TonsofPuppies

https://www.lifewire.com/game-boy-nintendo-3ds-1126293 This has some info. Also, if you use the Super Injector from enVias' post, they work absolutely flawlessly. When you make the file, you can change a number of things, including the icon shown on the bottom screen, the banner displayed on the top screen and even the title and release date. It legitimately looks like an authentic VC game downloaded from the eShop. You can even add RTC functionality by choosing the RTC save option when creating the file, though this is only necessary with Ruby and Sapphire. FR/LG don't use RTC and in Emerald, the Berry Glitch has been fixed. If anyone would look to try it for themselves, I have the .cia files for all the games that I created myself.

Awesome news. Also thanks for the explanation of the issue. Keep it up, Kap! You're doing God's work.

Thanks a bunch. Keep in mind also that it only happens in Gen IV saves. In a Gen VII save, they show up as legal, so I'm not sure what's causing it.

As noted by the OP in this thread, this has nothing to do with the origin game. It's merely certain event Pokemon (Concert Chatot, Sunday Tropius as examples) being flagged as illegal for having a PID that doesn't match their nature. Basically, if you change their natures to the opposite one, then they are legal. These Pokemon have fixed PIDs, so it's almost as if it was an oversight by Nintendo. They gave them a fixed PID that doesn't match the nature they chose. I'm assuming the issue here is that PKHeX was not programmed to overlook this oversight, which is why they're flagged as illegal. I understand how busy the contributors such as yourself are here, but if you'd like to take a quick look to see what I'm talking about, I'd appreciate it if you'd take a look at the save file that I've attached below. Thanks! POKEMON HG.0.sav

Does anyone have any info on this issue? It's not a big deal, especially as it seems to only affect older saves, but because of my OCD it is still a bit frustrating to see those red exclamation marks in my PC when the Pokemon are clearly legal.

Yes, I'm using the newest version. The interesting thing is that if I open the .pk4 file (in this case, the Concert Chatot) in a SM/USUM save, it is "legal". If I open it in a HeartGold save, it is flagged as "illegal".

I've been having this same issue. Was a cause and/or answer ever determined for this issue?

I can't get PKHeX to open either. I'm running the newest version of Mac OSX and I already chose "open anyway" in the Security & Privacy settings after downloading and unzipping it. The App is there, but when I click on it, nothing happens. Not sure what the issue is. I've run older versions of PKHeX on my Mac in the past with no issues. I've also tried downloading and installing it again, but I still can't get it to open.

I can't find anything online about this issue and it's only started happening with the newest PKHeX update. Whenever I try to set a PKM into my Generation III (Emerald) PC box/party, I get a prompt that says: "Form Count is out of range. Expected <= -1, got 0. Continue?" I can click "Yes" and it seems to work fine, but this is an annoying occurrence because I am trying to set multiple PKM files in succession and have to go through this prompt every time. There is no issue when using a Gen IV and Gen VII save. Also, I cannot load folders of .pkm files using the "load boxes" function in the Tools -> Data menu. Again, this is only an issue with my Gen III save - it works fine otherwise. As I said before, this has only been an issue since the newest PKHeX update. Is this a known problem and is there any way I can correct it?

Just wanted to say that you guys are amazing. Absolutely admire the time and effort to all of those behind the scenes who are always working to improve on PKHeX. The fact that we have US/UM support on day one is just mind-blowing to me and you should all be commended for your passion and dedication. Thanks for everything!

Thanks again for all of the information. Very informative. I have just a couple of more questions, then I promise I'll leave you guys alone... Firstly, you mentioned how the Shiny Pichu could end up hatching as non-shiny if traded to another player with a different TID/SID combo (ironically, I didn't even know trading eggs was a thing until I started researching this topic). Is it also possible for the reverse to happen? For example, if you traded a Wish Bagon to another player, could that Bagon hatch as a shiny, or is it's predetermined PID shiny locked? Secondly, what other events from Generation III (or beyond) have very complicated algorithms involved in which case it would just be best for me to download whatever legit ones are listed publicly?

I know I am new here and you guys have no reason to believe me, but I'm not interested in duplicating, trading or selling hacked Pokemon. I'm merely a collector and wants obscure things for my own personal collection. If my emphasis on competitiveness/IV spreads was off-putting, I understand. Of course, I want the best spreads possible in any given situation, but for these older events, having access to them in any capacity, good IV spreads or not, is fantastic. So again, I thank you for all of the information and links. I'm actually going to add all of those Eggs to my collection instead of using the ones generated by PKHeX. On an unrelated note, the Shiny Berry Fix Zigzagoon, it appears to use the same PID generation method as the PCJP Eggs - therefore, it's impossible to recreate "legitimately". The archive of 145 or so on GitHub - are those all of the legitimate possible combinations that we know of? Very cool that someone was able to accumulate all of them, if so.

Hey man, you guys are awesome. I find learning all of this stuff extremely interesting. I greatly appreciate all of your patience and your thorough explanations and apologize for asking so many questions. I've still got a lot to learn about this stuff, but I am looking forward to it. Perhaps you guys could answer something else for me. When it comes to PID generation methods, which do you recommend I use for the most accurate results; PokeGen or the RNG Reporter? Also, is there a conversion chart or forum post you guys can link me to? For example, I believe (please correct me if I'm wrong) that A-B-D-E in PokeGen is equivalent to method H-2 in the RNG Reporter. Where could I find out the other "conversions"?

Yeah, I found it very strange as well. Perhaps Kap could shed some light on it? Even when leaving the MGDB Pichu unhatched, you can still change to a "legal" shiny by merely holding the CTRL key and clicking the shiny button (thus changing the SID). Do you mean that it's wrong specifically for THIS event or do you mean that it's a bogus PID generation method for ALL events? It seems that there are several Event Pokemon within the MGDB that use the BACD_R method, so I'm just curious. When you say TWO events, which two are you referring to? PCJP Eggs and something else, or do you just mean shiny and non-shiny eggs? EDIT: I had another question, but I found the answer myself so I've removed it.

Damn, it's crazy how complicated Pokemon generation was in Gen III/IV. I believe it was Gen V when they started splitting PID/IV relation so that more combinations were legitimately possible? Anyway, I really appreciate your in-depth and informative replies on the subject. Something else I've come across whilst researching this topic is quite interesting. If you use PokeGen to generate a B-A-C-D (R) PID, you can quite good nature/IV spreads for the PCJP Eggs and thus create fairly competitive variations of the PCJP Pokemon whilst also keeping them "legal" within the parameters of PKHeX. More interestingly though, if you hold the CTRL button and click the star next to the PID in PKHeX, it will make the Pokemon shiny and still keep it legal. It also retains the same PID and TID, simply changing your SID number to make the Pokemon shiny. This means that fairly competitive AND shiny PCJP Eggs also show up as "legal" within the parameters of PKHeX. If I'm not mistaken, this can be done with all of the Eggs, not just Pichu either. It seems that PKHeX doesn't differentiate between the BACD_R and BACD_R_S methods, as the shiny Pokemon should be BACD_R_S, but using the method I described above sets them to BACD_R and yet, they still retain their legality.