Emerald Static Manip

Overview

After finding your Secret ID and successfully RNG Manipping your Starter Pokémon, Manipping a Static encounter is the next logical step. This is, largely, the same process as the Starter Pokémon, but with more variety in situations and circumstances.

This pool of Pokémon includes all of the Legendary Pokémon, various overworld encounters, like Kecleon or Electrode, and all the gift Pokémon.

NOTE: This guide will NOT INCLUDE ROAMING Pokémon. There will be a separate guide in the Intermediate section for them.

Recommended Setup

Hardware Requirements

• Pokémon Emerald (any language)
  GameBoy Advance, Gameboy Player, Nintendo DS / DS Lite, or a GBA Emulator

• Windows 10/11 PC

In-Game Requirements

• Save at the location directly in-front of whichever Pokémon you wish to capture or receive.

• At least one free space in your party.

• Pokeballs to capture it, if it's a capture.

• Pokémon to aid in capture, such as a false swipe user or a spore user.

• 5-10 Rare Candies. (Not 100% Needed, but helpful).

Tools Used

• PokéFinder 4.1.2
• EonTimer 3.0.0

Video Examples

• im a blisy ._.

The Guide

Pick your target

The first thing we have to do is pick our target Pokémon. Open PokéFinder, and select Static from the Gen 3 main window.

A new window will open up and by default be on the Generator tab, which is where we want to be. Before inputting any settings, make sure you select your profile. If you have not set one up, I covered how to here.

In the RNG Info section set Method to Method 1.

Set the Seed to 0, Emeralds default seed.

Leave Initial Advances, Max Advances, and Delay at their default values.

In Settings you will choose your Pokémon. They are in their respective Category. They should be self explanatory, and there are not that many Static Encounters, anyway.

In this example, I will be using Rayquaza. However, I will provide info for every Static encounter in Emerald so you can apply that info to your specific situation.

Lastly is the Filters section. This again, is personal choice. Select the IVs, Nature, Gender, Hidden Power, Ability you want. And also select if you want a Shiny.

I will just be going for a simple Shiny.

Shiny is set to Star/Square, which will show every potential Shiny. Star vs. Square doesn't matter in any game other than Sword & Shield, but Pokémon transferred from Gen 3 up to those games will retain their Star/Square Shiny status.

For these Pokémon Shininess occurs on the same Advances as the Starter Pokémon you RNG'd in the previous guide. I am using a different copy of Pokémon Emerald, though. So mine will not be the same.

Once your Filters are set, click Generate. You should get several results, and have a window that looks like this:

If you get no results, that means no Pokémon within 100,000 Advances exists, which is about a 26 minute period of time. There are ways to circumvent this issue, but they are difficult techniques covered in our Advanced section.

In the meantime, if you have none, loosen your restrictions on what you want. Accept some worse IVs, or a Worse Nature, etc.

I will be aiming for Advance 1748. You can aim for the same Advance as you did for the Starter Pokémon. This is a big benefit of Pokémon Emerald.

Once you find your Secret ID, you can aim for the same Advance for your Shiny and hit it over & over again on different Pokémon. This allows you to learn the basics of RNG Manips through repetition, while getting a bunch of shinies!

With our target picked out, we can move onto the Static Manip!

Static Manip

To get started with the Static Manip, you want to save in-front of whichever Pokémon you want to receive. Here I am in front of Rayquaza.

Then, in Eon Timer, put the number from the Advances Column into the Target Frame box in EonTimer. In my case, it is 1748. Also, make sure the value in Calibration is 0.

For every type of Manip, the amount of calibration will be different, because the game delays generating whatever you're manipping differently, based on what it's generating.Your Eon Timer should look something like this, but with your target advance instead.

Pretimer is optional.

When set to 0, clicking Start on EonTimer will immediately start the countdown to your target Advance. This requires you to soft reset your game at the same time as clicking Start on Eon Timer.

Setting this to 5000 will create a 5 second countdown, which you will soft reset the game to, then the countdown for your Target Advance Begins. I'll be using this method for the remainder of the guide.

You should also click the gear icon, and make sure your console setting is correct.

GBA and NDS-GBA have slightly different frame rates.

GBA: 59.7275 fps
NDS-GBA: 59.6555 fps

Having it set incorrectly will make longer timers inconsistent relative to the actual game.

If you're playing on unofficial hardware or emulator, stick with GBA as this is usually the default.

You don't need to touch Refresh Interval or Precision Calibration.

We are almost ready to begin. You need to know three more things.

• WHEN to encounter the Pokémon. Usually it's the final text box

before receipt / encounter.

