johnson-cooper/pokered-remastered

Pokémon Red Remaster is an in-progress fan project that reimagines the opening portion of the original Pokémon Red game for the Game Boy Advance. It is written in C and built to run on actual GBA hardware using a toolchain called devkitPro. The project is experimental and does not include or distribute any copyrighted game ROMs. The playable slice covers the title and introduction flow, early overworld areas, and the scripted starter selection event in Oak's Lab. Players can move through Pallet Town, Red's House, Route 1, and Oak's Lab, pick one of the three starters, give it a nickname, and face a first-pass turn-based rival battle. Battle presentation includes Pokémon sprites, names, levels, HP bars, and a basic fight menu. Several features are partially implemented or noted as limitations. The party holds only the active starter, the item and inventory system is not yet built, and running from the scripted rival battle is blocked to match trainer battle rules. Wild encounters and escape calculations are not in place. Save and load functions work for current player, map, flag, and options state, using a small checksummed record in GBA SRAM. There is no automated test suite. The repository is organized into source directories for battle logic, game data, engine scripts, graphics rendering, input handling, and world maps. A local reference copy of pokered is kept in a refs folder that is deliberately excluded from the repository, while generated C assets needed for building are tracked. The project supplies a Makefile, a convenience build script, and a linker script for compilation. Building the game requires devkitPro, devkitARM, libgba, and GNU Make, with paths configured for the local installation. The default build produces a GBA ROM file, and optional asset conversion scripts need PowerShell and ffmpeg if regenerated sprites are required. The full README is longer than what was shown.