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1. The program to search for seeds and generate resulting lists of pokemon from them.

If you are using a PC ------ RNG Reporter 9.81
If you are using a mac ------ PPRNG

2. A DS or DS lite. If you are using PPRNG a DSi or DSxL might work, but if you are using RNG Reporter it almost certainly will not.

3. A legit copy of Pokemon Black or White. If you are playing on a rom, you more than likely aren't going to be able to RNG from it.

How to find your DS mac address

If your DS is set to manual load, click a to play Pokemon Black or White. If your DS is set to autoplay, ignore the last sentence. When you reach the title screen(with Zekrom or Reshiram and the big Pokemon banner) click one more screen ahead. Now, instead of continuing your game from its save file, scroll down the list of options to the Nintendo WFC Settings(right below game sync settings). Click it. There should be an orange tab on the side that says "Options". Click it. The top red/pink button will give you your system information, including the mac address you need, so click it. Record your DS mac address somewhere.

Now open your RNG reporter or PPRNG program and click on settings. Select the correct information about what system and game cartridge you're using, language, and fill in your TID, SID and mac address. There should be 3-6 other boxes that you can't fill in yet(Timer0, VCount, and VFrame) Save and exit your settings.

Repeat everything you just did in the initial calibration step again at least 3 more times(the more you do, the more accurate your RNG-ing will be later), making sure to record any values you are getting for your Timer0, VCount and VFrame.

Now look over the Timer0 values and find the value with the earliest alphabetic letter, and the one with the latest, circle them for easy reference. Look at the VCount values and find the lowest and highest numeric values, and circle them as well. Do the same for VFrame.

Exit your DS Parameters Finder/Searcher and click on the settings for RNG Reporter or PPRNG.

Fill in the information you've gathered in the appropriate boxes(the three we left blank earlier), writing down your Timer0 range, VCount and VFrame values(lowest on top, highest on bottom for all). Save and exit your settings.

Obtaining a near-flawless/flawless IV spread pokemon

Open up your RNG reporter or PPRNG program and click standard seed search. Fill in the information for the pokemon you want to obtain, making sure to set the IV range to 1 out of 1 instead of 50. Don't mess with the shiny option or nature or ability(yet), right now we're just RNGing for IVs. Once you're confidant you can do that repeatedly, we'll RNG for those things in the next post. Under the section asking one or two keys, leave as many checked as you feel comfortable holding down for a few seconds. I will explain this later.

Change the date parameters to a wide range(several months to a year apart). This is so you have a large enough period to search that your program will be able to find a matching seed for the IVs you want.

Click search and let the program run. This can take anywhere from 30 minutes to hours depending on how large the window of time and how fast your computer is. Leave it alone until a few seeds start showing up.

Double click on a seed that you like (this will show you the exact IV spread for each beside the Timer0 and other values). This should open a new window in PPRNG (I don't know what it does in RNG Reporter, sorry), with the information at the top about the date of the seed, 3 tabs in the middle (Frames, Adjacent and Eggs), and two empty spreadsheets at the bottom. To ensure that the seed is not an error(it does happen sometimes), look to the top right corner and click "calculate" right under the seed date information. This will recalculate the seed value, and if it is a true seed this value will remain the same. If it doesn't, select another seed and try it there.

Now look at the two lower sections. Make sure you're on the frames tab, and click "Generate" for both sections. A chart of information should pop up in both spreadsheets. The left spreadsheet is your PID spreads(in order) and the right chart is your IV spreads(in order). So if you catch the first pokemon you encounter without moving your character using sweet scent, its IVs should be the same as those listed on the right(unless your DS switches its Timer0 value or you mess up).

Turn on your DS, enter your game and put in your party someone with sweet scent and an empty slot in your party. Go to an area with wild pokemon and face your character downward and save while in the cave or grass. You face the character downward just in case you are following along with someone else's guide who uses saves to advance the PID frame(much slower) for the next section, you won't be using PID in this post. Once you are done saving, turn off your DS.

Reset your DS, making sure that you are in manual start rather than autoplay. If you are in autoplay again, pop out your cartridge and set your DS to manual start. Go to your DS settings and change the time and date to exactly those listed on your seed. If the seconds value is low (10 or below) set it to a minute before the seed.

Now, we are going to hit this seed by resetting our DS one more time, and clicking to play the game one second before the second hand on the clock hits our seed time. Make sure its one second BEFORE the seed time or your seed will not work. If you correctly hit your seed, you should see the seconds hand advance that final frame to the target second after you've already pushed play.

If you chose one or two keys with your seed, hold down those buttons now until after the white Nintendo screen has faded. Click continue to play your game but make sure C-Gear is OFF. C-gear will mess up your PID initial frame, so from now onward just leave it off every time you load your game.

Go to your menu as soon as you're in the game(as quickly as you can) and use sweet scent. Capture the pokemon you encounter, even if it wasn't the species you were after(we'll learn how to do that in the next post). Take it to the IV judge in nimbasa or plug in its stats into an IV calculator (which can be found through google).

If the pokemon's IVs are identical to those you were after, congratulations! You hit your first seed.

