gen1recomp/docs/new-features.md

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.