Action Replay / Pokésav

[AZKnight]

I fear I have finally given in to the pressures to get one of these two cheating devices. I don't know who uses them or if competitive people I see on youtube use them or not. Seems like the only way you could have consistent battle. Cannot even imagine trying to legitimately breed near perfect IVs on a Pokemon. I'm now realizing that if I want to get in on the competitive scene, using a cheating device for some cases would be very nice and time saving. I just cannot spend hours if not days breeding individual Pokemon and do that enough times to actually have a large selection (want to do Roulette someday).

Which one do you use? I looked on Bulbapedia about both of them and I used to think that they were synonymous. That you use the Action Replay and the act of using it for getting Pokemon is called Pokesavving. They are in fact different systems. Action Replay definitely seems easier as you can buy that in a store. Pokesav seems like something where you need an SD card to save your game onto and then edit things on your computer? I really don't know. Can you use Action Replay to get a Magikarp with perfect IVs? Or a Chansey with Wish? Or do you have to use Pokesav?

If anyone can just clear this up for me.

[Bullet]

There might be a code to get perfect IVs with AR, though I've never heard of such. Pokesav is probably your best bet, I'm sure I've seen at least a few well known YouTube battlers admit they use it.

[Will]

I'm pretty sure you need to edit all of the Pokémon and what not on PokéSav, and then transfer the code onto an AR for it to work. It's a lot of computer noise that I barely understand...

[AZKnight]

Looked into it a little more and it doesn't look that bad. The Pokesav stuff is free and I believe you don't need anything extra to connect your AR to the computer since it is designed to take new cheat codes. Going to try to figure out Pokesav and then probably get an AR this weekend. I might still want to breed my own so they are truly legit, even if the stats I give them are legitimate. Though now I have a sneaking suspicion about breeding. Does anyone know if it's unsafe to breed Pokemon you get from AR?

[Ikaru]

If the AR-spawned Pokemon is legit, breeding it will cause no problems.
In fact, I don't think it would cause problems even if it was hacked to hell and back.

[AZKnight]

Sweetness.

I am most likely going to get it now to help out with the tournament our club is running. When I brought up that I might buy an AR, friend suggested that we stock up on Pokemon for people to use. That way people who don't play or haven't gotten far in the game or do not know how to battle well can select from storage boxes. Suggested even doing it roulette style so people get random teams. But yeah, have two DS with stock Pokemon. It will be like the Battle Frontier!

[N8theGr8]

Here's how I look at AR/Sav:

Are you just battling for fun with random people online? Then it's okay to Sav.
Are you entering in a tourney that may have a prize, or just be within a group that agreed to not cheat? Then it's [i]not[/i] okay to Sav.

I don't think breeding will cause problems, as Squid said, and no one should care if you're breeding like that to get legit Pokémon that have egg moves/other stuff.

[Amethyst]

[quote name='N8theGr8' timestamp='1301147249' post='11982']
Here's how I look at AR/Sav:

Are you just battling for fun with random people online? Then it's okay to Sav.
Are you entering in a tourney that may have a prize, or just be within a group that agreed to not cheat? Then it's [i]not[/i] okay to Sav.
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I have to question the part about entering for a tourney with a prize- if there was no pre-agreed upon arrangement not to hack, chances are someone is going to do and if the other people don't, they may not stand much of a chance anyway...

[AZKnight]

I think I have to agree with N8 on this one. If I can hopefully start battle a wide range of people online, and possible get involved with the people on youtube I follow, then I'm going to use the AR to quickly put together teams. The best thing is I can put together a wide range of teams that include fun, gimmick, favorite, etc. Pokemon. It gives me options for variety in an environment where that is widely the point. Entering a tournament either at school, among friends, or even say the International Pokemon Tournament, then I would probably breed my own team. With those situations you are most likely going to only use a finite number of Pokemon, usually just six, so variety does not matter. I could easily just bring my guys with their perfect IVs, but I also know pretty much everyone else will have worked for their team, whether that be casually using their ingame team or knowingly breeding for stats. Besides, it really is only the IVs it comes down to for hacking Pokemon. As someone who has bred a competitive team, I managed to get the Nature and Ability I wanted and EV training is straightforward. It's just when you want to breed a Physical Lucario and whoops, its Attack IV is 3 while everything else is near perfection.

I can work for my Pokemon when it comes down to friends and tournaments. But AR opens things up for fun play, too.

Oh, but I'd probably still cheat at breeding by giving myself a Perfect IV Ditto or something