Possible issue with event constants?

[NekoSabrina]

I seem to have run into a rather curious situation while trying to edit some things in my Diamond save. I'm trying to make Spiritomb appear, and when I edit my Underground stats to try to accommodate that, it still doesn't appear (I had Players Met set at 0 when I used the Odd Keystone, set it to 32 afterwards, and still nothing). Underground Man and Mr.Goods don't provide any of their rewards when I edit the Underground stats either.

Now I think I tracked down an event constant or two that might be key to this. However when I try to make those edits, they reset back to their original values when I try to save them. Now I've seen someone else do it just fine in a similar situation (albeit on an older version of PKHeX), so I'm wondering did something break in terms of editing these values for Gen 4 in recent versions?

[theSLAYER]

49 minutes ago, NekoSabrina said:

I seem to have run into a rather curious situation while trying to edit some things in my Diamond save. I'm trying to make Spiritomb appear, and when I edit my Underground stats to try to accommodate that, it still doesn't appear (I had Players Met set at 0 when I used the Odd Keystone, set it to 32 afterwards, and still nothing). Underground Man and Mr.Goods don't provide any of their rewards when I edit the Underground stats either.

Now I think I tracked down an event constant or two that might be key to this. However when I try to make those edits, they reset back to their original values when I try to save them. Now I've seen someone else do it just fine in a similar situation (albeit on an older version of PKHeX), so I'm wondering did something break in terms of editing these values for Gen 4 in recent versions?

Change the event constant to 31, then meet a person in underground, then check if spiritomb spawns.

The constant itself is likely just a record, and won't spawn spiritomb simply because it's 32.
If anything, it's the act of becoming 32 (in-game) that results in a different flag being set. Give that a try.

(Basically, the game doesn't load up the save and check if the record is 32. If anything, going from 31->32 is what triggers a flag, as well as change constants.
However, simply setting "32" as the value doesn't set that flag, and the game doesn't check if it's 32 again)

[NekoSabrina]

Well the problem with that is that PKHeX isn't even letting me change the constant. While I can edit the value, when I try to save the changes, the constant resets to what it originally was (in my case, 0). The changes just won't stick no matter what I've tried to do so I don't know if the latest version of PKHeX is treating the event constants as read-only or if something else is broken that's not allowing me to make a change and have it actually save.

Also my ability to use the Underground itself for this project is not great. I don't have a Pearl or Plat save with Underground access handy and trying to make this Diamond save interact with itself in any sort of link conditions has been extremely hit-or-miss

[theSLAYER]

31 minutes ago, NekoSabrina said:

While I can edit the value, when I try to save the changes, the constant resets to what it originally was (in my case, 0)

@Kaphotics I can confirm this is an issue.

I tried saving constants in a Pearl save, and the changed value didn't stick.

[Kaphotics]

event flags/constants are no longer reading from the correct byte array

will fix sometime this weekend once I figure out the best way to do things