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11 hours ago, isaanajan said:

I was curious to know if I am able to transfer any of my mons from save files imported to PKHeX into Pokemon HOME. I would prefer to NOT mod my Switch as it technically is not mine (is my mums)

All mons won't be edited as I am using this tool strictly to transfer some well loved childhood mons into my new games. 

Thank you in advance for any help given and I am open to any questions (I may need assistance finding the answers as I'm not entirely educated on this topic in comparison to others)

@SkyLink98 is obviously 100% correct. However, if you provide a bit more info, we might be able to help out. What games are you trying to import Pokémon from? Did those saves come from physical copies or backups played in a flashcard/emulator? What consoles do you own and which are modded?

On 8/23/2024 at 10:16 AM, elsneg said:

Alright, so what do you recommend I do?

I play HG, PL and B2

I am looking to buy legit game carts, but it can take time, I don't mind getting a second DSi with r4 and give it to my little bro, use it for trading when I need.

 

Save editors my best bet?

 

Trading between HeartGold and Platinum should work between flashcards. Transferring to Black 2 would require at least one of the Gen 4 games to be a retail cart, or save editors.

6 minutes ago, Kaphotics said:

Thanks, fixed on latest commit

https://github.com/kwsch/PKHeX/commit/bf476f4de55217b4713027677b4fc1277a3562c8

Thanks! So the Jirachi is definitely fine? It's literally been 20 years, so I couldn't be 100% sure if there had been any tampering (I only remember using AR for Rare Candies, Master Balls and the like)

Hi! I have a CHANNEL Jirachi from way back when, in my Colosseum save (circa 2004). As far as I remember, I haven't touched it at all, besides normal gameplay (it has like 3 EVs). However, the latest update (24.03.26) throws a legality error. I'm a bit scared, since, when HOME came out, I cloned most of these (by backing up the saves) and sent them up all the way to HOME, so this Pokémon is now in my HOME account and went through my Sword version. Here are two versions of it:

385 - Jirachi - 62EC2A04C3A5.pk80385 - JIRACHI - 519F2A04C3A5.ck3

Could this be an error?

Thanks in advance

55 minutes ago, Kaphotics said:

There's no setting to disable that; not sure why you NEED it to not change.

The counters should increment if you ever write something, as you can't have 100 pokemon in the box if you've not captured/hatched at least 100 pokemon.

Wouldn't this be possible with Bank? Or does Bank update these numbers if you, say, transfer a whole bunch of Pokémon from older games?

Do you have file extensions showing? If so, what's the full name of the file? PKHeX.exe?

Yes, every pre-Gen-7 clone gets a different HOME tracker. I've transferred a few technically cloned mons from Gen 4 (reload old save, transfer again) and I've had zero issues.

@theSLAYER @givrou112 I think we're all missing something obvious here, due to a sort of illusion created by the capitalization in the name: AwanUS → awanus → aw + anus. "Anus" is probably censored.

You could try nicknaming it something very long (so that any trash bytes will be overwritten) and seeing if it still happens. If that does the trick, you'll have a legal Omanyte and you'll have pinpointed the cause with no room for doubt.

On 6/16/2023 at 7:14 PM, Whitelion said:

thank you so much for your help, i very appreciate it

 

it's really strange that fans don't complain that they can't catch all the pokemon in their games even by transferring them, who knows if one day we will see a full game again........................................

You're welcome!

Fans did complain. There was a whole "Dexit" scandal (referencing Brexit) when Sword and Shield came out. Technically, this trend started with Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee, but those were considered side games, so people found it acceptable. Sword and Shield were the first mainline games to not include the full National Pokédex, and people complained a lot. However, the games still sold well, so Game Freak got the message: "They will complain, but they will buy the games anyway, so the extra work would not pay off". They fixed it somewhat with the DLC (a lot of old Pokémon came back, even if not all of them), and we will probably see the same with Scarlet/Violet and their DLC.

13 minutes ago, Whitelion said:

Yes, but as I told you, they say that the incompatible games are only those for 3ds, the games for switch are all compatible with each other, apart from transferring pokemon in reverse chronological order.....for example I can't move Koraidon to pokemon sword, but i can move all pokemon from pokemon sword to pokemon scarlet.

So in Pokemon Sword you can move pokemon from previous versions, such as Shining Diamond, from Home.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaCAdz_wYTU

Several problems with that:

• Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl came after Sword and Shield, not the other way around
• There are no "incompatible games". Each Pokémon may or may not be compatible with each game. For example: Infernape can be moved into Brilliant Diamond, Shining Pearl and Legends: Arceus, but not Sword and Shield or Scarlet and Violet, because games since Let's Go Pikachu and Let's Go Eevee do not include every Pokémon from previous games in their data, like games up to Sun and Moon did. You have to check what species can be transferred into each game.

11 minutes ago, Whitelion said:

OK thank you.
What I don't understand, is that on the nintendo site, it is specified that I can transfer all the pokemon I send to pokemon home, they don't say that there are pokemon that cannot be transferred.

The only limitation I read, concerns 3ds games, which can only send but not receive pokemon.

 

Thank you so much again for the response, i very appreciate

There's some small print somewhere that states that you can only transfer Pokémon that are compatible with each game. They didn't put in models for all 1010 Pokémon in every game, so you can't just transfer them with a save file.

