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    Beta: the pokécheck legality checker for generation 5

    in Pokémon Legality

    Posted

    A minor problem with the trash bytes here.

    http://www.pokecheck.org/?p=detail&uid=1886644

    It says "This Pokémon is missing HGSS hatch trash bytes." all I did was send it to Platinum and evolve it.

    Orange just means that it's something to be weary of; it's not saying that it is not legal.

    Typically users hatch on the game which the egg is generated on, what you did was atypical. Since it doesn't have any trash bytes, it could either be name rated for a new name or whatever.

    Not a false positive :)

    Hard resetting for shiny's?

    in Spin-Offs

    Posted

    So long as you're resetting on the first encounter, you should be ok.

    The way it works is that the game randomly generates the Opposing Trainer's ID/SID and uses that for shininess rather than your own. So if it appears shiny when you battle it, it's shiny for the opposing trainer and not you. Only when you capture it will your ID/SID be applied, and then you'll see if it's shiny or not -> reset.

    If you kept this up you would eventually find a shiny shadow pokemon.

    PWT Download Tournaments

    in Saves - Research

    Posted · Edited by Kaphotics

    Download PWTE 2.1 by Prof.9

    ==

    So far there have been 4 download tournaments and one secret relic tournament locked away in the ROM; I might as well explain where it's at and how most of the important stuff is stored. I spent a little bit of time figuring out enough to get meaningful data out like text and teams, nothing more than that... so here's what I've found so far.

    PWT download events are set into the save file in the latter half along with all of the other downloadable content like mystery gifts. The tournament region is 0x7A000-0x7DFFF, for 0x1400 bytes for each tournament * 3 tournaments. By just looking at a downloaded tournament, it's hard to visually see the general structure via a hex viewer because it doesn't display Japanese characters... for visual help, you can use /a/2/5/8 from B2/W2's files, as this was their hard-coded test tournament that has a bit of English text (and wasn't removed for retail release).

    0xA-0x54: Tournament Name

    ~afterwards, there's text for describing the tournament

    PKMs are set up to be as compact as possible, skipping nonessential stuff kinda like battle pkms. 52 bytes per PKM (0x34), one after another to make 6.

    Structure of PWT-DLC PKMs:
0x0-0x1: Species
0x2-0x17: 11 character namefield (after names, they are usually 0xFFFF aka terminators, not characters)
0x18-0x19: Held Item
0x1A: Shiny Flag (00 or 01) ~ unconfirmed, hasn't been used except for the ROM tournament
0x1B: Ability
0x1C: HP EV
0x1D: ATK EV
0x1E: DEF EV
0x1F: SPE EV
0x20: SPA EV
0x21: SPD EV
0x22-0x23: Move 1
0x24-0x25: Move 2
0x26-0x27: Move 3
0x28-0x29: Move 4
0x2A: gender? ~ unconfirmed. may just be bitflags for stuff
0x2B: Nature
0x2C-0x2F: IVs (stored same way as pkms)
0x30: ??? always 0. might be secondary sparkle like N's
0x31: Ball
0x32: Current Level
0x33: Happiness

    0x270: Start of Trainer 1

    PKM1: 0x274-0x2A7

    PKM2: 0x2A8-0x2DB

    PKM3: 0x2DC-0x30F

    PKM4: 0x310-0x343

    PKM5: 0x344-0x377

    PKM6: 0x378-0x3AB

    0x3AC-0x3C1 - Trainer Name ~ not sure on the lengths of these

    0x3CC-0x3DD - Trainer Class ~ as I haven't seen longer name/classes

    Trainer win messages or something afterwards, didn't care enough to determine how they worked.

    Next trainer:

    0x650: start of trainer 2

    0x654: pkm data....

    0x3E0 between each trainer block, always 4 trainer blocks

    (0x270, 0x650, 0xA30, 0xE10)

    0x1400 next tournament... repeats...

    0x1670 trainer 1...

    0x1A50 trainer 2...

    etc.

    that's all I know, however there's certain bytes somewhere which make the game use other stuff in the ROM instead of the programmed PKMs or trainer name/class. I just wanted to get the important team sets out so I didn't bother figuring out the entire structure.

    ===

    resources~

    Excel Parser ~ paste in tabulated data strings into the proper cells. PKM related lookup tables from Bulbapedia & pkmcodedepo and character tables from here.

    Ripped Tournament from the region I mentioned above (7A000-7BFFF). "PWT Download" for the file extension naming

    example results from parsing stuff & (rom example)

    PokeStock BW (Updated for B2/W2!)

    in Saves - Tools

    Posted

    spinda spots are variant based on PID so I'd assume the images display the spots as they would be in the game

    ComeMst2 is the Hometown lookup (game originated in)

    ~ なし = None, usually implies its hacked

    ~ 不明 = Unknown, as these ones weren't used to ID any game.

