Atrius97

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.

You didn't follow the tutorial properly. Your PID has to match the correct Method for the type of encounter (in this case Method 1), and you have to match the nature provided by that PID. For older games, PID and EC are the same, so copy the PID to the Encryption Constant as well.

Use the Encounter Database under Tools > Data to select an Alpha encounter. There are multiple values you need to correct to change a regular encounter into an Alpha encounter, it's easier simply to start with an Alpha template. It is not the same as the Gmax flag in SWSH where you can simply toggle it and it's automatically legal. The Alpha moveset, level, met level, Height, Weight, and Copy Height all have to be corrected.

See this tutorial for solving PID mismatch: The second error can be resolved by setting the Latest (not OT) Handler properly, as it's a transferred pokemon, you cannot be the original trainer.

Given how GameSync ID used to work for prior games, this is very likely the case. Unfortunately, we can't trust players would upload exclusively saves that had never been online before, and the Project Pokemon staff would be forced to verify each savefile individually. On the other side of that coin, exposing that value publicly to be edited/"removed from saves that had been online before" opens up an avenue for potential abuse/exploits that could cause TPCi to introduce additional telemetry and/or kick off another banwave.

They implemented this new verification into ACNH quite late. There is no reason they can't decide suddenly to implement it for LGPE, SWSH, or BDSP. There's a HOME compatibility update on the horizon, I don't expect them to suddenly upgrade verification for all 6 remaining game versions, but the chance isn't zero.

Not even game bans, the "ban" is lifted if you stop using the blacklisted savefile. The ban does not occur with official transfer methods, like local save transfer between two switches within the same Nintendo account. I would assume if the Nintendo account remains the same, their check clears, even if you moved it with JKSV or Checkpoint.

Due to reports of savefile verification and savefile being banned if they are used by more than one account/switch, we STRONGLY suggest you don't use publicly uploaded savefiles obtained outside Project Pokémon either. Importing/exporting individual Pokémon files is safe, and uploads of .pa8 files/collections of .pa8 files will be permitted on Project Pokémon, but full savefiles will not be permitted, as it poses a potential ban risk for all users of said publicly shared savefile.

If you only care about the TID, in PKHeX, simply hold ALT and Left Click on the star icon next to the PID. This will alter the Secret ID to be shiny without changing the Trainer ID or PID. If you want all pokemon to match the exact same Trainer ID AND Secret ID, then you will have to find new IVs/Nature/PID combinations that match your desired TID and SID combo. To do this, in Pokefinder, set up a profile with the desired Trainer ID and SID, go to Gen 4 and the correct option for the type of encounter, then Searcher, set the correct Method for your encounter, enter your desired filters and set Shiny to Star/Square, then hit Search.

There is a repository of "glitch mon" savefiles here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPiS2T5z-KQ https://sites.google.com/site/torchickens2/pokemon-save-files

At time of writing, while ban reports have significantly trickled off since earlier this year, we are still receiving the occasional ban report on the PPORG and PKHeX Development Discord servers, seemingly related to the HOME banwave in January. We've been able to track some of the reports to earlier offenses, such hosting hacked raids prior to the hacked raid banwave during early Isle of Armor, or ranked/tournament cheating. It seems that they audited server logs and cleaned up a few stragglers they had neglected to ban earlier, and tacked them onto the HOME banwave. Given that they've demonstrated that HOME can track and accurately ban users who used the methods that resulted in the banwave, just because the banwave appears to be "pretty much over, and I wasn't banned despite doing X or Y bannable action" doesn't mean they aren't continuing to monitor network traffic and banning anyone foolish enough to attempt trafficking illegal pokemon via HOME going forward. The HOME banwave is thought to be the result of a permanent, ongoing security feature, not a one-off wave. As well, they've also shown the ability to view and edit Pokemon stored on the savefile, (including those in Poke Jobs AND in both Daycares, sending them there doesn't "hide them from HOME"), as HOME was used to automatically fix movesets for Alolan Form GO-origin Pokemon that had their opposite regional form moveset due to a bug with GO -> HOME transfers. This means that any illegal pokemon, glitch pokemon, etc. may be viewed by HOME any time you load your savefile into HOME, even if you don't place them into HOME storage itself. If you kept any illegal/glitch Pokemon on your savefile, proceed with caution with that infomation in mind. (Alternatively simply avoid using HOME altogether, or store any illegal/glitch pokemon on a profile/savefile, secondary switch, or emuNAND that is not going to be accessed by HOME.)

Here are examples of the entrance animations, Top is Square (XOR=0), Bottom is Star (XOR=1-15) (Photos courtesy of Serebii.net: https://www.serebii.net/swordshield/shinypokemon.shtml)