At a technical level, C-Gear frames do start on the third advancement of the IV RNG, but the decision was made treat that as frame 1. Early on (probably the time of some of the posts you read) it was still being treated as frame 3. So, if you start the game and sweet scent immediately, the IVs you find should be one frame 1.
Thanks, that's very good to know.
I downloaded the latest version before giving this another shot. To expedite things, I aimed for a min/max frame of 1, and a simple Special Flawless spread. I chose the following seed:
0BFD8D25
Delay:
7569
Date:
2011/06/27
Time:
11:55:50
Frame:
1
IVs:
31 / 13 / 31 / 31 / 31 / 31
I prepared ZomgTimer with the following settings:
Calibration:
-95 (to start)
Target Delay:
7569
Target Second:
49 (safety net to make sure I don't miss the seed)
Its output was as follows:
First Timer:
41:26
Second Timer:
127.733
Minutes Before Target:
2
I started the timer and changed the DSi clock to
11:53 simultaneously, then turned the DSi off, then back on, and loaded up the game as soon as the first timer ended. Making sure to avoid activating the C-Gear upon selecting Continue, I waited until the second timer ended to hit "Yes" on the C-Gear in-game power up prompt. With that done, I caught a Lv. 41 Woobat with the following IV range:
5 - 7 / 6 - 7 / 17 - 18 / 23 / 7 - 9 / 22 - 23
I used RCs to level it up to 51, then checked again:
5 / 6 / 18 / 23 / 9 / 22
I entered these as the min/max IVs in the Seed Searcher, along with a min/max frame of 1, and got the following seed as the only result:
0AFD8D1E
I checked this seed in the Seed Inspector, and found the IVs:
IVs:
5 / 6 / 18 / 23 / 9 / 22
Delay:
7562
Date:
2011/06/27
Time:
11:54:50
Once again, the delay was hit almost exactly, but the time is one minute earlier. I'm fairly certain I didn't made any mistakes this time. Why do you think there's a one-minute time discrepancy?
EDIT: I'm sorry for taking up so much of your time, but I just wanted to let you know that I defiantly set the clock to
1 minute before the target instead of
2, and found the following seed:
0BFD8D1F
IVs:
7 / 5 / 23 / 5 / 19 / 3
Delay:
7563
Date:
2011/06/27
Time:
11:55:50
This time I finally got the time just right. I think the reason ZomgTimer overestimated the minutes before target might have been because of my target second choice. What do you think?
Hopefully I'll be able to get this sorted now. Wish me luck.