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Scarex

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    I just added a lot of new Pokémon slots for my game... but suddenly something came to my mind: How the hell are we gonna store all this new pokémon if the PC boxes are very limited?

    There's a way to expand the boxes (more boxes in the PC)?

    Greetings!
     
    I don't think anyone has done it before. It takes a lot of space, 50 bytes per Pokemon in a saveblock. I think you'd be better off removing some Pokemon you don't need in your dex eventually rather than try to expand the PC boxes.

    It seems like it'll be a lot of work :X
     
    FBI agent said:
    I don't think anyone has done it before. It takes a lot of space, 50 bytes per Pokemon in a saveblock. I think you'd be better off removing some Pokemon you don't need in your dex eventually rather than try to expand the PC boxes.

    It seems like it'll be a lot of work :X
    Click to expand...

    It's actually 80 bytes per Pokemon
     
    That's one doubt I always had. With all that free space in the ROM, why storing 80 bytes per Pokémon is such a problem?
    Say you wanted more 6 boxes, so it would complete 20. You'd need 80*30*6 = 14400 or 14,4kb. That's less than 10 images we insert in the game (depends on the image, of course).

    And that's stored all the time while you are playing? All the Pokémon in the boxes are stored while you are far from the PC Boxes?
    Or do the game just load that information when you are accessing the PC Boxes?
    (I know they have to be stored somewhere, the game won't be creating Pokémon again and again, specially with the same characteristics, everytime you open those boxes, but why with all the free space in a ROM that's such a problem?)
     
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    FamiliaWerneck said:
    That's one doubt I always had. With all that free space in the ROM, why storing 80 bytes per Pokémon is such a problem?
    Say you wanted more 6 boxes, so it would complete 20. You'd need 80*30*6 = 14400 or 14,4k. That's less than 10 images we insert in the game (depends on the image, of course).

    And that's stored all the time while you are playing? All the Pokémon in the boxes are stored while you are far from the PC Boxes?
    Or do the game just load that information when you are accessing the PC Boxes?
    (I know they have to be stored somewhere, the game won't be creating Pokémon again and again, specially with the same characteristics, everytime you open those boxes, but why with all the free space in a ROM that's such a problem?)
    Click to expand...

    It's not about not having space in the ROM, it's about not having space in the save file. The Pokemon in your boxes aren't stored in the ROM and then retrieved when you need them.
     
    Hmm, so bad it costs so much memory for the save file...

    What I don't understand is why the save file have this limit.

    Anyway, Thank you for replying!

    Greetings!
     
    I believe its the size of the save file of a GBA game.
    Since if you save your game in the 64kb mode, the GBA won't read it, it's probably because it's made to read 128kb as a save file.
    But that's very limited, when you think about everything you have to store...
     
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