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Old December 14th, 2008 (8:08 PM). Edited December 14th, 2008 by randomspot555.
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uh....what? some hacked pokemon are not illegal? This statement itself is contradictory. There is no gray area in this discussion. Hacked pokemon are either legal or illegal. If made through any external cheating device the pokemon is illegal, end of discussion...this includes pokesav.
Legal is JUST referring to the stats (Moves, nature, ability, etc...). A legal Pokemon is identical to a legit Pokemon except that it's origin is unknown (IE you didn't obtain it yourself). If you had read my definitions, you'd know that nothing I posted was contradicted in my post. It is not referring to how the Pokemon was obtained, if they're allowed to be traded on X site, or allowed in a battle within Community Y. If they can be used or traded in Pokemon web sites is up to the staff and their discretion and is completely irrelevant to my post.

You're partially right, in that a legal Pokemon can be hacked. However, if it fits my definition if legal, it can not be told apart from a legit Pokemon unless the hacker fesses up. Any difference (Cherish ball on a non-event, Hypnosis/Mirror Coat both on Milotic, Seismic Toss Blissey that isn't Pal Parked) shifts it out of both legit and legal territory and makes it illegal (and also hacked).

EDIT: I am just providing definitions. I am not pro or anti hacking as far as this post goes, and I really don't want a semantic debate over definitions. If a legal Pokemon to you has to be legit, you don't need to call it legal. You already have a word for it: legit. However, all legit looking Pokes that have unknown origins (they show no signs of being hacked) is what the legal definition is for. And since hacks can be made pretty much perfect (never mind that the vast majority of Pokemon players don't have access to a digital hack checking program, OR know enough about game mechanics and events to identify hacks), the legal definition is needed.

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That still didn't answer our primary question. How come the shiny ALAMOS Darkrai and shiny Eigikan Shaymin come out as legit when checked?
How certain are you that they're legit? Did you obtain them at the event yourself? If so, how did it happen? Did you have to soft reset multiple times, or was the first one you received from the Delivery Man shiny?
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Old December 14th, 2008 (9:21 PM). Edited December 14th, 2008 by SCV.
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You link to the cesspool of the hacking world? That place is almost as bad as pokesav.org.
Well that is the only place the great tsanth, posted his research.

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If nothing can prove it's legit, and nothing can prove that it isn't, then there's no point in discussing this anymore.
Your logic fails you.
In some cases it is possible to prove something is not legit, but only by

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If the Darkrai and Shaymin were hacks, then they would show up as hacks in every single checker out there, and they come up as LEGIT in every single checker out there.
No because hack checkers are not perfect and they are only as good as the research that has been put into them. There is no better source for what is possible and impossible that the code itself.


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Just because you get one stupid program that lets you put a line of where you want coding to start doesn't mean anything. You could just be putting the break points at the wrong spot. Go more in depth.
Obviously you don't know how the debugger works. You don't get to choose where the coding starts. The code runs normally unless you pause the game. You can set up breakpoints that will pause the game automatically when the game reaches that line of code. Of course to find significant breakpoints is not an easy task. That is the significase of the gamefaqs thread I posted. tsanth is a professional programmer and rediscovered the PID/IV relationship that loadingNOW had discovered. They both did their research using no$gba debug. If you set up break point in the wrong place then the breakpoint is never reach so the game never pauses.

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uh....what? some hacked pokemon are not illegal? This statement itself is contradictory. There is no gray area in this discussion. Hacked pokemon are either legal or illegal. If made through any external cheating device the pokemon is illegal, end of discussion...this includes pokesav.
For some people a pokemon is good enough if it can be created by the game, no matter how small the chance is. But something that the game can never create is unacceptable.

The point is that there is no way from telling a pokemon that COULD be created by the game appart from one that WAS created by the game.

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Now regarding the checker, I remember checking my 2 Alamos Darkrai, 2 TRU Manaphy, 2 GS Deoxys all of which I got myself, and what does it do? It considers them hacked while it considers one of my obviously poorly hacked Shiny Agate Celebi and Eigikan Shaymin legit (both of which I know were hacked).

