HaxAras

I purchased one of those Magearna disks from Japan. I have one of my copies of the gen 7 games set to Japanese but I don't know if there's a way to extract the data or use it on my save. I don't see it in the missing events list either though. I have a Japanese Magearna already but I'd like to redeem my own. I'll do what I can to contribute it if you're missing it. Just let me know. 

14 hours ago, suloku said:

Hey trigger_death, since the tool is about legitimacy, how about changing the event distribution to the actual official events?
Of course, non-jap Old Sea Map would still be non-legit, but injecting the wondercards/event for the other ones?

And how about e-reader stuff?  Berries and trainers are dumped, ready to be injected to savegame.

Also, what about feebas fishing spot (since you check for mirage island)? I'm just suggesting stuff that would make this great tool even better imho.

The Colosseum E-reader Pokemon were never released in English. I'm going to say you wouldn't consider those legit either? I also wonder about the Colosseum Celebi and Pikachu in English and the GameStop Celebi. 

With Mew and the others, I like that there's some ways to get them into my games. I used to use Action Replay on my English and Japanese Emerald. Now, I can just inject them into one save and write the save to another language. I will get those events in every language, one way or another. I personally consider them legit since the data is in the game. And in the end, it doesn't really matter since they're for my own personal collection. 

Before, trigger_death said he liked giving people lots of options. One thing he could do if he wanted is to allow you to inject any event into any game and just make it clear in some cases, like the non Japanese Mew that it's not considered legit by some. Just something to think about. It would save me a lot of time in the future. 

I tried messing with the Feebas spot finder and it didn't work for me. 

Edit: 12-7-16 Here's an interesting little thing I found. 
When I tried to rename a Japanese Shelgon that had the name S H E L G to Shelgon, it didn't work. So I sighed and hit backspace and it was named S H E L G O N. 

(Not my Pokemon or save. I had to censor the name because I am unfamiliar with all of the forums rules.)
I'm making all-male and all-female living dexes using other peoples Pokemon from the GameFAQ's saves I downloaded. Just to speed up breeding. When I pull a female Gyarados from my living dex, I'll match it with a Male Gyarados from the MLD to speed up the egg process. Unless I'm breeding for Egg moves, but that's for later. 

Edit 2: More Experimentation.

Ho-oh refused to add a dash to it's name, despite me trying multiple times and it showing up properly in my living dex. 
When I evolved Graveler, it kept it's name, as expected. Something I personally found out years ago. In gen 3, since the devs never expected Pokemon to escape their regions, Pokemons names will be shortened to 5 characters when transferred to a Japanese game. Another thing I found though, when a Pokemon evolves on a foreign langage save, it keeps it's original name. As shown above. My Japanese Squirtle in my original living dex will always be "Squirtle" in Japanese, when evolved in an English save.

Perhaps I should have chosen a better example when I went for this next test. But this was what was on hand at the time.

Even though I corrected it's name in Triggers PC, it still only shows the first 5 characters and I think it kept the name Sandshrew.

Since I started playing Pokemon again and using Triggers PC for shiny hunting,  I've encountered a few things I felt like making notes of here. 

Shiny eggs being noticed when they're stored in Triggers PC.

I did an auto search for shiny eggs and it found all the ones I had stored in Triggers PC. Was that un-intentionally added back in? I have clones of all my eggs that I've hatched shiny still as eggs so now Triggers PC alerts me every time I start it back up.

Active and Inactive save files

Since I can no longer store eggs in HaxAras' PC in the tool, I store them on a spare GameFAQ's ruby save. I have to constantly add and remove it. It would be really awesome to have active and inactive saves so we wouldn't have to remove them but they wouldn't factor in shiny eggs or mirage island. I'm assuming most of the Mirage Island matches I get are duds because they're just save states from GameFAQ's.

Removing Pokemon from the Daycare

Would it ever be possible to pin saves? I add and remove saves all the time and when I have say Emerald and Pokemon Box open, then update my saves. It puts them all back to the default and I have to manually switch them myself. 

Searching for Pokemon and Items

A CTRL + F style searching option would be helpful. I was trying to search all my saves for items and Pokemon. Usually it's an item but when I have to type F Fl Fl 5 times to find flute, it gets tedious. Other times I search something like "Hy, Hy, H, H, H" trying to find Hyper beam." Finding TM's is damn-near impossible. I have to manually scroll. I encountered it with A-save as well, in the short time I was using that. Hopefully my tone doesn't come off wrong. I just really, really hate those drop down search things. 

