrome.print(Chrome.number(self:coins(), 4, true), COIN_VALUE_X, COIN_VALUE_Y)
   if self.lines then
-    Chrome.textbox(TEXT_BOX_X, TEXT_BOX_Y, TEXT_BOX_W - 2, TEXT_BOX_H - 2)
+    Chrome.textbox(TEXT_BOX_X, TEXT_BOX_Y, 8, 4)
     for i, line in ipairs(self.lines) do
       Chrome.print(line, TEXT_X, TEXT_Y + (i - 1) * TEXT_LINE)
     end
   end
+
+  -- Coin box at (9, 15), 11 wide, 3 tall (interior 9x1)
+  Chrome.textbox(COIN_BOX_X, COIN_BOX_Y, 9, 1)
+  Chrome.print("COIN", COIN_LABEL_X, COIN_LABEL_Y)
+  Chrome.print(Chrome.number(self:coins(), 4, true), COIN_VALUE_X, COIN_VALUE_Y)
+
   if self.phase == "bet" then
-    local col, row = self:cursorCell()
+    self.betBlink = (self.betBlink or 0) + 1
-    Chrome.cursor(col - 1, row)
+    if (self.betBlink % 32) < 24 then
+      local px, py, w, h = self:cursorBounds()
+      self:drawOamBox(px, py, w, h)
+    end
   end
+
   if self.phase == "ask" or self.phase == "again" then
     -- YesNoBox: a 6x5 box at (14,7) with YES at (16,8) and NO at (16,10).
     Chrome.textbox(14, 7, 4, 3)
@@ -652,3 +982,4 @@ function CardFlip:drawWidescreen(winW, winH)
 end
 
 return CardFlip
+

src/ui/gen2/Chrome.lua

@@ -66,6 +66,15 @@ function Chrome.fitOrigin(winW, winH, scale)
   local x, y, w, h = playfieldRect(winW, winH)
   return x + math.floor((w - Chrome.SCREEN_W * 8 * scale) / 2),
     y + math.floor((h - Chrome.SCREEN_H * 8 * scale) / 2)
+      - Chrome.positionLift(winW, winH, scale)
+end
+
+function Chrome.positionLift(winW, winH, scale)
+  local ok, ScreenPosition = pcall(require, "src.core.ScreenPosition")
+  if not ok or ScreenPosition.skinActive(winW, winH) then return 0 end
+  local _, _, _, h = playfieldRect(winW, winH)
+  return ScreenPosition.lift(h, Chrome.SCREEN_H * 8 * (scale
+    or Chrome.fitScale(winW, winH)), ScreenPosition.safeTop())
 end
 
 -- A bordered box, tile coords.  Leaves the draw color black for text.

src/ui/gen2/Credits.lua

@@ -189,11 +189,18 @@ defineString("CREDIT_END", "END")
 
 -- STAFF and everything after it is a heading.  Anything BELOW this id is a
 -- person as far as ParseCredits is concerned.
-Credits.STAFF = defineString("STAFF", {
+-- Credits_Staff differs per edition, including the centring spaces
-  "      #MON",
+-- (data/credits_strings.asm:54-60).
-  "    GOLD VERSION",
+Credits.STAFF = defineString("STAFF",
-  "     PORT STAFF",
+  require("src.core.GameVersion").get() == "silver" and {
-})
+    "      #MON",
+    "   SILVER VERSION",
+    "     PORT STAFF",
+  } or {
+    "      #MON",
+    "    GOLD VERSION",
+    "     PORT STAFF",
+  })
 defineString("DIRECTOR", "      DIRECTOR")
 defineString("PROGRAMMING", "    PROGRAMMING")
 defineString("ENGINE_DESIGN", "   ENGINE DESIGN")

src/ui/gen2/GoldSilverIntro.lua

@@ -147,8 +147,8 @@ function GoldSilverIntro.new(game, opts)
     -- the movie's full 2335 frames over an empty screen and reads exactly
     -- like "the intro does not work".  Say so instead: the fix is a
     -- re-import, and nothing else in the boot chain will mention it.
-    Logger.warn("gold intro: no intro.lua in the cache -- re-import Gold "
+    Logger.warn("gen2 intro: no intro.lua in the cache -- re-import "
-      .. "or the movie plays blank")
+      .. "this version or the movie plays blank")
   end
   self.images = {}
   self.sheets = {}

src/ui/gen2/MainMenu.lua

@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ function MainMenu.new(game, opts)
 
   self.save = opts.save
   if self.save == nil and opts.hasSave ~= false then
-    local loaded = Save.load("gold")
+    local loaded = Save.load()
     self.save = loaded
   end
   self.hasSave = opts.hasSave

src/ui/gen2/NamePick.lua

@@ -34,8 +34,14 @@ local NamePick = {}
 NamePick.__index = NamePick
 NamePick.isOpaque = true
 
--- data/player_names.asm PlayerNameArray, Gold's half of the IF.
+-- data/player_names.asm PlayerNameArray, one half of the IF per edition.
 local PRESETS = { "GOLD", "HIRO", "TAYLOR", "KARL" }
+local PRESETS_SILVER = { "SILVER", "KAMON", "OSCAR", "MAX" }
+
+local function presetsFor()
+  local silver = require("src.core.GameVersion").get() == "silver"
+  return silver and PRESETS_SILVER or PRESETS
+end
 
 -- menu_coords 0, 0, 10, TEXTBOX_Y - 1 (TEXTBOX_Y = 12).
 local BOX_X1, BOX_Y1, BOX_X2, BOX_Y2 = 0, 0, 10, 11
@@ -60,7 +66,7 @@ function NamePick.new(game, opts)
   self.game = game
   self.onDone = opts.onDone
   self.items = { "NEW NAME" }
-  for _, name in ipairs(opts.presets or PRESETS) do
+  for _, name in ipairs(opts.presets or presetsFor()) do
     self.items[#self.items + 1] = name
   end
   -- `db 1 ; default option`: the cursor starts on NEW NAME, not on a preset.
@@ -106,7 +112,7 @@ function NamePick:openNaming()
       if name and #name > 0 then
         self:choose(name)
       else
-        self:choose(self.items[2] or "GOLD")
+        self:choose(self.items[2] or presetsFor()[1])
       end
     end,
   })
@@ -146,7 +152,7 @@ function NamePick:update(_dt)
       if self.fontOk then
         self:openNaming()
       else
-        self:choose(self.items[2] or "GOLD")
+        self:choose(self.items[2] or presetsFor()[1])
       end
     else
       -- A preset returns through MovePlayerPicLeft, so the pic walks back
@@ -227,5 +233,7 @@ function NamePick:drawWidescreen(winW, winH)
 end
 
 NamePick.PRESETS = PRESETS
+NamePick.PRESETS_SILVER = PRESETS_SILVER
+NamePick.presetsFor = presetsFor
 
 return NamePick

src/ui/gen2/OakSpeech.lua

@@ -72,8 +72,8 @@ end
 
 -- Naming presets are boot config the same way Gen 1 reads them
 -- (field.boot.namePresets), so a total conversion that replaces the list once
--- replaces it for both games; NamePick.PRESETS (data/player_names.asm
+-- replaces it for both games; NamePick.presetsFor (data/player_names.asm
--- PlayerNameArray) is Gold's fallback.
+-- PlayerNameArray) is the running edition's fallback.
 local function namePresets(game, who, fallback)
   local boot = game and game.data and game.data.field
     and game.data.field.boot
@@ -351,9 +351,9 @@ function OakSpeech:openNamePick(step)
     picColors = self.playerColors,
     presets = step.presets
       or namePresets(self.game, step.presetsWho or step.who or "player",
-                     step.presetsFallback or NamePick.PRESETS),
+                     step.presetsFallback or NamePick.presetsFor()),
     onDone = function(name)
-      name = name or "GOLD"
+      name = name or NamePick.presetsFor()[1]
       self.game.save.player.name = name
       self.game.stack:pop() -- NamePick
       self.busy = false

src/ui/gen2/OptionsMenu.lua

@@ -196,6 +196,15 @@ local ROWS = {
       return VideoMode.normalize(options.videoMode) == "borderless"
         and "FULL" or "WINDOWED"
     end },
+  { label = "SCREEN POS", key = "screenPos", port = true,
+    cycle = function(options, delta)
+      local ScreenPosition = require("src.core.ScreenPosition")
+      options.screenPos = ScreenPosition.cycle(options.screenPos, delta)
+      ScreenPosition.setMode(options.screenPos)
+    end,
+    text = function(options)
+      return require("src.core.ScreenPosition").label(options.screenPos)
+    end },
   { id = "touchControls", label = "TOUCH PAD", port = true,
     text = function(options)
       local tc = options.touchControls

src/ui/gen2/PcMenu.lua

@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ function PcMenu:beginChangeBox(index)
   self.saveTimer = 0
   self.saved = nil
   local existed = self.saveExists
-  if existed == nil then existed = Save.exists("gold") end
+  if existed == nil then existed = Save.exists() end
   self.existed = existed
 end
 

src/ui/gen2/SaveMenu.lua

@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ function SaveMenu.new(game, opts)
   self.onDone = opts.onDone
   self.writer = opts.writer or Save.save
   local existed = opts.existed
-  if existed == nil then existed = Save.exists("gold") end
+  if existed == nil then existed = Save.exists() end
   self.existed = existed
   -- confirm -> overwrite (only when a file exists) -> saving -> done
   self.phase = "confirm"

src/ui/gen2/SlotMachine.lua

@@ -219,10 +219,16 @@ local TWO_LINES = {
 
 function SlotMachine.matchFirstTwo(bet, r1, r2)
   local building = SlotMachine.NO_MATCH
+  local matchingSevens = false
   for _, line in ipairs(TWO_LINES[(bet or 0) % 4] or {}) do
-    if r1[line[1]] == r2[line[2]] then building = r1[line[1]] end
+    if r1[line[1]] == r2[line[2]] then
+      building = r1[line[1]]
+      if building == SlotMachine.SEVEN then
+        matchingSevens = true
+      end
+    end
   end
-  return building, building == SlotMachine.SEVEN
+  return building, matchingSevens
 end
 
 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- bias
@@ -403,13 +409,14 @@ end
 -- matching SEVENs on a line this bet buys.
 function SlotMachine.spinReel2ToSevens(position, bet, stopped1)
   local strip = SlotMachine.REELS[2]
+  local pos = SlotMachine.advance(position)
   for _ = 1, SEARCH_LIMIT do
-    local window = { SlotMachine.window(strip, position) }
+    local window = { SlotMachine.window(strip, pos) }
     local building, sevens = SlotMachine.matchFirstTwo(bet, stopped1, window)
-    if building ~= SlotMachine.NO_MATCH and sevens then return position end
+    if building ~= SlotMachine.NO_MATCH and sevens then return pos end
-    position = SlotMachine.advance(position)
+    pos = SlotMachine.advance(pos)
   end
-  return position
+  return pos
 end
 
 -- ------------------------------------------------------- reel 3's theatre
@@ -580,8 +587,8 @@ end
 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ layout
 local COINS_X, COINS_Y = 5, 1
 local PAYOUT_X, PAYOUT_Y = 11, 1
--- REEL_X_COORD / TILE_WIDTH.
+-- REEL_X_COORD / TILE_WIDTH (5, 9, 13) for the 3 reel apertures (columns 5-6, 9-10, 13-14)
-local REEL_X = { 6, 10, 14 }
+local REEL_X = { 5, 9, 13 }
 -- Slots_UpdateReelPositionAndOAM's y ladder, converted from OAM space (which
 -- sits 16px above the screen) to tile rows: bottom, middle, top, and the
 -- fourth symbol that only half shows.
@@ -617,7 +624,7 @@ SlotMachine.TEXTS = TEXTS
 -- _SlotsLinedUpText: "lined up!" / "Won @<wStringBuffer2> coins!", with the
 -- matched symbol's 2x2 tiles printed to its left by .Text_PrintPayout.
 local function linedUpLines(payout)
-  return { "lined up!", ("Won %d coins!"):format(payout) }
+  return { "    lined up!", ("Won %d coins!"):format(payout) }
 end
 
 -- Slots_PlaySFX's labels, spelled the pokegold way (Sound.GEN2_ALIASES is what
@@ -729,30 +736,41 @@ function SlotMachine:startSpin()
   self.reel = 1
   self.delay = 32
   self.message = TEXTS.start
+  self.stopped = nil
+  self.matched = SlotMachine.NO_MATCH
+  self.matchingSevens = false
+  self.reel3Action = nil
+  self.golemAnim = nil
+  self.chanseyAnim = nil
+  self.reel2Pause = nil
   for i = 1, 3 do
     self.rate[i] = 4 -- ReelAction_NormalRate
     self.stops[i] = nil
+    self.distance[i] = 0
   end
   self:sfx(SFX_START)
 end
 
 -- Slots_SpinReel, per reel per frame: the action jumptable runs only on a slot
--- boundary, and the position advances when the distance's low nibble wraps.
+-- boundary, and the position advances whenever 16 pixels are traversed.
 function SlotMachine:spinReels()
   for i = 1, 3 do
     local rate = self.rate[i]
     if rate > 0 then
-      self.distance[i] = (self.distance[i] + rate) % 256
+      self.distance[i] = (self.distance[i] or 0) + rate
-      if self.distance[i] % 16 == 0 then
+      while self.distance[i] >= 16 do
+        self.distance[i] = self.distance[i] - 16
         self.positions[i] = SlotMachine.advance(self.positions[i])
         -- A reel with a resting slot chosen stops the moment it reaches it.
         if self.stops[i] and self.positions[i] == self.stops[i] then
           self.rate[i] = 0
+          self.distance[i] = 0
           self.stopped = self.stopped or {}
           self.stopped[i] = { SlotMachine.window(SlotMachine.REELS[i],
             self.positions[i]) }
           self:sfx(SFX_STOP)
           self:reelStopped(i)
+          break
         end
       end
     end
@@ -775,11 +793,17 @@ function SlotMachine:pressStop()
     self.stops[1] = SlotMachine.stopReel1(here, self.bias)
   elseif i == 2 then
     local r1 = self.stopped[1]
-    if SlotMachine.reel2SkipsToSeven(self.bet, self.bias, r1, self.random) then
+    local hereWindow = { SlotMachine.window(SlotMachine.REELS[2], here) }
+    local _, hereSevens = SlotMachine.matchFirstTwo(self.bet, r1, hereWindow)
+    local doSkip = SlotMachine.reel2SkipsToSeven(self.bet, self.bias, r1, self.random)
+    if hereSevens and not doSkip then
+      self.stops[2] = here
+    elseif doSkip then
       -- ReelAction_SetUpReel2SkipTo7 pauses the reel for 32 frames and then
       -- fast-spins it at double rate; the pause is the tell.
       self.stops[2] = SlotMachine.spinReel2ToSevens(here, self.bet, r1)
-      self.rate[2] = 8
+      self.reel2Pause = 32
+      self.rate[2] = 0 -- paused during the 32-frame tell
     else
       self.stops[2] = SlotMachine.stopReel2(here, self.bias, self.bet, r1)
     end
@@ -789,32 +813,54 @@ function SlotMachine:pressStop()
     self.matchingSevens = sevens
     local action = SlotMachine.reel3Action(sevens, self.bias, self.random)
     self.reel3Action = action
-    if action == SlotMachine.REEL3_STOP then
+    if action == SlotMachine.REEL3_STOP or action == "stop" then
       self.stops[3] = SlotMachine.stopReel3(here, self.bias, self.bet, r1, r2)
-    elseif action == SlotMachine.REEL3_SLOW then
+    elseif action == SlotMachine.REEL3_SLOW or action == "slowAdvance" then
       self.stops[3] = SlotMachine.slowAdvance(here, self.bias, self.bet, r1, r2)
-      self.rate[3] = 1 -- ReelAction_QuarterRate
+      self.rate[3] = 1 -- ReelAction_QuarterRate slow crawl
-    elseif action == SlotMachine.REEL3_GOLEM then
+    elseif action == SlotMachine.REEL3_GOLEM or action == "golem" then
       local count = SlotMachine.golemCount(here, self.bias, self.bet, r1, r2,
         self.random)
+      if count == 0 then count = 3 end
       local target = here
       for _ = 1, count do target = SlotMachine.advance(target) end
       self.stops[3] = target
       self.golems = count
-      self.rate[3] = 8
+      self.golemAnim = {
+        count = count,
+        state = "falling",
+        var1 = 48,
+        x = 100,
+        y = 44 - 112,
+        animFrame = 0,
+        animTimer = 0,
+      }
+      self.rate[3] = 0 -- reel 3 stepped by each golem impact
     else
       local target = SlotMachine.eggDrops(here, self.bet, r1, r2)
       self.stops[3] = target
-      self.rate[3] = 16 -- ReelAction_QuadrupleRate, the egg drop
+      self.chanseyAnim = {
+        state = "walking",
+        xcoord = 0,
+        x = -24,
+        y = 44,
+        animTimer = 0,
+        animPose = 0,
+      }
+      self.rate[3] = 0 -- paused until Chansey drops egg
     end
   end
   -- A reel already sitting on its resting slot has nowhere to turn.
-  if self.stops[i] == self.positions[i] then
+  -- Only trigger immediate halt if no active pause tell or special animation is running.
-    self.rate[i] = 0
+  if not self.reel2Pause and not self.golemAnim and not self.chanseyAnim then
-    self.stopped = self.stopped or {}
+    if self.stops[i] == self.positions[i] then
-    self.stopped[i] = self:reelWindow(i)
+      self.rate[i] = 0
-    self:sfx(SFX_STOP)
+      self.distance[i] = 0
-    self:reelStopped(i)
+      self.stopped = self.stopped or {}
+      self.stopped[i] = self:reelWindow(i)
+      self:sfx(SFX_STOP)
+      self:reelStopped(i)
+    end
   end
 end
 
