arromdee2

Well, technically you don't. You can use a Gameboy flash cart, trade the Pokemon to the Gameboy flash cart, and then get the save file off of the flash cart.

Loading the same crystaltruncated.sav file I posted before produces the error "Gen 2 Location 126 not recognized." Opening a gen 2 save shows a window with "Pokedex" listed as "Pok..." This may be because the button is shorter than the other buttons. Opening a file starts in the home directory, not in the current directory. You could argue this, however, opening a second file starts in the home directory again and not in the directory the first file was opened from, which is harder to justify. Suggestion: When showing the boxes, show the boxes with the same number of rows and columns as the original. For instance, Pokemon Emerald's boxes contain 5 rows of 6 Pokemon each. You changed that in the editor to 3 columns of 10 each, where a row in the game corresponds to part of a column in the editor, making it hard to see what the box layout will be. Using 5 rows of 6 will be uglier but much more useful. Also, I still suggest showing the box name used in the game. Loading the attached Emerald save produces numerous errors about moves, origin games, species, items, and symbols not being recognized. Some of them have suspiciously large numbers (move 58927?). The save file includes Pokemon that have been migrated from and Colosseum (but not anything migrated from fire red/leaf green). Copying a Pokemon doesn't set the Pokedex entry as seen and caught. There's a "Max" which sets everything to seen and caught, but there should be something which sets only the Pokemon that are actually in your party or boxes. POKEMON_EMER_BPEE00.sav

I could swear it happened to me in Gen 1, although I can't prove it.

I just noticed you said this. I believe you can legitimately get a duplicate move if you give a Pokemon a HM and it later learns the same move by evolving.

The following file produces a "Status not recognized" error. It contains a Zapdos which is asleep in the actual game but is loaded as Fine. I don't know if the error is related to the Zapdos because it also contains a Blastoise that was obtaned in gen 1 with a glitch, taken to Daycare to reduce its level to 100, then sent into gen 2. Suggestion: when opening files, start in the current directory or the last opened directory--it goes to my home directory each time. crystaltruncated.sav

The problem with the first item is not that it creates multiple files, but that it asks for a filename and never uses the filename. It should either ask you to just pick a directory without a filename, or it should ask for a filename and then use the filename as a prefix (so if you type "save" it would create save1.pkm, save2.pkm, etc.) Edit: More problems: -- Trying to save a gen 2 Pokemon produces a file named .sav, not .pkm. -- Loading a Pokemon into a gen 3 file doesn't set its Pokedex entry as captured

Some problems: -- Trying to export asks me to pick a directory and give a filename. The filename is then ignored and the .pkm files are named 1.sav, 2.sav, etc. -- Loading the attached file (crystal) gives me errors about unrecognized item (which may be because I hacked in the item to get Celebi, but still)-- Loading the attached file also tells me that I have 4195096 money. Actually running it in an emulator shows me 202955 money. -- Box 6 is oddly corrupted. Again, running this in an emulator shows the box is fine. Suggestion: Have a way to load .pkm files directly into a 3rd generation file (and optionally update the Pokedex to mark those Pokemon as having been captured). Suggestion: When displaying boxes, display whatever in-game name the player assigned to the box. pokemontruncated.sav

Does this produce Pokemon that are legal (assuming you didn't get the Gen I/II Pokemon by an event, hack, or glitch)? Are there Pokemon that can be legitimately obtained in Gen 1/2 that can't be legal in newer versions (for instance because the Pokemon can no longer be caught in the same place in FR/LG/HG/SS)? Also, if you convert a Gen 2 Pokemon to Gen 3 and then send it to Gen 4 through Pal Park, is the Pokemon indistinguishable (as far as legality goes) from one caught in HG/SS?