Universal Pokemon Randomizer 1.2.

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by Dabomstew, 2012-13
Homepage: http://pokehacks.dabomstew.com/randomizer/index.php
Source: https://code.google.com/p/universal-pokemon-randomizer/
Contents
-------1. Introduction
2. Acknowledgements
3. Libraries Used
4. Features
5. How To Use
6. Games/ROMs supported
7. License
8. Known Issues
9. Useful/Interesting Links
Introduction
-----------This program allows you to customize your experience playing the Pokemon games
by randomizing many aspects of them. This means that the Pokemon you get at
the start of the game, the Pokemon you fight in the wild and the Pokemon
trainers have can all be made completely different from the original game.
Acknowledgements
---------------Many people have put countless hours of their time into researching the
structures contained within Pokemon games over the years. Without the research
done by these people, this randomizer would not exist, or would have taken a
lot longer to create.
To see the full list of contributions, see
http://pokehacks.dabomstew.com/randomizer/acks.php
Libraries Used
-------------* thenewpoketext by loadingNOW for generation 4 text handling
http://pokeguide.filb.de/ (source @ https://github.com/magical/ppre )
* PPTXT by ProjectPokemon for generation 5 text handling
http://projectpokemon.org/forums/showthread.php?11582-PPTXT-Text-editing-too
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* Code from ndstool for NDS file extraction/creation (under GPL)
http://sourceforge.net/p/devkitpro/ndstool/
* Code from CUE's Nintendo DS Compressors for arm9.bin (de)compressing
(under GPL)
http://gbatemp.net/threads/nintendo-ds-gba-compressors.313278/
* DSDecmp for LZ11 decompression (under MIT)
http://code.google.com/p/dsdecmp/
Features
-------Below is a list of what exactly can be randomized. You may not understand all
of it if you haven't played Pokemon games much before.
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Starter Pokemon choices

Wild Pokemon you encounter in grass, caves and other places
Pokemon that Trainers use against you.
base stats which define the potential of each Pokemon

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The elemental types of each Pokemon

The abilities of each Pokemon, in games where Pokemon have abilities
The moves that Pokemon learn by gaining levels
The contents of each TM which can be taught to Pokemon to give them
additional moves
(HM moves are not changed to make sure you can still beat the game)
The ability of each Pokemon to learn each TM or HM move
The "static" Pokemon which you either are given, fight on the overworld,
or are sold.
The names of trainers & the classes they belong in
The moves that Move Tutors teach, in certain games where they are
particularly significant.
The items that it is possible for Pokemon to hold in the wild, and in
certain situations the items that Pokemon given to you are holding.

How To Use
---------Extract this ZIP file before doing anything else!!!
Make sure you have Java 1.6 or later installed, then run the included JAR file.
In some situations, you will be able to just double-click on the JAR file and
the program will run. If not, execute the following command from your command
line in the directory where you have extracted the program:
java -jar randomizer.jar
From there you can open a ROM (legally acquired), customize what you want to be
randomized, then save the randomized ROM.
Games/ROMs supported
-------------------Version 1.2.0 supports the following official ROMs:
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Pokemon
Pokemon
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Pokemon

Red (any)
Blue (any)
Green (J)
Yellow (any)
Gold (any except Korean)
Silver (any except Korean)
Crystal (any)
Ruby (any)
Sapphire (any)
Emerald (any)
FireRed (any)
LeafGreen (any)
Diamond (any)
Pearl (any)
Platinum (any)
HeartGold (any)
SoulSilver (any)
Black (any)
White (any)
Black2 (any)
White2 (any)

As you can see, pretty much every game except the Korean releases of Gold
and Silver are supported. This is because these releases were very much
one-offs, and have little to nothing in the way of a ROM hacking community

which would be needed to make it possible to support them.

Whilst pretty much every
this randomizer is still
language games may still
small amounts of English

release of every game is supported to a good level,

targeted at English games - so users of foreign
find that the functionality is a bit limited or
text appear ingame where they did not before.

Randomizing ROM hacks of the above games is not a supported feature, but may
still be possible depending on the specifics of the hack itself. In general,
the simpler a hack is, the more likely it will be able to be randomized.
License
------This project and the majority of the libraries used are under the GNU GPL v3,
attached as LICENSE.txt.
Source code can be obtained from:
https://code.google.com/p/universal-pokemon-randomizer/source/browse/
Other libraries used are under more liberal licenses, compatible with the GPL.
Known Issues
-----------See https://code.google.com/p/universal-pokemon-randomizer/wiki/KnownIssues
Useful/Interesting Links
-----------------------If you have bugs, suggestions, or other concerns to tell me, contact me at
http://pokehacks.dabomstew.com/randomizer/comments.php
To see Pokemon games (randomized with this randomizer, primarily) and others
run quickly and/or raced live, check out my live stream at
http://www.twitch.tv/dabomstew/new
To check out Pokemon races along with many other games raced fast, visit the
community at http://speedrunslive.com/