If the pokemon's IVs weren't quite right, double check that you did everything correctly listed above. If so, click into the adjacent's tab and change the range to 50 with a differential of 15. Generate this spreadsheet and organize it by nature. Find the pokemon with the nature you caught, and then find its matching characteristic and IVs. Look to the left to see whether or not you hit the right seed time(even being off by one second will mess you up) and whether or not you landed on the right Timer0 for the seed. If you're a second late, you didn't click your seed a second early like you were suppose to. If you're a second early, go back to the start screen and practice clicking specific times until you can see the second hand move to the next second after you've clicked A to play.

Another way to check is to change the Timer0 value at the top of your seed to your alternate(everyone has at least two) and click calculate. Click generate on the right spreadsheet under the frames tab again. If the top IV spread is the one you got, then your game switched Timer0's. THIS CANNOT BE CONTROLLED. Your best bet is to figure out which seed your game hits more frequently of the two and then select an appropriate seed to use, or just repeatedly try for the same seed until it switches again. It will eventually switch again but you may have to try in the upwards of 30 times before it does.

My best advice if you didn't get the IV spread you were after is to try again and again until you do, checking the adjacent tab meanwhile to see where exactly you went wrong each time you miss it.

Much as we did when we first calibrated your DS and game cartridge, we are now going to set our game to exact date and time for the seed we decided upon in the previous post. Find a seed with the initial frame of 1 and an IV spread you like, or search for a seed that has a shiny PID frame of under 100. Now open up the spread, and look down the list for an ESV section that corresponds to the appropriate slot number/s for the pokemon species you want(If you're RNGing for a shiny, you may only have 2 or 3 options available per seed). If it says Y under the sync column, bring along a synchronize pokemon with the nature you're after as well(these need to be on the top of your party to be effective). Hopefully this pokemon has a low PID number (preferably under 100 since most initial PIDs are around 50).

Look to the left of the row, and memorize the number it is listed as. So if the pokemon you want is on the 86th row, memorize 86.

Set up your game as if you were going to RNG for a flawless or near flawless IV spread just like last time, making sure to stay either in lostlorn forest or victory road, where the initial PID frames are "quieter" than other areas.

We are now going to hit the seed a few times over to find out our initial PID frame.

Just as before, change your DS clock to the appropriate time, leaving one open space in your party and a sweet scent-er. Hit the seed and immediately sweet scent as soon as you get into the game(this is a more important habit later when you try PID RNGing in other areas with more randomly spinning NPCs). Catch the first thing you battle, in a masterball if you have one.

Okay so from the pokemon you just captured, we are now going to determine our initial PID frame. It will be easier to determine your initial PID frame before you put any synchronize pokemon at the top of your party, so save without the synchronizer on top unless you're feeling daring. Make sure you have a chatter chatot in your party as well.

First, what species is it, and what level? This will narrow down your options to only pokemon that fall into the appropriate ESV column. So if you caught something that only appears in slot 3, look for a 3 under the ESV column around level 40-60. Now look at the nature and gender of the pokemon. If you synchronized it, for this part look in the synchronize column to see if there is a Y underneath it. If you caught a female and the gender column says M/M/M/M, keep looking. If its divided 50/50 like M/M/F/F, that could be the pokemon you caught. Finally, look at the characteristic and IV spread(using an IV calc or the IV judge to determine its IV spread) on the adjacent tab. Organize by nature if you didn't synchronize, and organize by characteristic if you did.

If you hit the wrong Timer0, wrong seed, or the pokemon you caught doesn't match anything, just reset your game and retry, this time being sure to hold down the appropriate buttons and hit the seed at the right time.

The pokemon you caught has a number to the left of its row as well as the one you're after. Memorize this number as well(it is likely between 40 and 60).

So if you got an initial PID frame of 48, and your target is 86, your new magic number is 38. How did we get 38? Well if you start your game, hit your seed, and capture the first thing you see with sweet scent, its going to land on your initial PID frame(in this example, 48 ) or very near that over and over. Initial PID frames can and will shift depending on how "noisy" an area is, but since we're using lostlorn forest or victory road it shouldn't shift by more than 2 PID frames. But the pokemon you want is still on frame 86(again, in this example only). So what to do? Subtract 48 from 86 of course. That is how many times you will flipping to the summary page of your chatot to advance your PID frames.

Set up your game with your synchronizer on top(if you're using one). Resave your game(making sure you still have any open slot in your party and didn't save after using your masterball).

Hit your seed, but this time when you get into the game, instead of sweet scenting immediately, click on chatot's summary page(making sure you have a chatter recorded that isn't the default). Flip between chatot and any other pokemon in your party using the up or down buttons, counting the number of times you see chatot's summary page. When you've reached your magic number(in my example, 38 ), use sweet scent. Capture the first pokemon you see, and if it is the right species and ESV/shininess, catch it as though for real. If it isn't just use a masterball.

Doublecheck that the pokemon you caught is the right one. If it clearly isn't(wrong species etc), use the same method listed above to determine which PID frame you DID land on, and adjust your magic number if appropriate. If you don't see the pokemon you caught anywhere on the PID spread, go the adjacent tabs and set it to search in the range of the PID frame target (in my example I'd set it to 80 with a discrepency of 10).

