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The "!" thing makes me almost sure your glitch move is the right one. You description of the DMA check process fits as well; my guess is that you got something wrong with either your bootstrap pokemon or your items. If you still have clones of the pokemon before you corrupt them to get the items, maybe you could use some stats calculators online to get their EV's ? You can get their IV's by leveling up a clone with 0 EV and calcing them (then reset if you don't want to lose rare candies). I used these sites when i did this:
http://www.metalkid.info/Pokemon/Calculators/IV.aspx
http://www.psypokes.com/dex/stats.php

Also if it can help, my boostrap pokemon isn't an egg and works just fine.

I'm having an issue corrupting one of my shinies and I can't figure out why. I have three completely legit shinies, two with corruption types misc->growth (useless) and one corruption type 3. For some reason, the corruptions of the type 3 pokemon have a really low success rate; it probably takes around 20 tries to get a successful TID or PID corruption. I believe this may have something to do with the fact that it requires different initiators for each (heart caterpie for TID, pluses for PID) because once I do a successful TID corruption and switch out the initiators, the TID corruption gets reversed a large fraction of the time, much closer to the 6-7/32 figure I see everywhere. It's taking a good two hours or so to do a double corruption, which is not a problem I have experienced yet with my other attempts with other pokemon. The poke I am using was caught at lv 43 (>65535 experience) so that may be a contributing factor as well, I'm just not sure. 

Also very interesting, when the poochyena gets the type of corruption that changes the pokemon's name, the entire "ch" gets deleted, resulting in "pooyena." I previously thought that corruption only affected the fourth and eighth letters.

I tried to trigger ACE with no result. This is what happened:

When I get the correct DMA Pattern (/220HP Lvl 190) and use the ACE move some text appears(in spanish version, "sultado es  a …"), I press A, then appears "!" and suddenly the game keeps playing the battle music but I'm unable to do anything (just turn down the Game Boy, I can't even soft reset).

I'm using the Bootstrap poke as an egg, I have Poochyena in the right spot (it is sent to battle sometimes instead of the bad egg). I tried to use it without being into an egg and it just freezes.

What can be wrong here? Should I check the ACE move, Bootstrap and items or I can dismiss a step?

EDIT: If I clone at battle tower, would the items placed into the pyramid bag disappear?

The "!" thing makes me almost sure your glitch move is the right one. You description of the DMA check process fits as well; my guess is that you got something wrong with either your bootstrap pokemon or your items. If you still have clones of the pokemon before you corrupt them to get the items, maybe you could use some stats calculators online to get their EV's ? You can get their IV's by leveling up a clone with 0 EV and calcing them (then reset if you don't want to lose rare candies). I used these sites when i did this:
http://www.metalkid.info/Pokemon/Calculators/IV.aspx
http://www.psypokes.com/dex/stats.php

Also if it can help, my boostrap pokemon isn't an egg and works just fine.

What was the code you were trying to attempt ?
The issue may come from my side if I made a miscalculation/writing error for some EVs in the code or for something in the Spanish Emerald case (which already happened in the past), so I will look back into the Bootstrap Pokémon procedure.

The "!" thing makes me almost sure your glitch move is the right one. You description of the DMA check process fits as well; my guess is that you got something wrong with either your bootstrap pokemon or your items. If you still have clones of the pokemon before you corrupt them to get the items, maybe you could use some stats calculators online to get their EV's ? You can get their IV's by leveling up a clone with 0 EV and calcing them (then reset if you don't want to lose rare candies). I used these sites when i did this:
http://www.metalkid.info/Pokemon/Calculators/IV.aspx
http://www.psypokes.com/dex/stats.php

Also if it can help, my boostrap pokemon isn't an egg and works just fine.

I've checked all my Smeargles' EVs and they are fine, so I guess the issue is in the bootstrap poke so I'll get it from the start. What characters does it have in its name after both corruptions? (I don't know if it changes between different languages).

The byte for C is 0xBD, which turns into 0xFD when corrupted, and 0xFD is a control character.
The hex character for "H" might be read as a command for control character 0xFD and thus not appear as a letter, according to its function : https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Character_encoding_in_Generation_III
(some of these effects could be used for music changes or things like that, I tried using 0xFC a bit and crashed the game with command 0x10 in a battle)

That seems to be the most likely. Maybe you put it in the wrong PC slot ? The behavior you're describing reminds me a lot of mine when i had my bootstrap in the wrong PC slot.

That seems to be the most likely. Maybe you put it in the wrong PC slot ? The behavior you're describing reminds me a lot of mine when i had my bootstrap in the wrong PC slot.

