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I'm having some trouble trying to turn Pokémon shiny using ACE in the Virtual Console version of Yellow and would appreciate any help you can give.

Up until the point of trying to turn a Pokémon shiny I've been following this guide: https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemon/comments/5q8zlg/getting_gen_1_mew_in_yellow_guide_does_not_work/

It's been working well and I'm able to use the codes mentioned in that guide (which takes its information from this site), but I've hit a wall trying to turn my Mew shiny. I've tried several codes that are floating around and none of them worked.

Thankfully the codes didn't wipe my save but I've run out of things to try. I did try the search function to look through the forums but didn't find anything specifically about turning Pokémon shiny. I know the DV's need to be 10 for Attack, Special and Speed, as well as 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 14 or 15 for Defense for a Pokémon to be shiny after being transferred to Sun or Moon, I just have no idea how to accomplish that. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I'm using the English version of Pokémon Yellow on Virtual Console.

I have the 'ws# #m#' item and the following 11 Pokémon set up in my box: 233 HP Seel ,Parasect, Growlithe, Magikarp, Psyduck, Flareon, Tentacool, Female Nidoran, and three other Pokémon.

Thank you so much for your thorough explanation, that's really helpful!

Playing around with ACE is so exciting, but trying to understand what I was actually doing got confusing real quick. I feel like you just opened up a whole new layer of possibilities. Thank you again for taking the time to explain it all in such detail. You're amazing!

I'm having some trouble trying to turn Pokémon shiny using ACE in the Virtual Console version of Yellow and would appreciate any help you can give.

Up until the point of trying to turn a Pokémon shiny I've been following this guide: https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemon/comments/5q8zlg/getting_gen_1_mew_in_yellow_guide_does_not_work/

It's been working well and I'm able to use the codes mentioned in that guide (which takes its information from this site), but I've hit a wall trying to turn my Mew shiny. I've tried several codes that are floating around and none of them worked.

Thankfully the codes didn't wipe my save but I've run out of things to try. I did try the search function to look through the forums but didn't find anything specifically about turning Pokémon shiny. I know the DV's need to be 10 for Attack, Special and Speed, as well as 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 14 or 15 for Defense for a Pokémon to be shiny after being transferred to Sun or Moon, I just have no idea how to accomplish that. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I'm using the English version of Pokémon Yellow on Virtual Console.

I have the 'ws# #m#' item and the following 11 Pokémon set up in my box: 233 HP Seel ,Parasect, Growlithe, Magikarp, Psyduck, Flareon, Tentacool, Female Nidoran, and three other Pokémon.

Hi Lumi,

I think for editing I personally recommend setting up the reusable RAM writer (pseudo-GameShark). This way you can write any address to RAM, WRAM you want.

The reusable RAM writer is as such from item 3:

Lemonade x(xx)
Carbos x(yy)
X Accuracy x(zz)
Poké Ball x119
Carbos x211
Lemonade x0
X Accuracy x35 (x34 in Yellow)
Poké Ball x34
HP Up x34
HP Up x34
TM01 x0

The Lemonade (xx) represents the value. The Carbos (yy) is the first byte of the address, and the X Accuracy (zz) is the second byte of the address. Many addresses can be found here and here. When you use this code, the quantities of xx, yy and zz reset back to 0 (or 256), allowing you to make any edit you want again and again.

For making a Pokémon Shiny, as you said originally it was supposed to be 10 in Speed, Defense, Special and 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 14 or 15 in Attack. Pokémon Bank changed it for unknown reasons to be 10 in Speed, Attack, Special and 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 14 or 15 in Defense.

The addresses in question are two of the DV bytes. Attack/Defense IV and Speed/Special IV. For Pokémon 1 these are D186 and D187 respectively, which in Yellow are -1 of the original (as is the case with many memory addresses in Yellow), so are D185 and D186.

Now, the values we need are represented by one nybble (digit) of the byte; upper-most nybble first, and are AF (Attack=10 [A], Defense=15 [F]) and  AA (Speed=10 [A], Special=10 [A]).

This means the first edit we need to do is Lemonade x 175 [AF], Carbos x 209 [D1], X Accuracy x 133 [85], which will apply the Attack/Defense DVs to party Pokémon 1.

The second edit we need to do is Lemonade x 170 [AA], Carbos x 209 [D1], X Accuracy x 134 [86], which will apply the Speed/Special DVs the party Pokémon 1.

If you ever want to convert hexadecimal into decimal yourself, Windows Calculator on programmer mode is a great tool.

I don't know if Pokémon Bank 'fixed' the DV thing and Bulbapedia doesn't say it has, but in case it did the bytes would instead be FA and AA, which would be Lemonade x 250 [FA], Carbos x 209 [D1], X Accuracy x 133 [85] and Lemonade x 170 [AA], Carbos x 209 [D1], X Accuracy x 134 [86].

I hope this helps and good luck! :)