Atrius97

The only "de-evolution" that has ever appeared in the games is Mega Evolutions reverting back to normal, (which are just battle-only forms, not actual species evolutions). For a Pokemon to be legal, you can only revert it as far back as the "untouched state it was originally obtainable in". If they distribute a Raichu as event Pokémon, it's already in that "untouched state", you can't make it into a Pikachu, because that pokemon "wasn't a Pichu/Pikachu in it's earliest legal state". You can only legally alter Pokémon into states that they could possibly be in if you were playing the game legitimately. There is nothing you can change in PKHeX to make that legal, because "legality" is determined by what's possible to do in the game. (If you figure out some secret ingame mechanic to de-evolve Pokemon in an unaltered retail copy of a game, please let us know :P)

The PKHeX download is available here: You do require some method of extracting and restoring your savefile to be able to use PKHeX with it. If it's a Switch game you also have the option of using a Sysbot.NET bot to trade pokemon to you, but if you want to use PKHeX directly, see the tutorial section to learn how to manage your savefile: https://projectpokemon.org/home/tutorials/save-editing/

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If I remember correctly, that box is indeed Pokémon that were trapped when the Dream World shutdown. I had spoken with Kurt a while back about adding Misc read-only slots for HGSS Pokewalker and also Dream World Pokémon for the purposes of allowing users to recover them. HGSS Pokewalker does have an ingame recovery method (On the Pokéwalker menu, hold Down + X + L to manually retrieve your Pokémon), but that only works if you still have the game, if your savefile is orphaned from the cart then you'd be out of luck. There's no ingame recovery method for Pokémon left sleeping in the Dream World post-server shutdown, so in this case PKHeX is now the ONLY recovery method available for lost Dream World mons.

If I remember correctly, there are a lot more values and flags that would need to be altered to actually set your streak to a different value when you enter the tower, however the streak values recorded in your trainer card will obey whatever you set RENSHOU_SINGLE and RENSHOU_SINGLE_NOW to. Even if the tower says you're on battle 3 and battle 4 when you go to resume your streak, if you edit your streak values on the trainer card to 42 first, it should record "battle 42 and battle 43" in your streak record.

Make sure the Micro SD card is not locked to Read-only mode. There may be a small tab on the of the card that says "lock". If you are using an FTP client like Filezilla to move files without removing the SD card from the 3DS, make sure it is set to Binary mode, not ASCII mode. When exporting the save from PKHeX, you don't try to export directly to the SD card, export the file to a location on your computer, (like your desktop), THEN copy it back to your SD card. If you've done all of the above and it still corrupts, then make sure PKHeX and Checkpoint are both up to date, or try JKSM instead of Checkpoint. Keep an unedited working backup of any and all savefiles you don't want to lose.

Exactly. The question is less "is there minor inaccuracies" and more "There probably is, but if it doesn't occur anywhere that really affects the game/would appear fishy to PKHeX, the online servers, or other players, who cares if there's minor inaccuracies?"

It depends on the game and emulator. Some emulators have emulation inaccuracy that would cause you to be able to achieve things said emulator that would not be possible were you playing on official hardware. As one example, some emulators do not handle the random number generator the exact way it would be handled on official hardware, meaning it's possible to encounter a Pokémon generated during an RNG state that isn't possible to achieve otherwise. Some GBA/NDS emulators I remember had issues dealing with VBLANK and were generating Pokémon in Gen 3/4 games with stats that couldn't not legitimately be encountered except when playing on an inaccurate emulator. (PKHeX is even able to catch these "impossible" Pokémon during legality checks, flagging them for PID mismatch, as their stats don't match any possible RNG state the game can produce.) As another example, BDSP uses the Switch's internal clock (the RTC) to determine whether when time-based events should occur, and whether to incur a penalty for trying to alter the clock. On our Discord server, we determined that current Switch emulators do not properly emulate the RTC and was not properly assigning the date/time values within BDSP's save structure. TLDR Yes, you're likely to have minor inaccuracies, you just have to hope they don't occur anywhere that would set off red flags, so to speak.

After checking my cart, yours appears to be a slightly different revision (mine has CPUENOJ41, two carts can have the exact same code, there's photos online of carts with the same ID as mine), but authentic. If it isn't, it's a very good copy. From here: Reddit post on the topic So we can rule out counterfeit copies for the moment.

It's possible that your cart is not legitimate, bootleg/reproduction carts often have this issue of not being recognized properly, because their internal structure is not identical to an official copy. You may have to find a NDS cart reader/writer to properly extract what you need, and even then it may be difficult to obtain your save in a readable format, and potentially even harder to edit and then replace. There are many guides online you can find to identify counterfeit NDS carts, especially Pokémon games. I suggest double checking your cart's legitimacy, as reproduction carts have even been accidentally resold "as legitimate" by certain retailers who couldn't tell the difference.

EVs can be gained and removed through multiple different methods: https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Effort_values Yes, wild Pokémon start with no EVs, and I'm honestly not sure any ingame encounters start with an existing set of EVs. The only "fishy looking" set of EVs would be a total of 508, as it would require a player to specifically use Feathers, or KO a Pokémon with an effort value yield of 1-2 to stop just short of the true cap, instead of the more naturally occurring total of 510, especially considering there's no stat difference between a Pokémon with 508 and 510 total EVs, as the final 2 EVs are not enough to affect the stat itself.

