Most Generation PRNG Help / Information

It's SID should correspond to its OT. It won't match your game, if I'm correct.
I just found out that if the pokemon's ID starts with a zero, like Draco Meteor Jirachi's does (06260) the legality check program will ignore the first zero and list the ID no. as 6260 and will not match the secret id. Or maybe it was my pokesave that suppressed the first zero.
 
That should is what is causing me grief right now...
What I mean is Trainer ID and SID are included in the .pkm file to indicate where it originated. A pokemon from Emerald has that Emerald's ID and SID. One form Soul Silver has that SS game's ID/SID. Event Pokemon have Gamestop or TRU's ID/SID, or whatever. Every Jirachi should has the same ID/SID attached to it, independent of the game it's in. I haven't gotten my Jirachi from Wi-Fi yet, but I got the Gamestop ones. I can figure this out deeper if you need me to. But, VGC shiny Eevee has 05080 as their ID and 49497 as their SID. This is invariable. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but this has always been my experience.
 
Question about feebas, since it's encouter rate is random, let's say I use encouter slot 1 for fishing. Just because I don't see it the first time, is their a chance I could see it the next time?
Still need an answer on that. Also I seem to be fishing in a spot in which I get Feebas all the time which made me think, things would be easy, and so I have a frame of 300, subtract 4, do 148 journal flips, and fish, and I got a Feebas, but it wasn't the one I wanted. I don't even seem to be over or under my frame as its ivs didn't show up on the reporter. Can that happen with Feebas? I don't think it matters, but just to mention, my target time is 3:52 and when I'm done, it's like 4:04
 
Still need an answer on that. Also I seem to be fishing in a spot in which I get Feebas all the time which made me think, things would be easy, and so I have a frame of 300, subtract 4, do 148 journal flips, and fish, and I got a Feebas, but it wasn't the one I wanted. I don't even seem to be over or under my frame as its ivs didn't show up on the reporter. Can that happen with Feebas? I don't think it matters, but just to mention, my target time is 3:52 and when I'm done, it's like 4:04
Which game are you doing this in? A game where Feebas only appears in like 6 places worldwide, but it always appears?
 
Platinum. I've fished like 5 times so far, and I've gotten Feebas, 4 times for fun, and 1 time when I hit my seed and did my journal flips. Maybe I've been getting lucky I don't know. Still, my results wrong
 
Platinum. I've fished like 5 times so far, and I've gotten Feebas, 4 times for fun, and 1 time when I hit my seed and did my journal flips. Maybe I've been getting lucky I don't know. Still, my results wrong
Have you caught each of these Feebas and looked at them? This is at serebii's Platinum -> Feebas factor page: ' However instead of 6 tiles that you can change at will, Feebas' tiles in the Mt. Coronet Range Water area is limited to 4 tiles that are changed every day. This is definitely a problem as if you are looking for a certain natured Feebas, you will have to keep looking every day.' I don't know exactly how it handles Feebas' appearance, but I would guess that it uses an RNG call or something to determine it's locations, and that could increase your frame unknowingly. As far as I know it's still generated with the same method as everything else wild, but it may not. Sorry, but I don't think I can help any further. I haven't tried fishing for RNG yet. I'll see what I can figure out. You might just be better off RNG'ing Feebas eggs.
 
I'm afraid I'm a little lost on what you're saying. Are you trying to tell me that Feebas is somehow messing with my frame, and if so, I'm not really sure how it's doing this.
 
I just found out that if the pokemon's ID starts with a zero, like Draco Meteor Jirachi's does (06260) the legality check program will ignore the first zero and list the ID no. as 6260 and will not match the secret id. Or maybe it was my pokesave that suppressed the first zero.
The first zero is insignificant in mathematical terms. If you ever see an ID/SID that's only 4 digits, then the first digit is a zero. It has no bearing on calculations. I just checked both Gamestop Jirachi I have. One obtained in Pearl, the other in Platinum. They both have OT = 02270 and SID = 54369. That, to me, proves that event Pokemon have static SIDs that correspond to Gamestop or TRU or whatever. They are not related to your game. Especially since these Jirachi are dynamic PIDs with static SIDs. Also, be careful with legailty checker, it's getting old and doesn't incorporate a lot of new things like VGC Eevee yet.

