Pokémon mini

System Information
Official Games
Consoles
Guides
My Games
Translations
Tools
Emulators and Debuggers
To do
Links
So the Pokémon Mini (legaly "mini" but eh..) is a handheld system made by Nintendo with almost entirely proprietary parts, including the CPU, making it what I'm sure was quite a hurdle to reverse.
Someone at some point in time (DaveX, DarkFader, and JustBurn I believe did a lot of it) cracked the majority of how this little bugger works. I don't know much about how to do stuff like that - although I'm aiming to learn - but thanks to them we got what I do know about, the software. DaveX built the MindX assembler, which I haven't used, and DarkFader built pmas (Pika Macro ASsembler); which can be found in tools and on the PokeMe website (along with the MindX assembler).
Anyways thanks to their efforts, Lupin's tutorial, and a little creativity I was able to rap out the code for my first ROM and over time learn a lot more about the system.
I currently only have made one complete game, and it's not as complete as I'd like it to be.

Team PokeMe went to Breakpoint '05 with
this video and their findings on the system before I started deving here. :)
Official Games

There were a total of ten different game releases, in a total of six (I think..) different countries. Not every country had every game though, only Japan had all ten. USA, for instance, only got four. Luckily and intellegently the system is not region protected, although the BIOSes for the system may be different from each country; at least between Japanese and English.
I think there were AU releases, but I'm not sure, so am omitting them.
I know there were Canada releases but I think they're the same as the USA releases, so am omitting them.
I know Europe is a continent, the EU carts were the English language European releases.
Here are the official games:
Pokémon Party mini

Japan - Manual - Box
USA - Manual - Box
Europe - Manual - Box
Pokémon Pinball Mini

Japan - Manual - Box
USA - Manual - Box
Europe - Manual - Box - Same as US ROM
Pokémon Puzzle Collection

Japan - Manual - Box
USA - Manual - Box
Europe - Manual - Box - Same as US ROM
France - Manual - Box
Germany - Manual - Box
Pokémon Puzzle Collection Vol. 2

Japan - Manual - Box
Pokémon Zany Cards

Japan - Manual - Box
USA - Manual - Box
Europe - Manual - Box - Same as US ROM
France - Manual - Box
Germany - Manual - Box
Pokémon Shock Tetris

Japan - Manual - Box
Europe - Manual - Box
Pokémon Race Mini

Japan - Manual - Box
Pokémon Sodateyasan Mini (Pokémon Breeder)

Japan - Manual - Box
Togepi no Dai Bouken (Togepi's Great Adventure)

Japan - Manual - Box
Pichu Bros. Mini

Japan - Manual - Box
Pokémon Channel rips
Snorlax's Lunch Time

It seems there are at least two versions of this.
The one I have only says Lunch Time yet a trailer
on gamestats.com shows it to say
"Snorlax's Lunch Time"
Japan
USA
Europe?

Puzzle Collection Petit
Japan?
USA
Europe?

Slowking's Judge
Japan?
USA
Europe?
Chansey's Dribble
AKA Ricochet Dribble.
I'd really like to know which is the name listed on
Pokemon Channel. :|
Japan
USA
Europe?
Pokémon Pinball Petit
Only Quest mode is enabled.
Title screen still says "mini".
Japan
USA
Europe?
Pikachu's Rocket Start
Japan?
USA
Europe?
Togepi's Great Adventure
Plays only the first world of Togepi's Great Adventure.
Japan
Pichu Bros. Skateboard
Cannot comfirm official name or existence..
Japan
Pichu Bros. MiniGame 2
Cannot comfirm existence.. name is definitely wrong. :)
Japan
Hoppip's Jump Match
Cannot comfirm official name or existence..
Japan
Pokémon Race Petit
Cannot comfirm official name or existence..
Seems all modes but the main race are disabled.
Japan

Race, Togepi, and Pichu Bros. manual scans ripped from
here.

Consoles
US/EU BIOS JP BIOS?

Chikorita Green (Bundle)
Japan - Manual - Box
USA - Manual - Box
Europe - Manual - Box
French?
German?
Wooper Blue (Bundle)
Japan - Manual - Box
USA - Manual - Box
Europe - Manual - Box
French?
German?
Smoochum Purple (Bundle)
Japan - Manual - Box
USA - Manual - Box
Europe - Manual - Box
French?
German?
Chikorita Green (Stand alone)
Japan - Manual - Box
Wooper Blue (Stand alone)
Japan - Manual - Box
Smoochum Purple (Stand alone)
Japan - Manual - Box
Pokémon Channel
Also included in Pokémon Channel
are Gold and Wood versions.
Figured I'd list them for completeness.
Guides

Unnoficial Guide by Pokemon World
USA Edition

UK Edition
My games

As I mentioned before, I can make software for this system; and here it is! Not much to speak of yet. One game and a demo. I've got a book reader in the works kinda, but I gotta rebuild it. :(
Pongémon (Pong clone). Only release because I lost my source code. :(
Pokémon Orange Demo ver0.54 - Messaging system, signs, and teleporting added. In the middle of above hero sprites.

Translations

We're trying to get DarkFader to translate the text of Sodate so we can make an English version of it, as he's the only one of us that knows any Japanese.
Hopefully this will spread to the other four that are not in English, too. :)

Tools


PMAS - PM assembler, my weapon of choice.
RomTool - View ROM information and add or delete a BIOS.
bmp2bin - Convert a bmp to usable data (usually for a background) in a PM ROM, also included is a BATCH file I wrote that converts all bmp files in the directory. Makes it faster.

Emulators/Debuggers

Minimon, latest official release.
Now Minimon is imperfect and the author has dropped out of working on the PM, and it is open source; so I want to fix it so sound works (I believe it's in the timers, so it may just be fixing those) and adding IR support, both as an online thing (connect to an IP running Minimon and accepting IR input) and through a computer's IR port. I currently don't have an IR port, though. :( A man can dream, though, a man can dream.

To do

Have these but need to scan:
Zany Cards manual (English)
Pokémon Party Mini manual (Japanese)
Pokémon Pinball Mini manual (Japanese)
Pokémon Pinball Mini manual (English)
Pokémon Puzzle Collection manual (Japanese)
Pokémon Puzzle Collection 2 manual (Japanese)
Pokémon Shock Tetris manual (Japanese)
Pokémon Breeder manal (Japanese)
Almost all boxes.
UK guide

Make box viewer applet.

Links

The place for Pokemon Mini Development...
and other systems cause they all got bored with the PM >:(