Menu

The menu (Japanese: メニュー menu) is the main interface in all of the core series Pokémon games that allows the player to access the game's basic features and aspects of their save file, with the entries differing throughout the various games. It is accessed by pressing the START button of the Game Boy-line handheld in Generations I to and by pressing the X button of the Nintendo DS-family or Nintendo 3DS-family handheld in Generation IV and later. In, the menu is always open on the touchscreen.

Starting in Generation VI, an entry's position may be swapped using the stylus. In Generation VII, the menu is expanded to two pages, with several new accessible functions.

In the core series
NOTE: Other entries appear in addition or in place of the standard entries when using a, Safari Zone, Bug-Catching Contest, Union Room, or the Underground.

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series
Outside a dungeon the menu displays the current location, the team's rank, rank points, points to next rank, the day's V-Wave type, Poké, and Gold Bars.

Inside a dungeon the menu displays entire team's names and HP, the leader's, Poké, weather, and play time.

Pressing X in a dungeon at the menu opens up the move list.

Pokémon Rumble World
In Pokémon Rumble World there are two menus; one that is on the touch screen with four buttons with must pressed with the stylus, the second is opened pressing start.

Pokémon Art Academy
Pressing start or select while drawing opens the menu, choosing an image in the album opens up the Image options.

Trivia

 * In the Generation I games, the menu is affected by the darkness of caves (meaning that has not yet been used). This was corrected in the Game Boy Color mode of the Generation II games; in Game Boy and Super Game Boy modes, it behaves like in Generation I and Flash will not make it lighter due to the darkness being dependent on the time-based palette defined in the maps of caves, which are set to use the nighttime palette.
 * In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team when choosing Moves on the menu a red square appears on the tile the leader stands on. However the red square does not disappear when closing the window but does so when closing the menu or opening and closing the Toolbox.

In other languages
Menu Menu メニュー 菜單