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Welcome to the pokemon-emerald-latin wiki!

I am doing this project to practice my Latin (I am still learning, so expect mistakes) and to create something for Latin learners. My philosophy is better something meh now, than nothing. I believe games make for great language learning (intrinsic motivation, language immersion, simple language and short sentences, union of language with outcomes, you have to extract instructions, etc.). I don't realistically expect to finish this, but I am also not planning on stopping. Feel free to translate parts and correct mistakes.

As for conventions, I prefer Vulgate Latin, not quite medieval but also not quite classical.

One problem that is still to be solved is changing the text gender based on player & Pokémon gender. For now male is assumed, but I have probably places where Pokémon is neuter. Another is that the decompilation project might update such that the line numbers for the text change. Preferably I would want my code to be robust to such changes, but I still haven't figured that out and it would be hard to retro-fit my translated text to that, so for now I am using the version from March 2024. Maybe I can wrangle it out of git since git knows exactly which lines changed between two versions...