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On 3/1/2017 at 2:31 PM, evandixon said:

Je peut obtenir le text japonais, mais je ne le comprends pas, donc nous avons besoin de quelqu'un qui peut le traduire.  Est-ce il y a du text spécifique que tu veux voir?

For all of you who can't read French: I can get the Japanese text, but I can't understand it, so we'll need someone who can translate it.  Is there any specific text you want to see?

It might be interesting to look at the specific wording used in XY to describe the mega stones and their origin. I seem to remember that at some point when the player reaches Anistar city, professor Sycamore joins up and begins speaking about mega stones and their origins, comparing them to fire stones. It is, as of yet, really unclear what mega stones are exactly despite them being part of XY’s (albeit, extremely thin) plot.

Also I’d be interested to see a direct translation of the Japanese text concerning the “Sinnoh myths” found in the library in DPP.

Il serais à mon avis également fort intéressant de comparer la traduction française pour les éléments narratifs que j’ai mentionnés ci-haut.

Ok fine, touché!

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• "Their" is the third-person plural possessive pronoun, which is used to indicate more than one person or thing possesses something. It is grammatically incorrect to use it to describe a single person.  That is, unless you are suggesting coltonsmogon is in fact more than one person, in which case this reason is invalid, leaving the other two to stand alone.

 

• “Their” doesn’t have to refer to something semantically plural. It can be used when the referent’s sex (or number) is unspecified. One of the entries in the Thesaurus for ”their" : belonging to or associated with a person of unspecified sex: she heard someone blow their nose loudly.

I didn’t bother checking if the poster was male or female. Also online, you can never be sure so... (sorry)

I'd also use a 3rd person pl. pronoun to refer to a single person, male or female or a party when I do not want to disclose any information about their identity in a confidential setting e.g., my client has agreed to your first proposal, but they are not willing to comply by the terms in the second proposal. “They" here might refer to one or more person or party, or even to a man or a woman.

On 4/12/2017 at 0:55 AM, theSLAYER said:

As this is one turn post after evandixon's banning of coltonsmogon,
Coltonsmogon is on land!

Hence, I'll use a Z-ban, to bypass coltonsmogon's frequent use of Protect.

That being said, I ban theSlayer for using customized hacked moves that are not coded in the original game and corrupting people’s existence!

On 4/9/2017 at 10:36 PM, evandixon said:

I ban coltonsmogon because he's correcting someone's spelling without himself having perfect grammar:

This sentence doesn't end with a period .

(Waits for coltonsmogon to find one or more of my grammar or spelling errors.)

I ban evandixon for using an “emoji" and being hypocritical in his rightfulness! Characters such emojis, an abomination of the XXI^st century, are not part of standard written English. On top of it, he is correcting someone who was in turn correcting someone else for their, oh-not-so-flawless-grammar, when he himself errs by using abominable “emoji” punctuation! 

RESERVED

9 hours ago, Purin said:

Would be interesting to see how it compares to the original Japanese script.

I second that.

Ça serait bien intéressant de voir les différences textuelles et de les documentés. Je suppose que l’on découvrirait que le text japonais est beaucoup plus “libre”  et moins “child friendly” à comparer de l'Anglais ou du Français qui se serait quant à lui fortement censuré et épuré de toutes références ressenties comme étant trop japonaises. 

Btw, did anyone ever make a complete text dump for xy oras & sun moon? I recall there being one for English but I’m not sure for the other languages?

The purpose of this thread is to discuss, document and make public the resources available for RNG manipulation in Gen 7.

Gen 7 RNG manipulation Ressources:

RNG Calculators:

• wwwwwwzx's SMEncounterRNGTool
• Quandra’s PokemonSunMoonRNGTool 

For Mac users, jasenyoface has kindly made available a Wine bundle (v2.10a) for Quandra’s calculator, which can be downloaded here.

NB.: You will require a timer for stationary and gift pokemon RNG manipulation. For Windows users, EonTimer is recommended. As another alternative, both Windows & Mac users can use emtimer (jap.). 

