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Looks like it has something to do with online things, because I receive this error when trying to enter Alola Friendly Masters: "You cannot participate in this competition."
 

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Still got a few pages left to read so apologies if someone already floated the idea.

While I probably would bet on it being some kind of basic "not legal" slip up somewhere in there, possibly even including play time, I do have to wonder if something more fun is at play; it is certainly how I would approach things. Typical save editing and cheat making is an exclusionary affair (I doubt anybody did a full disassembly/step through to make the cheat as much as compared various dumps while changing nothing/little but the value the cheat was wanted for) and you can slip things by there*, similarly if we are considering online then some kind of twist on metrics could be a thing if something is sent along to the server. That is also ignoring the option for there being some kind of tell in RAM.

*all the classic mirrored, inverted, pointer/round robin annoyances come back into play, you just have the normal game load up as the cheat would have it but secretly an alarm is going/a flag is tripped. Do it randomly or even set number of saves (people save ever few minutes and I don't know about any autosaves here) and the basic compare and find cheat method will dismiss it.

Anyway general policy for these sorts of things has always been "you hack, online is gone for you then and while you can possibly get it back that is all you", I thought it was all fairly well known but I guess if Nintendo are 15 years behind the curve then so it goes. Play copied games all you like and pull anything you like apart and mod it how you will, such things are fun. On "cheating is always wrong" then I am going to have to disagree quite strongly as there are plenty of occasions where it is perfectly acceptable. Try not to draw lines in the sand or oversimplify.
 

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Rofl, this is why I kept an unhacked save as a backup.
And the reason why I have a second Pokemln Moon game as a Cia, as I use the cart version.

Despite that, I will never use the Game sync thing anyway. As long as I can do Free battles and Multi battles, trading and fight against my friends, I couldn't care less lmao.
 

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Don't bother, GF wouldn't ban people by OT because otherwise you could just use this as a way to ban people you don't like. (On second thought... a way to get rid of verlisify... hmm)

I meant if your OT/TID matched a genned Pokemon (With an error, like 512 EVs or something) on your cartridge, not on any ever scanned.
 
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Only thing changed in my savefile is the time offset since i started with moon and converted my save to sun when it came out. No ban here so far.
 

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Thinking about this again, the notable degree of fear mongering doesn't help with my dream world of everyone genning/hacking for themselves. I thought soundhax and advances in CFW installation would do this, but nope, same people requesting (not here, I work out of reddit boards) and with Bank updated, it's even worse with sort of a wild west thing where trade-ability is even less guaranteed and of course opening the flood gates beyond the 302 Alola dex mons.

Anyways, people mentioned Verlisify, I can't listen to him, speaks too loud and sounds excited all the time. Off-putting, maybe people who stomached a whole video or more from him can explain why they hate him.
 
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I'm worried now. I just set up homebrew, and I don't know whether I should use PKHex or not. I requested genned pokemon on r/pokemoncreate and I'm not banned, but I don't know whether I can gen things and not get banned.
 

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I'm worried now. I just set up homebrew, and I don't know whether I should use PKHex or not. I requested genned pokemon on r/pokemoncreate and I'm not banned, but I don't know whether I can gen things and not get banned.
Don't do 999x items, feel free to give yourself the mew z stone, besides that edit away with your pokemon.
 

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I did that too and the Rayquaza wouldn't trade, yet genning a shiny Rayquaza from Gen 3 is perfectly fine. The Mew restrictions are even worse, though I'm not sure if the GF Mew from last year will pass through trades.
Gen 1 Mew regular and shiny both Wonder trade just fine BTW. As does impossible things like Shiny Celebi, Shiny Victini, Shiny Keldeo, and Shiny Volcanion. I couldn't get my legit XYZ shiny Xerneas to trade yesterday, but he works today. Diancie wasn't working yesterday either. Pokemon needs to get their shit together Lol
 
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Ah so you are the type of guy that I try to cleanse Pokemon world from. I and my friends do "police" mode once in a while, where we spend a few hours wonder trading our boxes of pokeys we got from eggs when trying to breed for shinys and then releasing anything we get via wonder trade that is obviously a clone/hack.
Hahaha looks like I am, yeah :P how would a pokemon obviously be a clone though?
 

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Gen 1 Mew regular and shiny both Wonder trade just fine BTW. As does impossible things like Shiny Celebi, Shiny Victini, Shiny Keldeo, and Shiny Volcanion. I couldn't get my legit XYZ shiny Xerneas to trade yesterday, but he works today. Diancie wasn't working yesterday either. Pokemon needs to get their shit together Lol

Wonder Trade checks are ridiculously lenient so reading that isn't surprising.
 
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I don't even battle in Pokemon, on Ranked or anything so it doesn't effect me at all. I just use WT. When it comes to the game, I'm a filthy casual and I like it that way. I enjoy the story and later ROM editing vs Online battles. So now I might feel bad about sending out mass amounts of Shiny Celebi yesterday Lol, but I don't.
 

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