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Long time no see, My save file for Explorers of Time got corrupted, and as a result, I lost EVERYTHING. I do not want to start all over again, so I was seeking saves files for Time/Darkness with a specific thing; the original player's gender must be Female while the Partner's must be Male. Any Pokemon would do the thing,, the save DOES NOT have to be post-game, just after the Team Skull chapter (if possible) but the only saves I could find were only with males... Is there a way to Hex-edit that, so that my Main Pokemon is identified as a female? I tried a Java editor as well as another one (forgot the name), but they are only for Explorers of Sky... I dunno what to do. There's a link to a save file editor (SkyEditor Build 35), but the website's down, so I can't download it to see if it would be possible to edit that. Does anyone have offsets for Time/Darkness so I could Hex-edit a random save?

Hello, I am currently working on a rom hack for pokemon black. One of the things I need to do is change the starter pokemon. I have searched this site and the internet for tools or hex editing tutorials to do this, to no avail. I do not care if it still says "snivy," "tepig," and "oshawott" in the selection screen. What I want to happen is if you pick the grass choice, you get chikorita, fire gives you cyndaquil, and water gives you totodile. Additionally, I want to make it so the dreamyard monkeys get replaced by the gen 1 starter of their respective types. Could anyone give me a rundown on how to do this?

Hi all, I am a IT student and I am currently trying to reverse engineer the inner working of the Gen IV Distribution ROM. I already figured out the basics but... Right now, I am facing an issue with the way data is encrypted. I already know of tools such as WC4PCD or PokeGen, PokeHex... but I am trying to understand and create my own program to decrypt and reencrypt all by myself. So I am asking if any one here as any leads or straight up know what encryption algorithm is used. I obviously did some research but no luck yet. (Chat GPT told me to XOR the file but idk what key to use). Thanks in advance, and my apologies if I made any english mistake

Hello ! I'm working on a fusion hack rom based on drayano's pokemon volt white 2. The game's working fine but i'd like to change the shiny rate. Here's what i did so far : - Extracted (not exported) the arm9.bin with crystaltile2 - found the right offset for '08 28' at 0x18e1c - tried to change it with crystaltile2 or hxd The problem is when i try to compress it back in volt white 2. The same message: "file too small. Insert it somewhere else". keep poping and i'm stuck in an infinite loop. I also tried to use tinke instead of crystaltile2 but i can't compress the arm9 with it. When i do the same thing with a white 2 rom it works fine but i can't find a way to do it with volt white 2. Also the size of the arm9.bin keep changing when i update it. Is there a way to change it cleanly without changing the file size ?

