Homebrew [WIP] PHBank - Pokémon Homebrew Bank

Gocario · Oct 9, 2015

:o

Converting Pokémon (#Wololoing) => http://pastebin.com/3kZs46Cb
I am implementing an util class wich provides information from pk6 => http://pastebin.com/q0ZTF0bR

I really, really don't understand the romFS even with the shinyquadsquire's explication...
Shame on me! D:

suloku · Oct 9, 2015

Gocario said:
:o

Converting Pokémon (#Wololoing) => http://pastebin.com/3kZs46Cb

I think this comparisionis wrong...

// If it is not the "same non-OT"
if (strcmp((char*)pkm->HTName, (char*)pkm->HTName) != 0)
{

Gocario · Oct 9, 2015

suloku said:
I think this comparisionis wrong...

// If it is not the "same non-OT"

if (strcmp((char*)pkm->HTName, (char*)pkm->HTName) != 0)

{

Eheh! Corrected!

Ekaitz · Oct 9, 2015

I didn't have the time to share the files that you already did the comparison between traded and "untraded".
So i just checked what you are telling, I haven't finished yet but for the moment, I came to the same conclusion, I don't see many differences between the files so I guess you're perfectly right.

The egg storage has to be manage a different way than the "classic" storage but there is no limitation to this. (Except the fact that we must turn the storage into a trade that will take place not when the Pokemon is stored in the Bank but when we take it back to a cartridge)

All those things are complicated to me because I don't have any coding skills but well, if you manage to do it... Chapeau!

About the romFS, if I understood everything, we won't have to put the sprites on the SD card, right? Everything will be load from the game itself?
It would be interesting but won't this add a latency when navigating between different boxes?

Gocario · Oct 9, 2015

Ekaitz said:
About the romFS, if I understood everything, we won't have to put the sprites on the SD card, right? Everything will be load from the game itself?
It would be interesting but won't this add a latency when navigating between different boxes?

Yes!
Exactly!
The process will remain the same: loading data and entering in the main loop.

shinyquagsire23 · Oct 9, 2015

Gocario said:
I really, really don't understand the romFS even with the shinyquadsquire's explication...
Shame on me! D:

To be fair, the GARC archive format isn't documented anywhere except in code, so I don't blame you entirely. I'll probably give it a go when I have time again now that I can read the files out at least. Using the bclim files should be fine if you can format them properly for drawing.

Elveman · Oct 9, 2015

Gocario said:
:o

Converting Pokémon (#Wololoing) => http://pastebin.com/3kZs46Cb
I am implementing an util class wich provides information from pk6 => http://pastebin.com/q0ZTF0bR

I really, really don't understand the romFS even with the shinyquadsquire's explication...
Shame on me! D:

That's neat! Now we kinda can check legality of the pokemon! Maybe if I find some time I can practice my coding skills (I'm still new to github things tho). Can I fork your repo for this?

Gocario · Oct 9, 2015

Elveman said:
That's neat! Now we kinda can check legality of the pokemon! Maybe if I find some time I can practice my coding skills (I'm still new to github things tho). Can I fork your repo for this?

Yes, forking is free. (a fork is a copy to your own workspace)
For the legality checker, I don't care if they store hacked Pokémon, they are taking their own risk.

suloku · Oct 9, 2015

Gocario said:
Yes, forking is free. (a fork is a copy to your own workspace)
For the legality checker, I don't care if they store hacked Pokémon, they are taking their own risk.

Anybody could just make a separate homebrew that opens pkbank.bin, does the legality checks and then writes a report to the sd card.
I also think there's no need for legality checks inside phbank, people might actually want to store hacked pokemon (and this brings volcanion to the topic; since it will eventually be added to normal bank I guess there's no need to filter it out).

Xenosaiga · Oct 10, 2015

Gocario said:
The bank is limited to 100 boxes, like the official Pokébank.
(100 boxes => 30 Pokémon * 100 boxes => 3'000 Pokémon, isn't it enough?)

