Press and hold (Start), and while holding (Start), power on your device.Copy the gm9 folder from the GodMode9.
zip to the /luma/payloads/ folder on your SD card
Some of the instructions below are only applicable to the latest version of GodMode9, and as such you should follow this section to update your copy before continuing. Though many of these modifications are locked behind a permissions system, and it is impossible to accidentally perform dangerous actions without deliberately unlocking permissions, you should still follow instructions carefully and keep backups just in case.
GodMode9 is powerful software that has the capability to modify essentially anything on your console. Note that if you have any payload files other than GodMode9.firm in the /luma/payloads/ folder on your SD card, holding (Start) on boot will display a “chainloader menu” where you will have to use the D-Pad and the (A) button to select “GodMode9” for these instructions. Among other functionality, you can copy, delete, rename files, and create folders.
GodMode9 is a full access file browser for the Nintendo 3DS console, giving you access to your SD card, the FAT partitions inside your SysNAND and EmuNAND, and basically anything else.
Apparently I can spend 3 hours making those save files, but I'm too lazy to dump&decrypt X/Y to test them in Citra. I've not tested them, but they should hopefully work fine for their intended purpose. Save the file (this will also correct the save file checksum two birds one stone!) Save the file, then open it in PKHeX and change your Trainer Name to what you actually want as your OT. Then move the cursor over to 0x14062 and hit Ctrl+B to Paste+Write the bytes you copied from your OT. Highlight the bytes from 0x14048 to 0x1405F and Copy (Ctrl+C) them. This brings you over to where your Trainer Name is located in the save file.
Type in 14048 (and select hex in the radio buttons, if it isn't already set to that by default) and press OK. Open the save file in a hex editor (I personally like and recommend HxD) and press Ctrl+G to bring up the Goto menu. Open the save file in PKHeX, go to the Trainer Info menu, set your Trainer Name to your desired nickname and save the file. The most straightforward way to do so is to: You will have to manually hex edit that yourself. Important: PKHeX does not support editing your nickname for X/Y as of now. You just have to rename the file to main, open the save file in PKHeX to change OT, ID numbers and any other kind of info you'd want to change, and/or if you want a certain nature/certain IVs on your starter. Since Citra has problems with X/Y where the game crashes during the intro, and in some cases, when choosing your starter, I went ahead and made save files for every gender + appearance + starter combinations.Įach save file is saved right after receiving the starter, and the files are named appropriately (left/center/right refers to the character appearance, in the same order as they appear during the intro.)