***NEWS***

 A port of wwwwwwzx's SMEncounterRNGTool and Quandra's PokemonSunMoonRNGTool is curently in development for web browsers. This will allow almost any device with a browser to run these calculators. It’s being developed by the same people who made pokeCalcNTR. You can access the project’s official GitHub link here.

Other useful RNG manipulation tools:

• pokeCalcNTR is an overlay plugin that allows the user to view in real-time IVs, Nature, Seed, frames and much more in Sun & Moon. Plans are being made to make it compatible with Gen 6 as well. Do note however that in order to run this plugin you will require CFW, FBI and NTR Selector to be installed on your console. Also, you will need to have your copy of Sun or Moon on the latest firmware 1.1 in order for pokeCalcNTR to properly display the initial seed and current frame (otherwise “initial seed" will incorrectly be stuck on 0 while frames will remain fixed on a given number). 

Tutorials & other links of interest:

Not sure whether this is really a glitch.

Did you retrieve the Silph Scope from beating the Rockets in the Game Corner? After you do this you are supposed to go and rescue Mr. Fuji from the Rockets in Lavender Tower. If you've done all of this and the guard is still there then, I would say the game is being glitchy.

If I may add, the built-in IRC chat box isn't functioning for me. It just appears as a blank box.

Pass powers I would imagine would mess up your PID frames. Plus the C-gear advances the frames by 25 if I remember correctly. But it sounds like you don't really care about the IVs and nature.

Ahh... good luck with that one!

O’ where art thou Ex-ef-far owner of the sacred files!? Saint Matt has called out to you many times and never you answereth his prayers. Perhaps I was wrong, perhaps our Lord Pokecheck will be no more…

Alas, people have fallen to wicked and perverse ways through unconscientious editing and tricking of others. While we should hold in awe and deep reverence the wise ones that made editing possible, the ways of the people and what they did with the tool is pure evil. Heed well mine words now mine brethren, although Pokecheck is not there to bear witness and be judge, redness is rampant everywhere! Heed well mine words brethren, they who sin in illegality shall be judged when the Day of Worlds cometh! Disqualifications, save corruption, bad eggs, online bans and consoles purposefully stuck on old firmwares are the unholy punishment of the Devil for those in whose hearts laziness and trickery of others prevails! We the holy and pious ones suffer under a reign of terror and falsehood without you, our Lord Pokecheck!

Yet amidst it all, remains a long forgotten craft, the holy art of RNG manipulation. Those who would be wise enough to crack it deemed it useless. Where is the glory they said? What good shall arise from this long and painful endeavor? It is a difficult road to thread, yes. O’ that evil AES! But all the tools are there, and it is the only thing left to be done… it must see the day!

Hope is with me!

My body is holy. I, am, legit!

You know, if there was someone we could bribe to bring it back for just a few days I would greatly appreciate being able to pull some of my stuff down I'm sure lots of other people are in the same boat.

It's not that simple. From what I understood, Bond697 tried contacting xfr multiple times but to no avail. The guy seems to have just vanished off the face of the earth unless something else is going on that we don't know about. So everything has been left on stand still.

It would seem that at the root of the problem lies the fact that xfr has all or most of the database's files.

Here's the problem https://sites.google.com/site/pokemonslots/gen-v/black-2

I don't know if the 1-100 levels are totally random or if they act as in Pokemon Platinum resort area Magikarp

Ok, I don't know what is going on there. Somehow Gyarados lv.1-100 has the encounter slot 4 which probably means some other process is used to determine the level. Anyway, unfortunately I'm not sure how the game generates them. I guess you could research it on an emulator, but that might be long and tedious. I'm pretty sure some people around here know what is going on. I mean, someone out there had to test this before slapping Gyarados lv.1-100 under slot 4, right? Well, unless they didn't do their homework properly...

If you ever do discover how the RNG produces these Gyarados I would appreciate it if you would let me know.

I checked my encounter slots list for BW2 Gyarados and for some reason I cannot find it under Location #95 (i.e., Nature Preserve) but I assume it's like any other pokemon, and it has a specific encounter slot for a specific level. You might want to consider the fact that it is only found in "rippling water". I can't remember how the "rippling water" mechanic works though but it should be directly tied to the PID frames.

