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HOME will "tarnish" all Pokémon in a save file by changing the Height to match Scale. PKHeX has not yet updated to account for HOME's new behaviors.

UPDATE Here is the Hex for the Ultraball Canvas backpack: E90B (3049 as UInt16). Furthermore, I did some digging in my spare time and created a little script to check the minimum and maximum values of the intervals represented by the various fashion groups in the base game, and annotate in a set() the missing IDs (expressed as UInt16). Here's what I found: Now, doing the conversion in Hex, we see that all the missing bags in the base game have been mapped, since 3075 is the ID of the floral bag and the others from 3047 to 3049 are the IDs of poké/mega/ultraball backpack (all of them are present in special.txt in the previous reply). The interesting thing resides in the headwears, where , if we exclude the values 5037 and 5038, which are the League and Star sporty cap (also present in special.txt), there is still an additional value of 5039 (AF13 in Hex) which corresponds to a 'Terastal Sporty Cap': Which could be the next Portal Event. Keep in mind that injecting this hat could result in unexpected online consequences, if not ban itself, since it hasn't been released yet. Another interesting thing would be reasearching values under the minimum of some categories, given that some of them report as min value x001 (3002 for bags) instead of x000 like some others. I'll make another reply in case of other discoveries.

Thanks for the Feebas Locator. Bought this game on release but this is the 1st feebas I ever caught.

You should only use the above plugin if you wish to sort by Regional Pokédex order for a given game. Otherwise, PKHeX already has a number of built-in sorting options. Right-click the "Box" tab to bring this menu up, and remember that a full list of shortcuts is available via Options -> About PKHeX

Hi everybody. Recently I switched my reasearch on fashion blocks in Scarlet and Violet, even if it can be considered low priority (since trainer personalization in Gen 9 is kinda underwhelming compared to Gen 8-7). Anyway yesterday I dumped the full blocks with all purchasable clothing options and created a .txt file containing the ids of special Items not purchasable in base games (league-team star hats, past gen saves phone cases, all fashion items in the DLCs preorder pack and the PokePortal gifts up till now). I already made some modifications to my fork of PkHex for the data I retrieved and built the injector. When my current pull request regarding Trainer Photo visualization will be (hopefully) merged, I'll make a new one for revamped fashion injection. Up until then I share here the blocks and the .txt in case somebody wants to do further research or just inject them. legwears.bin cases.bin special.txt bags.bin eyewears.bin footwears.bin gloves.bin headwears.bin

UPDATE 2 IDs 3000 and 4000 seem to not correspond to anything, all the others unlock a clickable option to remove that specific kind of clothing (e.g. no hat, no glasses etc...), which can be done normally by pressing X. The interesting fact is that ID 3001 corresponds to 'no bag', which technically can't be removed by pressing X, but that's probably the hidden way the game lets you move around in the prologue, before Clavel tells you to get dressed for the academy.

Don't edit any Pokemon transferred via HOME. You're probably make the HOME trackers invalid. Read: Also, SWSH will blank out certain details, that is normal.

You can't log in Pokémon HOME if you don't update the application.

