# New Features

Features intentionally added beyond the original Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow games:

* **Survey zoom** with connected-map rendering and configurable void fill
* **Perspective tilt mode** for an HD-2D-style overworld
* **Multiple color modes**, including original, SGB, advanced GBC, monochrome, and classic green
* **Optional GBC screen effects**, including pixel grids, shadows, glare, and transparency
* **Performance presets** and configurable FPS limits
* **Peer-to-peer link play** for trades and battles between 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
* **Translation and custom font support**
* **Built-in save editor** for parties, boxes, items, events, maps, and Pokédex data
* **Tiled map editing tools** for mod authors
* **Pokédex diploma and printer image exports**
* **Community mod browser**
* **Soft reset button combination**
* **Keyboard and controller rebinding**
* **Mod profiles** with separate mod settings and save slots
* **Improved launcher and save editor UI**, including background downloads and update checks
* **Direct-launch options** for shortcuts, Steam entries, and handheld frontends
* **Custom boot branding**

## Pokémon Gold (Gen 2)

A fourth game the launcher can import and play, built from pret/pokegold the same way Red/Blue/Yellow are built from pokered. Port extras beyond the cartridge:

* **Separate Gold save file** beside the Gen 1 ones
* **COLOR, zoom, tilt, GBC FX, and quick save/load** on the same keys as Gen 1
* **UI that stays fixed while the overworld zooms**
* **Border-block surrounds** for maps smaller than the screen
* **Gold-specific launcher options**
* **Optional widescreen battle layout**
* **Skippable trade animation** with B or START
* **QUIT and EXIT GAME** from the menus
* **Mod manager** with Gen 1 mod adapters, per-game targeting, and `modkit gen2check`
* **Followers** for mods, plus Gen 2-only registries and hooks
* **On-screen touch pad** and controller SELECT for registered items

Actual approximations, and missing original behavior are documented separately in `docs/known-differences.md`.