PokeFinder

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.

Download

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 Sequoia
• macOS Tahoe
• macOS Golden Gate

Linux

• Ubuntu 24.04
• Ubuntu 26.04

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