Explorers of Memories Official Demo v.2.0 Explorers of Memories is a romhack where the protagonist never lost their memories, and this effects the story in many ways causing events to never happen or making events happen earlier than they should. However, this is not a retelling of the original story, instead it is a brand-new story with elements of the original. This should be played after you finish the original sky as it spoils many things. Chapters 1 and up to 12 are currently completed as of this demo. This patch is for US versions of the game and works with Xenophobia and Clean roms. FIXES/NEW CONTENT Chapters 10 up to 12 are available! Some of the old cutscenes have been changed! Two new dungeons are available! (Information about them can be found in the New Dungeon Spoilers txt file) Spinda's drink-mixing animation is much faster (you can hold B to skip right through it!) I put back in Bidoof/Sunflora's diaries; however, it currently has a temporary script until I can properly edit it Anti-Softlock has been patched to the game! (Pressing A, B, X, Y will force the game to continue) Fixed Skuntank still appearing in guild in chapter 6 Increased Zen Headbutt's PP to 12 Adjusted stats for the following starters and their evolutions (Eevee, Abra, Chikorita, Misdreavus, Torchic, Ralts, Buneary). If you use these starters, I would recommend restarting from the beginning. Lowered Quicksand Pit to 8 floors Changed Mesprit Stats/moveset to make for a tougher fight Miscellaneous text/cutscene/dungeon fixes There will be another update in the next couple of weeks to add a couple more things: Buneary sprites, Amp Plains, and some other minor things! QOL CHANGES Beginner Tips are disabled! Experience Share has been added! Once your Team gains experience in Dungeons any backup Pokemon will also gain 80% of the experience as well. You can now choose the starter you want! You and your partner can now be the same type/species! Move shortcuts have been added so you can now use shortcuts like in Gti, Super, and DX. Evolution Glitch has been fixed, so now characters with 10 letters can evolve! Text Speed is faster! You can now control your teammates in Dungeons after pressing Start. To disable this once its activated press Start when it is the Leader's turn. STARTER CHANGES Phanphy has been removed as a starter/partner choice Ralts replaces F Turtwig (Timid nature)/M Phanphy (Relaxed nature) , Riolu replaces F Totodile (Sassy nature), Buneary is now an F Partner replacing M Phanphy, Buneary replaces F Squirtle (Bold) Munchlax Partner has been replaced by Ralts (M), Munchlax is now a M starter (Quirky nature), Squirtle M is changed to calm nature F Bulbasaur (Docile nature) has been changed to Misdreavus (Starter only) M Piplup Starter (Impish nature) has been changed to Eevee. M Torchic (hardy nature) has been changed to Abra (Starter only) Ralts line base stats have been reduced since it is a starter/partner now (HP 25, Atk 4, Sp. Atk 4, Def. 4, Sp. Def 4) Buneary line base stats have been reduced since it is a starter/partner now (HP 24, Atk 4, Sp. Atk 3, Def. 5, Sp. Def 5) Abra line base stats have been reduced since it is a starter now (HP 23, Atk 4, Sp. Atk 4, Def. 4, Sp. Def 4). Misdreavus line base stats have been reduced since it is a starter now (HP 24, Atk 4, Sp. Atk 4, Def. 3, Sp. Def 3) Chikorita base stats (evolutions included) and stats have been increased (Attack 5, Sp. Atk. 5 instead of 4 for both) Torchic stats have been increased Eevee stats have been increased All new starters and partners have their stats changed to match the growth of the other starters/partners Starter/Partner Moveset changes are in a separate document ABILITY CHANGES All Enemies have their hidden abilities if they have them and they do not have two abilities already (and it doesn't break early game). If their evolution has a hidden ability, but the pre-evolution does not then the pre-evolution will also get the hidden ability. Hidden Abilities are only given to pokemon if they are released and can be legitimately found on that Pokemon. All Starters and their evolutions have two abilities if they did not have two abilities before. Most of the abilities added to the starters are based on their hidden ability (if available/not broken) or community feedback. Some hidden Abilities that damage the Pokemon, such as Solar Power, are not added to starters, but instead to their evolutions. Gen 1: Charmander (Blaze/Flame Body)/Charmeleon and Charizard (Blaze/Solar Power), Bulbasaur line (Overgrow/Chlorophyll), Squirtle (Torrent/Battle Armor)/Wartortle and Blastoise (Torrent/Rain Dish), Pikachu line (Static/LightningRod (this may seem broken, but remember this means that enemies have these abilities as well), Eevee (Adaptablity/Anticipation)/Vaporeon(Water Absorb/Hydration)/Jolteon(Volt Absorb/Quick Feet)/ Flareon(Flash Fire/Guts)/Espeon(Synchronize/Trace)/Umbreon(Synchronize/Inner Focus)/Leafeon(Leaf Guard/Chlorophyll)/Glaceon(Snow Cloak/Ice Body), Meowth line (Abilities are the same), Abra line (Synchronize/Magic Guard), Vulpix (Flash Fire/Flame Body)/Ninetales (Flash Fire/Drought) Gen 2: Cyndaquil line (Blaze/Flash Fire), Chikorita line (Overgrow/Effect Spore), Totodile line (Torrent/Anger Point), Misdreavus line (Levitate/Rivalry) Gen 3: Torchic and Combusken (Blaze/Quick Feet)/Blaziken (Blaze/Speedboost), Treecko line (Overgrow/Natural Cure), Mudkip line (Torrent/Damp), Skitty line (Cute Charm/Scrappy), Gallade has the same abilities as the rest of his line (Synchronize/Trace). Gen 4: Chimchar line (Blaze/Flame Body), Turtwig line (Overgrow/Shell Armour), Piplup (Torrent/Tangled Feet), Shinx line (Guts/Intimidate), Buneary line (Scrappy/Cute Charm), Munchlax line (Abilities are the same), Riolu line (Iron Fist/Inner Focus) ENEMY CHANGES The Exp. Yield for certain enemies are lower if they appear within the first 3 dungeons All Pokemon in dungeons covers starter weaknesses All dungeon enemies through chapters 1-3 have been edited, so enemies do not spam moves like Mudshot constantly Most dungeon enemies have egg moves\tm moves if they need them; not all enemies will have egg moves\tm moves, since some do not have any at all or other Pokemon in the dungeon cover starter weaknesses Enemy moveset changes are featured in a separate document (Enemy Moveset txt) RANK CHANGES Lowered points needed for Ranks above Master ★★: Master ★★★: 50000 (from 100000) and Grandmaster: 100000 (from 100000000) Changed Rank Item Rewards: Silver: Friend Bow, Diamond: Ginseng, Super/Ultra: Gold Ribbon) ITEM CHANGES Lowered berry (Rawst, Cheri, and Sitrus) and Heal Seed prices (Heal Seeds are 150 (down from 250), Rawst berries are 60 (down from 90), Cheri berries are 60 (down are 80), and Sitrus berries are 2000 instead of 2500) Raised the Prices of Vile and Violent Seeds to 500 (Vile from 350 and Violent from 150) DUNGEON CHANGES All Dungeons have at least one enemy that is strong against the starters/partners Enemies in dungeons get progressively harder as the floors go on The side path dungeons in chapter 7-8 (Side Path, Rock Path, and Forest Path) have Chanseys to help the player level up if they need it (these Chansey have a higher chance to spawn than any other enemies) Beach Cave (2-5): Added Anorith, Pink Shellos, Tangela, Baltoy, Tyrogue Drenched Bluff (6-8): Added Blue Shellos, Zubat, Krabby, Heracross Mt. Bristle (8-13): Added Chansey has been added to floors 2, 5, 8 (low spawn rate), Spearow, Larvitar, Nincada, Cubone Waterfall Cave (13-15): Added Golbat, Pinsir, Rattata Apple Woods (15-18): Added Metapod, Natu, Pichu, Pikachu, Duskull, Seedot, Nuzleaf, and Swablu. Pikachu and Nuzleaf appear on later floors. Pichu/Pikachu do not spawn on all floors and are rare spawns. Pichu spawns on floors 1, 2, 4, 5, 9. Pikachu on 9, 12 Craggy Coast (18-20): Added Gastly, Haunter, Golbat, Cleffa, and Aron, and Pink Gastrodon Side Path (17-18): Now has 6 floors. Added Gastly, Golbat, Cleffa, and Aron, Chansey, and Pink Gastrodon Mt. Horn (20-23): Added Silcoon, Dustox, Meditite, Machop, Machoke, Sudowoodo, Absol, and Xatu. Xatu is a rare spawn on floors 10-14 Rock Path (19-20): Now has 6 floors. Added Wurmple, Venonat, Chansey and Machop Foggy Forest (23-25): Added Murkrow, Linoone, Numel, Carnivine, Noctowl, Cherrim Forest Path: (22-23): Now has 6 floors. Removed Dunsparse and Linoone. Added Poliwag, and Shuppet Steam Cave: (25-27): Removed Numel. Added Phanphy, Solrock, Absol, Tyrogue Upper Steam Cave (27-28): Removed Yanma, Farfetch'd, and Kricketune. Added Hitmonlee, Hitmonchan, Hitmontop, Magmar, Magcargo, Absol, Solrock, Donphan. Hitmonlee spawns on floors 9-10, Hitmonchan spawns on floors 11-13, and Hitmontop spawns on floors 14-15 Northern Desert (Lvl 29-33): Removed Cubone. Added Rhyhorn, Rhydon, Diglett, Dugtrio, Baltoy, Skorupi, Drapion, Sandslash, Claydol Quicksand Cave (32-35): Dugtrio, Beldum, Drapion, Golbat, Cubone, Marowak, Solrock (Even Floors), Lunatone (Odd Floors) Quicksand Pit (34-37): Now has 8 floors. Removed Ninjask, Sandslash, Skorupi, Dugtrio. Added Beldum, Crobat, Marowak, Metang, Vibrava, Flygon, Hippodown BOSS CHANGES Koffing/Zubat has been buffed Drowzee has been buffed Groudon has been buffed Mesprit has been buffed and moveset has been changed OTHER CHANGES Changed Menu Music to Living Spirit (may be changed in the future) Teammates can now trigger hidden traps (to help balance being able to control them in dungeons) All added starters have sleep animations/portraits (Ralts and Misdreavus have full starter animations) There is a 'Made in Skytemple' screen in the intro SPECIAL THANKS Thank you to everyone listed below along with those who played and beta tested Explorers of Memories. You are amazing! Portrait Credits: Grovyle portraits: Davilos Buneary Portraits: frostibirb, smbmaster99 Ralts Portraits: JFain Ralts Sprite: JFain Misdreavus portraits: RoyalRust Misdreavus Sprite: Emboarger Abra Portraits: JFain Dusknoir Portraits: Garbage Sableye Portraits: drawsstuff, Phillips196 Duskull Portraits: baronessfaron Patch Credits: ChooseStarter - Anonymous DisableTips - End45 SameTypePartner - End45 Anti-Softlock - End45 AddExperienceShare - Anonymous MoveShortcuts - End45, Anonymous FixEvolutionGlitch - Anonymous UnusedDungeonChance - End45 ExtractDungeonData - Anonymous ActorandLevelLoader - psy_commando CompleteTeamControl - Cipnit PartnersTriggerHiddenTraps - Cipnit FarOffPalOverdrive - Cipnit ReduceJumpcutPauseTime - Cipnit EditExtraPokemon - End45 ExtraSpace: End45 Here are some picture that shown some of the changes I've made: Explorer of Memories Official Demo V.2.0.rar

