BW/BW2 Calibration

Save Needle Calibration

Setup

This method can be used in both BW1 and BW2, but if you are playing BW2, go to the Unova Link Needle Calibration Tab to not waste your own time. There are also some BW2 exclusive specifications that I will not mention in this Save Needle Calibration tab, but only in the Unova Link Needle Calibration and IV Calibration tabs.

I will be using my German White 1 game together with my Nintendo 3DS console for this example.

Before you start you need to move your player character to a silent location that doesn't have anything that can advance the RNG on its own, then save the game. Your character's home room is recommended here as it's the first accessible location when starting a new savefile.

You also have to make sure that Tornadus or Thundurus are NOT actively roaming throughout the Unova region in your game as that will advance the RNG whenever you boot up the game by a bit and make Save Needle Calibration impossible.

If you're far enough into the game to activate the roamer, which is after the 7th gym, and are unsure whether your Tornadus or Thundurus is currently roaming, you can check a gate's electronic bulletin board for news about a storm (GIF displays Thundurus' message; Tornadus is a bit different).

If it is indeed roaming, it would be fastest to just encounter and kill it; it'll respawn after you beat the champion again. Should you for some reason not be willing to kill or capture it, you'll have to use the IV calibration method. It is unaffected by the roamer and will allow you to successfully calibrate.

To start the Save Needle Calibration, you open up PokéFinder, go to Gen 5 Tools at the top and open up the Profile Calibrator.

In the left half of the window, switch over to the Needle Search tab, select the Saving option and input the date and time you wish to use for this. I'll just put it to the 23rd of May 2025, 15:00 (aka 3pm) because that's the current date and time whilst I'm writing this guide.

Then in the right half you start by selecting the game version, language, console you play on and add your console's MAC address which can be found in the internet settings.

On DS and DS lite you need to access it from within the games menu and on DSi or 3DS models you can view it in your console's standard wifi settings (top left is DS/Lite, top right is DSi and bottom is 3DS/2DS). If your MAC address starts with one or multiple 0's, those will automatically be omitted by PokéFinder (e.g. a MAC address like 00-08-53-30-64-90 would become 853306490).

Set the seconds Min and Max to your EonTimer target seconds -5 and +5. So if you're on 3DS line models and used my recommended seconds, put it to Min 35 and Max 45 and on DS, Lite or i to Min 15 and Max 25.

Everything else you'll want to leave as it is by default (if you accidentally change something else you can always just change game version and then change back to reset to the default values).

Note: (The Soft Reset checkbox.) The Soft Reset checkbox is currently not working properly so don't use it.

First Attempt

That finishes the PokéFinder setup; now you can start the first calibration attempt.

For that you go to your console's settings and change the date to match whichever date you put into the PokéFinder calibration window. Next you go to the time settings and change the time according to the calibration window as well, but at the same moment that you confirm the time change, you start EonTimer by clicking the Start button.

DS 3DS

Now you go back to the home menu (on DSi and 3DS line models you can either navigate back through the settings or use the Power Button to get back whilst on DS and Lite you have to shut off the console and turn it back on after).

Once there you wait for the timer to run out and on the 6th and final beep of EonTimer you start the game. Make sure not to press any buttons in between you starting the game and the star appearing on the top screen, since that will change the seed you're on and just add an unnecessary extra step to this.

Once you see this star, you may start pressing buttons and get into the game. If you're far enough into the story to have received the C-Gear, you must deactivate it upon entering the game as it would otherwise advance the RNG and make calibration impossible.

With this being the Save Needle Calibration method, we will make use of the clock symbol that appears whenever you save the game; the position the clock's hand starts at when saving is what you need to pay attention to.

Here's a GIF of the first needle I got during this calibration followed by a picture of the starting position:

As you can see, the first needle starting position I got is a bottom left ↙ needle, which I add into PokéFinder's calibration window by clicking on the bottom left needle button.

Now we continue on saving the game again until we have the starting position of 8 needles in a row. If you didn't see one of the needles starting positions, you cannot continue and have to go back to the home menu to try again, beginning with changing the time back and starting EonTimer.

