Pokélib project : Control your ROM from Javascript

[arcanis]

Hi guys,

I've been working since a few months on Virt.js, a Javascript emulation library (not an regular standalone application, but a real library, which can be embed into any other kind of application). The Gameboy Classic emulator is still missing a few features (such as the sound), but it plays Pokémon flawless.

Anyway, as a showcase, I've also started the Pokélib project : a Javascript library exposing a convenient API to manipulate runtime data from a Pokémon Red ROM. Some features :

• Can read and write the team infos (nickname, size, species, level ...)
  
• Can access (read only) to the static infos from the ROM (such as species base stats)
  
• Can add / remove / list the bag content
  
• ... much more
  

Real-time demonstration work best, so heads to the Github repository to see it yourself. The demo is using both Angular.js and Virt.js, and the Pokélib is the glue between them. You will be able to get a default save, and modify some characteristics from your Pokémon. The only limit is that I haven't implemented as much interface as required to edit, say, the Pokémon stats.

So guys, I would love to hear your opinion. Would you be interested by some followups ? :smile: I think such a project would come handy to any TPP-like application, but you tell me !

[Poryhack]

This is really impressive. I only played with it briefly but I can definitely see how it would be cool for a "Twitch Plays Pokemon" scenario. Bummer that you missed the hype train on that or this could have really exploded. Have you posted this anywhere else? I'm a little bummed out for you that you've gotten such a lukewarm response here; don't take it to heart. Most of the dev-types around here are focused on X/Y at the moment.

[arcanis]

Thanks! :smile:

I've posted it on Reddit (/r/programming & /r/javascript) and Hacker News but it didn't get much traction in any of these places. But eh, nevermind. If nothing else, being able to watch Zelda's intro on my own emulator is a nice reward!

[Poryhack]

Yeah that's the right attitude. You could also try /r/pokemon (and maybe search for some emulation-related subreddits?).

[codemonkey85]

I'm a little bummed out for you that you've gotten such a lukewarm response here; don't take it to heart. Most of the dev-types around here are focused on X/Y at the moment.

I'm not sure who responded that way, but for what it's worth, as a dev-type person I think this is pretty rad.

[Poryhack]

I'm not sure who responded that way, but for what it's worth, as a dev-type person I think this is pretty rad.

Didn't mean to say that anybody responded in the negative, just that nobody responded at all (when I said it).

[Reisyukaku]

I've seen this done before, but nonetheless, its still pretty cool from a programmer's point of view.