Question about powersaves

[sheep902]

Does anyone know if the Powersaves code for shinifying a pokemon by changing their PID makes all the recipient pokemon share the same PID?
or does it like increment the current PID until it hits a shiny one

Many thanks!

[theSLAYER]

2 hours ago, sheep902 said:

Does anyone know if the Powersaves code for shinifying a pokemon by changing their PID makes all the recipient pokemon share the same PID?
or does it like increment the current PID until it hits a shiny one

Many thanks!

I can’t remember, but it might be changing the SID instead.

[sheep902]

40 minutes ago, theSLAYER said:

I can’t remember, but it might be changing the SID instead.

That's what another of their codes does. For ORAS onward though they added one that keeps the associated SID and only modifies the PID of the pokemon

[theSLAYER]

3 hours ago, sheep902 said:

That's what another of their codes does. For ORAS onward though they added one that keeps the associated SID and only modifies the PID of the pokemon

Ah right. To be fair I haven’t used powersaves a lot in a long time. You could try it out and report back, I don’t have my powersaves on hand

[sheep902]

55 minutes ago, theSLAYER said:

Ah right. To be fair I haven’t used powersaves a lot in a long time. You could try it out and report back, I don’t have my powersaves on hand

I haven't gotten around to installing CFW on my 3DS for fear of breaking it so I was wondering if anyone else had already tested it

[theSLAYER]

2 minutes ago, sheep902 said:

I haven't gotten around to installing CFW on my 3DS for fear of breaking it so I was wondering if anyone else had already tested it

You don’t need CFW for powersaves? Only thing you need to make sure is to back up the save a few times before on PS before you try anything 

[sheep902]

1 hour ago, theSLAYER said:

You don’t need CFW for powersaves? Only thing you need to make sure is to back up the save a few times before on PS before you try anything 

I'd need CFW to check the PID of the pokemons though, unless there's a way to do that in-game

[theSLAYER]

2 hours ago, sheep902 said:

I'd need CFW to check the PID of the pokemons though, unless there's a way to do that in-game

fair. tho given the servers are still up I reckon you can trade them to someone

[sheep902]

After enlisting the help of a kind internet stranger with CFW, this is what I got from cloning an alolan rattata and caterpie and applying the respective codes on separate clones.
So one nice thing to note: the PIDs are different!
I'm not too familiar with pokémon data, but it is interesting to me how the 3 shiny caterpies have very close PIDs. Those three were also done in one batch (server request).

Edit: A next thing to test would be if the PIDs stay different across different batches. i.e. applying the shiny code to the same OGs but in a separate server request.

	Note	PID	OT TID	OT SID	IV Block	HP	Atk	Def	SpA	SpD	Spe
Rattata	Change PID/Shinify	197851181	33043	29428	00010010110101001010101111010101	21	30	10	13	9	9
	Change PID/Shinify	77788997	33043	29428	00100001001001101001000000011110	30	0	4	18	16	13
	Change PID/Shinify	96138845	33043	29428	00101111011110001111010001100111	7	3	29	23	23	17
	Traded/Shinify	1849335667	33724	29428	00011000111011111001110101111111	31	11	7	14	12	31
	OG	1849335667	33043	29428	00011000111011111001110101111111	31	11	7	14	12	31
Caterpie	Change PID/Shinify	3940030783	33043	29428	00011000010010110000110101110110	22	11	3	4	12	22
	Change PID/Shinify	3954186327	33043	29428	00100110100111010111000110111111	31	13	28	9	19	26
	Change PID/Shinify	3834124143	33043	29428	00110100111011110101011000001000	8	16	21	14	26	30
	6IV Code	1272958081	33043	29428	00111111111111111111111111111111	31	31	31	31	31	31
	OG	1272958081	33043	29428	00111001111111111111111010011111	31	20	31	31	28	31

Edited January 11, 2023 by sheep902
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