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Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team/Main Pokémon Data

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Miscellaneous Data: Main Pokémon Data
Game Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team
Start Address 0x0357B98
End Address 0x035F2D7
# of Entries 424
Entry Length 72 bytes (0x48)
Total Length 30528 bytes (0x7740)
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The entries contain various type of data for dungeon floors.

Entry Structure

Pokémon Species

  • Length: 4 bytes
  • Offset within entry: 0x00-0x03
  • Range of values: Any valid GBA pointer in little-endian form

This is a little-endian GBA pointer to a string for the Pokémon species name.

Pokémon Category

  • Length: 4 bytes
  • Offset within entry: 0x04-0x07
  • Range of values: Any valid GBA pointer in little-endian form

This is a little-endian GBA pointer to a string for the Pokémon category name. (eg: for Bulbasaur is "Seed Pokémon", for Charmander is "Lizard Pokémon", etc.)

Palette For Overworld Sprite

  • Length: 1 byte
  • Offset within entry: 0x08
  • Range of values: 0-12 (0x00-0x0C)

Value indicating which palette is used for the overworld sprite, from sprite palette 0 to 12.

Pokémon Size

  • Length: 1 byte
  • Offset within entry: 0x09
  • Range of values: 1-6 (0x00-0x06)

Value indicating the Pokémon size. This is relative to the total sprite tiles amount. Every graphic tile is 8x8 pixel.

0x01: size 1, up to 16 tiles
0x02: size 2, up to 32 tiles
0x03: size 3, up to 48 tiles
0x04: size 4, up to 64 tiles
0x05: size 5, up to 80 tiles
0x06: size 6, up to 96 tiles

Note that using a value bigger than needed does not cause glitches, but would uselessly waste video memory, and thus Team space.

Movement Speed

  • Length: 4 bytes
  • Offset within entry: 0x12-0x15
  • Range of values: -1 to 4 (0xFFFFFFFF-0x04000000)

This is a little-endian, signed, long int value setting the default Pokémon movement speed modifier, that is the amount of steps that the Pokémon can take in a turn.

0xFFFFFFFF (-1): ÷3 steps
0x00000000 ( 0): ÷2 steps
0x01000000 ( 1):  1 step
0x03000000 ( 2): ×2 steps
0x04000000 ( 3): ×3 steps
0x05000000 ( 4): ×4 steps

Note that if set value differs from 1, there will be displayed relative notice in the Pokémon Status summary.

First Pokémon Type

  • Length: 1 byte
  • Offset within entry: 0x19
  • Range of values: 0-17 (0x00-0x11)
0x00: None
0x01: Normal
0x02: Fire
0x03: Water
0x04: Grass
0x05: Electric
0x06: Ice
0x07: Fighting
0x08: Poison
0x09: Ground
0x0A: Flying
0x0B: Psychic
0x0C: Bug
0x0D: Rock
0x0E: Ghost
0x0F: Dragon
0x10: Dark
0x11: Steel

Note that "None" is an actual type that is not affect by any Move Type effectiveness.

Second Pokémon Type

  • Length: 1 byte
  • Offset within entry: 0x20
  • Range of values: 0-17 (0x00-0x11)

Same as above. Note that if "None" is set, it won't be displayed in the Pokémon Summary.

Walkable Tile Types

  • Length: 1 byte
  • Offset within entry: 0x21
  • Range of values: 0-5 (0x00-0x05)

Sets which floor tiles the Pokémon can walk on.

0x00: Ground
0x01: Ground, Magma, Water
0x02: Ground, Magma, Water, Sky
0x03: Ground, Magma, Water, Sky, Wall; if not the Team Leader, can follow invisible Pokémon
0x04: Ground, Magma; won't get burn from magma even if isn't fire type
0x05: Ground, Water
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