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Don't gain experience at level 100
At level 100, Pokémon can't usefully gain experience. But until Gen 5, they did so anyway, taking a share from other battle participants who would actually benefit (and wasting time with messages about their gains).
This tutorial shows how to disable experience gain at level 100. It does not affect stat experience (the Gen 1 and 2 precursor to EVs), so you can still use the box trick to raise stats at level 100.
Anyway, just edit one file, engine/battle/core.asm:
GiveExperiencePoints:
; Give experience.
; Don't give experience if linked or in the Battle Tower.
ld a, [wLinkMode]
and a
ret nz
ld a, [wInBattleTowerBattle]
bit 0, a
ret nz
call .EvenlyDivideExpAmongParticipants
xor a
ld [wCurPartyMon], a
ld bc, wPartyMon1Species
.loop
ld hl, MON_HP
add hl, bc
ld a, [hli]
or [hl]
jp z, .skip_stats ; fainted
...
.stat_exp_awarded
inc de
inc de
dec c
jr nz, .stat_exp_loop
+ pop bc
+ ld hl, MON_LEVEL
+ add hl, bc
+ ld a, [hl]
+ cp MAX_LEVEL
+ jp nc, .next_mon
+ push bc
xor a
ldh [hMultiplicand + 0], a
ldh [hMultiplicand + 1], a
ld a, [wEnemyMonBaseExp]
ldh [hMultiplicand + 2], a
ld a, [wEnemyMonLevel]
ldh [hMultiplier], a
call Multiply
ld a, 7
ldh [hDivisor], a
ld b, 4
call Divide
...
.next_mon
ld a, [wPartyCount]
ld b, a
ld a, [wCurPartyMon]
inc a
cp b
jr z, .done
ld [wCurPartyMon], a
ld a, MON_SPECIES
call GetPartyParamLocation
ld b, h
ld c, l
jp .loop
.done
jp ResetBattleParticipants
.EvenlyDivideExpAmongParticipants:
; count number of battle participants
ld a, [wBattleParticipantsNotFainted]
ld b, a
ld c, PARTY_LENGTH
ld d, 0
.count_loop
+ push bc
+ push de
+ ld a, [wPartyCount]
+ cp c
+ jr c, .no_mon
+ ld a, c
+ dec a
+ ld hl, wPartyMon1Level
+ call GetPartyLocation
+ ld a, [hl]
+.no_mon
+ cp MAX_LEVEL
+ pop de
+ pop bc
+ jr nz, .gains_exp
+ srl b
+ ld a, d
+ jr .no_exp
+.gains_exp
xor a
srl b
adc d
ld d, a
+.no_exp
dec c
jr nz, .count_loop
cp 2
ret c
The first edit there skips experience gain for level 100 Pokémon. The second edit skips counting those Pokémon toward the divisor, just as if they were fainted, so all the experience points will be evenly divided among participants that can actually benefit.
(If you're studying how it works, notice that the logic around jr c, .no_mon
relies on PARTY_LENGTH
< MAX_LEVEL
, i.e. 6 < 100. This is a safe assumption that allows for more efficient code.)