mattj
blatant Nintendo fanboy
You are not dumb!Okay I want to breed 6 floorless iv pokemon and this is what I have been doing to calibrate my ds. Checking the seconds and delay time by changing the date of my ds, synchronising the time to my computer, catching a pokemon immediately and then checking its iv's using rare candies... Then I have used find initial seed on the rng reporter and have taken note of the seconds and delay.
Okay first qus-Have I been doing this stage correctly?
Second-Can I tell if I have messed up?
Thirdly-What do I do once I have lots of data recorded of the seconds and delay?
I know these are all dumb questions but I am dumb and I need help! :S
And it looks to me like you're doing it fine, though I hope you're not resetting the date each time because that's unnecessary. Once is enough for calibration. And actually, just for calibration purposes, as long as your watch is accurate, you just need to synchronize it to your DS clock once too. I just synch them once and then go from there and get accurate seconds and delays. When I shut off my DS, I just wait for the next minute to roll around and that's fine.
As long as your seconds and delays are somewhat "consistent" then you haven't messed up. For example my seconds are always 14, and my delays normally range from 620-630 (on Pearl at least). Your seconds might vary by one and your delay might vary by more (say by 20-30), but the point of calibration is to learn to be consistent.
Once you have lots of data on it. Find your average seconds and your average delay. If you consistently hit 14 seconds like I do, then you should SR 14 seconds before your target time. If your delay consistently turns up to be 624 like it does for me, then when you're searching for target times, you should make sure you have a delay of 624 because that's what you'll "probably" hit anyway.
Good luck to you! It's a blast when it all works for the first time!