Something wrong with the checker after so long now?
Want to post screen shots of the results?

xLIVENUDESx,please post a screen shot of the legal.exe summary saying that the shiny darkrai is a legal mystery gift pokemon.
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@SCV: I no longer have the files anymore (old computer died due to viruses) nor can I create them (friend had an R4, but sold it since he stopped playing video games)

I want to say more, but the fact that I'm arguing from someone who got their information from pokesav.org and smogon makes it a waste of my time as I know there won't ever be a conclusion to this (include Serebii and this is the end of discussion since your logic will clearly be faulty at that point). Therefore, the best way to settle this is whatever you believe in. In other words, if you believe that no WC pokes can be shiny except the WCS Milotic, which is preset, that's your belief. Do I care? No, because we are arguing over pieces of data.

However, if you're going to be spreading this kind of rumor, how about doing it on your own site or rather a place where everyone believes this kind of crap. Clearly not everyone here believes it if a moderator has something on you right now. Go take this somewhere else to people who actually give a crap about the hack site at pokesav.org. Not to mention that the only place you seem to have ever posted are on forums/threads regarding hacking <_<
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Old December 14th, 2008 (10:12 PM). Edited December 14th, 2008 by SCV.
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@SCV: I no longer have the files anymore (old computer died due to viruses) nor can I create them (friend had an R4, but sold it since he stopped playing video games)

I want to say more, but the fact that I'm arguing from someone who got their information from pokesav.org and smogon makes it a waste of my time as I know there won't ever be a conclusion to this (include Serebii and this is the end of discussion since your logic will clearly be faulty at that point). Therefore, the best way to settle this is whatever you believe in. In other words, if you believe that no WC pokes can be shiny except the WCS Milotic, which is preset, that's your belief. Do I care? No, because we are arguing over pieces of data.

However, if you're going to be spreading this kind of rumor, how about doing it on your own site or rather a place where everyone believes this kind of crap. Clearly not everyone here believes it if a moderator has something on you right now. Go take this somewhere else to people who actually give a crap about the hack site at pokesav.org. Not to mention that the only place you seem to have ever posted are on forums/threads regarding hacking <_<
I am making the video now. You don't care that people are being scammed? I did not say I got my information from smogon or pokesav.org.

I got the information myself, directly from the game's code. By the way notice that it is stated at Serebii that DP events are set to be non-shiny: http://serebiiforums.com/showthread.php?t=358447

But regardless, I get my info from the game not from anyone else. I only mentioned smogon because I don't want to pretend that it was my idea to check for this. It was Color Me Evil who brought up pokesav.

EDIT: I updated first post with a link to the video. Explanation coming soon.
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Color Me Evil, xLIVENUDESx: Foot, meet mouth. Mouth, foot.

I researched this info, starting from Smogon, and found a number of different, reputable programmers investigating the matter, including LoadingNOW, who gave us the now-famous Pokéradar odds formula. They all agreed upon the same conclusion:

This information is true. The game literally sabotages your chances of finding a shiny through D/P/Pl's Mystery Gift function by throwing out a random PV ("PID") it calculated if it would make the event a shiny.

Me, personally, I'm fuming at the thought of never being able to obtain shinies from Ranger (Manaphy, Darkrai), but that's just the way things are. Fortunately, Nin' never hosts events in Canada, so I'm not missing out on much more than that. Living with it is much better than denial.

There are easy ways to circumvent programs like pAC. I'm not about to discuss them because I don't wish to encourage hacking.

Anti-cheat software is only as strong as the person using it. Suppose a Burger King Raichu (made-up example) can only be female, and program disassembly has proven this. Suppose you get a male one. You put it through pAC, and Bang! Legit! Odds are, pAC either doesn't know what a Burger King Raichu is or how to tell one apart from any other Raichu.

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EDIT: Another interesting note is that they tried to prevent shiny manaphys was well. But I found a bug in the code that makes them possible if you trade the egg you received from the green man and the trainer you traded it to has a "proper" ID and Secret ID.
Sorry, but this doesn't work. If a Manaphy has a shiny PV for your Trainer IDs, the game actually sabotages it upon hatching, and gives it a new, non-shiny PV.