• IF there is text at all.

• WHAT to press to encounter the Pokémon, if there is no text. Usually it's A or Up, and if you're pressing Up, make sure to save ONE TILE away from when the encounter triggers.

Here is a list so you can be certain of when to Press A or Up, and if there is text.

If the Pokémon you are manipping says Press A in front of it, or Press UP while facing it, click this drop down and follow the steps contained within.

No Text Box

At this point, we're ready! Click Start Eon Timer, and when the pretimer finishes on the 6th beep, soft reset the game.

If your Pokémon DOES NOT have dialogue, press Start to bring up the Menu. This will freeze any NPCs nearby, who may cause extra unwanted RNG Advancements. Dialogue boxes do this naturally, so those Static Pokémon do not need this extra step. Pictured below is how I wait for Rayquaza.

Then, when Eontimer gets near the end of its countdown, it will beep 6 times. On the 3rd beep Press B to Close the Menu, and on the 6th beep, when the timer finishes, Press A or Press Up to start the encounter.

Otherwise, click this dropdown & follow these steps.

Has Text Box

At this point, we're ready! Click Start Eon Timer, and when the

pretimer finishes on the 6th beep, soft reset the game.

If your Pokémon HAS text boxes in the list above, talk to whatever NPC / Encounter you're in and get to the final box of dialogue. Then, wait there until Eon Timer finishes counting down. Pictured Below is what waiting for Sudowoodo looks like:

Then, when Eontimer gets near the end of its countdown, it will beep 6 times. The goal is to press A on the 6th beep to start the encounter.

And we can see it's not shiny like I wanted. It's likely you also missed your target. We're going to have to check the Pokémons summary screen to figure out what RNG Advance we landed on. To do that, we'll have to catch it if it's an encounter.

It's worth mentioning, if you are aiming for a Shiny and didn't get one, just use the Masterball for a catch if you have it. You will not be keeping the Pokémon, so it just speeds the process up.

Once you can view the Pokémons summary screen, we can move onto how to adjust.

Static Adjustment

To figure out which Advance we hit, we're going to have to figure out its IVs and use that to search.

First, though, let's set up Generator for a search.

In RNG Info we'll leave Seed and Method alone, but we are going to change 'Initial Advances'. To be about 1000 advances before our target.

In my case, I am aiming for 1748. So I set it to 748. Also set Max Advances to 2000. This will generate Pokémon spreads from 1000 Advances before your target, and 1000 after it.

Then, for the Filters section, clear everything out to their default values. All IVs should be 0 to 31, and all of the drop downs should say Any, except Nature and Gender. Set those to what the Pokémon you received had. In my case it's a Brave Rayquaza, who has no Gender.

After that, click the IV Calculator Button.

A new window will pop up called IV Calculator. Here, you input a Pokémons stats, which get converted into IV Ranges for Generators IV Filters.

In the Pokémon drop down, select the Pokémon you are manipping. And in the Nature box, select its nature.

Then, at the bottom, put in the Pokémons Level and all of its stats, and hit Find IVs. You will see the Results section populated with IV Ranges.

If you have Rare Candies to raise the Pokémon's level, we can make the IV Ranges even more Precise. We aren't keeping this Pokémon, so it's safe to use them to gain info. They will come back when we soft reset!

To account for the extra level, click the Add Row button, and a new row to enter the information for its next level will appear.

Once you have clicked Find IV's, it also fills that info out within the Static Generator in PokéFinder.

At this point, hit Generate. You should only get one result. If you get more than that, you can narrow down the results further by doing more levels in the IV Calculator.

If you do not have ANY rare candies and have more than one result, it's generally fine to assume you hit the closest Advance to your target. In my case, I only got one possibility near me.

If you have no results at all, expand your search range by decreasing Initial Advances by 1000, and increasing Max Advances by 1000, and click Generate again. Do this until you get at least 1 result.

Now we need to update Eon Timer. In the Frame Hit box, put the Advance that you determined you landed on, and click update. The calibration will change, and you can try again.

Now repeat the process from Static Manip until you get your desired Pokémon.

Eventually, with enough attempts, you will land on the Pokémon you are aiming for. The Raqyuaza for this guide took me 3 attempts, including the first adjustment run.

Next Steps...

If you enjoyed this process and want to do more RNG Manips, I would suggest moving on to Wild RNG. While the general process and structure of the manip (Wait for timer, push button at right time) is not different, finding what Advance you landed on is slightly more challenging. Once you have Wild RNG Mastered, you'll be able to take on some more advanced manip challenges.