We need more boxes because Spinda that's why.

A Spinda's spot pattern is determined by its personality value, meaning that there can be exactly 4,294,967,296 (232, 416 or 2564) different variations of Spinda, or double that number if Shiny Spinda are considered different variations.

This means we would need 143,166 times the amount of space just to hold all of the Spindas!!!

Kaphotics · Oct 10, 2015

shinyquagsire23 said:
To be fair, the GARC archive format isn't documented anywhere except in code, so I don't blame you entirely.

...

supercarotte · Oct 10, 2015

Xenosaiga said:
We need more boxes because Spinda that's why.

A Spinda's spot pattern is determined by its personality value, meaning that there can be exactly 4,294,967,296 (232, 416 or 2564) different variations of Spinda, or double that number if Shiny Spinda are considered different variations.

This means we would need 143,166 times the amount of space just to hold all of the Spindas!!!

pk6 files are 260 bytes long, so we would need 2 233 382 993 920 bytes to store all spinda (+shiny) variants, which is 2080 GB or 2.03125 TB. I think we'll be a bit short in space on those 2GB/4GB SD cards (don't know how far n3DS can go but I haven't heard of any SD card past 256 GB).

suloku · Oct 10, 2015

supercarotte said:
pk6 files are 260 bytes long,

That's party pokemon pk6, stored pk6 are 232 bytes long.

Elveman · Oct 10, 2015

suloku said:
That's party pokemon pk6, stored pk6 are 232 bytes long.

That means, we don't need 2080GB of free space, we need only 1856GB. That's obviously much more convenient

suloku · Oct 10, 2015

Elveman said:
That means, we don't need 2080GB of free space, we need only 1856GB. That's obviously much more convenient

I can actually see a 2 tb sd card in the future and 3ds accepting it, but imagine write times

Xenosaiga · Oct 10, 2015

suloku said:
I can actually see a 2 tb sd card in the future and 3ds accepting it, but imagine write times

I can only dream of the day where such cards exist!

But could you imagine the person that actually collects all the Spinda legitimately? That would be dedication and a life spent uselessly

froggestspirit · Oct 10, 2015

It would be cool if this became more popular than the official, and actually had a correct legitimacy checker, like simulating RNG to make sure things add up like encounter slot (This would take a lot of time, but it's obviously time that GameFreak doesn't have). Anyways, I like this idea, and I'll be using it in due time, because it's free and local (what GameFreak should have done from the start).

suloku · Oct 10, 2015

@Gocario, I just saw your github with new implementatios, such as a pokerus/shiny indicator and I though that the blue pentagon should be shown as well.

EDIT: uh, just saw it implemented in github

Blue pentagon is shown for pokemon with Game ID < 24:
0xDF OT Game ID

something like "static bool isKalos(pkm_t* pkm);"

Here's the game id list:

Code:

0:
1: Sapphire
2: Ruby
3: Emerald
4: FireRed
5: LeafGreen
6:
7: HeartGold
8: SoulSilver
9:
10: Diamond
11: Pearl
12: Platinum
13:
14:
15: Colosseum/XD
16:
17:
18:
19:
20: White
21: Black
22: White2
23: Black2
24: X
25: Y
26: AS
27: OR

Gocario · Oct 10, 2015

I tried to implement a global Pokémon class.
Which could retrieve the Pokémon data from the Pk6 easily.
I wanted to avoid to use some memory.
Thanks again to PKHeX.

The commits are not on the main branch.
Because it's corrupting data... I am still searching where the problem is.

PS: I added the `isGen6(pkm_t* pkm)` for blue pentagon (gameID >= 24 **)
Edit: It could be `isKalosBorn(-) too, but not very important atm.

suloku · Oct 10, 2015

Gocario said:
The commits are not on the main branch.
Because it's corrupting data... I am still searching where the problem is.

What data is it corrupting? The pokemon?

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