That is very weird on a clean save I cloned Lissa then turned her into Giaus with no problems.
Can you tell me what you are doing specifically?
edit: also do you mean the dlc form the outrelm gate or the dlc from the wireless tab?
So you're telling me that you never lost a single item out of your convoy from this clone/hex experiment?
First and foremost, I missed (killed) Gaius (back when he was recruitable), I advanced pretty far in the game, I have a few (four) streetpass units (other people's avatars) and spotpass units (King Marth, Roy, Ike, Eliwood, Athena, Eldigan, Lyn, Sigurd, DLC Seliph, DLC Eirika, DLC Leif, DLC Alm), married everyone but Vaike, Donnel, Anna, Yen'fay, Priam, Say'ri, Flavia, Basilio, and Tiki (have not recruit Emmeryn, Gangrel, Walhart, or Aversa YET), recruited every kid (Lucina, Gerome, Inigo, Cynthia, Noire, Yarne, Owain, Nah, Laurent, Kjelle, Brady, Severa, and Morgan), downloaded all of the spotpass paralogues (the ones after chapter 25), downloaded and played a few DLC xenologues, and obtained the bonus items (Book of Naga, Gae Bolg, etc.), as well as the Silver Card.
Here's exactly what happened:
-I put Vaike as my first unit, with all his Axe items (Helswath, Tomahawk, Silver Axe, Killer Axe, and Superior Axe) still on him (Helswath equipped). He is a Warrior class with HP+5, Zeal, Sol, Wrath, and Axefaire.
-I backed up/exported my game with JK's Save Manager.
-I decompressed my save file with FEAST
-I opened my Chapter0 file through Fire Editor v0.5-35-alpha (the only version that doesn't load forever).
-I cloned Vaike, saved my change, two Vaikes, opened my file in the HxD program, searched for Vaike's hex value, search a second time for his clone's value, changed that to Gaius' value, saved, reloaded my altered file, Gaius is there right after Vaike (but has ALL of Vaike's skills, his class, his level, and experience), changed Gaius' class to Thief at level 1, got rid of his skills and changed them to Locktouch, Movement+1, and Counter, saved changes.
-I recompressed my decompressed folder with FEAST. Last time, I didn't, and it resulted in a new game.
-I imported my changed data with JK's Save Manager
-As soon I start my game, my save data is there. However:
-I get this message as soon as the map loads: 1) New data has been delivered to the Bonus Box. If you haven't received the data, go to Wireless>Bonus Box and select Update Now. (7/11)
-Every last item in my convoy not taken by a unit member is now GONE.
-I originally had three forged weapons (one each for three unit members (Donnel, Sully, Gregor)). These three items are now replaced with japanese text items (which have zero use).
-As for Gaius, he's in my party, he has his decor in the barracks and his profile, but he's equipped with Vaike's Helswath (while as a Thief, with an E sword rank). And he has a C rank support with Libra. Also, he STILL has all of Vaike's skills (the ones I mentioned above) as available skills (just not equipped)
-Stats: His HP is 60, rating 148, Str 23, Movement 6, Mag 4, Skill 31, Spd 30, Lck 26, Def 20+5, Res 9, Exp 44, Atk 41, Hit 119, Crit 25, Avo 58. Unmarried
-And lastly, the Outrealm Gate (DLC) have NO record of any turns in my purchased xenologue maps.
And all of this was
just for Gaius. Hell, I haven't even attempted Female Avatar and Boy Morgan (since I have no way of making Boy Morgan Donnel's child, complete with hair and parent status). But right now, Gaius alone is too much of chore.
Or better yet, how about I sent you my save (freshly backed up from JK's Save Manager), since you can clone/hex characters with no issues.