Pokémon mini

Infobox CVG system
title = Pokémon Mini


manufacturer = Nintendo
type = Handheld game console
generation = Sixth generation era
lifespan = flagicon|Japan December 14, 2001
flagicon|Europe March 14, 2002

CPU = Nintendo Minx (4 MHz)
media = Pokémon cartridges

The Pokémon Mini is a handheld game console designed and manufactured by Nintendo and based on Satoshi Tajiri's "Pokémon" media franchise. It is officially the smallest cartridge-based system that includes a black-and-white LCD screen, and the smallest integrated gamepad ever created. Other features of the Pokémon mini include an infrared port used to facilitate multiplayer gaming, an internal timer, an accelerometer (shock detector), and a vibrator used to implement force feedback. Some of the Pokémon mini games were included in the GameCube game, Pokémon Channel in a software emulator of the Pokémon mini itself.

List of Pokémon mini games published by Nintendo

*Pokémon Party Mini: A collection of several mini-games, included with Pokémon mini. The mini games include: "Hitmonchan's Boxing", where you shake the system to 'punch'; "Pikachu's Rocket Start", a game where you have to launch off a starting line before another pokémon; "Bellossom's Dance", a DDR-like game; "Chansey's Dribble", kick the ball to the finish line as quickly as possible; "Slowking's Judge", predict if the tennis ball will land in or out of the court; "Sneasel's Fakeout", a Rock, Paper, Scissors-like game for two players; "Battlefield", where two to six players battle for the highest score; and "Celebi's Clock", which is essentially a clock with date, alarm and stopwatch function.
*Pokémon Pinball Mini: A pinball game with several levels where a Diglett or a Pikachu acts as the 'bumping' mechanism.
*Pokémon Puzzle Collection: A collection of different puzzle-games such as: "Shadow Puzzle", where different shapes are put together to make an image of a Pokémon; "Motion Puzzle", a sliding game where an image of a Pokémon has to be unjumbled; "Escape", where one has to move blocks to let a Pokémon out of a maze; and a bonus for completing most of your Minidex is the game "Power On", a 'Pipe Dream'-like game where one has to connect a Pikachu to a light bulb, creating a circuit).
*Pokémon Zany Cards: A Poker-like card game featuring Pokémon-oriented cards.
*Pokémon Shock Tetris: Tetris with Pokémon; Released only in Japan and Europe.
*Pokémon Race: A platform racing competition where the player controls a Pikachu racing against other Pokémon.
*Pokémon Puzzle Collection 2: Similar to the first puzzle collection, but some games are different and there are 80 new puzzles. This was only released in Japan.
*Pokémon Breeder: The player cares for a young Pokémon, such as Mudkip. This was only released in Japan.
*Togepi's Great Adventure: You have to guide Togepi out of a tower, avoiding traps. Another game only released in Japan.
*Pichu Bros. Mini: A collection of several mini-games, similar to "Pokémon Party Mini".
*Snorlax's Lunchtime: This was a bonus game from the Pokémon Channel Gamecube game. It was "ripped" from Pokémon Channel by Team PokéMe (see below). The object is to keep feeding Snorlax until he accidentally tries to eat a Pichu.

"Pokémon Party Mini", "Pokémon Zany Cards", and "Pichu Bros. Mini" were developed by Denyusha. [cite web | date=2005 | author=Denyusha staff | title=Consumer Games | url=http://www.denyu-sha.co.jp/english/product/consume_game.html | work= [http://www.denyu-sha.co.jp/ Denyusha Entertainment Software Company] | accessdate=February 14 | accessyear=2007]

Homebrew development

Various hackers have reverse-engineered the Pokémon mini in order to create tools used in the development of homebrew games for the console.

*Darkfader Team PokéMe were successful in creating reprogrammable flash cartridges for the use of above mentioned homebrew ROM images, as well as dumped commercial ROM images, on the Pokémon mini system itself.

*Darkfader and Team PokéMe were also successful in creating software emulators for the Pokémon mini on PC.

References

External links

* [http://nintendo.co.uk/NOE/en_GB/systems/pokmon_mini_1159.html Official European site]
* [http://www.nintendo.co.jp/nom/0212/07/mini/index.html Official Japanese site]
* [http://pokeme.shizzle.it PokéMe Development Website]
* [http://lupin.shizzle.it Lupin's On-going Weblog about PM and other matters]
* [http://www.darkfader.net/pm DarkFader's Pokémon Mini Development Page]
* [http://www.sublab.net/pokemini/ Pokemon Mini Hardware Reference]
* [http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=541826 Xport site]