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Thanks for the explanation! Since I already flashed the US CTRtransfer image to my 2DS yesterday (cause I couldn't wait to try it out :D), I will probably just continue getting all the Vivillons on that system and transfer them over manually. Afterwards I will make use of the JP CTRtransfer image and flash that to my system, probably still faster than to sift trough the dephts of the internet looking for that japanese System Settings app. Cheers to both of you helping me out, so far all my questions are answered!

Tried it as well, however my result is not what i expected, but I also didn't know about the 3DS System Settings app part and thus just used the configuration options from Citra. Therefore i did get a region mismatch, now I know why. Anyway, one last question since there are two methods now: How exactly would a save with the Pokémon just edited in (using the Citra + PKhex method) differ form a save that recieved the exact same Pokémon through Local Trade? Is there even any? Cause if not, than obviously it would be more convenient to just use Citra method. However i still would have to get the System Settings app for the JAP and US region, right? With the EU region combined one should be able to collect all Vivillons out there if I'm not mistaken.

Sorry, I did express myself rather unclearly in my last post. I didn't intend on using the foreign region carts to bypass the region lock. But if I understand correctly, the Pokémon CIA I dumped will not run any check for a region when installing & booting it on a region-changed system whereas a Pokémon cartridge (like my EUR cart) would perform such a check on a region-changed system, right?

If there is no region info on the cart as well, how can a EUR device perform a check and in case of lets say a game from the JAP region block that specific cart? Or does that just count for the Pokemon 3DS games? But as you recommended, I will go with the CTRtransfer images and see how that works out. Thanks again for the good input and your explanations, i really appreciated the time you put in your answers!

Thanks for the quick & detailed answer! Since my goal is to transfer those Vivillions to Pokémon Bank and then to Home, i would prefer to use the safest and most "legit" way to do so. I already considered installing the CTRtransfer images one after another on my spare 2DS but thought I could safe myself some time. Little did I know about that set of coordinates stored in the 3DS profile. As i am familiar with homebrew to a certain level it hopefully won't be difficult to perform the region change, at least the guide doesn't looks complicated. BUT I guess it will be a problem using my dumped .cia since that should be only working for EUR devices, won't it? If i had to buy a copy for each region I will probably reconsider the whole process ^^ EDIT: I typed faster than my brain worked. I guess i could use the Luma region spoofing in combination with the CTRtransfer image to get the EUR .cia working, right? Just to sum up: A Vivillion caught on region-changed 3DS with a correct version of Pokémon X/Y, then traded to my german copy and transferd to Pokémon Bank would be considered as legit, right?

Hello everyone! After many weeks of silently enjoying the beautiful content provided by you guys I decided to step up my Living Dex game (also caused by the recent news of Nintendo eShop discontinuation) and collect every Pokemon from Gen 1 up to Gen 7 that I am currently still missing. As of now, I'm looking to collect every possible Vivillion pattern by catching those in Pokemon X on different, fresh saves with the corresponding regions set up by using the Luma3DS Locale Emulation feature on my modded New 3DS. Before coming to the issue, some background information: System: 11.15.0-47E Region: Germany - Subregion: Not Specified GodMode9 v1.8.0 Luma3DS v10.2.1 PKHex Version 20220318 Now comes my approach of creating those saves: So far so good, than I progressed through the game until I could catch a Scatterbug on Route 2. Right after I caught one I saved my game and took a look at the save file with PKHex. (attached screenshot) The Scatterbug seems to be perfectly fine, the 3DS Region, Sub Region and Country correspond to the ones I set up with the locale.txt. The info provided by the Trainer Data Editor however seems to be not fully correct. While the Sub Region is not set (which should not be the issue in my case), the Vivillion pattern still remains Continental, wich would be the correct one if played the game with a german save, but not with a save from the Dominican Republic. The correct Vivillion pattern for that region is the Archipelago pattern. So what next? I changed the pattern to Archipelago, booted up the game again, caught another Scatterbug and than proceeded to evolve both Scatterbugs to see the outcome. To my suprise, the first Vivillion still turned out to have the Continental pattern. The second one though had the Archipelago pattern. After i looked at the save file again, both Vivillions passed the Legality test. Now to my questions: Does someone has any idea why the Vivillion pattern remained Continental while everything else seems to perfeclty fine? (More of a Legality question) Both Vivillions obviously have the same TID, SID and OT. PKHex still says both are legit, is that correct? If so, does that mean, that Vivillions pattern is decided when the Scatterbug is first caught/bred and not when its evolving? Is there any problem with me changing the Pattern manually on a proper created & set up save file? Sorry for the long post, i hope everything is explained thoroughly and someone can help me with this issue. Have a nice day! Note: Attached Files are the save and the locale.txt Useful Links: main locale.txt