r/pokemonrng • • Feb 17 '25

GEN2 True Gen 2 Starter RNG - No bot scripts or brute forced shiny paths

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123 Upvotes

r/pokemonrng • • Aug 23 '20

MODPOST [Announcement] Introducing Pokemonrng.com

105 Upvotes

Hi everybody.

I'm coming here with a special announcement and (I hope) the start of a really big project with everybody here.

As you may know, RNG Abuse in Pokémon is really vast. By the amount of games, the amount of method, the way you do it, but also with special cases or even little special RNGs. And it's really hard to gather this knowledge.

Now there are two references :

  • The Smogon RNG guide, which is pretty much 10 years old.
  • The wiki of r/pokemonrng

Even if the ressources there are precious and really allowed us to discover, learn or perfect our rng skills, the real issue is that with years, our tools evolved.

We researched new stuff, discovered new things and fixed a LOT of mistakes in the past. For example we plan to make a huge change in the tools about the frame indexation (But that's not the subject for today)

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u/zaksabeast started to work on a website a few months / years ago. The goal of the site was to make Pokemon RNG guides and gather them in a simple website.

But now it's time to make this the global ressource for everybody, and make the new reference about Pokemon RNG Abuse.

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Let me introduce to you : pokemonrng.com

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At the moment, the website is quite empty and have still some work planned. We're basically two to work on it (Zak and myself) but we have the basic skull of the website. That's why we pushed the Transporter RNG guide there for example.

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This time, we're gonna ask for your help. Everybody. You can contribute to the website to make it bigger and complete with every ressource necessary.

Before, the website was limited on the discord, and was pretty hard to contribute the right way. We also had people being confused on where or how to post guides for the subreddit. So we're gonna fix that.

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The goal will to give you many methods to contribute to the site without being too annoying for you to handle that. If you're the author of an old guide, don't hesitate to just post a link to your guide to be updated and added to the site. Also, if you want to contribute and you don't have the knowledge, you can simple contribute by working on writing guide based on existing ressources (aka drafts done by some people that writing skills are not their best)

We decided to work and link the website to the subreddit in order to allow people to contribute to guides in any language. At the moment, the focus would be in English of course, but the goal in the long term would be to cover as much as possible in many lanaguages.

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We really hope that Pokemonrng.com will become a reflex for everybody to check, and we really hope the website will be the best place to find all the informations necessary.

Thanks and happy RNGing.

I guess it'll be the last post before going for the last DLC RNG researches for Sword and Shield.

If you have any question, i'll try my best to answer.

Thanks o/


r/pokemonrng • • 10h ago

Shiny Modest 31/31/31/31/31/31 Distortion World Giratina in a Dive ball :)

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122 Upvotes

First post here. Have been rng manipulating for a few months now and using pokemonrng.com as my main resource.

Trickier hunt than i initially thought as the site's tool was advising me to aim for 56 chatot summaries (target frame was 67) but I landed on my seed 3 times in a row and each time got the Giratina corresponding to frame 78. Finally went for 45 Chatot summaries and landed it.

Seen a lot of conflicting information on if the interaction with Giratina itself advances 1 frame but in the end I got it :P


r/pokemonrng • • 3h ago

Shiny Adamant 29/30/31/9/24/29 Metang in a Safari Ball in SoulSilver

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21 Upvotes

This was one the main targets I wanted to get done before Bank closes. Was expecting to have to repeat the manip a bunch of times due to the low catch rate, but I threw 6 baits and caught it first try! Now to work on the HGSS Safari Zone Gible…


r/pokemonrng • • 22h ago

Jolly, 31/31/x/x/x/31 Square Shiny Channel Jirachi using Im A Blisy's E-Reader Event and ACE

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113 Upvotes

After days of headaches, I finally managed to get this to work. From what I've gathered in PokeFinder there's only two Jolly shiny spreads with max attack and max speed, and one of which is a square shiny (PID AB90ACD3).

I wanted to do this manip without ACE but as I went on it seemed less and less feasible. It took a lot of troubleshooting to not only get the event injected (this is actually a Japanese save file that I had to override to make it accept the event), but figuring out how to do the painting method and battle records ended up being a nightmare. For whatever reason I just couldn't get the same painting seed from my battle record when I transferred my save to mGBA.

Even just finding what seed to use for the Freeze PRNG code was a hurdle, but after testing some results from e-sh4rk's site, I've found that using the seed 8 cycles before the target works. This is because, alongside the 3 advances from closing the menu, the cutscene before the encounter advances another 5 cycles. Definitely one of the most complex hunts I've done for a Pokemon and one that I'm glad to be done with.


r/pokemonrng • • 14m ago

Help with Emerald rng!

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Hello everyone.

I recently successfully managed to get a shiny jirachi using the Imablisy e reader card and the painting/battle record method in emerald.

So I thought that I would then try to do the same for the Entei.

For context: I have a colloseum save file that I used to get a seed for the entei.

I had already started the event itself and the only thing I hadn't done before doing the painting/battle record method was catching the entei himself.