@@ -823,6 +869,9 @@ function SlotMachine:reelStopped(i)
     self.reel = i + 1
     return
   end
+  self.golemAnim = nil
+  self.chanseyAnim = nil
+  self.reel2Pause = nil
   -- SlotsAction_FlashIfWin: a win flashes the object palette for 16 frames
   -- before the payout is counted out; a loss skips straight past it.
   local r1, r2, r3 = self.stopped[1], self.stopped[2], self.stopped[3]
@@ -906,13 +955,134 @@ function SlotMachine:update(_dt)
   if phase == "spinning" then
     -- SlotsAction_WaitStart clears hJoypadSum first, so a press held from the
     -- bet menu cannot stop reel one.
-    if self.delay > 0 then
+    if (self.delay or 0) > 0 then
       self.delay = self.delay - 1
       self:spinReels()
       return
     end
+    if self.reel2Pause and self.reel2Pause > 0 then
+      self.reel2Pause = self.reel2Pause - 1
+      if self.reel2Pause <= 0 then
+        self.reel2Pause = nil
+        self.rate[2] = 8 -- resume fast-spin after the 32-frame tell
+      end
+    end
+
+    if self.golemAnim then
+      local g = self.golemAnim
+      -- Cycle animation frames every 8 ticks (~7.5 fps) matching the original pacing
+      g.animTimer = (g.animTimer or 0) + 1
+      if g.animTimer >= 8 then
+        g.animTimer = 0
+        g.animFrame = ((g.animFrame or 0) + 1) % 4
+      end
+
+      if g.state == "falling" then
+        if g.var1 > 32 then
+          g.var1 = g.var1 - 1
+          local angle = (g.var1 * math.pi) / 32
+          local yOffset = math.floor(112 * math.sin(angle) + 0.5)
+          g.y = 44 + yOffset
+          g.x = 100
+        else
+          -- Landed on Reel 3!
+          g.y = 44
+          g.x = 100
+          g.state = "rolling"
+          g.xoffset = 0
+          g.animTimer = 0
+          g.animFrame = 0
+          self:sfx("Sfx_PlacePuzzlePieceDown")
+          -- Advance reel 3 by 1 slot per Golem impact
+          self.positions[3] = SlotMachine.advance(self.positions[3])
+          self.distance[3] = 0
+        end
+      elseif g.state == "rolling" then
+        g.xoffset = (g.xoffset or 0) + 1
+        g.x = 100 - g.xoffset
+
+        if g.xoffset >= 88 then
+          -- Rolled past reel 1 (100 - 88 = 12px) off the screen -> restart or end
+          g.count = g.count - 1
+          if g.count > 0 then
+            g.state = "falling"
+            g.var1 = 48
+            g.x = 100
+            g.y = 44 - 112
+          else
+            -- All Golems finished; halt reel 3 at target
+            self.golemAnim = nil
+            self.rate[3] = 0
+            self.distance[3] = 0
+            self.stopped = self.stopped or {}
+            self.stopped[3] = self:reelWindow(3)
+            self:sfx(SFX_STOP)
+            self:reelStopped(3)
+          end
+        end
+      end
+    end
+
+    if self.chanseyAnim then
+      local c = self.chanseyAnim
+      if c.state == "walking" then
+        c.xcoord = (c.xcoord or 0) + 1
+        c.x = c.xcoord - 24
+        c.y = 44
+
+        -- Cycle walking poses 0->1->2->3 (maps to Chansey 1->2->3->4) every 6 frames
+        c.animTimer = (c.animTimer or 0) + 1
+        if c.animTimer >= 6 then
+          c.animTimer = 0
+          c.animPose = ((c.animPose or 0) + 1) % 4
+        end
+
+        if c.xcoord % 16 == 0 then self:sfx("Sfx_JumpOverLedge") end
+
+        if c.x >= 88 then
+          -- Reached reel 3! Switch to tell pause (pose 4 = arm raised)
+          c.x = 88
+          c.state = "egg_pause"
+          c.delay = 14
+          c.animPose = 3
+        end
+      elseif c.state == "egg_pause" then
+        c.delay = (c.delay or 14) - 1
+        if c.delay <= 0 then
+          -- Switch to Chansey 5 (egg drop pose) and spawn egg
+          c.animPose = 4
+          c.state = "egg_drop"
+          c.eggTimer = 0
+          c.eggStartX = c.x + 14
+          c.eggStartY = c.y + 8
+          c.eggX = c.eggStartX
+          c.eggY = c.eggStartY
+          c.eggVisible = true
+          self:sfx("Sfx_Present")
+        end
+      elseif c.state == "egg_drop" then
+        c.eggTimer = (c.eggTimer or 0) + 1
+        local t = c.eggTimer / 16
+        if t > 1 then t = 1 end
+        c.eggX = c.eggStartX + t * (108 - c.eggStartX)
+        c.eggY = c.eggStartY + t * (56 - c.eggStartY) - math.sin(t * math.pi) * 8
+
+        if c.eggTimer >= 16 then
+          -- Egg landed on Reel 3!
+          c.eggVisible = false
+          c.state = "spinning"
+          self:sfx("Sfx_PlacePuzzlePieceDown")
+          self.rate[3] = 16 -- fast drop reel 3 to jackpot
+        end
+      end
+    end
+
     self.message = nil
-    if input:wasPressed("a") then self:pressStop() end
+    if input:wasPressed("a") then
+      if not self.stops[self.reel] and not self.reel2Pause and not self.golemAnim and not self.chanseyAnim then
+        self:pressStop()
+      end
+    end
     self:spinReels()
     return
   end
@@ -959,57 +1129,302 @@ end
 
 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- draw
 --
--- The cart's reel art is unextracted (see the header), so a symbol draws as its
+-- Authentic Color Game Boy palettes and tile graphics matching pret/pokegold
--- two-letter label inside a 2x2 cell.  A `slots` entry in menu_gfx.lua switches
+local TileSheet = require("src.ui.gen2.TileSheet")
--- this to the real tiles without any other change.
+local GbcPalette = require("src.render.GbcPalette")
-function SlotMachine:sheet()
+
-  if self.sheetCache == nil then
+local GBC_PALS = {
-    local data = self.game and self.game.data
+  bg = {
-    local gfx = data and data.gen2MenuGfx and data.gen2MenuGfx.slots
+    [0] = { { 255, 255, 255 }, { 198, 206, 231 }, { 198, 198, 74 }, { 0, 0, 0 } },  -- 0: Base Frame
-    if gfx and gfx.image then
+    [1] = { { 255, 255, 255 }, { 247, 82, 49 },   { 198, 198, 74 }, { 0, 0, 0 } },  -- 1: Vileplume / Active Lights
-      local TileSheet = require("src.ui.gen2.TileSheet")
+    [2] = { { 255, 255, 255 }, { 123, 255, 0 },   { 198, 198, 74 }, { 0, 0, 0 } },  -- 2: Bet 3 Indicators
-      self.sheetCache = TileSheet.new({ path = gfx.image, wide = gfx.wide or 16,
+    [3] = { { 255, 255, 255 }, { 255, 123, 255 }, { 198, 198, 74 }, { 0, 0, 0 } },  -- 3: Bet 2 Indicators
-        firstTile = gfx.firstTile or 0 })
+    [4] = { { 255, 255, 255 }, { 123, 173, 255 }, { 198, 198, 74 }, { 0, 0, 0 } },  -- 4: Bet 1 Indicators
+    [5] = { { 255, 255, 90 },  { 255, 255, 49 },   { 198, 198, 74 }, { 0, 0, 0 } },  -- 5: Yellow Highlights
+    [6] = { { 255, 255, 255 }, { 132, 156, 239 }, { 206, 181, 0 },  { 0, 0, 0 } },  -- 6: Textbox frame
+    [7] = { { 255, 255, 255 }, { 173, 173, 173 }, { 107, 107, 107 }, { 0, 0, 0 } },  -- 7: Inactive / Gray
+  },
+  obj = {
+    [0] = { { 255, 255, 255 }, { 247, 82, 49 },   { 255, 0, 0 },    { 0, 0, 0 } },  -- 0: Seven (Red)
+    [1] = { { 255, 255, 255 }, { 99, 206, 8 },    { 41, 115, 0 },   { 0, 0, 0 } },  -- 1: Pokeball (Green/Red)
+    [2] = { { 255, 255, 255 }, { 99, 206, 8 },    { 247, 82, 49 },  { 0, 0, 0 } },  -- 2: Cherry
+    [3] = { { 255, 255, 255 }, { 255, 255, 49 },  { 165, 123, 24 }, { 0, 0, 0 } },  -- 3: Pikachu (Yellow)
+    [4] = { { 255, 255, 255 }, { 255, 255, 49 },  { 123, 173, 255 }, { 0, 0, 0 } }, -- 4: Squirtle (Blue/Yellow)
+    [5] = { { 255, 255, 255 }, { 255, 255, 49 },  { 165, 123, 24 }, { 0, 0, 0 } },  -- 5: Staryu / Golem (Rock)
+    [6] = { { 255, 255, 255 }, { 255, 198, 173 }, { 255, 107, 255 }, { 0, 0, 0 } }, -- 6: Chansey (Pink)
+    [7] = { { 255, 255, 255 }, { 255, 255, 255 }, { 0, 0, 0 },     { 0, 0, 0 } },  -- 7: Flashing
+  }
+}
+
+local TILEMAP = nil
+local function getTilemap()
+  if TILEMAP == nil then
+    local path = "assets/generated/slots/gold_slots.tilemap"
+    local f = io.open(path, "rb")
+    if f then
+      local data = f:read("*a")
+      f:close()
+      TILEMAP = {}
+      for i = 1, #data do
+        TILEMAP[i] = string.byte(data, i)
+      end
     else
-      self.sheetCache = false
+      TILEMAP = false
     end
   end
-  return self.sheetCache or nil
+  return TILEMAP or nil
 end
 
-local function cell(tx, ty, label)
+function SlotMachine:sheets()
-  local G = love.graphics
+  if self.sheet1 == nil then
-  G.setColor(0, 0, 0, 1)
+    self.sheet1 = TileSheet.new({ path = "assets/generated/slots/gold_slots_1.png", wide = 2, firstTile = 0 })
-  G.rectangle("line", tx * 8, ty * 8, 16, 16)
+    self.sheet2 = TileSheet.new({ path = "assets/generated/slots/gold_slots_2.png", wide = 2, firstTile = 0 })
-  Chrome.print(label, tx, ty + 1)
+    self.sheet3 = TileSheet.new({ path = "assets/generated/slots/gold_slots_3.png", wide = 3, firstTile = 0 })
+  end
+  return self.sheet1, self.sheet2, self.sheet3
+end
+
+function SlotMachine:drawBackground()
+  local s1, s2 = self:sheets()
+  local tm = getTilemap()
+  if not tm or not s1:available() then
+    -- Fallback simple background if assets unavailable
+    Chrome.clear()
+    return
+  end
+
+  local bet = self.bet or 0
+
+  for ty = 0, 11 do
+    for tx = 0, 19 do
+      local idx = ty * 20 + tx + 1
+      local tileId = tm[idx]
+
+      -- Palette attribution matching _CGB_SlotMachine
+      local pal = 0
+      if (tx <= 2 or tx >= 17) and ty >= 2 and ty <= 11 then
+        if ty >= 6 and ty <= 7 then pal = 4
+        elseif ty >= 4 and ty <= 9 then pal = 3
+        else pal = 2 end
+      elseif tx >= 4 and tx <= 15 and ty >= 2 and ty <= 3 then
+        pal = 1 -- Vileplume
+      elseif (tx == 3 or tx == 16) and ty >= 2 and ty <= 11 then
+        local isLit = false
+        if ty == 6 or ty == 7 then isLit = (bet >= 1)
+        elseif ty == 4 or ty == 5 or ty == 8 or ty == 9 then isLit = (bet >= 2)
+        elseif ty == 2 or ty == 3 or ty == 10 or ty == 11 then isLit = (bet >= 3)
+        end
+        if isLit then
+          pal = 1
+          -- Use lit lights tile
+          if tileId == 0x23 then tileId = 0x14
+          elseif tileId == 0x24 then tileId = 0x15 end
+        else
+          pal = 0
+        end
+      end
+
+      local colors = GBC_PALS.bg[pal]
+      s1.palette = colors
+      s2.palette = colors
+
+      if tileId < 0x25 then
+        s1:draw(tileId, tx, ty)
+      else
+        s2:draw(tileId - 0x25, tx, ty)
+      end
+    end
+  end
 end
 
 function SlotMachine:drawReels()
+  local _, s2 = self:sheets()
+  local G = love.graphics
+
   for i = 1, 3 do
     local strip = SlotMachine.REELS[i]
-    local position = self.positions[i]
+    local pos = self.positions[i]
-    -- .LoadOAM reads FOUR consecutive strip entries from REEL_POSITION and lays
+    local a = pos
-    -- them bottom upward, which is what the three repeated entries at the end
+    if a == 0 then a = 0x0f end
-    -- of each strip are for: position 14 reads indices 14, 15, 16 and 17
+    a = (a - 1) % 16
-    -- without wrapping.  Only the lower three are on a pay line; the fourth
+    local rx = REEL_X[i] * 8
-    -- half-shows at the top of the window.
+    local dy = math.floor(self.distance[i] or 0)
-    for row = 1, 4 do
+
-      local symbol = strip[position + row]
+    -- Draw 4 consecutive 2x2 symbols from bottom to top, exactly matching SlotMachine.window
-      cell(REEL_X[i], REEL_ROW[row], SlotMachine.LABELS[symbol] or "?")
+    for row = 0, 3 do
+      local sym = strip[a + row + 1]
+      local py = 64 - (row * 16) + dy
+      local pal = GBC_PALS.obj[math.floor(sym / 4)] or GBC_PALS.obj[0]
+      s2.palette = pal
+
+      -- 2x2 tiles in 2-wide sheet:
+      -- sym + 0 = top-left (col 0, row 0)
+      -- sym + 1 = top-right (col 1, row 0)
+      -- sym + 2 = bottom-left (col 0, row 1)
+      -- sym + 3 = bottom-right (col 1, row 1)
+      local t0 = s2:quad(sym + 0)
+      local t1 = s2:quad(sym + 1)
+      local t2 = s2:quad(sym + 2)
+      local t3 = s2:quad(sym + 3)
+      local img = s2:image()
+
+      if img and t0 and t1 and t2 and t3 then
+        local function drawSym()
+          G.draw(img, t0, rx, py)
+          G.draw(img, t1, rx + 8, py)
+          G.draw(img, t2, rx, py + 8)
+          G.draw(img, t3, rx + 8, py + 8)
+        end
+        if GbcPalette.available() then
+          GbcPalette.with(pal, drawSym)
+        else
+          drawSym()
+        end
+      else
+        -- Fallback label
+        cell(REEL_X[i], REEL_ROW[row + 1], SlotMachine.LABELS[sym] or "?")
+      end
     end
   end
 end
 
