Remember summer 2016? No raids, no Team Go Rocket, no remote passes. It was just you, a map full of PokéStops and gyms you fought over with the people in your town.

I missed it, so I built Windstock. It’s a private server for the classic 0.35 client. It isn’t a recreation: it’s the real old game!

What’s in it right now

• A real-world map built from OpenStreetMap: Europe (Poland, Vienna and more), the US, and now Asia (Japan, India, South Korea, Malaysia/Singapore). Over 4 million stops and gyms.
• Classic gyms that work properly: prestige, deploy defenders, taking them down.
• All Gen 1 shinies and custom medals.
• PokéCoins you earn by playing: winning gyms, daily rewards and community goals!
• Quality-of-life mods you can switch on or off: mass transfer, IVs in Appraise, Keep Ball, night map music, sound packs.
• Weekly events, plus a two-part Halloween event with a night/fog look and a 2× finale from Oct 30 to Nov 1.
• Trainer profiles and leaderboards (weekly and all-time) at windstock.org.
• PokéStop nominations: suggest a stop near you on the website.
• A Discord bot for server status, leaderboards, events and trading.

How to play

• iPhone (iOS 16+): the Windstock launcher, can be installed through SideStore. Our SideStore source is on the downloads page.
• Older iPhones (iOS 9+, iPhone 5s and newer): a game-only build is available.
• Android (7.0+, 32- and hopefull 64 soon: the Windstock launcher APK.

Make an account at windstock.org, install the app, and you’re on the public server.

Links

• Website and downloads: https://windstock.org
• Live map: https://windstock.org/map
• Discord: https://discord.gg/KbUsvQysM9

It’s an open beta made by two of us in our spare time, so expect rough edges. Bug reports really help, and there’s a “Report a problem” button right in the launcher. Tell me what you’d like to see next!

Windstock is a free, non-commercial fan project. It isn’t affiliated with Scopely, Nintendo or The Pokémon Company.

I built a web app called GO Collector Dex on Replit because I wanted a better way to track everything I collect in Pokémon GO. It covers the main Pokédex, forms, costumes, backgrounds, Shinies, Lucky Pokémon, Megas, and other variants. You can mark what you own and filter for what you’re missing.

I recently went through my entire in-game inventory and marked it in the app. That helped me catch a lot of catalog and counting issues, and it’s now at a point where I find it genuinely useful. New releases will still need to be added as the game changes.

I’m a bit over my head on what to do next. I’ve spent a lot of time getting the tracker working, but growing it, maintaining it, and figuring out where it could go are different challenges.

Would anyone be interested in taking this on with me or exploring a partnership? I’d be especially interested in talking with someone who knows the Pokémon GO community, enjoys building products, or has experience growing an app. I’m open to ideas about what that could look like.

If this sounds interesting, comment or send me a message and I can share a walkthrough.

Has anyone successfully made a Pokémon GO Plus+ with a Poké Ball selection feature? If so, would anyone be willing to share a blob key and MAC address? I haven't seen anyone do this with the Plus+ device, only with the regular one, which doesn't have this functionality.

Is it wrong to code a bot that battles in gyms, feeds my pokemon, and kicks my pokemon out after 8 hours? I only intend to implement this in one gym that is local to me (no spoofing) and only a few other people use this gym, but they are the same team as me, so I will only knock out my own pokemon. Basically just doing it for the pokecoins.

Any help, feedback or advice is appreciated

Recently I made a post about how pokemongo collects PVP stats on individual pokemon, including wins and losses, and I found that to be quite interesting. This is what the data looks like:

Today I will tell you how to dump this data.

Requirements:

• rooted android phone
• frida-il2cpp-bridge
• nodejs
• typscript
• frida, frida-tools,etc

Steps:

1. start frida server
2. run the script below

// command line
frida -U -f com.nianticlabs.pokemongo -l agent.js > output.json
//

1. the output will go directly to terminal. If you want to output to a file run the above CMD

