I've read the guides online tons of times but they repeatedly don't address what I want to know about, I searched through these forums but often got only partial answers or answers that were confusing. I'm at the end of my rope essentially.
All I want to do is create some pokemon, preferably in my empty box 3 as the website says doing it in the box is better than directly making them in the party. What I really want is a step by step guide as to how to do this. All the guides here seem to leave things out.
Now I do want my pokemon to have legal movesets but I probably won't be doing much more than battling the in game trainers in the battle frontier (I own Platinum) unless I get the hang of wifi battling online.
I've probably confused you all by now so I'll just get right to the questions. Let's assume that the pokemon I'm making are all ones that will be hatched as apparently that is the better way to do things. Anyway, I'll go through each part I have a question on from top-to-bottom and from left-to-right.
But first a someone seperate question. The site says if my pokedex doesn't yet have the pokemon I make then it will not make entries for them when I do make those pokemon. The solution it gives is to make them into eggs, hatch them, and then use pokesav to make them the level/stats that are wanted. This sounds tedious and time consuming, isn't there are code that would simply let me have the pokedex completed? There were back in the days of Ruby and Sapphire.
Now to really begin:
1. Language: Do I need to enter English here?
2. Met in place: Day Care Couple is what I put here correct?
3. Hidden Hex value: In simple terms what do I put here for Platinum? I read a thread on this but was still left a bit confused because the main answer I could interpret more than one way.
4. Trainer ID/Secret ID: Do I need to enter anything here? If so how do I find these numbers? None of the guides on the site seem to address this. Is "input own ID" clicked before or after you put in your real numbers?
5. Generate/PID/IV: Which of these two buttons do I use?
6. Egg hatched at: Does my answer to this matter?
7. Moves: If the pokemon is being made to appear in a PC box then do I need to fill in the correct PP amounts for the moves? The guide only refers to what to do if they are being created to appear in your party.
8. Is egg: If I decided to make it an egg, what sections would I not fill out?
9. Once I press "okay" what do I do exactly? Do I need to save the box then and if so where and as what save type?
10. Once I get back to the main screen do I need to have any of it filled in?
11. When I press "Export ARDS" (as I am using an Action Replay for all this I think I press this) do I need to have the Action Replay currently connected via the cord to the computer? Will the code go directly to my "Action Replay Code Manager" or do I need to direct it?
12. Once it is in My Codelist on the Action Replay Manager, how do I add the code to my Action Replay without erasing every other code? As this is what happened the last time I tried to add a code to it. I think I understand how not to but I wanted to make sure.
13. In order to use the code I need to both check it off on the Action Replay activation screen AND press L + R once the game is on correct? Only then can I save and thus keep the pokemon I created, right?
Thank you for listening and I apologize for the length of the message. I wanted to make sure I was as detailed as I could be here.