CaptureSight
Tesla Overlay to view Pokemon game info in Sword, Shield, Brilliant Diamond, Shining Pearl, and Legends Arceus!
CaptureSight is a Nintendo Switch homebrew to view Pokemon data while playing Pokemon games. The project is written primarily in Rust, distributed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 license, first published in 2019. Key topics include: arceus, diamond, homebrew, legends, nintendo.
Latest release: v0.12.8
May 23, 2023View Changelog →
CaptureSight
CaptureSight is a Nintendo Switch homebrew to view Pokemon data while playing Pokemon games.
Features:
Sword & Shield
- View Pokemon species, attacks, IVs, etc. for
- Wild Pokemon
- In-Trade Pokemon
- Raid Pokemon
- Party Pokemon
- View all active dens
- The number of advances until a Shiny Pokemon
- Species of a den
- Shiny type of a den (star or square)
- Since CaptureSight can show the next shiny frame, no external tools are needed for Raid RNG
- Find the raid seed that created a Pokemon
- Join a trade or raid with a person who doesn't have custom firmware and use CaptureSight to get their raid seed
- With raid and trade views, anyone without custom firmware only needs to know someone with custom firmware to do Raid RNG
- View the main RNG states for RNG purposes
- View your TID and SID
Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl
- View Pokemon species, attacks, IVs, etc. for
- Wild Pokemon
- Party Pokemon
- Underground Pokemon
- View the main RNG states for RNG purposes
- View egg seed and group seeds for RNG purposes
- View your TID and SID
Legends Arceus
- View Pokemon species, attacks, IVs, etc. for
- Wild Pokemon
- Party Pokemon
- View Pokemon generator seeds for RNG purposes
- View the main RNG states for RNG purposes
How do I use CaptureSight?
- Setup WerWolv's Tesla - https://gbatemp.net/threads/tesla-the-nintendo-switch-overlay-menu.557362/
- Download the latest
capturesight.ovl - Copy
capturesight.ovlto be inside the/switch/.overlaysdirectory on your switch's SD card - Start Pokemon Sword or Shield, or Brilliant Diamond or Shining Pearl
- Press the key combo to open Tesla Menu (L + Dpad Down + R joystick as of this writing)
- Open CaptureSight with Tesla
Building
- Install devkitPro-pacman and rust
- Run
sudo dkp-pacman -S switch-devand choosedevkitA64,libnx, andswitch-tools - Run
make
Credits
Thanks to the following for helping make this app:
- Switchbrew for their research and libnx which makes it possible to create homebrew
- ReSwitched for their research, Atmosphere, and libstratosphere which is invaluable for switch homebrew
- Kaphotics, SciresM, Matt, and all contributors of PKHeX and pkNX for the all the great resources this app uses
- WerWolv for libtesla and EdiZon's
isServiceRunningcode - All translators and the translations they provided
- Leanny, Admiral Fish, wwwwwwzx, Kaphotics, and Vladcik for looking into raid RNG
- Leanny and Kaphotics for the PKHeX Raid Plugin, which CaptureSight borrows raid logic from
- All Pokemon researchers and contributors
- XorTroll and aarch64-switch-rs for the aarch64-none-elf.json file
Contributors
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This article is auto-generated from zaksabeast/CaptureSight via the GitHub API.Last fetched: 6/29/2026