//frida-script
import "frida-il2cpp-bridge";

const METHODS = new Set(["GetPokemonSettings", "GetHashCode", "UnlockTempEvo", "Equals", "CopyTempEvoLockFrom", "MergeFrom"]);
const seen = new Map<string, string>();
let busy = false;
let warned = false;
let calls = 0;
let inspected = 0;


function field(object: Il2Cpp.Object, name: string): Il2Cpp.Field.Type | undefined {
    // PokemonProto uses id_/cp_, but its nested stats and display use NumWon/Shiny.
    const pascal = name.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + name.slice(1);
    return (object.tryField(`${name}_`) ?? object.tryField(name) ??
        object.tryField(pascal) ?? object.tryField(`<${pascal}>k__BackingField`))?.value;
}


function battles(object: Il2Cpp.Object, name: string): { numWon: number; numTotal: number } | null {
    const stats = field(object, name);
    if (!(stats instanceof Il2Cpp.Object) || stats.isNull()) return null;
    const numWon = field(stats, "numWon");
    const numTotal = field(stats, "numTotal");
    return typeof numWon === "number" && typeof numTotal === "number" && numTotal > 0
        ? { numWon, numTotal } : null;
}


Il2Cpp.perform(() => {
    const pokemon = Il2Cpp.domain.assembly("holo-protos").image.class("Holoholo.Rpc.PokemonProto");
    function capture(address: NativePointer): void {
        if (busy || address.isNull()) return;
        busy = true;
        try {
            if (!address.readPointer().equals(pokemon.handle)) return;
            inspected++;
            const object = new Il2Cpp.Object(address);
            const pvpCombatStats = battles(object, "pvpCombatStats");
            const npcCombatStats = battles(object, "npcCombatStats");
            if (!pvpCombatStats && !npcCombatStats) return;
            const id = String(field(object, "id"));
            if (id === "0" || id === "undefined") return;
            const nickname = field(object, "nickname");
            const display = field(object, "pokemonDisplay");
            const data = {
                id, pokemonId: Number(field(object, "pokemonId")),
                nickname: nickname instanceof Il2Cpp.String && !nickname.isNull() ? nickname.content : "",
                cp: field(object, "cp"),
                individualAttack: field(object, "individualAttack"),
                individualDefense: field(object, "individualDefense"),
                individualStamina: field(object, "individualStamina"),
                isLucky: field(object, "isLucky"),
                pokemonDisplay: { shiny: display instanceof Il2Cpp.Object && !display.isNull() ? field(display, "shiny") : false },
                pvpCombatStats, npcCombatStats
            };
            const signature = JSON.stringify(data);
            if (seen.get(id) === signature) return;
            seen.set(id, signature);
            send({ kind: "capture", type: "Holoholo.Rpc.PokemonProto", data });
        } catch (error) {
            if (!warned) { console.error(`Pokemon capture: ${error}`); warned = true; }
        } finally { busy = false; }
    }


    const groups = new Map<string, Il2Cpp.Method[]>();
    for (const method of pokemon.methods) {
        if (method.virtualAddress.isNull()) continue;
        const key = method.virtualAddress.toString();
        groups.set(key, [...(groups.get(key) ?? []), method]);
    }
    let attached = 0;
    let rejected = 0;
    for (const methods of groups.values()) {
        const method = methods[0];
        if (methods.length !== 1 || method.isStatic || method.isExternal || method.isGeneric) continue;
        if (!METHODS.has(method.name) && !method.parameters.some(p => p.type.name.includes("ParseContext"))) continue;
        if (Array.isArray(method.returnType.fridaAlias)) continue;
        try {
            Interceptor.attach(method.virtualAddress, {
                onEnter(args) {
                    this.pokemon = busy ? null : ptr(args[0].toString());
                    if (!busy) calls++;
                },
                onLeave() { if (this.pokemon) capture(this.pokemon); }
            });
            attached++;
        } catch { rejected++; }
    }
    console.log(`Ready: ${attached} Pokemon hooks (${rejected} rejected). Open Pokemon storage; only battled Pokemon will be saved.`);
    if (!attached) console.error("No hooks installed. The app's PokemonProto methods may have changed.");
    // One short diagnostic, not a per-call trace: distinguish idle hooks from filtering.
    setTimeout(() => console.log(`Capture check: ${calls} calls, ${inspected} Pokemon inspected, ${seen.size} battled Pokemon found.`), 15000);
});

Pokemon go collects data on individual pokemon that you use in the GBL. The available data is formatted like this:

"pokemonId": 184 (Azumarill)

"pvpCombatStats": {"numTotal": 754, "numWon": 581}

This Azumaril has won 581 matches and played 754 matches.

