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, 30 March 2017This could potentially go runaway very easily... But let's try making a place for detailing where the character encoding is used (esp if it's not on another page already). These indices are iffy tho..
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| 0x5F || colspan=2 | Prints a period (0xE8) and simultaneously functions as a string terminator. ''(Only used in Japanese Pokédex entries.)'' | | 0x5F || colspan=2 | Prints a period (0xE8) and simultaneously functions as a string terminator. ''(Only used in Japanese Pokédex entries.)'' | ||
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==Uses== | |||
Strings using this character encoding are found in various places, including the [[Save data structure in Generation II|save data structure]] in RAM and the [[Trainer data structure in Generation II|Trainer data structure]] and the below examples in ROM. | |||
===Species names=== | |||
The names of all the Pokémon are stored in a simple list of 256 strings. In international versions, each entry is 10 bytes, while in Japanese versions, they are 5 bytes. If a name takes less than its full allotted length, it is terminated by <code>0x50</code>. The first name is Bulbasaur (index number 1), and the last (256th) name is that of the glitch Pokémon [[Five question marks#Hex 00|????? at index 0]]. | |||
These names are used for a variety of things, such as naming wild Pokémon and diplaying the species name in the Pokédex and on summary screens. | |||
The following are ROM offsets for the first name (Bulbasaur) in each game: | |||
{| class="roundy" style="text-align: center; background: #C0C0FF; border: 3px solid blue; margin-bottom: 10px" | |||
! Game || English || Japanese | |||
|- style="background:#F8F8FF" | |||
| '''{{color2|{{gold color}}|Pokémon Gold and Silver Versions|Gold}}''' | |||
| <code>0x1B0B74</code> | |||
| <code>0x053A09</code> | |||
|- style="background:#F8F8FF" | |||
| '''{{color2|{{silver color}}|Pokémon Gold and Silver Versions|Silver}}''' | |||
| <code>0x1B0B74</code> | |||
| <code>0x053A09</code> | |||
|- style="background:#F8F8FF" | |||
| '''{{color2|{{crystal color}}|Pokémon Crystal Version|Crystal}}''' | |||
| <code>0x053384</code> | |||
| <code>0x05341A</code> | |||
|} | |||
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