Happy new year!
Just wondering if anyone can help with shiny breeding in HGSS. I'm going by the last couple of posts from OmegaDonut, and a bit of initiative. Although I'm fresh out of initiative. Great.
I'll just post everything i can remember that I did and let you pick holes and hopefully answer some questions.
It's a new game, so I need to do my calibration:
Calibration (secs-delay)
11-501
11-495
11-497
11-493
11-491
11-487
11-485
11-487
Using Shinyfinder, entered the date (1/1/2010), average secs-delay, ID/SID, Gender Ratio, Nature - Generate. Locate a spread which has -1 Taps and a low number of Flips.
Time: 12:41:11
Delay: 493
Nature: Adamant
Ability: 0
Gender: M
Taps: -1
Flips: 2
Next, I put 5 pokemon in my party (including the parents, holding no items), and head to Mt. Silver where I save just inside. This is where I will check my delay with a couple of rare candies.
Save, synch DS, restart and enter the game, catch a pokemon and check seed. Rinse/repeat until I hit a delay of 493. Now I have 6 in my party, I fly to Goldenrod and head down to the daycare. I enter the parents:
Venusaur - Adamant - M
Ditto - Timid - N/A
Now, one parent is Japanese (Venusaur) and one is English (Ditto). Is this an issue?
Shinyfinder says -1 flips, 2 taps so I need to hatch/reject 11 eggs before the 12th one should be shiny? I've tried this twice so far, and both times I have received a Rash non-shiny Bulbasaur instead :S
Can you use RNG reporter to bring up the IVs for HGSS breeds? What specific method should I use? Would I just have to use Dppt Breeding? or Dppt International?
EDIT:
Ok, I need to use DPPt International. After hitting my delay again, and putting my ID/SID into RNG reporter (I was still using my Plat one before, which is why nothing made sense), I found the shiny egg on frame 13...which would mean I need to pick up the 13th one instead of the 10 + flips (2) thing.. Anyway, I made a note of each nature I hatched and got to #9 with all of them matching. So from here I decided to reject the next 3, and then save before #13. I did this, received the egg and hatched it... Naive.. the next Naive egg is on frame 15. Quite frustrated right now because I thought I'd nailed it.... anyway gotta go hopefully OD will post here soon!