Once you are done with the 8 needles, press the Search button and see what result PokéFinder gives you.

In my case I got the following result:

There's a few things to watch out for here:

1. If your results Seconds value does not match your EonTimer's target second, make sure it's not too far off. On DS, lite and i, the second should never be off by more than 2. Being off by 1 is already rare and being off by 2 near impossible but both have happened to people in the past. On 3DS line models being off by 1 or 2 is fairly common due to the console having an inconsistent bootup time for DS games. Being off by 3 may also be possible in rare cases, but if you get a result that's 4 or more seconds off, it's most likely an invalid result.

2. Should you get more than 1 result you can simply add a 9th needle and press Search again and if that still isn't enough to narrow it down to 1, add a 10th etc until you're at exactly 1 result.

3. If you get no results at all or only get results that are too far off from your target second, make sure all the values in your PokéFinder and EonTimer are correct and match what's on your DS console (date, time, MAC address, game version, language, DS type, saving option selected and EonTimer calibration). Then just do another attempt. Should you get 0 results again, join im a blisy ._.'s RNG manip assistance Discord server and ask for help in the bw_b2w2 channel providing an explanation of the issue and full window screenshots of your PokéFinder Calibration window and EonTimer.

The result I got here looks good though as it's the only one and the second I hit is 2 off from my target which is normal on 3DS. In the future however when we get to actually RNGing e.g. a Shiny Pokemon, we will need to hit the exact target second and not 1-2 seconds late or early. For this we need to adjust EonTimer so that, in my example, I can hopefully hit the 40 seconds next attempt. To adjust EonTimer you simply take the second you hit instead of your target (42 for me instead of 40), put it into the Second Hit field and press the Update button.

This will change your Calibration value so that next time you'll be more likely to hit your actual target second.

After this first attempt we will now write down the values we got somewhere (e.g. a standard text file):

Further Attempts

Now you'll want to do between 4-9 more such calibrations for a total of 5-10 attempts to find what your most common Timer0 value is. This is important because later when you're trying to RNG e.g. a Shiny, you will want the highest chances of hitting your target Timer0. If you were to only do 1 single calibration for example you may have just had bad luck and hit a Timer0 that, on average, you'd only get about 10% of the time which also means you'd miss your target about 90% of the time. Some date/time combinations may have one Timer0 be much more common than it would be on most other date/time combinations. To prevent this from giving you a Timer0, that on most other date/time combinations you would barely ever hit, I recommend to change the target time just a little bit after every calibration attempt. In my example I'll just put the clock in both PokéFinder and on my DS console forward by 1 minute each attempt so on attempt 2 I will target 15:01/3:01 pm, on attempt 3 15:02/3:02 pm and so on.

If even after adjusting EonTimer you still keep hitting 1-2 above or below your target second most of the time, don't keep adjusting every single attempt. Instead write down which second you hit every time, and then at the end of the 5-10 attempts, take the average, round it up/down and then use that average second hit to adjust your EonTimer. Especially on 3DS models you will most likely continue to not always hit your target second due to the varying loading times of those models.

Creating a Profile

At the end of my 10 calibrations, my Timer0 distribution looked like this:

I hit 125f 2 times and 1260 8 times. Now in the PokéFinder calibration window we can right click into the last result we got, making a small popup window appear, and there we select the Create profile option.

A smaller window will pop up with all the latest results' values and your game version, language, console type and MAC address already filled out. If your latest attempt resulted in your less common Timer0, you may want to change both the Min Timer0 and the Max Timer0 to your more common value.

Now you just input a name for the profile into the name field (I named mine W1 3DS CC because it's for my Pokemon White 1 on my Capture Card 3DS) and set your TID and SID to any random number you want (I'll just put both to 0) or if you already know them, put them to the values they actually are. The TID and SID ONLY affect which advances will yield a shiny later and have NO EFFECT on which Pokemon you encounter, what stats they have or anything else.

