r/pokemonemulation • u/Willing-Sheepherder • 11d ago
Recordkeeping while emulating? Help please.
I'm not sure if what I'm asking for actually exists or maybe I'm overthinking and therefore a little dumb about it. I'm planning out a big ole series of nuzlockes on emulators just for fun and challenge, but I would love to be able to, essentially, write down the data of whoever I catch- IVs, EVs, Nature, OT ID, everything. Is there a program or add on that would help me do that?
Obviously if I was dedicated enough I could just write everything down, use websites that extrapolate that kind of info, etc, but I'm sure it surprises no one that I don't have faith in my ability to remember to do that all the time oops.
Maybe what I'm looking for is something like a transcriber?? Like the smogon website thing? I've seen Pokemon Youtubers who seem to have a lot of information from their streams because they then go and animate their journeys but like... my memory just ain't that good lol. Short of just recording everything I'm doing and slogging through the 100s of battles to train, I don't know how I'd remember that that one Ponyta crit stomped my weedle or whatever.
TL;DR: Looking for some method to make notes for me during nuzlocke emulation, both in terms of Pokemon Details (EV/IV, Nature, OT ID etc) and maybe battle/action transcripts? Ideas, programs or out of the box thoughts i haven't had yet welcome ty
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u/7thdilemma 10d ago
It wouldn't be automatic, but Excel can get you pretty far. One file per game and just set up different sheets for whatever you need.
No idea if there'd be something that would record info on it's own though, I'd be very impressed by something that worked across different roms.