So to answer your question, unfortunately I'm not sure what the deal is here. As an aside comment, if you do end up attempting RNG manipulation in the Nature Preserve, keep in mind that there is perpetual mist there and that this will cause the frames to skip in an erratic and unpredictable fashion making it hard to hit the desired frame.

Let me know if you find an answer to your question.

Only thing missing now is how to do RNG Abuse in Gen 6. Since there's this save manager, maybe this will be used to find what seed you're already at.

But I guess RNG abuse here is harder than what it appears...

Every time you boot the game a new seed is generated so unless you can extract the save or feed the relevant data (PID, frames, etc.) to a calculator while the game is still running, you cannot determine the current state of the RNG. Actually ROP access (Web browser exploit) would be ideal for RNG manipulation purposes and is probably possible from what I hear. The only reason no one has worked on it is that most of the people with the technical know how deem RNG manipulation useless since we can now easily enough edit and breed legal/legit flawless pokemon. The logic behind that baffles me especially in light of the competitive scene of previous generations. A lot of people for instance would be fully willing to use the Web browser exploit strictly for RNG purposes as they had done in previous years using RNG calculators and Pokecheck (for SID). Editing your pokemon and RNG'ing them are two completely different things. Some people are willing to do one, but not the other. But let's not get into that here.

RAM editing can as far as I am aware not cause a corrupted save. Those rumors were debunked long ago.

I wouldn't be so sure about that. It is very likely that bad RAM edits could potentially cause save corruption or render the game unusable until the save is deleted. But the way PKHex is presently setup makes it difficult to produce data which is not stable in some way and could harm your save. Most of the edit options in the program, in appearance at least, seem relatively safe. Of course there is always a way to mess things up. If you carelessly fiddle with stuff like the flags, gender of your character (old PKHex) there is no saying what could happen. But in most case, you'd have to be pretty reckless, dumb, or be purposely screwing with the RAM to get the save corrupted.

Then again, PKHex and the ROP access exploit force the software to do things it wasn't designed to do. Although they were extensively tested, there remains the very real possibility that errors could creep up.

Anybody know a way to update Pokemon Omega Ruby without using a out-of-date 3DS? Like putting your SD card,game, and account on a updated 3DS then updating and just put the card and game back in the old 3DS then sign back in?

Unfortunatetly, it isn't that simple. Softwares, including update patches, on SD cards are linked to their respective consoles which means you can't simply swap SD cards around between 3DSs. Downloaded software/patches will only run on 3DS from which they were obtained. It simply won't work and I'm not sure what the best alternative is for you.

As an aside, may I say I love the title of this thread "Update Ver. 1.4 is more fun". I'm having a real blast.

I had the same thing happen to me on the 12th of March. The IP address was 117.169.1.221. It apparently originates from the city of Jiaoqiao (Jiangxi) in China.

Probably just a bot. Unless your password is really weak they probably will never get in.

This sounds fun. Anybody know how any of the Pokémon are generated in ORAS/XY or the current RNG state address?

Same as last Gen V, the formula is apparently still seed = seed * 0x5d588b656c078965 + 0x0000000000269ec3 and there is a Mersenne twister.

The XY RAM address for generating seed is 0011E550 (ExeFS); Seeding function for Mersenne Twister is 0011E5C8; and TinyMT PRNG is 00163CC4. This was discovered by Bond697 and Magical a while ago. See bottom of wiki: http://projectpokemon.org/wiki/Notable_Breakpoints#Pok.C3.A9mon_X_.2F_Y_.28U.29

Also, you might want to keep an eye on this thread: http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/xy-rng-research.3492890/. Bond697 edited his original post about 2 months ago only to add one sentence stating that RNG'ing in Gen VI "may come down to using a GPGPU program to (relatively)quickly find seeds in games that are already loaded and going from there." I imagine he thought no one would notice he had edited his now one year old post!

Are you planning to work on this?

So I used your new PKHex port, it seems to work just fine except for a few minor things.