7 minutes ago, Whitelion said:

What do you mean by BDSP, PLA and SV?

So, for example, to have infernape or primeape on pokemon sword, do I have to transfer them to pokemon home, and then to pokemon sword?
Since the PKHeX is compatible with all games, couldn't it generate it?
I mean, if I load a save of pokemon Shining Diamond, and create an infernape, save it on the pc, and load it on a PKHeX save of Pokemon Sword?
Even if the format is different, some pokemon files saved by Pokemon Sword are loaded without problems on Pokemon Scarlet, obviously without Dynamax.

To use your example: Infernape isn't coded into Sword and Shield at all. So, Pokémon HOME won't let you transfer an Infernape into Sword. Therefore, PKHeX will also not allow you to load an Infernape.pk8 file into a Sword save, since it simply would not work.

On 4/16/2023 at 10:06 PM, Wheeler said:

I think i have a dead battery in my main cart. so just started a brand new save and dumped it and it wont work in pkhex so must be a dead battery. thanks for the help guys!

That just means it's an incompatible format. If you can save, turn your game completely off and then resume your save, then your battery is not dead.

As far as I can tell, you got a save from somewhere (not your own) and you're trying to write it onto a cart. The format your cart reader uses might not match either the one you got or the one @theSLAYER provided when he fixed the file so it could open in PKHeX. Try playing the game for a bit, saving, confirming it's working (so we know it's not a dead battery, for example) then dumping the save file and sending us the dump. We can then compare it to that save and see if something's wrong

7 hours ago, genderneutralnoun said:

Thank you for the information, again!

I don't think I'll have to worry about the Home trackers since I'm putting my genned pokemon in Ultra Moon and then to Bank and then to Home, if I understood what you said correctly. Please do correct me if I'm wrong, again, haha.

I believe you are correct, yes. It's always best to generate Pokémon in the game they're supposed to come from, but generating them in Gen 7 is the next best thing, precisely because of the HOME tracker, which gets added when importing them from Bank to HOME. As far as I know, there is no server-side Bank data that gets stored when you move a Pokémon from Gen 5 to Gen 6/7.

11 hours ago, Guts1802 said:

Then can I use PKHex for example pokemons from black and white to X and will they still be legit?

 

Pokémon Bank, unlike HOME, does not attach a tracker to Pokémon. So, in theory, a Pokémon that you transfer from Black to X with PKHeX will be entirely legal (even if it's not technically legit, which is understood to mean that it hasn't been touched in any way with any external tool). You can then transfer it from X to Bank to HOME if you have a way to restore that save into a copy of X.

You can use transfer codes. However, you need to have had a Bank subscription previously if you intend to use Poké Transporter (to transfer from gens 1 through 5)

On 3/22/2023 at 5:01 AM, Flamaki said:

Got it. 

The only thing I did is change the OT/ID  to GF 22796

Then went I sent to Pokémon ultra sun I just change it back to the original trainer ID and name

By editing it again, you made it illegal. Any decent hack check will detect it now.

1 minute ago, Flamaki said:

So there no way to change that mew to be like the one from 2016. Only the GF can be trade to home. 

If you change it (OT/ID and DVs), it will be the same one, so you might as well just grab the original file. Gen 1 Pokémon are very basic, data-wise.

20 minutes ago, Flamaki said:

I'm Trying to get Mew to Pokémon bank but it doesn't let me. I check pkhex and this is the problem. I will love to get this mew to Pokémon home.

This Mew was available for cartridge games way back when. Not for the VC versions. Injecting a cartridge save into a VC game isn't exactly legitimate, so there is no possible way to get one of these mews into Pokémon Bank legitimately. You need the GF Mew from the 2016 distribution if you want it to go over.

Save editing won't get you there. You have to change the actual game code, which may or may not be possible (and definitely not easy)

10 minutes ago, B1o0dhound said:

Not really I was just trying to bring him into pokemon sw/sh on my switch so I could bring him and 2 others into pokemon home. 

For it to be entirely legal, it has to come from a 3DS (because of the HOME tracker). You need to inject that Ultra Sun file into a real cart or eShop game with a hacked 3DS, then use that to bring it into Bank/HOME (directly of by trading with another 3DS that has the app). If you go the Sysbot route or inject it directly into your Switch save file, it can technically be detected as hacked. When a HOME tracker is assigned, it takes note of the first game that brought the Pokémon into HOME. If that's a Gen 8 game and it's a Pokémon that couldn't have reached Gen 8 without first being in HOME, then it's clearly hacked, even if the Pokémon itself is perfectly legal.

6 hours ago, eXzord said:

There are Shiny Mew that can be exchanged online. Because these are sold on ebay and that should work

They are illegal. The only currently obtainable Mew in BD/SP is shiny locked. The game won't forbid you from trading those hacks online between friends, but there's no way to legitimately obtain a shiny Mew.

4 hours ago, english09 said:

I want to say the Gen 4 ball capsules were tied to the party member slot instead of being assigned an Encryption Constant to apply their effects to.

I mean with old Pokémon once they're able to be transferred to BDSP (they likely will when HOME support comes, even if only Pokémon up to Arceus, according to what we got from datamining).