Installation Guide

Contents:

1. Download the latest release
   • Notes for Linux Users
2. Load the Ironmon Tracker script
3. Setup the Ironmon Tracker
4. Start Playing!

Step 1: Download the latest release

1. Download the latest Ironmon-Tracker-#.#.#.zip file at the bottom of the latest release page
2. Extract the contents of the .zip file using a program such as 7-zip, or right-click "Extract All" in Windows

   

3. Optional: Move the entire folder somewhere easy to find, such as "My Documents"
   • Note: Avoid keeping the Tracker folder and files inside of a OneDrive folder. This often causes issues and may prevent the Tracker from working.

Notes for Linux Users

1. You will also want to download and install the Franklin Gothic Medium font if you don't have it installed already, otherwise the font size / UI scaling will be all messed up.
2. If the é character in Pokémon doesn't render correctly, you can try the following:
   1. Disable/Remove the tracker script in the Lua Console if it is currently running.
   2. Go to the ironmon_tracker folder within the tracker folder and open Constants.lua in a text editor.
   3. Locate the following section of code in the file:

      Constants.Words = {
          POKEMON = "Pok\233mon",
          POKE = "Pok\233",
      }

   4. Try manually replacing \233 with a direct copy-paste of the é character, save the file and re-load the tracker. See if that renders correctly.
      • If the above doesn't work, feel free to try other variations and see if anything works for you. If nothing works then at the very least you can simply spell it out as "Pokemon" and "Poke", respectively.
      • If you find something that works, let us know so we can add it here to potentially help others!

Step 2: Load the Ironmon Tracker script

1. Open Bizhawk 2.8+ (EmuHawk.exe) and open a Pokémon game ROM
2. On Bizhawk, click Tools -> Lua Console

   

3. If there are any existing Ironmon Tracker scripts, highlight them one at a time and remove them: click the X icon button or press the Delete key
4. Click Script -> Open Script... or press Ctrl+O

   

5. Locate and select the Ironmon-Tracker.lua script file from the new Ironmon-Tracker release folder you downloaded, and open it

   

6. The Ironmon Tracker should now be loaded and appear on Bizhawk
   • If you haven't loaded a ROM yet, the Lua Console should look something like this:

     

   • Once you load a ROM, then it should look something like this:

     

   • If you see no output at all, see here as you may have accidentally clicked on New Script instead of Open Script

Step 3: Setup the Ironmon Tracker

1. At this point, you can load up a game ROM and/or unpause your game if you haven't already
2. Click the Gear icon near the top of the Ironmon Tracker to edit tracker settings and customize your Tracker's theme
3. If you want to use the quick-load feature to load up the next seed, then be sure to set this up under Tracker Setup -> Quick-load
   • Quick-load activates when you press A + B + START all at once on your controller

Step 4: Start Playing!

1. Now that you've got everything setup, you're ready to start playing and enjoy using the Tracker
2. If this is your first time using it, check out the Quickstart Guide to learn more about the type of information that it shows as well as all of it's features