Shiny Egg Results could show me the save file. 

I encounter this often. I use HaxAras everywhere. It may not be my legal name (Yet) but I don't let anybody call me anything different. So Naturally, all of my save files are HaxAras. This can be kinda annoying when I get that wonderful "You have a shiny egg" message. And then it says "Emerald: HaxAras" and I die a little inside as I have to sort through 15 Emerald saves with the OT: HaxAras. 

I'm not a programmer but I can't imagine it would be too hard. When you click on manage saves, it shows you the file location of the save. When you click on "Show results" it shows you the specific egg. If I could see the file location or the surrounding saves in the tool, it would be incredibly helpful. I have about 50-60 saves now to maximize chances of getting shiny eggs. 

Even an ID number of the save would be incredibly helpful. 

Could not activate the bike event 

Couldn't activate the Bike event but I could activate all of the others. 
I used A-save editor to insert the bike but it showed me having 0 key items instead of 2. 
Rydel asks where my bike is and mentioned me depositing it. Despite that not being possible. 

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This was a strange one. I have a GameFAQ's save that only has 1 key item and has beaten the Elite 4. When I tried to use your tool to give me both bikes so I could hatch an egg quicker, it didn't have the option. When I used A-save editor, I think Triggers PC said I had 0 key items instead of 1 or 2. When I went to Rydel to switch bikes, hoping the game might just give me the other, he asked what happened to it and gave me dialogue about putting it in the PC. Despite that not being possible!

View multiple status windows

When the window is maximized, let me view multiple status windows. (OT, ID, Ev's and IV's, Moves, etc.) Basically, like when you maximize Triggers PC you can expand to 3 windows or saves of Pokemon, spread the stats windows as well. Being able to view all of the above mentioned stats would be super helpful. Another thing that would be an amazing time saver is a side by side stats comparison between 2 Pokemon. 

Focus on a save

I notice when I click focus on a save in the second or third row, Triggers PC still shows me the items and Pokemon in Triggers PC or the topmost save.

trigger_death, I haven't talked to you in a while. Hopefully you're doing well. Thank you again for this amazing tool you've created. It's been unimaginably invaluable to me. I hope to continue using it for years to come, providing my thoughts and ideas for you to decide on what to use. I'll continue to report any bugs, glitches and strange occurrences as I find them. (I'll also try to find that Emerald save with the missing key items so you can look it over yourself.)

Edit:

Removing saves

Another thing that's been driving me crazy lately. If you mess up and click on "remove save" no matter what you click on afterward when it asks to confirm (Yes, no, X) it removes the save anyway. 

You don't seem to have the Colosseum and XD: save editor. Do you want/need me to upload that for you? I also have A-save on my computer currently. 

suloku said:

HaxAras: your legit e-reader saves project is really interesting, but if you are doing it thinking there is no other way to get the events in the saves, you are wrong on that. Most trainer and berries are already included in the package ready for injection to any langage game saves. Also, a japanese save with an scanned trainer will work fine on another language rom, but the easy chat system text will make no sense.

Nope. Personally, I just can't stand dealing with Emulators. I think they cause nothing but headaches. Always crashing and in the case of VBA, the wireless connectivity feature never working or after a while of use it just stops working, etc. So I thought it might be a fun way to pass the time. I didn't/don't know of any other project like it. I'm doing it for people who wish to battle those Pokemon and not deal with the headache of emulators or who also like doing things as legit as possible. If people want the Pokemon on their own saves, I can do that too.

I'm currently planning to download every single GameFAQ's save and look for stuff I missed last time. I realized how useful it would be to search by OT and secret ID. Since all or most event Pokemon have a secret ID of all 0's.

Also, I'll be eternally grateful to you for your tool. Last time I remember it took me over 17 hours to skim all those saves and who knows what I missed. Now, if there's any event-egg Pokemon on those saves, I will find them in minutes.

