PID difference between BW and B2W2?

[ZMaster]

Do BW and B2W2 generate PIDs differently? A few months back I had a problem where pokegen gave me invalid PIDs in B2W2 (which I found out through Pokecheck.) No problems were encountered when doing so with BW. I would have to save a pokemon with blank PID about 4 times before it started giving me a legal one.

Is this a problem with pokegen or did I miss a step? I'm wondering because I completely stopped using pokegen on B2W2 because of this problem (and I've recently started playing B2W2 again.)

[LEGOanimal22]

Pokegen generates PIDs for Gen 4 pokemon.

[ZMaster]

Doesn't it also generate a "legal" PID for Gen V pokemon with the PID field empty?

[LEGOanimal22]

It just makes a random PID. Pokegen doesn't care about legality.

[ZMaster]

Good point.