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I've been doing Bank-To-Home-To-Vio transfers; I'm just throwing in the whole save file because there's four boxes of pokemon and over 50 of them are flagged. I'm not super certain everybody in here was legally caught and generated, as a disclaimer- some of these are wondertrades I got in home and this is their first time in a legality checker to confirm. Everybody with the Specs OT should be, to the best of my knowledge and ability. But hopefully this helps with some of the legality stuff!

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Two one or two-star tera raid pokemon flagged as illegal.

0949 - Fnugus - 4EE26149539C.pk9 0088 - Grimer - 0CB03F8B3953.pk9

Fair enough! Genning in the TRs and adding them manually still works just fine for me.

Confirming that relearn flags do not work in SWSH, nor do they work in BDSP files.

Weirdly, they do work in PLA files. I was able to give all relearn flags to a barboach and have it work.

Stupid question as I unshinify a box full of very illegal Advertisement Rayquaza (seriously, why is it always the rayquaza that have urls to weird scam sites on them?)- could you ever feasibly get a shiny pokemon from .PID=$rand, or is that impossible?

I'm gonna release him because I Don't Trust Nintendo Like That, but for everyone's viewing pleasure, an illegal little man.

823 - Corviknight - 5A46BD61E36A.pk8

172 - Pichu - E853B0698CAD.pk8249 - Lugia - F7B1D2B77708.pk8

About what it says on the tin. Got these guys off Wonderbox, they look legal to me, but here we are and here I am.

I did have some trouble with an updated hekate and a sorely outdated atmosphere. I'm not very good at CFW, haha.

Which might explain what happened- after a save comparison, it turns out that it didn't wipe anything. It just grabbed the last save file I made before I had installed CFW. I... don't know how or why it did that. Reimporting my last save worked a charm!

Well, I'm also pretty darn confused, but I gave myself a shiny morpeko and a full set of alcreamie and everything is GONE.

EDIT: Whoops, sorry, should I upload my backup and my new save? I can do that if you need. I'm going to try reimporting the backup with checkpoint and seeing what happens.

What it says on the tin.

I thought they were legit, but clearly the game did not agree with me.

Ah.

So, are these better?

Original:

Bootleg:

Opened up the cartridges!

Here's the real (I'm gonna replace the battery, while I'm in there):

Here's the bootleg (the battery literally fell out when I opened up the cart, I have no idea where it was originally lmao):

14 hours ago, theSLAYER said:

Update: I created a mini-program that hopefully rips saves out from the bootleg ROM. Program here.

So far, it works on your copy (from what I can tell).

 

The saves dumped by the program is also more accurate then the ones I sent you;
the saves I sent you doesn't work when imported into an emulator, but the ones this program dumps does.

You are the hero of our times. Praise.

2 minutes ago, theSLAYER said:

I used the these bytes to try to find the save

from here

Once I find that part in your save, I take the first address of the 0xFF, and minus 0x1E000 from it, so that I find the starting address of the save. That's how I got the two locations in prev post.

(not sure you saw it, but I added in a part that both saves seems to be the same)

 

I'm also not sure that the saves are in fixed spots. Any further dumps may have them in a different point, so you can use that method to search.

Anyhow, the two files
test.sav
test2.sav

Again, thank you so much! I'm really not good at this, so I appreciate you taking the time and effort to hand-hold me.

12 minutes ago, theSLAYER said:

Erm, that's if we assume the data you sent isn't an encrypted save.

Otherwise, the data you sent it garbage data and isn't the save.

If you can hex edit the rom, try looking for the save inside. or screenshot any area that have blank spaces and data at the end, that might be the footer of the save.

Also take a look at the bulbapedia link I sent you, to help you figure out if it is or isn't a save.

 

edit: Your save is in the game you uploaded (but I removed). Location..

This is your save, right?

There it is! That's my save!

So the moral of the story is that I just suck at breaking into the rom lmao. Thank you!

...Huh. Alright, then. So there's definitely a save, that's not saved to the ROM itself... but I'd have to make an entirely new program to read it?

@theSLAYER So, I'm an idiot. What does not having a save partition mean, here?

I'll do you one better- here's the save and the .gba file (removed)

The game seems to save just fine. I can power it off, remove it from the gameboy, plug it into the DS, rip the files, plug it back into the gameboy, and it works fine. RTC is accurate, or accurate enough that I don't notice any differences.

POKEMON_SAPP_AXPE02 (2).sav

MOD EDIT: WE NOW HAVE A TUTORIAL FOR THIS.

I hope this is the right forum.

I've run into an interesting situation with a bootleg. From what I'd found with research, most R/S/E bootlegs flash the save directly to the game files, so if you rip the ROM and boot it up with an emulator, you can access your save file that way. This one didn't have a PKHex-recognizable save, even though it wasn't bringing up an empty save like those bootlegs usually do, and the save wasn't part of the ROM, so I ended up contacting the bootleggers directly (I bought a special edition Kyogre gameboy, and got the bootleg sapphire as a freebie with the gameboy, and checking their site indicated that they don't pretend that their reproductions are original cartridges).

They say that they added a save chip- it's just apparently not compatible with PKHex or Pokemon Diamond.

FWIW, as far as bootlegs go, this was a pretty well-done one. It's got a battery, and it had me totally fooled until I checked the label.

I don't have a special screwdriver yet, but I'm thinking of ordering one just to take this apart. In the meantime, does anyone have any suggestions as to what I should do with the bootleg?

56 minutes ago, theSLAYER said:

@sobbingsobble stop multi-posting unnecessarily. Any new information, edit it into your latest unanswered post.

 

Also, stop cursing. Read our rules.

Ah, my bad. Sorry about that.

EDIT:

I ended up with a bootleg cartridge, and pitched a fit about it instead of doing something useful. That's on me.

7 hours ago, Loopy said:

There are no safari balls in OR/AS

Yeah, my bad- I forgot!

Anyways, I genned up a Sapphire Xatu with safari ball, and produced two beautiful safari ball Natu. So if you can get the Xatu in there legally, that's a legal Natu right there.

Here's an interesting one.

Now, I know I can import pokemon from OM/AS into SWSH, because I've got a milotic from home in my SWSH cart right now. And Xatu from OM/AS can be caught in a safari ball. I'm going to gen an Alpha Sapphire Safari Xatu to see if I can duplicate the results manually.

But until then, Legal or Illegal?

177 - ネイティ - 1D8EAA2955F9.pk8

Well, you can't get a square shiny from UM, right? So that's not correct.

(Also, I've returned him to Home. You, too, might get this fishy man someday.)

This dude checks out in PKHex, but there's a lot going on here and I'm pretty sure he's not valid.

644 ★ - ゼクロム - 033750267678.pk8