Invader TAK said:

The Emerald one wouldn't work because of Trainer Hill has a set amount of trainers. As for the R/S trainers, you'd need to inject them another way because Japanese Emerald's Mystery Events won't recognize the R/S cards. That's something I also tried using a printed dot code.

suloku said:

Mistery event is language locked (multiple times) and game-locked, from the research done at glitch city by Hacky it doesn't appear that there's a way to make them compatible with all games, or even all languages.

It may be possible via writing a custom e-reader program though, but if we are doing that (not that I can do it), we might as well go the easy way and directly inject to the save.

I think there's a misunderstanding.

4 Japanese R/S promo cards. Gonna scan them into a Japanese Ruby and then use my R4 to write the save to an English cart. Same thing with Emerald. I wanna see if it will convert the trainers or what will happen.

So the Emerald trainers are all for trainer hill?

suloku said:

e-trainer injection can be done, even for FRLG. What we say is that they seem to have planed trainer wondercards and that didn't work out/they scrapped the idea.

Do you know if it's possible to inject various language E-reader trainers into eachother?

Originally I wanted to take my Emerald strategy guide promo, scan it into a Japanese save and then convert to English to see what happens. I also wanna do it with the 4 trainer promo cards since those were actually released in English.

suloku said:

About custom events: that's why we bothered making an editor! Official WC injecting is a trivial thing, crafting your own is a different matter.

Take a look at this: https://projectpokemon.org/forums/showthread.php?46883-GEN-3-Mystery-Gift-Research&p=214201&viewfull=1#post214201

Now, if you open any wondercard with the editor, you'll notice there's a "inject script" button... I wonder which files would that button load?

You'll notice the package already includes an old sea map event in the CUSTOM folder, that's only the english script injeceted on a random wondercard, then the text was edited, all done in 1 minute.

An altering cave wondercard can be made in the same way. That script works the following way: each time you talk with the man in green the pokemon in the cave changes (in a secuential order). Those pokemon are of course illegal, since they were never obtainable in any language with that location, since as far as we know the altering cave event is unreleased.

The whole idea of having wc3 files is so custom events can be done and distributed in the form of easy to inject wc3 files (remember emerald and FRLG are not compatible though). For example, I made a script that enables the in-game event for Eon Ticket in Emerald. The script shows an image of the missing Lati and then enables the flag for that event. Of course that's not the legit way of enabling the event, that would be record mixing, but I made it for fun and test. I'll look for it and upload it as sample.

ps: wondercard e-trainers are impossible to make, morpheos AR codes inject a wondercard and the data for the trainer; the data for the trainer isn't something that gets into the save via wondercard communication. We don't know how that event would have worked or if nintendo scrapped it due to technical difficulties sending all the data.

Are you guys saying that custom trainers can't be made at all or just in Emerald? I'm uploading saves with every single E-READER card I own scanned in. Do you think it might be possible to rip the data and inject it into a different save?

Maybe tossing makes the trick. Remember that region that gets erased when tossing a wondercard, but has nothing to do with the WC or script and is empty in most contributed saves?

HaxAras, I just saw your pm, I'll certainly check on that tonight

Awesome! I was periodically checking in for a PM. I didn't wanna go to sleep without hopefully finding out first.

Cockatoo2 said:

Glad your back to Pokémon. And there might be a way using the tool. Like by custom entering all the information and then if you have the script then just inject the script, and therefore still get the event. But it would just be nice to have the button on tool to have. In the end, it's good to see all the progress that has been made. We have pretty much every ticket event, and really just need the eggs. Which are a bit harder to get but that shouldn't stop us.

Check/follow the contribution thread. I may have found the wonder card 30 mins. to an hour ago. Just waiting for a response from sulolu and ajxpkm.

Cockatoo2 said:

Maybe what we could do is have a page on the tool for like recreated or unofficial events? Like have the altering cave be there or if we are missing an event in a certain language but we remade it for that language, it goes there to. Then people can have it and there is a bit of space separating it.

If I'm not mistaken, there was a section like that for editing E-reader trainers.

I looked at the tool but I couldn't really test it. I took a 6~ month break from Pokemon and now that I'm back, I have to figure out what all these dozens of saves I downloaded are and where they're all stored.

Cockatoo2 said:

It probably wouldn't be legit since the event wasn't officially given out but who knows. I just hope it is possible that we can do this.

Currently, I'd suggest just going with Triggers PC.

