I'm RNG catching a beldum and having trouble with frames.
I want frame 132, seed is 12130fb2 (I have an addy sync)
I verify my seed by catching a pokemon with my sync in second slot (correct me if I'm wrong, but the seed finder assumes you don't have a sync) and when I verify it the pokemon I catch is a beldum on the method 1 frame of 88.
The sparkly patch is 2 turn+steps away, and only 3 patches shake (when i tried a second time I looked closely at the patch above me, I'm sure it didn't shake.)
Therefore, my advancements should be:
132-88-4-8-6=26, so 13 journal flips.
The problem is, the beldum I end up catching is on many method J frames, so I don't know where I messed up. It's adamant 9/28/4/1/20/21
The closest frames for this are: 119, 123, 131, 133.
So there's only one thing that occurred to me as a possibility - how many random NPCs are there on route 228? I only stopped one who is at the northernmost point of the route, right by the exit to the next route, are there any others, or did something else mess me up?