Feature Request: Click on Starter Pokemon ball to see info

[UTDZac]

Prior to selecting a Pokemon starter from any of the three ball choices, the player should have the ability to display the current Pokemon being viewed but before the player actually selects it as their chosen Pokemon. There might exist a Battle Comm message of sorts similar to how the "Learning a new move" message is triggered to allow user to click on it for more info.

The Tracker screen can change to the Pokemon Info Lookup screen. This shows the Pokemon's BST and types, useful for randomized types, weaknesses, etc

EDIT: I wrote "Click on starter ball" but the act of clicking probably isn't necessarily.

[UTDZac]

Note that this may behave differently between any of the five games (FRLG / RSE), and/or languages available.

[TeamZ3N]

Something like this for those of us who don't have BST, moves, weaknesses memorized.

[Fellshadow]

Started working on this, got a basic version working for FRLG so far:

It's not so bad in FRLG, the starter species shown is stored via a temporary variable in the vars array in SaveBlock1 which we already have access to (the repel step counter is also in that array). We have this already for the non-english FRLG too. Decomp reference here

The annoying part, is that this species is not cleared when you decline a starter, making it tricky to logically determine when to swap between the tracker screen (to show the random ball choice) and the info screen for the displayed pokemon

What i've gone with so far is reading VAR_RESULT which is used for the player's selection on taking the starter (conveniently set to 255 while the dialogue box is open) to decide when to display the info as shown in the gif

As for RSE, well unfortunately they use the gTasks list for handling the starter choice menu so it's much trickier there.

My current idea is to investigate if it's possible to read what the three starters are, determine that the bag is open, and then read the player inputs to cycle between info pages for the starters as the game cycles through the starters. Failing that could always try to implement it as a click-based feature at least

[TeamZ3N]

@Fellshadow This looks fantastic for FRLG!

[UTDZac]

Just completed this feature. It works for Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, FireRed, and LeafGreen.

It will be available in the next Tracker release after version 8.9.0