Timeboy

Not relevant. You can make any Pokemon hold any item. Pikachu holding Sacred Ash, Feebas holding Mewtwonite Y - whatever you like. Hoopa doesn't hold an item to transform anyway, it's a key item that you uselike the Reveal Glass/DNA Splicers. If you don't have a Gateway 3DS, no, there's no way to edit your save file or inject. Cyber Gadget have to add ORAS support at their end.

Me too. I'm guessing you're not supposed to edit ORAS Pokemon unless you've got an ORAS save? I'm trying to level up a Zigzagoon that I've banked from OR to X, and keep the met location etc.

It isn't "Mega Hoopa", it's "Hoopa Unbound". Just transfer a fateful encounter Hoopa from X/Y and go in any Pokemart, and the event will be triggered. You get the Prison Bottle key item which changes Hoopa's form.

I've never managed to get the coordinates working properly, I always end up with a black screen, the music of the area I'm in, and when I walk in all directions it makes the thud noise straight away (i.e. no movement).

If you can get your hands on a Japanese game that has a save file on it already (i.e. many second hand games), then you can use PKHeX and Pokémon Bank. A Japanese game fresh out the box will not work since the save game part of the data isn't initialised, and there's no way to replicate this without using a Japanese 3DS (by that I mean NTSC-J piece of hardware). Since it's pretty hard (and risky, in case the seller is lying) to get a Japanese copy of the game with a save file still on it, buying the console is what most people have to do. No, the game cart and 3DS's region aren't determined by the language. Changing the language is purely aesthetic and it will not make it Japanese. If the cart is NTSC-J, it'll be accepted by the Cyber Gadget servers (since it's all done server side). If it's a game from any other region, it will fail to write the edited file to the cart. Again, there's no way to trick it. If it's a European cartridge it will always be a European cartridge.

Powersaves will never be able to do that because it's designed to work the way it does i.e. server side. No Datel server, and it's pretty much useless.

Not unless you're in the same room as them, and then you might as well just use Pokémon Bank. Or you could mail your cart to someone if they agreed. But anything unreleased can't be traded until they allow it, like Diancie. eBay is full of copies of X and Y with all 721 Pokémon on as well. if anyone is really that desperate, just get one of those. They're not much more than the cost of a new game really. No, I don't see why it would work like that. Why would people with Cyber Gadget even need Pokécheck? If Pokécheck ever comes back it will be available to everyone. The thing is, the people behind it have lives and the project takes up a lot of time and effort. If it comes back, great, but I wouldn't expect it any time soon.

Well, Volcanion can't be traded on the GTS, only local wireless. Breeding is easy enough though.

The issue is that it's all done server side like Powersaves. The Cyber Gadget servers block non-JP carts, and there's no way to "trick" them into accepting your EU/US cart, and there never will be. The only chance of American and European carts being compatible is if Cyber Gadget decides to allow them. Seeing as they're a Japanese company who have been going for years and never release stuff outside of Japan, the chances are tiny, virtually zero.

I don't think it's possible for someone to simply "build a re-signing program", and if it were, it'd be posted on here. There's a tool for every current possible task imaginable, including a re-signing program that only works with the Cyber Gadget Save Editor dongle. Which piece of hardware is your friend hoping to utilise? The Powersaves and Cyber Gadget work server-side, and the R4i dongle can only decrypt older 3DS games, not games with X/Y's encryption. For about 24 hours (probably less) you could abuse the Powersaves dongle and brute force Pokemon in, but they patched that immediately. Either way, there's a (written) tutorial on here that is pretty easy to follow. http://projectpokemon.org/forums/showthread.php?37269-X-Y-Save-File-Research&p=183148&viewfull=1#post183148 You can only partially decrypt, through.

They're identical to the real ones. Is anything legal if you use Powersaves?

You need to install the Japanese program for the drivers, but it's pretty easy to blag your way through the installation since it's the same interface as any other Windows installer, just in Japanese. There are two buttons, "next" and "back", just keep clicking the next one and maybe tick the terms and conditions button if it asks. Then drag the entire contents of the modded software zip file into the program folder that has just been created with the install.

Looks like you'll have to just create a new Xerneas every time you want to use one with a different ability or make a box full of them, since they should keep permanently active

That's strange, since other temporary forms (like Meloetta-P) don't change back after battle. How did you go about changing the form? Did you edit the source code in Visual Studio?

As I suspected, these would be illegal and therefore untradeable.

Even if Datel released a piece of hardware that allowed you to inject, you'd still want to use PKHeX, since that's the best tool for editing. At some point, a device will be released in the west. But it will not be the Cyber Gadget Save Editor. The company doesn't release outside of Japan and never has. Just like loads of American/European pieces of tech don't get released in Japan. It's only a matter of time before 3DS action replays become as common as they were in the GB/GBA/DS era. The capability is there - Datel could easily allow saves to be edited and injected if they wanted to. Cyber Gadget already do allow it. I've heard semi-reliable whispers of a cheap, Western, Powersaves-on-steroids 3DS action replay in time for Christmas. Who knows?

What Pokémon with what moves?

Ah, makes sense - I had no idea female characters woke up holding a 3DS for the few minutes until they get dressed! There's not much point of it since it doesn't show up on your trainer card or in battle. If anyone wants to do it, clear 14D21 and 14E47:

A few months back I saw that somebody had discovered a 'secret' character customisation option - a 3DS. Like, your character has one in their hand. Anyone know where this would be, and what bits to edit (and to what)?

Even though the devices look similar, they're fundamentally different pieces of hardware. A Powersaves exploit was found months back that allowed a few people to inject Pokémon, but Datel patched it straight away. As for using a non-JP copy of the game with the CGSE hardware, if it was as easy as tricking the software or the server then it'd be posted on here. As it stands there really is no way around it.

Pokémon Bank is totally check-free, you can put anything in there - hacked, illegal, unreleased etc. It's just the Pokétransporter side that has hack checks.

What are you talking about? You can edit any Pokemon. That's literally what this thread has been about for the past couple of months.

Does what work?

What moves do they have? Breed a legit one to compare it with in PKHeX. If one tiny thing is wrong it won't work.

Not as far as I know. Where has this come from?