Controls at a Glance

All of this works on existing saves. The full description of each feature, with screenshots, is on the Features page.

In the field

Button	What happens
`R`	Opens the DexNav: every wild Pokémon on the map you are standing on. `A` on a species starts a search, `B` closes.
`L`	Offers a Repel: “Use the Max Repel?”, falling back to Super Repel, then Repel. Silent while one is active or when you carry none.
`SELECT`	Opens the key-item ring around you: press `▲` `▶` `▼` `◀` to use the item in that box, `A` for the PC, `B` or `SELECT` to close.
`B` held	Run, or walk if Auto Run is on. While surfing: go twice as fast (or slow down, with Auto Run on).
`START`	The usual menu, with a DexNav entry. `R` inside the menu opens the Quest Log.

DexNav, Unbound style

SELECT: key items as a ring

L: quick repel

In the Bag

Button	What happens
`START`	Sorts the current pocket. Each press cycles type → name → amount; the description box says which.
`SELECT`	Moves an item (unchanged from the hack).
`◀` `▶`	Switch pockets. The hack uses the D-pad here, not L and R.
Register	In the Key Items pocket it works on up to four items; each one takes a place on the SELECT ring.

In battle

Where	Button	What happens
Wild battle, action menu	`R` tap	Throws the first ball in your Poké Balls pocket without opening the Bag.
Wild battle, action menu	`R` hold	Shows the ball and how many you have. While holding, `◀` `▶` picks another ball.
Move list	—	The highlighted move’s damage multiplier against the target shows in front of the PP count.
Move list	`L` hold	A panel slides in with the highlighted move’s exact Power and Accuracy, Physical / Special / Status, contact, Priority and the chance of its extra effect. Let go and it slides away.

Quick throw is off in trainer, Safari, double, link and Battle Frontier battles, when you have no balls, and when both party and PC are full.

In menus

Where	How	What happens
Party menu	Moves	Opens the Move Relearner for that Pokémon. No Heart Scale needed.
Party menu, in a dark cave	Flash	Lights the cave if you own HM05 and the badge, even if nobody knows Flash.
START → Option	Text Speed	A fourth setting, Instant: each page of text appears at once.
START → Option	Auto Run	Run without holding `B`. Replaces Button Mode.
START → Option	Exp. Gain	Off stops every Pokémon gaining experience, for level caps and challenge runs. This is the row that used to be labelled Sound.
START → Option	Day/Night	Off keeps the daytime colours at any hour. The clock keeps running.
Naming screen	`SELECT`	Switches between the UPPER, lower and others pages of the English keyboard.
Key Items	Journal	Tells you the next story objective and opens the Quest Log.
Key Items	Sinnoh Map	A map of Sinnoh (or Hisui) with a free cursor; `A` flies to a town you have visited.
Bag	Exp. Share	Use it to switch the Exp. Share off and on.

Field moves without the Pokémon

Own the HM and the badge, and Cut, Strength, Rock Smash, Surf, Waterfall and Dive work straight from the tree, boulder, rock or water, even when nobody in your party can learn the move. Your first Pokémon that is not an Egg does it. A Pokémon that can learn the move is still picked first, and Rock Climb is unchanged.