Buzzthebatgirl’s Guide to Spotting a Hacked Pokémon:

Know your Summary Screen; this holds the key to identity of your Pokémon:

This is a guide to helping you spot a hacked Pokémon. In this guide I will point
out the most obvious signs of a hacked Pokémon. Some useful terms I will be using
include:

Hacked Pokémon:
A Pokémon obtained by the use of a cheating device such as an Action Replay or in-
game glitches.

Event Pokémon:
A Pokémon obtained through a Nintendo special
event. A list o these Pokémon can be found here:
http://www.serebii.net/games/events-pkmn.shtml

Shadow/ex-shadow/Purified Pokémon:
Special Pokémon obtained in Pokémon Colosseum
and Pokémon XD on the Gamecube. Ex-shadow
Pokémon (also called Purified) Pokémon may have
odd moves; this happens in XD, see the link here:
http://www.serebii.net/xd/pokemon-attacks.shtml All
purified Pokémon have a special ribbon, see the
Ribbon feature.
AR:
AR stands for Action Replay a type of cheating device used to force Pokémon
encounters, make Hacked Pokémon or gain impossible to obtain items.

Semi-Legit Pokémon:
A Pokémon captured by using a hacked item. For example someone uses an AR to
obtain the Azure Flute, they then proceed to use the Azure Flute to unlock the Arceus
Event in their game and catch it the regular way.

Id number
To my knowledge I have never seen a Pokémon game generate an ID number with only
0. Some hacked Pokémon (often made with the help of Pokémon Maker programes)
often have the ID number of 00000. Watch out for this and refuse a trade if you see this
trainer ID.

Area caught and levels

Most Pokémon will have a set capture

locations. For example Dialga (in
Diamond) and Palkia (in Pearl) can only
be found on the Spear Pillar at level 47.
By knowing where a Pokémon is legally
obtained will avoid you being ripped off
in a trade.

Chatot are found only on Route 222 and

224, this one is a hack I got in a trade as
research for this guide.

Check out Chatot locations yourself at:

http://www.psypokes.com/dex/psydex/441/location

Some of the Trainer Memos for Legendary Pokémon are as follows:

Species Area Level Game Notes

Articuno Seafoam 50 Fire Red/ Leaf Obtained in trade
Island(FR/LG) Green/ XD tag on the XD bird
Moltres Mt. Ember 50 Fire Red/ Leaf Obtained in trade
(FR/LG) Green/ XD tag on the XD bird
Zapdos Power Plant 50 Fire Red/ Leaf Obtained in trade
(FR/LG) Green/ XD tag on the XD bird
Mewtwo Cerulean Cave 70
(FR/LG)
Mew Faraway Island 30 Emerald Event item
required
Suicune Any area in 40 Fire Red/Leaf Obtained in Trade
main land Green/ tag on the
Kanto (Creature Colosseum Colosseum Cat
Entei depends on 40 Fire Red/Leaf Obtained in Trade
starter choisen) Green/ tag on the
Colosseum Colosseum Cat
Raikou 40 Fire Red/Leaf Obtained in Trade
Green/ tag on the
Colosseum Colosseum Cat
Ho-Oh Navel Rock 70 Fire Red/Leaf Faithful encounter
(FR/LG/Emeral Green/ Emerald/ tag from
d) Colosseum Colosseum
Event item
required for GBA
Lugia Navel Rock 70 Fire Red/ Leaf Obtained in trade
(FR/LG/Emeral Green/ Emerald/ tag from XD
d) XD Event item
required for GBA

Celebi Event Only

Regirock Desert Ruins 40 Ruby/ Sapphire/

Emerald
Regice Island Cave 40 Ruby/ Sapphire/
Emerald
Registeel Ancient Tomb 40 Ruby/ Sapphire/
Emerald
Jirachi Event or Pokémon
Channel (Europe)
Azelf Valor Cave 50 Diamond/ Pearl

Uxie Acuity Cavern 50 Diamond/ Pearl

Mesprit Any area in 50 Diamond/ Pearl

main land
Sinnoh
Cresselia 50 Diamond/ Pearl

Heatran Stark Mountain 70 Diamond/ Pearl Can be male or

female
Giratina Turnback Cave 70 Diamond/ Pearl
Regigigas Snowpoint 70 Diamond/ Pearl
Temple
Manaphy Hatched area 1 (hatched) Diamond/ Pearl Requires
Pokémon Ranger
Event
Phione Hatched area 1 (hatched) Diamond/ Pearl Breed Manaphy

Arceus Not attainable yet

Darkai Pokémon 50 Event only in

Movie 07 Japan, See the
Darkrai feature
Shaymin Not attainable yet

This brings me to the Pal Park and its ability to over write some of the trainer memo
details.