I tend to keep my stuff organized in a way that makes sure nothing gets mixed up. Events I know are legit/got myself are in one section. Replica's and reverse engineered Pokemon are kept in separate saves. Questionable stuff is kept in different boxes from my legit stuff in Pokemon Box.

Cockatoo2 said:

Remembering back to when we started with lostaddict making a tool, he had gotten the altering cave event working. Is there a way to inject that event with your editor suloku? Because that would be a nice event to use even if it wasn't ever officially distributed.

I think that would be pretty awesome as well. I don't know if that would be considered legit or not. I know you can currently do it using Triggers PC. I just like catching Pokemon with unique or rare caught locations. (It would be awesome to have a "Hatched on Mirage Island" Pokemon)

Remember how just the other day we were all talking about how we'll likely never get one of those egg wonder cards? Guess what I'm pretty damn sure I just found! I'm not trying to get anybodies hopes up without good cause because I feel this is reasonably legit. I'm gonna do my own small amount of research and pass every-single-thing I found onto ajxpkm and suloku.

Edit: Message sent with every bit of info I currently have. I seriously hope this checks out.

When you guys were talking about the missing eggs, I had no idea there were so many! I have a Teeter Dance Pichu egg but I can't confirm it's legitimacy I was going to try to find somebody on the forums to ask. It's also not on the list so I wasn't sure if it was needed anyway.

Somebody please move this if this is in the wrong place or there's a better section for it.

So basically over in this thread

https://projectpokemon.org/forums/showthread.php?48553-Gen-III-V-Event-Contributions-Thread

I noticed a couple of my saves. One of them being a Ruby version with the Nutpea berry scanned in. I'm an E-reader collector. I like legit stuff and official hardware so I thought of contributing saves with every E-reader trainer scanned in, every berry, etc. I thought about it a little more and felt this huge undertaking deserved it's own thread.

I'll only be doing each trainer in 1 save. For ex. Only Japanese Ruby and NA Ruby, etc. Once I'm done with the project, I can take special requests. Like scanning a certain trainer into Sapphire or scanning stuff into personal saves. I'm still waiting for them to arrive but I've ordered the complete set (No promos) of Fire Red and Leaf Green and once I'm done with those scans, I can do custom setups and scan any cards in any order.

I'm considering taking pictures of each card to go along with the save file. They'll all be in a compressed folder together and likely bundled together. (English Ruby berries, Japanese Ruby berries, etc.)

Here's a list of what I have and basically my to-do list.

English

All booster pack trainers

All berries

Lady Astrid

Gentleman Niles

Eon Ticket

Japanese

All series 1 trainers

All series 1 berries

Decoration Present

Emerald strategy guide promo

4 E-reader pack in promos

Fire Red and Leaf Green set

Pokemon Colosseum set and promos

If I'm not mistaken, the way it works with Colosseum is:

I beat the trainers and then a special trainer shows up and I can catch a shadow Pokemon. I'll be making backups for all of those as well as a special backup afterward where you can battle all of the trainers that have been scanned in.

As of the date and time of typing this, I only have a few more days of work and then I'll have most of the next several months off so I'll work on this when I can.

Edit: First bit of a progress update. I was hoping for some feedback so I won't go much further than this.

On one hand, I don't want 100 folders but on the other I also don't like how cluttered it will be with 200 files. Pictures and saves all over the place. I figure bundling them up might be the less annoying option.

Edit 2: Here's version 1 of the save with everything pictured. To let people download and use the saves and so this thread doesn't look like some empty promise.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/8f75oumtv67l34b/E-reader_Ruby-Sapphire-Emerald-EnglishV1.zip

PokemonWorldMaster1 said:

One of the problems that I have is the fact that if a profile has more than the normal maximum amount of Items (such as x3000 Rare candy in one slot, rendered as ?00 in game), the program doesn't recognize them and then the items are flat out erased from the game when I save it again. I'd really appreciate this if you can fix this bug

You can use the A-save editor to delete the hacked quantities of items.

I make chiptune music with Gameboys as a hobby and have everything needed for dumping and reading Gameboy carts using modern computers. Specifically, I own a USB cartridge reader/programmer. It handles SRAM data just fine. The easiest solution would be for you to buy one here http://bennvenn.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/reader-writer-gen2 for $50 USD or send your cartridges to someone like me who owns one. Provided, you would need to replace your save batteries for your own carts and transfer the Pokemon from the N64 game back to the Gameboy carts.

