Pokémon Essentials

Pokémon Essentials (also referred to as the Pokémon Starter Kit) is a group of scripts and resources for RPG Maker XP originally created by Flameguru and poccil, now solely developed and maintained by Maruno. Essentials adds functionality to the standard RPG Maker XP engine in order to allow for the creation of Pokémon-style games.

Read more about this resource on the official wiki.

A Quality Update

Essentials v17 was focussed (vaguely, more or less) on making quality of life improvements. Things that make the game easier to play, or look nicer, or easier to develop. This includes the new Ready Menu, which is a much improved version of registering an item that can register multiple items at once and show moves you can use in the field; the option to choose whether you want to input text via cursor or direct typing; various improvements to Debug options; the addition of the "pokemonforms.txt" PBS file; and support for AZERTY and QWERTZ keyboards, not to mention moving the F5 key all the way down to the more easily accessible F. There are plenty of other changes I've made that would fit under this heading, but I'll let you read through the change log and find them for yourself!

Yes, But What Does It LOOK Like?

Some long-standing visual quirks have finally been resolved. You can no longer jiggle in and out of a running pose when you're not supposed to (I know, it's a shame), grass rustling no longer happens above your head, and water reflections no longer appear over land. Fishing is much improved too, with several audio and visual cues that tell you when you've hooked a Pokémon. The shading of the world throughout the day is more pleasant to look at. Oh, and the Pokédex looks a whole lot nicer now, as do various other bits of GUI. Some Pokémon storage box wallpapers are unlockable (and locked by default), so maybe you won't see those.

1. Simply download this pack and extract the contents of its archive to a local directory on your machine.
2. Make sure to give full credits whenever using this resource.

Have any issues with or questions about this resource? Take the conversation over to the official Discord Server!

Please credit all the following people for their contributions, when using Pokémon Essentials.

Pokémon Essentials was created by:

• Flameguru
• Poccil (Peter O.)
• Maruno

With contributions from:

• AvatarMonkeyKirby, Luka S.J., Boushy
• MiDas Mike, Brother1440, FL.
• PinkMan, Genzai Kawakami, help-14
• Rataime, IceGod64, SoundSpawn
• Jacob O. Wobbrock, the__end, KitsuneKouta
• Wachunga, Lisa Anthony

and everyone else who helped out

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• Enterbrain