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
Section I - Dumping exefs and romfs from your game
Press and hold Start , while still holding Start , power on your console to launch GodMode9
Navigate to [C:] GAMECART
Press A on [TitleID].trim.3ds
Select NCSD image options...
Select Mount image to drive
Press A to enter drive
Press A on content0.game
Hover over the folder exefs
and press R + A
Select Copy to 0:/gm9/out
When done hover over the folder romfs
and press R + A
Select Copy to 0:/gm9/out
When thats done press Start
Your dumped exefs
and romfs
can be found in /gm9/out/
Section II - Removing shiny lock and edit shiny chance
|-|Generation 7=
unselecting everything in Randomizer Options
except Remove Shiny Locks
doesnt work
Power off your console
insert your SD Card into your Computer
create a folder on your Computer named after the game you want to patch [gamefolder]
Move the exefs
and romfs
folders from your SD Card in the folder you just created [gamefolder]
go into the exefs
folder
rename the .code
file to .code.bin
extract the pk3DS .zip
on your Computer and double click on pk3DS.WinForms.exe
click on file
, open
now select the folder where the exefs
and romfs
folders are located
in pk3DS click on ExeFS
, than on Shiny Rate
here click on EVERYTHING SHINY
and than on SAVE
, this is to check, if everything is running correct
Now click on RomFS
, than on Static Encounters
in Section Gifts
and Encounters
remove the tick on Shiny Locks on every Pokemon
Click on SAVE
and close pk3DS
go into your exefs
folder and copy .code.bin
Paste the .code.bin
folder in the Root of the game folder you created on step 3
Rename the .code.bin
file to code.bin
Copy the file called 9 in [gamefolder]\romfs\a\1\5
to the root of the [gamefolder]
Section III - Preparing the SD Card
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
Copy the code.bin
in the TitleID
folder
in the TitleID
folder create a folder called romfs
in the romfs
folder create a folder called a
in the a
folder create 4 folders called 0
, 1
, 2
and 3
in each of the 4 folders need to be 10 folders called 0
, 1
, 2
, 3
, 4
, 5
, 6
, 7
, 8
and 9
copy the file called 9 of the root of the [gamefolder]
and paste it in [TitleID]\romfs\a\1\5