Feature registration

Select and Select Button redirect here. For the glitches involving the Select Button in Pokémon Red, Green, and Blue, see Select glitches.

The Ready Button interface in Generation VI

In all core series Pokémon games since Gold and Silver, players can register (Japanese: 登録 register) and deselect (Japanese: 解除 deselect) certain functionality and/or Key Items to/from the hardware buttons SELECT or Y for use in the overworld without navigating to the menu and selecting the appropriate category.

Starting in Generation V, this function has been referred to as the Ready button (Japanese: 便利ボタン handy button).

Trainer Tips that mention this process can be found on Hoenn Route 113, Sinnoh Route 209, and Unova Route 6.

Registrable features

In Generations II and III, all Key Items can be registered. Starting in Generation IV, only Key Items with a Use option, such as the Bicycle or Dowsing Machine, can be registered. Other items, such as the Card Key or SecretPotion, cannot be registered. In Generation V, most menu entries can be registered as well.

Differences between generations

Generations II–III

One Key Item can be registered to the SELECT Button.

Generation IV

Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum

One Key Item can be registered to the Y Button.

Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver

Up to two Key Items can be registered at a time. The first item registered can be accessed through the Y Button, while both can be accessed on the Touch Screen.

Generation V

The Ready button allows access to registered functions and items using the Y Button. It is managed by adding or removing check marks (Japanese: 四角いマーク square marks) to or from the boxes at the bottom of the Pokémon List, Pokédex, Bag, Trainer Card, or Options by tapping them. Registrable Key Items also have a box next to the item in the Bag that can be toggled by tapping it. Pressing the Y Button on that screen/while the cursor is over the box will also toggle the box in Black 2 and White 2.

If only one function or item is registered, it acts the same as in previous generations and does not bring up the Ready button interface. The button's list is limited to 25^BW/34^B2W2 entries which can be rearranged by pressing SELECT.

In the Help System, the function to remove registration is called "unregister" in English, instead of "deselect" as in the Bag. This is due to the equivalent original Japanese text being (Japanese: 「登録を　解除」), which can be translated as deselect a registration or unregister.

Generation VI

The Ready button allows up to four Key Items to be registered to the Y Button. If more than one item is registered, the D-Pad or Circle Pad can be used to choose one of the items.