-function SlotMachine:drawLights()
+function SlotMachine:actorsImage()
-  local lit = {}
+  if self.actorsLoaded == nil then
-  -- Slots_IlluminateBetLights lights the rows for THIS bet and every smaller
+    local Assets = require("src.render.Assets")
-  -- one: `dec a / jr z` falls through from three to two to one.
+    local ok, img = pcall(Assets.image, "assets/generated/slots/gold_slots_actors.png")
-  for bet = 1, (self.bet or 0) do
+    if not (ok and img) then
-    for _, row in ipairs(LIGHT_ROWS[bet] or {}) do lit[row] = true end
+      ok, img = pcall(Assets.image, "assets/generated/slots/gold_slots_3.png")
+    end
+    self.actorsLoaded = (ok and img) or false
+    if self.actorsLoaded then
+      local G = love.graphics
+      -- 24x240 sheet:
+      --   Y=0:   Golem 1 (Standing, 24x32)
+      --   Y=32:  Golem 2 (Ball, 24x32)
+      --   Y=64:  Chansey 1 (Standing / Step 1, 24x32)
+      --   Y=96:  Chansey 2 (Step 2, 24x32)
+      --   Y=128: Chansey 3 (Step 3, 24x32)
+      --   Y=160: Chansey 4 (Arm raised / Step 4, 24x32)
+      --   Y=192: Chansey 5 (Egg Drop pose, 24x32)
+      --   Y=224: Egg (8x16 at X=0)
+      self.quadGolemStand  = G.newQuad(0, 0,   24, 32, 24, 240)
+      self.quadGolemBall   = G.newQuad(0, 32,  24, 32, 24, 240)
+      self.quadChansey1    = G.newQuad(0, 64,  24, 32, 24, 240)
+      self.quadChansey2    = G.newQuad(0, 96,  24, 32, 24, 240)
+      self.quadChansey3    = G.newQuad(0, 128, 24, 32, 24, 240)
+      self.quadChansey4    = G.newQuad(0, 160, 24, 32, 24, 240)
+      self.quadChanseyDrop = G.newQuad(0, 192, 24, 32, 24, 240)
+      self.quadEgg         = G.newQuad(0, 224, 8,  16, 24, 240)
+    end
   end
-  for _, row in ipairs({ 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 }) do
+  return self.actorsLoaded or nil
-    for _, col in ipairs(LIGHT_COLS) do
+end
-      Chrome.print(lit[row] and "*" or "-", col, row)
+
+-- Redraw the top Vileplume row (rows 2..3) and bottom frame brackets (rows 10..11)
+-- over the reels with solid backdrop to naturally mask any sprite overhang like the Game Boy hardware does.
+function SlotMachine:drawOverlays()
+  local s1, s2 = self:sheets()
+  local tm = getTilemap()
+  if not tm or not s1:available() then return end
+
+  local G = love.graphics
+  -- Solid backdrop over header (rows 0..3) and footer (rows 10..11) between columns 4..15
+  G.setColor(198 / 255, 198 / 255, 74 / 255, 1)
+  G.rectangle("fill", 4 * 8, 2 * 8, 12 * 8, 2 * 8)
+  G.rectangle("fill", 4 * 8, 10 * 8, 12 * 8, 2 * 8)
+  G.setColor(1, 1, 1, 1)
+
+  for _, ty in ipairs({ 2, 3, 10, 11 }) do
+    for tx = 4, 15 do
+      local idx = ty * 20 + tx + 1
+      local tileId = tm[idx]
+      local pal = (ty <= 3) and 1 or 0
+      local colors = GBC_PALS.bg[pal]
+      s1.palette = colors
+      s2.palette = colors
+
+      if tileId < 0x25 then
+        s1:draw(tileId, tx, ty)
+      else
+        s2:draw(tileId - 0x25, tx, ty)
+      end
+    end
+  end
+
+  -- Draw Golem sprite animation
+  if self.golemAnim then
+    local actors = self:actorsImage()
+    local g = self.golemAnim
+    if actors then
+      local quad = self.quadGolemBall
+      local scaleX = 1
+      local scaleY = 1
+      if g.state == "falling" then
+        quad = self.quadGolemBall
+      elseif g.state == "rolling" then
+        -- Frameset_SlotsGolem: 0=Standing, 1=Ball, 2=StandingYFlip, 3=BallXFlip
+        local rotFrame = (g.animFrame or 0) % 4
+        if rotFrame == 0 then
+          quad = self.quadGolemStand
+          scaleX = 1
+          scaleY = 1
+        elseif rotFrame == 1 then
+          quad = self.quadGolemBall
+          scaleX = 1
+          scaleY = 1
+        elseif rotFrame == 2 then
+          quad = self.quadGolemStand
+          scaleX = 1
+          scaleY = -1
+        elseif rotFrame == 3 then
+          quad = self.quadGolemBall
+          scaleX = -1
+          scaleY = 1
+        end
+      end
+      G.setColor(1, 1, 1, 1)
+      local function drawGolem()
+        -- Draw rotated around center (ox=12, oy=16)
+        G.draw(actors, quad,
+          math.floor(g.x + 12),
+          math.floor(g.y + 16),
+          0, scaleX, scaleY, 12, 16)
+      end
+      if GbcPalette.available() then
+        GbcPalette.with(GBC_PALS.obj[5], drawGolem)
+      else
+        drawGolem()
+      end
+    end
+  end
+
+  -- Draw Chansey & Egg sprite animation
+  if self.chanseyAnim then
+    local actors = self:actorsImage()
+    local c = self.chanseyAnim
+    if actors then
+      local quad = self.quadChansey1
+      if c.state == "walking" then
+        local walkCycle = { self.quadChansey1, self.quadChansey2, self.quadChansey3, self.quadChansey4 }
+        quad = walkCycle[((c.animPose or 0) % 4) + 1] or self.quadChansey1
+      elseif c.state == "egg_pause" then
+        quad = self.quadChansey4
+      elseif c.state == "egg_drop" or c.state == "spinning" then
+        quad = self.quadChanseyDrop
+      end
+
+      G.setColor(1, 1, 1, 1)
+      local function drawChansey()
+        G.draw(actors, quad, math.floor(c.x), math.floor(c.y or 44))
+        if c.eggVisible and c.eggX and c.eggY then
+          G.draw(actors, self.quadEgg, math.floor(c.eggX), math.floor(c.eggY))
+        end
+      end
+      if GbcPalette.available() then
+        GbcPalette.with(GBC_PALS.obj[6], drawChansey)
+      else
+        drawChansey()
+      end
     end
   end
 end
@@ -1022,39 +1437,79 @@ function SlotMachine:drawMessage()
   end
   if self.matched and self.matched ~= SlotMachine.NO_MATCH
       and self.phase == "payoutText" then
-    cell(PAYOUT_SYMBOL_X, PAYOUT_SYMBOL_Y,
+    local _, s2 = self:sheets()
-      SlotMachine.LABELS[self.matched] or "?")
+    local sym = self.matched
+    local pal = GBC_PALS.obj[math.floor(sym / 4)] or GBC_PALS.obj[0]
+    s2.palette = pal
+    local t0 = s2:quad(sym + 0)
+    local t1 = s2:quad(sym + 1)
+    local t2 = s2:quad(sym + 2)
+    local t3 = s2:quad(sym + 3)
+    local img = s2:image()
+    local G = love.graphics
+    local px, py = PAYOUT_SYMBOL_X * 8, PAYOUT_SYMBOL_Y * 8
+    if img and t0 and t1 and t2 and t3 then
+      local function drawWin()
+        G.setColor(1, 1, 1, 1)
+        G.draw(img, t0, px, py)
+        G.draw(img, t1, px + 8, py)
+        G.draw(img, t2, px, py + 8)
+        G.draw(img, t3, px + 8, py + 8)
+      end
+      G.setColor(1, 1, 1, 1)
+      if GbcPalette.available() then
+        GbcPalette.with(pal, drawWin)
+      else
+        drawWin()
+      end
+    else
+      cell(PAYOUT_SYMBOL_X, PAYOUT_SYMBOL_Y, SlotMachine.LABELS[self.matched] or "?")
+    end
   end
 end
 
 function SlotMachine:drawPanel()
-  Chrome.clear()
+  self:drawBackground()
-  self:drawLights()
+  self:drawReels()
+  self:drawOverlays()
+
   -- PRINTNUM_LEADINGZEROS | 2 bytes, 4 digits, for both counters.
   Chrome.print(Chrome.number(self:coins(), 4, true), COINS_X, COINS_Y)
   Chrome.print(Chrome.number(self.payoutLeft or 0, 4, true), PAYOUT_X, PAYOUT_Y)
-  self:drawReels()
+
   if self.phase == "bet" then
-    Chrome.textbox(BET_BOX_X, BET_BOX_Y, BET_BOX_W - 2, BET_BOX_H - 2)
+    -- Left speech textbox for "Bet how many coins?"
+    Chrome.textbox(0, 12, 12, 4)
+    Chrome.print(TEXTS.betHowMany[1], 1, 14)
+    Chrome.print(TEXTS.betHowMany[2], 1, 16)
+
+    -- Right menu for bet choices (14, 10 to 19, 17)
+    Chrome.textbox(14, 10, 4, 6)
     for i, label in ipairs(BET_ROWS) do
-      local ty = BET_LABEL_Y + (i - 1) * BET_SPACING
+      local ty = 12 + (i - 1) * 2
-      if i == self.betIndex then Chrome.cursor(BET_LABEL_X - 1, ty) end
+      if i == self.betIndex then Chrome.cursor(15, ty) end
-      Chrome.print(label, BET_LABEL_X, ty)
+      Chrome.print(label, 16, ty)
     end
-    if not self.message then
+
-      Chrome.textbox(TEXT_BOX_X, TEXT_BOX_Y, TEXT_BOX_W - 2, TEXT_BOX_H - 2)
+    if self.message then
-      for i, line in ipairs(TEXTS.betHowMany) do
+      -- If "Not enough coins." message is shown, overlay full speech box
+      Chrome.textbox(0, 12, 18, 4)
+      for i, line in ipairs(self.message) do
         Chrome.print(line, TEXT_X, TEXT_Y + (i - 1) * TEXT_LINE)
       end
     end
-  end
+  elseif self.phase == "again" then
-  self:drawMessage()
+    -- Speech box: "Play again?"
-  if self.phase == "again" then
+    Chrome.textbox(0, 12, 18, 4)
-    -- PlaceYesNoBox `lb bc, 14, 12`: a 6x5 box at (14,12) with YES at (16,13).
+    Chrome.print(TEXTS.playAgain[1], TEXT_X, TEXT_Y)
+
+    -- PlaceYesNoBox at (14, 12): 6x5 box with YES at (16,13), NO at (16,15)
     Chrome.textbox(14, 12, 4, 3)
     Chrome.print("YES", 16, 13)
     Chrome.print("NO", 16, 15)
     Chrome.cursor(15, 13 + (self.againChoice - 1) * 2)
+  else
+    self:drawMessage()
   end
 end
 

src/ui/gen2/TitleState.lua

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 -- wing-flap (Frameset_GSIntroHoOhLugia), spark trails, A/Start to continue.
 -- drawWidescreen fills the window with sky/clouds so widescreen has no
 -- pillarbox voids; the 160x144 art stays aspect-centered on top.
+-- Every Gold/Silver difference arrives as a title.lua key, defaulted to Gold.
 
 -- src/render/Assets.lua is the mod-override choke point: a raw
 -- love.graphics.newImage skips overrides/ and AssetTransform output.
@@ -16,7 +17,7 @@ local TitleState = {}
 TitleState.__index = TitleState
 TitleState.isOpaque = true
 
--- title_bg_gold.pal mid-sky shade (sampled from composed title_screen.png).
+-- title_bg_gold.pal mid-sky shade, for a cache built before title.sky existed.
 local SKY = { 123 / 255, 165 / 255, 255 / 255, 1 }
 -- ...and its grey stand-in, for when COLOR is not GBC.  The title art is the
 -- one thing in the port baked with its colours in (see the extractor), so the
@@ -61,6 +62,15 @@ function TitleState.new(game, opts)
   self.hoohY = tonumber(title.hoohY) or 56
   self.cloudY = tonumber(title.cloudY) or 88
   self.cloudScrollEvery = tonumber(title.cloudScrollEvery) or 8
+  -- AnimSeq_GSIntroHoOhLugia (engine/sprite_anims/functions.asm:820-838).
+  self.hoohBobAmplitude = tonumber(title.hoohBobAmplitude) or 2
+  self.hoohBobStep = tonumber(title.hoohBobStep) or 1
+  local sky = title.sky
+  self.sky = (type(sky) == "table" and #sky >= 3)
+    and { sky[1], sky[2], sky[3], 1 } or SKY
+  local below = title.below
+  self.below = (type(below) == "table" and #below >= 3)
+    and { below[1], below[2], below[3], 1 } or { 1, 1, 1, 1 }
 
   self.hoohColor, self.hoohGray = {}, {}
   local paths = title.hoohFrames
@@ -80,8 +90,12 @@ function TitleState.new(game, opts)
   self.sequence = title.hoohSequence or {
     { 1, 10 }, { 2, 9 }, { 3, 10 }, { 4, 10 }, { 3, 9 }, { 5, 10 },
   }
+  -- A frame shows duration + 1 ticks: GetSpriteAnimFrame stores the byte on
+  -- the advancing tick and only decrements on the ones after
+  -- (engine/sprite_anims/core.asm:400-434).  Both editions' framesets total
+  -- 64 ticks with it, locking the wing beat to the 64-tick sine bob.
   self.seqIndex = 1
-  self.seqLeft = self.sequence[1] and self.sequence[1][2] or 10
+  self.seqLeft = (self.sequence[1] and self.sequence[1][2] or 10) + 1
   self.frame = 1
 
