CaptureSight

CaptureSight is a Nintendo Switch homebrew to view Pokemon Sword and Shield data while playing Sword and Shield. CaptureSight comes as both an overlay and an applet.

Features:

• View Pokemon species, attacks, IVs, type matches, etc. for
  • Wild Pokemon
  • In-Trade Pokemon
  • Raid Pokemon
  • Party Pokemon
  • Box Pokemon
• View all active dens
  • Current seed for Raid RNG
  • The number of advances until a Shiny Pokemon
  • Species of a den
  • Shiny type of a den (star or square)
  • Stars of a den
• Find the raid seed that created a Pokemon
  • Join a trade or raid with a person who doesn't have custom firmware and use CaptureSight to get their raid seed
• Since CaptureSight can show the next shiny frame, upcoming IVs, and seed that created a Pokemon, no external tools are needed for Raid RNG
  • With raid and trade views, anyone without custom firmware only needs to know someone with custom firmware to do Raid RNG
• The Applet has translations for multiple langues based on the Switch language setting
  • English
  • French
  • Italian
  • Spanish
  • Chinese
  • Partial support for:
    • German

How do I use CaptureSight?

To use the applet:

1. Download the latest CaptureSight-Applet.zip
2. Unzip the archive to get CaptureSight.nro
3. Copy CaptureSight.nro to be inside the /switch directory on your switch's SD card
4. Start Pokemon Sword or Shield
5. Open the homebrew menu and launch CaptureSight

To use the overlay:

1. Setup WerWolv's Tesla - https://gbatemp.net/threads/tesla-the-nintendo-switch-overlay-menu.557362/
2. Download the latest CaptureSight-Overlay.zip
3. Unzip the archive to get CaptureSight.ovl
4. Copy CaptureSight.ovl to be inside the /switch/.overlays directory on your switch's SD card
5. Start Pokemon Sword or Shield
6. Press the key combo to open Tesla Menu (L + Dpad Down + R joystick as of this writing)
7. Open CaptureSight with Tesla

Downloading CaptureSight:

Download CaptureSight from the github - https://github.com/zaksabeast/CaptureSight/releases/latest

Two downloads are available for CaptureSight:

• CaptureSight-Applet.zip - This is the applet
• CaptureSight-Overlay.zip - This is the overlay

Building

DevkitPro and libnx will be needed to build this tool.

After installing those, run make.

Optional: To build the raid event flatbuffer headers, install flatc and run flatc --cpp -o libcsight/include/csight/ Resources/NestHoleDistributionEncounter8Archive.fbs for each fbs. Alternatively, use a docker image with flatc, such as neomantra/flatbuffers.

Optional: To build the data files, use flatc -b Resources/EncounterNest8Archive.fbs libcsight/resources/shield-encounters.json for both encounter files.

Flatbuffers are used to:

• Read from the game's memory and parse the data
• Make maintaining easier by using the game's own data structures

Credits

Thanks to the following for helping make this app:

• Switchbrew for their research and libnx which makes it possible to create homebrew
• ReSwitched for their research, Atmosphere and libstratosphere which is invaluable for switch homebrew
• Kaphotics, SciresM, Matt, and all contributors of PKHeX and pkNX for the all the great resources this app uses
• imneme for their cpp xoroshiro gist which is used in CaptureSight
• nlohmann for their c++ JSON library
• natinusala for borealis
• WerWolv for libtesla and EdiZon's isServiceRunning code
• Flagbrew for PKSM which gave guidance for c++ Pokemon code organization
• All translators and the translations they provide
• Leanny, Admiral Fish, wwwwwwzx, Kaphotics, and Vladcik for looking into raid RNG
• Leanny and Kaphotics for the PKHeX Raid Plugin, which CaptureSight borrows raid logic from
• All Pokemon researchers and contributors