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Nintendo Pokémon Mini

Overview

The Nintendo Pokémon Mini application is an emulator for the Nintendo Pokémon Mini handheld console.

Controls

The emulator supports up to one controller. The keyboard and gamepad mappings are listed in the tables below.

Keyboard

Name
Keys
 Comments
D-pad
A
B
C
Shake
Power The Right Shift Key.
Show Pause Screen

Gamepad

Name
Gamepad
 Comments
D-pad
Move
A
B
C
Shake
Power Not available for Xbox and not recommended for iOS (see alternate)

Press the View (Back) Button.
Power
(Alternate)		  and  Hold down the Right Trigger and click (press down) on the Left Thumbstick.
Show Pause Screen  and  Not available for Xbox and not recommended for iOS (see alternate 3 or 4)

Hold down the Left Trigger and press the Menu (Start) Button.
Show Pause Screen
(Alternate)		  and  Not available for Xbox and not recommended for iOS (see alternate 3 or 4)

Hold down the Left Trigger and press the View (Back) Button.
Show Pause Screen
(Alternate 2)		  and  Not available for Xbox and not recommended for iOS (see alternate 3 or 4)

Hold down the X Button and press the View (Back) Button.
Show Pause Screen
(Alternate 3)		  and  Hold down the Left Trigger and click (press down) on the Left Thumbstick.
Show Pause Screen
(Alternate 4)		  and  Hold down the Left Trigger and click (press down) on the Right Thumbstick.

EEPROM Storage

The Pokémon Mini application supports preserving EEPROM save data between sessions. This state is persisted in the browser's local storage or optionally to cloud-based storage. State information will be persisted whenever the pause screen is displayed (or the game is exited). Therefore, the pause screen should be displayed periodically to ensure the state is properly persisted.

Feed

This section details how Pokémon Mini application instances can be added to feeds.

Type

The type name for the Pokémon Mini application is retro-pokemini.

Note

The alias pokemini also currently maps to this application. In the future, the pokemini alias may be mapped to another Pokémon Mini application (different emulator implementation) if it is determined to be a more appropriate default.

Properties

The table below contains the properties that are specific to the Pokémon Mini application. These properties are specified in the props object of a feed item.

Property Type Required Details
rom URL Yes URL to a Pokémon Mini ROM file (.min) or a zip file containing a ROM file.
zoomLevel Numeric No A numeric value indicating how much the display image should be zoomed in (0-40).

This property is typically used to hide the black borders that are present on some games.

Example

The following is an example of a complete feed that consists of a single Pokémon Mini application instance (type value of pokemini).

{
  "title": "Pokémon Mini Feed",
  "longTitle": "Nintendo Pokémon Mini Example Feed",
  "categories": [
    {
      "title": "Pokémon Mini Games",
      "longTitle": "Nintendo Pokémon Mini Games",
      "items": [
        {
          "title": "My Pokémon Mini Game",
          "type": "pokemini",
          "props": {
            "rom": "https://<host>/my-pokemini-game.min"
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

References

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