So you're basically telling me emloop is worthless? Thanks, that's a load off my mind...
No, not at all... I use it all the time. You just have to account for the extra time, usually by calibrating emloop once or twice.
O.K. I have another question. In the DPP RNG Manipulation Guide, it says this:
Taking 128 steps will advance the RNG by a number equal to the number of Pokémon in your party. This step counter is stored when you save your game and does not revert to zero when you soft reset, so it is important that you walk exactly 128 steps. Any more and it is possible that the RNG will advance again and throw off your calculations.
So my question is; how do I know when the step counter resets and I can walk the 128 steps right?
If you're trying to find out where your step counter is up to so that you don't accidenatlly trigger it, you can find your seed (in a place with no random advancements), phone Elm, walk a step, phone Elm, walk a step, etc. until the Elm call jumps from what it should be.
If you're using the method to advance the frame, it doesn't matter where in the counter you are, as doing 128 steps is bound to pass it.
In HG, when using the 128 steps method, I usually count how many steps it takes to run across a room, then run back and forth the right number of times.
Ugh.... this RNGing is starting to make me a little angry.
I know for sure i hit my seed(im playing on HG). My target frame is 89, and the roamers advanced it by 3, so im really doing 86 frame advances. I call elm 10 times to make sure i hit my seed, and all 10 calls matched. Now i do 76 frame advances. I call elm 6 more times, so now i only need 70. I switch to the radio, do 70 radio detunes, talk to ho-oh, with my synchronizer in the front, and no shiny. What gives? Does the radio thing that you drag for detuning absolutely need to be in the middle or what? I've hit my seed maybe 3 times and none of the times worked... what am i doing wrong?
Well, what frame did you hit? Catch the Ho-oh and work out its IVs to see what you did get to get an idea of what could be going wrong.
Also, it might be best to do, say, 60 radio detunes and then go back to Elm calls, so you can see exactly where you are in case you've gone wrong somehow.