Battle Memory Ribbons are not possible on several Pokémon (mostly mythicals, but some legendary/"special" pokemon as well), as they are entirely banned from participating in the battle facilities. See the following pages below for lists of Pokémon that cannot obtain Gen 3/4 Battle Facility ribbons, and are therefore ineligible for a Battle Memory Ribbon in later generations where those ribbons are consolidated: https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Battle_Tower_(Generation_III)#Restrictions https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Battle_Tower_(Sinnoh)#Restrictions https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Battle_Frontier_(Generation_IV)#Overview

Stickers can be edited under SAV > Seal Stickers. If you want to regain your missing extra ball capsules, you'll have to recatch the Unown forms and show them to the child in Solaceon town. I don't believe the flags for that are documented for you to edit directly, but it should be fairly easy (if a bit tedious) for you to document those unlock flags.

Backwards transfers are not intended behavior, legality issues are to be expected.

My mistake, I wasn't aware it was possible to leave that section blank. I assumed it would have some form of default value.

The console does not allow you to "not set a sub-region", although you may find a build or developer option in Citra that does allow proper emulation for that. If you cannot find/that option doesn't exist in any available Citra builds, then you may want to attempt to RNG abuse your TID on your actual hacked 3DS/2DS, which should be possible. (It may even be possible without custom firmware, but you already have a hacked 3DS or 2DS) Alternatively, complete your RNG on Citra, and then adjust the savefile in PKHeX to have the proper country/region data. (Although this defeats the purpose of RNG abusing your TID, as you could just edit it in PKHeX to begin with. You're already altering the savefile at this point)

As an example, an illegal move may be possible to correct by leveling up the Pokémon, changing the form, adding it as a Relearn/Egg Move, by checking the TR/Moveshop flag for it, etc. Without context of the user's intentions, there's no logic that could point out one specific option and direct the user to do it, and listing "any and all potential fixes" would be a nightmare.

This is not good advice. Manually altering the stats to all 31 using the batch editor will not work for Pokémon with a PIDIV correlation, which many encounters from Gen 3 and Gen 8 have. Editing them in this way without recalculating the PID (and potentially Height/Weight, EC, Nature, Gender, etc.) will cause it to become illegal. However, if they are Raid Den, Max Lair, or Legends Arceus wild encounters, PKHeX will not flag them despite them being illegal, which is worse because then you can't tell you've made an error without additional effort to reverse the seed. Please disregard the advice to just "set them all to 6IV" and use the guides below:

No. Memory legality is complicated. If in doubt, leave them blank, blank memories are legal. (and for Gen 1-5, and 7, blank OT memories are mandatory)

If you download it now, you can continue to use it until it shuts down entirely at some undetermined point in the future. The Eshop closing doesn't mean the end of Pokemon Bank, it will become free to use, but impossible to download once the Eshop is unavailable. Download Pokemon Bank and Pokemon Transporter before this happens and you can continue to use the service.

Unless you make changes to the Pokémon that were flagged to make sure they do not have duplicate stats, if there are any duplicate Pokémon on the savefile, they will be re-flagged when you reopen the game, or when you open a trade menu. PKHeX can remove the flag, but you must ensure that there are no duplicates of any of your Pokémon anywhere on the savefile, including the daycare. (As a sidenote, you can also check if the Pokémon is flagged/will be flagged using the "Verify All PKM" button under the SAV tab, or by checking Extra Bytes at 0x52 for a value of 1.)

The easiest way would be to purchase a flashcart for the DS Lite (like an R4 Gold) and use GBA Backup Tool, or a cart reader for GB/GBA carts and export your savefile(s). Install custom firmware on your 3DS, backup a Gen 6 or 7 savefile with JKSM or Checkpoint, and use PKHeX to move your pokemon between your Gen 3 save and the 3DS save. Place all the Pokémon you want to transfer into Pokémon Bank, install HOME on your mobile device, purchase HOME Premium, and then transfer them from Bank to HOME.

Newer games have multiple event flags associated with them that control player gender, you would have to change all related flags to swap the gender properly. Most of these are likely undocumented. It would be faster to simply restart your game with the correct gender than it would be to sit down and document the flags/values required.

People largely draw the line of "legitimate" for event pokemon into one of two categories: Full Savefile Legitimacy: The entire savefile must be unaltered, no 3rd party tools or glitches can be used to obtain a Pokémon or specific savefile state. This means no glitches, ACE, cheat codes, or savefile editing can be used to obtain ingame event encounters if your savefile didn't unlock the event item, event items and pokemon are not legitimate if received outside of their event distribution period from an unofficial source, or via an unintended method. Individual Ingame Encounter/Event Pokémon Legitimacy: The savefile can be altered using any glitches or 3rd party tools, as long as the pokemon itself is generated using an official source. Injected wondercards, distribution carts used outside of the event period, and 3rd party distribution that emulate the official data are permitted, as well warp glitches, ACE, cheat codes, and savefile editing are permitted to reach ingame event encounters as long as the event encounter itself is unaltered and generated by the game as it would have been during it's official distribution. I would argue that the Pokémon community at large tends to use the latter definition of legitimacy for events, but there are a few trade communities that strictly enforce full savefile legitimacy, and will ask that you provide external evidence of having attended the event. (photos, screenshots, video clips, ticket stubs, etc.)

If you have custom firmware installed on your Switch, sure. They'll be illegal Pokémon and unusable online due to illegal moves, but you can generate them into Sword/Shield. If you don't have custom firmware, then no.