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Hey @SmolJoltik, this is fantastic work! That per-slot forme-check the facility scripts run on your selected team was the issue, and ripping it out lets Giratina keep its forme in the Frontier. Thank you for laying out the precise script/function/segment for every facility (367/fn90, 377/fn79, 378/fn29, 379/fn29) - that saved a ton of blind digging. I implemented your fix a slightly different way that might help anyone who'd rather not recompile scripts in DSPRE. Instead of deleting the CMD_798 segments out of each facility script one by one, I patched the command's handler directly. CMD_798 maps to the routine that reverts a single team member's forme (the one that checks species == Giratina/Rotom/Shaymin and snaps them back to base/Altered/Land, and also hands the Griseous Orb back to the bag). That routine already has a clean early-out, so flipping one branch makes it always return "nothing to revert." A single 2-byte edit and every facility (Tower, Hall, Castle, Arcade) stops reverting, no script recompile needed: overlay 5, RAM address 0x021F6DC2: change 01 D1 (bne) to C0 46 (nop) Two things I found while I was in there that build on your discovery: 1. There is a SECOND Giratina revert I don't think your script fix reaches. The battle engine itself snaps Giratina-Origin back to Altered "before the turn" when it isn't holding the Griseous Orb - which is exactly the leftover symptom you mentioned for Castle and Arcade, where the facility strips your held item. That one lives in the battle overlay and you can kill it too: overlay 16, RAM address 0x02259FBD: change D1 (bne) to E0 (b) After that, Origin stays Origin even with no orb, so the Castle/Arcade caveat goes away. 2. While I was unbanning everything I also removed the species clause and item clause at all facilities, and un-nerfed Soul Dew in the Frontier (the game secretly switches off its +50% boost there). I wrote the whole thing up in a bigger thread - and I put together a single xdelta patch so people don't have to touch a hex editor at all. I also credited you in my post for discovering this! Thanks again. -IS2L

Thank you! Though I admit, I went ahead and added them myself like a week after that post... lol Now I gotta figure out how to modify my save file to change them to the Tepig in the updated slots. Dunno if any old save editor will do. Oh well, that one is on me, haha. Something to learn when im not busy with work. Thank you for such a wonderful rom hack, im really having fun!