Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

Sharked Pokemon, sitting in a box

Orange Soda

Orange Soda

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In order to complete my Pokedex, I've traded with some of the local kids. It's possible that they've used Gameshark, Action Replay, or whatever beforehand without my knowledge. And I'm pretty sure one game that I traded with did have this happen (the story I heard was that he let another kid borrow it, and that kid used a cheat device to conjur up a bunch of Master Balls).

Anyway, I've raised a number of Pokemon to 100 legitemately, but I'm worried about possible sharked Pokemon sitting in boxes having some affect at the Video Game Championships (as in, say I win, then they examine my game thoroughly). If I were to just trade suspect Pokemon to another game, would I be in the clear? I wouldn't want a disqualification over something that's not my fault.
 
take the pokemon you plan on using and trade them to an empty or nearly new game and use it that way the only pokemon you have on there are your battlers
this also prevents anything from happening to your other pokemon you have
 
buy a used ruby for $10 and trade your team to that, and have those 6 pokes be the only ones in that game to turn in to nintendo..
 
Shiloh Phoenix said:
buy a used ruby for $10 and trade your team to that, and have those 6 pokes be the only ones in that game to turn in to nintendo..
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But do you think by any chance they may find it suspicious that those high level Pokes are in a game that hasn't been beaten? I mean, they then may really think that you sharked those Pokemon, of course, they should know better.
 
Shiloh Phoenix said:
buy a used ruby for $10 and trade your team to that, and have those 6 pokes be the only ones in that game to turn in to nintendo..
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no, I'm not trolling, but WHERE can you find a used ruby version for only 10 dollars? o_O
Cause I'd love to get another one..


anyway, I think I sort of have the same problem.. as I mentioned in another thread, a lot of the people I mixed records with at the JAA I went to had bases with sharked pokemon in them.. and I just realised that now I have deoxys and mew in my pokedex (as seen, obviously) though I didn't think pokemon you fought in bases showed up o_O.. apparently they do and now I'm kinda scared for when I go to the other JAA I was planning on attending... (since I was completely unprepared and PHAILED at the first one)
 
wel, they are easy to get for like 5 dollars if you find someone that doesn't play anymore. and if you just explain the problem to a staff member, they wont be suspicious of you haveing 6 LVL 100 pokemon on a non-complete game.


just my thoughts, -pat'
 
Shiloh Phoenix said:
okay. 10 was exaggerating, $25. and nintendo shouldn't find it suspicious, you just need all your games.
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..need all your games? (and were you talking to me or orange soda? o_O; )
 
If you'll pardon my slight ignorance in the matter... how the heck do you check to see if it's sharked or not, given that all sharking it really does is change a few zeroes and ones? They check the bit setup or something, and if they're not set in ways in-game functions set them, axe you?

For that matter, if all the guy did was clone a few items, how would that change any data in his Pokémon's offsets, assuming he didn't Master Ball any of the ones he traded you? This sounds like paranoia more than anything else. Or do they just check to see if anything was set in a way not used by ingame funcs, and then conclude that if one thing's wrong, the whole thing's hacked?
 
Marril said:
If you'll pardon my slight ignorance in the matter... how the heck do you check to see if it's sharked or not, given that all sharking it really does is change a few zeroes and ones? They check the bit setup or something, and if they're not set in ways in-game functions set them, axe you?

For that matter, if all the guy did was clone a few items, how would that change any data in his Pokémon's offsets, assuming he didn't Master Ball any of the ones he traded you? This sounds like paranoia more than anything else. Or do they just check to see if anything was set in a way not used by ingame funcs, and then conclude that if one thing's wrong, the whole thing's hacked?
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PUSA has special software that can check to see if a gameshark was used... cause it's more than just a few zeros and ones.. o'course, i dont wanna say what, in case we have some dishonest people here :biggrin:

And it does seem like even if he just hacked to get some masterballs that it effects the whole game, and so somehow it can corrupt the pokemon data as well...
 
It probably is just paranoia. I have a worrywort side, but usually my intelligence keeps it in check. I don't know much about how game-hacking works, so I figured I should ask. Besides, I might as well play it safe.

So would getting rid of suspect Pokemon (trade or release/delete) fix the problem, or would it leave something residual behind? If need be, I'll just restart another cartridge and rush through it, then trade a team over. As far as I'm concerned, those two are the only options worth doing.
 
as long as you havent done any sharking yourself, it should be fine if you transfer them over to a different game. everyone has a big case of paranoia
 
The Anaconda said:
as long as you havent done any sharking yourself, it should be fine if you transfer them over to a different game. everyone has a big case of paranoia
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Awesome. Thanks.
 
SailorClef said:
no, I'm not trolling, but WHERE can you find a used ruby version for only 10 dollars? o_O
Cause I'd love to get another one..


anyway, I think I sort of have the same problem.. as I mentioned in another thread, a lot of the people I mixed records with at the JAA I went to had bases with sharked pokemon in them.. and I just realised that now I have deoxys and mew in my pokedex (as seen, obviously) though I didn't think pokemon you fought in bases showed up o_O.. apparently they do and now I'm kinda scared for when I go to the other JAA I was planning on attending... (since I was completely unprepared and PHAILED at the first one)
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Deoxys is not sharked but mew is.
 
what the rules specifically state is this:

da rules - pokemon_2006_contest_rules.pdf said:
Players may not use any Pokémon created or altered by “game altering devices,” such as Action Replay or Game Shark

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Anyone using games altered with so-called "game enhancers" (to give Pokémon moves they cannot legally learn or stats that are higher than legally possible, among other things) will be disqualified.
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key word, in the first rule - use. firstly, you cant very well use pokemon in secret bases, so thats not a problem. they would be in the secret base part of the save file. but the point is they dont want you competing with sharked pokemon.
 
See, the thing is, I've actually worked with games. I know how Pokémon probably works (I haven't hacked Pokémon itself, mind you), and what a Gameshark does is change byte addresses, bit amounts, and the like. Basically, in a nutshell, it changes variables and memory. The only way I can think of to check for this would be flags either set when in-game functions are called improperly, or by checking to see if data is assigned in such a way that isn't consistent with in-game functions.

Then again, I don't work for Nintendo or PUI or anyone, so you'd have to get it from them for a definitive answer. Anything on my part is just an educated guess.
 
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