answered A couple of questions relating to Pk3ds/HANS

[Rocket0634]

Hey there, I've been looking into some of the information when it comes to XY/ORAS hacking, and I have three quick questions I was a little confused about-

1. Is CRO editing causing black screens a limitation of pk3ds, HANS, or just the game in general? I've read at different places it's possible to work with HANS, but most places say that just simply looking at the CRO options breaks the romhack. First thing I did when trying to hack Alpha Sapphire is mess with the typings ... so something tells me that hack isn't going to work any time soon. So, I guess... will CRO editing ever work, or is it already working?

2. This one is less relevant to ROM hacking but it leads to my third question- Is it possible to take a backup of a digital save, erase the save in-game, make a new save, and then transfer the checksum from that save to the old one? Or, anyway, any possible way of being able to recover the save on a digital game? I know it was previously possible with the QR scanning, but that doesn't appear to be possible anymore. The current save manager thing also doesn't seem to get past the backup check, so it doesn't really have much use.

3. Is it absolutely necessary to delete your XY/ORAS save in order to load a hack? I noticed that I was having an incredibly difficult time loading Starlit Sapphire and Neo X on my 3DS, but as soon as I deleted my AS save, Starlit worked. I can't delete my X save though, because it's a digital copy. So I'm wondering if it won't work because it's digital, because I have to delete the save, or because I did something else stupid without realizing it.

Hopefully this is in the right spot and the number of questions here is okay. I'd really appreciate the help!

[Favna]

1: idk

2: svdt can rewrite the save checksums

3: No, but most people who want to play a hack want to play from the very start which is why it is said to be necessary. Other than that it is not at all necessary.

[Rocket0634]

Alright, thank you for letting me know.

I've been having issues getting Neo X working on my 3DS, and I figured it was because of my save interfering with the hack. Should I make another topic asking about that or can I continue about it here? Is it possible to get either Neo X or Starlit Sapphire working straight through HANS or do I have to use the launchers?