The real shame here is that many people, some from the SHC, wasted hours upon hours of their time trying for something on their games which was genuinely impossible. At least, the fruitless labour will now come to an end.
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Color Me Evil, xLIVENUDESx: Foot, meet mouth. Mouth, foot.

I researched this info, starting from Smogon, and found a number of different, reputable programmers investigating the matter, including LoadingNOW, who gave us the now-famous Pokéradar odds formula. They all agreed upon the same conclusion:

This information is true. The game literally sabotages your chances of finding a shiny through D/P/Pl's Mystery Gift function by throwing out a random PV ("PID") it calculated if it would make the event a shiny.

Me, personally, I'm fuming at the thought of never being able to obtain shinies from Ranger (Manaphy, Darkrai), but that's just the way things are. Fortunately, Nin' never hosts events in Canada, so I'm not missing out on much more than that. Living with it is much better than denial.

There are easy ways to circumvent programs like pAC. I'm not about to discuss them because I don't wish to encourage hacking.

Anti-cheat software is only as strong as the person using it. Suppose a Burger King Raichu (made-up example) can only be female, and program disassembly has proven this. Suppose you get a male one. You put it through pAC, and Bang! Legit! Odds are, pAC either doesn't know what a Burger King Raichu is or how to tell one apart from any other Raichu.


Sorry, but this doesn't work. If a Manaphy has a shiny PV for your Trainer IDs, the game actually sabotages it upon hatching, and gives it a new, non-shiny PV.

The real shame here is that many people, some from the SHC, wasted hours upon hours of their time trying for something on their games which was genuinely impossible. At least, the fruitless labour will now come to an end.
Actually I thought shiny manaphys were impossible and I found that the game uses the same shiny check and "Special PRNG" to calculate the new PID. But like I said the code has a bug. The game carries out the shiny check with the PID/ID/SID on the egg. However, you can trade manaphy eggs. So if the pokemon would not be shiny with respect to the person who received the egg but it will with the person to whom the egg is traded then it will hatch shiny. Of course resetting for such a manaphy is impossible. A person would have to be very lucky to encounter this scenario.
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But this sabotage happens right when the egg is hatched. Meaning it checks the current trainer's IDs and alters Manaphy's PV right before hatching if the egg contains a shiny. I believe that in this scenario, if you save just before hatching the egg, the Manaphy will have a random, variable Nature upon hatching. Not sure on this one though.

Using your Nice Idea, it would be possible to SR, but it would take a long time. Take 2 games. Put the egg on Game #1. Restart Game #2. Trade the egg to Game #2. Save. Hatch the egg. If not shiny, soft reset and trade the egg back to Game #1. Restart Game #2. Repeat process. Too bad this doesn't work.
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But this sabotage happens right when the egg is hatched. Meaning it checks the current trainer's IDs and alters Manaphy's PV right before hatching if the egg contains a shiny. I believe that in this scenario, if you save just before hatching the egg, the Manaphy will have a random, variable Nature upon hatching. Not sure on this one though.

Using your Nice Idea, it would be possible to SR, but it would take a long time. Take 2 games. Put the egg on Game #1. Restart Game #2. Trade the egg to Game #2. Save. Hatch the egg. If not shiny, soft reset and trade the egg back to Game #1. Restart Game #2. Repeat process. Too bad this doesn't work.
Trust me it works. Or I can make another video, although I would prefer not to. Actually I had a video in the editing proccess, nearly ready to be released with an article with a big fat "Manaphy Can't Be Shiny" title, but then when I was writing the article I came to the conclusion that if the egg could be traded the sabotaging would not be successful. I literally left my office 5 minutes later and headed home to test this. In fact manaphy eggs can be traded and I made a few test cases to verify that they could hatch shiny under the right circumstances. So I had to cancel the release of the article and the video.