Then change the Keypresses to not include 6, 7 and 8 Keypresses. This isn't mandatory but pressing 6, 7 or 8 different buttons on your DS during startup is sometimes not humanly possible and you should be able to find target seeds without too many advances for almost anything you'd want anyways without those high Keypress amounts. Unchecking those 3 Keypress options will also shorten search times later. You could also remove more, like 4 and 5, but I find those still feasible and having more Keypresses will make finding e.g. 5IV wild or static shiny targets easier later (if you just care for getting shinies and don't care for IVs or Natures at all, you can disable all but "None" Keypresses).

The Skip L/R checkbox is for if your console's L or R buttons are broken, as if that box is checked off, PokéFinder will no longer give any results with L or R as the required Keypresses.

Finally click on Accept and the profile is saved.

Unova Link Needle Calibration

Setup

This Method is exclusive to BW2 and much faster than the other two Methods. Similarly to the Save Needle Method, the Unova Link Needle Calibration also makes use of the little clock symbol, but this time when you're trying to establish an Infrared link between your current BW2 game and another BW2 game using Unova Link. You don't need to actually have another BW2 game for this, as simply starting the search is all we need to do.

I will be using my English Black 2 game together with my Nintendo DS console for this example.

To start the Unova Link Needle Calibration, you open up PokéFinder, go to Gen 5 Tools at the top and open up the Profile Calibrator.

In the left half of the window, switch over to the Needle Search tab, make sure the Unova Link option is selected and input the date and time you wish to use for this. I'll just put it to the 23rd of May 2025, 15:00 (aka 3pm) because that's the current date and time whilst I'm writing this guide.

Then in the right half you start by selecting the game version, language, console you play on and add your console's MAC address which can be found in the internet settings of your console. On DS and DS lite you need to access it from within the games menu and on DSi or 3DS models you can view it in your console's standard wifi settings (top left is DS/Lite, top right is DSi and bottom is 3DS). If your MAC address starts with one or multiple 0's, those will automatically be omitted by PokéFinder (e.g. a MAC address like 00-08-53-30-64-90 would become 853306490).

Also check the Memory Link checkbox if you have activated Memory Link on this current savefile.

This can, of course, only be the case on pre-existing savefiles, so if you just created a new one, you don't check the box. But if it is indeed an older savefile you'll want to check whether Memory Link has been activated or not by going to the Unova Link menu, then to the Memory Link option and once there checking if the option „Memory List" is there. If it is, Memory Link is guaranteed active and you need to check off the box for it, but if it isn't, that doesn't necessarily mean that Memory Link was not used yet.

I tested this myself and you can already do Memory Link with a Black or White 1 game that hasn't even received the starter yet as long as the game has any savefile present at all, even if it's got under a minute of playtime. If Memory Link was used with such an early savefile there is no way I know of to tell it was used on the BW2 games side, as the Memory List option does not appear. So should you not find any valid seeming results during calibration of an older BW2 savefile without the Memory Link box checked off, try with it. My Black 2 has done Memory Link so I will check off the box.

Put the seconds Min and Max to your EonTimer target seconds -5 and +5. So if you're on DS, Lite or i and used my recommended seconds, put it to Min 15 and Max 25 and on 3DS line models to Min 35 and Max 45.

There's one more thing now that you will want to change if you're trying to calibrate a BW2 game on a DSi or 3DS line model and that is the Timer0 range. As of the time I'm writing this guide the default Timer0 range for BW2 games on DSi and 3DS models is 1600-1790, but this isn't large enough of a range. Especially on non-english language games, such as Japanese or German (can happen in other languages too though), I've sometimes seen people have a Timer0 in the 1400s or 1800s. So we will change the range to 1400-1900 to be able to find such calibration results as well.

Everything else you'll want to leave as it is by default (if you accidentally change something else you can always just change game version from BW1 to BW2 and then back or vice versa to reset to the default values).

Note: (The Soft Reset checkbox.) The Soft Reset checkbox is currently not working properly so don't use it.