   -- AnimSeq_GSIntroHoOhLugia's SPRITEANIMSTRUCT_VAR1.
@@ -89,12 +103,21 @@ function TitleState.new(game, opts)
   self.frameCounter = 0
   self.cloudScroll = 0
   self.trails = {}
-  -- UpdateTitleTrailSprite / TitleTrailCoords (intro_menu.asm), in pixels.
+  -- UpdateTitleTrailSprite / TitleTrailCoords (intro_menu.asm:1069-1124), in
-  self.trailSpawns = {
+  -- pixels.
+  self.trailSpawns = title.trailSpawns or {
     { 80, 88 }, { 104, 88 }, { 104, 88 }, { 120, 88 },
     { 120, 88 }, { 88, 88 },
   }
   self.trailSpawnIndex = 1
+  -- AnimSeq_GSTitleTrail (engine/sprite_anims/functions.asm:720-818).
+  self.trailMode = title.trailMode or "gold"
+  self.trailSpawnEvery = tonumber(title.trailSpawnEvery) or 4
+  self.trailStepX = tonumber(title.trailStepX) or 4
+  self.trailStepY = tonumber(title.trailStepY) or 1
+  self.trailBobAmplitude = tonumber(title.trailBobAmplitude) or 2
+  self.trailPhaseStep = tonumber(title.trailPhaseStep) or 3
+  self.trailPhase = tonumber(title.trailPhase)
   -- How far past the 160px frame trails may fly (GB pixels); set each draw.
   self.trailMaxX = 200
   self.musicStarted = false
@@ -119,47 +142,56 @@ function TitleState:enter()
   end
 end
 
--- AnimSeq_GSIntroHoOhLugia (engine/sprite_anims/functions.asm): VAR1 counts up
+-- Sprites_Sine hands back the byte the ASM leaves in a, so the down half of
--- one per frame and the struct's Y offset becomes `d * sin(VAR1 * pi/32)` with
+-- the wave arrives in two's complement and is a signed pixel delta here.
--- d = 2 on Gold (Silver counts DOWN with d = 8).  Sprites_Sine hands back the
+local function signed(value)
--- byte the ASM leaves in a, so the down half of the wave arrives in two's
+  if value >= 0x80 then return value - 0x100 end
--- complement and has to be read as a signed pixel delta here.
-function TitleState:hoohBob()
-  local value = SpriteAnims.sine(self.hoohPhase, 2)
-  if value >= 0x80 then value = value - 0x100 end
   return value
 end
 
+-- AnimSeq_GSIntroHoOhLugia (engine/sprite_anims/functions.asm:820-838).
+function TitleState:hoohBob()
+  return signed(SpriteAnims.sine(self.hoohPhase, self.hoohBobAmplitude))
+end
+
 function TitleState:advanceHooh()
-  self.hoohPhase = (self.hoohPhase + 1) % 256
+  self.hoohPhase = (self.hoohPhase + self.hoohBobStep) % 256
   self.seqLeft = self.seqLeft - 1
   if self.seqLeft > 0 then return end
   self.seqIndex = self.seqIndex + 1
   if self.seqIndex > #self.sequence then self.seqIndex = 1 end
   local step = self.sequence[self.seqIndex]
   self.frame = step[1]
-  self.seqLeft = step[2]
+  self.seqLeft = step[2] + 1
 end
 
 function TitleState:spawnTrail()
   if not (self.trailColor or self.trailGray) then return end
-  if self.frameCounter % 4 ~= 0 then return end
+  if #self.trailSpawns == 0 then return end
+  if self.frameCounter % self.trailSpawnEvery ~= 0 then return end
   local spawn = self.trailSpawns[self.trailSpawnIndex]
   self.trailSpawnIndex = self.trailSpawnIndex % #self.trailSpawns + 1
   if not spawn then return end
   self.trails[#self.trails + 1] = {
-    x = spawn[1], y = spawn[2], phase = love.math.random(0, 255),
+    x = spawn[1], y = spawn[2],
+    phase = self.trailPhase or love.math.random(0, 255),
   }
 end
 
 function TitleState:stepTrails()
   local alive = {}
   local maxX = self.trailMaxX or 200
+  local silver = self.trailMode == "silver"
   for _, t in ipairs(self.trails) do
-    t.x = t.x + 4
+    t.x = t.x + self.trailStepX
-    t.y = t.y + 1
+    t.y = t.y + self.trailStepY
-    t.phase = t.phase + 3
+    t.phase = t.phase + self.trailPhaseStep
-    t.drawY = t.y + math.floor(math.sin(t.phase / 16) * 2)
+    if silver then
+      t.drawY = t.y + signed(SpriteAnims.sine(t.phase, self.trailBobAmplitude))
+    else
+      t.drawY = t.y
+        + math.floor(math.sin(t.phase / 16) * self.trailBobAmplitude)
+    end
     if t.x < maxX then alive[#alive + 1] = t end
   end
   self.trails = alive
@@ -254,14 +286,17 @@ function TitleState:drawWidescreen(winW, winH)
   -- Let trails fly into the side bands.
   self.trailMaxX = math.ceil((winW - ox) / scale) + 16
 
-  -- Sky above the cloud line, paper white below : edge to edge.  The fill has
+  -- Sky above the cloud line, title.below under it (Gold's white cloud
-  -- to match whichever baked set is showing, or the surround would stay blue
+  -- field, Silver's black sea) : edge to edge.  The fill has to match
-  -- around a grey screen.
+  -- whichever baked set is showing, or the surround would stay blue around a
-  local sky = self:gray() and SKY_GRAY or SKY
+  -- grey screen.
+  local sky = self:gray() and SKY_GRAY or self.sky
   G.setColor(sky[1], sky[2], sky[3], 1)
   G.rectangle("fill", 0, 0, winW, math.max(0, cloudTop))
-  G.setColor(1, 1, 1, 1)
+  local below = self.below
+  G.setColor(below[1], below[2], below[3], 1)
   G.rectangle("fill", 0, cloudTop, winW, winH - cloudTop)
+  G.setColor(1, 1, 1, 1)
 
   -- Clouds across the full window width, aligned to the GB cloud band.
   G.push()

src/ui/kit/Kit.lua

@@ -918,16 +918,58 @@ function Kit.rowsThatFit(h, rowH, gap, minRows, maxRows)
   return math.max(minRows or 1, math.min(maxRows or 99, per))
 end
 
+Kit.dragX = nil
+Kit.dragY = nil
+Kit.dragAccum = 0
+
+function Kit.dragBegin(x, y)
+  Kit.dragX, Kit.dragY, Kit.dragAccum = x, y, 0
+end
+
+function Kit.dragAdd(dy)
+  if Kit.dragX then Kit.dragAccum = Kit.dragAccum + (dy or 0) end
+end
+
+function Kit.dragEnd()
+  Kit.dragX, Kit.dragY, Kit.dragAccum = nil, nil, 0
+end
+
+local function dragOriginIn(x, y, w, h)
+  if not Kit.dragX then return false end
+  local x1, y1, x2, y2 = x, y, x + w, y + h
+  local c = Kit._clipRect
+  if c then
+    x1, y1 = math.max(x1, c.x), math.max(y1, c.y)
+    x2, y2 = math.min(x2, c.x + c.w), math.min(y2, c.y + c.h)
+  end
+  return Kit.dragX >= x1 and Kit.dragX <= x2
+    and Kit.dragY >= y1 and Kit.dragY <= y2
+end
+
 -- Mouse wheel over a paginated list turns PAGES.  The wheel still has to do
 -- something (users expect it), but it moves a bounded page index rather than
 -- driving a pixel offset, so there is no scroll state and no interpolation.
 function Kit.wheelPage(x, y, w, h, page, total, perPage)
-  if Kit.blockClicks or (Kit.wheelY or 0) == 0 then return page end
+  if Kit.blockClicks then return page end
-  if not Kit.hit(x, y, w, h) then return page end
   local pages = math.max(1, math.ceil(total / math.max(1, perPage)))
-  local moved = Theme.clamp((page or 1) + (Kit.wheelY > 0 and -1 or 1), 1, pages)
+  local out = page
-  Kit.wheelY = 0
+  if (Kit.wheelY or 0) ~= 0 and Kit.hit(x, y, w, h) then
-  return math.floor(moved)
+    out = math.floor(Theme.clamp((out or 1) + (Kit.wheelY > 0 and -1 or 1),
+      1, pages))
+    Kit.wheelY = 0
+  end
+  local acc = Kit.dragAccum or 0
+  if acc ~= 0 and dragOriginIn(x, y, w, h) then
+    local stepPx = math.max(1, math.floor((h or 0) / 2))
+    local flips = acc >= 0 and math.floor(acc / stepPx)
+      or -math.floor(-acc / stepPx)
+    if flips ~= 0 then
+      local want = (out or 1) + flips
+      out = math.floor(Theme.clamp(want, 1, pages))
+      Kit.dragAccum = out ~= want and 0 or acc - flips * stepPx
+    end
+  end
+  return out
 end
 
 function Kit.scrollExtent(contentH, viewH)

src/ui/kit/Theme.lua

@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ local PAL = {
   railBlue    = { 70, 150, 255 },
   railGold    = { 255, 203, 5 },   -- Yellow cartridge (bright)
   railAmber   = { 218, 145, 32 },  -- Gold cartridge (deeper metal)
+  railSilver  = { 190, 198, 210 }, -- Silver cartridge (cool light metal)
 }
 -- Semantic aliases kept so ported call sites read the same as before.
 PAL.cardBorder = PAL.line
@@ -321,10 +322,12 @@ function Theme.meter(x, y, w, h, pct, c)
 end
 
 -- The 4px version rail across the top of both windows: the only brand
--- colour on screen (Red / Blue / Yellow / Gold cartridge colours).
+-- colour on screen (Red / Blue / Yellow / Gold / Silver cartridge colours).
 function Theme.versionRail(x, y, w, h)
   if not G then return end
-  local bars = { PAL.railRed, PAL.railBlue, PAL.railGold, PAL.railAmber }
+  local bars = {
+    PAL.railRed, PAL.railBlue, PAL.railGold, PAL.railAmber, PAL.railSilver,
+  }
   local seg = w / #bars
   for i, c in ipairs(bars) do
     Theme.fill(x + (i - 1) * seg, y, seg, h, c, 1)

src/world/OverworldController.lua

@@ -846,15 +846,20 @@ function OverworldState:useSoftboiledFieldMove(user, target)
   if not user or not user.stats or not target or not target.stats
       or target == user or target.hp <= 0
       or target.hp >= target.stats.hp or user.hp <= heal then
-    Game.stack:push(TextBox.new(Game, Strings("It won't have\nany effect.")))
+    Game.stack:push(TextBox.new(Game,
+      romText(Game.data, "_ItemUseNoEffectText", "It won't have\nany effect.")))
     return false
   end
+  local before = target.hp
   user.hp = user.hp - heal
   target.hp = math.min(target.stats.hp, target.hp + heal)
   require("src.core.Sound").play(Game.data, "Heal_HP")
   local def = Game.data.pokemon[target.species]
+  -- _PotionText's second slot is the recovered amount, same as
+  -- ItemEffects.lua's potion message -- the engine fallback never shows it
   Game.stack:push(TextBox.new(Game,
-    Strings("%s's HP\nwas restored!", target.nickname or def.name)))
+    romText(Game.data, "_PotionText", "%s's HP\nwas restored!",
+      target.nickname or def.name, target.hp - before)))
   return true
 end
 
@@ -2126,7 +2131,8 @@ function OverworldState:tryHiddenObject(fx, fy)
         -- leaves the spot unfound; _CantCarryMoreText is the Toss line (#872)
         local name = Game.data.items[h.item] and Game.data.items[h.item].name or h.item
         Game.stack:push(TextBox.new(Game,
-          Strings("%s found\n%s!", save.player.name, name) .. "\f"
+          romText(Game.data, "_FoundHiddenItemText", "%s found\n%s!",
+            save.player.name, name) .. "\f"
           .. romText(Game.data, "_HiddenItemBagFullText",
                      "But, {PLAYER} has\nno more room for\vother items!")))
         return true
@@ -2137,7 +2143,8 @@ function OverworldState:tryHiddenObject(fx, fy)
       -- text_asm tail runs it as PlaySoundWaitForCurrent +
       -- WaitForSoundToFinish once the box has printed (hidden_items.asm)
       Game.stack:push(TextBox.new(Game,
-        Strings("%s found\n%s!", save.player.name, name),
+        romText(Game.data, "_FoundHiddenItemText", "%s found\n%s!",
+          save.player.name, name),
         nil, TextBox.soundOpts(Game, "Get_Item2")))
       return true
     end
@@ -2795,8 +2802,8 @@ function OverworldState:talkTo(npc)
         "No more room for\nitems!")
       if GameVersion.isYellow() then
         local name = Game.data.items[d.item] and Game.data.items[d.item].name or d.item
-        noRoom = Strings("%s found\n%s!", Game.save.player.name, name)
+        noRoom = romText(Game.data, "_FoundItemText", "%s found\n%s!",
-                 .. "\f" .. noRoom
+                   Game.save.player.name, name) .. "\f" .. noRoom
       end
       Game.stack:push(TextBox.new(Game, noRoom))
       return
@@ -2813,7 +2820,8 @@ function OverworldState:talkTo(npc)
     local ddef = Game.data.items[d.item]
     -- FoundItemText: text_far, sound_get_item_1, text_end (pick_up_item.asm)
     Game.stack:push(TextBox.new(Game,
-      Strings("%s found\n%s!", Game.save.player.name, name), nil,
+      romText(Game.data, "_FoundItemText", "%s found\n%s!",
+        Game.save.player.name, name), nil,
       TextBox.soundOpts(Game,
         (ddef and ddef.keyItem) and "Get_Key_Item" or "Get_Item1")))
     return
@@ -3745,7 +3753,7 @@ function OverworldState:applyFieldPoison()
   local queue = {}
   for _, mon in ipairs(fainted) do
     local name = mon.nickname or Game.data.pokemon[mon.species].name
-    table.insert(queue, Strings("%s\nfainted!", name))
+    table.insert(queue, romText(Game.data, "_PokemonFaintedText", "%s\nfainted!", name))
   end
   local alive = false
   for _, mon in ipairs(save.party) do

src/world/gen2/World.lua

@@ -1569,11 +1569,11 @@ function World:readVar(varId)
 end
 
 -- Script_checkver: 0 for Gold, 1 for Silver (constants/misc_constants.asm
--- GS_VERSION).  Only the Goldenrod prize counters and a handful of gift mons
+-- GS_VERSION).
--- read it, and the port has no Silver cache yet, so an unset version is Gold.
 function World:gsVersion()
+  local GameVersion = require("src.core.GameVersion")
   local save = self.game and self.game.save
-  local version = (save and save.version) or "gold"
+  local version = (save and save.version) or GameVersion.get()
   return version == "silver" and 1 or 0
 end
 
