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=== Obtain 8F ===
Once you have access to the [[expanded item pack]], obtaining 8F, or indeed any item in the game, is quite easy. The reason is that the contents of the expanded item pack actually correspond to unrelated game data — such as your coordinate on the map — so they can be easily manipulated. On the other hand, that also means that messing with the contents of the expanded item pack may affect the game state, and can even be dangerous. Follow the below steps in order to obtain 8F safely.
# '''From Fuchsia City, Surf down and left again to reach this location:'''<br />[[File:Missing_image.jpg]] (TODO: Add screenshot)
# '''Scroll down to the 35th item in your expanded item pack. It should be 8F.'''<br />[[File:Missing_image.jpg]] (TODO: Add screenshot)
#* {{color|gray|Side note: The 35th item corresponds to your X coordinate on the current map (i.e. it decreases as you go left, and increases as you go right, as long as you don't leave the current map). This location is on the Route 20 map, which is the single widest map in the game, allowing you to obtain many useful items this way.}}
# '''Swap this item with a useless item in your main inventory.''' (The ×0 stack at the top of your inventory you've just created in the previous section should work fine: You should have at least two ×255 stacks of the same item below, which duplicated themselves so that you will never run out.)
# '''Immediately Fly away.'''
#* {{color|gray|Side note: By swapping the 35th item, you have corrupted your X coordinate, so trying to move around on the map may have unexpected and confusing effects. Depending on which item you swapped it may be possible to leave the map by Surfing and/or walking, but the safest option is to just Fly away. There is a technique named the [[Celadon looping map trick]] which makes use of such a X coordinate corruption to obtain items with too large an internal ID to be obtained on Route 20, but you won't really have a need for that since once you set up ACE you can obtain any item more easily.}}
# '''Deposit 8F into your PC.''' For simplicity and safety, we will only be using it after fixing our item pack.
# Optionally, repeat the previous steps, but with these other locations, to obtain some other potentially hard-to-obtain items. You will get a ×0 stack of each, which is equivalent to ×256, in the sense that you can use/sell/deposit 1 from the stack and have 255 left. Ideally, don't use/sell/deposit the whole stack to avoid decreasing the item count.<br />[[File:Missing_image.jpg]] (TODO: Add screenshot) (PP Up; Rare Candy to level up Tentacool?; Something to sell for money?)
# '''Buy any three cheap items (that you don't already have in your main inventory)''' to fix the item pack. The first two items you buy will be lost, and the third should become the first and only item in your main inventory, with a proper Cancel button below it.
#* Withdrawing useless items from the PC will also work if that's more convenient.
#* If the third item bought don't appear as the first item in your inventory, keep buying cheap items until the item pack is fixed.
#** {{color|gray|Side note: After depositing 8F, your item count would become 254 (in other words, -2), so you would need three items to increase your item count back to 1. If you have unnecessarily decreased your item count by using/selling/depositing a whole stack of items, your item count would be lower, so you would need to buy more items in this step. (Depositing 8F necessarily decreases the item count since it's a Key item.)}}
#** {{color|gray|Side note: The first and second items you buy will occupy item slots 255–256, which are near the end of the list <code>wWarpEntries</code> (overlapping list entries 27–28). This should be safe as no shop in the game has that many warps.}}
#** {{color|gray|Side note: Don't worry about the cheap item existing in your ''expanded'' inventory, as the game will not look past the Cancel button when trying to find an existing stack of that item.}}
==3. Getting Inventory back to normal/ setting up our first code==
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