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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

OOjs UI icon information-progressive.svg This guide requires you have CFW with Luma3DS 8.0+ (preferably latest).
OOjs UI icon information-progressive.svg This guide requires a computer running Windows.

What You Need

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 and edit shiny chance

|-|Generation 7=

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

Section III - Ptaching your Game

  1. On Your SD Card go to /luma/titles/ and create a folder with the corresponding TitleID of the game you patched
  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, 23, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9