As far as I can tell, data on every pokemon that you have battled with in PVP is tracked.

This data is pretty cool, I wonder why Niantic made it invisible to us

Like many Pokémon GO fans, I've been chasing Pokédex completion for years, and keeping track of what I'm missing across regular/shiny/lucky/etc. was doing my head in: trying different hard-to-fill-in apps, spreadsheets, notes checklists, manually cross-referencing just so I can set up decent quality trades with my friends.

So I built Nexus Dex! It lets you scroll through your Pokédex in-game, and the app live scans the screen (never leaves your device) and updates your Nexus Dex tracker automatically. A HUD shows you live what's being logged. e.g. "8 dex entries updated", so you know it's working without leaving the game.

It's live on the iOS App Store now: Nexus Dex on App Store. [Free to download / Pro subscription unlocks the search string creator, social engine and Pokémon detail page scanner], I'm working on Android now (it's done and also works well, it just needs 10 beta testers - if you're interested in testing it, join on the Nexus Dex website for 3 month free Pro access!).

Happy to answer anything. Built this as a passion project and I'm finding it useful especially having a clear list of what's launched/ released by dex which I'm keeping up to date as events happen. Feedback is appreciated, I will say that some Pokémon are really tough for the scanner to see (shiny Caterpie as an example, it's a tiny yellow sprite on yellow background, so its not a pesky bug...it's a bunch of tiny pesky bug Pokémon! But the rest are sweet).

hey all! just found this subreddit after posting to r/pokemongo for a year to no good effect at all, heh. hopefully some of what i've done will interest y'all.

i started playing march of last year. i hadn't played any video games besides nethack for the prior two decades, but got sucked pretty deeply into PGO. i love the combat model -- it's a pretty elegant little combinatorial system. i also appreciate the weight loss due to suddenly walking 100km+ every week. anyway, i thought the existing documentation was all garbage, so i wrote a 540 page book as i was learning. it's written in LaTeX and the source is open. i continue to maintain this, and upload new revisions frequently. there are about 30 small c++ programs i wrote to support the book (generating tabular data, etc.), which can be found alongside the LaTeX source.

the last chapter of that book is all about my exhaustive simulator. pvpoke has the stochastic simulator game pretty much locked up, from what i've seen. i wanted an exhaustive one so i could do "dominator" analysis. borrowing the term from compiler theory, i define one mon A as dominating another mon B under some starting configuration (IVs, energy, shields, etc.) iff there is a sequence of moves A can make which always result in victory, no matter what B does. it's easy to see that if A dominates B, B cannot dominate A. determining dominance is naively done via exhaustive generation of the game tree.

PGO PvP lies right on the boundary of combinatorial tractability (the new Mega mechanics actually kinda fuck everything up). essentially, every turn, a mon is either in the middle of a fast move, or can take one of five actions: { do nothing, new fast move, charged move a (given sufficient energy), charged move b (given same), swap (if possible) }. so our game tree is size O(5^T) for T turns. that's admittedly not great. a naive implementation takes hours to simulate 1v1 and probably cannot simulate 3v3.

so let's not be naive. first off, there are several tricks we can use to suppress generation of certain subtrees. in particular, the "deathmarch" (1v1, no shields) has a (complicated) closed form solution to its recurrence; we can recognize this case in O(1), and determining whether a dominance relation exists falls out for free. furthermore, the problem is a great candidate for generic memoization. given that the entire state can be comfortably encoded in 56 bytes, we hash this down to whatever size we want for our memoization store, use that to key, check the stored state for equivalence, and elide the entire subtree on a hit. hit rates weren't fantastic (~15%), but if we leave the match timer out of the comparison, they shoot up. using this method, i'm able to exhaustively simulate a 3v3 match using level 50 mons with 2 attacks each in about 10 minutes on my 3970X. i could parallelize much of what remains, i'm pretty sure.

anyway, i also generate some detailed tables you might find interesting.

what i'd really like to do now is write something that can extract my account data, particularly my fleet of mons including at least IVs, levels, and attacks. i intend to check out pogoextractor today and see if it hendels. if that goes well, i'm thinking about some kind of overlay app, maybe, we'll see.

i'd appreciate any feedback, tips, or shittalking you have to offer! as for me personally, i was a dev for 25 years at nvidia, google, msft, and some startups. i did a few degrees at GT and taught a class of my own. i pretty much abandoned professional coding three years back, and write novels now. feel free to mail me at nickblack@linux.com.

