Pokémon (Not-So) Griefing Thread - Scarlet and Violet Released with 10 Million Copies in First 3 Days in Buggy States

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Magnemite and the evolutions seem to be cyborgs. They clearly have machine bodies, yet they eat berries, could get poisoned in Gen 1, could get poisoned by Twineedle in at least Gen 2, and of course they can hatch from eggs. Not only that, but they act collectively and talk (in the Mystery Dungeon games) in a way that seemingly lacks emotion.

So in other words, Magnemite and the evolutions are like the Borg of of the pocket monsters world, minus that assimilation thing?
 
Uh-oh.
My hack seems to have had broken saving, disobedience, and Leader messages ince a lot of builds ago. Even my last good source files are broken. I did not ice because having an already properly-made save file does not rigger the rror, but making a new one does.
I decided to do all of that from a fresh source, but wi the latest version of pokegold.
I shall focus on doing the foundation first, not necessarily fixin grievances from the original Pokémon Gold and Silver.
At least I know some of the differences between Pokémon Gold and Pokémon Crystal.
 
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Howling Janny Dog said:
BW remake in the vein of BDSP would be my guess. Either that or another Legends.
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I saw this image float around today. Can not confirm source or validity.
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Anonitolia said:
The obligatory Pokémon Day Pokémon Presents has been announced.

There aren't any details on it yet, I just wanted to share the thumbnail because I think it's cute. One of the best parts of this new generation has been all the marketing focusing on pastel mosaics; I think it's a very pretty new direction to use.

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Any speculation, I guess? I'm personally expecting the announcement of BW remakes as the main event (since it's that part of the generational cycle and GF want money), with almost nothing else of substance to the rest of the video. It's probably gonna be those remakes and then like 80% mobile game filler fluff. Maybe some card game stuff or merch updates. The last two Presents have taught me to keep my expectations through the floor.
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Card game stuff is usually announced at events like the World Championships or reported on by sites like Pokébeach when Japan gets information, the only time I remember them announcing anything TCG-related was the Pokémon Trading Card Game Classic product last year.

But this year it appears TPCi is trying to bring people back to Leagues by having them host a Pokémon Day event. Here's a photo of the stuff locations are getting to support the event.
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Here's what I can see in the pic:
  • Stamped League promos of Pikachu, Twin Energy, Flapple, Coalossal, and Mr. Rime. All of these promos were originally meant to be given away in past League seasons but never were due to the lockdowns. Each pack contains between 40-50 cards depending on the promo. Oh, and outside of the Pikachu all of these cards have been rotated out of the Standard format.
  • Sticker sheets
  • Code cards for Pokémon GO
  • Promotional dice sets. The ones in the pic are similar to ones found in certain TCG products but these have an exclusive design.
  • Pikachu Moods figures, a Pokémon Center-exclusive item
  • Two Pokémon GO TCG tins (contents are 4 packs of the Pokémon GO TCG set, a foil promo featuring Pikachu/Blissey/Snorlax, an additional foil promo featuring Pikachu, a sticker sheet, and a code for the Pokémon TCG Live)
  • One Poké Ball-themed tin. These contain two TCG packs of varying regular sets and a plastic flip-coin.
  • One Pokémon Center-exclusive Elite Trainer Box. This item is probably the one most people will want since it's better than the regular ETBs that stores sell but it'll probably be the top prize in a TCG tournament or given out as a "random goodness" prize.
  • Two “Intro” half-decks designed to teach new players how to play the game, these were introduced last year and the only worth mentioning about ‘em is that they include non-holo copies of Greninja V, Umbreon V, or Lucario V depending on the deck.
EDIT: I forgot to mention one product that‘s included in the kit.
 
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I'm wondering if any Kiwis like to play Pokédoku. It's just what it sounds like—using the National Dex (+Megas and GMax) to fill in requisite slots. They recently implemented a Pokédex feature to incentive uniqueness too!

🌟 PokeDoku Champion 🌟
By: Goon Squad (actually the name lmao)

Score: 9/9
Uniqueness: 33/14
🔥 Streak: 1

✅ ✅ ✅
✅ ✅ ✅
✅ ✅ ✅

Play at: https://pokedoku.com
 
Kurohige said:
I was continuing my first playthrough of Crystal (I've been ducking Gen II forever) and I made it to the Dragon's Den. I enter from Blackthorn, and I'm greeted with this:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=GyITttZd-ZE
Hardware limitations be damned, what the hell were they thinking putting this in?
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Here's something to cleanse the ears:

Kurohige said:
I'm wondering if any Kiwis like to play Pokédoku. It's just what it sounds like—using the National Dex (+Megas and GMax) to fill in requisite slots. They recently implemented a Pokédex feature to incentive uniqueness too!

🌟 PokeDoku Champion 🌟
By: Goon Squad (actually the name lmao)

Score: 9/9
Uniqueness: 33/14
🔥 Streak: 1

✅ ✅ ✅
✅ ✅ ✅
✅ ✅ ✅

Play at: https://pokedoku.com
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It's neat
 
For those of you still playing Scarlet/Violet the newest Mass Outbreak event just activated. You can now encounter Voltorb, Foongus, and Hisuian Voltorb in boosted-Shiny-odds outbreaks.