Why!!? Why Did the End of the Demo give me so much Feelings! But I am so excited to see what the next Update will be or when it will be to know what Happens next! But in all seriousness this is a great ROm hack and a Great Story and does a lot of "What If" Moments to the Game I always wanted to ask and refuse the exploration of the Team Making It also reminds me of the Fugitives mini Plot in Blue and Red Rescue Team which I love a lot, Please keep at it and I hope you add a Community Discord where we can keep an eye on some Updates you have for the Future of this Game! So Excited and So Hype

PkHex hasn't been updated yet to account for the 3.0 update

Also HOME update isn’t supported yet too. So anything HOME recently transferred would look illegal. Wait it out.

I’m a little new to it so I don’t know how often updates typically take. I assumed there would be an update at some point but I want a Diancie to cheer my brother up a bit since he hasn’t been doing well and I just wasn’t sure how long it would take for an update. Plus, no harm in trying to see if anyone has a version that would work.

I can help you out with the transfer, do you have Home Premium?

Using WC3tool, it has a decoration tab editor. Also anwsered to your pm. Anyone that need me to do the edit are free to pm me if needed.

Oops, sorry. Not sure if I got it now but: If I remember correctly, Home transfers have just blank sizes in Sw/Sh. From what I know they only get a set size in PLA.All the Pokémon I just sent to Scarlet were in Sword before (given it‘s possible) and have random values now. They got their size values either with the Home update once they are in Home OR after being transferred to Scarlet since otherwise it wouldn’t make sense my Gen 4 Garchomp‘s values are set to 0 since PLA (was in Sword before). If your Bank transfers stayed in PLA → set to 0 If your Bank transfer stayed anywhere but PLA → randomized

When trying to troubleshoot why PKHeX flags your manual edits as illegal, it is important to think about the rules of the game in obtaining specific values. PKHeX is telling you the current ability is not what it expects (a mismatch), and you have it selected as a hidden ability. Your Pokémon was caught at level 14, which is a wild encounter. Wild Encounters on Route 7 in X/Y don't have hidden abilities, and the Ability Patch introduced in SW/SH didn't exist in the games. It is inadvisable to manually mutate one encounter into another, as seen by your attempt to check the "As Egg" checkbox. A bred/hatched egg won't have a level 14 met level, and it will have an Egg Location (you left it as none). Use the Encounter Database to source a base template, then modify it as you need.

As of Pokémon Legends: Arceus, Gamefreak/TPCi/Nintendo have shown they have the capacity to validate savefiles that connect online, linking them to a specific Nintendo account. What this meant in Legends: Arceus is that publicly uploaded savefiles would block anyone else who attempted to use them online, (aside from the original Nintendo account associated with the savefile), from accessing any online features. While we haven't yet had any reports of the same blocks occurring in Scarlet or Violet yet, we are operating under the assumption that they still have the capacity to validate savefiles, which means they may pose a ban risk for both the original uploader, and anyone using said publicly uploaded save. We are currently removing any Scarlet or Violet save that anyone attempts to upload. Any uploaded will be removed with notice. Additionally, all savefiles uploaded in the future are being screened and approved manually by staff, before appearing publicly. What you can upload, (as these don't appear to pose a similar risk): Save blocks that don't contain identifying information, (such as clothing blocks) .pk9 files containing individual Pokémon & .zip files containing multiple .pk9 files pcdata.bin files containing full box data For your sake, as well as others' sake, please don't upload Scarlet or Violet savefiles. View full article

Anything below 127 is valid for 50/50 ratio, like 7E.

