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Branwys

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  1. My friend recently bought a new Switch, but shortly after he transferred his 900 hour Pokémon Shield game to it, it died, stuck on an orange screen. He couldn't even get it to load at all, so he sent it off to Nintendo Japan for repairs. I'm sure you know what happened next: it came back in perfect working order, but with all the save data gone. He lost his 900 hour game. I feel really sorry for him, and it has kinda plunged him into a depression. He's a huge Pokémon fan, and despite this experience he's still into it — which makes the loss all the harder to bear. In any case, I used to do minor hacking on the 3DS games to get mystery gifts. So the first thing I thought of was that I may be able to at least partially rebuild his game, or at least his collection. But I have zero experience of this sort of major editing (even on the 3DS). I'm willing to hack one of my old Switches, but I think I will need help to get this done. I'm especially nervous because he plays in rank matches a lot, and I don't want to get him banned because of a silly mistake I made. So, I'm posting here to ask you for advice. If you could point me at the right articles to get me started, I will come back later when I get stuck. Also, I'd like to get an idea of how possible this all is. From researching, I'm getting the idea that the safest thing to do would be for him to play through a new game manually, and avoid editing his save file directly. I have a full living dex of my own (which he helped me finish last year), so I can easily provide him with eggs for most things he might need, again avoiding unnecessary risk. The big things that he lost were shinies, including shiny Zygarde and Necrozma. Is it possible to regenerate these? I can work out the exact date of catch from my own (non-shiny) Zygarde, as we were playing together. I also of course know his old player name and ID. Would it be safe to remake this, bearing in mind that he will use it in online play? Sorry for the long post. I'll be grateful for any advice you can give me.
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