[Other] [pokeemerald] Pokedex expansion over 1000?

[LCCoolJ95]

I was just curious if anyone has figured out the best way to have the dex read over 1000 without it looking so "squished", or overlapping (if that makes sense).

 

[Anon822]

I was just curious if anyone has figured out the best way to have the dex read over 1000 without it looking so "squished", or overlapping (if that makes sense).

The obvious change would be to just add another number to the number string, but if that looks too squished or overlapping to you, you either need to rearrange the screen layout to make everything fit or make the numbers smaller.
Personally I think that making the numbers use a smaller font is a reasonably good solution for how easy it is:

This was done by changing the function CreateMonDexNum in src/pokedex.c to this:

static void CreateMonDexNum(u16 entryNum, u8 left, u8 top, u16 unused)
{
    static const u8 sText_No000[] = _("{NO}{SHIFT_RIGHT}{9}0000");
    u8 text[10];
    u16 dexNum;
   
    memcpy(text, sText_No000, ARRAY_COUNT(text));
    dexNum = sPokedexView->pokedexList[entryNum].dexNum;
    if (sPokedexView->dexMode == DEX_MODE_HOENN)
       dexNum = NationalToHoennOrder(dexNum);
    text[5] = CHAR_0 + dexNum / 1000;
    text[6] = CHAR_0 + (dexNum % 1000) / 100;
    text[7] = CHAR_0 + (dexNum % 100) / 10;
    text[8] = CHAR_0 + (dexNum % 100) % 10;
    PrintMonDexNumAndName(0, FONT_SMALL_NARROW, text, left, top);
}

"best way" and "looking so "squished"" are both subjective metrics. Figure out what looks the best to you and implement it.