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5th Gen PRNG Help / Info - Latest: RNG Reporter 9.96.5, PPRNG 1.15.0
- Thread starter Slashmolder
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Practically speaking, everything will be shifted by forward a couple frames (or so) if you forget to search for a "always shiny" seed (and instead do never shiny). It won't affect the seeding at all since that's determined before you RNG anything. So if you got the wrong seed, then you missed your time/Timer0/keypresses.
edit: to answer your question, they're shifted forward since it requires a couple more calls to the rng.
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Doing it on emu with a no keypress seed, so in theory it's almost impossible to miss my seed. I did check to make sure it was set on always shiny and checked a couple seconds behind target, so I'm not sure what else I'm missing.
Hmm ok. If you post your seed/trainer info and the results that you are getting I'd be happy to take a look.
Technically but that would be the previous generation rng thread
http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/most-generation-prng-help-information.52180/ it pretty much is for generation 3 and 4
Edit: Not personally 100% sure why gen 5 rng is split from gen 4 and 3 besides from the fact that gen 5 runs on different principles and therefore has different guides but just post on the previous generation prng thread and any questions you have should be answerable.
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Possible shiny use the wondercard ot's id/sid. For example, there's a nonshinylocked Groudon whose ot's id/sid is 3172/0. All you have to do is change your profile's id/sid to 3172/0 and search for possible shiny seeds.
ah I see, well that sucks. I thought it was going to be something easy like the manaphy egg. xD
Thanks.
These two images should sum up my problem. It's consistent no matter which seed I use.
http://postimg.org/image/5s90e0wxp/
http://postimg.org/image/3wibi2093/
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http://postimg.org/image/3wibi2093/
What did you rng specifically? Some cards mess with the rng.
Edit: Actually it looks like its inheriting the nature of the next frame, are you doing something always shiny?
Nope, it's also consistent with my non-shiny attempts. I'm doing one with a chance for a shiny (The Jolly one is the shiny frame)
So what have you attempted to rng? Could be other weird rng things.
The Extremespeed Pikachu Event.
Ah, the problem is probably you're using the regular wondercard method instead of the GLAN wondercard method, because the espeed Pikachu is genderlocked to female.
Isn't glan only used when both nature and gender are locked?
Nope, only gender. Regular method is fine if it's only naturelocked.
I have a question regarding searching for a seed in White 2. I've been trying to get a shiny special flawless seed for a Staryu and I have had trouble even finding a seed. I've searched about 2 years' worth of seeds with all held buttons, up to 1000 PID frames, and lead ability Synchronize. I have been able to successfully RNG other standard captures in the past, so I was wondering if there was anything different about searching in a Surf spot, or if I'm just unlucky in finding a seed.
I'd say you're just getting unlucky. Shiny flawless seeds in general can take a while to find for wild Pokemon. If you saved those seeds from your past RNGs, you might be able to use one of them. Just keep looking though; you'll find one :)
Although I don't think it will make a difference in finding seeds, you can also encounter Staryu through standard surfing, which would be much easier to rng than a surfing spot.
Alright, thanks. I actually am searching for a standard surfing seed, bad wording on my part. It's been a while since I've done this last, so I'll just be a bit more patient.shiny finder said:
Female cute charmer, 50/50 male/female since Heatran does have a gender ratio.
ok perfect. thank you
How do I determine the PID of my roaming Thundurus without an external device? I'm going to restart my White cart and RNG my ID/SID to make my previous file's Thundurus shiny. However, that Thundurus was on IV frame 11 (walk 256 steps with 5 Pokémon in party), not frame 1. Since there are no wild Pokémon inside the house on Route 7, the way I turn/walk won't affect my PID frame, right?
Catch it and check its ivs/nature with rngreporter. And your pid frame shouldn't be affected.