Show HN: Complete Pokemon gen2 battle simulator in only 32kb

I love Pico-8. This is quite impressive given the constraints you had to deal with. What techniques did you have to use to fit it all?

Oh yeah thanks. I had to do lots of stuff to make it fit: - Run a genetic algorithm to find the best move ordering to save on space. - Sprites are only 1 bit per pixel, with a 3rd color faked with outlining. - Lots of refactoring, code minification, and custom scripts preprocessing the code.

This was a project of about 14 months, and I thought it wouldn't be possible multiple times. But relieved it is finally released :)

Wait, you're the one who made Story of Zeldo! That's one of my favorite pico8 games.

Nice game btw. And congrats on launching it

Haha, thx. That game is so bad though!

Adding the Pokemon call sounds was a nice touch!

The cries are actually just all the packed data (sprites/moves/etc) but with a filter applied. Thanks for playing.