It is in the right slot for sure.

I repeated the whole process to get the bootstrap poke, getting another one (so I'm probably falling to get this boy). To make things easier, what level, gender does this bootstrap poke have?

I'm also wondering if cloning in Battle Tower removes glitch items in pyramid bag. Does it?

Now I'm pretty sure I've got the right Bootstrap poke, however it still gets stuck in the "!" forever. Metarkrai, could you please check the spanish values in the method, in case there is something wrong?

Now I'm pretty sure I've got the right Bootstrap poke, however it still gets stuck in the "!" forever. Metarkrai, could you please check the spanish values in the method, in case there is something wrong?

I repeated the whole process to get the bootstrap poke, getting another one (so I'm probably falling to get this boy). To make things easier, what level, gender does this bootstrap poke have?

Thank you. So I can truly confirm that pokes are fine (the bootstrap is holding the right item)

So I don't really know why isn't working. Some context of what I've achieved in my game:
-Hall of fame
-Got all gold symbols (the pyramid one automatically appeared when unlocked Birth Island and Faraway Island)
-No gamesharks, etc.
-Hoenn Dex completed.

I think noone of these affects the metthod, but if it could?

EDIT: After checking if pyramid bag items were stored after cloning in the battle tower, they were deleted. Thus, cloning (at least in battle tower) requires to store again the items. I'll do it and I'll edit after trying tro trigger ACE again.

And last. When I use the ACE Move, how much time do I need to wait until it fully executes the code?

When you went out of Battle Pyramid on your Pyramid Bag storage attempts, did you forfeit out of the Pyramid ?

Did you do other attempts at the Pyramid where you lost / reset ?

Else, entering another Battle Frontier facility (such as the Battle Tower), or doing other actions don't affect the Pyramid Bag as it is intented that these pouches remain untouched while you don't lose in Battle Pyramid. (I retested it, cloning at Battle Tower doesn't reset these pouches)

As this operation is considered by the game as the "animation" of your move, you will not see anything (because no graphical effects/commands were used). The move's effect will trigger and the battle will continue normally.

Else, entering another Battle Frontier facility (such as the Battle Tower), or doing other actions don't affect the Pyramid Bag as it is intented that these pouches remain untouched while you don't lose in Battle Pyramid. (I retested it, cloning at Battle Tower doesn't reset these pouches)

Cloning in the battle tower has always been reseting the counter of rounds/win streak battles in any Battle Frontier Building in my cartridge, so I thought it would remove the items (actually it did).

As this operation is considered by the game as the "animation" of your move, you will not see anything (because no graphical effects/commands were used). The move's effect will trigger and the battle will continue normally.

So after using it it should go back to the Fight, Poke… menu right? How much time does it take?

Edit : Okay, so the fact that all your streaks get set to 0 is apparently because you reset after saying "Yes" when the game asks you to save your game.
Then, I think that the game notices there was a forced soft-reset during a save at a Battle Frontier facility, and sets all your current streaks to 0.

However, if you soft-reset when the message "Do you want to save your game ?" appears, the cloning glitch will still work and you will not suffer from any streak loss.


Thus, entering back into Battle Pyramid (I mean, talking to the host, selecting a mode, a party, then saying Yes) will clear the Pyramid Bag for the mode you chose.
So your Pyramid Bag was fine during the Code Execution, but seemed like "empty" after that.
Notice that this is also not a hindrance when depositing Items in Pyramid Bags because going into an "Open Level" mode will not affect your "Lv 50" Bag, and vice-versa.

Edit : Okay, so the fact that all your streaks get set to 0 is apparently because you reset after saying "Yes" when the game asks you to save your game.
Then, I think that the game notices there was a forced soft-reset during a save at a Battle Frontier facility, and sets all your current streaks to 0.

However, if you soft-reset when the message "Do you want to save your game ?" appears, the cloning glitch will still work and you will not suffer from any streak loss.


Thus, entering back into Battle Pyramid (I mean, talking to the host, selecting a mode, a party, then saying Yes) will clear the Pyramid Bag for the mode you chose.
So your Pyramid Bag was fine during the Code Execution, but seemed like "empty" after that.
Notice that this is also not a hindrance when depositing Items in Pyramid Bags because going into an "Open Level" mode will not affect your "Lv 50" Bag, and vice-versa.

Cool, I've always wondered what caused that.

Following my hopeless tries I've found that CODEDSD h becomes into a bad egg sometimes looking for the lvl 190 and …/220 HP bad egg (without triggering ACE). Is it normal?