How to open the .pkl file and edit it?

[CScorpion-h]

I try to use the pickle, but it doesn't work.

[kwsch]

Why do you want to modify the Pokémon Legality binaries?

[CScorpion-h]

Why do you want to modify the Pokémon Legality binaries?

Add the Ash's Charizard and Mewtwo. And because I want to learn so that I can contribute,

[kwsch]

Event .pkl files are just concatenated files. For wc8.pkl, you just concatenate every wc8 file from the event gallery. Every other pkl file (not events) is a Mini packed file.

If you want to see how the files are read into the program, you can search for the filenames in the source code and follow the logic that converts them into objects.

There isn't a need to update these files except for releases, for which I already have a script to regenerate the binaries. The mgdb folder already allows for people to expand the event data between releases. I don't want to trigger new commits & builds each time the Event Gallery has an update.

[CScorpion-h]

Event .pkl files are just concatenated files. For wc8.pkl, you just concatenate every wc8 file from the event gallery. Every other pkl file (not events) is a Mini packed file.

If you want to see how the files are read into the program, you can search for the filenames in the source code and follow the logic that converts them into objects.

There isn't a need to update these files except for releases, for which I already have a script to regenerate the binaries. The mgdb folder already allows for people to expand the event data between releases. I don't want to trigger new commits & builds each time the Event Gallery has an update.

Could you tell me if you use python to create pkl files? I want to know what is the .pkl, I've never seen it before. Thanks.

[kwsch]

I can name the files that I create whatever extension I want; it is only a coincidence that the pkl extension is also used by python pickle.

The wild ones are generated via https://github.com/kwsch/PKHeX.EncounterSlotDumper The event dbs are generated via this method, just combining files:

void BinFiles(string[] files, string outfile, string ext)
{
    var iterate = files.Where(z => new FileInfo(z).Extension.EndsWith(ext));
    iterate = iterate.Where(z => !z.Contains("Unreleased"));

    // create/clear file
    File.WriteAllBytes(outfile, new byte[0]);   
    using (var stream = new FileStream(outfile, FileMode.Append))
    {
        foreach (var f in iterate)
        {
            byte[] bytes = File.ReadAllBytes(f);
            stream.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
        }        
    }
}

[CScorpion-h]

Oh, so that's it. Thank you for your help.