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Any chance you guys could set up a PayPal donate button somewhere to facilitate the donation process? I'd also consider asking for donations on GBATemp and Digiex, that'd definitively help reach the goal quicker.

PkHex can now open 64 kb gen 3 saves, I don't know if it saves them properly though.

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You could probably use PkHex to extract the .pk7 files themselves and move them to the PC.

These are 2 suggestions I have for new PKHeX features. The first is simple, a Hall of Fame editor similar to the one for 3DS games but usable with older games. I thought of this when I wanted to open the Hall of Fame data for FireRed. The other one is arguably more important. The GBA games' files hold a value that measures the difference between the raw RTC setting for when the save file was started and the time the game was set to by the player at the beginning. The issue with this is that, when real cartridges have their battery replaced, the RTC value no longer allows for a proper description of actual time. By fixing the RTC value and reflashing a save, a battery-placed game would function normally again and actually be able to correctly represent real-world time.

Thanks for the response! Since the Meteor and the other jirachi are blanked out in vba, is it possible to use them somehow through link cable emulation? Or is there a special method required to extract the jirachis?

Just to make sure I understand correctly, are the .bin files you attached all unknown gba files, or are they the meteor file, the regular Jirachi, and the unknown gba file? And are you adding the PokeDownloader.tgc file to the other forum instead of here?

A fellow yugioh player I see welcome!

Could it maybe be possible to install this hack as a modified update CIA? This was possible for gen 6 hacks using their respective updates as templates (link) but I haven't seen anything about doing something like this for gen 7.

I understand your concern, but I don't think edited distro roms would be a very large problem. There are not many people around who would go on ebay and search for a gen 3 distro cart without at least some knowledge of save editing and roms. The large bulk of people who play gen 3 these days also do so with emulators, which would lend itself to this. Even for people who do play legitimately, most people who are interested enough in pokemon/gen iii to know about distro carts, let alone buy one, have searched pokemon enough to know what can be done and be aware of the free option. In other words, to be successfully tricked by a fake distro, someone would have to: 1) Be seriously interested in gen iii 2) Be unaware about roms/emulation 3) Have the necessary hardware to actually use one (which is pretty rare these days for people who fulfill both of the conditions before this) 4) Actually have and be willing to invest the prohibitive large sum of money needed to buy the fake Because of that, I seriously doubt people would get tricked by bootleg distros. Also, I'm not even sure that those bootlegs would even pop up on sites like ebay. We've had custom DS distros for years and I've yet to hear of a bootleg DS distro, even though bootleg DS games have been a problem. Maybe they might pop up on Aliexpress (I honestly doubt even this, but it's possible) but the people who go on Aliexpress tend not to be those who would fall for the fake distros. If I were a bootlegger, I'd much rather sell bootleg games in bulk than try to get lucky with one distro hack. Even then, it is totally possible to actually put in a failsafe for people to not fall for the fakes. You could make a closed-source editor with a start screen similar to Pokemon CrystalDust's, which bootleggers would not really be willing to brave. But this last point aside, I honestly feel like actually putting forward anything found would be a major service to the community. At least for me, making custom distributions is one of my favorite aspects of Gen IV. I have lots of fun memories of handing them out to friends and classmates, and it honestly lends itself to a really good time. Sure, you could just trade them the .pk3, but part of a mystery gift is the actual experience of giving out the gift, which is lost with a simple trade. All of this said, I still understand the concern, and I obviously have no influence over what any dev does. I would like to ask, however, that if the modifications aren't made available there should at least be a 10 ANIV Celebi distributor, because Celebi is the only Pokemon for which an English language version can't be obtained like Nintendo intended (which is kind of funny, considering Celebi is the only Pokemon missing from the Mystry Mew saves' Pokedexes). I think that's something we would all like to see.

I saw at another site that some of the kind people on this thread came together to get the community a Berry Glitch Zigzagoon Distro Cart. I'd like to give you my thanks for that generosity, and I'll be around should you guys ever need someone else to pitch in a bit for future stuff like that.

If you have a hacked 3DS, you can use TWLSaveLoader to wipe the save. You could also use an NDS adapter plus.

If you want the RGBY patches, dump a cia file of one of the original releases, decrypt it using Decrypt9, and go into the romfs. The patches will all have weird names, but they will match the name that each vc rom has for their respective releases (the actual rom is in the rom folder). I would give them to you, but I'm fairly certain they fall under the magical copyrighted content category. However, just to save you the headache, let me tell you now that the old VC will more than likely not work with the trading patches. When gbatemp's TheStoneBanana was developing the Gen II patches, he pointed out the differences between the code.bin files of the old and new VC. One of them was the ability to read patches. If you want to work on restoring the save state feature, you should consider talking with him, since he was able to deduce how to restore the ability to use colors on the new VC.