POL Map Editor
POL Map Editor — a working in-browser recreation of the 2001 Pokemon Online tile map editor by Konidias, rebuilt from the original mapeditor.exe.
POL Map Editor — Pokemon Online (2001)
Pokemon Online (POL) Map Editor, Release 1. Dated 5/12/2001, recovered from the original Bulbagarden.com/pol era. Created by Konidias (contact alias: B-Quest, bquest@usa.net), this tool allowed POL staff and players to design tile-based game maps for the fan-made Pokemon MMO. Maps were saved as .bmp files and submitted to game admins for inclusion in the game world. Includes original tile sets, sample levels, and full readme documentation viewable upon installation. Confirmed working on Windows 11 (2026) with no compatibility layer required. It has also been rebuilt as a working in-browser recreation on the Doors 98 desktop — a clean-room reimplementation whose 178 tile sprites, exact File/Options/Other/Help menu tree, and About dialog were reverse-engineered directly from the original mapeditor.exe.
A working, in-browser recreation of the Pokemon Online (POL) Map Editor — the 2001 Multimedia Fusion 1.5 tile map editor by Konidias (Bulbagarden.com/pol). Clean-room reimplementation on the Doors 98 desktop: the 178 tile sprites, the exact File/Options/Other/Help menu tree, the About dialog, and the window icon were reverse-engineered from the original mapeditor.exe. Place tiles on a grass field using the Outside/Inside tile lists, toggle the 16x16 grid, set tile spacing, assign 1-0 hotkeys, add a map comment, and save your map as a PNG.