For some reason Japanese and Korean fonts appear as blank in the Nickname and OT boxes. The only way I can get them to appear at all is by pressing Toggle Font under the Options tab. Kaphotics has informed me that this option switches from the default PGL fonts to System Fonts. The PGL fonts shouldn’t appear as blank.

Also whenever I switch from one language back to another under Options, I can no longer click and flip between the tabs in the save window (Box, Party-Battle Box, Other, Tools, etc.). The tabs seem to freeze. However, I can still use the keyboard arrows to move between them. I suspect that this is a mistake of the original PKHex program and not a problem with the port.

Lastly, the Passerby button seems to not function. Every time I get the “unhandled exception has occurred in your application(…)” and I’m forced either to quit or continue without being able to access the Passerby menu. The error details are:

That aside, your Mac port works beautifully! Thanks for making this.

Oh yeah they definitely can fix the security hole through which the exploit works with an update. Between the start and the current date there was even an update (9.5) though that didn't fix it. As long as you refrain from updating until testers (most often people with 2 consoles) have given the green light on updating you're good. Since you always have to confirm to update you have nothing to fear.

I was talking about something more on along the lines of an obligatory system update without which you would be blocked from the browser. Not updating wouldn't fix your problem since the browser would still be locked anyways without the proper firmware in the same way as the Eshop was rendered unusable unless on firmware 9.5. In other words I was wondering whether Nintendo could just simply block the browser and in doing so, thoroughly stop the use of spider3dstools.

As to that question: No, the browser works independently of the NNID and e-shop. The only way it would be blocked would be if they released a system update that fixes it. Which is unlikely, unless it is found to be a weakpoint for piracy, or something else that is a major problem comes up.

Yes exactly. That's what I thought too. And as you probably are aware, it is kind of a weak point for piracy. It remains to be seen whether the Big N will catch on... Hopefully not.

Sorry, let me rephrase better his question. Could Nintendo potentially block access to the browser if you didn't update to a newer system firmware? This would have to be a system firmware and not some simple Eshop patch thing as you say.

Back in the early days of the 3DS, the browser, although present on the console needed to be unlocked via a system firmware update. It was unusable otherwise. I wonder if the same thing couldn't be done to potentially block hackers? Render the browser unusable until you update to later firmware and voilà, no more exploits! It's a good question.

I don't want to lose RAM2sav...

In PkHex under the SAV tab there is an integrity check option. Out of curiosity, on my first go using PKHEX and RAM2Sav I ran a check on my newly extracted Alpha Sapphire save. To my astonishment, this is what appeared:

Invalid: 03 @ region 06600

Invalid: 04 @ region 06800

Invalid: 13 @ region 19E00

Invalid: 28 @ region 21800

Invalid: 2C @ region 24800

Invalid: 2E @ region 25600

Invalid: 32 @ region 27200

Invalid: 38 @ region 38400

1st SAV: 50/58

Why does this appear? Why do I get 50/58 and 8 invalid regions? I have never messed with my save. I assume it means there are some errors in the hash sums? Would this have been caused by faulty coding during the extraction process?

Someone please explain this to me. I'm afraid this might be harmful and cause save to corrupt and be unreadable.

Wine will not be installed, but it will be used to run the program, only while it is running. This is a wrapper around PKHeX using wine to call the underlying PKHeX binary.

This is built via a process called freezing which takes full programs and all of their components as well as some additionally supplied files (like PKHeX) and telling them to do something regardless of the environment. The environment is self-contained so that no additional programs are install to use it.

Thanks Alpha for taking the time to explain this to me. It answers my question.

Hmm, hate to say it but you still didn't answer my question. What are those wine bundles?? It seems as though wine is running in the background...

How exactly did you make this?

Sorry for being so pesky about this.

No wine won't be installed on your computer. The program was only ported "using" wine.

Ok so you simply used Wine to figure out how to port to OS. Which means Wine won't be running in some form in the background at all while I use PKHex, correct? It's not packaged in any kind of way with PKHex, is it? For instance I see so-called "wine bundles" during unzipping...

Sorry for being extra paranoid about this (and a bit annoying maybe). I've had far to many problems in the past with my computers...

Btw, thanks for making this. I really appreciate.