First Attempt

That finishes the PokéFinder setup; now you can start the first calibration attempt.

For that you go to your console's settings and change the date to match whichever date you put into the PokéFinder calibration window. Next you go to the time settings and change the time according to the calibration window as well, but at the same moment that you confirm the time change, you start EonTimer by clicking the Start button.

DS 3DS

Now you go back to the home menu (on DSi and 3DS line models you can either navigate back through the settings or use the Power Button to get back whilst on DS and Lite you have to shut off the console and turn it back on after).

Once there you wait for the timer to run out and on the 6th and final beep of EonTimer you start the game. Make sure not to press any buttons in between you starting the game and the star appearing on the top screen, since that will change the seed you're on and just add an unnecessary extra step to this.

Once you see this star, you may start pressing buttons again. Navigate to the UNOVA LINK menu, go to KEY SYSTEM and then select SEND AND RECEIVE KEYS.

With this being the Unova Link Needle Calibration method, we will make use of the clock symbol that appears whenever you have the game try to establish an infrared link to another BW2 game to send or receive keys; the position the clock's hand starts at when activating the IR search is what you need to pay attention to. How long you have the search active for doesn't matter. You could cancel it immediately or have it go on for a minute straight; makes no difference for the calibration.

Here's a GIF of the first needle I got during this calibration followed by a picture of the starting position:

As you can see, the first needle starting position I got is a right facing → needle, which I add into PokéFinder's calibration window by clicking on the bottom left needle button.

Now we continue on restarting the infrared connection via SEND AND RECEIVE KEYS until we have the starting position of 8 needles in a row. If you didn't see one of the needles starting positions, you cannot continue and have to go back to the home menu to try again, beginning with changing the time back and starting EonTimer.

Once you are done with the 8 needles, press the Search button and see what result PokéFinder gives you.

In my case I got the following result:

There's a few things to watch out for here:

1. If your results Seconds value does not match your EonTimer's target second, make sure it's not too far off. On DS, lite and i, the second should never be off by more than 2. Being off by 1 is already rare and being off by 2 near impossible but both have happened to people in the past. On 3DS line models being off by 1 or 2 is fairly common due to the console having an inconsistent bootup time for DS games. Being off by 3 may also be possible in rare cases, but if you get a result that's 4 or more seconds off, it's most likely an invalid result.

2. Should you get more than 1 result you can simply add a 9th needle and press Search again and if that still isn't enough to narrow it down to 1, add a 10th etc until you're at exactly 1 result.

3. If you get no results at all or only get results that are too far off from your target second, make sure all the values in your PokéFinder and EonTimer are correct and match what's on your DS console (date, time, MAC address, game version, language, DS type, saving option selected and EonTimer calibration). Then just do another attempt. Should you get 0 results again, join im a blisy ._.'s RNG manip assistance Discord server and ask for help in the bw_b2w2 channel providing an explanation of the issue and full window screenshots of your PokéFinder Calibration window and EonTimer.

The result I got here looks good though as it's the only one and the second I hit is exactly the one I was aiming for in 20. Should you not have hit your target second here though you will want to adjust your EonTimer since in the future, when you get to actually RNGing e.g. a Shiny Pokemon, you will need to hit the exact target second and not 1-2 seconds late or early.

To adjust EonTimer you simply take the second you hit instead of your target,put it into the Second Hit field and press the Update button. An example would be if I had hit 19 seconds instead of 20 I would input 19 into the Second Hit field and press Update which would change my EonTimer Calibration value from -95 to -66.

I won't be changing this for my next attempt though, since I hit exactly what I was aiming for.