I'm afraid I'm a little lost on what you're saying. Are you trying to tell me that Feebas is somehow messing with my frame, and if so, I'm not really sure how it's doing this.
I don't know either. It's just a thought. I don't know if Feebas follows the same methods as everything else or not. There has to be something that governs its appearance in certain locations. I just don't know any more than that. I will try to figure out more, but until then I hope someone else can help you better than I. GL.
 
The first zero is insignificant in mathematical terms. If you ever see an ID/SID that's only 4 digits, then the first digit is a zero. It has no bearing on calculations. I just checked both Gamestop Jirachi I have. One obtained in Pearl, the other in Platinum. They both have OT = 02270 and SID = 54369. That, to me, proves that event Pokemon have static SIDs that correspond to Gamestop or TRU or whatever. They are not related to your game. Especially since these Jirachi are dynamic PIDs with static SIDs. Also, be careful with legailty checker, it's getting old and doesn't incorporate a lot of new things like VGC Eevee yet.
Does it incorporate the the draco meteor jirachi being distributed now?
 
I don't know either. It's just a thought. I don't know if Feebas follows the same methods as everything else or not. There has to be something that governs its appearance in certain locations. I just don't know any more than that. I will try to figure out more, but until then I hope someone else can help you better than I. GL.
Ok, because the closest thing I could have come to was a frame of 286, when my actual frame is 300. I don't understand how Feebas could have messed me up by 14 frames.
 
Ok, because the closest thing I could have come to was a frame of 286, when my actual frame is 300. I don't understand how Feebas could have messed me up by 14 frames.
It's been my experience that everything screws up your frames, moving NPCs, moving yourself, and if I didn't know better, I'd say a car driving by your house would advance your frame. My advice is to try and find someone who can use a debug tool and check the Feebas frame for you. Other than that, I have no idea what could be going wrong for you.
 
Um ok. Well if anyone would like to help with this debugging, or know something else, that would be greatly appreciated. It's a shiny spread, just to let you know.
 
Um ok. Well if anyone would like to help with this debugging, or know something else, that would be greatly appreciated. It's a shiny spread, just to let you know.
Legends aside, I never RNGed for wild pokemon. I say breed it.
 
Sorry that doesn't really help my case. Anyway, it is possible to RNG for Feebas, so I will wait patiently until someone can address my problem.
 
Ok, because the closest thing I could have come to was a frame of 286, when my actual frame is 300. I don't understand how Feebas could have messed me up by 14 frames.
There is one thing you can do that might help: if you're checking its IVs anyway, then you can enter them into Seed Finder like you were checking your seed that way, except with the "Show Monster" box at the bottom checked (and with DPPt selected over Open, naturally). That should give you both the seed you landed in case you had a false positive (it can happen, I hear) and the frame it was on. From there, adjust your frame advancements to match how far off you were and try again. If it doesn't work, make sure you're running the right seed/time, right IVs, etc.
 
I found out what is going on, but I keep having problems:

299
301
302

These are the frames that are around 300. When subtracted 4 and did 148 journal flips, I hit 301, I even tried to subtract 3 and do 148 journal flips, but then I landed on 302. I then tried to hit 299 thinking I would hit 300, in which I did a turn and 147 journal flips. For some reason that stayed on 299. Is there some journal/flip combo I'm not doing right to land on 300? Anyone?

