You're doing this in an area with NPCs using sweet scent? Bring up the menu and sweet scent immediately then catch whatever you encounter. Look for the frame that matches what you caught near your initial frame. That's your actual starting frame.
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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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No, I'm not in an area where there are NPCs. I'm in Twist Mountain.
Someone told me that I'm doing things the complicated way. He said:
that What I do is just set min frame 1/max frame 1
Talkin' to him right now on IRC #smogonwifi He might be able to help me....
No, I don't think that's the problem. In time finder I right clicked on the seed adjacent, and in the list the Nearby Shiny is 0 o.o
Will post again when I finally do it.
How do I tell for certain if I've 'hit' the seed? I searched for adjacent seeds and nothing looked similar.
Also when exactly do I stop holding the keypress? Once the screen goes black from the Nintendo logo, after the copy rights, after the GameFreak movie, or all the way to the title?
What frustrates me the most about this is that I got it to work once, but I can't replicate my success.
I know these are noob questions but I can't find the answers in the guides.
Alright, I must be doing something drastically wrong, because the spreads I get when trying to calibrate for standard abuse don't give any results, nor can I hit any adjacent seeds (within 999 frames and 9 seconds) when trying to Entralink abuse. The only thing I can think of is MAC Address, but I have checked that several times and it is correct.
Answers are in bold.
+/- 999 should be your Delay range, not your frame, though it looks like you got it correct on the screenshot you sent me. Have you set your Frame box to 21?
I don't get what I'm doing wrong, at all.
I got a perfect IV normal Terrakion a while back with no difficulty and did loads of 4th gen stuff so I know what to do, but whenever I try 5th gen shiny it's just awful.
Firstly when I'm searching on the shiny egg function whatever I put in there I never get any results ever. Even with nothing in the search parameters, so clearly something is wrong.
And secondly when I try to do a shiny encounter, I absolutely never hit my target ever. I always land on something completely irrelevant and with no means of seeing what I actually hit, I just have no idea. To my knowledge everything I'm doing is right, and it worked for IVs, sooo... what's up with this?
Oh and to check my starting PID frame will always be 1 when it's sweet scent or a legendary, yeah? And 8 for an egg (although I think that might be IVs)? I think it was for the IVs. I haven't spotted this stuff on any of the guides.
I got a perfect IV normal Terrakion a while back with no difficulty and did loads of 4th gen stuff so I know what to do, but whenever I try 5th gen shiny it's just awful.
Firstly when I'm searching on the shiny egg function whatever I put in there I never get any results ever. Even with nothing in the search parameters, so clearly something is wrong.
And secondly when I try to do a shiny encounter, I absolutely never hit my target ever. I always land on something completely irrelevant and with no means of seeing what I actually hit, I just have no idea. To my knowledge everything I'm doing is right, and it worked for IVs, sooo... what's up with this?
Oh and to check my starting PID frame will always be 1 when it's sweet scent or a legendary, yeah? And 8 for an egg (although I think that might be IVs)? I think it was for the IVs. I haven't spotted this stuff on any of the guides.
Wow, no wonder you've been off. The starting PID frame is never 1. It's between 40-60. You use the calculate initial PID frame function to figure out what it is. Sometimes you have to figure it out manually by catching/receiving a pokemon and checking to see what PID it matches.
Your starting IV frame is 1 for all methods other than eggs(8), entralink pokemon(21) and the larvesta egg(2).
If you haven't spotted these in the guides then you weren't paying attention. They're all there. Go read it again. First 3 posts of this thread.
lol you misunderstand the PIDRNG
the starting PID frame will never be 1, it be around from 39-59, to check you starting pid frame on the main window choose method 5 PIDRNG and copy the full seed and paste it in the main window then click calculate PIDRNG to find your starting frame
eggs have a shifted starting frame cause of those damn NPC's
edit: damn someone beat me to it lol
the starting PID frame will never be 1, it be around from 39-59, to check you starting pid frame on the main window choose method 5 PIDRNG and copy the full seed and paste it in the main window then click calculate PIDRNG to find your starting frame
eggs have a shifted starting frame cause of those damn NPC's
edit: damn someone beat me to it lol
Read more.
Actually read more is the awnser to almost every question here. Even to all of my questions *ashamed*. I think it's just better to really awnser them if you know it and you're willing to since I'm sure you'd wish others would awnser yours too even if it's somewhere in the guide. It's so much text that you sometimes just get lost and you're not actually searching for the right words (I searched for "fossil" to find the frame for that but I really should've control f'd "frame") :P You can at least refer to the post where the information is XF
For someone who has posted so many questions in this thread, some of which I tried to help you with, you sure do get snippy when someone else has one.
It's not explained in the guide. :/
Zandock is probably interested in knowing how the encounter slot works if you encounter 2 pokemon in the double grass.
I know 1 will be from your seed/PID frame and I believe the other will be from a different seed.
Haha thanks guys, I guess I've never been known for being attentive. :P
I never noticed that if I clicked the starting frame generator, I'd get a starting frame put in the box on the left (was wondering why it didn't do anything) and after rereading the guide again I still haven't spotted that part lol. Looks like I'm well on my way to getting shinies though, woo.
I never noticed that if I clicked the starting frame generator, I'd get a starting frame put in the box on the left (was wondering why it didn't do anything) and after rereading the guide again I still haven't spotted that part lol. Looks like I'm well on my way to getting shinies though, woo.
Oh come on, nobody's bashing you. I'm sure you didn't really mean it like that and neither did Zandock. The "Walk more" is actually a direct awnser and maybe even a small joke :P
So I'm guessing you'll never be able to control the second Pokémon in a double battle nor be able to derive some helpfull information from it when capturing it.
So I'm guessing you'll never be able to control the second Pokémon in a double battle nor be able to derive some helpfull information from it when capturing it.
Alright I'm having trouble with getting the pokemon I want (Ditto, Encounter Slot 6). I know I'm hitting the seed because the Metangs and Clefairies i've been catching have had the IV's I want. Is there some special trick to get the pokemon you want?
I should mention that I've read all the guides multiple times, so if the info is there please link me to it because I must have missed it.
Here's the info:
Why can't I ever get a stinkin' Ditto??
I should mention that I've read all the guides multiple times, so if the info is there please link me to it because I must have missed it.
Here's the info:
MAC address (DS Lite): 001656DE615E
Intended Pokemon: Ditto (Encounter Slot 6) @ Giant Chasm Plains using Fog Elimination trick & Sweet Scent,
IV's: 31/x/31/31/31/31
Nature: any
Shiny: don't care, just want the IV's
Using Method 5, Standard Non-C-Gear Seed
Full Seed: C663D68DA92CBCDC Frame: 1 Keypress: Right
Pokemon obtained: Metang - #375 (Impish)
HP: 31
Atk: 5
Def: 31
SpA: 31
SpD: 31
Spe: 31
Intended Pokemon: Ditto (Encounter Slot 6) @ Giant Chasm Plains using Fog Elimination trick & Sweet Scent,
IV's: 31/x/31/31/31/31
Nature: any
Shiny: don't care, just want the IV's
Using Method 5, Standard Non-C-Gear Seed
Full Seed: C663D68DA92CBCDC Frame: 1 Keypress: Right
Pokemon obtained: Metang - #375 (Impish)
HP: 31
Atk: 5
Def: 31
SpA: 31
SpD: 31
Spe: 31
Why can't I ever get a stinkin' Ditto??
Ah I see, didn't know I had to manipulate PIDRNG to get the encounter slot I want. Thanks for the fast reply.