You should realize that it is easier to prove that something is possible than that it is impossible. You just need to verify one example. Give me you ID/SID and I can give you a manaphy egg that will hatch shiny for you. Yes the check happens at hatching time but it happens with the ID and SID of the person who received the egg, not the person hatching it. That is why I called it a bug. Obviously, GF/Nintendo wanted to prevent them from being shiny. Maybe they assumed no one would trade away their manaphy egg?

Anyways the reason the sabotage doesn't work is that the shiny check is done before the OT data is overwritten with the data of the person who hatched the egg.

EDIT: I added some notes about the video at the bottom of the first post.
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However, if you're going to be spreading this kind of rumor, how about doing it on your own site or rather a place where everyone believes this kind of crap. Clearly not everyone here believes it if a moderator has something on you right now. Go take this somewhere else to people who actually give a crap about the hack site at pokesav.org. Not to mention that the only place you seem to have ever posted are on forums/threads regarding hacking <_<
Actually, it wasn't too long ago that the Wi-Fi Trading board banned shiny events as hacks, Serebii still does (say what you will about the members of the site, but I don't see a huge gap in average intelligence between the average SPPF and the averace PC poster and I think Joe knows his stuff)...and unfortunately not many other places have enough of a community to have rules on trading events. And I've still yet to see any evidence that a shiny event can happen, in the case of 4th gen WC/MG Pokemon. Or if it's possible, how to get one.

You're right that SCV could be making this all up. But I've yet to hear a counter to his posts other than "lol hacker"
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You're right that SCV could be making this all up. But I've yet to hear a counter to his posts other than "lol hacker"
Actually its not possible.
I already posted the video and you can compare the code which is there to a DPP rom to see that the code is in the game, and its not just some code I made up.

For example, Search 01494143481C70476589076C using a hex editor in a D/P rom.

For a US rom this is at location 0x1FA10

Notice that these instructions match lines 0x201BA10 to 0x201BA1A (go to 18 seconds into the video and pause)

See I would not be posting about this unless I could prove it. My statement is one that is verifiable by anyone willing to open up a D/P rom in a hex editor.

Also searching for 89F034EED8F72CFD011C0598 will bring up a result at location 0x46FB0.

Compare from 0x46FB0 to 0x45FDF to the lines 0x2042FB0 to 0x2043FDC. (look at 25 seconds into the video)

Finally searching for 094B0A041940 will give a result at 0x6CAAC.

Compare from 0x6CAAC to 0x6CAD1 to lines 0x2068AAC to 0x2068AD0 (at 30 seconds into the video).

The order of the numbers is a little mixed around because the data in the rom is stored in little endian format.
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SCV Bro, you don't know what you are talking about, just close this thread, that is why xLIVENUDESx is not posting no more, bye, and I may not know a lot about checking pokemon, but i've been collecting events for like 6 months, I stopped due to virus on my computer, and I don't know if I'll be back, but bro, stop, you really don't know what you are talking about.
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There are a few Pokémon that CAN be shiny via Mystery Gift.
ALAMOS Darkrai
Eigikan Shaymin
WCS Milotic
Ranger Manaphy


Although I'm unsure of Ranger Manaphy, ALAMOS Darkrai and Eigikan Shaymin have been shiny before, yet LEGIT. Color Me Evil and xLIVENUDESx both confirmed this.

Are there any other legit shiny events out there you guys?
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SCV Bro, you don't know what you are talking about, just close this thread, that is why xLIVENUDESx is not posting no more, bye, and I may not know a lot about checking pokemon, but i've been collecting events for like 6 months, I stopped due to virus on my computer, and I don't know if I'll be back, but bro, stop, you really don't know what you are talking about.
...that's nice? No one really cares if Poster X stopped posting, or why Poster Y stopped trading. None of this actually refutes anything in the OP.

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ALAMOS Darkrai
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WCS Milotic
Ranger Manaphy


Although I'm unsure of Ranger Manaphy, ALAMOS Darkrai and Eigikan Shaymin have been shiny before, yet LEGIT. Color Me Evil and xLIVENUDESx both confirmed this.

Are there any other legit shiny events out there you guys?
WCS Milotic is obvious, because it was set to be shiny, similar to the Gamestop Zigzagoons of the 3rd gen. Ranger Manaphy was also discussed in the OP (though I believe it was added in an edit).

