[Question] Is this project still maintained?

[route1rodent]

I was wondering if this project is still maintained or not, or is going to be discontinued or going to stop being supported?

Why am I asking this?

• No updates since last year (latest master commit is from more than 6 months ago)
• A lot of stale branches (well, all of them).
• Issues not being answered by the owner and/or "official" project maintainers.
• Pull Requests not being answered / merged. Some of them from years ago.
• No apparent interest about bringing Gen 7 data

[eevee]

It is, just, very slowly. Only a couple people are still working on it, and we all have a lot of other stuff going on. Whenever I dedicate time to it I focus on gen 7, since that's the most immediately important, so anything else is on hold and there won't appear to be much progress until gen 7 is done.

[route1rodent]

Ok thanks for the quick answer @eevee , how do you plan to import the Gen 7 data, manually? I am currently putting some effort there, trying to import the existing Showdown data. Or do you have a better way/tool in mind to automate it, at least to have initial basic data?

[eevee]

Automatically and directly from the ROM. Everything we have at the moment was ripped by a lot of one-off scripts that are scattered all over the place and mostly lost. I've been working on writing something that's 100% repeatable and requires no manual intervention. It should make future games much faster to dump, but it's proving to be a bit of a slog to finish.

[route1rodent]

Oh cool, good to know ;)

[tills13]

I hate to ask this because I hate when I'm asked this, but is there an ETA for gen 7?

[eevee]

The last four ETAs I gave were many months ago now, so, no :)

[route1rodent]

@eevee Do you need help? I would like to contribute but I don't know what tools you use for data mining the ROMs, any recommendation / suggestion? I would like to know what's necessary in order to get the data from the games.

[endrift]

Most of the data is in numbered GARC files that you need to dump from the romfs. You can obtain the romfs using something like braindump or get the whole image using Decrypt9. Then IIRC ctrtool will let you grab the romfs from the .3ds (the output of Decrypt9), and I think it can also extract the romfs. The GARC files have been indexed on some sites already, although I don't know where offhand. If you search for "Pokemon Sun Moon GARC index" you might be able to find some info or tools.

[eevee]

The work I've been doing so far is on the yaml branch, if you want to take a look. It's definitely a bit, uh, fiddly.

[route1rodent]

Thanks for the suggestions, @endrift I will try to get familiar with the code and the GARC world, so I may be able to contribute @eevee

Closing this thread.

[eevee]

So I just realized that my current YAML-dumping code relies on local changes to camel that don't exist anywhere but on my computer? Whoops. I should probably fix that.

On the other hand, I've directed several people to that branch before and no one's ever noticed... hmm. :)

[route1rodent]

I noticed that today, I didn't find t hem so I was trying to guess how were you generating them from the code LOL