0.69.0

PKMN v0.69.0 Beta

Battles:

• Trainers now pick their moves like the cartridge's AI instead of at random.
• Trainers with the Elite AI now go for the knockout when a move can faint your Pokemon.
• Trainers with the Elite AI now weigh their options like the cartridge's smartest trainers: setup, status and speed all count.
• Kanto Gym Leaders now use their Full Heal, as in FireRed.

Modes:

• New Hard Mode choice when creating a character: every trainer fights with the Gym Leader AI.

Interface:

• Field moves like Cut, Surf and Fly go on the action bar from the Pokemon menu; a slot greys when no Pokemon in the party knows the move.
• The Route tracker draws its Pokemon twice as big, and hovering a row or moving to it with a pad shows that Pokemon larger still.
• Route Pokemon can be bound to a key or a pad button in Settings (unbound by default).
• Menus no longer race ahead when a controller's stick is held; one push moves the cursor once.
• The Route Pokemon window and the Pokedex grid can be scrolled with a controller.
• LB and RB turn the Bag's pockets on a controller, as they turn the pages of other windows.

engine sha d35a539f24 / asset pack 94d2e8cd9f246b4e / Godot 4.7.2 stable platforms: Windows, Linux, macOS (universal)

Client and server must share both the engine sha and the asset pack: the login handshake rejects a mismatch on either.

macOS - the first launch needs one extra step. The app is ad-hoc signed but not notarized, so macOS refuses a plain double-click with "cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified". Right-click (or Control-click) the app and choose Open, then Open again. Once per download; updates the client installs itself do not re-trigger it. From a terminal the equivalent is:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "PKMN Engine.app"

Keep PKMN Engine.app and the pack folder together in the same folder - the app looks for its assets beside itself, not inside the bundle.