Scenario Main Values

The following table is a work-in-progress list of the scenario main ($SCENARIO_MAIN) values used by the vanilla game. These values help the game know where you are in the story and what events have or have not been triggered. They are also used to determine things that change based on story progression, such as which NPCs spawn in Treasure Town or the dialogue said by the partner if you turn to talk to them in the overworld.

The format used by the game for defining this variable is $SCENARIO_MAIN = scn[1, 0]; where the two numbers in the brackets change depending on story progression.

For scripts that check for specific $SCENARIO_MAIN values using if-statements (such as to determine what dialogue should be played at that point in the story), you will usually see the value mentioned in a format like the following, which is taken from one of the partner's overworld dialogue scripts: if ( scn($SCENARIO_MAIN) >= [26, 5] ) . In this example, the game is checking to see if the current $SCENARIO_MAIN value is greater than or equal to [26, 5] and, if that is indeed the case, then the partner's overworld dialogue will be some variation of "We're so close... There's no way we can give up now, [hero]!"

_{Because some scripts have identical names, the column for the script locations of each $SCENARIO_MAIN value will also include the name of the folder/map they are found in. For example, the $SCENARIO_MAIN value that gets triggered following the Project P cutscene can be triggered by four seprate enter scripts that have identical names (enter01.ssb and enter02.ssb, respectively), so the corresponding map/folder names are also included to help users know which enter scripts to look for.}

Scenario Main (Values)	Game Chapter	Description	Script location of the value	Other notes	Other scripts that mention this value	Debug Menu (that uses this value)
$SCENARIO_MAIN = scn[1, 0];		Immediately BEFORE the personality quiz	Found in unionall.ssb under EVENT_DIVIDE_OPENING ~ line 900	Contained within the larger EVENT_DIVIDE
$SCENARIO_MAIN = scn[2, 0];		Immediately AFTER the personality quiz	Found in unionall.ssb under EVENT_M00A_01 ~ line 2261
$SCENARIO_MAIN = scn[2, 1];			Found in unionall.ssb under EVENT_DIVIDE_FIRST ~ line 967	happylappy writes that this is in a switch case in EVENT_DIVIDE over $SCENARIO_MAIN “Basically, if it’s [X, 0], make it [X, 1]… for these chapters only” (also applies to scn[3, 1];)
$SCENARIO_MAIN = scn[2, 2];	Chapter 1	Partner’s Relic Fragment was just stolen on the beach	D01P11B m01a0208.ssb
$SCENARIO_MAIN = scn[2, 3];	Ch. 1	Pre-fight in Beach Cave	D01P41A m01a0401.ssb
$SCENARIO_MAIN = scn[3, 0];		Visual of the Rainbow Stoneship along with “The Pokémon Company and CHUNSOFT presents” before the game title appears	S11P02C t01p0801.ssb		S02P01A (debug) m00a01a.ssb ~ line 2150	Main 1
$SCENARIO_MAIN = scn[3, 1];	Chapter 2	About to enter Wigglytuff’s Guild for the first time with the partner	G01P01B m02a0101.ssb	This value appears in the script mentioned by the previous cell, EVENT_DIVIDE, the debug script, and also in a switch case in EVENT_DIVIDE_FIRST (exact locations can be found in the next cell) Same note from happylappy as [2, 1] where “Basically, if it’s [X, 0], make it [X, 1]… for these chapters only”	S02P01A (debug) m00a01a.ssb ~ line 1599 & ~ line 393 Found in unionall.ssb EVENT_DIVIDE ~ line 750 Found in unionall.ssb EVENT_DIVIDE_FIRST ~ line 983	(under “Others”) M2 The First Job (under “Dialogue Check”) TALK-M02-01