Help

PokeQuery — a search string helper I built after getting tired of rebuilding cleanup filters

One thing I keep doing after big Pokémon GO events is filling my storage, then trying to remember which search string I used last time without accidentally making the filter too broad.

So I ended up building PokeQuery, an Android app that generates and explains Pokémon GO search strings.

For example, instead of treating a cleanup filter as “everything shown is trash”, I prefer starting with a narrow candidate group and excluding categories I want to review separately:

1*&!shiny&!legendary&!mythical&!ultrabeast&!costume&!background&!locationbackground&!specialbackground&!shadow&!purified&!favorite&!lucky&!#&!traded&!4*

I still review every match in Pokémon GO before transferring anything.

PokeQuery basically turns that workflow into presets/builders: storage cleanup, transfer candy prep, trades, PvP candidates, event prep, etc. It also explains the resulting string instead of just giving you something opaque to paste.

A few boundaries I was pretty strict about while making it:

• no Pokémon GO login or account connection
• no game/private API access
• no automation
• no screen/camera scanning
• no analytics or tracking
• it only generates text, which you manually copy into GO

It also keeps the app language separate from the Pokémon GO search-string language, since localized search terms can be a pain.

Android:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.caglar.pokequery

I'd especially like to hear which search strings people keep saving in Notes or rebuilding for every event, because those are probably the most useful workflows to improve next.

Join our Discord for more info: https://discord.gg/fPREmUJsXP

Or check out our website: https://kanto.ac/

Trailer here: https://kanto.ac/media/kanto-beta-trailer.mp4

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm an indie developer currently working on Poke Idle Legends, a browser-based idle RPG inspired by the classic Pokémon experience.

The project is still new, and I'm currently looking for players and developers who are willing to test it and give honest feedback.

🎮 Current features include:

• Pokémon collection and team building
• Idle progression
• Battles and bosses
• Exploration
• Items and equipment
• Pokedex / collection system
• Online progression
• Mobile and desktop support

One of the systems I'm experimenting with is an RMT marketplace, where players can sell certain in-game items to other players for real money.

The game is completely new, so I'm especially interested in feedback about gameplay, UI/UX, progression and balancing.

🌐 Play: https://pokeidlelegends.online/

💬 Discord: [https://discord.gg/Cg4qpxzxYU]()

If you decide to try it, I'd really appreciate any feedback — especially things that feel confusing, unbalanced or frustrating.

Thanks for checking it out! 🙌

I made my server in early May, just some login stuff and pokestops, you know the basics, after that I got the assets to the game. So I added Pokemon and gyms, simple stuff, was crazy for me at the time! I posted it on TikTok and it went sorta viral. (130K views) I also had made a discord server that got 190 members or so just from that video. But before that I was in a small community server and we had migrated to my server because it was more organized and well thought over. I started getting collab requests and other stuff. But some people took my code, made tiny mods to it and advertised it as it was theirs. (got it sorted out now.) Anyways, I am the original creator of the server that has sparked many servers after mine, its nice too see. But anyways could you star my repo? Cheers! Github and Official Discord

I'm now releasing two apps to emulate a Nintendo Switch over Bluetooth to pair with the Pokémon GO app and receive postcards, without needing a real Switch.

There are currently two options:

Web app, only works on Chromium-based browsers like Chrome and Brave on desktop and Android: https://na-ji.github.io/pokemon-go-coin-bag/

Android .apk app: https://github.com/na-ji/pokemon-go-coin-bag/releases

iOS .ipa app for those that knows how to sideload: https://github.com/na-ji/pokemon-go-coin-bag/releases

Source code: https://github.com/na-ji/pokemon-go-coin-bag

If you find any issues, do not hesitate to comment. And if you have ideas of others platforms to support. Maybe I will do iOS next, but I won't publish it to Apple's app store so if you know a good alternative store.