I have no clue of how to check the legitimacy of the event Pokemon but perhaps we can put together info with the help of others and come up with a solution for dumping and verifying them.

Thanks so much for that link! It beats the hell out of that method using those old GameBoy Color save backup devices that cost the same price on Ebay. I have a gen 2 living dex with a shiny Abra I found and a shiny Celebi and I'd love to save it on my computer/port them to gen 3 and be able to re-play Silver again.

Those will be great awesome additions to the archive!

Alright, I haven't really been playing Pokemon much in the last 5-7 months or so. Whenever I stopped being active here. I'm an Xbox achievement hunter so I hop back and forth between that and playing my other consoles/handhelds/etc. But I got that Pokemon bug recently so I'll be working on that here and there when I get time. I'll keep you posted. It should only take a day or so and I work a seasonal job so I'll only be working 2 days next week and then it's nothing but free time until March.

I now have a complete list of all the E-reader cards I've got.

English

All trainers (No promo)

All berries

Eon Ticket

Japanese

All series 1 trainers

All series 1 berries

Decoration Present

Emerald strategy guide promo

4 E-reader pack in promos

http://digiex.net/downloads/download-center-2-0/nintendo-game-boy-content-gb-gbc-gba/save-games/14690-pokemon-gen3-legit-event-pokemon-save-ruby-sapphire-emerald-firered-leafgreen.html

This link leads to a FireRed save file absolutely LOADED with LEGIT event Pokémon, INCLUDING Ageto Celebi. It doesn't have a shiny Ageto Celebi, but don't be surprised. That particular shiny 'mon is rare to the point where only a small handful are apparently confirmed to exist. Something about being checked for shinyness TWICE? Whatever. Just download that save file, and either trade via emulator, or drag-and-drop with PKHex. Having gotten a Wishmaker Jirachi from this save, I'll be the first to tell you this is no hoax. BTW, you're welcome.

Being one of the biggest contributors of the save and sort of a manager at this point I guess. There should be 2 Fire Red saves, the second being an overflow and a legit shiny Celebi cannot be obtained. Somewhere on these forums if I'm not mistaken (Maybe it was just the shiny Wishmaker Jirachi thread) research was done to find that it's not possible to get.

The thread isn't intended to be a hoax of any kind. Insane Nutter and I have put many hours into this project scanning dozens and dozens of saves for any and all legit event Pokemon we can find. We reaped saves posted here, other places, our own collections and saves that were contributed.

I have a small handful of extremely rare events I haven't contributed but I gave my word that I wouldn't make them public and keeping my word is very important to me. So unfortunately, in the foreseeable future I won't be able to release those.

I did manage to get a 'legit' shiny Celebi in gen 2. I just did the glitch to convert a Pokemon into Celebi and used a shiny Ditto named Celebi and it worked like a charm. I actually have a video of it.

@theSLAYER I see you've uploaded my Japanese Ruby save with the Nutpea berry (It also has the Regi dolls) I can upload all of the English E-reader berries and a few of the Japanese ones if you're interested in a bundle of saves containing all of those.

We got them. All thanks to Nintendo in Italy who STILL offers the service, Real.96 who lives in Italy and some others who sent carts to him like ajxpkm and HaxAras.

Small correction. I didn't send any carts in. I was more on the sidelines, ready to send mine if needed. I didn't really contribute much of anything unless you count the 2-3 saves I uploaded and Decoration present/Regi Doll info for the E-reader aspect.

Thank you guys all so much for everything you've done.

I like to be sure, he said he wanted to contribute, but I tend to not assume things (necessary for my job, assuming things can have really bad outcomes).

I've made a quick check: FRLG Mystic ticket will finally be available! Also, the Emerald save has a Mystic Ticket wondercard that is different from the one we already had, so that's also awesome!

If we can get confirmation that the Mystic tickets were able to be received in non-ENG cartridges, this will be pretty much it, besides missing a version of the FRLG Mystic Ticket wondercard, and the egg wondercards, which are so rare I don't expect to get any of them at this point.

I honestly never thought we'd get the FRLG Mystic Ticket. I know it's extremely unlikely but I'm not gonna give up hope. I'll be checking any and all carts I buy in the future as well.