GSC Helper is a DV calculator program to assist Pokemon Gold/Silver/Crystal speedrunners in determining stats, and includes a display for showing DVs on stream layouts. There are plans for future versions of the program to provide general routing tools as well.
Java 7+ Runtime Environment is required (download here).
See this thread on the PSR forums to download the latest release. Unzip the contents, and double click the .jar file to start up the helper program.
During a run, click the buttons corresponding to in-game events that take place, and the program will track your stats and experience. Be sure to input game events in the correct order, or the stat calculations may be inaccurate.
Advanced users who have memorized DVs can bypass general usage and simply manually click the DV labels for each stat (you'll see a green outline appear around the adjacent button).
As in Red and Yellow Helper, custom look-and-feel settings are automatically saved for future sessions.
Java 7+ SDK is assumed.
The build system uses Gradle. You can simply run the gradle wrapper to build (gradlew.bat on Windows, gradlew on UNIX systems; note that the first build with the wrapper is slow, but future builds are much faster). Alternatively, you can choose to download the Gradle distribution here; there is more setup involved, but builds will be appreciably quicker.
By default, the gradle build creates a usable directory with the .jar executable (in the build/install/GSCHelper directory), as well as a distributable .zip file (build/distributions directory).
GSC Helper - a DV calculator and routing tool for Pokémon Gold/Silver/Crystal speedruns
GSC Helper was derived from Yellow Helper by Dailyleaf. Per Dailyleaf's request, if you choose
to reuse this code, please credit him, as well as BobChao87 (for his work on a prior DV
calculator that inspired Red Helper and Yellow Helper). Keeping this notice in your source code
repository suffices for this purpose. Also per Dailyleaf's request, please do not ask for
donations for any work that reuses this code.
In addition to Yellow Helper, some GSC Helper code is borrowed from RouteTwo (created by
Dabomstew). Sprite bundles from the veekun pokedex (by Eevee) are utilized in this project.
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