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🔥 BIG RELEASE: Pokémon Desolation is now FULLY PLAYABLE for blind players! 🔥
I'm releasing the Pokémon Desolation Accessibility Pack — a free mod pack that makes the entire fan game Pokémon Desolation playable start to finish with the NVDA screen reader. No sighted help needed. Not for a demo, not for a few menus — the whole game.
🎮 What's included:
🗣️ Everything speaks. Every menu, every dialogue with speaker names, shops, options, the party, the PC boxes, choices — all of it reads out through NVDA.
⚔️ Fully accessible battles. Every battle message, the command and fight menus, targeting in double battles, and exact damage numbers after every hit. Press K for a quick status of everyone on the field, Q for your whole side in detail, W for the enemy side with their revealed moves, Z to hear any move's full description before you pick it.
📋 The Accessible Summary. Open any Pokémon's menu and hear EVERYTHING: all stats with IVs and EVs, base stats and abilities, every move with its description, nature, held item — plus a full biology description of the species, over 1,000 of them. You can even export your whole team to a text file.
🔊 3D audio beacon. Pick any door, person or item on the map and a real 3D sound (Steam Audio) guides you straight to it. It even pauses itself during battles.
🚶 Pathfinding and auto-walk. Press J and L to browse everything on the map — doors, NPCs, items, signs — and press P to have the game walk you there automatically.
👣 Footstep sounds that tell you the surface — grass, water, sand, caves, bridges — so you always know what you're walking on.
📜 Spoken quest log, fully accessible bag (with "who can learn this TM" on every TM!), and a talking Pokédex.
📥 How to install: you need your own copy of Pokémon Desolation and NVDA running. Download the zip from the link above (Releases section), copy two folders into your game folder, start the game — and it says "Accessibility speech enabled." That's it. Full instructions are on the page and inside the zip.
🙏 Huge credit to Lorenzo (fclorenzo on GitHub) — his accessibility work for Pokémon Reborn is the foundation this pack is built on — and to the Pokémon Reborn team's Blindstep support that inspired the battle features.
It's free, open source, and actively maintained — the latest update (v1.0.2) already includes fixes from the first players' reports. Found a bug? Report it on GitHub and it gets fixed.
Go catch 'em all — by ear. 🎧
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