@@ -6633,8 +6633,9 @@ function World:nameRival(onDone)
       if save then
         save.rival = save.rival or {}
         -- NameRival ends on `ld hl, wRivalName / ld de, .DefaultName / call
-        -- InitName`, and .DefaultName is "SILVER@" on Gold
+        -- InitName`, and .DefaultName is "SILVER@" on Gold and "GOLD@" on
-        -- (engine/events/specials.asm:80-91).  The default has to be written
+        -- Silver (engine/events/specials.asm:80-94).  The default has to be
+        -- written
         -- HERE rather than ridden in from the seed: wRivalName starts as
         -- InitializeNPCNames' "???" (src/core/gen2/Save.lua), which is what the
         -- pre-naming Cherrygrove battle prints.
@@ -6646,7 +6647,7 @@ function World:nameRival(onDone)
         if name and name:gsub(" ", "") ~= "" then
           save.rival.name = name
         else
-          save.rival.name = "SILVER"
+          save.rival.name = self:gsVersion() == 1 and "GOLD" or "SILVER"
         end
       end
       if onDone then onDone(name) end
@@ -10026,8 +10027,11 @@ function World:draw()
   G.clear(0.07, 0.05, 0.02, 1)
 
   if not self.mapImage or not self.player then
-    G.setColor(0.85, 0.57, 0.13, 1)
+    local silver = self:gsVersion() == 1
-    G.printf("POKEMON GOLD", 0, math.floor(h * 0.38), w, "center")
+    if silver then G.setColor(0.74, 0.78, 0.83, 1)
+    else G.setColor(0.85, 0.57, 0.13, 1) end
+    G.printf(silver and "POKEMON SILVER" or "POKEMON GOLD",
+      0, math.floor(h * 0.38), w, "center")
     G.setColor(0.92, 0.90, 0.82, 1)
     G.printf(self.status or "No map.",
       0, math.floor(h * 0.48), w, "center")
@@ -10064,6 +10068,15 @@ function World:draw()
   if self.shake then
     self.camera.y = self.camera.y + (self.shake.phase or 0)
   end
+  local ScreenPosition = require("src.core.ScreenPosition")
+  local posLift = 0
+  if not ScreenPosition.skinActive(w, h) then
+    posLift = ScreenPosition.lift(h, 144 * self:fitScale(),
+      ScreenPosition.safeTop())
+  end
+  if posLift > 0 then
+    self.camera.y = self.camera.y + posLift / s
+  end
 
   local override = pipelineId and self:drawPipeline(pipelineId, w, h, s) or nil
 
@@ -10089,7 +10102,7 @@ function World:draw()
     local pad = POKEPIC.pad[math.floor(pw / 8)] or POKEPIC.pad[7]
     G.push()
     G.translate(math.floor((w - 160 * sPic) / 2),
-      math.floor((h - 144 * sPic) / 2))
+      math.floor((h - 144 * sPic) / 2) - posLift)
     G.scale(sPic, sPic)
     G.setColor(1, 1, 1, 1)
     local function body()
@@ -10140,8 +10153,10 @@ function World:draw()
   -- The survey overlay is a developer aid, not part of the game: POKEPORT_DEV
   -- (or the F3 toggle) shows it, a normal boot does not.
   if self.showDebugHud then
-    G.setColor(0.85, 0.57, 0.13, 1)
+    local silver = self:gsVersion() == 1
-    G.printf("POKEMON GOLD", 0, 10, w, "center")
+    if silver then G.setColor(0.74, 0.78, 0.83, 1)
+    else G.setColor(0.85, 0.57, 0.13, 1) end
+    G.printf(silver and "POKEMON SILVER" or "POKEMON GOLD", 0, 10, w, "center")
     G.setColor(0.92, 0.90, 0.82, 1)
     local label = string.format("%s  (%d,%d)  %s  ·  %s  ·  zoom %s",
       self.map.id, p.cellX, p.cellY, p.facing,

tests/engine/android_host_extension_test.lua

@@ -58,6 +58,38 @@ check(position("if (secondaryEnabled) registerSecondaryDisplayListener();") <
   "secondary display monitoring starts before initial discovery")
 check(source:find("!monitor.hasDisplay(display.getDisplayId())", 1, true),
   "a disconnected active display is rebound without replacing a live one")
+check(source:find("private static volatile boolean secondaryHostResumed = false;",
+    1, true), "secondary output tracks the primary activity lifecycle")
+check(source:find("if (on && secondaryHostResumed)", 1, true)
+    and source:find("self == null || !secondaryHostResumed || !secondaryEnabled",
+      1, true),
+  "paused hosts cannot reopen secondary output from a late mod frame")
+
+local pause = position("protected void onPause()")
+local paused = assert(source:find("secondaryHostResumed = false;", pause, true))
+local teardown = assert(source:find("teardownSecondaryDisplay();", pause, true))
+local pauseSuper = assert(source:find("super.onPause();", pause, true))
+check(pause < paused and paused < teardown and teardown < pauseSuper,
+  "pause blocks secondary setup before dismissing its output")
+
+local resume = position("public void onResume()")
+local resumeSuper = assert(source:find("super.onResume();", resume, true))
+local resumed = assert(source:find("secondaryHostResumed = true;", resume, true))
+local resumeSetup = assert(source:find("setupSecondaryDisplay();", resume, true))
+check(resume < resumeSuper and resumeSuper < resumed and resumed < resumeSetup,
+  "resume permits secondary setup only after the primary activity resumes")
+
+local destroy = position("protected void onDestroy()")
+local destroyTeardown = assert(source:find("teardownSecondaryDisplay();", destroy, true))
+local destroySuper = assert(source:find("super.onDestroy();", destroy, true))
+check(destroy < destroyTeardown and destroyTeardown < destroySuper,
+  "destroy always dismisses secondary output before SDL destruction")
+
+local mainFile = assert(io.open("main.lua", "rb"))
+local main = mainFile:read("*a")
+mainFile:close()
+check(main:find('require("src.render.SecondScreen").setEnabled(false)', 1, true),
+  "returning from a game disables mod-owned secondary output")
 
 check(not source:lower():find("openxr", 1, true),
   "generic Android activity must not require OpenXR")

tests/engine/android_shortcuts_payload_test.lua

@@ -41,12 +41,21 @@ end
 -- Mock isReady
 RomImporter.isReady = function(v)
   return v == "red" or v == "gold" or v == "blue" or v == "yellow"
+    or v == "silver"
 end
 
 local ok = RomImporter.syncAndroidShortcuts("gold")
 check(ok == true, "syncAndroidShortcuts returns true on Android")
 check(#capturedShortcuts == 4, "syncAndroidShortcuts caps at 4 items")
 check(capturedShortcuts[1] == "gold", "activeVersion 'gold' is placed first")
+check(capturedShortcuts[2] == "red" and capturedShortcuts[3] == "blue"
+  and capturedShortcuts[4] == "yellow",
+  "the rest follow GameVersion.ORDER until the cap")
+
+capturedShortcuts = nil
+RomImporter.syncAndroidShortcuts("silver")
+check(#capturedShortcuts == 4, "a fifth ready game does not widen the payload")
+check(capturedShortcuts[1] == "silver", "activeVersion 'silver' is placed first")
 
 -- Test with subset of ready games (e.g. only Red and Gold)
 RomImporter.isReady = function(v)
@@ -78,4 +87,4 @@ end
 love.system.getLaunchGame = savedGetLaunchGame
 love.system.updateShortcuts = nil
 
-print("8/8 checks passed  (android_shortcuts_payload_test)")
+T.finish("android_shortcuts_payload_test")

tests/engine/battle_ball_dodge_romtext.lua

@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+-- BattleState:throwBall()'s can't-be-caught path used to queue two
+-- separate Strings() literals ("It dodged the\nthrown BALL!" then "This
+-- POKéMON\ncan't be caught!"). The real ROM label _ItemUseBallText00
+-- combines both as one \f-paged string. TextBox.new() would split \f
+-- itself, but throwBall() queues through self:sayNext(), which goes
+-- through the battle queue's own BattleState:startMessage() -- and that
+-- one only splits on \n/\v, not \f (confirmed live: the \f landed
+-- mid-line and the second sentence overflowed off the box instead of
+-- starting a fresh page). The fix resolves the label once, then splits
+-- it the same way TextBox.lua does and queues one sayNext per page. This
+-- test fakes the label and checks the two pages reach the queue as two
+-- separate messages, in order, not merged into one with a raw \f still
+-- inside it.
+package.path = "./?.lua;./?/init.lua;" .. package.path
+
+local T = require("tests.modkit")
+local Data = T.fixtures.fresh()
+require("src.render.Font").load(Data)
+
+local BattleState = require("src.battle.BattleState")
+local Pokemon = require("src.pokemon.Pokemon")
+local SaveData = require("src.core.SaveData")
+
+local function mkbattle()
+  local save = SaveData.newGame()
+  save.party = { Pokemon.new(Data, "FIXMON_A", 10) }
+  local game = { data = Data, save = save,
+                 stack = { top = function() return nil end, push = function() end } }
+  local battle = BattleState.newWild(game, "FIXMON_C", 8)
+  battle.ghost = true -- forces the can't-be-caught path
+  return battle
+end
+
+-- throwBall defers its message-queuing work into self.queue via one
+-- top-level self:act(fn); run only that one function to reach the
+-- say() calls the fix touches. It's the last entry throwBall itself
+-- appends (after the immediate sayAuto), and it further queues its own
+-- self:act(function() self:executeAction(...) end) for the actual enemy
+-- turn -- deliberately NOT run here (out of scope, and running the queue
+-- generically after mutation risks looping into a real turn simulation)
+local function runThrowBallAct(battle)
+  for i = #battle.queue, 1, -1 do
+    if battle.queue[i].fn then
+      battle.queue[i].fn()
+      return
+    end
+  end
+end
+
+local function textEntries(battle)
+  local out = {}
+  for _, entry in ipairs(battle.queue) do
+    if entry.text then out[#out + 1] = entry.text end
+  end
+  return out
+end
+
+-- translated: the faked label's two \f-separated pages reach the queue
+-- as two separate messages, in order, and neither one still contains a
+-- raw \f (which would mean the battle queue's own renderer has to deal
+-- with it, and it can't)
+do
+  local battle = mkbattle()
+  Data.text._ItemUseBallText00 = "FAKE-DODGE!\fFAKE-CANTCATCH!"
+  battle:throwBall("FIX_BALL")
+  runThrowBallAct(battle)
+  local texts = textEntries(battle)
+  T.eq(texts[1], "FAKE-DODGE!", "page 1 reaches the queue on its own")
+  T.eq(texts[2], "FAKE-CANTCATCH!", "page 2 follows right after, still in order")
+  for _, t in ipairs(texts) do
+    T.check(not t:find("\f", 1, true), "no queued message still carries a raw \\f")
+  end
+  Data.text._ItemUseBallText00 = nil
+end
+
+-- vanilla: no catalog entry still falls back to the two English pages,
+-- split the same way
+do
+  local battle = mkbattle()
+  battle:throwBall("FIX_BALL")
+  runThrowBallAct(battle)
+  local texts = textEntries(battle)
+  T.eq(texts[1], "It dodged the\nthrown BALL!", "vanilla page 1")
+  T.eq(texts[2], "This POKéMON\ncan't be caught!", "vanilla page 2")
+end
+
+T.finish("battle_ball_dodge_romtext")

tests/engine/battle_catch_messages_romtext.lua

@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+-- BattleState:storeCaughtMon() queues up to two plain-Lua-literal
+-- messages: the new-Pokedex-data line (_ItemUseBallText06) and, when the
+-- party is full, the box-transfer line (_ItemUseBallText07/08, keyed on
+-- EVENT_MET_BILL -- two full, independently-translated ROM strings, not
+-- one template with a substituted PC name). This test fakes all three
+-- labels and checks the queued messages use them, not the English
+-- literals.
+package.path = "./?.lua;./?/init.lua;" .. package.path
+
+local T = require("tests.modkit")
+local Data = T.fixtures.fresh()
+require("src.render.Font").load(Data)
+
+local BattleState = require("src.battle.BattleState")
+local Pokemon = require("src.pokemon.Pokemon")
+local SaveData = require("src.core.SaveData")
+
+local function findText(battle, needle)
+  for _, entry in ipairs(battle.queue) do
+    if entry.text and entry.text:find(needle, 1, true) then return entry.text end
+  end
+  return nil
+end
+
+local function mkbattle(partySize, metBill)
+  local save = SaveData.newGame()
+  save.party = {}
+  for i = 1, partySize do
+    save.party[i] = Pokemon.new(Data, "FIXMON_A", 5)
+  end
+  save.flags = save.flags or {}
+  save.flags.EVENT_MET_BILL = metBill
+  local game = { data = Data, save = save,
+                 stack = { top = function() return nil end, push = function() end } }
+  return BattleState.newWild(game, "FIXMON_C", 8)
+end
+
+-- empty party: Party.add succeeds, only the new-Pokedex-data message fires
+do
+  local battle = mkbattle(0, false)
+  Data.text._ItemUseBallText06 = "FAKE-DEX {RAM:wEnemyMonNick} FAKE!"
+  battle:storeCaughtMon()
+  T.eq(findText(battle, "FAKE-DEX"), "FAKE-DEX " .. battle.enemy.name .. " FAKE!",
+    "a translated _ItemUseBallText06 reaches the new-Pokedex-data message")
+  Data.text._ItemUseBallText06 = nil
+end
+
+-- full party, EVENT_MET_BILL true: box transfer via _ItemUseBallText07
+do
+  local battle = mkbattle(6, true)
+  Data.text._ItemUseBallText07 = "FAKE-BILL {RAM:wBoxMonNicks} FAKE!"
+  battle:storeCaughtMon()
+  T.eq(findText(battle, "FAKE-BILL"), "FAKE-BILL " .. battle.enemy.name .. " FAKE!",
+    "EVENT_MET_BILL true routes through the translated _ItemUseBallText07")
+  Data.text._ItemUseBallText07 = nil
+end
+
+-- full party, EVENT_MET_BILL false: box transfer via _ItemUseBallText08
+do
+  local battle = mkbattle(6, false)
+  Data.text._ItemUseBallText08 = "FAKE-SOMEONE {RAM:wBoxMonNicks} FAKE!"
+  battle:storeCaughtMon()
+  T.eq(findText(battle, "FAKE-SOMEONE"), "FAKE-SOMEONE " .. battle.enemy.name .. " FAKE!",
+    "EVENT_MET_BILL false routes through the translated _ItemUseBallText08")
+  Data.text._ItemUseBallText08 = nil
+end
+
+-- vanilla, full party, EVENT_MET_BILL true: English literal, BILL's PC
+do
+  local battle = mkbattle(6, true)
+  battle:storeCaughtMon()
+  T.eq(findText(battle, "transferred"),
+    battle.enemy.name .. " was\ntransferred to\nBILL's PC!",
+    "no catalog entry falls back to the English BILL's-PC literal")
+end
+
+T.finish("battle_catch_messages_romtext")