After this first attempt we will now write down the values we got somewhere (e.g. a standard text file):

Further Attempts

Now you'll want to do between 19-29 more such calibrations for a total of 20-30 attempts to find what your most common Timer0 value is on DS and DS Lite or 29-39 for a total of 30-40 more on DSi and 3DS. This is important because later when you're trying to RNG e.g. a Shiny, you will want the highest chances of hitting your target Timer0. If you were to only do 10 calibrations for example you may have just had bad luck and like 7 times hit a Timer0 that, on average, you'd only get about 10% of the time which also means you'd miss your target about 90% of the time. Some date/time combinations may have one Timer0 be much more common than it would be on most other date/time combinations. To prevent this from giving you a Timer0, that on most other date/time combinations you would barely ever hit, I recommend to change the target time just a little bit after every calibration attempt. In my example I'll just put the clock in both PokéFinder and on my DS console forward by 1 minute each attempt so on attempt 2 I will target 15:01/3:01 pm, on attempt 3 15:02/3:02 pm and so on.

Another important thing to note is about the VCount. Whilst I did say earlier that this value stays consistent throughout your calibration, this isn't always true. If you're playing on a DSi or 3DS model console, you may get 2 different VCount values that are tied to some of your Timer0's. This seemingly can only happen if the VCount you get is either AC or AD (but getting one of the two doesn't necessarily mean that you are affected by this; recently it was discovered that a VCount of AB can also have this happen with AC though it is much rarer than AD). In those cases you can also get the other VCount of the two on some of your Timer0's. If this is the case for you, make sure to note down which Timer0 has which VCount assigned to it. This will generally not impact your ability to RNG Manipulate, but it will make troubleshooting when something goes wrong a bit more annoying later.

Example of how such a Timer0 distribution with 2 VCounts could look like after 30 calibration attempts:

If even after adjusting EonTimer you still keep hitting 1-2 above or below your target second most of the time, don't keep adjusting every single attempt. Instead write down which second you hit every time, and then at the end of the 5-10 attempts, take the average, round it up/down and then use that average second hit to adjust your EonTimer. Especially on 3DS models you will most likely continue to not always hit your target second due to the varying loading times of those models.

Creating a Profile

At the end of my 30 calibrations, my Timer0 distribution looked like this:

I hit 1104 9 times making it my most common Timer0. Now in the PokéFinder calibration window we can right click into the last result we got, making a small popup window appear, and there we select the Create profile option.

A smaller window will pop up with all the latest results' values and your game version, language, console type and MAC address already filled out. If your latest attempt did not result in your most common Timer0, you may want to change both the Min Timer0 and the Max Timer0 to your most common value; in my case I got 1105 last but knowing 1104 is more common I will change it to that (if you did get 2 different VCounts make sure to also change the VCount to the one that belongs with your most common Timer0).

Now you just input a name for the profile into the name field (I named mine B2 DS CC because it's for my Pokemon Black 2 on my Capture Card DS) and put your TID and SID to any random number you want (I'll just put both to 0) or if you already know them, put them to the values they actually are. The TID and SID ONLY affect which advances will yield a shiny later and have NO EFFECT on which Pokemon you encounter, what stats they have or anything else. Check off the Memory Link and Shiny Charm checkboxes if you have done Memory Link or have received the Shiny Charm (BW2 exclusive) and change the Keypresses to not include 6, 7 and 8 Keypresses. This isn't mandatory but pressing 6, 7 or 8 different buttons on your DS during startup is sometimes not humanly possible and you should be able to find target seeds without too many advances for almost anything you'd want anyways without those high Keypress amounts. Unchecking those 3 Keypress options will also shorten search times later. You could also remove more, like 4 and 5, but I find those still feasible and having more Keypresses will make finding e.g. 5IV wild or static shiny targets easier later (if you just care for getting shinies and don't care for IVs or Natures at all, you can disable all but "None" Keypresses).

The Skip L/R checkbox is for if your console's L or R buttons are broken, as if that box is checked off, PokéFinder will no longer spit out any results with L or R as the required Keypresses.

Finally click on Accept and the profile is saved.

IV Calibration

Setup

This Method can be used in both BW1 and BW2 but is slower than the other Methods, especially for BW2. Here you catch a Pokemon and then calculate its IVs to find your calibration values. To make the IV calculation easier, you should be saved in an area with as high as possible level wild Pokemon. In BW1 I recommend the dark (not regular) grass in the crater within Giant Chasm and in BW2 I recommend the dark grass on Route 1.