I've made a simple tool to quickly check all 2^32 raid seeds in order to maximize drops. Currently I focused on Herba Mystica as it seems to be the most valuable drop. Turns out you can get as much as 10 herbs from a single raid! I found idea of raid seed injection interesting because it allows a single person with CFW to inject a seed (via PKHeX or cheats) and host that raid over and over for other people. You can e.g. help your friends to farm herbs quickly and make their shiny hunts much easier. Currently I generated seeds just for Herba Mystica but if anyone is interested in different drops and/or shiny Pokémon just let me know here or open an issue in my GitHub repository (https://github.com/MewTracker/sv-research). Herba Mystica (8, 9 and 10 drops): Scarlet Seeds / Violet Seeds Ability Patches (5 drops): Scarlet Seeds / Violet Seeds Shiny 6IV: Scarlet Seeds / Violet Seeds Credits: RaidCrawler - original drop generation logic PKHeX/pkNX - file formats, structures, etc. RaidCalc Current RaidCalc version: 4.6.0 (download link) Easy to use seed finder: blazing fast performance - much faster than any PKHeX-based utility filtering by Pokémon parameters (species, shininess, IV ranges, tera type, ability, nature, gender) filtering by raid reward count (you can filter for specific rewards) filtering by raid difficulty configurable game version, story progression and raid boost seed viewer EDIT: Added seeds for Ability Patches EDIT2: Added 6IV shinies EDIT3: Added RaidCalc release info

Sorry, I guess my instructions were unclear. You know how when you extract it from JKSV there’s a few named files, such as main and main2? None of the file names there should be changed when you restore the save. Also, I’m asking for the main2 file to be checked. Not that you rename it to main2. To be sure, show me a screenshot of the files in that folder JKSV extracted.

When you import a file into the game, make sure it’s named main, with no other extension (I think that was the name) also, have you tried loading main2 into PKHeX?

I can’t speak for what you can do if you’re banned, but… you can absolutely use CFW on Sysnand and use HOME, and not be banned.

The one you obtained from the bot appears to be from Larrybudd's bot, which I assume is running a fork of Sysbot.NET that matches the trainer information to the player requesting a Pokémon. Select a different Sysbot.NET host on a different discord server that does not use that fork/doesn't have an auto-OT matching feature.

The "Give All" cheat will skip adding unobtainable items. You can still manually add them in the Inventory Editor as well as individual Pokémon held items. Since the BDSP-exclusive Treasure (slate/shard) are unable to held, they were also skipped. I'll revise the logic to allow them to be added via "Give All". edit: done -- https://github.com/kwsch/PKHeX/commit/b08843fcc58cda8ad82d68aba85af1cc1a33b79e

It was a long time ago, but I believe the issue was probably either a cheat or a modified rom. I couldn't resolve it so I just gave up. From what I remember all I did was catch a pokemon then modify that pokemon (so the IVs and Nature would carry over) to be a Torchic. Its been a while since i touched roms and PKHeX, so I don't remember the details. This just popped up in my email so I thought I'd check and see if I can help.

Already been fixed since the release; only affects SWSH formats. Kinda am waiting for HOME to update as I don't like to update multiple times in a week...

Can not exist, Pokémon GO stores Pokémon on servers side.

You might be able to do the release of what is mentioned here: https://www.reddit.com/r/AnaloguePocket/comments/zrwryl/backup_save_data_from_physical_cart_on_the_pocket/j1dknni/ Create a save state (memories) when playing your actual physical game, then do as that post above instructs, however load the memories playing a rom of the game via the Spiritualized GBA openFPGA core. You would then save in game and have a raw save file that is compatible with PKHeX. That could in theory work, however I have not tested that. This post is worth a read in regards to Pokemon on the Analogue Pocket: https://www.reddit.com/r/AnaloguePocket/comments/11fpbat/definitive_guide_to_playing_pokémon_on_the/ If you have a DS or DS Lite + Flash Card, using the homebrew app "GBA Backup Tool" is by far the easiest way to backup and restore a save to a genuine GBA cartridge. A similar save tool could eventually be created for the Analogue Pocket, however I don't think such a tool exists yet. Edit - this looks another potential way to extract the .sav from the .sta file you have: https://www.reddit.com/r/AnaloguePocket/comments/10ampwi/solution_for_extracting_pokemon_emerald_cartridge/

That's just mind boggling to me. My default state is BDSP, and I loaded a SWSH save, and it's right there. What's your default save originally? I'll see if I can replicate the issue. That's not a bug. When a mon learns a move via a TR, it actually sets a TR flag in the mon's data, so that it can relearn the move (if forgotten) afterwards without having to use that TR on it again. Thus, this just shows that you weren't setting the correct flag. PKHeX working as intended.

I again tasted it, and welp, thats some crasy stuff happening here. Game works just fine, just not with my save. Save works just fine, but not with my forwarder. Forwarder works, just not with this save on this game. I tried to delete and install it again from different repack, still the same. Tryied to reinstall previous, nothing In the end i found that twillight runs game and this save just fine, so i still consider it as a win. Big thanks to you. I'm really gratefull. You saved my lads)

