Mingo needs a specific game build to read dialogue.
Build it from our pokeemerald-expansion fork
(branch mingo-beacon) — a free, open-source Chinese localization of Pokémon Emerald.
Other ROMs (US Emerald, other Chinese translations) will play, but the dialogue
panel will stay stuck at “Waiting for dialogue…”.
Your ROM stays on this device; nothing is uploaded.
Keyboard: ↑↓←→ move · Z A · X B · Enter Start ·
Space replay audio · P pinyin
⛶ Big screen
🎮 On-screen pad
↻ Refresh scanner
🔊 Game sound
⏸ Pause
⬇ Backup save
⬆ Load save
Live dialogue
📌 pinned
Waiting for dialogue…
Talk to an NPC or enter a battle. Chinese text will appear here —
colored by tone, with pinyin above. Click any word for its meaning.
👆 Click a word above to see its pinyin, meaning, and hear it spoken.
★ Saved words 0
🕘 History 0
Lines you've encountered this session.
Developer console
Spike tests
Save persistence
Save persistence not yet initialized.
In-game saves persist in IndexedDB and survive a hard refresh.
Live scan meta
Console relay
欢迎 · Welcome
Play Pokémon in Chinese and pick up the language as you go.
Talk to an NPC or enter a battle — dialogue shows up here with pinyin and tone colors.
Click any word to see its meaning, hear it spoken, and ☆ save it.
Drill your saved words anytime with 🎴 Review, or export them to Anki.
Heads-up: dialogue capture needs our specific game build — get it from
our pokeemerald-expansion fork
(branch mingo-beacon). Other ROMs play, but the dialogue panel stays empty.
Public testing — bugs and weirdness expected. Say hi or report stuff:
Discord.