However, I've yet to see anyone offer evidence other than "it can happen" in regards to the various Woner Card distribution/Mystery Gift received events. Hell, the event list in the trade board still says Movie Shaymin can't be shiny, but it's constantly traded here. While livenudes and Color Me Evil may have evidence, they've yet to present it, or say how one obtains a shiny of these events, or why the conversation I quoted on page one is wrong.
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SCV Bro, you don't know what you are talking about, just close this thread, that is why xLIVENUDESx is not posting no more, bye, and I may not know a lot about checking pokemon, but i've been collecting events for like 6 months, I stopped due to virus on my computer, and I don't know if I'll be back, but bro, stop, you really don't know what you are talking about.
xLIVENUDESx asked for me to go more into depth, I did. I uploaded a video demonstrating the code that the game runs to prevent mystery gift shinys. I posted an explanation to guide everyone who is not experienced in reading ASM as to what the important lines do. Then I gave instructions so that anyone can verify that code is actually in the game and not something that I put there and made this up.

You may have been collecting pokemon for 6 months but I have had years of programming experience and have been studying the code in pokemon Diamond and Pearl for longer than that.

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However, I've yet to see anyone offer evidence other than "it can happen" in regards to the various Woner Card distribution/Mystery Gift received events. Hell, the event list in the trade board still says Movie Shaymin can't be shiny, but it's constantly traded here. While livenudes and Color Me Evil may have evidence, they've yet to present it, or say how one obtains a shiny of these events, or why the conversation I quoted on page one is wrong.
I will add to this that I added on the first post that something that some people say can't be shiny can be shiny.

I also posted a video proving it and an explanation as to what is required for this to happen.

xLIVENUDESx and Color Me Evil have not done that for mystery gift shinys. Why? Because they can't and the proof is in the first post.



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Lalalala.
Please notice the NOTICE on SHC. It says
Notice: Remember, that even though your pokemon do have the Pal Park/WC data they should be checked with Pokesav by someone experience.

I am such a person (someone more experienced) and I am saying that they are not legit and the proof is in the first post.
SHC's programmer know that trash bytes are not a reliable way of checking a pokemon. That is why that notice is there.

Color Me Evil, did you watch the video? Did you read the explanation? Did you verify that the code is in the ROM like I say it is.

Let me add that relying on SHC is not a good thing to do. It only checks for so called trash bytes which are very easy to figure out. Its even easier to get around it than to get around legal.exe or pAC.

A hack checking program is only as knowledgeable as the person who coded it. When SHC was programmed I had not confirmed that mystery gift pokemon can not be shiny. That is one reason why it comes out as legit on SHC.

Why do you trust SHC, rather than the code from the game?

Also I know there are a few people who think I had something to do with the creation of pokesav. I did not, but lets suppose that I did.
Why would that be a reason to not trust my analysis? Wouldn't it be a reason to be sure I know what I am talking about. After it take a person very knowledgeable to write such a program. You almost surely use pokesav to get pokemon files, right Color Me Evil? Or do you know how to extract the pokemon from the save yourself and decrypt them to view the correct data?
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All that proves is that you have digital Pokemon files that check out. And isn't the whole complaint about Pokesav is that, when correctly used, makes hacks indistinguishable from those received in-game and at events? Compared to Action Replay hacks, which are often poorly made and can be identified by visual cues.

This also still doesn't answer questions like:

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Looking at other communities, Serebii's trade board bans them on how unlikely it is anyone would actually trade them away, and SkittyonWailord talked to a NOA executive who confirmed that 4th gen event can't be shiny (she even specifically asked if it could be done by saving in front of the deliveryman and re-starting, like SRing for an in-game legend). I checked both Psypokes and Smogon, but they don't have any rules about event trading at all.

More so, how does one get a 4th gen event shiny from a wonder card? Re-setting? IT just comes out as such? You'd think someone would've personally obtained one by now.

