DannyB01

@ danhomer No that's not a particularly good sign, although i imagine you're not too far from a legal PID. Which answers: @ zenskii No that doesn't count as legal, as it wouldn't occur in game naturally. @ RollingStar Pokesav generates a new legit PID for you when you randomly put those IVs in, as far as i'm aware. @ Nova Phoenix No Ageto Celebi should always come up as unknown gba type, your one has been hacked Check this link in the future: http://www.projectpokemon.org/editing/legalitychecker.php @ Gokufan That shiny ho-oh is a hack, it should be Common GBA Type (A-B-C-D) [possibly may have misremembered the letter order, but i'm pretty sure that's right]. Uknown GBA type pokemon are hacks except in rare cases (such as the Ageto celebi ironically). Hope that you're all happy with those answers! Now to ask the noobiest question of all. I'm trying to get to know legal pokemon generation better (I've got a fair bit of experience now) and understand what i'm doing. But due to the way pokesav works, when i use one of the generated shiny PID/IV combinations and select shiny, I then have to manually input the pid and by doing this, pokesav makes it not shiny anymore. What have I done wrong? Or is it that the only reason pokesav stops it being shiny is because the supposed shiny pids generated are actually normal pokemon's PIDs? That's what i think but wouldn't explain why the shiny PIDs i'm getting from SCV's PID generator (as well as PokeGen, I tried both) is only giving me normal PIDs. I'd really appreciate some help here, I feel the answer is staring me in the face and i'm just not seeing it

Hi, I've been using the legality checker for quite a while know and know exactly what i'm doing with it (well near enough anyway ). However I've recently heard talk of binary editors being useful for checking, as well as exe checking being useful for checking event pokemon. I'm not thinking about using these to make my own pokemon, just check if ones i've received are legal. Any help I could get on this would be hugely appreciated. Thanks for your time (sorry if this is in the wrong section).

Not necessarily true, at all. If you pal park it to D/P, they should all be 00, if you pal park it to platinum, the only one that shouldn't be 00 is the 46h value which should say 37. If you pal park it to HGSS, then it should say 37 in 46h, and the only other one with an entry should be the 85h value which will correspond to the pokeball it's in (eg 04 if its a pokeball).

Literally the only reason for this is because the legality checker needs to be updated to include it So currently all legit versions of these should say hacked or unknwon pokemon, as far as i'm aware.

The turtwig should be met at level 0 as it's hatched (i think). Otherwise it looks good

To an extent, if the event itself used a static pid, and you make one which is dynamic that's supposed to be static, then it's pretty obvious it's been hacked so obviously wouldn't be legal.

Well on the GTS it will anyway. I'm pretty sure they have some very complicated checking at the official tournaments and such which check your whole game (apparently). Also 1 word of advice when you put the EVs in is make it actually add up to 510. Even though effectively 4/252/252 is no different to 6/252/252, no having those extra 2 EVs makes it look very pokesav'd in my opinion. Also well remembered on the hex values, especially seeing as this is your first time

I think it should come under Unknown GBA Type, as even though it was an event the events were given out as eggs. In order to get them into the Gen IV games they'd have to be pal parked and thus hatched before in the GBA game, which means Unknown GBA Type on the checker. I'm interested in this as well, but that's my current take on it.

Don't you need the SID as well?

lol yeah I found one on my first search, and then a couple of weeks later was confused why i had two!

I think it depends on the version of legal.exe you are using. Older versions it'll say Normal NDS, but heatran should appear (in the current version) as Common NDS (A-B-C-D) I believe. Hope that answers your question.