Beta: the pokécheck legality checker for generation 5

[Champloo]

So I went ahead and Poke Transfer'd the Cleffa that was coming out on the other end with invalid trash bytes on Gen IV and to my surprise it no longer has invalid trash bytes:

Poke Transfer'd Cleffa

Any idea as to why something like this would happen? I'm content with it resolving itself but knowledge is power I suppose so I'm interested on how this may have happened.

[Hozu]

You shouldn't be extracting .pkm files if you want things to work properly...

[Kaphotics]

Trash bytes are the result of memory pointers and preexisting strings not being cleared for subsequent use. They just get overwritten and the resulting string constitutes the palparked character-string.

You can read more about them on our wiki; the first Pokemon parked will have one set of trash and 2-6 will have different trash.

[Champloo]

Trash bytes are the result of memory pointers and preexisting strings not being cleared for subsequent use. They just get overwritten and the resulting string constitutes the palparked character-string.

You can read more about them on our wiki; the first Pokemon parked will have one set of trash and 2-6 will have different trash.

Ah thanks for the link and relevant information. Very much appreciated.

[Agonist]

This is hilariously illegal.