The Pokémon community keep creating incredible new applications, games and ROM hacks recently, but this one could be up there with one of the most helpful releases of the year, all thanks to the Android nature of the application alongside the fact that it can save all of your Pokémon across many games, ROM hacks and more.
PKForge, which is basically a free, open-source Pokémon save editor and Bank for Android, built for handhelds like the AYN Thor, just got a huge new 3.0 update that completely changes the application. Put simply, it's an application that automatically reads all of your Pokemon saves, allowing you to bank all of your Pokemon in one area, to then be able to transfer them to any other game you want, allowing a seamless interaction between all of your games and saves in one hub, creating a "living dex".
You can evolve Pokemon PKForge, you can alter their legalities for those that create odd Pokemon that can't be recognised in-game, there's over 4,000 mystery gifts to use, you can bulk edit Pokémon, edit their names, forms, moves, levels and more, all in one place. If you have multiple ROM hacks and save files on your Android device, it will automatically read them and organise your Pokémon for you too.
Main Features In 3.0
- Manage your Pokémon. Open any save from a linked emulator or a single file and take full control of your team and boxes. Edit stats, IVs, EVs, moves, nature, ability, held item, Met/Origin, Tera type, Hyper Training, shininess, friendship, Pokérus, and more, with a live legality check as you go.
- One-tap legalize. The Auto Legality Mod is compiled in-process, so legalizing a Pokémon works fully offline, on device.
- Move Pokémon between games. Grab a Pokémon from one save and drop it into another, across generations, from a Gen 3 cartridge to a Gen 9 one. PKForge handles the transfer smoothly, so your team can travel with you from game to game.
- A Bank like Pokémon Home. Store your whole collection in a cross-game Bank with unlimited themed boxes. Organize with the gamepad, keep living dexes, and pull anything back out into any save whenever you need it.
- Track your collection. The Living Dex tracker follows all 1025 Pokémon across every generation, including shiny variants, so you always know what you still need.
- Browse and inject events. The full Mystery Gift database is bundled and works offline. Browse Wonder Cards from old distributions and inject them straight into your save.
- Edit the bag. The bag editor handles any pouch, any item, any quantity, with presets and one-tap refills.
- Edit the trainer. Change your name, IDs, money, and gender on the trainer card, and manage trainer profiles and records.
- RNG tools. Inspect PID, IVs, and nature, and reroll a nature while keeping shininess.
- Batch edit. The organizer handles multi-select operations: copy, move, duplicate, delete, release, and send to the Bank or Poképark in bulk.
- Breed and hatch. The egg factory and Day Care / Nursery tools generate eggs and hatch Pokémon, including one egg of every species.
- Complete the Pokédex. Mark everything seen, generate a living dex, and track what is missing.
- Play with your Pokémon. The Poképark is a living habitat where your Pokémon wander while you're away. The Nuzlocke report tracks first encounters and dupes per route, and the encounter browser shows every way to catch a species in each game.
- Share your teams. Import and export Showdown sets, and generate QR codes to move a set between devices.
- Game-specific editors. Grand Underground, Poké Beans, Fashion, and more, tailored to each game.
- Keep your saves safe. Every write follows validate, backup, then atomic write, and restore points capture every change exactly, so nothing is ever lost.
- Dual-Screen Support — So that it works with the likes of the AYN Thor, RG DS and Retroid Pocket Duo line of devices.
- Max out your bag — Add whatever items you want to your bag to increase and modify your current gaming experience.
This is quickly going to become a mandatory application for those who want to take their Pokémon everywhere across their Android handhelds. It works with over 40 Pokémon games, 5 ROM hacks and 11 different emulators. We all have our ROMs of our cartridge, all while exploring new fan games and Pokémon ROM hacks that can help with building our ultimate living dex, automatically and seamlessly. It can be downloaded for free via GitHub, today. Always be wary of downloading from GitHub and do your own due diligence. We are also unaware if AI has been used in the development of this app, we are awaiting a response from the developers and will update this article when we hear back.
Supported Games
- Generation I: Red, Blue, Green (JP), Yellow
- Generation II: Gold, Silver, Crystal
- Generation III: Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, FireRed, LeafGreen, Pokémon Box: Ruby & Sapphire, Colosseum, XD: Gale of Darkness
- Generation IV: Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, HeartGold, SoulSilver
- Generation V: Black, White, Black 2, White 2
- Generation VI: X, Y, Omega Ruby, Alpha Sapphire
- Generation VII: Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun, Ultra Moon, Let's Go Pikachu, Let's Go Eevee
- Generation VIII: Sword, Shield, Brilliant Diamond, Shining Pearl, Legends: Arceus
- Generation IX: Scarlet, Violet
- Romhacks: Pokémon Unbound, Radical Red, GS Chronicles, Luminescent Platinum, Pokémon Compass
Supported Emulators
- Game Boy / Game Boy Color: RetroArch, Linkboy, Pizza Boy C
- Game Boy Advance: RetroArch, Linkboy, Pizza Boy A
- Nintendo DS: melonDS, DraStic, RetroArch
- GameCube: Dolphin
- Nintendo 3DS: Azahar, Lime3DS, Citra MMJ
- Nintendo Switch: Eden
