The POL Map Editor (the Clefairy icon on the desktop) is a working, in-browser recreation of a real 2001 tool: the Pokemon Online (POL) Map Editor, "Release 1," dated May 12 2001, by Konidias (alias B-Quest). POL was a fan-made Pokemon MMORPG on Bulbagarden; staff and players used this Multimedia Fusion 1.5 program to design the game's tile-based maps and send them in as .bmp files.
The recreation behaves like the original: the big green grass field, two stacked tile lists paged by the "Outside 1 / Inside 1" dropdown, the Style row for multi-color tiles, a live tile that follows your cursor, grid toggle, tile spacing, hotkeys, a map comment, and Save. The original download (mapeditor.exe) is preserved separately in the Downloads folder — this is the rebuilt web version.
HOW IT WAS REBUILT
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It is a clean-room reimplementation, not an emulator. Instead of running the old .exe, the real assets and behavior were reverse-engineered out of it:
• The menu bar (File / Options / Other / Help and every sub-item) was read live from the running program with the Windows API (GetMenu), so it matches the original exactly — including items that were unfinished in 2001, left disabled here.
• The About box, the window icon, and the readme were pulled straight from the executable.
• The 178 tile graphics were captured by automating the real program: selecting each tile in its actual list boxes and screenshotting the map, then isolating each sprite by comparing successive frames so no neighboring tile bled in.
• The result was rebuilt as an Angular canvas app on the Doors 98 desktop.
Original tool at archive.orgOpen the recreation