This normally wouldn't be something I'd just bring up and leave it at that, but this is one is pretty important since it shows that GF can make regional variants that aren't native to SV or its DLC available via these events.
 
Archeops said:
For those of you still playing Scarlet/Violet the newest Mass Outbreak event just activated. You can now encounter Voltorb, Foongus, and Hisuian Voltorb in boosted-Shiny-odds outbreaks.

This normally wouldn't be something I'd just bring up and leave it at that, but this is one is pretty important since it shows that GF can make regional variants that aren't native to SV or its DLC available via these events.
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Thank you for the info.

Fuck shiny hunting again for pokemon you already had shinies of in an earlier game. There is no shame in using Pkhex when you can't easily get your pokemon from the DS games to whatever the current console is. There's no reason why GF can't make a all in one cartridge adapter for all the older titles that only works for migrating pokemon over one way and refresh the hardware every console generation. Would be well worth the money instead of whatever useless overpriced dongles they made for Pokemon GO.

Not to mention the insane amount of unused "met at:" locations that you can only really see in Pkhex.
 
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Archeops said:
For those of you still playing Scarlet/Violet the newest Mass Outbreak event just activated. You can now encounter Voltorb, Foongus, and Hisuian Voltorb in boosted-Shiny-odds outbreaks.

This normally wouldn't be something I'd just bring up and leave it at that, but this is one is pretty important since it shows that GF can make regional variants that aren't native to SV or its DLC available via these events.
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thx for the heads up, finally I can get a hisuian voltorb in a luxury ball.
 
anime jetplane said:
Thank you for the info.
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Howling Janny Dog said:
thx for the heads up, finally I can get a hisuian voltorb in a luxury ball.
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No problem, I'll probably update my outbreak spawns tomorrow but I like having Gulpin, Stunky, Clauncher, and Skrelp with a higher chance of having Uncommon and Rare Marks.
anime jetplane said:
Fuck shiny hunting again for pokemon you already had shinies of in an earlier game. There is no shame in using Pkhex when you can't easily get your pokemon from the DS games to whatever the current console is. There's no reason why GF can't make a all in one cartridge adapter for all the older titles that only works for migrating pokemon over one way and refresh the hardware every console generation. Would be well worth the money instead of whatever useless overpriced dongles they made for Pokemon GO.
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I think part of the issue with making dongles is that there's also a software component to the data files that actually make up Pokémon, it usually gets refreshed in some way every generation to discourage injectors and transferring them with with the features Gen 4/Gen 5/Bank/Home helps with converting said files.

Also, you should be much more careful now with injecting for tournaments. TPCi recently announced that players will have to submit a Rental Team ID when submitting their VGC teams come March. You know, the same kind of Rental Team IDs that Kaphotics uses to see if a competitor's Pokémon passes the digital sniff test or not and then hangs out said teams like a pair of DIRTY, CRAPPED BRIEFS on Twitter?
 
Archeops said:
Also, you should be much more careful now with injecting for tournaments. TPCi recently announced that players will have to submit a Rental Team ID when submitting their VGC teams come March. You know, the same kind of Rental Team IDs that Kaphotics uses to see if a competitor's Pokémon passes the digital sniff test or not and then hangs out said teams like a pair of DIRTY, CRAPPED BRIEFS on Twitter?
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What are those "digital sniff tests" exactly? I heard once that one of the japanese players was caught using an amoonguss with it's attack IV artificially lowered to 0 but I still don't know how exactly they figured that out, nor whether the claim was even true to begin with.
 
Howling Janny Dog said:
What are those "digital sniff tests" exactly?
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From what I understand people like Kaphotics use Switch homebrew to get the Rental Team's bin data and then they dump that data into PKHeX to see if there's any illegitimate/fudged data that pops up in a specific Pokémon's file structure.
Howling Janny Dog said:
I heard once that one of the japanese players was caught using an amoonguss with it's attack IV artificially lowered to 0 but I still don't know how exactly they figured that out, nor whether the claim was even true to begin with.
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That was from Kaphotics' rundown on the presence of hacked Pokémon at Worlds 2023, apparently TPCi's hack checks at the time didn't check for raid RNG correlations and that's how it was able to sneak through. Two Genies (Tornadus and Landorus) "caught" via a Max Raid also had this issue and they were also able to sneak in.
 
Howling Janny Dog said:
What are those "digital sniff tests" exactly? I heard once that one of the japanese players was caught using an amoonguss with it's attack IV artificially lowered to 0 but I still don't know how exactly they figured that out, nor whether the claim was even true to begin with.
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I've been trying to get into RNG so I think I can answer this from the mechanics side.

Every Pokemon has a hidden value called a PID and this value is directly linked to the Pokemon's exact IVs, nature, ability, shininess and gender. If any of these are modified, it will cause a PID mismatch and result in an invalid checksum, therefore an illegal Pokemon. The only way to avoid getting this warning is to replace the PID with one that has the IVs, nature, etc. you want, but that's easier said than done so most hackers don't bother. PKHex's legality checker is also much more complex than the official legality checkers in Home and Bank and will pick up on these things whereas the official ones will only respond to obvious hacks like unobtainable moves.
 
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