Apparently this has happened before:

guys i have a problem.

im at the feebas lake atm to try capture a feebas.

frame 455 is what i had to reach.

so i did 455-4 = 451.

so i did one step in the lake and 225 journal flips.

i didnt get what i wanted, checked the pokemon and had hit 456

so i thought leaving the step away, would give me the correct frame (no i have no roamers)

anyway i tried it now and got frame 454, no nibble

how much did i advance the rng right now? by using the rod with no nibble

as i might be able to reach frame 463 if the "no nibble" didnt advance me too much...
I guess (this means not 100% sure but most likely) it advances the frame by 3. But I'll check that right now (if you don't mind waiting 2 mins for a more accurate answer).
Also, I'd like to figure out what happened to your frame before... Did you step the way you were turned to? Because if you didn't, that advances the frame by 2.

EDIT: Ok, I just checked on my Platinum and I was wrong. The "Not even a nibble..." message only advances the frame by 1.
:EDIT:

I'm going to try just 147 journal flips and see what happens

NVM once again I hit 299. Can anyone figure out what's going on?
 
Sorry, if this has been asked before but what method are the platinum starters generated with? My search function isn't working it's saying overload on line 15 or something.
 
Sorry, if this has been asked before but what method are the platinum starters generated with? My search function isn't working it's saying overload on line 15 or something.
I don't see any reason why Platinum would be any different than HGSS, in which it's Method 1. The starting frames for Turtwig, Chimchar and Piplup, I don't know.

Methods of Generation:

All roamers (Raikou, Entei, and the Latis), as well as gift Pokemon (all of the starters, Eevee, Togepi, the Arceus event that gives you Dialga\Palkia\Giratina, Game Corner Pokemon, etc.) are Method 1.
Everything else uses Method K.

Suicune is NOT a roamer.

Starting frames:

If a Pokemon is NOT listed here, assume it has a starting frame of 1.

Raikou: 1
Entei: 6 (unless Raikou has been caught, then it's 1)
Note: It has been reported that in European versions Entei is 1 and Raikou is 6.

Chikorita: 1
Cyndaquil: 5
Totodile: 9
 
I don't see any reason why Platinum would be any different than HGSS, in which it's Method 1. The starting frames for Turtwig, Chimchar and Piplup, I don't know.

Thanks for the help. I suppose it won't hurt if my starter isn't flawless. Although the thought of playing through the game with a flawless starter was entertaining lol.
 
I'm using rng reporter and I just figured out how to hatch shinies, which is great and all, but can I also control the ivs AND make it shiny? How do I do this?
 
Doing my first HGSS abuse on a Groudon, and the Elm Response pattern RNG reporter gives for my target seed is

E, P, E, E, K, E, K, K, E, E.

However, when I'm resetting, sometimes I get the responses E, then E. So I catch the Groudon to check my seed, and Seed Finder says I hit my target seed (50 seconds, 1305 delay). So I select the seed to make sure it's the same as my target, and my target frame is generated.

In other words, RNG Reporter is somehow telling me the wrong Elm Call sequence. Any idea as to what's causing this?
 
You might have roamers out therefore some frames (2 in this case) skipped therefore 2 calls skipped and your starting frame is 3.
(if the roamers aren't causing this then you've done 2 advancements I don't know how before calling Elm)

In a general way, if this case reproduces and you see "E, E" and "E, E" is in your sequence just continue to check if you might have been on the right seed but with some unwanted prior frame advancements.
 
You might have roamers out therefore some frames (2 in this case) skipped therefore 2 calls skipped and your starting frame is 3.
(if the roamers aren't causing this then you've done 2 advancements I don't know how before calling Elm)

In a general way, if this case reproduces and you see "E, E" and "E, E" is in your sequence just continue to check if you might have been on the right seed but with some unwanted prior frame advancements.
That's what I'm going to resort to for now, but I shouldn't have to do this all the time. :\ I shouldn't have to catch Method K pokemon like Wondercards... >_<

And no, it's not frame 3, it's frame 1, so that can't be it. :\ I'm pretty sure I have no roamers out anyway.
 

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