cresttoothpaste Posted 4 hours ago Posted 4 hours ago Out of curiosity I was wondering why no one does anything with the Home Tracker. I've been messing around with the Home Tracker for a couple weeks now and just found out how to assign a Home Tracker to any pokemon. I went to confirm this by going into the encounter database and pulling a random pokemon specifically umbreon from the Colosseum game; assigned it a Home Tracker put it into my copy of Sword proceeded to go to Pokemon Home to confirm if I would get the Home tracker error or if it would be able to transfer into the box, and it went through and after I sent the Umbreon to Pokemon Champions. So I'm wondering why no one talks about this? I surely could not be the only one who has tried this idea?
Kaphotics Posted 2 hours ago Posted 2 hours ago Sword and Shield act as the gateway and thus don't really require a HOME tracker for entering. It's already known, I can't be bothered to dig up a thread post on the forums where it is mentioned, so I'll just rewrite whatever advice it probably contains: Even though you may be able to bypass the initial checks that home does and get assigned a tracker by the server, it does not prevent them from banning the method in the future or banning your account/mons. It's a traceable behavior, as you didn't upload them from Bank, you uploaded them from SWSH, as they'd lack their PK7 data logs on the server. Is it currently un-actioned? Yes. Is it detectable? Yes. Is it safe? No. Note: this bypass only "works" for SWSH, not any other games. To answer your question as to why nobody talks about it: because it's not safe. If HOME can detect it (so too can power users within the Pokemon hacking community), then it should be obvious why it's inadvisable. Champions has not performed any ban waves. Can they? Yep. All data in champions is stored server side, and all foreign data not from recruits or gifts must have passed through HOME, so they have the paper trail too. Yours would lack the full paper trail. An extremely simple ban rule to program if they choose to 1
theSLAYER Posted 1 hour ago Posted 1 hour ago Everything Kaphotics said is 100% correct. I am just adding on one bit of information before I lock this thread. 2 hours ago, cresttoothpaste said: assigned it a Home Tracker put it into my copy of Sword proceeded to go to Pokemon Home to confirm if I would get the Home tracker error or if it would be able to transfer into the box, and it went through and after I sent the Umbreon to Pokemon Champions The random tracker you assigned on the mon, then placed into Sword, which then entered HOME, didn't become valid. HOME merely assigned a different tracker cause the existing tracker on it is invalid. It is known that Error 10015 checks don't occur when a mon enters HOME from SWSH. Anyhow, as Kaphotics mentioned, even if HOME accepts this "bypass", yours lack the full paper trail and you're at least risking your own account, not to mention even the entire console. If you don't love the idea of expensive consoles becoming almost mere paperweights, I suggest you stop trying to abuse HOME.
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