PKollecter

I did not know that PKHeX auto purifies them. That is really cool, thank you! I am looking to get Lugia and, even with PKHeX, I imagine I need to unlock them by the stone to count. I am guessing I set the heart gauge to 0. Do I need to check the shadow box or leave it unchecked? Do you know where I could find a list of Shadow IDs? I’ve tried Serebii and Bulbapedia. For example, Seedot is 7 and Makuhita is 15 (in XD). I wanted to cross reference. When I get the remaining Shadow Pokemon, I’ll give it a go and see what happens.

I was looking for guides on the website and I found a variety of posts talking about issues related to Shadow Pokemon. Being able to recognize Shadow Pokemon (like Teddiursa), PID mismatches, editing messing up saves, and issues with Elekid. It seems XD/Colosseum saves are different than standard Pokemon saves and I suppose more error-prone (?). I did see that a majority of the posts were from a few years ago and I was wondering if those bugs are no longer an issue with the updated version. My goal is to transfer all my purified Shadow Pokemon and use PKheX to streamline the process. I am not looking to edit anything beyond the heart gauge for Colosseum. I hope to have the Pokemon retain their National Ribbon to show they were purified.

I see. I think I get it now. Thank you for clarifying. Matching saving files just means it will note that the data comes from elsewhere and not locally. And you are not able to see things like OT memories because you are not the OT.

Thank you. I wasn’t sure how closely PKHeX replicates in-game transfers and whether it would need to modify some data. It sounds like it won’t make a difference when choosing either gen 3 or 7 as PKHeX will make sure each generation recognizes the Pokemon as originating in XD. Out of curiosity, what data does override modify? Is it like deleting moves that don’t appear in that generation and changing the met location description to reflect coming from a previous region? Would this also mean the Pokemon would be understood as originating from a trade and not input by Pokemon Bank?

I still have uncaught Shadow Pokemon from Colosseum and XD. I want to capture and transfer them to Home. However, it would be over a hundred Pokemon and over a hundred trades from Gamecube to gba (not counting all the other steps). I was thinking of using PKheX to inject them into a save, either gen 3 or gen 7, but I am still new to the program. If I understand PKheX properly, I will have to dump all these Pokemon from their boxes into the PKheX database and then load them into the boxes of the new save file (gen 3 or 7). My questions are: • Would this method retain all Pokemon’s OT, stats, natures, ribbons, etc? Or would some data be different than Pokemon transferred up normally? • What generation, gen 3 or gen 7, would be recommended for the smoothest data transfer? • Should I select yes or no when the PKM loading override prompt appears?