Pal Park
This can over write some of the trainer memo details. For this experiment I will do a
fresh pal park transfer and note the trainer memos of the six Pokémon both before and
after the transfer
Nickname Species Notes Current Trainer Trainer
Level Memo in Memo in
Emerald Pearl

Mystiac Flygon From 69 Obtained in Distant

Colosseum Trade Land
Arrived at
Lv 69
Licker Lickitung From XD 38 Obtained in Distant
Trade Land
Arrived at
Lv 38
P-Chan Grumpig Caught as a 44 Met at Lv Hoenn
Spoink and 20, Jagged Arrived at
evolved Pass Lv 44
SpikeShell Shellder Hatched in 5 Hatched at Hoenn
Emerald Lv 5 Arrived at
Maville City Lv 5
BRIGHTWI Xatu Traded from 29 Probably Hoenn
NG (Shiny) my friend’s met at Lv Arrived at
Ruby 29, Safari Lv 29
Zone
DEOXYS Deoxys Hacked 1 Probably Hoenn
(Shiny) met at Lv 5, Arrived at
Littleroot Lv 1
Town
As you may have noticed from the following experiment the orginal capture area get over
written during the Pal Park transfer. Event Pokémon have their capture areas rewritten as
the game area they came from (Hoenn or Kanto). Distant Land is used only when the
Pokémon came from the Gamecube Pokémon Colosseum or XD.

Moves known:
Pokémon have set moves to learn during level up and from the use of TMs and HMs. I
once saw a Charizard with the move Tail Glow, after a quick check of Charizard’s move
list and knew something was up. It turns out it had the trainer number of 00000 the give
away hack ID number. Checking the move lists will keep you a head of the hackers.
Useful online Pokédexs include:
http://www.psypokes.com/dex/psydex/001/all
http://www.serebii.net/pokedex-dp/
http://veekun.com/dex/

Condition:
Any Pokémon with maxed out condition
in all areas is likely to be hacked or
tampered in some way. I think this is
imposable without cheats, but if anyone
has done it and has proof then please
email me

Ribbons owned
Watch out for special Ribbons like the
National Ribbon. This Ribbons given to all
ex-shadow Pokémon and there are only a
select number of them.
 This Classic ribbon is on all Cherish Ball
Event Pokémon. This Ribbon prevents the Pokémon from entering the GTS, so don’t
expect to pick one up in there.

Ball of capture
An easy way to spot a hacked Pokémon is watching out for the ball of capture. This is
visible on the status screen next to the Pokémon’s Nickname. A hacker will generally
use a Master Ball to capture Pokémon. Event Pokémon were given away in Pokéballs in
the Third Gen games. Now in the Fourth Gen they use Cherish Balls. Also certain
Pokémon like the starters can only be obtained in Pokéballs. The exception here is
Bayleef, Croconaw and Quilava which can be caught in Master Balls in Pokémon
Colosseum.

GTS (Global Trade Station):

A commonly asked question is: “How can I tell if a Pokémon on the GTS is hacked
before I trade for it?”. The sad answer is you can’t tell, until you receive it. The advice I
can give to watch the levels of Pokémon, use the able to help you. the other thing is to
watch the characters in a Japanese nickname. In Japanese games they are limited to only
using 5 letters in the nickname, so count those symbols before trading.
If the worse happens and you get a hacked Pokémon I suggest this, put it on offer
yourself and ask for the same creature in return. There are millions of traders out there;
surely one of them will want to trade with you.

Darkrai:
The 491st Pokémon given away during the showing of the 10th
Pokémon Movie: Dialgia Vs Palkia Vs Darkrai. This is the only
legit Darkrai at this present time.

The summary is as so:

Name:


Pokémon Info:
(Darkrai in Japanese)
Level: 50

Ball: Cherish Ball

OT: can be either red or blue
: Katakana (Cinema Name)
Or
: Hiragana (Cinema Name)
ID No.: 07147 (Movie Date)

Trainer Memo:
(Random) Nature.
Jul. 14, 2007
Pokémon Movie 07
Apparently had a fateful encounter at Lv. 50.
(Random Trainer notes)

Battle moves:
• Nightmare
• Spacial Rend
• Hypnosis
• Roar of Time

Ribbons:
Classic Ribbon

Watch out for all for this if you are on the hunt for a movie Darkrai. Don’t except a hack.
Only the movie Darkrai will know Spacial Rend (a move known only by Palkia) and
Roar of Time (a move known only by Dialgia). It will also have the Classic Ribbon.
Sources:
• Information on Dialga Vs Palkia Vs Darkrai, including information on Darkrai
download:
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Dialga_vs._Palkia_vs._Darkrai

• Darkrai image from:

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Image:491-Darkrai-sm.png

• Darkrai Japanese name from:

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Darkrai_%28Pok%C3%A9mon%29

• Cherish Ball image:

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Image:CherishballDP.png

• Katakana and Hiragana Japanese text forms:

http://www.pokemonelite2000.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1371177&postco
unt=14

• Chatot Locations:
http://www.psypokes.com/dex/psydex/441/location

• All other images from my Pokémon Pearl game were taken by my Thomas

A special thanks goes to my Fiancé Thomas, without whose Laptop, Digital Camera and
patience none of this would have been possible.

Contact me:
You can contact me by either sending a Private Message to Buzzthebatgirl on the website
www.wiffy.ie or by emailing me at Buzzthebatgirl@hotmail.com. I will reply as soon as
I can, but please remember I do not live in front of the computer, I do have this thing
called a life. Most of the Pokémon seen in these screenshots are not up for trade, so
please do not ask for them.

Notice:
I do NOT own Pokémon. Pokémon belongs to Nintendo and all the character names
belong to Nintendo. This is a fan made guide made to help players of the Video Games
Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon Pearl on the Nintendo DS System.