EDIT: The NOA exec that Skittyonwailord talked to is Mike Liesik, where she was a judge at one of the Pokemon tournaments. They also had some type of hack checking device called (I think) Nintendo ROM Checker.

Her conversation with him:
Me: So, I was wondering, can any of the D/P events ever be shiny?
Mike: Darkrai, no. I'm not sure on the rest but I don't think so.
Me: Thank you. You saved me alot of SRing time.
EDIT: Just to prove that Mr. Liesik is who he is:

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SVC, the video may not be true.
CME, nor the hacks checker, DO NOT lie. It is all legit.
Although that shiny Regigigas isn't legit, the other 2 are. Therefore, there is proof. You're fighting a battle with the pros that you can't win.
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Old December 16th, 2008 (3:54 PM). Edited December 16th, 2008 by randomspot555.
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SVC, the video may not be true.
CME, nor the hacks checker, DO NOT lie. It is all legit.
Although that shiny Regigigas isn't legit, the other 2 are. Therefore, there is proof. You're fighting a battle with the pros that you can't win.
You're right that a program cannot lie, but it can be manipulated. Anyone with Pokesav can modify any PKM file and make it shiny, and do it properly and any hack checker will check it off as okay.

Posting a PKM file, or screen shots of a PKM file being checked, is not evidence of shiny events. The whole complaint over Pokesav is that it can modify anything and make it look legit. Which is a stark contrast from all the 3rd gen Action Replayed Celebi and Jirachi which are clearly hacked. So posting something that was probably made with Pokesav, and then running it through any legit checker, just means that someone with Pokesav did a good job.

A statement from a Pokemon or Nintendo official (see my posts), analysis of the data that contradicts SCVs, an explanation as to how shiny events are ACTUALLY obtained at the event, and for mere curiousity reasons, how you got some 8 year old Japanese kid to trade you their shiny movie Shaymin.

EDIT: I'd also like to hear how the video may not be true, but you put complete faith that her PKM files and screen shots are legit. As I'm fairly certain very few here went to any actual Japanese events, you can't say if they're legit. They might look legit, but the only way to know for sure is to go to the event yourself.

Someone with technical data experience want to weigh in for a second opinion on SCV's data analysis?
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You're right that a program cannot lie, but it can be manipulated. Anyone with Pokesav can modify any PKM file and make it shiny, and do it properly and any hack checker will check it off as okay.

Posting a PKM file, or screen shots of a PKM file being checked, is not evidence of shiny events. The whole complaint over Pokesav is that it can modify anything and make it look legit. Which is a stark contrast from all the 3rd gen Action Replayed Celebi and Jirachi which are clearly hacked. So posting something that was probably made with Pokesav, and then running it through any legit checker, just means that someone with Pokesav did a good job.

A statement from a Pokemon or Nintendo official (see my posts), analysis of the data that contradicts SCVs, an explanation as to how shiny events are ACTUALLY obtained at the event, and for mere curiousity reasons, how you got some 8 year old Japanese kid to trade you their shiny movie Shaymin.

EDIT: I'd also like to hear how the video may not be true, but you put complete faith that her PKM files and screen shots are legit. As I'm fairly certain very few here went to any actual Japanese events, you can't say if they're legit. They might look legit, but the only way to know for sure is to go to the event yourself.

Someone with technical data experience want to weigh in for a second opinion on SCV's data analysis?
Maybe you don't get that the Diamond and Pearl Moderators have an even stronger drive than the rest of the staff to delete all hacks. They are specifically given this section, and they take great pride in it. They do not, not one little bit, allow ANY hacks here. I don't think that CME would lie, because she just isn't that way, and because she is the Diamond and Pearl Mod. And if you truly knew anything about events, you would know that all that CME, Livenudes, and I have said is true.
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SVC, the video may not be true.
CME, nor the hacks checker, DO NOT lie. It is all legit.
Although that shiny Regigigas isn't legit, the other 2 are. Therefore, there is proof. You're fighting a battle with the pros that you can't win.
That is why I gave an explanation along with instructions as to how anyone can compare the lines of code (look at the hex part) that show up on the video to the hex in the rom.

