Two things that you'll need to check with your math. 1) Do you have any roaming pokemon out? Each one out advances the frame by one. 2) Are you taking a step, or turning? If you're walking, there's a chance that you are going over the 128 steps, advancing the frame by the number of pokemon in your party. 3) Are you hitting the delay as well as the time?I'm having A LOT of trouble advancing to the target frame (for wild RNG abuse) I can hit the target time nearly every attempt. I can't figure out how to find the frame a pokemon was caught in with RNG Reporter either (so I don't know whether I'm advancing too much or too little)
I've read what advances the frame no less than 100 times, and I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. There are no NPCs in the area I'm at, either =/
78 journal flips + 2 steps in grass + sweet scent should put the pokémon encounter at frame 160, right? o.o
As for finding out what frame you are hitting, use the Seed Finder and insert the information needed to determine your seed. Click okay, and it will bring you back to the main page for the RNG Reporter. Change Method to J, and select your synchronizer nature if you're using one. If not, leave it at none. Then set some of the IVs of the pokemon you caught into the boxes to the left. Put in atleast 3 of them, and select the nature of the caught pokemon and click genearte. Then find the spread you hit, and see what frame to hit.
Sorry about the long wall of text.