You will also need either a Pokemon with the move Sweet Scent (e.g. Foongus learns it at level 24) or at least 1 Honey item (can be obtained via the Honey Gather ability from Combee which can be found in the grass on Route 12 or you can buy it in BW2's Join Avenue Market Shops that are level 2 or higher). Having an empty slot in your party, several Rare Candies and a Master Ball will also make this process a lot faster.

Note: (Are Rare Candies required?) If during IV Calibration you get 2 or more different results, you will need to level up your Pokemon to get a more precise IV range from the IV calculator. If you do this via battling against other Pokemon and gaining EXP, your Pokemon will also gain EVs which can increase stats and make the IV calculator's results inaccurate. Using Rare Candies on the other hand does not give your Pokemon any EVs making them very useful for IV calculation.

I will be using my English Black 2 game together with my capture card Nintendo DS console for this example so I can take high quality pictures of what's happening ingame.

To start the IV Calibration, you open up PokéFinder, go to Gen 5 Tools at the top and open up the Profile Calibrator.

In the left half of the window, make sure the IV tab is selected and input the date and time you wish to use for this. I'll just put it to the 23rd of May 2025, 15:00 (aka 3pm) because that's the current date and time whilst I'm writing this guide.

Then in the right half you start by selecting the game version, language, console you play on and add your console's MAC address which can be found in the internet settings of your console. On DS and DS lite you need to access it from within the games menu and on DSi or 3DS models you can view it in your console's standard wifi settings (top left is DS/Lite, top right is DSi and bottom is 3DS). If your MAC address starts with one or multiple 0's, those will automatically be omitted by PokéFinder (e.g. a MAC address like 00-08-53-30-64-90 would become 853306490).

Also check the Memory Link checkbox if you have activated Memory Link on this current savefile (BW2 exclusive feature).

This can, of course, only be the case on pre-existing savefiles, so if you just created a new one, you don't check off the box. But if it is indeed an older savefile you'll want to check whether Memory Link has been activated or not by going to the Unova Link menu, then to the Memory Link option and once there checking if the option „Memory List" is there. If it is, Memory Link is guaranteed active and you need to check off the box for it, but if it isn't, that doesn't necessarily mean that Memory Link was not used yet.

I tested this myself and you can already do Memory Link with a Black or White 1 game that hasn't even received the starter yet as long as the game has any savefile present at all, even if it's got under a minute of playtime. If Memory Link was used with such an early savefile there is no way I know of to tell it was used on the BW2 games side, as the Memory List option does not appear. So should you not find any valid seeming results during calibration of an older BW2 savefile without the Memory Link box checked off, try with it. My Black 2 has done Memory Link so I will check off the box.

Put the seconds Min and Max to your EonTimer target seconds -5 and +5. So if you're on DS, Lite or i and used my recommended seconds, put it to Min 15 and Max 25 and on 3DS line models to Min 35 and Max 45.

There's one more thing now that you will want to change if you're trying to calibrate a BW2 game on a DSi or 3DS line model and that is the Timer0 range. As of the time I'm writing this guide the default Timer0 range for BW2 games on DSi and 3DS models is 1600-1790, but this isn't large enough of a range. Especially on non-english language games, such as Japanese or German (can happen in other languages too though), I've sometimes seen people have a Timer0 in the 1400s or 1800s. So we will change the range to 1400-1900 to be able to find such calibration results as well.

Everything else you'll want to leave as it is by default (if you accidentally change something else you can always just change game version from BW1 to BW2 and then back or vice versa to reset to the default values).

Note: (Soft Reset checkbox.) The Soft Reset checkbox is currently not working properly so don't use it.

First Attempt

That finishes the PokéFinder setup; now you can start the first calibration attempt.

For that you go to your console's settings and change the date to match whichever date you put into the PokéFinder calibration window. Next you go to the time settings and change the time according to the calibration window as well, but at the same moment that you confirm the time change, you start EonTimer by clicking the Start button.

