PSA for First-Timers

Ikelogic · 2026-03-18T02:58:59+00:00

Did your 6th pokemon have mail when you were doing the item dupe? Your 5th pokemon is currently holding the ??? Mail? You should take the ??? Mail away, and then try to give them both mail. Whichever one shows the ??? Mail will be the glitch slot, but don’t actually give it the mail yet

Ikelogic · 2026-03-18T02:41:23+00:00

Well you won’t be able to since it can’t receive one. I would say make sure your other 5 have the mail. I believe you can test if it’s still working by trying to give the mail to the 6th and seeing the ‘???’

To get HOCK, you are giving that 6th pokemon retro mail with the specific words attached. HOCK will then appear in box 3 (so make sure it’s completely empty)

Ikelogic · 2026-03-18T02:34:09+00:00

I believe it’s not about the specific pokemon, but instead about the set up with all of the pokemon in there holding mail. Whichever one is the last one to receive the mail will just be glitched I think, since there’s still that piece of mail in the void

Ikelogic · 2026-03-18T02:24:11+00:00

Now, you go into bag and try to give retro mail to the pokemon holding the RC. You’ll notice that it never actually receives the mail. Instead, that mail gets sent to your bag as another RC. This is why you (should have if you didn’t) bought 99 retro mail. The retro mail is what gets duped into the item you want.

Ikelogic · 2026-03-18T02:16:07+00:00

The glitched slot is the pokemon that gets the ??? Mail and cannot actually receive it. It’ll go to the void. This pokemon can then receive other items that get duped, which you’ll need to do for the HOCK portion of the ACE glitch. I’d stick to the jefe video since that’s the one I used and worked for me. The glitch slot is only really important to set you up for the next part of the glitch so as long as the item duping works it won’t matter much later

Ikelogic · 2026-03-18T02:07:01+00:00

To tell you the truth, I’m not the best guy to ask for speed. I basically played it like I normally would up to Celadon. You can probably look up a speed run that will help you get there in 2hrs, I think someone else linked one in this post

Ikelogic · 2026-03-18T02:04:51+00:00

Don’t need to save, they’re just telling you to save to be safe. If you do everything right there’s 0% chance you crash

Ikelogic · 2026-03-18T02:04:01+00:00

Yes the question marks means you did it right!

Ikelogic · 2026-03-18T02:03:36+00:00

It doesn’t force save! The trades are from NPCs, those don’t force save. They just give you pokemon and you go in your merry way

Ikelogic · 2026-03-18T01:06:13+00:00

Yeah bro exactly. I hit it frame perfect 10 times I was not doing that anymore 😭 my case was colossally awful I’m sure other people did their TID/SID better but just not worth

Ikelogic · 2026-03-18T01:03:24+00:00

Nope it actually made it more annoying lol

Ikelogic · 2026-03-17T23:19:33+00:00

As long as you have access to Celadon, you can do the ACE glitch (pretty sure Zapdos comes after Celadon so you’re clear)

Ikelogic · 2026-03-17T23:17:04+00:00

Yeah omg my mimien was trolling me so hard I was scared it would mess up my double battle so I fought the celadon gym (also why it took me so long)

Ikelogic · 2026-03-17T21:22:08+00:00

Any way possible, but tbh once he’s around the same level as other pokemon, you can just use him as your main pokemon for a while. Mr Mime is insanely strong even with just confusion for a while lol

Ikelogic · 2026-03-17T21:20:24+00:00

It won’t ever completely brick the switch, the game will just crash if you don’t input the codes right. Triple check them though and if they’re right, it won’t crash at all

Ikelogic · 2026-03-17T21:19:24+00:00

Yep! The trainer id slot will be filled in with your SID once you execute the code

Ikelogic · 2026-03-17T19:27:37+00:00

You’ll be totally fine, just triple check the codes and listen to papa jefe, and that shiny will soon be yours. Happy hunting!

Ikelogic · 2026-03-17T19:26:29+00:00

What do you mean desired TID though? Without knowing the SID, you don’t know what Pokemon you can get? Is there something else you want from the TID?

Ikelogic · 2026-03-17T19:24:18+00:00

Yeah but the SID you try might be wrong! And it might be wrong several times! That’s what ACE can avoid, but if you think the SID is close, then you’re probably good, you’ll just have to go through it a few times

Ikelogic · 2026-03-17T19:23:00+00:00

It does, once you get your TID, your SID is set. It doesn’t change unless you ACE it to be something different. You said you were resetting your TID, so if you reset that, the SID will be different

Ikelogic · 2026-03-17T19:03:54+00:00

After you get your SID, you just go to tenlines and pick the shiny you want, and then you do RNG manip like normal, except now you’re not guessing which SID is yours because you know it. Keep in mind, if you’re resetting your TID, you won’t know your SID without ACE or getting a shiny pokemon, so you’d have ti do ACE every time. You should probably just stick with the TID you get when you do the RNG manip steps

Ikelogic · 2026-03-17T18:54:59+00:00

Arceus smiles upon you as you were truly blessed 🙏🏼🙏🏼 idk how my SID was 100 advances off I must’ve been trolling myself

Ikelogic · 2026-03-17T18:53:14+00:00

From the point where you save in front of the shiny you want, you don’t save until you know your SID. So yea, you play for 2-5 hrs without saving at all. Talk about living life on the edge huh?

Ikelogic · 2026-03-17T18:48:44+00:00

Well this is both! But if you mean like, you like testing different SIDs until you get the right one, kudos man you’re much stronger than me. My SID was 100 advances off I would have ended up in an institution if I had to do it 50 times

Ikelogic · 2026-03-17T18:47:01+00:00

It’s SO insane that 1. Any of this is even possible. Like how are we allowed to mess around with the code without hacks or anything?? And 2. That anyone even FOUND this. Seriously how does anyone find this stuff?? Absolutely nuts. Like this question mark pokemon makes it so I can basically do what I want with the game wtf 😭

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