Advice needed on CFW and using PKHex.

[RadientBloo]

Essentially, I would like to use PKHeX for thing such as item editing, money etc. No Pokemon editing/adding.

Specifically, I'm unsure on which 'kind' of CFW (Sys or Emu) to - 

1. Use to access and modify my save data.

2. How to ensure I can do those things and still be able to use online features (Pkm Home, online battling and such).

Thank you.

[Taku86]

All homebrew-related activities should be done on emuNAND, not on sysNAND. Leaving even a single trace can get you banned. That said, there’s no clear definition of what actually does or doesn’t leave traces. Using a save manager to import/export save files doesn’t seem to, but I still wouldn’t recommend it.

A safer approach is to mount the sysNAND partitions via Hekate using ninfs, manually export the save files from /save and /saveMeta folders, decrypt them with hactool, edit them with PKHeX, and then import them back by doing the reverse process.

[RadientBloo]

28 minutes ago, Taku86 said:

All homebrew-related activities should be done on emuNAND, not on sysNAND. Leaving even a single trace can get you banned. That said, there’s no clear definition of what actually does or doesn’t leave traces. Using a save manager to import/export save files doesn’t seem to, but I still wouldn’t recommend it.

A safer approach is to mount the sysNAND partitions via Hekate using ninfs, manually export the save files from /save and /saveMeta folders, decrypt them with hactool, edit them with PKHeX, and then import them back by doing the reverse process.

The 'Mount the sysNAND partitions' part -  is that a different process of installing the CFW, or an extra/follow on step?

[Taku86]

That's a different process. You either:
- install CFW and load homebrew applications (such as Save Managers) on sysNAND: simple but risky
- or import/export save files by manually mounting partitions (this doesn't require CFW, just Hekate and a dump of your Switch's prod and bis keys): more advanced but safer 

[RadientBloo]

23 minutes ago, Taku86 said:

That's a different process. You either:
- install CFW and load homebrew applications (such as Save Managers) on sysNAND: simple but risky
- or import/export save files by manually mounting partitions (this doesn't require CFW, just Hekate and a dump of your Switch's prod and bis keys): more advanced but safer 

Doesn't look like I'll be able to anyways, just found out my switch is patched. It's entering RCM correctly, just not able to inject the Hek payload -_-. I appreciate your help though, thank you kindly.

Edited 1 hour ago by RadientBloo

[Pokemonfanz47362]

1 hour ago, Taku86 said:

That's a different process. You either:
- install CFW and load homebrew applications (such as Save Managers) on sysNAND: simple but risky
- or import/export save files by manually mounting partitions (this doesn't require CFW, just Hekate and a dump of your Switch's prod and bis keys): more advanced but safer 

Hey taku86!, could u generate a tid and sid for my darkrai? it's gen 4 from platinum and i want it

Here's my darkrai's pid:99EF9973

Now i'm unable download pokefinder cuz i only got a phone so plz