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Just gave Pokemon ROM Changer a go. It seems to accept the changes I made to all the recoil moves, except for Take Down. Just like with OxAttack, it won't let me select the move once I've made a change. Very strange.

After fiddling around a bit, I noticed that whenever I alter anything about the recoil moves and save, the little section in the bottom right (which dictates what percentage the recoil damage will be) changes from whatever the original percentage was to 0. That wouldn't normally be a problem, but the program won't let me manually select a different percentage. It's just like how you can't change the percentage of HP restoration.

So, I've recently been using Oxnite's wonderful OxAttack program to edit moves in B/W, and most everything has gone well. However, whenever I attempt to edit a recoil move (take down, double-edge, etc) in any way, the program goes bonkers. It saves the initial changes, but when I go to a different move and then back to the recoil attack it won't even let me select the move, let alone change its attributes. Fortunately, I was able to reverse the changes I made to those moves in Crystal Tile 2, but I still wonder if there's a way to successfully edit those moves in OxAttack. On a side note, I swear I heard somewhere that editing 2-turn attacks into 1-turn attacks is a no-go. Is this true? OxAttack let me make the changes, but I've yet to test it out in-game.

The only download link for AEDS I've found via PokeCommunity.com is here, but even the commenters in that thread pointed out that it doesn't work correctly. Everywhere else says to go to Swampert Tools, but that website is completely down. It's like there just isn't a working version...anywhere.... As for that other link, I'm still confused on what I need to do after I've extracted/exported the narc file from D/P, along with how exactly I can search for specific moves within the hex code. People keep saying to search for a string of characters in a format that I can honestly say I've never seen in CT2.

So, to my understanding, there isn't a specific move editor for HG/SS (yet...). However, I did read up that it's possible to edit the move data from a D/P rom with Attack Editor DS (AEDS from now on), extract the corresponding narc file, and insert it into HG/SS. Sounded easy enough, but I'm having some issues. First, AEDS isn't cooperating. Whenever I go to edit the move data, none of my changes ever save. I have not only tried out multiple roms/versions of roms, but also tried saving after editing each move. Nothing is working. I wonder if my version of AEDS is out-of-date/corrupted, but I can't seem to find the program anywhere except for the one place where I obtained my current version. Hopefully, someone can hook me up with an alternate AEDS download (or perhaps there's another issue I'm unaware of that can be fixed). If not, then I suppose that means I would need to resort to editing the hex code myself. Course, since I'm pretty much new to this whole hex editing thing, this also poses some problems. As far as I've discerned, I need to open the HG/SS rom with Crystal Tile 2, hit "View," Select "Hex Editor," hit the little NDS icon thing, find "a/0/1/1" from the directory, extract/export that file (saving it as a .narc file), and.....that's where I get lost. Not sure if I need another program to edit that file I extracted, or if I can do it within CT2. Also, I have no idea how to search for specific offsets/pointers. For example, the one for Blast Burn is apparently $1D6FC1C, but I've never seen a string of characters in that kind of format. Without knowing how to do this, I obviously can't find specific moves to edit. So, would anyone be willing to help walk me through this? Like, as a practice example, could someone walk me through what I would have to do to edit the move Pound from base 40 power to base 50 power? TL/DR: Not sure how to edit move data in HG/SS. Attack Editor DS isn't working for me when using D/P roms. Pretty unfamiliar with hex editing. Care to walk me through the process?