thanks musicmeister. new stupid question. when it says immediately after turning on c-gear, that means after leaving that enabling screen and IMMEDIATELY pressing A right? Or do I have to wait for the C-Gear to load or something?
edit: does the game displaying the season affect anything? i.e. advance by any amount?
You don't have to wait for the C-Gear to load. As soon as you hit the confirm button, which is "yes", that would already determine your delay. The game displaying the season doesn't affect anything.
Here's what you can do to calibrate your delay for now. Save in an area with no NPCs (this is to make sure that you start at frame three). An ideal place is infront of a stationary legend so you'd start at frame three. Take note of the time you soft reset/hard boot your game. Hit continue but don't activate the C-Gear just yet when it asks you to. Now you're in the game, activate C-Gear as soon as possible. Press "yes" to confirm. Take note of the time you pressed "yes" to activate the C-Gear. Encounter a monster then check it's IVs.
Use the
time finder option from RNG Reporter. Here are the steps:
1) Input the year, under max frame put 3, under minimum/maximum delays put 1,000 and 2,000 respectively.
2) Choose method 5 and input the IVs of the monster you caught.
3) Input the last half of your MAC Address.
4) Click on generate and wait for a result. As soon as you see one result from the progress bar, click cancel.
5) Right click on the result and choose generate more times. That's your delay.
I hope this helps. :)