This is an RNG I’ve put off for years over being disinterested on Ageto Celebi being shiny locked. However, considering Bank’s inevitable shutdown, and that I also paid pretty good money for JPN Colo + The JPN Bonus Disc, I figured it was now or never for being able to transfer up a flawless Ribbon Master Celebi from gen 3 all the way to gen 9+.

Although this RNG can perfectly be summarized as “tedium incarnum” in that it took hours to accomplish, I’m very glad I succeeded on my first try.

My next, and possibly my second to last Gen 3 hunt on original hardware will be a nearly flawless, shiny xD starter Eevee on Pal - so stay tuned for that.

I heard that you can now transfer your pokemon from FR/LG to home, and I also heard that Steelix is good in Champions 😁 Shiny Larvitar, coming right up!

Trying to plan out a shiny feebas and pokefinder is showing me different frames for static vs. wild encounters despite the same TID/SID and I’m a little confused

Does me closing my game while hunting Celebi in Virtual Console reset my RNG seed back to square one? I want to close out and take a break but don’t want to be at square one seed wise.

Finally got around to RNG-ing a shiny Rayquaza in Emerald! Its stats and IV'S are nothing special, i just wanted it to be shiny. Super hyped right now, so i'm gonna go for Deoxys and other legendaries and stuff now!! 😁😁

I have Pokereader installed on CFW 3ds and have done pretty well with static and wild shiny hunts using 3dsRNG but I can't figure out the actual timing needed for fishing. Do I just cast with suction cups on the target frame and that's it? Or is a multi-part frame search for the '!'?

After 4 weeks trying to get the SID and working with my timing it finally paid off.

Got Dialga today first try too. The hardest part was capture Arceus on a Premier Ball (I always capture my legendaries with it), couldn’t use the Haverst/trick/leppa berry with him, but got lucky and before the last struggle kill him, he stays in the ball. Think I’m done with BDSP for now. Thanks again Papa Jefé.

Ive been trying to find my SID for my original Heartgold save, but for whatever reason its not giving me the SID after having the three lotto numbers

On my Windows PC, Im trying to use [the Wishmaker Jirachi RNG tool](https://www.pokemonrng.com/emulator-rs-wishmaker/). I downloaded the latest dev build for mGBA, I downloaded the proper lua script from PokeLUA (the RS checksum lua script), and I put in my save file's path into the lua script using notepad (including the \\ at the proper locations in the file's path), but every time I try to run the lua script, I get an error saying no file or directory was found.

Im at a loss for what I am doing wrong, and I have a strong suspicion that it is something super simple that Im just missing. Any advice on how to fix this?

This took a while but finally got it down on the timing and pressing A time to get the other two 💪

Hello! I’m starting a forever save file for Pokémon Black and Black 2, and I want to learn how to RNG manip in Gen 5.
I’ve done RNG manipulations in the Gen 4 games before, and since I’m on a MacBook, I’ve been using PokeFinder and EonTimer/MysticTimer. However, most of the Gen 5 tutorials I’ve watched use RNG Reporter.
Is there a Mac-compatible version of RNG Reporter, or an alternative that works well on macOS? I’d appreciate any advice or recommendations for getting started with Gen 5 RNG manipulation on a Mac.

Thank you!

Hello redditors!

I decided given the imminent Pokemon Bank shutdown to do a challenge I’ve been putting off for some time. 

I call it the Samson Oak Challenge (since one can argue Samson is just a shiny version of Samuel Oak). Basically it’s the Professor Oak challenge but I did it with shinies. 

I used CFW for the 3ds along with 3DSRNGTool and tutorials from CappyCapital

I spent a week trying to hit this with a regular switch 1 control and when I finally hit it it’s not shiny like fr sheeesh I did the ace glitch to get my Sid idk what went wrong 😑

I’m hoping someone can help me with this cause I’m honestly at a loss. I’ve been trying to follow this guide for 5 hours now and it’s just not working correctly for me, I usually struggle to find a seed and then when I do, whatever poipole I end up getting just doesn’t exist period in my seed and doesn’t show up when I try to search for it so I can adjust my times. I’ve quadruple checked I had all my information put in right and it looks exactly the same as his does (obviously with my TSV though) and yet I haven’t gotten consistent results at all. I’ve never struggled this much before with rng manipulation and I just can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong.