Using the egg see searcher, find a seed for the appropriate IV, nature and ability pokemon you're after. Make sure you mark down the IVs of the parents correctly. Do not use power items on either parent, although using an everstone or a ditto can be marked and adjusted from within the program. If you are using an international parent, mark that down as well.

Put the two pokemon parents you used in the search in the daycare. Bike around outside the daycare until the old man calls you over. Instead of picking up the egg, save your game directly in front of him with a chatot in your party and an empty slot as well. For convenience and speed, bring a pokemon who has the flame body ability as well.

Turn off your game. Reset your game's date and time to that of the seed, and then reset your DS. At the exact second before your seed, enter your game while holding down any required hold buttons(much like wild or PID RNG).

Pick up the egg from the daycare man and hatch it, I reccomend keeping a flame body pokemon in your party for speedy egg hatching. Determine your initial PID much like you did while learning PID RNG earlier. Reset your game and rehit your seed, and shift the PID frame forward the appropriate number of chatots before taking the egg from the daycare man again. Hatch this egg and determine its PID frame.

It probably won't be right. This is because the route the daycare couple live on, is not "quiet" like victory road or lostlorn forest. There are several NPCs that spin in random directions at random intervals, and you cannot control this. The average PID shift on the route is about 5 PID frames. You will probably have to hatch 10 or so eggs(adjusting your chatot number each time) before you hit the right PID frame.

Try again, with an adjusted PID value depending on what you hatched last. Keep hitting the seed and PID shifting to the target frame(readjusting your chatot number each time it hatches before or after the target) until you get the pokemon you wanted.

I did everything you said and it didn't work! What is wrong with the program/what I'm doing?

Reread the whole first page and make sure you did EVERYTHING I said to do, even if it seemed unimportant like saving in a specific location. Try to RNG your pokemon again. Then try again. Then try again. RNG-ing is a process, not an absolute guarantee. You have to keep trying multiple times before you'll hit the seed, every time. If you are breeding and using PIDRNG-ing, make sure you haven't got any power items attached to either pokemon, they can mess up the resulting IV frames. Timer0 switches(uncontrollable) can also mess up the gerenated pokemon by switching your seed. There is no fix for this, and your best bet would be to recalibrate your DS parameters to see exactly how many seeds you are flipping between(so that you can then look at the resulting pokemon for all of them).

No, really. I'm sure I did everything right, why isn't it working?

It could be the program being imperfect(it does happen sometimes, usually involving characteristics listed being faulty), but it is almost always your own fault or Timer0. Double check that you've got everything set properly(especially for the IVs of two breeding pokemon, and whether or not you're using an everstone or foreign parent) and regenerate the resulting list. If you still can't get it to work, post questions and hopefully someone will know the answer. Also read through the troubleshooting section.

How do I RNG abuse in Giant Chasm? The fog makes it impossible to use sweet scent!

You need to save your game as though you were going to be RNGing, and then change the date to the next season(a month forward). Get into a random battle, and the fog will have cleared afterward. Save your game again, and this time change the date back to the seed time. This time when you enter the game the fog will be gone.

While breeding nidoran for a specific PID frame but I got the wrong gender! What gives?

Since the mechanic in the game for determining nidoran's gender is separate from all other normal gender generated pokemon, the RNG value for it can be wrong as well, so you might have to use more than one seed to find the right one for the nidoran you're after(male or female).

If I'm fishing/surfing/in a cave, which initial IV frame do I need to search a seed for?

One. Your starting IV frame should always 1 unless you're breeding, in which case its 8. Why? Because its easier to see where you went wrong if you're only manipulating one of the two frames(and the PID frame will shift given a specific amount of steps if you set your IV frame too high, so just use initial IV frame of one for easier RNG-ing).

How do I find a specific pokemon in a dust cloud or surfing spot then?

You catch them first regularly, wild from the dust cloud or surfing spot(It sure is nice not to have to worry about frames for everything, huh?). Or you trade to get yourself a copy of them. Then you take that one over to the daycare with a ditto(or a female of its species if its male, or an eggmove father from its egg group if its female) and put them both in. Then you search for a seed so you can PIDRNG the resulting egg value you're after. Voila, dust cloud/surfing spot RNG complete without having to worry about changing your IV frame.

Can I RNG in the entree forest for dream world pokemon?

Honestly, this is another case where I reccomend just breeding instead of trying to master C-gear RNG. There are probably ways of doing it(although I don't know them myself), but they are more difficult than the other methods explained in this thread. You cannot RNG in the actual entree forest(to the best of my knowledge) but you can RNG breed the female DW pokemon for DW ability offspring in the daycare.

Also your pokemon will retain its gender from dreamworld no matter what you do, so if you brought back a male, you're stuck with it being male(and being unable to pass on the dreamworld ability), sorry.

Don't try to RNG breed a DW female pokemon with a ditto either, only use eggmove fathers from the same egg group or species. Since Ditto becomes the default mother no matter what, the dreamworld ability won't be passed on since only the mother can pass it on.

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No problem. I hope it helps.