Art by: toloveL Before I start and go anywhere further, please be aware this will be a very long text, and there's a lot to cover. Still, it was an exciting adventure, and it will be rewarding to read it to the end. This is also from my Perspective, but since there are other people involved, they might share theirs as well. Keep that in mind. This is also a very compressed version of the story, since it was a long one. I have detailed everything into a 20-page document with more details, but I still didn't have the time to proper edit it. So, I might do it later. Earlier this year I was bored, and since I always loved Pokémon and Pokémon events, I started to research and read more about Pokémon archivism. This ended up with i getting to know about the first ever Pokémon distributed via event: The Legendary Offer Mew, from April 1996. I am sure many of you know about it already, but for those who don't: In April 1996, the first ever Pokémon distribution event was hosted by the Japanese magazine, “CoroCoro”. The event was made as a prize-draw where chosen players sent their Pokémon Red or Green cartridge to GameFreak, after they correctly answered a question from the magazine prompt. 20 players from this first Pokémon distribution were selected as winners to receive the first ever Mythical Pokémon: Mew. By the end of CoroCoro’s contest, more than 78,000 players had applied to win a Mew. In the end, as promised, 20 players were chosen and have been given one Mew each. Due to its scarcity, the “Legendary Offer” Mew is considered by most Pokémon Event archivists to be one of the rarest Pokémon ever distributed. Although many sources, including Bulbapedia, state that the winners were named in the July 1996 issue of the magazine, the exact names and other details of these winners cannot be found online, as of the time of writing this report. It is said that GameFreak generated only 20 Mew to be distributed, by-hand, on a computer software that they developed just for this event. It has been speculated that the very first CoroCoro Mew event was made as a last-minute publicity stunt, due to the unexpected, massive popularity the original Gen 1 Pokémon games received after many Japanese kids discovered Mew through glitches. This specific Mew was coded by Mr. Shigeki Morimoto on his own PC, and then traded with the winner cartridges using a regular link cable. According to Bulbapedia, this specific “Legendary Offer” Mew… was level 5 only had move, “Pound” when traded over gen 2, would always hold a bitter berry had an OT (Original Trainer) of コロコロ or, “CoroCoro,” in English. had an ID number that ranged from 00001 to 00020. To common knowledge, only 20 of those were ever given away by Game Freak. which made this search exceedingly difficult. Unlike modern Pokémon cartridges, Gen 1 and 2 games had the save data that only lasted as long as the physical battery in each cartridge. Once the battery in the cartridge died, the save with all of its progress, unfortunately, was lost forever. The only speculated ways that a Mew could be found in modern times would have been one of the following: If a player had the proper technology to back up their save data, externally, and either change the battery on their cartridge or send the .sav file to a computer. -If a player traded Mew to Pokémon Stadium for safe keeping. -If a player traded Mew to other Pokémon Gen 1 and 2 games while they changed their original game’s cartridge battery. -Through cloning or other glitch exploits. -If a player’s original save file with Mew somehow lasted all these 26 years with the original battery in-tact. However, this would clearly be the most unlikely way of finding one of these 20 Mew… I then went on a journey to search for this Mew. Or at least, what happened to one of those Mew, which for me held immense historical importance for the franchise. Long story short: I found a reddit post on r/lostmedia from another user, called Viskeroo. He was dead serious in finding this Mew, and i decided to help. Keep in mind this post was pretty much dead for 2 months until I found it. I posted a reply and wait. The post itself was not of much use in the start, there were a lot of people saying stuff, and even someone that claimed to have lots of Green Japanese cartridges to look for this Pokémon. I ve kept in contact with the original poster, and we made our own personal research on the matter. I ended up in a thread in Project Pokémon from ajxpk, which ended up giving more data on the entire thing. Fast forward some days, and I decided to look for the names of the winners. Most of sources said they were revealed in the July 1996 issue of the CoroCoro Magazine. And then, I dived into a CoroCoro archive of digitalized magazines with an extremely detailed use of Google Lens and help of a friend from Japan. I didn't find anything at all, that was the harsh way to find that most of the sources got it wrong, and the names of the winners were never shown in the July 1996 CoroCoro. I even look on other issues, but it also returned nothing. My friend explained that Japan is strict about sharing the identities of children, which may have been a possible explanation for the lack of information about the winners in CoroCoro. By May, I even tried to contact Dr. Lava from YouTube and Twitter. Although Dr. Lava replied, the search went cold again. The original OP from the r/lostmedia post even returned and we discussed resuming the search or trying to contact the CoroCoro publisher, but, again, it ended up not going anywhere, since the language barrier was too great. And then everything changed, on July the 14th, 2022 My comment on the original r/lostmedia thread had received a new reply from a user, called u/AkonnWalker. Akonn went on detail about how he bought a Pokémon Green cartridge in Barcelona, Spain on late 2020. In early January 2022 Akonn noticed the game had a save, and then started to mess with it. He noticed a ''weird Mew'' which his friend said it could be special, since Mew were not easy to obtain on the 90s. He also thought the sprite was very funny, and so he took a picture of it and uploaded to Imgur: About it he said: ''After some investigation and asking in forums it kind of looks like one of those mews you are looking for, i got the game copy and box from an old market here in barcelona, if you guys want more information feel free to ask!'' Akonn found the thread on r/lostmedia because he was on his own personal research on the topic of old special Mew. At this time, I could not believe my own eyes. Looking up the ID number and OT it seemed to be a perfect match! If it was correct, this could be the 16th Mew given out on that event. I immediately tried to contact Akonn, and for my surprise we got in touch pretty quickly. We talked a little about the purchase, and the history of the cartridge. He also provided pictures of the receipt of the purchase, as well from the game case. (Since it was paid for using an app, via money transfer. There was no physical receipt, but he found the purchase history) Akonn made a detailed post about its findings on PokéCommunity. And, soon enough, other users from the forum were attracted to the thread, all of them seemed to have the same idea as myself— This Mew could, indeed, be it. The forum users were also keen on the idea of making a backup of the save file and dumping it on the internet. It was for sure, very important to have a backup to preserve the save. So, the next step in this investigation was to back up the save data. Which Akonn did, by buying a cartridge reader. He bought a Jrodrigo Flasher, as indicated in the PokéCommunity forum by other users. This was a piece of equipment that could read, and back up save files from Game Boy Cartridges. Despite the excitement, I was not entirely convinced that it was a genuine Mew but was also not-so-sure that it was fake, either. I was at least sure that Akonn’s posts were older than the initial one at r/lostmedia, which seemed to help verify Akonn’s story. As they chatted, it was clear that, if the Mew was not legit, it probably was not Akonn’s fault, but from whoever previously had owned the cartridge. This was because everything Akonn said matched up; the dates matched up pretty well, the events he was describing were also too specific to be made up easily. It all seemed to match up. By Akonn’s original post on Reddit, I could reach some Pokémon archivists that were mentioned there. The first one he tried to contact was Mewisme700 on Instagram. Her work is amazing, and she kindly pointed me to talk with her friend, known in the community as toloveL. I found toloveL on twitter, and immediately fell in love with her work, after extensively reading through her posts, Tiktok and other stuff to make sure that she was the right person. She’s very interested in Pokémon preservation and was absolutely the best one to reach in this case. She had previous experience with preservation as part of her work to preserve the memory of the Pokémon Center New York City. toloveL was interested in helping to determine if the Mew was legit, and also put me in contact with other two archivists and active members of the community that could also help. Those were Gridelin and Sabresite. In no time a discord chat was set up, and we all started to do our best to verify the Mew in question. Akonn sent the save file to Gridelin, which started to work right away. Gridelin also asked Ajxpk, to help. With that, the team was assembled. (I am sure most of you know those community members very well, so I don't need to properly introduce them, right?) Firsthand, nothing on the cartridge seems suspect, or on Mew. The team agreed that hacked Pokémon on that save file would make the chances of the Mew being hacked very high. But they could not find any hacked monsters in that file. The data was also checking with what we had of info about the real ones. But in the end, we did not have another Mew from that event to compare to, so it was hard to tell. It was agreed that Ajxpk could help to verify the save, and possibly have some notion of any abnormality on it, and after it could be possible to bring all the evidence together, and at least try to say for sure what the team had been dealing with. Here the group also noted that Mew was played with. A lot. It was level 100 and had learned HM moves. It adds as interesting evidence, because that’s exactly what a kid would do with a Mew. The Licktung Arc Ok, so the >Licktung< part of the research is not exactly fully relevant for the Mew case. Anyways, it was such an interesting part of the