No problem, I just worked with Lua as part of Love2D in my No Video Jam entry so this topic is fresh in my mind. ☺️

Love uses LuaJit, so I was able to adapt and even slightly extend the Tolk API to add the missing speech functions that weren't initially there, like turning the SAPI support on, interrupting speech and braille output. When I wrote my last message, I was at work and did some very limited searching on my phone, and I was mostly right. However, I was also able to find this which claims to support the regular Lua versions including ones newer than 5.1. I'm not sure whether you need to do anything on your program's side to get this to work or not, but either way I don't think we'll be completely out of luck no matter what ends up happening.

I will gladly help in any way I can. Making Pokemon accessible is a dream come true for me. I am a very nubee when it comes to programming, but have basics in python, I will try if it comes to lua.

It also has some new areas with a new quest involving stuff the access scripts can't read. I had to get help from people on the Discord server to complete it. I can tell people what they need to do for that, as I saved what they told me.

I think, at least for now, I'll provide it upon request, rather than post them here where they could theoretically appear in Google searches and such. Out of respect for the developers, who put a lot of effort into putting this update together and who helped me without questioning me. I didn't even get any of the stupid cliched ones.

In terms of mechanics, crystal clear is probably a lot more faithful than aniversary crystal is. It just gives you the ability to tweak things im your favor, or against, as you desire.

@nuive, what about footstep function on different hacks? Should we get these manually?

Hey, thanks for that. Thumbs up from me.  I've been waiting to update for this reason, and since this release is recent,, this should hold us over for a while so much thanks. I just wonder if there might be a way to tell where footprints are, and the new startup screen for cc is hell in the scripts. Its hard to set things as I want them so I just carried over my old save from 2.0 where I had my character as I want it.

@Jayde: Crystal Clear is much more faithful to the mechanics of the original generation 2 games. There are no new types or moves, no Pokemon or move stats have been changed, level-up moves, TM compatibility etc are the same. There is one feature that lets you teach Pokemon select moves they can't normally learn, but it's pretty isolated and you don't have to use it. A few important trainers have moves from it, but otherwise battling is identical to the original Crystal.

What CC does do is open the world up so you can travel it in any order you like. It also introduces an absolute crap ton of quality of life changes, such as being able to chain encounters to much more easily find max DV or shiny Pokemon, a move tutor providing easy access to generation 1 TM moves that you'd normally have to trade back and forth to get, the ability to buy items that used to be limited like PP Ups, stuff like that. I think you would probably enjoy it more than AC.

@Nuive, I DMed you the instructions for the inaccessible part of the new content. If you're going to be making any updates to the scripts, can you take a look at why they crash when using CC's move reminder? The original Crystal Access scripts work fine there, however inferior they are in other ways.

So I've updated Crystal Clear, and I'm a little bit comfused about the Dex Tracker. Does anyone know how to get it? I know you get that by starting the game from scratch, but I don't want to do that (laziness). Anyway that's just for curiosity.

Has anyone had difficulty in regards to creating a new character in crystal clear? What used to be completely readable is now just blank, only readable with t. This is a problem as once you get to the outfit screen, you're pretty much stuck. I'm going to go attempt to patch my save over, but I'd personally like to restart if possible.

Npcs will treat you differently if you are a girl. At the very least, they will refer to you as such. Sadly customizing your character is broken to us unless someone can figure how to make it work with the scripts.

You need to press shift H and tell it to use crystal-clear as the base folder, with en as the language. That'll fix pathfinder as well as the sprite names.