PokéFinder

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This will be a RNG Tool for all main Pokémon games generations 3-8. It currently supports generations 3/4 and parts of generation 5/8.

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Latest Official Release

Latest Nightly Build

Features

Gen 3 - Egg - GameCube - IDs - Static - Wild

Gen 4 - Egg - Event - IDs - Static - Wild

Gen 5 - Dream Radar - Egg - Event - Hidden Grotto - IDs - Static - Wild

Gen 8 - Egg - Event - IDs - Raid - Static - Underground - Wild

Supported Platforms

Windows - Windows 10 - Windows 11

MacOS - MacOS Sonoma - MacOS Sequoia - MacOS Tahoe

Linux - Ubuntu 22.04 - Ubuntu 24.04

Qt - 6.10 or newer

Installing

Windows - Install the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable - Download the win zip folder from the releases page - Extract PokéFinder from the zip folder

MacOS - Download the macos zip folder from the releases page - Extract PokéFinder from the zip folder

Linux - Install Qt 6 - Qt website - sudo apt install qt6-base-dev - Download the linux zip folder from the releases page - Extract PokéFinder from the zip folder

Building

Windows - Install the dependencies - Qt 6 - Build tools for Visual Studio - Python 3.14 - Build - git submodule update - mkdir build - cd build - cmake -G"NMake Makefiles" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RELEASE ../ - cmake --build . - Bundle - mk PokeFinder-windows - move release\PokeFinder.exe PokeFinder-windows\PokeFinder.exe - windeployqt --release --no-translations --no-angle --no-plugins --no-opengl-sw PokeFinder.exe - xcopy /I "QTPath"\plugins\platforms\qwindows.dll PokeFinder-windows\platforms\ - xcopy /I "QTPath"\plugins\styles\qwindowsvistastyle.dll PokeFinder-windows\styles\

MacOS - Install the dependencies - Qt 6 (brew or the Qt website) - Python 3.14 - Build - git submodule update - mkdir build - cd build - PATH="PATH=$PATH:$HOME/Qt/6.10/macos/bin" cmake -G"Unix Makefiles" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RELEASE ../ - Replace Qt path/version as necessary - cmake --build . - Bundle - macdeployqt PokeFinder.app -dmg -verbose=2

Linux - Install the dependencies - Qt 6 - Qt website - sudo apt install qt6-base-dev qt6-tools-dev qt6-tools-dev-tools qt6-l10n-tools - Python 3.14 - sudo apt install build-essential libgl1-mesa-dev - Build - git submodule update - mkdir build - cd build - cmake -G"Unix Makefiles" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RELEASE -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=$HOME/Qt/6.10/gcc_64 ../ - Replace Qt path/version as necessary - cmake --build .

Credits (in no particular order)

• Bill Young, Mike Suleski, and Andrew Ringer for RNG Reporter
• chiizu for PPRNG
• wwwwwwzx for 3DSRNG Tool
• The PokemonRNG team for various contributions and research zaksabeast, EzPzstreamz, Shiny_Sylveon, Vlad, Real96
• Other great people for various help and research (OmegaDonut, Bond697, Kaphotics, SciresM, Zari, amab, Marin, Lean, etc)
• Sans for initial GUI design