case that it had to be put here. Enjoy: After looking up the save file, the only thing that seemed suspicious was a certain Lv 100 Licktung on the party. Gridelin’s software (he was using PkHex to analyze the Pokémon data) was not able to read Licktung’s OT name. Displaying in its place a ‘’*’’’. This could be a bad sign. The reason the team looked it up, as explained earlier is that any hacked or suspicious Pokémon in the save file would hurt the Mew chances to be legit. So it had to be done. The quick conclusion was that it could be a hacked Licktung, but in the end it seemed to be just PkHex acting up because of its Japanese name, since when looked at in-game, nothing seemed wrong. The group had ruled that out, believing instead that was PkHex not reading the Japanese characters on the OT’s name. That’s when things get weird… And this search goes to places none of us, never in our lives expected it to go. First, Licktung here is at Lv 100. This is unusual for this kind of save, because there are no real reasons to train a Licktung up to this level. (At least not from the team’s point of view, but nothing can be said for sure) toloveL then explained that Licktung was kind of a meme in Japan at the time, and it's for the same reasons it was a meme here. It's a weird Pokémon that licks things, and has a big tongue. You know. The thing that caught the group’s attention the most in this Pokémon, however, was its name. It was not Licktung’s Japanese name on it, but rather a nickname. It was: なめぞう when translated it goes as ‘’Namezou’’. When you google Namezou, you end up finding that… That’s the name of a hentai artist. And I say: This is important for the search, because after some dirty research, we just found that Namezou's earlier work uploaded on the western internet dated back from 2003. This don't exactly match up with the Mew's age, so that's something. At that point in time, the Mew Recovery Team was in standby mode. The group need to wait Ajxpk word on the matter, and they were absent at the time. So, me, toloveL, Akonn and Gridelin continued to investigate Licktung for the time being. Eventually however, toloveL found out on the Japanese web that it seems this name was pretty popular in Licktung for some reason. She found many videos, screenshots, of plenty of Licktung having this same nickname in many games. Then it hit the team: A YouTube video confirmed the origin of this Licktung: In Pokémon Green, this is the very Licktung a player can get via trade on route 18… This means, this Pokémon was given by an NPC. This also meant that Game Freak named an NPC Pokémon after a hentai artist, Japan memes it to this day and the west did not find out about it somehow. The team burst some laughs finding this out. Anyways, the fact that this Licktung was leveled up to max, still meant that our boy Namezou here was used, and a lot by its original owner. This would match with the Licktung meme in Japan, that very few westerns had known until now. This could be evidence in favor of the cartridge not being tempered with. Just played by some Japanese kid. It's absolutely possible the kid knew about the Licktung meme, and found it funny to have it on its party with a maxed level. For the team, that’s a pretty believable behavior from a kid playing with this cartridge, in the late 90s. We then waited Ajxpk word on the matter. But at the end of the Licktung investigation the team agreed that the Mew could very well be fake but still, lots of very small and specific things would be very hard to think of if you were to fake it. Also, there was still not a good reason the group could think on why someone would do that, and not take the chance to make easy cash, for example. In the end of the day, those were just conjecturing the team was throwing around, and investigating. Everyone agreed Ajxpk word was very much needed to continue the investigation. But in the meantime, Gridelin and Akonn talked about the origins of the cartridge, who sold it, where it was sold, etc… As stated earlier in the text, Akonn provided the information that it was bought in some kind of flea market, by a guy with a French accent, and it was located in Mercat de San Antoni in Barcelona, Spain. Akonn also said that as far as he knows, this seller bought the game from a Japanese couple he knew. I asked about the seller’s contact info, but Akonn said he did not have it, given the nature of this kind of flea market. At this point, the team was not 100% sure, but the evidence was leaning towards the Mew being legit. The group however, never excluded the idea it could be a clone, this is important to have in mind as well. The paper saga, Enter Ajxpk! Later that week, Ajxpk joined the team and began their own analysis of the Mew data and save file. But they already pointed out most of the old events had a sticker that helped to identify it was part of an event. Akonn’s cartridge was missing. Right away, Ajxpk stated that it would be impossible to know for sure just with the data the team has. They needed more concrete evidence, so they started to ponder about the physical stuff that the event could have. The first thing was the sticker. Another piece of physical evidence that could help, would be an instruction paper. Ajxpk told the team that back in the day of those old events, participants would get instruction paperwork, containing messages and overall information that could be useful. The october 1997 event had a paper that surfaced on Twitter in 2021. Ajxpk showed the team, as a means to know what they should look for: Immediately I started to run through the pictures Akonn sent earlier, the box pictures, the packaging, the cartridge, and also questioned him about any suspicious piece of paper he could have missed. But the hopes were pretty dim at that time. Ajxpk even stated that he believed that could be the case of the Mew being traded over, and the physical evidence being lost. But still, it was not possible to verify its authenticity without the physical evidence for him. Akonn was not at his home at the time, and we needed him to go home and see if there was any suspicious paper in the packaging. But eventually, He remembered something. He said that actually, he remembered a piece of paper that came in the packaging with the game, one that had a small screenshot of a Pokémon party on it, and Japanese writing. At the time, he had ruled it as just a merchandising pamphlet. The next day Akonn sent a picture of the paper. Everyone was shocked, because at first glance, it matched exactly on what the team expected. It was pretty much degraded, but not yellowed which meant it was not exposed to sunlight, being all this time probably tucked inside the packaging. Thanks to toloveL's experience with preservation of old documents, and paperwork, the team could guide Akonn on how to properly handle the paper without daggering to destroy it. After all, it could very well be 26 years old! Akonn gave more details on how the paper was when he found it. According to him, it was inside the packaging, behind the booklet. In some cases, Andy put the paper inside the paper box, but that was not how it came with it. HE also reported a very small water damage on the booklet, but this did not affect the Mew paper in any way, according to him. Meanwhile, Ajxpk was scanning the image to text, so we could have total access to what was written on that paper. He noticed it was slightly different from the second letter. Me and toloveL were interested in knowing more about the differences between those two. That would be important do determine if the Mew paper could be a copy of the second one, or a mockery. Ajxpk was the first to bring up an incomplete sentence in the letter. It seems one of the instructions was missing a part, as if the person typing it just… forgot to continue it. The others also noticed the screenshot in Akonn’s paper was somewhat different from the other one. There was also an extra sentence in the second letter. The letter from October also continued the sentence our paper cut. Now, this could say anything. Probably the second letter would have a bit more work put into it, and maybe they decided to change something. Yet, some things seemed amiss. This made me decide to question Akonn again about the entirety of the paper’s timeline with him. But in the end, it was possible to verify Andy was not at home when Ajxpk brought the paper up, as stated earlier, and Andy spent the entirety of that night in a friend’s house at a party. Akonn had sent me a picture of him in the pool with his friends the night before. So... he did not temper with the paper, or at least he could not at that night. As far as I know, he was also very far away from home to be able to do that in one night. So, it was extremely unlikely Akonn had the time to fake something so specific during a party night. One could argue he could have faked it beforehand but given the second letter just emerged in early 2021, and he provided a receipt of the cartridge being bought in 2020, this was also extremely unlikely. The team also noticed wrinkles in the paper. This was first brought up by Sabersite. The wrinkles did not match with the paper being stored in a tiny box. toloveL said that by her work-related experience, those wrinkles could be the result of just movement. Taking the cartridge out of the box and putting it again on it could very well cause some wrinkles. There was at some point the idea of carbon dating the paper. But this tech is not easily accessible to normal, day-to-day civilian people. I tried to contact my fiancée, who is a chemistry student, and the labs from her university could have this tech accessible at their labs. Sadly, that was also not the case. It also could be that the paper was faked in 1996 or circa 1996, so the carbon dating would be futile. Sabresite asked a friend who speaks japanese to help with the text, there was a sentence that was cut, but the text seemed to be very natural. The differences with the second letter being the screenshot used in the August 96 paper, and the one used in the October, also the font seemed to be different and there was a space in a word, where it should not be. Then we thought to verify on how this paper could have been done. And this is another weird turn of events, but we ended up asking ourselves if this was typed in a typewriter. I ended up in a discord server of Typewriter enthusiasts. After some time, we ruled out the possibility of a typewriter. But it was indeed a very weird way to spend my late night Saturday, talking about typewriting for long