Trainer card

The CARD tab shows your trainer card without opening the START menu: your name, ID number, money, Pokédex count, play time and badges on the front, and the records the game keeps on the back. It updates while you play, so the play time ticks along and the colon between hours and minutes blinks, as it does in the game.

It isn't a lookalike. The card is rebuilt from your own ROM's graphics, with the game's layout, fonts, colours and trainer picture, and it matches the game's own card pixel for pixel. Your card's colour follows the stars you've earned, the same as in the game.

#Opening the CARD tab

CARD isn't in the tab bar by default. You can open it two ways:

• From MORE: tap MORE, left of the gear. The tabs that aren't in the tab bar are there as app icons. Tap CARD.

• Put it in the tab bar: open SETTINGS > TAB BAR and set CARD to SHOWN. The bar holds up to five tabs next to the gear, so you may need to hide another one first.

See The companion for more on the tab bar.

#Flipping it over

Tap the card to flip it. It folds shut and opens on the other side, like the game's own flip animation. The line under the card says which way the next tap goes (TAP TO FLIP THE CARD on the front, TAP TO SEE THE FRONT on the back).

The back has the extra records the game keeps for you, like your Hall of Fame debut, link battles and trades. What's there depends on the game, the same as on the real card.

The card is drawn at the largest whole size that fits the screen, so the pixels stay sharp.

#Games with a trainer card

Other games don't have a CARD tab yet, including Ruby, Sapphire and the other-language versions of the original games. Many hacks draw their trainer card in a way of their own that hasn't been mapped.