Pokemon Crystal Pokemon missing from team and box

[Schinkenspicker]

Hello,

 

I transfered a Suicune from my box into my team.

 

I saved afterwards, but because a bug of my flashcard (I assume, happened after opening the Everdrive X7 menu in game for the first time), the screen turned white while/after saving.

 

When I restarted the game, Suicune was neither in my party, nor in my box.

 

The Pokemon in the box after Suicune all traded names. The Slowpoke that used to be after Suicune is now called Suicune, the Quagsire after Slowpoke is now called Slowpoke and so forth.

 

Other things that seem weird: Theres a Ledian in Box 1 that, according to Pokehex, is invalid, and according to my game, there is 1 Pokemon in Box 8. When I look in the box in game, as well as in Pokehex, there is no Pokemon in there. When I tried to put another Pokemon in box 8, the same thing happened to it. Game says there is 2 Pokemon in there, but when I want to pull them out of the box, none are there.

 

I don't care about the Ledian. The box 8 glitch (?) is more important to me, and if anyone could restore my Suicune, if possible, or create me a new legit one, I would be eternally grateful!
The Suicune in the box was freshly caught, hasn't done a single fight.

 

Attached is my save from a german version of Pokemon Crystal.

 

Thanks!

Pokemon Kristall.srm

[Soul DS]

I tried to take a look at the save file and see what could be done, but I'm not very knowledgeable when it comes to corrupted save files tied to the save being interrupted in the middle of it. From what I can tell:

- Suicune: A frequently used glitch in GSC involves having a Pokémon in the party, depositing it into the PC, and then saving and interrupting the save at the end of it to try to clone the Pokémon (save gets enough time to update the data of the Pokémon in the PC, thus the Pokémon deposited in the PC is registered there, but the Pokémon in the party doesn't get the time to be updated, so the party is kept as it was before the save, so with the Pokémon also being present in the party). From what you're telling in your case, the opposite happened: the Pokémon was in the PC, got put in the party, a save was done but got interrupted in the middle of it, meaning that the data of the PC was updated (Suicune removed from the PC), but the data of the party was not, meaning that Suicune ended up nowhere. I'm not sure if any leftover or duplicate data could be stored in the save file for the Pokémon due to not really knowing how the gen 2 save structure works, but for me it sounds like there isn't much hope for it (though from what you're telling, since it was freshly caught, it could have been worse).

- Ledian Box 1: It seems the Ledian got corrupted, at least for part of its structure data. If you look closely at it, its species is listed as ????? in-game, has a weird amount of EXP, throwing it into a fight will incorrectly display the sprite of the previous entity present... and putting it inside the daycare (after leveling it up once to not have to pay an exorbitant amount of money) and getting it back will change it to another species. Luckily for it, the only data that may have been lost is the EXP from what I can tell, so restoring it through save editing is trivial.

- Box 8: The box is actually not empty: it contains a glitch Pokémon with the ID FF (unrelated to the Suicune, it contains no data outside of its ID, just to clear any confusion). When the game sees it and its ID, it interprets that it reached the end of the box, and display the exit button instead of it and anything coming after, preventing you from checking it or removing any Pokémon coming after it. While it has its use to enable some glitches, here it's a bit useless since it doesn't allow to do anything.

Not really sure how Suicune vanishing in box 7 would cause problems in boxes 1 and 8 (perhaps other corruptions happened?), though it's still a problem.

 

I tried to fix the save on my side, by doing the following changes:

- Setting the corrupted Ledyba back to its proper species and to level 15, so should no longer be corrupted

- Removing the corrupted Pokémon from box 8

- Fixing the shifted names in box 7

- Reenabling the Suicune event  in Tin Tower to allow you to catch it once more (seems to work fine, but not sure if there could be more flags than just what I set back)

Pokemon Kristall.srm

Let me know if anything else need to be changed, if I made a mistake, or if you need help for anything.