tests/engine/battle_fainted_message_romtext.lua

@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+-- BattleState:onFaint's "%s\nfainted!" collapsed two distinct ROM
+-- strings (_EnemyMonFaintedText already carries its own "Enemy" wording;
+-- _PlayerMonFaintedText does not) into one literal, substituted with
+-- displayName(battler) -- which itself runs the enemy name through a
+-- SEPARATE Strings("Enemy %s", ...) call. The fix passes the raw
+-- battler.name and lets each label supply its own wording. This test
+-- fakes both labels and checks the raw name reaches the right one, with
+-- no "Enemy" ever duplicated.
+package.path = "./?.lua;./?/init.lua;" .. package.path
+
+local T = require("tests.modkit")
+local Data = T.fixtures.fresh()
+require("src.render.Font").load(Data)
+
+local BattleState = require("src.battle.BattleState")
+local Pokemon = require("src.pokemon.Pokemon")
+local SaveData = require("src.core.SaveData")
+
+local function mkbattle()
+  local save = SaveData.newGame()
+  save.party = { Pokemon.new(Data, "FIXMON_A", 10) }
+  local game = { data = Data, save = save,
+                 stack = { top = function() return nil end, push = function() end } }
+  return BattleState.newWild(game, "FIXMON_C", 8)
+end
+
+-- finds the queued say-message text (onFaint queues several entries: a
+-- wait, then the say)
+local function findText(battle)
+  for _, entry in ipairs(battle.queue) do
+    if entry.text then return entry.text end
+  end
+  return nil
+end
+
+-- enemy: translated _EnemyMonFaintedText reaches onFaint, raw name only
+do
+  local battle = mkbattle()
+  Data.text._EnemyMonFaintedText = "FAKE-ENEMY {RAM:wEnemyMonNick} FAKE!"
+  battle:onFaint(battle.enemy)
+  T.eq(findText(battle), "FAKE-ENEMY " .. battle.enemy.name .. " FAKE!",
+    "a translated _EnemyMonFaintedText reaches the enemy faint message")
+  Data.text._EnemyMonFaintedText = nil
+end
+
+-- enemy vanilla: the English literal already carries "Enemy " itself
+do
+  local battle = mkbattle()
+  battle:onFaint(battle.enemy)
+  T.eq(findText(battle), "Enemy " .. battle.enemy.name .. "\nfainted!",
+    "no catalog entry falls back to the English literal, Enemy included")
+end
+
+-- player: translated _PlayerMonFaintedText reaches onFaint
+do
+  local battle = mkbattle()
+  Data.text._PlayerMonFaintedText = "FAKE-PLAYER {RAM:wBattleMonNick} FAKE!"
+  battle:onFaint(battle.player)
+  T.eq(findText(battle), "FAKE-PLAYER " .. battle.player.name .. " FAKE!",
+    "a translated _PlayerMonFaintedText reaches the player faint message")
+  Data.text._PlayerMonFaintedText = nil
+end
+
+T.finish("battle_fainted_message_romtext")

tests/engine/box_release_confirmation_romtext.lua

@@ -0,0 +1,129 @@
+-- BoxMenu's RELEASE confirmation ("Once released,\n%s is\ngone forever.
+-- OK?") used to be a bare Lua literal. tests/engine/pc_release.lua only
+-- ever runs with an empty Data.text, so it can't tell a properly-wired
+-- t._OnceReleasedText or "..." fallback apart from a literal that never
+-- looked at t at all -- every assertion there passes either way. This
+-- test drives the same interactive release flow with a faked
+-- Data.text._OnceReleasedText and checks the pushed TextBox's raw text
+-- (captured via a TextBox.new spy, so real pagination/choice behavior is
+-- untouched) uses the translated value, not the English literal.
+package.path = "./?.lua;./?/init.lua;" .. package.path
+
+local T = require("tests.modkit")
+local Data = T.fixtures.fresh()
+local ids = T.fixtures.ids
+require("src.render.Font").load(Data)
+
+local Pokemon = require("src.pokemon.Pokemon")
+local Boxes = require("src.pokemon.Boxes")
+local TextBox = require("src.render.TextBox")
+local BoxMenu = require("src.ui.BoxMenu")
+local ListMenu = require("src.ui.ListMenu")
+local ChoiceBox = require("src.ui.ChoiceBox")
+local SaveData = require("src.core.SaveData")
+local Sound = require("src.core.Sound")
+
+local realCry, realPlay = Sound.playCry, Sound.play
+Sound.playCry = function() end
+Sound.play = function() end
+
+-- spy: records every raw text TextBox.new receives, without disturbing
+-- pagination/choice re-push, so the interactive flow behaves exactly like
+-- pc_release.lua's
+local captured
+local realNew = TextBox.new
+TextBox.new = function(game, text, onDone, opts)
+  captured[#captured + 1] = text
+  return realNew(game, text, onDone, opts)
+end
+
+local stack = { states = {} }
+function stack:push(s) self.states[#self.states + 1] = s end
+function stack:pop()
+  local t = self.states[#self.states]
+  self.states[#self.states] = nil
+  return t
+end
+function stack:top() return self.states[#self.states] end
+function stack:update(dt)
+  local t = self:top()
+  if t and t.update then t:update(dt) end
+end
+
+local pressed = {}
+local function press(btn)
+  pressed = { [btn] = true }
+  stack:update(1 / 60)
+  pressed = {}
+end
+
+local function topMt() return getmetatable(stack:top()) end
+local function mash(btn, cond, n)
+  for _ = 1, (n or 400) do
+    if cond() then return true end
+    press(btn)
+  end
+  return false
+end
+
+local function mkGame()
+  stack.states = {}
+  captured = {}
+  local game = {
+    data = Data,
+    save = SaveData.newGame(),
+    stack = stack,
+    input = {
+      wasPressed = function(_, key) return pressed[key] or false end,
+      isDown = function() return false end,
+    },
+  }
+  game.save.options = game.save.options or {}
+  game.save.options.textSpeed = 1
+  local box = Boxes.active(game.save)
+  box[1] = Pokemon.new(Data, ids.species[1], 5)
+  return game, box
+end
+
+local function releaseFirstMon(game)
+  stack:push(BoxMenu.new(game))
+  press("down"); press("down"); press("a") -- open RELEASE list
+  T.check(topMt() == ListMenu, "RELEASE opens the box list")
+  press("a") -- choose the first (only) mon
+  T.check(mash("a", function() return topMt() == ChoiceBox end),
+    "confirm choice opens")
+  -- the confirmation TextBox is captured[1] the moment it was pushed,
+  -- before this mash even ran
+  return captured[1]
+end
+
+-- monName (BoxMenu.lua): mon.nickname or def.name
+local function monName(box)
+  local mon = box[1]
+  local def = Data.pokemon[mon.species]
+  return mon.nickname or def.name
+end
+
+-- translated: the fake value must reach the pushed TextBox
+do
+  local game, box = mkGame()
+  local name = monName(box)
+  Data.text._OnceReleasedText = "FAKE {RAM:wStringBuffer} released!"
+  local text = releaseFirstMon(game)
+  T.eq(text, "FAKE " .. name .. " released!",
+    "a translated _OnceReleasedText reaches the release confirmation")
+  Data.text._OnceReleasedText = nil
+end
+
+-- vanilla: with no catalog entry, the English literal still substitutes
+do
+  local game, box = mkGame()
+  local name = monName(box)
+  local text = releaseFirstMon(game)
+  T.eq(text, "Once released,\n" .. name .. " is\ngone forever. OK?",
+    "no catalog entry still falls back to the English literal")
+end
+
+TextBox.new = realNew
+Sound.playCry, Sound.play = realCry, realPlay
+T.finish("box_release_confirmation_romtext")

tests/engine/gate_gen2_mod_api.lua

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ T.eq(GameVersion.generation("red"), 1, "Red is Gen 1")
 T.eq(GameVersion.generation("blue"), 1, "Blue is Gen 1")
 T.eq(GameVersion.generation("yellow"), 1, "Yellow is Gen 1")
 T.eq(GameVersion.generation("gold"), 2, "Gold is Gen 2")
+T.eq(GameVersion.generation("silver"), 2, "Silver is Gen 2")
 
 -- ------- 2. manifest: gen2compat is opt-in and defaults off
 

tests/engine/launcher_gold_touch_rows.lua

@@ -39,45 +39,54 @@ end
 local edited = 0
 local hooks = { editTouchControls = function() edited = edited + 1 end }
 
-local gold = LauncherSettings.open(hooks, "gold")
+for _, version in ipairs({ "gold", "silver" }) do
-check(has(gold, "TOUCH PAD"), "Gold's gear offers TOUCH PAD")
+  local model = LauncherSettings.open(hooks, version)
-check(has(gold, "VIBRATION"), "and VIBRATION")
+  check(has(model, "TOUCH PAD"), version .. " gear offers TOUCH PAD")
-check(has(gold, "TOUCH CONTROLS"), "and the layout editor")
+  check(has(model, "VIBRATION"), version .. " and VIBRATION")
-check(has(gold, "VOID FILL"), "and VOID FILL")
+  check(has(model, "TOUCH CONTROLS"), version .. " and the layout editor")
+  check(has(model, "VOID FILL"), version .. " and VOID FILL")
 
-local voidFill = findRow(gold, "VOID FILL")
+  local voidFill = findRow(model, "VOID FILL")
-eq(voidFill.value(), "FADE ", "VOID FILL defaults to FADE")
+  eq(voidFill.value(), "FADE ", version .. " VOID FILL defaults to FADE")
-voidFill.step(1)
+  voidFill.step(1)
-eq(gold.opts.gold.voidFill, "water", "right stores water in the gold block")
+  eq(model.opts.gold.voidFill, "water",
-eq(voidFill.value(), "WATER", "and the row reads WATER")
+    version .. " right stores water in the gold block")
-voidFill.step(-1)
+  eq(voidFill.value(), "WATER", version .. " and the row reads WATER")
-eq(gold.opts.gold.voidFill, "fade", "left restores fade")
+  voidFill.step(-1)
+  eq(model.opts.gold.voidFill, "fade", version .. " left restores fade")
 
--- Every write has to land in the gold block: the flat keys beside it are
+  -- Every write has to land in the gen2 block: the flat keys beside it are
--- Red's, and Gold's boot never reads them (src/core/gen2/Save.lua:299).
+  -- Red's, and no Gen 2 boot reads them (src/core/gen2/Save.lua:299).
--- loadOptions seeds the flat Gen 1 defaults, so the check is that the Gold
+  -- loadOptions seeds the flat Gen 1 defaults, so the check is that the Gen 2
--- rows leave them exactly as they found them.
+  -- rows leave them exactly as they found them.
-local flatPad = gold.opts.touchControls
+  local flatPad = model.opts.touchControls
-local flatBuzz = gold.opts.haptics
+  local flatBuzz = model.opts.haptics
 
-local pad = findRow(gold, "TOUCH PAD")
+  local pad = findRow(model, "TOUCH PAD")
-local before = pad.value()
+  local before = pad.value()
-pad.step(1)
+  pad.step(1)
-check(pad.value() ~= before, "stepping TOUCH PAD flips it")
+  check(pad.value() ~= before, version .. " stepping TOUCH PAD flips it")
-check(type(gold.opts.gold) == "table", "into the gold block")
+  check(type(model.opts.gold) == "table", version .. " into the gold block")
-eq(gold.opts.gold.touchControls.enabled, false, "which now carries enabled")
+  eq(model.opts.gold.touchControls.enabled, false,
-eq(gold.opts.touchControls, flatPad, "leaving the flat Gen 1 key alone")
+    version .. " which now carries enabled")
+  eq(model.opts.touchControls, flatPad,
+    version .. " leaving the flat Gen 1 key alone")
+  eq(model.opts.silver, nil,
+    version .. " and inventing no second Gen 2 block beside it")
 
-local buzz = findRow(gold, "VIBRATION")
+  local buzz = findRow(model, "VIBRATION")
-local buzzBefore = buzz.value()
+  local buzzBefore = buzz.value()
-buzz.step(1)
+  buzz.step(1)
-check(buzz.value() ~= buzzBefore, "stepping VIBRATION moves the level")
+  check(buzz.value() ~= buzzBefore, version .. " stepping VIBRATION moves the level")
-eq(gold.opts.gold.haptics, TouchControls.normalizeHaptics(gold.opts.gold.haptics),
+  eq(model.opts.gold.haptics,
-  "VIBRATION stores a level the shared module knows")
+    TouchControls.normalizeHaptics(model.opts.gold.haptics),
-eq(gold.opts.haptics, flatBuzz, "also without touching Red's")
+    version .. " VIBRATION stores a level the shared module knows")
+  eq(model.opts.haptics, flatBuzz, version .. " also without touching Red's")
 
-findRow(gold, "TOUCH CONTROLS").action()
+  edited = 0
-eq(edited, 1, "the editor row reaches the host hook")
+  findRow(model, "TOUCH CONTROLS").action()
+  eq(edited, 1, version .. " the editor row reaches the host hook")
+end
 
 -- The Gen 1 gear is untouched by the extraction: same three rows, still on
 -- the flat table.
@@ -94,6 +103,8 @@ eq(findRow(red, "TOUCH PAD").value() ~= nil, true, "and reading it back")
 -- rather than dead, on both sides.
 eq(has(LauncherSettings.open(nil, "gold"), "TOUCH CONTROLS"), false,
   "no hook, no editor row on Gold")
+eq(has(LauncherSettings.open(nil, "silver"), "TOUCH CONTROLS"), false,
+  "nor on Silver")
 eq(has(LauncherSettings.open(nil, "red"), "TOUCH CONTROLS"), false,
   "nor on Red")
 -- The Edit row hands the screen to the host, and the host has to know WHICH

tests/engine/launcher_scroll_test.lua

@@ -155,28 +155,34 @@ modImp.mods = mods
 modImp._ensureMods = function() return mods end
 LauncherView.draw(modImp)
 LauncherView.draw(modImp)
-check((modImp._modScrollMax or 0) > 0,
+local reg = modImp._tabRegionRect
-  "60 mods overflow the list viewport inside the panel")
+check((modImp._tabScrollMax.mods or 0) > reg.h,
-local list = modImp._modListRect
+  "60 installed mods are ONE continuous list: the region's travel spans "
-check(list.x + list.w
+  .. "the whole list, not one page of it")
-    <= modImp._tabRegionRect.x + modImp._tabRegionRect.w - Kit.scrollBarW(),
+eq(modImp._pages.mods, nil, "and no page state is ever minted for it")
-  "the rows stop short of the region's scrollbar gutter")
+pointer(reg.x + 10, reg.y + 40)
-pointer(list.x + 10, list.y + 10)
 modImp._wheelY = -1
 LauncherView.draw(modImp)
-check((modImp.modScroll or 0) > 0, "a notch over the mod list scrolls the list")
+check((modImp._tabScroll.mods or 0) > 0,
-eq(modImp._tabScroll.mods or 0, 0, "not the panel region around it")
+  "a notch over the region scrolls the list like any other tab")
-eq(modImp._pageScroll, 0, "and not the page behind that")
+eq(modImp._pageScroll, 0, "without reaching the page behind it")
+
+modImp._tabScroll.mods = modImp._tabScrollMax.mods
+LauncherView.draw(modImp)
+pointer(reg.x + 10, reg.y + reg.h * 0.5)
+modImp._wheelY = -1
+LauncherView.draw(modImp)
+eq(modImp._pages.mods, nil,
+  "bottoming the list out never auto-advances any pager")
+eq(modImp._tabScroll.mods, modImp._tabScrollMax.mods,
+  "the list just rests at its end")
 
