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The following guides are meant to be a supplement to Smogon's RNG guides focusing specifically on how to use PPRNG. They are currently a work in progress.

Gen 5 Common
The functionalities explained here can be used in all Generation 5 games (Black 1, White 1, Black 2, White 2). See the following posts for functionalities which are specific to Black 1 / White 1 or Black 2 / White 2.

Getting Started

Important Note for Black 2 / White 2 Users
In Black 2 and White 2 there is a much quicker and easier way to determine your RNG parameters (Timer0, VCount, etc.) that you can access before you even begin your game. See the Black 2 / White 2 section two posts below for more details.

Initial Config Setup
Open the DS / Game Config window. Enter the game version, DS Type, and MAC address of the system. Note that the Memory Link and Shiny Charm settings are specific to Black 2 / White 2 and can be ignored for Black / White.

If you know them, enter the Trainer ID and Secret ID as well. You will need these in order to find shinies. You can find your Trainer ID on the back of your trainer card in game. You can find your secret ID through various methods which will not be detailed here, but are easily found by googling.

Parameter Searching
Make sure you have saved somewhere where you can immediately encounter a Pokemon (a standing legendary such as Kyurem, or in the grass/cave with sweet scent). The higher the level of the Pokemon you will encounter the better, but at a minimum I'd recommend over level 15 to be able to get enough accuracy when using an online IV calculator.

Start your game from the DS menu without holding any buttons, and note the date and time down to the second (synchronizing your DS clock with an external clock such as the one on your computer may be helpful for this). This is not the time you choose continue in your game, it is the time that you choose the game from the DS menu.

Immediately encounter and catch your Pokemon. If you are encountering a wild Pokemon, use sweet scent rather than walking to ensure that you don't accidentally advance the IV RNG. Check the captured Pokemon's IVs using one of the many online IV calculators.

Open the DS Parameter Searcher and enter the lowest value for each IV in the 'Min' fields and the highest value for each IV in the 'Max' fields. Enter the date and time that you started your game from the DS menu in the remaining fields. Finally, click search.

The result should appear within a few seconds. As in the example above, it is possible that you will get more than one result. The correct result will be the one that is about one second later than the time you started the game from the DS menu when using a DS or DSi, or about 8 seconds later when using a 3DS.

Additional Config Setup
Add the parameters to your DS / Game configuration.

Repeat the process again until you find at least one more value for Timer0. When using a retail cart on an actual DS system, it is normal to have two values for Timer0, while VCount and VFrame should always be the same.

Perfect IVs

IV Seed Search Setup
To search for specific IVs when capturing a wild Pokemon or receiving a gift, open the Standard Seed Searcher.

For your first abuse it's best not to worry about shininess, so leave the 'Shiny Only' box unchecked. The search results may still show information about shiny frames and natures, but they will also include IV sets which meet your criteria but have no shiny frame associated with them.

First, choose a date range to search as well as the number of buttons you are willing / able to hold down when starting your DS. These choices directly affect the number of seeds that will be searched, with two and three held buttons increasing the number of possible seeds you can hit by over 500 times. Of course, this means that the searches will require more time to complete, however matching search results are displayed as soon as they are found so you will not have to wait for the entire search to complete before examining and using the results.

Generally, you will want to limit your search to IV frame 1 to save yourself a lot of annoyance. This is because the main way to advance the IV frame is by walking 128 steps with specific numbers of Pokemon in your party, which is tedious and usually unnecessary. However if you want your RNG abuse target to have a specific capture date or are looking for rarer spreads (for example, hex-flawless) you might consider leaving the maximum IV frame at 6.

PPRNG has a cache of all seeds which will produce 'useful' IV spreads within the first 6 IV frames, which makes these kinds of searches run significantly faster. Therefore, unless you have a specific reason to search for non-standard IVs or on higher IV frames, be sure to choose one of the pre-defined IV patterns from the drop down menu and keep your minimum and maximum IV frames between 1 and 6 to take advantage of the faster searching.

IV Seed Searching
The following screenshot shows the results of a search for an HP Ice flawless spread during the month of August 2011, allowing up the 2 held buttons. Standing legendaries such as the Musketeer Trio or Kyurem make for excellent first RNG abuse targets, and the highlighted result would work quite well on a mixed attacker set for Virizion.

Note that every DS will produce different seeds, so you will not be able to use the seeds shown below on your own DS.

