GrayShadow's 'Giving Gogo Magic' code

You can view the state of $1E3C anytime in game. I'd take a look at least after the intro to see if its value is 00. Just press "break" outside or inside battle in the debugger and click "RAM Viewer" I think and go to offset $1E3C (or maybe the debugger labels it as $7E1E3C). I'm not 100% sure of the terms used because I rarely use that feature and don't have a debugger copy on my laptop. There is little chance that RAM offset would be altered between SRAM initialization and sabin's recruitment but it's not impossible.