FR/LG Wild Encounter Manip

Overview

This guide will cover beginner-level Wild RNG manipulation in FireRed and LeafGreen. The focus will be on acquiring Shiny Pokemon, without concern for competitive Natures or IVs.

Wild RNG requires the use of Sweet Scent, which causes a Wild Pokemon to immediately spawn. This works in tall grass, caves, or surfing on water.

In general, higher level areas will be easier for beginners. Low-level Pokemon will produce many duplicate search results, making it more difficult to identify the seed and advance hit. However, any area in the game that spawns Wild encounters is usable.

We will be going for Shiny Mankey on Route 4, which is a rare spawn that can be level 10 or 12.

You must know your Secret ID to find viable targets, which would be done during the Shiny Starter RNG process. If you are on a completed save and DO NOT know your Secret ID, there are methods to deduce it using a previously caught Shiny, using glitches to read it from a Pokemon, or view it via extracting Save Data and using a tool like PkHex.

Recommended Setup

Hardware Requirements

• Pokemon Fire Red/Leaf Green (any language)

• GameBoy Advance, Nintendo DS or DS Lite, Nintendo 3DS w/ open_agb_firm

• Windows / Mac OS / Ubuntu PC

In-game Requirements

• Save in the grass/cave/water where target Pokemon appears.

• Any Pokemon with the move Sweet Scent.

• 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.

• Master Ball (optional, but recommended for quick capture/stat calculation)

• At least one Rare Candy (5+ is helpful, but not required)

Tools Used

• EonTimer 3.0.0-rc6

• G3 Calibration

• Fire Red Encounter Slots

• Leaf Green Encounter Slots

Video Examples

• im a blisy ._.

The Guide

Finding a Shiny Target

To get started, open Lincoln's G3 Calibration here

Select your Game, and then leave the Sound, L, A, and Held Button settings on the default values of Mono, L=A, A, and None. Make sure to select your System, as the boot-up times and frame-rates are slightly different based on the console, and the tool accounts for those.

Open the settings in-game, and change Sound and Button Mode to match these settings in the tool.

Make sure to SAVE after confirming these settings!

Leave the default Target Seed (hex) and Seed +\-.

Set Advance Range to 1000 to 5000. This means your maximum wait time will be ~2 minutes.

Set Encounter Method to Wild 1.

Set Encounter Type to Grass if the target is found in grass/cave. Surf if the target is in water.

Enter your Trainer ID and Secret ID.
Select Star/Square from the Shiny Filter. This will filter to all possible Shiny targets.

Square Shiny is only relevant if sending to Sword/Shield, but the option is there.

Set Nature Filter to Any. (OPTIONAL: Select a desired Nature)

Leave the IV Ranges as 0 ~ 31. (OPTIONAL: Increase minimum values for desirable stats)

Once these settings are correct, click Submit to search for all the potential Shiny Pokemon you could attempt to RNG.

NOTE: Your Browser might freeze momentarily while calculating, just wait. If anything pops up click "Wait" or "Continue".

When the search is complete, there should be a table of potential Shiny Seeds and Advances.

Since this is Wild RNG, we'll also need to identify the Encounter Slot of our target.

These range from 0 to 11 and are identified by the Slot column in the search results.

You can easily look these up using the Encounter Slot tables for each game.

• Fire Red Encounter Slots

• Leaf Green Encounter Slots

Our target will be Mankey on Route 4, which can be either Encounter Slot 8 or 10.

Keep this tab open, because we'll also need it to look up which Pokemon we actually hit during RNG attempts!

There might not be any Shiny results that match the Encounter Slot you're searching for, especially for the rare encounters on the route.

In this case, increase maximum wait time on the Title Screen) OR alter the settings above to a different SOUND or BUTTON MODE, and Submit the search again**. Remember to update those settings in-game as well!**

Once you've chosen your desired target Shiny, change the Target Seed (hex) to match the Seed, and update the Advance Range to 500 advances above and below your target.

In our example, Mankey is Encounter Slot 8 or 10 and a Quiet Shiny was found on seed E476 and Advance 2064. Which means the Advance Range becomes 1564 to 2564.

Now we update EonTimer for this target as well.

Timer Setup

Open EonTimer 3.0.0-RC6, and switch over to the Custom Tab (C).

Click the (+) button at the bottom, and add two timer sections.

Make the Unit of the first timer ms, and the second timer Advances.

Enter the ms value from the Seed into the first Target box.

Enter the Advances value of the Shiny into the second Target box.

Then click the gear icon in the bottom left, 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 playing on 3DS using open_agb_firm, you would also select NDS - Slot 2.

The tools are now set up for...

The First Attempt

In-game get your character to the correct position so you can immediately use Sweet Scent to start the Wild encounter.

Open your in-game settings and double check that they match the SOUND and BUTTON MODE settings for the target Seed at the top of G3 Calibration.

Save your game, and then Power Off the system.

