3DS:Remove Shiny Lock

Remove Shiny- Locks in Pokémon games

This guide will show you how to remove shiny locks and edit shiny chance from the generation 6 and 7 Pokémon games on the 3DS using LayeredFS and pk3DS

Compatibility Notes

This guide requires you have CFW with Luma3DS 8.0+ (preferably latest).

This guide requires a computer running Windows.

What You Need

• The latest release of pk3DS
• The latest release of GodMode9

Section I - Dumping exefs and romfs from your game

1. Press and hold Start, while still holding Start, power on your console to launch GodMode9
2. Navigate to [C:] GAMECART
3. Press A on [TitleID].trim.3ds
4. Select NCSD image options...
5. Select Mount image to drive
6. Press A to enter drive
7. Press A on content0.game
8. Hover over the folder exefs and press R + A
9. Select Copy to 0:/gm9/out
10. When done hover over the folder romfs and press R + A
11. Select Copy to 0:/gm9/out
12. When thats done press Start
13. Your dumped exefs and romfs can be found in /gm9/out/

Section II - Removing shiny lock

Preperation

1. Power off your console
2. insert your SD Card into your Computer
3. create a folder on your Computer named after the game you want to patch [gamefolder]
4. Move the exefs and romfs folders from your SD Card in the folder you just created [gamefolder]
5. go into the exefs folder
6. rename the .code file to .code.bin
7. extract the pk3DS .zip on your Computer and double click on pk3DS.WinForms.exe
8. click on file, open
9. now select the folder where the exefs and romfs folders are located

Generation Specific

unselecting everything in Randomizer Options except Remove Shiny Locksdoesnt work

1. in pk3DS click on ExeFS, than on Shiny Rate
2. here click on EVERYTHING SHINY and than on SAVE, this is to check, if everything is running correct
3. Now click on RomFS, than on Static Encounters
4. in Section Gifts and Encounters remove the tick on Shiny Locks on every Pokemon
5. Click on SAVE and close pk3DS
6. go into your exefs folder and copy .code.bin
7. Paste the .code.bin folder in the Root of the game folder you created on step 3
8. Rename the .code.bin file to code.bin
9. Copy the file called 9 in [gamefolder]\romfs\a\1\5 to the root of the [gamefolder]

Section IV - Preparing the SD Card

1. On Your SD Card go to /luma/titles/ and create a folder with the corresponding TitleID of the game you patched
   • Create a titles folder if you don't already have one
2. Copy the code.bin in the TitleID folder
3. in the TitleID folder create a folder called romfs
4. in the romfs folder create a folder called a
5. in the a folder create 4 folders called 0, 1, 2 and 3
6. in each of the 4 folders need to be 10 folders called 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9
7. copy the file called 9 of the root of the [gamefolder] and paste it in [TitleID]\romfs\a\1\5

Section V - Patching the Game

1. Eject your SD Card from your Computer and reinsert it into your console
2. Press and hold Select, while still holding Select, power on your console to open the Luma configuration menu
3. Select Enable game patching then press Start to save and exit

Section VI - General Stuff

Deinstaling gamepatches

1. start System Setting on the 3DS
2. Click on Data Management, Nintendo 3DS, Add-on content
3. Click on the game you want to patch and than click Delete

Editing shiny Chance

1. open pk3DS
2. ignore the next step, if the correct gamefolder is auto selected from pk3DS
   • if the correct folder isnt selected follow step 8 and 9 from Section II
3. in pk3DS click on ExeFS, than on Shiny Rate
4. here you can now setup your wanted shiny chances with Reroll Helper
5. hit SAVE after you selected the wanted shiny chance
6. close pk3DS and go to [gamefolder]/exefs and copy .code.bin to the root of the [gamefolder]
   • if the old code.bin file is here, delete the file first
7. rename .code.bin to code.bin
8. move code.bin to /luma/titles/[TitleID] on your SD Card and replace the old code.bin with the new code.bin