Pokered Save Editor 2: at-a-glance overviews and new badge art
A Pokémon overview drawer, in-game name rendering in the grid, and a pass to make badge artwork render uniformly.
This day in Pokered Save Editor 2 brought the “View All” overview pattern to the Pokémon screen and tidied up how artwork renders.
A species-by-box overview
The Pokémon overview is a slide-in table: rows are species (alphabetised), columns are the party first and then only the non-empty boxes, and each cell shows how many of that species live there. Hovering a cell lists the differing nicknames and splits caught versus traded. Building it surfaced and fixed a related grid bug — un-nicknamed Pokémon were showing their raw name markers instead of the gender glyphs:
NIDORAN<m> → NIDORAN ♂
NIDORAN<f> → NIDORAN ♀
Mr.Mime → Mr. Mime
The box screen’s “Boxes Setup” control became a Tools menu, and toggling whether the PC boxes are formatted now opens a direction-aware confirmation. Proceeding flips a single bit — the engine already mirrors the game’s own load/save behaviour from that bit, so no extra save bytes are touched.
Making the badge art render uniformly
The rest of the day was artwork. The eight gym badges were full-bleed images with
different aspect ratios, so under PreserveAspectFit each filled its cell to a
different width. Each was re-processed onto a uniform square canvas — trim the
transparent border, scale the longest side to a fixed fraction, paste centred:
from PIL import Image
im = Image.open(src).convert("RGBA")
im = im.crop(im.getbbox()) # trim transparent margins
scale = int(256 * 0.98) / max(im.size) # longest side ≈ 98% of the canvas
im = im.resize((round(im.width * scale),
round(im.height * scale)), Image.LANCZOS)
canvas = Image.new("RGBA", (256, 256), (0, 0, 0, 0))
canvas.paste(im, ((256 - im.width) // 2, (256 - im.height) // 2), im)
canvas.save(dst)
The gym-leader “not yet earned” shadows were recropped to matching square busts, so earned badges and unearned shadows now render at the same footprint. The trainer and rival card artwork was also swapped to new coloured illustrations.