hours. Shout outs to all the typewriters in the world. In a second analysis of the sentences in the paper, Ajxpk and toloveL made an astonishing discovery. There was a spelling error in the text, tha in their opinion was strong evidence of the paper not being written by GameFreak. The error was that they wrote セ instead of ゼ. For Ajxpk and toloveL this was very strong evidence of it not being real, since in their eyes it’s a typical error of someone not proficient in Japanese. And there comes the weirdness of it all: This could be very well a typo, and this also could indicate its legit, because the Mew event is well documented as a very rushed thing. But assuming it is fake: Why do typos if you are trying to fake something so specific? Why give yourself all this work for nothing, if this Mew never surfaced on the internet before, in sites such eBay? How would they fake the paper if they had nothing to go by, since the second letter just surfaced in 2021? Yeah... Yet, the evidence against the authenticity was too much to be ignored. The typos, the cutted sentences, the weird spacing in words, etc… That’s a pretty much stalemate on the investigation. Well, there was only one way to know for sure: Asking GameFreak themselves. Asking GameFreak: Lickgunt Strikes Back We all agreed on our last resort: There was only one way to find out about this mew authenticity, and that was try and reach for its possible parents: GameFreak. They could very well refuse to tell us or could simply say it was none of our business if this 26-year-old paper was real. But it was our only option, and we chose Junichi Masuda, the man himself to approach. Because not only he was very old in the company, but he also is very active on twitter, interacting even with me on many occasions. We were waiting for the team to give their OK on the matter, so everyone would be in the same page. That's when toloveL noticed something weird on the Leichtung from before... Namezou, our Licktung boy, had a very weird HP bar in Akonn’s save data, which sadly went under the team’s radar all that time! Namezou, the Hentai Licktung, had only 10 Health Points. This is… Unusual, at best. ToloveL also gathered visual evidence that this was not a visual bug, and Namezou in fact had only 10 functional HP. Namezou, ironically, had concrete signs of being hacked. Or at least tempered with in some way. Sabresite theorized that it was a glitchmon. TLDR: You could glitch your game doing weird stuff to generate a specific Pokémon. Sabresite detailed that it happened because of memory checks or shared variables being absent from Gen 1 and 2 game codes. But, Glitchmon should have its HP fixed when stored in a box… And toloveL did just that, and just as the team suspected, it was fixed. Sabresite concluded that the Mew could only be hacked through a Glitchmon. The abnormalities in Mew’s data could be reminiscent of it. Sabresite also suspected this was a ‘’ACE hacking using Licktung’’, which explained why Licktung was acting weird. This could not explain the HP however. Licktung traded in route 18 should be at level 37, with 120 HP. The team was assuming the glitch leveled up Namezou to 100, but the hacker forgot to fix the HP as well, in result staying low. But it should be 120. Still, the Licktung was definitively messed up, this could not be ignored. Sabresite said he would look at the Licktung DVs once he had the time to do so, but he was also very determined that Licktung proved Mew was indeed fake. However, he did believe the letter was very hard to fake. The group theorizes that even if a picture of the letter did not exist, some kind of description of how it would look, could have made its way into the Japanese internet back in the day. It was almost impossible to verify at the moment, the language barrier is too much. But… Gridelin came back with a question: ‘’What if it was not Mew, but another glitched Pokémon the original trainer got from another player to complete the dex?’’. In Gridelin’s mind this could not be all the evidence needed to disprove Mew. It just did not made logistic sense in his mind. He also pointed out that the paper being fake was very weird. The person faking it should have known how it was supposed to look in the first place. Another good point is that, due to code problems, once you glitch your game, the hall of fame should have been disturbed. This did not happen in this save as well. Gridelin also stated that, there were no leftovers of previously tempered Pokémon in the save file. He could very well be wrong but stated that he refused to lose to the ‘’Licking hentai monster.’’ So, in his eyes… Mew still had a chance. The most compelling piece of evidence against it being faked, the team had, is the letter being so close to the twitter one from 2021, with people supposedly not having access to it before that. We then, made the tweet to Masuda. toloveL was the one chose to this task, since her profile was way more professional and Pokémon oriented than mine. At the time of writing, this tweet has gathered 815 likes, and 13 quote tweets. The japanese users seems to have the same exact opinion as us, and others seems to believe it. Masuda however, never replied to the tweet, nor any other way to contact him about the entire situation. We also had a very weird turn of events of a pornographic account tagging a Japanese account on our tweet. This other account seems to know something about the Mew, but when questioned by me, they said they could not help with the research. If i got a cent by every time pornography interfered with this research, id had 3 cents. Which is not much, but it's weird that it happened 3 times. The last evidence gathered by the team was a possible typo in a CoroCoro page from the July 1996 Issue. There, they wrongly referred to Mew was ‘’Miii’’. This was brought by a friend of mine, after he did his own digging on the matter. This could potentially be further evidence that a typo would not be so unheard of, especially in a private letter if it was in their own magazine. But given the investigation course, this came a bit too late. Still, worth mentioning. In conclusion: In the end, there’s no conclusive evidence gathered by the Mew Recovery Team (Aka Namezou Squad) to give a definitive answer on Mew’s legitimacy. There is compelling evidence to why it should be real: -The random and specific nature of it all. There’s never a good reason the Team could come up with on why someone would do all of this. Getting a Mew from other distributions, or the glitched one is just way more simpler. Also, why commit so much typos and errors if you are trying to fake something genuine? -The Mew never appearing in any auction site, excluding it was being faked for money -There’s no definitive answer on how the letter could be faked without having the second one to compare with, being that the second one only appeared online in earlier 2021, and the Mew was only discovered in 2022. -Aside from Licktung, the save data had no abnormalities. The hall of fame was intact, there were no leftovers of hacks, glitches or anything of that kind. -The typo in the CoroCoro magazine could prove that spelling errors could happen, and the letter was not immune to it. -lastly, the Mew’s data does not show any signs of being tempered with, asides from the oddly high IVs and the weird space in the OT name. -Every single expert that analyzed the save said there’s very few things that could imply the Mew is not legit. But there’s also very compelling evidence of it being fake: -The letter has a lot of errors. There's half of a sentence missing, there’s a spelling error, and a different font is used. -Even if Mew’s data is ok, one could argue this simply does not raise any relevant evidence to prove it’s legitimacy as well. -The space in the OT could very well be an error of a faker -The glitched Licktung is too much to ignore, even if the rest of the save is intact -Even after hours have passed, and the tweet has blown up, Masuda did not reply to it. His silence speaks tons of it. -The cartridge could very well be tempered with, since the battery survived for so long and no one could give a good explanation to that. -We can never know for sure if the previous, western owner tempered with that paper and or the cartridge. -Every single expert and Japanese proficient person that looked at the paper noted the weirdness of it pointing to it being written by a non-Japanese proficient person. -Every single expert that analyzed the save file concluded that there's nothing in it that speaks for it being legit. This is not all evidence the team gathered, nor it concludes the thoughts on the matter. But it makes a good point on how drawed the entire investigation is at the moment. The team went so far as to theorize that this could be a work of an ill intended kid. This Japanese kid from back in the day could have glitched this Mew, and wanted to use it to trade with other kids for their rare Pokémon. Going as far as to fake the letter for it having an authentic look. This does not explain how the kid got the letter’s information in the first place, nor how the glitched work. It's known that, if that’s the case, it involved a Hentai-named Licktung. If the team could replicate the method, this could be strong evidence. But this theory is just that, a theory, and it’s the best one the group could reach right now. The other, less detailed theory is that it was faked in the west by the previous owner and there’s no good explanation on why he would do that, nor how. That said, the team reached a consensus on letting it cold for now. Wait to see if anyone comes to the group with some answers, if Masuda notices the tweet. It’s simply not good to risk the work falling in the wrong hands to rush this. The early conclusion is that: No evidence we have now can prove anything, it's just speculation and conjectures. Every team member has their own hypothesis and thoughts, and they all agree that this is absolutely the weirdest Pokémon search ever done. If you, read all the way through and got here, thank you! If you could help us, please offer your thoughts! If this Mew is real, it's a very important piece of history! This text was in part, edited by toloveL. Thank you! ... I also want to thank from the bottom of my heart, every single soul involved in this case. We spent countless hours on this, and it was not easy! Thank you! I wish I could send you all a Gracidea flower bouquet to show how thankful I am. My sincere thank you to The Legendary Offer Mew Recovery Team: -toloveL -Gridelin -Sabresite -Akonn -Ajxpk

