{
  "id": 584047,
  "title": "I built a free, open-source tool that reads your Pokémon team live from mGBA and analyses its type coverage",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/i-built-a-free-open-source-tool-that-reads-your-pokemon-team-live",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-11T16:57:51.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/ringolirob/i-built-a-free-open-source-tool-that-reads-your-pokemon-team-live-from-mgba-and-analyses-its-type-141b"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "An open-source desktop app that reads a Pokémon party out of an emulator's RAM as you play and analyses it. Sharing it because a few of the design problems turned out more interesting than I expected. The emulator script interprets nothing. A Lua script inside mGBA ships raw bytes and a game identity over TCP; all decoding happens on the C# side. Adding an emulator costs a script and zero lines…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}