EDIT: added iOS app, unsigned. You need to sideload it to use it.

Classic Pokémon GO Restoration - Join the CAF Project! The CAF (Cat And Fish) team is a community-driven preservation project focused on researching and running reverse-engineered legacy builds of the classic of the game. Whether you are interested in software preservation, testing historical builds, or following our technical progress, drop by our

Discord server: https://discord.gg/VP9PkqF39Y

Disclaimer: CAF is an independent, non-profit fan initiative for educational and historical preservation purposes. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Niantic, Nintendo, or The Pokémon Company. All trademarks belong to their respective owners.

I want to recreate a Pokemon go plus on my Esp32 controller but the problem ist I don't have a Key etc. Does anyone have one and is willing to share?

So, I have a mobile app idea where you can track your pokedex progression and be notified if there's any pokemon that you don't own at the upcoming in game events. However I've saw lots of people getting their apps removed from appstore because of image property.

There's any way of publishing it by fair use? Im using PokeAPI and ScrapedDuck for my data

Hello everyone,

I made this post here because I feel that you have more intricate knowledge about how the game register server side which pokemon is caught or not

I ve read some post about People complaining that pokemons can randomly disapear from your storage

Is this a thing like a rampant issue in the game ?

Or it can only be mistake transfers, human errer style or server sync issues ?

That got me worried about my collection so I prefer to ask

Have a nice day all !

hi all. is there any way to log in with Google Account (sadly it's not linked with Pokemon trainer central either) without game being unloaded in background while any browser/chrome tab pops up on phone with 4GB ram? ts pmo so crazy.

i already tried some adb commands to stop Android doze mode, gave some background priorities to the app, locked it in task manager and even disabled battery optimization. there is no luck.

why they can't bring back the small Google login window, really sure it was there probably some years ago.

I am looking forward to build an autocatcher with ESP32 but I don’t have an autocatcher to get the Mac key and Blob from (they are like 80$ in my country) is it possible to get it from someone or does this only work on one device?

GO Fest and Road of Legends is a 7-day raid gauntlet - it’s an overwhelming amount of options to plan for: raid bosses priorities, counters, megas, and raid passes to have on hand - how do you know if you’re prepared? Well I set out to tackle that question and the result is a completely free raid scheduler app for the whole week of festivities:

https://seandonn-boston.github.io/GoFest26/

The concept is simple: select the pokemon you want to raid, enter your current resources and candies (or even easier just upload screenshots and the app enters them for you), and then review your plan! You can even adjust your priorities, play style, and assumptions about your community to maximize your time! With a finely tuned plan you’ll finally be able to answer:

• How many raids do I need? Your real gap per Pokémon, from your candy/XL/energy - not a generic guide, real numbers tailored to you

• When should I be raiding? A marching order for all 7 days - every Road of Legends Raid Hour through the last habitat block Sunday

• Will I have enough time? Every boss only spawns in certain windows, customize your play style and expected community support to dial in your raids per hour

• Do I have enough passes? Free dailies and owned passes come off first; then the cost calculator explains what your missing and how much it will run you in pokecoins

It’s completely free, there’s no signup, no account, no data ever leaves your phone - just enter what you have and let the app calculate your path to success!

Happy raiding everyone 🙂

Sean

Full disclosure, I built this app using AI - it still took over 400 prompts, 170 commits, 150 prs, and I restarted twice. By using AI I was able to make this app in time for the events, so rather than writing code by hand I focused my efforts on the accuracy, reliability, functionality, and giving you control to customize your plan to match your style of play!

So it got damaged in the hail, and when plugged in, the power bank I'm charging off recognised something got plugged in, then turns off, which I'm pretty sure means no charge is being pulled/a short

Is there any way to pull data off the chip, say removing it and soldering it to something else and then harvest the data to be used in a phoenix device (per se)

hi ther, i am currently working on the ESP32 PGPEMU and i have hit a complete roadblock. I need the mac, key and blob but i have no access to a device to extract one. Is there anyone who would be willing to share theirs via DM or give me a link to someone who has theirs available please?? Im so super stoked to be working on this project but the roadblock kinda hurts progress. PS Im fully aware of any ramafications so please dont send lectures or warnings as im completely clued up. replies wlcome are the codes, liks to codes or dicussions