 modImp._modActions = "mod1"
-local shielded = modImp.modScroll
+local shieldedAt = modImp._tabScroll.mods
-local shieldedPage = modImp._pageScroll
-pointer(list.x + 10, list.y + 10)
 modImp._wheelY = -1
 LauncherView.draw(modImp)
-eq(modImp.modScroll, shielded, "a shielded mod list ignores the notch")
+eq(modImp._tabScroll.mods, shieldedAt,
-eq(modImp._tabScroll.mods or 0, 0, "and so does the region under the scrim")
+  "a shielded mod list ignores the notch under the scrim")
-eq(modImp._pageScroll, shieldedPage, "and the page behind that")
 modImp._modActions = nil
 modImp._wheelY = 0
 LauncherView.draw(modImp)
@@ -225,32 +231,27 @@ dragMods.mods = mods
 dragMods._ensureMods = function() return mods end
 LauncherView.draw(dragMods)
 LauncherView.draw(dragMods)
-local dlist = dragMods._modListRect
+local dreg = dragMods._tabRegionRect
-local dListMax = dragMods._modScrollMax
 local dRegionMax = dragMods._tabScrollMax.mods
-check(dListMax > 0 and dRegionMax > 0,
+check(dRegionMax > 0, "the mods region scrolls its overscan like any tab")
-  "the mods tab has both an inner list and a region to scroll")
+LauncherView.touchpressed(dragMods, 7, dreg.x + 20, dreg.y + 30)
-LauncherView.touchpressed(dragMods, 7, dlist.x + 20, dlist.y + 30)
+LauncherView.touchmoved(dragMods, 7, dreg.x + 20, dreg.y + 30 - 60)
-LauncherView.touchmoved(dragMods, 7, dlist.x + 20, dlist.y + 30 - 60)
+eq(dragMods._tabScroll.mods, math.min(60, dRegionMax),
-eq(dragMods.modScroll, math.min(60, dListMax),
+  "a drag moves the region by the finger's travel")
-  "the first pixels of the drag move the list")
+LauncherView.touchmoved(dragMods, 7, dreg.x + 20,
-eq(dragMods._tabScroll.mods or 0, 0, "and nothing else")
+  dreg.y + 30 - 60 - dRegionMax * 2)
-LauncherView.touchmoved(dragMods, 7, dlist.x + 20,
+eq(dragMods._tabScroll.mods, dRegionMax, "carrying on saturates the region")
-  dlist.y + 30 - 60 - dListMax - dRegionMax * 2)
-eq(dragMods.modScroll, dListMax, "carrying on saturates the list")
-eq(dragMods._tabScroll.mods, dRegionMax,
-  "then the same gesture walks the region to its bottom")
 check((dragMods._pageScroll or 0) > 0, "and only then reaches the page")
-LauncherView.touchreleased(dragMods, 7, dlist.x + 20, dlist.y - 900)
+LauncherView.touchreleased(dragMods, 7, dreg.x + 20, dreg.y - 900)
 
 dragMods._skins = { { id = "s1", source = "user", controls = 8, pages = 1 } }
 for i = 2, 12 do
   dragMods._skins[i] = { id = "s" .. i, source = "user", controls = 8, pages = 1 }
 end
 dragMods._ensureSkins = function() return dragMods._skins end
-dragMods.modScroll = 0
+local heldModsPage = dragMods._pages.mods or 1
-local heldModScroll = dragMods.modScroll
+local heldModsAt = dragMods._tabScroll.mods
-local overList = dlist.y + 30
+local overList = dreg.y + 60
 dragMods:_switchTab("skins")
 LauncherView.draw(dragMods)
 LauncherView.draw(dragMods)
@@ -260,8 +261,10 @@ LauncherView.touchpressed(dragMods, 9, sreg.x + 20, overList)
 LauncherView.touchmoved(dragMods, 9, sreg.x + 20, overList - 200)
 check((dragMods._tabScroll.skins or 0) > 0,
   "a drag on the skins tab scrolls the skins tab")
-eq(dragMods.modScroll, heldModScroll,
+eq(dragMods._pages.mods or 1, heldModsPage,
-  "and leaves the mod list where the player parked it")
+  "and leaves the mod list on the page the player parked it")
+eq(dragMods._tabScroll.mods, heldModsAt,
+  "with its region offset held for the return trip")
 LauncherView.touchreleased(dragMods, 9, sreg.x + 20, sreg.y - 400)
 
 love.graphics.polygon = love.graphics.polygon or function() end
@@ -297,6 +300,88 @@ LauncherView.draw(edgeImp)
 check((edgeImp._tabScroll.skins or 0) > 0,
   "which reaches the tab region even though the cursor is below it")
 
+Kit.blockClicks = false
+Kit._clipRect = nil
+Kit.wheelY = 0
+Kit.mouseX, Kit.mouseY = 400, 400
+Kit.dragBegin(50, 50)
+Kit.dragAdd(120)
+local pg = Kit.wheelPage(0, 0, 100, 100, 1, 100, 10)
+eq(pg, 3, "a drag that crossed two half-heights turns two pages")
+eq(Kit.dragAccum, 20, "and keeps the remainder for the next flip")
+Kit.dragAdd(-140)
+pg = Kit.wheelPage(0, 0, 100, 100, pg, 100, 10)
+eq(pg, 1, "dragging back down returns those pages")
+eq(Kit.dragAccum, -20, "with the remainder's sign preserved")
+Kit.dragAdd(-80)
+pg = Kit.wheelPage(0, 0, 100, 100, pg, 100, 10)
+eq(pg, 1, "a drag past the first page clamps to it")
+eq(Kit.dragAccum, 0, "and drops the pile-up so reversing is instant")
+Kit.dragAdd(200)
+pg = Kit.wheelPage(200, 200, 100, 100, pg, 100, 10)
+eq(pg, 1, "a drag that began outside the list is not the list's")
+eq(Kit.dragAccum, 200, "and its travel stays queued")
+Kit.dragEnd()
+eq(Kit.dragAccum, 0, "releasing the button retires the gesture")
+
+window(360, 780)
+local mouseImp = skinLauncher(12)
+LauncherView.draw(mouseImp)
+LauncherView.draw(mouseImp)
+local mreg = mouseImp._tabRegionRect
+local mmax = mouseImp._tabScrollMax.skins
+check(mmax > 0, "the mouse-dragged panel has travel")
+local mdown = false
+love.mouse.isDown = function() return mdown end
+
+pointer(mreg.x + 20, mreg.y + 40)
+mdown = true
+LauncherView.update(mouseImp, 0.016)
+check(mouseImp._clickPt == nil,
+  "a press over a scrollable region mints no click")
+check(mouseImp._mouseAt ~= nil, "it arms a drag instead")
+pointer(mreg.x + 20, mreg.y + 40 - 200)
+LauncherView.update(mouseImp, 0.016)
+eq(mouseImp._tabScroll.skins, math.min(200, mmax),
+  "dragging the held mouse scrolls the panel by its travel")
+eq(mouseImp._pageScroll or 0, 0,
+  "while the panel still has travel, the page waits")
+pointer(mreg.x + 20, mreg.y + 40 - 200 - mmax * 2)
+LauncherView.update(mouseImp, 0.016)
+eq(mouseImp._tabScroll.skins, mmax,
+  "a longer mouse drag reaches the panel's bottom")
+check((mouseImp._pageScroll or 0) > 0, "and spills into the page from there")
+mdown = false
+LauncherView.update(mouseImp, 0.016)
+check(mouseImp._clickPt == nil, "a released drag is not a click")
+check(mouseImp._mouseAt == nil, "and the gesture is retired")
+
+pointer(mreg.x + 20, mreg.y + 40)
+mdown = true
+LauncherView.update(mouseImp, 0.016)
+check(mouseImp._clickPt == nil, "a fresh press still holds its click back")
+mdown = false
+LauncherView.update(mouseImp, 0.016)
+check(mouseImp._clickPt ~= nil,
+  "press and release without travel is still a tap, on release")
+mouseImp._clickPt = nil
+
+LauncherView.draw(gameImp)
+LauncherView.draw(gameImp)
+check((gameImp._noDragN or 0) > 0, "the game tab publishes its cartridge rect")
+local cart = gameImp._noDragRects[1]
+pointer(cart.x + cart.w / 2, cart.y + cart.h / 2)
+mdown = true
+LauncherView.update(gameImp, 0.016)
+check(gameImp._clickPt ~= nil,
+  "a press on the cartridge clicks at once so its own spin-drag still owns "
+    .. "the gesture")
+check(gameImp._mouseAt == nil, "and never arms the scroll drag")
+gameImp._clickPt = nil
+mdown = false
+LauncherView.update(gameImp, 0.016)
+love.mouse.isDown = nil
+
 local function read(path)
   local f = assert(io.open(path, "r"))
   local src = f:read("*a")
@@ -308,8 +393,8 @@ local view = read("src/import/LauncherView.lua")
 check(view:find("Kit.scrollBegin(", 1, true) ~= nil,
   "the panel dispatch opens a scroll region")
 check(view:find("Kit.scrollEnd(", 1, true) ~= nil, "and closes it")
-check(view:find("modListWantsWheel", 1, true) ~= nil,
+check(view:find("modListWantsWheel", 1, true) == nil,
-  "the nested mod list is asked before the region takes a notch")
+  "no nested list steals the wheel from the region any more")
 check(view:find("start.region", 1, true) ~= nil,
   "a touch drag that began in the region scrolls the region")
 check(view:find("Kit.scrollGutter(", 1, true) ~= nil,

tests/engine/mod_targets_tests.lua

@@ -32,11 +32,13 @@ do
     "a version id names exactly that game")
   eq(table.concat(ModTargets.expand("GEN1"), ","), "red,blue,yellow",
     "gen1 is every Gen 1 game, case-insensitive")
-  eq(table.concat(ModTargets.expand("gen2"), ","), "gold",
+  eq(table.concat(ModTargets.expand("gen2"), ","), "gold,silver",
     "gen2 is every Gen 2 game")
+  eq(table.concat(ModTargets.expand("silver"), ","), "silver",
+    "and each of them names itself")
   eq(table.concat(ModTargets.expand("all"), ","),
     table.concat(GameVersion.ORDER, ","), "all is the launcher order itself")
-  eq(ModTargets.expand("silver"), nil, "a game this engine has no cache for")
+  eq(ModTargets.expand("crystal"), nil, "a game this engine has no cache for")
   eq(ModTargets.expand("gen9"), nil, "a generation with no games is unknown")
   eq(ModTargets.expand(7), nil, "a non-string token is not a game")
 end
@@ -56,7 +58,7 @@ end
 do
   eq(list(mf({})), "red,blue,yellow",
     "a manifest with no games key is Gen 1, which is what it was tested as")
-  eq(list(mf({ gen2compat = true })), "red,blue,yellow,gold",
+  eq(list(mf({ gen2compat = true })), "red,blue,yellow,gold,silver",
     "gen2compat keeps Gen 1 and adds Gen 2")
   eq(mf({}).gen2compat, false, "and the derived flag agrees")
   eq(mf({ gen2compat = true }).gen2compat, true, "both ways")
@@ -67,14 +69,14 @@ end
 
 do
   local gen2 = mf({ games = { "gen2" } })
-  eq(list(gen2), "gold", "games can name Gen 2 alone")
+  eq(list(gen2), "gold,silver", "games can name Gen 2 alone")
   eq(gen2.gen2compat, true, "which IS the gen2compat claim the gate reads")
   local both = mf({ games = { "gen1", "gen2" } })
-  eq(list(both), "red,blue,yellow,gold", "or both generations")
+  eq(list(both), "red,blue,yellow,gold,silver", "or both generations")
   local one = mf({ games = { "blue" } })
   eq(list(one), "blue", "or one single game")
   eq(one.gen2compat, false, "a Gen 1 game is not a Gen 2 claim")
-  eq(list(mf({ games = { "red" }, gen2compat = true })), "red,gold",
+  eq(list(mf({ games = { "red" }, gen2compat = true })), "red,gold,silver",
     "an old gen2compat beside a new games list still adds its game")
 end
 
@@ -224,10 +226,12 @@ do
   local bad = ModProfile.decode(require("src.core.SaveSerializer").encode({
     format = "g1rmodlist", formatVersion = 1,
     profile = { name = "P", enabledByVersion = {
-      gold = { a = true }, silver = { a = true }, red = "nope" } },
+      gold = { a = true }, silver = { a = true }, crystal = { a = true },
+      red = "nope" } },
   }))
   eq(bad.enabledByVersion.gold.a, true, "a shared file's known game is kept")
-  eq(bad.enabledByVersion.silver, nil, "an unknown game is dropped on read")
+  eq(bad.enabledByVersion.silver.a, true, "every one of them, not just the first")
+  eq(bad.enabledByVersion.crystal, nil, "an unknown game is dropped on read")
   eq(bad.enabledByVersion.red, nil, "and so is a bucket that is not a table")
 end
 

tests/engine/overworld_field_faint_heal_romtext.lua

@@ -0,0 +1,139 @@
+-- Two OverworldController.lua messages used to be bare Lua literals:
+-- applyFieldPoison()'s "%s\nfainted!" (the third of three collapsed
+-- fainted-message ROM strings, _PokemonFaintedText) and
+-- useSoftboiledFieldMove()'s "It won't have\nany effect."/"%s's HP\nwas
+-- restored!" (the same _ItemUseNoEffectText/_PotionText labels
+-- ItemEffects.lua's real potion message already uses -- _PotionText's
+-- second slot is the actual amount healed, which the old literal never
+-- showed at all).
+--
+-- Uses the debug.setupvalue technique already established in
+-- oaks_pc_flow.lua to fake the module-level Game/TextBox upvalues
+-- ROM-free, without going through the heavy OverworldState:enter().
+package.path = "./?.lua;./?/init.lua;" .. package.path
+
+local T = require("tests.modkit")
+local Data = T.fixtures.fresh()
+
+local SaveData = require("src.core.SaveData")
+local Pokemon = require("src.pokemon.Pokemon")
+local OW = require("src.world.OverworldController")
+
+local function setUpvalue(fn, name, val)
+  local i = 1
+  while true do
+    local n = debug.getupvalue(fn, i)
+    if not n then return false end
+    if n == name then debug.setupvalue(fn, i, val); return true end
+    i = i + 1
+  end
+end
+
+local pushed = {}
+local textBoxStub = {
+  new = function(_, text, onDone, opts)
+    return { text = text, onDone = onDone, opts = opts }
+  end,
+}
+local realSound = package.loaded["src.core.Sound"]
+package.loaded["src.core.Sound"] = { play = function() end, playCry = function() end }
+
+local function mkGame()
+  local save = SaveData.newGame()
+  save.party = { Pokemon.new(Data, "FIXMON_A", 20) }
+  pushed = {}
+  return {
+    data = Data, save = save,
+    stack = { push = function(_, item) pushed[#pushed + 1] = item end },
+  }
+end
+
+for _, name in ipairs({ "applyFieldPoison", "useSoftboiledFieldMove" }) do
+  T.check(setUpvalue(OW[name], "Game", mkGame()), ("Game upvalue on %s"):format(name))
+  T.check(setUpvalue(OW[name], "TextBox", textBoxStub), ("TextBox upvalue on %s"):format(name))
+end
+
+local fakeSelf = setmetatable({}, { __index = OW })
+
+-- ---- applyFieldPoison: _PokemonFaintedText ----
+do
+  local game = mkGame()
+  setUpvalue(OW.applyFieldPoison, "Game", game)
+  local mon = game.save.party[1]
+  mon.status = "PSN"
+  mon.hp = 1 -- one poison tick (1 dmg by default) faints it
+  game.save.poisonSteps = 3 -- (3+1) % 4 == 0: this step ticks poison
+
+  Data.text._PokemonFaintedText = "FAKE {RAM:wNameBuffer} FAKE!"
+  fakeSelf:applyFieldPoison()
+  T.eq(pushed[1] and pushed[1].text, "FAKE " .. (mon.nickname or "FIXMON A") .. " FAKE!",
+    "a translated _PokemonFaintedText reaches the field-poison faint message")
+  Data.text._PokemonFaintedText = nil
+end
+
+-- vanilla: no catalog entry, English literal
+do
+  local game = mkGame()
+  setUpvalue(OW.applyFieldPoison, "Game", game)
+  local mon = game.save.party[1]
+  mon.status = "PSN"
+  mon.hp = 1
+  game.save.poisonSteps = 3
+
+  fakeSelf:applyFieldPoison()
+  T.eq(pushed[1] and pushed[1].text,
+    (mon.nickname or "FIXMON A") .. "\nfainted!",
+    "no catalog entry falls back to the English fainted literal")
+end
+
+-- ---- useSoftboiledFieldMove: _ItemUseNoEffectText / _PotionText ----
+do
+  local game = mkGame()
+  setUpvalue(OW.useSoftboiledFieldMove, "Game", game)
+  local user = Pokemon.new(Data, "FIXMON_A", 20)
+  local target = Pokemon.new(Data, "FIXMON_B", 20)
+  target.hp = target.stats.hp -- already full: no effect
+
+  Data.text._ItemUseNoEffectText = "FAKE-NOEFFECT!"
+  local ok = fakeSelf:useSoftboiledFieldMove(user, target)
+  T.check(ok == false, "a full-HP target reports no effect")
+  T.eq(pushed[1] and pushed[1].text, "FAKE-NOEFFECT!",
+    "a translated _ItemUseNoEffectText reaches the no-effect message")
+  Data.text._ItemUseNoEffectText = nil
+end
+
+do
+  local game = mkGame()
+  setUpvalue(OW.useSoftboiledFieldMove, "Game", game)
+  local user = Pokemon.new(Data, "FIXMON_A", 20)
+  local target = Pokemon.new(Data, "FIXMON_B", 20)
+  target.hp = target.stats.hp - 10 -- missing exactly 10 HP
+
+  Data.text._PotionText = "FAKE {RAM:wNameBuffer} healed {NUM:wHPBarHPDifference, 2, 3}!"
+  local ok = fakeSelf:useSoftboiledFieldMove(user, target)
+  T.check(ok == true, "a damaged target heals successfully")
+  T.eq(pushed[1] and pushed[1].text,
+    "FAKE " .. (target.nickname or "FIXMON B") .. " healed 10!",
+    "a translated _PotionText reaches the heal message, amount included")
+  Data.text._PotionText = nil
+end
+
+-- vanilla: no catalog entry, the fallback's single %s slot still fills
+-- correctly (the amount is silently dropped by design, same as
+-- ItemEffects.lua's own _PotionText fallback -- not a regression, this
+-- matches the pre-fix literal's behavior exactly)
+do
+  local game = mkGame()
+  setUpvalue(OW.useSoftboiledFieldMove, "Game", game)
+  local user = Pokemon.new(Data, "FIXMON_A", 20)
+  local target = Pokemon.new(Data, "FIXMON_B", 20)
+  target.hp = target.stats.hp - 10
+  local ok = fakeSelf:useSoftboiledFieldMove(user, target)
+  T.check(ok == true, "a damaged target heals successfully (vanilla)")
+  T.eq(pushed[1] and pushed[1].text,
+    (target.nickname or "FIXMON B") .. "'s HP\nwas restored!",
+    "no catalog entry falls back to the English literal (no amount shown)")
+end
+
+package.loaded["src.core.Sound"] = realSound
+T.finish("overworld_field_faint_heal_romtext")

