question about ppl who shark

rokman

rokman

I think I traded for a sharked celebi recently.

If the sharked celebi is sent over to my pearl, would my pearl forever be marked as sharked?

How does nintendo test for a game if it's sharked?

If so, I will get rid of the celebi, I don't want my pearl being ruined and I get screwed out of JAA in a few years...
 
I'd like to hear if anyone knows about this too. From what I've read on other message boards as long as everything "appears" to be legal it will pass the test. But who knows.
 
As long as the various internal values of the Celebi match the ones given away at various giveaways, it will appear fine.
 
Here's another thing about sharking. If I were to shark, I wouldn't shark something like Celebi that is easily detectable, I would shark stuff to have perfect IVs or Hidden Powers. They can't trace something like that unless the shark marks the game when you use it.
 
e4protector said:
Here's another thing about sharking. If I were to shark, I wouldn't shark something like Celebi that is easily detectable, I would shark stuff to have perfect IVs or Hidden Powers. They can't trace something like that unless the shark marks the game when you use it.
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Which is what it does, no?
 
Sharking is only inputting specific values into variables that can be obtained legally by luck and boredom. The only things that would be easy to check for "sharking" would be any of the giveaways (Mew, Celebitch, Jirachi, etc) because they would contain unique data.

What also would be obvious is if you catch, for example, a Larvitar with perfect IVs, Nature, and he's shiny on Route 101. The clever sharker would have to figure which input would make the larvitar show up in wherever he is supposed to be caught normally (or better yet, have it say "hatched in egg" and caught by a regular pokeball).
 
from my experience most people make a mistake somewhere when sharking a pokemon which will give away the origin if investigated closely by someone who knows what too look for.

But nintendo's tests are really weak compared to that.

the games don't do that sure they check the checksum and the flag but that's about it col/xd also check ev - and even if the game sees it as sharked there is no global flag marking that in the worst case it does not obey or turns into the infamous bad egg.

also gamesharks (or other cheating devices) do not mark anything unless someone added a specific code to do so.
 
If you're gonna shark a Celebi, at least make it so that you got it in a promo such as the 10th Anniversary (JAA).
 
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