However when I clicked the rock in order to try and see where I was in terms of advances, the game just crashes (I can't even soft reset) but I can turn the game back on normally.

What I want to know is if there would be a way for me to catch this specific Entei as shiny, ideally without having to do any ace, as my boxes are currently full.

I'm assuming the reason why the game crashes when I try to encounter the entei is because the trainer from colloseum and emerald have different IDs, but I'm not sure.

Any help would be appreciated


r/pokemonrng • • 1d ago

I'm loving doing an RNG run

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57 Upvotes

r/pokemonrng • • 1d ago

Shiny, Adamant, 31/31/29/22/31/30 Starter Eevee on Retail, PAL Version of Pokémon XD Gale of Darkness

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30 Upvotes

My final GameCube related hunt that I’m extremely happy to knock out in quick succession to my Ageto Celebi RNG. It took me years to find a retail PAL version of XD Gale of Darkness, and despite not being cheap - it kind of sat on my shelf for years until I would eventually get around to it

Well, eventually finally came around.

This Eevee will be evolving into essentially a flawless Flareon (this is pretty much the closest thing to flawless that you’ll find across all available shiny starter Eevee spreads), and will become a Ribbon Master all the same to my other competitively flawless, shiny Eevolution Ribbon Masters.

Massive shoutout to Kapital and their tool PAL-Pal - I would have never even considered doing this hunt on any other version of XD Gale of Darkness without the aid of such a program, in addition to the RNG quirks to starter Eevee generation that are completely unique to the PAL version of the game.

One more trip to the top of Mt. Battle, and I’ll officially be off to Gen 4 in a race against time.


r/pokemonrng • • 1d ago

SOS RNG Help on 3DS

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Hello everyone!

I’m attempting to do SOS RNG for a challenge run to get every available shiny before each trial.

I’m running into some trouble with RNG for SOS. I’m using 3DSRngTool and Pokereader CFW on the 3DS.
I’m using the Misc 3ds tool for SOS and my pokereader shows me the initial SOS seed but it doesn’t give me the current SOS seed as each turn passes. I cant seem to match whatever info on Pokereader to the seeds on the Misc Tool.

I know this is easier to see on emulator but is there a way to do this for hardware 3DS

Of note. This is before Hala’s trial so I don’t have any adrenaline orbs. So I’ve been searching for initial sos seeds to yield me the 10% sos summon on the first chain.

Appreciate any help!


r/pokemonrng • • 1d ago

Both CHANNEL and WISHMKR Shiny Jirachis caught on Retail!!

7 Upvotes

These guys took me about 4 days roughly. If you're preparing for Bank, I would recommend CHANNEL over WISHMKR, as the method is way more consistent compared to the obnoxiousness of restarting Ruby over and over, trying to maintain the same amount of lag and hit 2 frame perfect inputs.

Let's goooooo!!!!


r/pokemonrng • • 1d ago

Currently trying to manip for a shiny Metagross in Colosseum, and I don't know if my hunt is impossible or if I'm doing something wrong...

2 Upvotes

So basically, I'm trying to rng manip Metagross on Dolphin, and I don't think I am physically able to hit the right frame that I would need for it. I would need to press A 72 advances before advacning to the next battle, but the emulator keeps getting me to 73 advances, and 71. Even using dolphin's frame advance button, I skip straight over my shiny frame. Is there something I'm doing wrong, or do I need to try and hunt a different Metagross than the spread I'm going for?


r/pokemonrng • • 2d ago

Bold, 31/1/30/31/30/31, JPN Ageto Celebi RNG on Retail Bonus Disc + Hardware

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91 Upvotes

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.


r/pokemonrng • • 1d ago

Shiny Onix!

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27 Upvotes

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!


r/pokemonrng • • 2d ago

Emerald - Are shiny frames different for static encounters vs fishing?

1 Upvotes

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


r/pokemonrng • • 2d ago

Pokemon Crystal Virtual Console Question.

3 Upvotes

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.


r/pokemonrng • • 3d ago

I finally did it!

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106 Upvotes

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!! 😁😁


r/pokemonrng • • 2d ago

Fishing Help for RNG in USUM

1 Upvotes

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 '!'?


r/pokemonrng • • 3d ago

[Gen 3] First time doin the RNG

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27 Upvotes

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


r/pokemonrng • • 4d ago

Following PapaJefé blink method guide and got the shiny Arceus on first attempt

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161 Upvotes

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.


r/pokemonrng • • 3d ago

Group Seed to SID not working properly

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1 Upvotes

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


r/pokemonrng • • 4d ago

LeafGreen Retail RNG

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1 Upvotes

r/pokemonrng • • 5d ago

Trouble Getting RS Checksum Lua Script to Run

4 Upvotes

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?


r/pokemonrng • • 5d ago

Shiny Char on switch 1 regular switch control

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38 Upvotes

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


r/pokemonrng • • 5d ago

Black and White RNG

2 Upvotes

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!


r/pokemonrng • • 5d ago

[Gen 7] I caught and evolved every available shiny before the first trial in Ultra Moon (Professor Oak Challenge with Shinies)

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29 Upvotes

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