    B2W2 General ROM Info

    in ROM - NDS Research and Development

    Posted · Edited by Kaphotics

    NARC file order (CLICK THIS FOR HUGE LIST OF NARC LOCATIONS):

    Notable files for ROM Hacks:
/a/0/0/3 - Story Text
/a/0/0/8 - Maps
/a/0/1/1 - battle backgrounds
/a/0/1/2 - ZoneData
/a/0/1/6 - personal.narc (pokemon editing)
/a/0/1/8 - level up moves
/a/0/1/9 - evolutions
/a/0/2/1 - Move data (type, bp, etc)
/a/0/2/6 - title screen
/a/0/3/0 - Start Menu Sprite
/a/0/5/6 - Ingame Scripts 
/a/0/6/5 - Move Animations
/a/0/7/1 - Animated Trainer Sprites (front, vs)
/a/0/7/2 - Animated Trainer Sprites (back, send out)
/a/0/9/1 - Trainer Data
/a/0/9/2 - Trainer Pokemon
/a/1/2/4 - Egg Moves
/a/1/2/6 - Overworlds
/a/1/2/7 - Encounter Tables
/a/1/6/3 - In Game Trades
/a/2/6/7 - Trainer Mugshots
/a/2/7/3 - Hidden Hollow Encounter Table
/a/2/8/2 - PokeMart Data
/a/2/9/1 - PWT Board Trainer Sprites
/a/2/9/6 - Pokedex Ingame Locations

    /a/0/1/6 indices and structure (personal.narc):

    thanks to Codr and magical:

1-649: normal forms
650-652: ??? (Kyogre's stats, but steel/flying)
653-684: Pokéwood stuff (all-100 stats, varying types etc)
685: Deoxys attack
686: Deoxys defense
687: Deoxys speed
688: Wormadam sandy
689: Wormadam trash
690: Shaymin sky
691: Giratina origin
692: Rotom heat
693: Rotom wash
694: Rotom frost
695: Rotom fan
696: Rotom mow
697: Castform sunny
698: Castform rain
699: Castform snow
700: Basculin
701: Darmanitan
702: Meloetta
703: White Kyurem
704: Black Kyurem
705: Keldeo Resolution
706: Tornadus Therian
707: Thundurus Therian
708: Landorus Therian
709: REGIONAL Pokedex indices (999 indicates the Pokemon isn't in the regional Pokedex.)

personal.narc
struct {
   u8 stat_hp
   u8 stat_atk
   u8 stat_def
   u8 stat_speed
   u8 stat_spatk
   u8 stat_spdef
   u8 type1
   u8 type2
   u8 catch_rate
   u8 stage //not really
   struct {
       u16 effort_hp:2  //lsb
       u16 effort_atk:2
       u16 effort_def:2
       u16 effort_spd:2
       u16 effort_spatk:2
       u16 effort_spdef:2  //msb
   }
   u16 item1
   u16 item2
   u16 item3 //dark grass
   u8 gender_rate
   u8 hatch_counter
   u8 happiness
   u8 growth
   u8 egg1
   u8 egg2
   u8 ability1
   u8 ability2
   u8 ability3 //dream world
   u8 escape_rate
   u16 form_stats_start
   u16 form_sprites_start
   u8 form_count
   u8 color
   u16 base_exp
   u16 height
   u16 weight
   u32 tms[4]
   u32 tutors_starters
   u32 tutors_shards[4]
}

    Encounter Table:

    Now has 135 locations. Here's their entry->ingame location:

    Exact locations not known (for dungeons), but this is where they generally are:

