Pokémon Essentials was first released in 2007 as an add-on to the RPG Maker XP engine, and contained full tilesets, maps, music and sprites from various 2D Pokémon video games, alongside custom programming that allowed custom Pokémon games to be created with little-to-no programming knowledge. Its shutdown was controversial with fans, and was described as a major blow against the creation of fangames for the series. It was notably used to create a number of Pokémon fangames before being taken offline alongside its Fandom wiki in 2018 following a copyright infringement claim by Nintendo. Pokémon Essentials was a development tool for Pokémon fangames developed by Maruno and released in 2007, functioning as a free add-on for RPG Maker XP. Fangame creation tool Pokémon Essentials Developer(s)
