A Lua script for the Bizhawk/mGBA emulator compatible with Pokemon Fire Red, Leaf Green, Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald that tracks relevant data for the IronMon challenge.
A big ol' cleanup of the big pile of mess that is GameSettings.lua
The GitHub changes comparison below may be hard to read, might be easier viewing the new resulting file directly here
This should hopefully be a lot simpler and easier to navigate / add new addresses to, but let me know your thoughts.
I've done some brief testing on all currently supported games (i.e. checking it doesn't crash the tracker on load, and playing a tiny bit) and it seems to work fine but definitely want to double-check and do more thorough tests just in case i broke something lol
In the new file, addresses are grouped as such:
EWRAM (0x02) addresses, which were the same between all versions of each game.
IWRAM (0x02) addresses, which were the same between all english versions and all non-english versions of a game but different between english and non-english versions
ROM (0x08) addresses, which were not always the same between versions of a game
BattleScript addresses used for ability tracking (also 0x08 ROM addresses), which are separate for cleaner groupings
I've left a comment in each section detailing the formatting of the addresses, but here's a brief summary:
EWRAM: Split by GameSettings.game index (i.e. RS/Emerald/FRLG)
IWRAM: Split first by GameSettings.game index, then further split between english / non-english (added in a GameSettings.language to help with this alongside loading the localisation data)
ROM & Ability Tracking: Split first by a locally defined gameIndex (which is essentially a split by GameSettings.versioncolor), then by a locally defined versionIndex for each game
The process for adding a new address would simply be navigating to the relevant section for the address type, checking how it is formatted, and adding the new address in the right format to the local addresses table.
A big ol' cleanup of the big pile of mess that is GameSettings.lua The GitHub changes comparison below may be hard to read, might be easier viewing the new resulting file directly here
This should hopefully be a lot simpler and easier to navigate / add new addresses to, but let me know your thoughts. I've done some brief testing on all currently supported games (i.e. checking it doesn't crash the tracker on load, and playing a tiny bit) and it seems to work fine but definitely want to double-check and do more thorough tests just in case i broke something lol
In the new file, addresses are grouped as such:
I've left a comment in each section detailing the formatting of the addresses, but here's a brief summary:
GameSettings.gameindex (i.e. RS/Emerald/FRLG)GameSettings.game index, then further split between english / non-english (added in aGameSettings.languageto help with this alongside loading the localisation data)gameIndex(which is essentially a split byGameSettings.versioncolor), then by a locally definedversionIndexfor each gameThe process for adding a new address would simply be navigating to the relevant section for the address type, checking how it is formatted, and adding the new address in the right format to the local addresses table.