Location 0	Striaton City 
Location 1	Castelia City 
Location 2	Icirrus City
Location 3	Aspertia City
Location 4	Virbank City
Location 5	Humilau City
Location 6	Dreamyard  
Location 7	Dreamyard  
Location 8	Pinwheel Forest 
Location 9	Pinwheel Forest 
Location 10	Desert Resort 
Location 11	Desert Resort 
Location 12	Relic Castle 
Location 13	Relic Castle 
Location 14	Relic Castle 
Location 15	Relic Castle 
Location 16	Relic Castle 
Location 17	Relic Castle 
Location 18	Relic Castle 
Location 19	Relic Castle 
Location 20	Chargestone Cave 
Location 21	Chargestone Cave 
Location 22	Chargestone Cave 
Location 23	Twist Mountain
Location 24	Twist Mountain
Location 25	Twist Mountain
Location 26	Twist Mountain
Location 27	Dragonspiral Tower
Location 28	Dragonspiral Tower
Location 29	Dragonspiral Tower 
Location 30	Dragonspiral Tower 
Location 31	Victory Road 
Location 32	Giant Chasm 
Location 33	Giant Chasm 
Location 34	Giant Chasm 
Location 35	Giant Chasm 
Location 36	Giant Chasm 
Location 37	Castelia Sewers
Location 38	Castelia Sewers
Location 39	Castelia Sewers
Location 40	Castelia Sewers
Location 41	Castelia Sewers
Location 42	P2 Laboratory 
Location 43	Undella Bay
Location 44	Floccesy Ranch
Location 45	Floccesy Ranch
Location 46	Virbank Complex
Location 47	Virbank Complex
Location 48	Reversal Mountain
Location 49	Reversal Mountain
Location 50	Reversal Mountain
Location 51	Reversal Mountain
Location 52	Reversal Mountain
Location 53	Reversal Mountain
Location 54	Reversal Mountain
Location 55	Reversal Mountain
Location 56	Reversal Mountain
Location 57	Reversal Mountain
Location 58	Reversal Mountain
Location 59	Reversal Mountain
Location 60	Reversal Mountain
Location 61	Strange House
Location 62	Strange House
Location 63	Strange House
Location 64	Strange House
Location 65	Strange House
Location 66	Strange House
Location 67	Strange House
Location 68	Strange House
Location 69	Strange House
Location 70	Strange House
Location 71	Victory Road
Location 72	Victory Road
Location 73	Victory Road
Location 74	Victory Road
Location 75	Victory Road
Location 76	Victory Road
Location 77	Victory Road
Location 78	Victory Road
Location 79	Victory Road
Location 80	Victory Road
Location 81	Relic Passage
Location 82	Relic Passage
Location 83	Relic Passage
Location 84	Clay Tunnel
Location 85	Clay Tunnel
Location 86	Clay Tunnel
Location 87	Underground Ruins
Location 88	Underground Ruins
Location 89	Underground Ruins
Location 90	Rock Peak Chamber
Location 91	Iceberg Chamber  
Location 92	Underground Ruins
Location 93	Seaside Cave
Location 94	Seaside Cave
Location 95	Nature Preserve
Location 96	Driftveil Drawbridge 
Location 97	Village Bridge 
Location 98	Marvelous Bridge 
Location 99	Route 1 
Location 100	Route 2 
Location 101	Route 3 
Location 102	Wellspring Cave 
Location 103	Wellspring Cave 
Location 104	Route 4 
Location 105	Route 4 
Location 106	Route 5 
Location 107	Route 6 
Location 108	Mistralton Cave 
Location 109	Mistralton Cave 
Location 110	Guidance Chamber 
Location 111	Route 7
Location 112	Celestial Tower 
Location 113	Celestial Tower 
Location 114	Celestial Tower 
Location 115	Celestial Tower 
Location 116	Route 8
Location 117	Moor of Icirrus
Location 118	Route 9 
Location 119	Route 11 
Location 120	Route 12 
Location 121	Route 13 
Location 122	Route 14 
Location 123	Abundant Shrine 
Location 124	Route 15 
Location 125	Route 16 
Location 126	Lostlorn Forest 
Location 127	Route 18 
Location 128	Route 19
Location 129	Route 20
Location 130	Route 22
Location 131	Route 23
Location 132	Undella Town 
Location 133	Route 17 
Location 134	Route 21

thanks to xfr for the process to determine location names (zonedata submap)

    Poké Mart Locations:

    1	Stock No Badges
2	Stock 1+Badges
3	Stock 3+Badges
4	Stock 5+Badges
5	Stock 7+Badges
6	Stock 8+Badges
7	Accumula Town Upper Cashier
8	Striaton City Upper Cashier
9	Nacrene City Upper Cashier
10	Castelia City Upper Cashier
11	Nimbasa TM Department
12	Driftveil City Upper Cashier
13	Mistralton City TM Dept.
14	Icirrus City Upper Cashier
15	Opelucid City Upper Cashier
16	Victory Road Upper
17	Victory Road Upper?
18	Lacunosa Town
19	Undella Town
20	Black City
21	SM9 Top Right Cashier
22	Driftveil City Herb Shop
23	Driftveil City Inscense Shop
24	SM9 Bottom Section
25	SM9 Middle Right Cashier
26	SM9 Middle Left Cashier
27	SM9 Top Left Cashier
28	Aspertia City?
29	Virbank City Lower Cashier
30	Seigaiha City Upper Cashier
31	Floccesy Town?
32	Yamaji Town Upper Cashier


    Credits & Thanks To:

personal.narc identification and structure: Codr and magical
Location Map of encounter slots: xfr
File identification: Kaphotics, magical, Bond697, Codr, veekun, Sanky, Jerry, Andibad

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    Pokémon Black 2 and White 2 Translation Project

    in ROM - NDS ROM Hacks

    Posted

    oh ok, I used ze-ku-ro-mu (without the hyphens) and it worked AFTER changing the language back to katakana. I tried the number, zekrom and reshiram passwords multiple times still in hirigana (English), and none of them ever worked, but I tried the zekrom password right after changing the language and the game recognized it.

    it's probably checked by the ingame script without referring to the text file then.

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