Again, a hack checker is only as good/knowledgeable as the person who programmed it. The knowledge which I am providing here was only figured out a few weeks ago. SHC was programmed long before that. Its not that its lying, its just that the programmer was not aware of what I verified.

However, I don't think that even if SHC's programmer would have included it. He did not program SHC to check for the things that pAC checks for and much less what pAC Legends checks for. Do you notice that he even put a notice saying that SHC is unreliable and should not be used as the final word? That someone more experienced should check?

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Maybe you don't get that the Diamond and Pearl Moderators have an even stronger drive than the rest of the staff to delete all hacks. They are specifically given this section, and they take great pride in it. They do not, not one little bit, allow ANY hacks here. I don't think that CME would lie, because she just isn't that way, and because she is the Diamond and Pearl Mod. And if you truly knew anything about events, you would know that all that CME, Livenudes, and I have said is true.
I am not saying that Color Me Evil is lying. This is new information and it took alot of technical skill to figure out. There's no way she could have known. But now that I have confirmed it and provided a way for everyone to check that the code is in the rom, she should take the necessary steps to make sure that these hacks are eliminated from these trade forums.

If you realize that pokemon DP is a video game which is programmed and that we can look at the code (with a disassembler) to study it, then watch the video, and look for the code in the rom, you would know that what I said is true.

Also if I gave Color Me Evil a shiny event Regigigas that passes SHC and says legit does it mean she should declare that it can be shiny? (the answer is no).
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Maybe you don't get that the Diamond and Pearl Moderators have an even stronger drive than the rest of the staff to delete all hacks. They are specifically given this section, and they take great pride in it. They do not, not one little bit, allow ANY hacks here. I don't think that CME would lie, because she just isn't that way, and because she is the Diamond and Pearl Mod. And if you truly knew anything about events, you would know that all that CME, Livenudes, and I have said is true.
Being a mod is great, and I am not one to bash. However, being a mod does not give someone an inherent advantage of knowledge on events, or anything of the sort. I have a friend who manages a comic book shop. He knew jack all about comics before working there, but has great customer service skills and knows how to handle ordering inventory and all that great stuff. The title of Moderator does not give someone more or less credibility, it just means they were chosen to moderate an area.

When shiny events were banned from the site, her shop still traded them, as did many others. Hate to break it to you, but being a mod does not make you infallible. To CME's credit, she isn't playing the "I'm a mod" card and it's good she can post in a thread without doing so. But you're not helping your case if one of your points is "a mod agrees with me."

Yes, I do know about events. I'm not going to say more or less, because that's not a judgment anyone here can make. But why can't someone answer my questions, besides "trust us, we know"?

Why does someone who actually works for PUSA say Alamos Darkrai cannot be shiny?
How are shiny events actually obtained when one goes to an event? Soft resetting IE same 1/8000 chance every shiny has? Some other method?

Seeriously, having a PKM file that passes a test is not proof that there are shiny events. You all do know about Pokesav, right? How it can either make Pokemon, or modify existing ones, and change the intricate details so they'll pass any hack checker, right? So how is everyone so certain these files are legit?

Please note I am not accusing anyone here of hacking the events, modifying files, or anything of the sort. But if you didn't obtain it yourself, you'll have no way of knowing as long as the hacker did a good job.
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Then why don't you just soft reset yourself up a shiny TRU Dragonite or something?
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Then why don't you just soft reset yourself up a shiny TRU Dragonite or something?
Did you watch the video? There is code in the game that prevents it from ever being shiny. If you did get lucky and get a PID that would have made it shiny the game calculates another until you get one that is not shiny.

This happens for any pokemon which does not have a constant PID (which results in constant nature, gender, ability)
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Well, it seems this has gone on long enough. This thread spiraled downwards into a flame war and nothing really got accomplished on either side. I'm not going to ban shiny events from this forum because there's no real proof on either side. People may trade for shiny events at their own risk. The side that believes shiny events are not legitmate aren't really giving the other side a chance, so rather than continually bicker about this, this is just going to be closed and if you have any more disagreements about whether shiny events are legitmate or not, please keep them to PM or VM.

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