To hit this seed, you would need to set the date on your DS to August 1st, 2011, and the time to 14:52:00 (2:52:00 PM). You would need to start the game from the DS menu 1 second before the target time, which in this case means starting at 14:52:59. (Note that for a DSi you may need to start up to 3 seconds before the target time, while on a 3DS the different is approximately 7 seconds. You will need to use whatever time difference you found when doing you initial DS parameter searches.)

As soon as you start the game from the DS menu, you would need to hold the D-Pad in the down-right direction while also holding the Select button (the combination listed in the buttons column) until the white screen with The Pokemon Company and Nintendo logos on it appears.

Hitting the Seed and Collecting your Pokemon
At this point, you can follow along with Smogon's onsite RNG abuse guide to hit your seed, starting from the section titled Preparations in Game to Hit Your Seed. If everything is done correctly and you have a bit of luck with your DS's Timer0 behavior, you will catch your Pokemon with the IVs you found in the Standard Seed Searcher. Unfortunately, the nature of the Pokemon may not be what you wanted, but to deal with that you'll need to understand how to manipulate the PIDRNG, so don't save your game yet.

Nature Manipulation

Inspecting a Seed
Continuing on from the previous section, instead of immediately attempting to hit your IV seed, double-click the result row in the Standard Seed Searcher to open that seed in the Standard Seed Inspector.

Since this seed is being used to generate a mixed attacker Virizion -- a standing lengendary -- change the Encounter Type to Stationary.

Also, in order to increase the number of frames which will give the desired nature (which in this case will be Naive), it's best to have a Pokemon with the desired nature and the ability Synchronize in the lead position of the party because synchronize forces the nature of encountered Pokemon to be that of the synchronizer in 50% of encounters. Thus, you should also ensure that Synchronize is selected as the Lead Ability.

With these two selections made, click the generate button to get the list of Stationary Synchronized frames for that seed.

To be continued...

Wonder Cards

Searching

Inspecting

ID Abuse

Amelie has created a video showing how to do ID abuse with PPRNG.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iXk768nkag

Note that during the video she attempts to search for a trainer ID of 88888. This is not a valid ID (trainer IDs are between 0 and 65535, inclusive), which is why no results are found. It is a bug in that version of PPRNG that it doesn't prevent searches for invalid trainer IDs.