@Bakkyunkyun Yes, this is possible. You have to edit SID/TID and perform a careful adjustment to Pokémon's PID value. Let's say my shiny 6IV Ditto has a PID value of 0xF213B956 and was caught by a trainer with SID=1234 and TID=567890. I changed SID to 1111 and TID to 222222. To make my Ditto legal: 1. Remember "Xor" value, PKHeX shows it when you hover over PID edit box (text will be "PSV: <number> | Xor = <number>"). For our example Ditto it's 1. 2. Compute packed TID/SID value: 1111222222 (decimal) = 0x423BE7CE (hex). Let's call high part TH=0x423B and low part TL=0xE7CE. 3. Compute 16 upper bits of Ditto's new PID value. The formula looks like this: TH ^ TL ^ Xor ^ PIDL (PIDL is low 16 bits of old PID). So we get 0x423B ^ 0xE7CE ^ 1 ^ 0xB956 = 0x1CA2 ( ^ denotes exclusive or) 4. Replace old high bits of PID with new ones so 0xF213B956 becomes 0x1CA2B956. Pokémon is now legal @Elexander I won't update seed files anymore because the program allows you to generate same information in few seconds. Result table will contain all basic Pokémon information, so it's easier for bulk viewing. Yes, all high-herba raids have a small subset of Pokémon in them. For 6 star raids they are listed here.