Guides:SRAM Glitch ACE Setups (EN): Difference between revisions

This page serves as a repository for methods to quickly set up advanced ACE setups, starting from a fresh save file. These methods can be used for the English releases of Red & Blue.

The methods described here were heavily inspired by previous SRAM glitch setups developed by Evie (Chickasaurus GL), as well existing setups intended to be used for the Japanese releases.

=Setting up initial ACE=

When you use UP + SELECT + B on the title screen, the game will delete the save by filling the entirety of SRAM with $FF values. When you then interrupt the very first save process with specific timing, you can create a glitched save file that has a party consisting of 255 ($FF) pokémon. This is known as "SRAM glitch".

Within this glitched state, we can abuse the expanded party to affect memory areas that are normally unrelated to the party, with a wide variety of possible effects. In this guide, we will be abusing this to set up an ACE environment through the following process:

# Set up SRAM glitch

# Using SRAM glitch, access Celadon City so that we can assemble an item code that will allow us to write code using boxed pokémon's nicknames.

# Using an exploit known as "Map Script ACE", set up a method to quickly pick up an unlimited amount of Eevees

# Write code by repeatedly picking up and nicknaming Eevees. This will be used to build a program that allows you to more easily write arbitrary code.

First, we need to set up SRAM glitch.

* Select "Yes" in the "Yes/No" dialog box. At a very precise moment, power off or reset the console.

* Reload the game. If you can continue the game and can open the pokémon menu, you have successfully set up SRAM glitch and can continue with the guide. Otherwise, repeat the process from the start, erasing the save in the process.

* Having 255 party pokémon makes us unable to enter battle without heavy side effects. Due to this, we will be avoiding battle completely.

* It is heavily recommended to not look at the summary of any of the party pokémon, since they are made up of glitched data.

* Thanks to having 255 party pokémon, we are able to swap pokémon beyond the 6th party slot.

* Every few steps, the game will act as if at least one party pokémon is poisoned. This effect can be freely ignored.

The main item code will be assembled in Celadon City. We will be abusing the extended party's properties to both obtain an expanded item pack and enable us to use Fly. The expanded item pack is a glitched state where the game thinks that we have 255 ($FF) items in the item pocket, even though the item pocket usually has a maximum size of only 20 items. This allows us to access areas of memory beyond the item pack and treat them as if they are items.

* Scroll down to the 36th item slot. This will be an item with quantity x0, as indicated on the above screenshot on the left.. Toss a total of 250 items from it for a final quantity of 6. When tossing, you can press down to underflow the amount of items to be tossed from 0 to 255, then press down 5 more times.

* Walk to the spot indicated by the above screenshot on the right. At this spot, the item in the 35th item slot will have turned into a Potion x0. Using Select, swap this potion to the 29th item slot. This will give you the Thunderbadge and the Soulbadge, allowing you to use both Surf and Fly.

* (Optional) Only if you're playing on the virtual console releases, it is advised to enter the pokémon center and change the current active box any box other than box #2. This ensures that box #1, used to transfer pokémon to gen 7, remains empty for later use.