So i am making this quick guide on how to edit the type effectiveness chart in Black and White 1 (yes this only works in the the first games and not B2W2) The reason i am making this, is that i saw see alot of guides on how to change the types chart in BW2 but not on the first games, it took finding some deep burried post to find it and it wasn't exactly clear either. So here is a list of what you will need. BRZ decompression tool CrystalTile2 A rom of Black or White 1 Ok so starting off you want a to open a ROM of black or white to in crystal tile 2 and press CTRL+N to open up the overlays, Find overlay_0093.bin And RIGHT CLICK and press extract (wherer you can find it) Now that you have extracted it Open BRZ decompression tools Link to BLZ https://www.romhacking.net/utilities/826/ Here is a link to CrystalTile 2 https://www.romhacking.net/utilities/818/ Open BLZ via Windows command line or CMD, by opening CMD and dragging the BLZ.exe onto the cmd, Then Write "-d " after the text, of the directory Location. The inserted BLZ file so it should look like ">"C:\Users\Users PC\Desktop\(your directory file)\blz.exe" in your command line. Depending on where you have your BLZ.exe stored. Now that you have written "-d" after the directory location of BLZ, also drag and drop (or manually write) the directory of your OVERLAY_0093.bin file so in the end it should look something like this "C:\Users\(your username)\Desktop\Roms and pokemon related\blz.exe" -d "C:\Users\(your username) \Desktop\Roms and pokemon related\overlay9_0093" press enter and it should say "file decompressed" or something like that and it should say "done" Open the now decompressed overlay_0093.bin file in any hed editor of your choice and you should see a bunch of numbers (duh) Now for the editing part, the type chart is on a 17x17 Grid starting at offset 3A37C with normal type attacking normal and ending at 3A49C dark attacking dark. The type effectiveness is distributed by 3 different values. 00 meaning a type takes 0 damage and its immune, 02 meaning the attacker deals half damage or "Not very effective", 04 meaning its a normal effectiveness, its neutral and 08 meaning the attack is super effective. So 00 = immune. 02 = not very effective. 04 = neutral effectiveness. 08 = super effective i have provided 1 file with the distribution of the types inline with the hex offsets, so that you can just adjust the types you want then copy and paste the grid into the starting offset and the ending offset of the type chart. also here are the type chart offsets for each type, and each type takes exactly 17 slots for its attacking line (horizontal) and 17 for its defending line (vertical) These offsets covers the first type a type attacks (first offset) to the last type it attacks on the grid (the last offset) 1 Normal types hex offset: 3A37C-3A38C 2 Figthing Types hex offset:3A38D-3A39D 3 Flying types Hex offset:3A39E-3A3AE 4 Poison types offset: 3A3AF-3A3BF 5 Ground offset: 3A3C0-3A3D0 6 Rock offset: 3A3D1-3A3E1 7 Bug offset: 3A3E2-3A3F2 8 Ghost offset: 3A3F3-3A403 9 Steel offset: 3A404-3A414 10 fire offset: 3A415-3A425 11 Water offset: 3A426-3A436 12 Grass types HEX offset: 3A437-3A447 13TYPE_ELEC = 3A448-3A458 14 TYPE_PSY = 3A459-3A469 15 TYPE_ICE = 3A46A-3A47A 16 TYPE_DRAGON = 3A47B-3A48B 17 TYPE_DARK = 3A48C-3A49C Once you are done editing your OVERLAY_0093.bin file in any hex editor of your choice. Take it back to the same CMD process as we did before. Insert the BRZ file gain into the CMD, but this time instead of writing -d write -en to encode the overlay0093.bin file, you do the exact same thing of drag and dropping BRZ then writing the -en command and then drag and drop the edited overlay0093.bin file. Now that you are finished encoding the edited file, open crystaltile 2, open the black/white rom press CTRL+N again Find overlay 0093.bin inside CRYSTALTILE2 again and then right click on it and press import, now import the edited 0093 overlay file to replace the non edited file. and tada it should be done. Quick reminder black and white overlay_0093.bin files are not useable between these two games so if you use the overlay of one game to another you will probably crash. Type chart info 2.docx

The purpose of this thread is to find a way to hex edit Gen 3 savegames so that there can be trade between Kanto and Hoenn without having to beat the game. Text in red means help is required. Text in yellow is the explanation. Help: https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Save_data_structure_in_Generation_III Requirements 1) The National Dex must be unlocked in each version. According to Bulbapedia, three fields must be edited: A, B and C. Help needed: Each save seems to have those fields in different places. How can we determine where it starts beforehand, when it's all zeroes? I opened three different NatDex unlocked Emerald saves, and searched for the first field, which should show "01 DA", meaning the NatDex is unlocked. In the first one, 01 DA appeared at offset A019 for Game A and 17019 for Game B; in the second one, it appeared at 6019 and 13019, and in the third one it appeared at C019 and 19019. I cannot search this way with a save that doesn't have the NatDex yet, because instead of "01 DA" there is "00 00", which is everywhere. 2) In FireRed/LeafGreen, The Ruby and Sapphire Sevii Island sidequest must also be completed. Help needed: where are the bytes that determine its completion status? Any collaboration is appreciated in order to make the third gen games more accessible.

I have tried to change or replace items in the BW/B2W2 games, both items that can be found in the overworld and those given by NPCs. I have no previous experience with hex editing but I have done my best going through this forum and trying to grasp what I need to know to be able to do this. The problem I have now is that I cannot find the hex numbers for the various items within the script files for the various maps. If I open the script for a certain location, for example, Route 2 in Black and White, which is not too complicated but contains examples of various things, then there are both items on the ground and a scripted one at the beginning. Looking at this page: List of items by index number (Generation V) ... I can find the hex values for the items in the games, and I know that Route 2 is script file 319 in B/W. The problem is that I am unable to find the hex values for any of the items within the script code. I have looked through many, many different threads here trying to find out what I am doing wrong but without success. Could someone here who has experience with this kind of editing tell me what I am missing, where the hex numbers for the items can be found and if there is anything else I have misunderstood? Thanks in advance, I would be very grateful for any help.