Question regarding editing of times of in game events in B/W.

[Fullmetal125]

Ok, so I recently bought a new copy of Pokemon Black. I played it up until the first gym, then I decided to change the date back to when the game was first released, 3/6/11, and get all the wondercards since then, so it would look legitimate. After completely beating the game, I noticed that my trainer card says that my first gym badge was received on 5/25/2013, and the rest say 3/7/11. Is there any program or manner that I can change the first gym badge received to 3/6/11? Any help would be much appreciated because I haven't found anything anywhere that may help solve this problem.

[evandixon]

If you upload your save file, I can poke around and try to change it for you, since I don't know of any other way.

[evandixon]

That's more complicated than I thought. I'll need a save file immediately before and after getting the first badge. If you can't do it, I can tomorrow.

[Fullmetal125]

Unfortunately, I cannot provide those. :frown:

In the meantime, I'm going to delete my save because I don't like keeping it up for everyone to download. haha.

[codemonkey85]

I know where the "Adventure Started" date is kept and which format it's in. I'm not sure where the other dates are (for the badges), but I'm sure they're in the same format... if you PM me the save file and tell me the dates you currently have, I bet I could change 'em.

I'm not sure what other dates are stored, or where they are though.

[evandixon]

If it's in the same format, it's not stored along byte lines. I can check for that if I know about where to look.

[Fullmetal125]

You know what, I can provide you a file before and after the first gym in just a little bit; however, those of course will not be with the same id and stuff as my personal file. Then you can poke around a bit. Btw, I'm going to keep playing my black save, so just whenever you have it found out, I'll copy the latest file, because I want to be doing the battle subway in the meantime.

[Fullmetal125]

Here you go, before beating the gym, and after.

The data is already set to 3/6/11 so it's all ready to be copied and not changed or whatever you have to do.

POKEMON B.0.Before&.sav

POKEMON B.0.after..sav

[evandixon]

I'll look at it more tomorrow (it's 10:30 PM over here), here's some offsets to focus attention on:

1C704-6

1C724-8

1C730

1D924

1D928

[Fullmetal125]

Thanks man, I appreciate it. I'll be waiting for whenever you find out what to change.

[evandixon]

Done! Here it is (attached)!

Storage:

Gym badge dates are stored starting 1C704 and 407004. Byte 1 is how many years after 2000, Byte 2 is the month, and Byte 3 is the day (Byte 4 is 0, don't know if it has any meaning or if it's part of the year).

POKEMON B.0 edit f&.sav

[Fullmetal125]

Hey! Thanks so much! I know this might be a little much, but can you fix up this save and do the same thing? I spent a bit of time doing the battle subway and I'd rather not have lost all my effort I put into it.

Btw, what program are you using to do all of this? I'd like to know more about it.

Edited May 29, 2013 by Fullmetal125

[evandixon]

I'm using HxD to find the differences in the saves. Analysis -> File Compare

As for the save, I can do it either later today or tomorrow.

[codemonkey85]

Hey! Thanks so much! I know this might be a little much, but can you fix up this save and do the same thing? I spent a bit of time doing the battle subway and I'd rather not have lost all my effort I put into it.

Btw, what program are you using to do all of this? I'd like to know more about it.

Since you already have the format now, the fastest solution may well be using a hex editor (like HxD) to change the dates yourself, and then simply open and save the file using Pokegen to fix it.

Thanks for the info, evandixon! I'm gonna throw that into my library.

[Fullmetal125]

Sweet! I got it. Thanks for all the help. God bless you.

[evandixon]

codemonkey85: Added info to the wiki. Maybe you can add other things?

http://projectpokemon.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_BW_Save_File_Structure

Fullmetal125: I can give you the save tomorrow, unless you choose to do it yourself. Be sure to open the save with Pokegen and save it to fix the checksum.

[Fullmetal125]

Yeah, don't worry, I fixed mine up with HxD and then opened and saved the file with Pokegen. The save is great. Like I said, thanks for all the help.