Mar 29th, 2011, 11:36:50 AM	#2
chiizu PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP RNG Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 369	The following guides are meant to be a supplement to Smogon's RNG guides focusing specifically on how to use PPRNG. They are currently a work in progress. Gen 5 Common The functionalities explained here can be used in all Generation 5 games (Black 1, White 1, Black 2, White 2). See the following posts for functionalities which are specific to Black 1 / White 1 or Black 2 / White 2. Getting Started Important Note for Black 2 / White 2 Users In Black 2 and White 2 there is a much quicker and easier way to determine your RNG parameters (Timer0, VCount, etc.) that you can access before you even begin your game. See the Black 2 / White 2 section two posts below for more details. Initial Config Setup Open the DS / Game Config window. Enter the game version, DS Type, and MAC address of the system. Note that the Memory Link and Shiny Charm settings are specific to Black 2 / White 2 and can be ignored for Black / White. If you know them, enter the Trainer ID and Secret ID as well. You will need these in order to find shinies. You can find your Trainer ID on the back of your trainer card in game. You can find your secret ID through various methods which will not be detailed here, but are easily found by googling. Parameter Searching Make sure you have saved somewhere where you can immediately encounter a Pokemon (a standing legendary such as Kyurem, or in the grass/cave with sweet scent). The higher the level of the Pokemon you will encounter the better, but at a minimum I'd recommend over level 15 to be able to get enough accuracy when using an online IV calculator. Start your game from the DS menu without holding any buttons, and note the date and time down to the second (synchronizing your DS clock with an external clock such as the one on your computer may be helpful for this). This is not the time you choose continue in your game, it is the time that you choose the game from the DS menu. Immediately encounter and catch your Pokemon. If you are encountering a wild Pokemon, use sweet scent rather than walking to ensure that you don't accidentally advance the IV RNG. Check the captured Pokemon's IVs using one of the many online IV calculators. Open the DS Parameter Searcher and enter the lowest value for each IV in the 'Min' fields and the highest value for each IV in the 'Max' fields. Enter the date and time that you started your game from the DS menu in the remaining fields. Finally, click search. The result should appear within a few seconds. As in the example above, it is possible that you will get more than one result. The correct result will be the one that is about one second later than the time you started the game from the DS menu when using a DS or DSi, or about 8 seconds later when using a 3DS. Additional Config Setup Add the parameters to your DS / Game configuration. Repeat the process again until you find at least one more value for Timer0. When using a retail cart on an actual DS system, it is normal to have two values for Timer0, while VCount and VFrame should always be the same. Perfect IVs IV Seed Search Setup To search for specific IVs when capturing a wild Pokemon or receiving a gift, open the Standard Seed Searcher. For your first abuse it's best not to worry about shininess, so leave the 'Shiny Only' box unchecked. The search results may still show information about shiny frames and natures, but they will also include IV sets which meet your criteria but have no shiny frame associated with them. First, choose a date range to search as well as the number of buttons you are willing / able to hold down when starting your DS. These choices directly affect the number of seeds that will be searched, with two and three held buttons increasing the number of possible seeds you can hit by over 500 times. Of course, this means that the searches will require more time to complete, however matching search results are displayed as soon as they are found so you will not have to wait for the entire search to complete before examining and using the results. Generally, you will want to limit your search to IV frame 1 to save yourself a lot of annoyance. This is because the main way to advance the IV frame is by walking 128 steps with specific numbers of Pokemon in your party, which is tedious and usually unnecessary. However if you want your RNG abuse target to have a specific capture date or are looking for rarer spreads (for example, hex-flawless) you might consider leaving the maximum IV frame at 6. PPRNG has a cache of all seeds which will produce 'useful' IV spreads within the first 6 IV frames, which makes these kinds of searches run significantly faster. Therefore, unless you have a specific reason to search for non-standard IVs or on higher IV frames, be sure to choose one of the pre-defined IV patterns from the drop down menu and keep your minimum and maximum IV frames between 1 and 6 to take advantage of the faster searching. IV Seed Searching The following screenshot shows the results of a search for an HP Ice flawless spread during the month of August 2011, allowing up the 2 held buttons. Standing legendaries such as the Musketeer Trio or Kyurem make for excellent first RNG abuse targets, and the highlighted result would work quite well on a mixed attacker set for Virizion. *Note that every DS will produce different seeds, so you will not be able to use the seeds shown below on your own DS.* To hit this seed, you would need to set the date on your DS to August 1st, 2011, and the time to 14:52:00 (2:52:00 PM). You would need to start the game from the DS menu 1 second before the target time, which in this case means starting at 14:52:59. (Note that for a DSi you may need to start up to 3 seconds before the target time, while on a 3DS the different is approximately 7 seconds. You will need to use whatever time difference you found when doing you initial DS parameter searches.) As soon as you start the game from the DS menu, you would need to hold the D-Pad in the down-right direction while also holding the Select button (the combination listed in the buttons column) until the white screen with The Pokemon Company and Nintendo logos on it appears. Hitting the Seed and Collecting your Pokemon At this point, you can follow along with Smogon's onsite RNG abuse guide to hit your seed, starting from the section titled Preparations in Game to Hit Your Seed. If everything is done correctly and you have a bit of luck with your DS's Timer0 behavior, you will catch your Pokemon with the IVs you found in the Standard Seed Searcher. Unfortunately, the nature of the Pokemon may not be what you wanted, but to deal with that you'll need to understand how to manipulate the PIDRNG, so don't save your game yet. Nature Manipulation Inspecting a Seed Continuing on from the previous section, instead of immediately attempting to hit your IV seed, double-click the result row in the Standard Seed Searcher to open that seed in the Standard Seed Inspector. Since this seed is being used to generate a mixed attacker Virizion -- a standing lengendary -- change the Encounter Type to Stationary. Also, in order to increase the number of frames which will give the desired nature (which in this case will be Naive), it's best to have a Pokemon with the desired nature and the ability Synchronize in the lead position of the party because synchronize forces the nature of encountered Pokemon to be that of the synchronizer in 50% of encounters. Thus, you should also ensure that Synchronize is selected as the Lead Ability. With these two selections made, click the generate button to get the list of Stationary Synchronized frames for that seed. To be continued... Wonder Cards Searching Inspecting ID Abuse Amelie has created a video showing how to do ID abuse with PPRNG. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iXk768nkag Note that during the video she attempts to search for a trainer ID of 88888. This is not a valid ID (trainer IDs are between 0 and 65535, inclusive), which is why no results are found. It is a bug in that version of PPRNG that it doesn't prevent searches for invalid trainer IDs. Last edited by chiizu; Oct 3rd, 2012 at 1:05:33 PM.