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Portable Televisions

You are no longer limited to the couch-potato lifestyle. Take your TV shows with you on the go!

Handheld (pocket) TVs were interesting devices around the 80s and 90s that would capture radio-wave broadcasts for terrestrial television, for you to watch in B/W or color formats. Nowadays, terrestrial television has been replaced with digital broadcasts, and these have been long forgotten, only to be listed on eBay at a cheap price. The TV models added by this mod are lore-friendly in that they were made and popularized before 1993, the year when the game starts.

Currently, you are not able to use any TVs, including these ones, while they are equipped in your hands. Why? Because for a TV to actually connect to a TV channel, it has to be placed somewhere. I have decided it to be a game limitation, due to the way the Java radio/TV classes have been made, and have suffered trying to make a workaround. There were a lot of things that I wanted to accomplish with this mod, but going on this journey has punished me enough to now simply let go and release this in a usable state. It has been quite an experience doing something other than text-editing to get a simple concept to work.
Update: I have revisited this issue and experimented with new approaches. An update for fixing this is still uncertain.

Also includes three add-ons: one that changes the pocket TVs to their real-life counterparts, one that lets you spawn with a pocket TV using a trait, and one that enables them to take VHS tapes (although they really shouldn't).

This mod adds three new items to the procedural distributions:

• "Premium Tech. Pocket TV" - based on the CASIO TV-10
  • lightest at 0.3 weight, rare
• "ValuTech Pocket TV" - based on the Sony FD-10A Watchman
  • midweight at 0.5 weight, most common
• "ValuTech SUPER Pocket TV" (and radio) - based on the Sony FD-510 MEGA Watchman
  • heaviest at 1.0 weight, rare
  • can switch between TV & radio modes using the context menu

The mod also changes all radios and TVs to remain turned on when unequipped or moved. You need to manually turn them off now, and they still need to be in your hands or placed on the ground to work.

• The Big Update: Continue to explore giving TVs functionality while equipped (need to find the correct Java method that will actually do something about it)
  
• New feature: Make the pocket TVs actually appear in your hand when you equip it
  
• Multiplayer: Eventually figure out how to guarantee multiplayer compatibility (I don't even know where to start, they are items ffs)

• Compatible with any mod that adds new TV shows or functionality (although it may have unrealistic results)
  
• Incompatible with Snow is water - Full version: this version of the mod is breaking mods in general, including this one when you right-click on a TV (use the "Rain Barrels only" version)
  
• Incompatible with Basements: when you have this mod enabled, right-clicking on a TV generates a null pointer exception (there is something missing from a table in that mod. I have been able to continue using the TV after the error generates, but others have not)
  
• Multiplayer compatible? (I am receiving conflicting reports, so beware)
  
• Partially save-game compatible (items will spawn in areas you have not visited yet - in office desks, lockers, and other places for electronics)

If you would like to have your language included, please create your own translations and provide them to me below. Thank you!
This currently supports 汉字 (CN), Deutsch (DE), English (EN), Español (ES), Polski (PL), Português brasileiro (PTBR), Русский (RU), and Türkçe (TR).

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UdderlyEvelyn - showed me where to start my journey.
albion - saved my life multiple times.
Nippytime - was there for me when I hit rock bottom.
Reifel - helped me figure out how to start adding mobile TV functionality while equipped.
the Project Zomboid Discord server - everyone is very kind & helpful and I am grateful for their support.
Panopticon - created the mod logic, code, & initial idea.
Dante271 - created the pocket TV models.
如果你说愿意 (CN), SirJas0n (DE), Dante271 (ES), Paffcio (PL), Corsa (PTBR), KAMAKİRİ (TR)

Exp Recovery for Skill Books - take full control of your skill progression, along with this TV mod, to have more freedom in enjoying the game without the grind.
Car Multimedia Player - gives the vehicle radios complete TV and radio functionality, with CDs and VHS tapes as well. A great complement or alternative to this mod.
Radio Frequency Manager - use this to automatically put radio station presets on your SUPER Pocket TV for when you swap to the radio mode.



Workshop ID: 2932823902
Mod ID: PocketTV
Mod ID: PocketTVReal
Mod ID: PocketTVTrait
Mod ID: PocketTVVCR