Polished Cheats

Polished Cheats is a GameShark cheat code auto-generator for the Pokémon Polished Crystal ROM Hack by Sylvie (Rangi42). It scrapes .sym and .asm files in order to provide automatically updated, customizable cheat codes.

Features

• Generate any item
• Encounter any Pokémon
• Change DVs and EVs of a Pokémon
• Includes a Hidden Power Type calculator
• Change Abilities, Nature and Shininess of a Pokémon
• Change Gender, Moveset and Happiness of a Pokémon
• Modify the amount of money of the Player
• Apply status effect to a Pokemon (for Guts, Poison Heal, etc.)
• Set the level of a Pokemon (for Nuzlocke players to fix overlevelled Pokemon)

Tech Stack

• Vue.js (Frontend)
• Express.js (Backend API)
• Tailwind CSS v4 (Utility-First Styling)
• PrimeVue (Accessible Components)

Project Structure

backend/api/

This folder contains the file scrapers that generate formatted data based on Pokémon Polished Crystal ROM files. Each file focuses on a specific type of data extraction.

getAddresses.js

• Extracts memory addresses from .sym files
• Uses pre-defined symbols to choose the desired memory addresses

getItems.js

• Extracts items and their item types (balls, medicines, etc.)

getMoves.js

• Extracts movelist

getNames.js

• Extracts Pokémon names

index.js

• The server for the API. Supports the following endpoints:
  • /api/addresses
  • /api/items
  • /api/moves
  • /api/names

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

Acknowledgements

• Pokémon Polished Crystal by Sylvie (Rangi42) and contributors
• Cammy for setting the technical groundwork in data extraction
• Jaidenlyons for finding most of the pre-defined symbols.
• PrimeVue, Vue.js, VueUse, Express.js, Tailwind CSS