WerewolfOfTheWater

http://projectpokemon.org/forums/showthread.php?14026-Guide-How-to-generate-Gen-V-Pokmon-in-PokGen

Is there any way to make sure it retains a certain ability when it evolves?

I have a question. When you select a legal ability for the pokemon to have, then allow pokegen to generate a PID when you save, does it generate a correct PID for that ability? Or do you have to set ability 1/2 somewhere?

I have the problem, I'm running windows 7 64 as well. I dunno what's causing it though. I disabled avast and the problem persisted so I doubt it has anything to do with my anti-virus.

That could be it. I mean, it was on a retail cart, before I got my NDS adapter plus, before I used any homebrew to back up and alter the save, no action replay or anything either. (I decided to play through the game without any hacking at all for the first time) It was a legal cart that hadn't been touched by any external device at all, and I still couldn't upload the musical photo with my starter pokemon in it.

I had a problem of not being able to upload musical photos before I even tampered with anything in my game at all. It was a retail cart, before I received my NDS adapter plus and hadn't been touched by any device in the slightest, but it said there was a problem with my musical photo and it couldn't be uploaded. so I dunno if it's even pokegen or hacking related at all.

Interesting thing is, I got errors with not even being able to upload musical photos before I even tampered with anything in my game at all.

They're not alone. I've had this problem since the beginning and I'm still having it.

Original DS should work fine too. As long as it has a GBA slot. But if you're using the NDS adapter plus then any DS should work since it's only a usb thing that connects a game cart to a PC.

Realhotstuff.com is a good place if you want to go with the flash cart route. Free shipping and fast delivery usually. Everything I've ever ordered from them has come in 3 days. I can tell you though that the homebrew I linked to does work with black/white, I've backed up and restored saves from the retail cart with no problem. I forgot to mention that I believe the homebrew only works on a DSlite you'll also need a slot 2 device to back up a save from a retail cart. They sell EZ flash 3 in 1s at realhotstuff.com as well. You may be able to use the wifi-method of backing up your saves with that homebrew, but I don't have a DSi so I can't tell you if it actually works or not. consolesource is where I ordered my DNS adapter plus but I haven't received it yet so I can't tell you how reliable they are or if it works with black/white for sure. They're located in Canada which is why I ordered from them since ordering from the company itself would have it shipped from china. But I can say that someone on the cycloDS forums said that their NDS adapter plus worked flawlessly with black/white so there you go. If all you wanna do is back up saves from a retail cart then this might be your best choice.

In order to back up and restore saves from a retail cart, you need a DS flash cart such as the supercard DSTWO, acekard, etc. You ALSO need a microSD card (has to be micro) that is inserted into the flash cart, and a microSD card reader to plug it into your computer's USB. You also need to put this homebrew onto your flash cart: http://projectpokemon.org/forums/showthread.php?12405-A-tool-to-backup-HG-SS-saves As this is the only homebrew that I've successfully backed up and restored a save to and from a pokemon black cart. OR, you could just get this thing: http://www.hkems.com/product/nintendo/0907.htm I don't have it yet myself but it apparently works with black/white.

I was able to get pokemon through by generating their PID like normal. However, I can't get two in that know Dark Pulse as an egg move. Are egg moves just banned or what? The pokemon are bred and hatched like normal, but I gave them dark pulse after they hatched, dunno if that could have something to do with it too. I noticed that when editing my hatched pokemon in pokegen, "as egg" is not checked under the met tab. Could that have something to do with it as well?

I don't understand why it happens I just know it happens.

It works fine on my laptop, which still has windows xp. But on my windows 7 64 desktop, certain pokemon names won't update when I click on view data, it either shows a blank space or the name of the last one I had selected..I tried installing the japanese language pack but that didn't appear to work.

This happens because nothing happens that triggers the dex entry. This happens if you use pokesav too. You need to make it into an egg and hatch it, or trade it to somebody and have it traded back in order to get the dex entry for it. This is why I only edit exiting mons or clones of them, instead of making new ones from scratch. When the pokedex editor for b/w is done, you could simply add the entry for the created mon in pokegen.