Resources

If you have never touched a tracker before and if if you have read all of the above, you should know how to use NitrousTracker, but you should still know very little about tracking. To learn how to track, you should use THE INTARWEB! Besides googling, I would recommend reading:

• The Trackers Handbook
• Articles on United-Trackers, especially
  • The Process of Learning to Track,
  • and for some more advances techniques, read Techniques of chipping.

Also, stop by at the NitrousTracker forum if you have any questions about, or feedback on NitrousTracker, if you want to share your work, or if you just want to get in touch with other users. Alternatively, visit the unofficial Discord community, operated by deadpahn.

Otherwise, all that's left to say is: Be creative and have fun!

NitrousTracker is a hobby project maintained by volunteers in their spare time. Here’s what you can do to help:

Bug reports and feature requests are collected here:

https://github.com/NitrousTracker/nitroustracker/issues

If you have something that isn’t already on that list, feel free to add it.

The source and all the info on how to get started is here:

https://github.com/NitrousTracker/nitroustracker

If you want to contribute a pull request, go right ahead!

This manual was originally written by 0xtob, the creator of NitroTracker. He has relicensed it under the Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 terms for the purpose of continued maintenance as part of NitrousTracker. Thank you!

Big thanks to 0xtob for original the work on NitroTracker, as well as for making it available under a free software license.

I’d also like to thank reinvdwoerd for their original work and ideas regarding improving NitroTracker, started shortly prior to my own work, as well as fincs for his insightful FeOS fork of NitroTracker.

Thanks to all NitrousTracker contributors:

• Arikari405
• exelotl
• LeviathaninWaves
• prayerie
• RachelBirdy

Thanks to all BlocksDS contributors, as well!

0xtob’s original credits are preserved below:

There is quite a bunch of people that made the development of this project possible or easier. First of all, a huge thank you to the NitroTracker beta testers, for providing tons of ideas and helping me find even the most obscure bugs:

alienspurm, andars, atomtwist, Biiaru, chrislody, grobsen,
Ignatzthemouse, infradead, Jono-60, license, lotlemmwax,
nitro2k01, nonfinite, parkstenator, reSet, Shagbat,
silent_code, spielor, totoee, Vengeful Parasite, willgripp

NitroTracker is built on the hard work of a lot of people who work on DS homebrew mostly in their spare time. This list is by nomeans comprehensive, so please don’t sue me if you are missing your name here :-)

• joat, dovoto and WinterMute for libnds and devkitPro
• chishm for the universal FAT library
• sgstair for the incredible wifi lib
• Headspin for the great on-screen typewriter design
• doublec for his ds development tutorials that got me started with DS coding
• Martin Korth for the incredible gbatek reference and the no$gba emulator
• My friends in #dsdev for patiently answering my questions
• starpause for providing the samples used in the tutorial
• Michael Krause for the open source SoundTracker, that was a great help with the XM format
• Last but not least: Vogue and Mr.H of Triton for Fasttracker II, the tracker that NitroTracker was designed after.