Pokémon Black and White

What is this game?

Pokémon Black and White are the introduction to the fifth generation of the Pokémon franchise. Travel through the Unova region, catch a variety of brand-new Pokémon you have never seen before, collect the eight gym badges, fight Team Plasma who claim to be the saviors of all the Pokémon, and become the champion of the region. These games present themselves in 2.5D graphics, while still using the well-known grid-based movement mechanics and battle UI.

Useful and interesting pages

• Setup guide
• Roadblocks
• Rom changes
• Changelog
• Credits
• Features roadmap
• Various options guides
  • Including Encounter Plando, Modify Encounter Rates, etc.

Known bugs (might be outdated)

• Harmless/visual bugs:
  • Certain overworld item balls on route 13 don't disappear after pickup
  • Randomizing the seasons will show the vanilla season at the start of the game, but switch to the correct one upon leaving the house

FAQ (kinda)

• How do I set up this game?
  If you're new to setting up a custom apworld, type &apworld into the #aginahbot-spam channel on the Discord server for more information.
  Other than that, follow the setup guide for this game.

• Where is the options page?
  As this game is not (yet) merged into main, type &options into the #aginahbot-spam channel on the Discord server for more information.

• Is there a tracker?
  You can use the Universal Tracker, which is fully compatible and includes a map tracker. See the #universal-tracker channel on the Discord server for more information.
  Alternatively, you can use the Poptracker pack found in the tracker thread of the Pokémon BW channel on the Discord server.

• Can I use UPR to randomize other parts of the rom?
  No. It will mess up logic due to the randomizer not knowing in what way the rom was modified and might break the game before even getting to choose your starter.

• Is this compatible with romhack XYZ?
  Maybe. You can kinda put everything as the base ROM into the AP install folder (except non-english ROMs, those will receive support in the future), but it's usually not guaranteed that it works. Romhacks that will most likely break are those that edit ingame scripts or text, else there is a good chance it does work.

• Can I use PKHex to edit my save file?
  Yes! No changes have been made to the save file structure that would break compatibility.
  However, trying to edit items will result in automatically deleting key items that are not obtainable in vanilla. You can prevent this by opening PKHeX in PKHaX mode (see this article for more information).

• Help, I lost important items (due to PKHeX, game crashes, ...)!
  Just open the game and connect to the server again. Important items such as key items, badges, etc. will get automatically re-added if collected but missing in your save file.

• How do I get past this roadblock? I did all the story events...
  A lot of story-based roadblocks had to be changed to make this game viable for AP. Check the rom changes page (see list of links above) for a list of all custom roadblocks.

• I want to contribute to development, how can I do that?
  First of all, propose your ideas/changes/... in the game's channel, so we can talk about things beforehand.
  The fork of this implementation is found at https://github.com/SparkyDaDoggo/Archipelago/tree/main.
  IMPORTANT: Ping me (@blastslimey) on Discord whenever you open a PR, since I don't get any notification from GitHub for this repository.

• This game info page looks quite different compared to those of other games...
  This game has not been merged into main yet, and people tend to get confused by "not working" option pages (which will only work once merged into main).
  Once this game does get merged into main, this info page and the setup page will be changed to the default structure.

• Did I format this option correctly? I haven't seen this before...
  You probably encountered one of the list options. These practically combine multiple True/False toggles into one option. There are two ways to format them:

    randomize_wild_pokemon:
      ["Randomize", "Similar base stats"]
  

    randomize_wild_pokemon:
      - "Randomize"
      - "Similar base stats"
  

  You can optionally omit the parentheses ("), but this might not work with modifiers that have special characters in their name (e.g. the ' in N's Castle).

• There was a critical bug in the game. Can this be fixed after generating?
  Yes! Whenever a new update with changes on the rom side releases, just update your apworld and run the same patch file again. The rom will then automatically get updated as well.