/sd2snes-lttp-rando-tracker

Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past randomizer tracker that works via SD2SNES serial connection

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sd2snes-lttp-rando-tracker

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About

sd2snes-lttp-rando-tracker can be used to automatically track collected items in The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past Randomizer, when using an SD2SNES with the USB2SNES firmware. This firmware can also be found as part of the QUsb2snes distribution. sd2snes-lttp-rando-tracker will periodically poll the SD2SNES over the websocket interface to QUsb2snes connection to track the retrieved item states.

sd2snes-lttp-rando-tracker is supported on macOS, Windows, and Linux.

Usage

Pre-compiled binaries are available from the releases listing. Download the binary, and put it in the location of your choosing.

macOS & Linux

sd2snes-rando-tracker --device "SD2SNES /path/to/sd2snes/serial/device"

/path/to/sd2snes/serial/device will probably be something like /dev/tty.usbmodem<sequence of numbers>.

Windows

Open the terminal of your choosing, and change directory to where you downloaded the binary.

sd2snes-rando-tracker.exe --device "SD2SNES COM<number>"

COM<number> should be the COM device that the SD2SNES creates on your system. This should be shown in the QUsb2snes device listing.

General

After starting sd2snes-rando-tracker, it will let you know what address & port the UI HTTP server was started on. By default, the HTTP server binds to all addresses on port 8000. Open http://localhost:8000/ui/ in your browser to view the UI.

Displaying only the item list, or only the map is unsupported at this time.

Additional help is available via the --help flag. You can use --file <file> to test things using the example-data.json file in the repository, if you do not have a SD2SNES with the USB2SNES firmware available (very handy for developing while away from a SNES).

Not yet implemented

  • Persist item collection state during save & quit. Items re-appear once save is loaded.

Acknowledgements

The UI is heavily modeled after, and uses assets from pickfifteen/lttp-tracker under the MIT license.

Development

Requirements

  • Stable Rust compiler. Recommend using rustup
  • Node.js & NPM

Running in development

UI

The Vue.js UI is under the ui directory, and can be served during development by running npm run dev, after running npm install to install all dependencies.

CLI & API server

The main entry point for building the project is via running cargo build from the root of the project.

There is an example-data.json in the root of the project that can be useful when doing development while away from a SNES.

cargo run -- --file example-data.json