DS 3DS

Now you go back to the home menu (On DS and Lite you have to shut off the console and turn it back on after. On DSi and 3DS line models you can either navigate back through the settings or use the Power Button to get back).

Once there you wait for the timer to run out and on the 6th and final beep of EonTimer you start the game. Make sure not to press any buttons in between you starting the game and the star appearing on the top screen, since that will change the seed you're on and just add an unnecessary extra step to this.

Once you see this star, you may start pressing buttons and get into the game. If you're far enough into the story to have received the C-Gear, you must deactivate it upon entering the game as it would otherwise advance the RNG and make calibration impossible.

Ingame you will want to go into your party menu/bag and use Sweet Scent as a field move/honey to summon a wild Pokemon.

It doesn't matter how quickly or slowly you do this, just make sure to not move your player character as that can advance the IVrng and thus screw up this calibration attempt. If you are doing this in the dark grass as I recommended, you may end up getting a double battle against 2 wild Pokemon. In that case you will need to kill the Pokemon on the left and catch the Pokemon on the right side of the field (preferably using a Master Ball so you don't have to waste time with failed catches).

With the first caught Pokemon in our party, we open up the IV calculator in PokéFinder.

Once there, input the game you're playing, the Pokemon, it's characteristic & nature and at the bottom it's level and stats.

IMPORTANT: some of the characteristics have been renamed in newer generations. PokeFinder uses the updated names. The two characteristics affected are: "Often dozes off" which is now called "Takes plenty of siestas" and "Often scatters things" which is now called "Nods off a lot."

Once all the data is in the fields, you can press the Find IVs button and it'll spit out the calculated IVs in the bottom right.

Should any of the results say Invalid instead of a number or number range, you input something wrongly. Double check all data is correct and without typos.

Pressing Find IVs will also automatically send the results over to the calibration window which means all we have to do now is press the Search button and see what result PokéFinder gives us.

In my case I got the following result:

There's a few things to watch out for here:

1. If your results Seconds value does not match your EonTimer's target second, make sure it's not too far off. On DS, lite and i, the second should never be off by more than 2. Being off by 1 is already rare and being off by 2 near impossible but both have happened to people in the past. On 3DS line models being off by 1 or 2 is fairly common due to the console having an inconsistent bootup time for DS games. Being off by 3 may also be possible in rare cases, but if you get a result that's 4 or more seconds off, it's most likely an invalid result.

2. Should you get more than 1 result, you can level up the Pokemon using a rare candy, press the Add row button in the IV calculator, input all the next levels stats and press Find IVs again. Then in the calibration window you press Search again and if that still isn't enough to narrow it down to 1, add another level etc until you're at exactly 1 result.

3. If you get no results at all or only get results that are too far off from your target second, make sure all the values in your PokéFinder and EonTimer are correct and match what's on your DS console (date, time, MAC address, game version, language, DS type, saving option selected and EonTimer calibration). Then just do another attempt. Should you get 0 results again, join im a blisy ._.'s RNG manip assistance Discord server and ask for help in the bw_b2w2 channel providing an explanation of the issue and full window screenshots of your PokéFinder Calibration window and EonTimer.

The result I got here looks good though as it's the only one and the second I hit is exactly the one I was aiming for in 20. Should you not have hit your target second here though you will want to adjust your EonTimer since in the future, when you get to actually RNGing e.g. a Shiny Pokemon, you will need to hit the exact target second and not 1-2 seconds late or early.

To adjust EonTimer you simply take the second you hit instead of your target,put it into the Second Hit field and press the Update button. An example would be if I had hit 19 seconds instead of 20 I would input 19 into the Second Hit field and press Update which would change my EonTimer Calibration value from -95 to -66.

I won't be changing this for my next attempt though, since I hit exactly what I was aiming for.

