well, work still continues on this project. took a break from it to finish up the calc.org tutorials, and now they are done.
I have made some updates to pokemon purple since my last post:
1. removed line by line display of dialogue, since I could not get it to recognize the extra characters for menus
2. added blinking cursor to indicate you need to press a key
3. added a few interior maps for Viridian
4. fixed Route 1 map, had forgotten a bit of grass in a large spot
5. been workin on the "What attack a pokemon learns at what level" lists. 110 complete, 41 remaining.
from there, tm/hm lists, equations, and should be ready to start the random encounter routines and stat generation.