Found in a swarm on route 15

I’ve been putting this off for a few months RNGing in Gen 6 and managed to get all of these over the course of about 3 days. It’s been about 8 months since I’ve done a Gen 4 RNG so I was very proud to have had a string of about 8 in a row successful first try. I forgot how much more rewarding and enjoyable Gen 4 RNG is compared to CFW RNG on a 3DS. Picture is of my 3DS but the manipulations were done on a DS fat.

Just learned how to rng manipulate using blissey's video. I was able to successfully manipulate a shiny cresselia. Now I'm trying to hunt darkrai but it won't shine. I've hit the frame 3 times now on the first two I used chatot to advance the frames to one before then talked to him. The 3rd time I decided to change my seed to one that only had 1 advance so I wouldn't have to use chatot but still nothing. Any advice on what I could be doing wrong?

Hey guys, I am encountering an issue in Soul Silver on my 2ds XL where I do everything right on the RNG Manip end, getting the correct trainer ID and following the correct steps for the shiny starters, and for some reason the starters still do not shiny. This has happened twice now and I don't know if this is somethign that I am doing wrong or if the Im a blissy tutorial for HGSS shiny starters just does not work on the 2ds XL. Would love some help, thanks.

I've sent a Caterpie up from LG (Switch Version) and I was wondering if I sent it to someone, someone could help me figure out my SID?

I was trying with a frame 1 (advance 0) shiny shaymin and dialga but the game advance 1 frame instead and I got the next pokemon in frame 2, Is a glitch or something like that, cuz when I try with chatot I was in the frame (advance) correct before the pokemon shiny. Is in pokemon platinum.

Hi everyone!

With Bank closing, I wanted to get a shiny Celebi with my own OT while I still could.

I tried PokeReader, but just couldn't get a shiny. I followed the steps, reached the target advance and still kept missing. After a lot of attempts, I decided to try making something for this encounter.

It's based on PokeReader's algorithm. I put the calculation and search into the tool and kept the encounter's timing conditions fixed (before each search, it sets up the game’s clock and a few timers the same way). This cuts down on timing variation and makes it easier to hit the predicted target (it won't change the DVs to make it shiny). That finally worked for me.

The target shows up in game. You pause, advance and press A yourself. If you miss, it finds another target.

I've only tested it on my New 3DS so far. If you're interested in trying it, could you let me know how it works on your 3DS? I'd appreciate any feedback or suggestions.

GitHub link:

https://github.com/Kou1236/CelebiHunter

Update:

v1.3.0 seems to be working on other people’s New 3DS now! If you run into any more bugs, please let me know :)

v1.4.0 is out! I’ve fixed a few bugs to make things run more smoothly. If the target jumps too far ahead, you can now use Restart in the bottom-screen VC menu to start over. If you run into any more bugs, please let me know :)

Looks like my replies keep getting removed :( so I’ll leave this here:

• If RNG won’t work, could you try the test ZIP in GitHub issue #1 and post a photo of the whole startup message in a new issue? Thanks for trying it :)
• If you’re missing the 0004000000172800 folder, you can just make it yourself inside luma/plugins :) It’s the folder for English Crystal VC. You can also put the plugin directly in luma/plugins and rename it to default.3gx to use it as the global default.

I’ll keep improving it and fixing any issues that come up. If you find it helpful, a star on GitHub would mean a lot :)

Ive been doing this for about a week with the shiny starters I know my SID cause I did the ACE glitch to get it but my targets I actually hit are way too inconsistent I’ve hit my seed but not my frames I’ve hit my frames but not my seed I’m just using a regular switch control do I really need to buy a Macro control and have it press A for me 500
Over world frames and 574 instead of 600 worked best for me and got me the closest after marking down what seed and frames I was hitting consistently I switched my target seed to around those and I’m close but I’ve done 200-300 attempts and it’s just really inconsistent any advice or should I get the Macro if so which one thanks 🙏

hi friends

i recently learned about gen 7 RNG manips through some youtube videos, and it is my understanding that the '7genBlinkSearch' tool is only available as a compiled exe in Japanese.

I wasn't able to find this tool on GitHub, is there any source code available for it? I would be interested in uploading it to GitHub and adding additional language support. Of course I could just follow along in Japanese with a guide, but it would be a fun project for me and give me a chance to contribute back

tia :)