After this first attempt we will now write down the values we got somewhere (e.g. a standard text file):

Further Attempts

Now if you're calibrating a BW1 game, you'll want to do between 4-9 more such calibrations for a total of 5-10 attempts to find what your most common Timer0 value is. For BW2 you should do 19-29 more such calibrations for a total of 20-30 attempts to find what your most common Timer0 value is on DS and DS Lite or 29-39 for a total of 30-40 more on DSi and 3DS. This is important because later when you're trying to RNG e.g. a Shiny, you will want the highest chances of hitting your target Timer0. If you were to only do 10 calibrations for example you may have just had bad luck and like 7 times hit a Timer0 that, on average, you'd only get about 10% of the time which also means you'd miss your target about 90% of the time. Some date/time combinations may have one Timer0 be much more common than it would be on most other date/time combinations. To prevent this from giving you a Timer0, that on most other date/time combinations you would barely ever hit, I recommend to change the target time just a little bit after every calibration attempt. In my example I'll just put the clock in both PokéFinder and on my DS console forward by 1 minute each attempt so on attempt 2 I will target 15:01/3:01 pm, on attempt 3 15:02/3:02 pm and so on.

Another important thing to note is about the VCount. Whilst I did say earlier that this value stays consistent throughout your calibration, this isn't always true. If you're playing on a DSi or 3DS model console, you may get 2 different VCount values that are tied to some of your Timer0's. This seemingly can only happen if the VCount you get is either AC or AD (but getting one of the two doesn't necessarily mean that you are affected by this; recently it was discovered that a VCount of AB can also have this happen with AC though it is much rarer than AD). In those cases you can also get the other VCount of the two on some of your Timer0's. If this is the case for you, make sure to note down which Timer0 has which VCount assigned to it. This will generally not impact your ability to RNG Manipulate, but it will make troubleshooting when something goes wrong a bit more annoying later.

Example of how such a Timer0 distribution with 2 VCounts could look like after 30 calibration attempts:

If even after adjusting EonTimer you still keep hitting 1-2 above or below your target second most of the time, don't keep adjusting every single attempt. Instead write down which second you hit every time, and then at the end of the 5-40 attempts, take the average, round it up/down and then use that average second hit to adjust your EonTimer. Especially on 3DS models you will most likely continue to not always hit your target second due to the varying loading times of those models.

Creating a Profile

At the end of my 30 calibrations, my Timer0 distribution looked like this:

I hit 1104 9 times making it my most common Timer0. Now in the PokéFinder calibration window we can right click into the last result we got, making a small popup window appear, and there we select the Create profile option.

A smaller window will pop up with all the latest results' values and your game version, language, console type and MAC address already filled out. If your latest attempt did not result in your most common Timer0, you may want to change both the Min Timer0 and the Max Timer0 to your most common value; in my case I got 1105 last but knowing 1104 is more common I will change it to that (if you did get 2 different VCounts make sure to also change the VCount to the one that belongs with your most common Timer0).

Now you just input a name for the profile into the name field (I named mine B2 DS CC because it's for my Pokemon Black 2 on my Capture Card DS) and put your TID and SID to any random number you want (I'll just put both to 0) or if you already know them, put them to the values they actually are. The TID and SID ONLY affect which advances will yield a shiny later and have NO EFFECT on which Pokemon you encounter, what stats they have or anything else. Check off the Memory Link and Shiny Charm checkboxes if you have done Memory Link or have received the Shiny Charm (BW2 exclusive) and change the Keypresses to not include 6, 7 and 8 Keypresses. This isn't mandatory but pressing 6, 7 or 8 different buttons on your DS during startup is sometimes not humanly possible and you should be able to find target seeds without too many advances for almost anything you'd want anyways without those high Keypress amounts. Unchecking those 3 Keypress options will also shorten search times later. You could also remove more, like 4 and 5, but I find those still feasible and having more Keypresses will make finding e.g. 5IV wild or static shiny targets easier later (if you just care for getting shinies and don't care for IVs or Natures at all, you can disable all but "None" Keypresses).

The Skip L/R checkbox is for if your console's L or R buttons are broken, as if that box is checked off, PokéFinder will no longer spit out any results with L or R as the required Keypresses.

Finally click on Accept and the profile is saved.