Well I attempted to capture a Pupitar in Mt. Silver however I couldnt locate the right floor. I hit the seed correctly on every floor yet I kept encountering Quagsire instead of Pupitar. Are the encounter slots for HeartGold wrong?
I caught/killed all my roamers and Sweet Scent advances it by 1 in my game. I was using a HG cart and
this table. I dont know what kind of miscalculation I couldve made. The 1st Sweet Scent landed me on the frame it was supposed to and the Elm Calls matched up. The Quagsire even had the right nature and IVs.
I believe someone else was having issues with Mt.Silver a while back, are you doing this on emulator or cart? The problem we deduced is that he tried to AR a synch in and it didn't work yet it was throwing everything off(don't ask me how).
I'll get my HG out real quick and just check on my own cart. The only other issue I can think of is Mt. Silvers floors aren't really well defined(serebii says pupitar is on floor 4, our chart says floor 3), and at the same time serebii although saying pupitar is in mt silver doesn't listed it on floor 4(or its %, not that that matters.).
So Ill test on my own DS and get back to you.
EDIT: Went to both floors(4th floor didnt seem to have a problem) but the third floor kept giving me Quagsire's like you said, I'm about to test each individual slot and see if its just a mistake or if it isn't even on that floor.
Reading back several users say the Encounter Slots are wrong for Mt. Silver and suggest catching a Larvitar, so you could always go that route(I'm still gonna test the encounter slots and see if I can get one to pop up).