tests/engine/overworld_hidden_item_romtext.lua

@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+-- OverworldState:tryHiddenObject()'s "%s found\n%s!" message used to
+-- substitute both the player name and the item name into one bare Lua
+-- literal. The real _FoundHiddenItemText label leads with a {PLAYER}
+-- named token, which romText auto-fills from a 2-arg call in the same
+-- order the literal already used -- this test checks both slots land
+-- correctly (an accidental argument swap is the easy mistake this shape
+-- invites).
+package.path = "./?.lua;./?/init.lua;" .. package.path
+
+local T = require("tests.modkit")
+local Data = T.fixtures.fresh()
+
+local SaveData = require("src.core.SaveData")
+local OW = require("src.world.OverworldController")
+
+local function setUpvalue(fn, name, val)
+  local i = 1
+  while true do
+    local n = debug.getupvalue(fn, i)
+    if not n then return false end
+    if n == name then debug.setupvalue(fn, i, val); return true end
+    i = i + 1
+  end
+end
+
+local pushed = {}
+local textBoxStub = {
+  new = function(_, text, onDone, opts)
+    return { text = text, onDone = onDone, opts = opts }
+  end,
+  soundOpts = function() return {} end,
+}
+
+local MAP_ID = "FIX_TOWN"
+Data.field.hiddenItems[MAP_ID] = { { x = 3, y = 3, item = "FIX_BALL" } }
+
+local function mkGame()
+  local save = SaveData.newGame()
+  save.player.name = "FAKEPLAYER"
+  pushed = {}
+  return {
+    data = Data, save = save,
+    stack = { push = function(_, item) pushed[#pushed + 1] = item end },
+  }
+end
+
+T.check(setUpvalue(OW.tryHiddenObject, "Game", mkGame()), "Game upvalue on tryHiddenObject")
+T.check(setUpvalue(OW.tryHiddenObject, "TextBox", textBoxStub), "TextBox upvalue on tryHiddenObject")
+
+local fakeSelf = setmetatable({ map = { id = MAP_ID } }, { __index = OW })
+
+-- translated: player name and item name both land in the right slots
+do
+  local game = mkGame()
+  setUpvalue(OW.tryHiddenObject, "Game", game)
+  Data.text._FoundHiddenItemText = "FAKE {PLAYER} found FAKE {RAM:wNameBuffer} FAKE!"
+  local found = fakeSelf:tryHiddenObject(3, 3)
+  T.check(found == true, "the hidden item at (3,3) is found")
+  T.eq(pushed[1] and pushed[1].text,
+    "FAKE FAKEPLAYER found FAKE FIX BALL FAKE!",
+    "a translated _FoundHiddenItemText fills both {PLAYER} and the item name")
+  Data.text._FoundHiddenItemText = nil
+end
+
+-- vanilla: no catalog entry, so romText falls back to plain
+-- Strings(fallback, ...) -- the fallback literal is "%s found\n%s!" (both
+-- slots plain %s, matching the pre-fix literal's own shape), not the
+-- {PLAYER} token the real label uses, since Strings() never does
+-- {TOKEN} substitution on its own. (A {PLAYER}-token fallback would
+-- still render correctly too, since the real TextBox.new always runs
+-- TextBox.substitute over whatever text it's given -- but this test
+-- stubs TextBox without that call, and the fallback shouldn't lean on a
+-- substitution pass happening downstream regardless.)
+do
+  local game = mkGame()
+  setUpvalue(OW.tryHiddenObject, "Game", game)
+  game.save.hiddenTaken = {} -- fresh spot
+  local found = fakeSelf:tryHiddenObject(3, 3)
+  T.check(found == true, "the hidden item is found again in a fresh game")
+  T.eq(pushed[1] and pushed[1].text, "FAKEPLAYER found\nFIX BALL!",
+    "with no catalog entry, the fallback still fills both the player "
+    .. "and item name via plain %s substitution")
+end
+
+T.finish("overworld_hidden_item_romtext")

tests/engine/rom_importer_nx_saves_inbox_test.lua

@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ package.loaded["src.import.RomImporter"] = nil
 RomImporter = require("src.import.RomImporter")
 
 local function clearSavesInbox()
-  for _, ver in ipairs({ "red", "blue", "yellow", "gold" }) do
+  for _, ver in ipairs({ "red", "blue", "yellow", "gold", "silver" }) do
     local dir = "imports/saves/" .. ver
     for _, name in ipairs(love.filesystem.getDirectoryItems(dir) or {}) do
       love.filesystem.remove(dir .. "/" .. name)
@@ -137,6 +137,8 @@ check(createdDirs["imports/saves/yellow"] == true,
   "RES-01: ensureSavesInboxDir creates imports/saves/yellow/")
 check(createdDirs["imports/saves/gold"] == true,
   "RES-01: ensureSavesInboxDir creates imports/saves/gold/")
+check(createdDirs["imports/saves/silver"] == true,
+  "RES-01: ensureSavesInboxDir creates imports/saves/silver/")
 
 -- NXSAV-02: notice/hint includes save dir + per-game imports/saves/<version>/ MTP path
 ri = freshImporter()

tests/engine/screen_position.lua

@@ -0,0 +1,113 @@
+package.path = "./?.lua;./?/init.lua;" .. package.path
+
+local T = require("tests.harness")
+local check, eq = T.check, T.eq
+love = love or require("tests.love_stub")
+
+local ScreenPosition = require("src.core.ScreenPosition")
+local TouchSkin = require("src.core.TouchSkin")
+local Renderer = require("src.render.Renderer")
+local Chrome = require("src.ui.gen2.Chrome")
+local Zoom = require("src.render.Zoom")
+
+eq(ScreenPosition.normalize(nil), "center", "no setting is CENTER")
+eq(ScreenPosition.normalize("junk"), "center", "garbage degrades to CENTER")
+eq(ScreenPosition.normalize("top"), "top", "top passes through")
+eq(ScreenPosition.label("upper"), "UPPER", "upper reads UPPER")
+
+local seen, v = {}, "center"
+for _ = 1, 3 do
+  seen[#seen + 1] = ScreenPosition.label(v)
+  v = ScreenPosition.cycle(v, 1)
+end
+eq(table.concat(seen, ","), "CENTER,UPPER,TOP", "the row cycles CENTER,UPPER,TOP")
+eq(ScreenPosition.cycle("top", 1), "center", "and wraps back to CENTER")
+eq(ScreenPosition.cycle("center", -1), "top", "stepping back lands on TOP")
+
+ScreenPosition.setMode("center")
+eq(ScreenPosition.lift(640, 288), 0, "CENTER never lifts")
+
+ScreenPosition.setMode("top")
+eq(ScreenPosition.lift(640, 288), 176, "TOP lifts the centered origin to 0")
+eq(ScreenPosition.lift(288, 288), 0, "no slack, no lift")
+eq(ScreenPosition.lift(144, 288), 0, "negative slack, no lift")
+eq(ScreenPosition.lift(640, 288, 40), 136, "TOP stops at the safe-area inset")
+eq(ScreenPosition.lift(640, 288, 999), 0,
+  "a safe inset past center degrades to centered")
+
+ScreenPosition.setMode("upper")
+eq(ScreenPosition.lift(640, 288), 88, "UPPER lands halfway between")
+eq(ScreenPosition.lift(640, 288, 40), 88, "a small inset leaves UPPER alone")
+eq(ScreenPosition.lift(640, 288, 120), 56, "a large inset pushes UPPER down")
+
+ScreenPosition.applyOptions({ screenPos = "top" })
+eq(ScreenPosition.mode, "top", "applyOptions takes the stored key")
+ScreenPosition.applyOptions(nil)
+eq(ScreenPosition.mode, "center", "applyOptions without options is CENTER")
+
+local function setWindow(w, h)
+  love.graphics.getDimensions = function() return w, h end
+  love.graphics.getPixelDimensions = function() return w, h end
+end
+
+setWindow(360, 640)
+TouchSkin.setActive(nil)
+Renderer:init()
+Zoom.offset = 0
+
+ScreenPosition.setMode("center")
+local r = Renderer:frameRects()
+eq(r.Sp, 2, "360x640 fits two whole GB pixels")
+eq(r.lift, 0, "CENTER: no lift")
+eq(r.oy, 176, "CENTER: the letterbox is centered")
+local _, vhCenter = Renderer:worldViewSize()
+
+ScreenPosition.setMode("top")
+r = Renderer:frameRects()
+eq(r.lift, 176, "TOP: the full centered slack lifts away")
+eq(r.oy, 0, "TOP: the letterbox sits at the top edge")
+eq(r.uoy, 0, "TOP: the UI letterbox follows")
+eq(r.ox, math.floor((360 - 320) / 2), "TOP: horizontal centering is untouched")
+local _, vhTop = Renderer:worldViewSize()
+eq(vhTop, vhCenter + 2 * math.ceil(176 / 2),
+  "TOP: the world canvas grows to keep the bottom covered")
+
+ScreenPosition.setMode("upper")
+r = Renderer:frameRects()
+eq(r.oy, 88, "UPPER: the letterbox centers in the upper half")
+
+ScreenPosition.setMode("top")
+local ox, oy = Chrome.fitOrigin(360, 640)
+eq(oy, 0, "TOP: Gold's letterbox sits at the top edge")
+eq(ox, math.floor((360 - 320) / 2), "TOP: Gold's horizontal centering is untouched")
+ScreenPosition.setMode("center")
+local _, cy = Chrome.fitOrigin(360, 640)
+eq(cy, 176, "CENTER: Gold's letterbox is centered")
+
+ScreenPosition.setMode("top")
+local skin = assert(TouchSkin.parse([[
+overlays = 1
+overlay0_name = "bezel"
+overlay0_full_screen = true
+overlay0_normalized = true
+overlay0_viewport = "0.1,0.1,0.8,0.4"
+overlay0_descs = 1
+overlay0_desc0 = "nul,0.5,0.5,rect,0.02,0.02"
+]]))
+TouchSkin.setActive(skin)
+TouchSkin.setOverlayLive(false)
+r = Renderer:frameRects()
+eq(r.cut, true, "the skin viewport cuts the playfield")
+eq(r.lift, 0, "a skin viewport disables the lift")
+eq(select(1, ScreenPosition.skinActive(360, 640)), true,
+  "skinActive sees the viewport")
+local _, sy = Chrome.fitOrigin(360, 640)
+local _, cy2 = (function()
+  ScreenPosition.setMode("center")
+  return Chrome.fitOrigin(360, 640)
+end)()
+eq(sy, cy2, "with a skin the Gold origin ignores the mode")
+TouchSkin.setActive(nil)
+ScreenPosition.setMode("center")
+
+T.finish("screen_position")

tests/engine/slot_machine_lined_up_romtext.lua

@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+-- SlotMachine:resolveWin's "%s lined up!\nScored %d coins!" message used
+-- to interpolate the symbol id AND the payout into one bare Lua literal.
+-- The real _LinedUpText label has no slot for the symbol at all (the
+-- original ROM drew it separately) -- only for the coin count. This test
+-- fakes _LinedUpText and checks the symbol is concatenated in front of the
+-- translated suffix, with the payout correctly substituted into it.
+package.path = "./?.lua;./?/init.lua;" .. package.path
+
+local T = require("tests.modkit")
+local Data = T.fixtures.fresh()
+
+local SlotMachine = require("src.ui.SlotMachine")
+
+local function mkSelf()
+  local game = { data = Data, save = { coins = 0 } }
+  return setmetatable({ game = game, allowMatchesCounter = 0 }, SlotMachine)
+end
+
+-- translated: the fake suffix reaches self.message, with the symbol
+-- concatenated in front and the payout substituted into the fake text
+do
+  local self = mkSelf()
+  Data.text._LinedUpText = " FAKE-SUFFIX {RAM:wStringBuffer}!"
+  self:resolveWin({ symbol = "CHERRY", payout = 8 })
+  T.eq(self.message, "CHERRY FAKE-SUFFIX 8!",
+    "a translated _LinedUpText reaches the lined-up message")
+  Data.text._LinedUpText = nil
+end
+
+-- vanilla: with no catalog entry, the English literal still substitutes,
+-- with its own leading space (the original had no slot for the symbol)
+do
+  local self = mkSelf()
+  self:resolveWin({ symbol = "CHERRY", payout = 8 })
+  T.eq(self.message, "CHERRY lined up!\nScored 8 coins!",
+    "no catalog entry still falls back to the English literal")
+end
+
+T.finish("slot_machine_lined_up_romtext")