The startup sequence is slightly different depending on the console being used.

Reference the following Boot method for your system of choice.

The general flow of each attempt is as follows:

1. Boot the game and click Start on EonTimer at the same time.

2. Wait for the ENTIRE Introduction to play, DO NOT PRESS ANY BUTTONS or SKIP. Your first timer should be long enough to make it to the Title Screen.

3. When the timer is close to completion, you will hear the 1st of 6 beeps.

4. ON THE 6TH BEEP, PRESS and HOLD the A Button.

5. Once the File Load screen appears, you can release all buttons and press A to load your save.

6. Mash B to skip past any "Previously on..." screens.

7a. Press START to open the menu, go into POKEMON, and then hover over SWEET SCENT

8. When the second timer is close to completion, you will hear the 1st of 6 beeps.

9. ON THE 6TH BEEP PRESS A to use SWEET SCENT.

Initial Calibration

If possible, it's generally a good idea to use a Master Ball for calibration purposes. This makes each attempt faster, by instantly acquiring the Pokemon to calculate stats. You will be resetting, so you'll always have the Master Ball for later. On final capture, use your PokeBall of choice.

After catching, open the Pokemon's summary and look at the Nature and Stats.

Open the G3 Calibration tool, set Shiny back to Any, select your caught Species, select the Nature and then enter Stats into the IV Calculator in the following order: LEVEL HP ATK DEF SPA SPD SPE

Then click Calculate IVs.

This should automatically populate the Stat ranges with the best guess possible given the inputted data.

Clicking Submit will search for all the potential Pokemon this could be, and if the Pokemon is a low level you'll likely get many results.

With this many results, we have no way to narrow down which Pokemon we actually hit. In this case, using Rare Candy to level up and provide more stats for the calculator to use can reduce the results.

In our case, this actually caused the search to yield no results. However, this is expected sometimes, because Wild Pokemon in FireRed and LeafGreen can be generated using different Encounter Methods.

This setting can be changed in the Encounter Method dropdown in the tool. Every time we search for which Pokemon we hit, it's important to check Wild 1, Wild 2, and Wild 4.

When searching Wild 1 and Wild 2, our Rattata gets no results. Our Rattata ONLY gets search matches on Encounter Method Wild 4.

With Wild Pokemon, it's common for multiple Advances on the same Seed to have the same PID and IVs, but a different Encounter Slot.

Our Level 10 Rattata lines up with Encounter Slot 1 for Route 4. So we can confidently say the first attempt hit Seed 5AB3 and Advance 2225.

If you get NO results on ANY METHOD, then increase Advance Range to 1000 advances above and below target, and increase Seed +/- to 50. Increase levels with Rare Candy as necessary. If this still yields no results, there was an error in the attempt and you must check all your settings and try again. Double check in-game settings match the settings in the g3 calibration tool, and that the timers match your target seed/advance.

Now that Rattata has been confirmed, we can enter the millisecond and Advance values from the result that matches our Encounter Slot into EonTimer and then click Update.

The values in Calibration should update accordingly, and you can now turn off your game and begin a second attempt.

Attempts & Adjustment

Repeat the same steps of:

1. Performing the startup sequence with EonTimer

2. Capturing the Pokemon

3. Entering Stats, Checking Methods, and Leveling Up as needed to reach a single search result

4. Inputting the Seed ms, and Advance into EonTimer and clicking Update

Make sure to use Encounter Slots to your advantage, like in this example.

I still had three results left in the search, but Level 6 Sandshrew could only be Encounter Slot 2. Therefore, I must have hit my target seed of E476 and Advance 2062.

This was my second attempt, and I hit my target seed and was only 2 advances early.

Once your calibration is within the range of +/- 50ms for the Seed, and +/- 3 for Advances you can confidently narrow the search range in G3 Calibration to speed up attempts.

Lower Seed +/- to 10 and Advance Range to 20 advances below and above your target.

With this smaller search range, you should be able to get a single result after only inputting the stats of the Pokemon. If you still get two or more results, use Rare Candy and Encounter Slots to narrow it down again.

At this point, you must repeat attempts until you successfully hit your Target Seed and Advance.

This requires two frame perfect inputs, so it can be difficult.

Only Update the calibration of EonTimer, if you notice you are consistently hitting early or late over multiple attempts. The optimal Calibration will have you landing sometimes early, sometimes late.

Now it's a matter of overcoming human error to succeed.

Eventually, you will hit your Shiny!

Next Steps...

Congratulations! You've finished all the Beginner RNG Manips for Fire Red & Leaf Green! At this point, I reccomend continuing onto some more advanced Manips in the Intermediate or Advanced sections.

Intermediate will contain a lot of familiar techniques showcased here, but with various different challenges. Things like Roamer, Fishing, and The Safari Zone are all more challenging than these manips, while still being "Press A at Right Moment". It's other things that complicate them.

Advanced will contain extremely challenging manips, for those who want to go the extra mile to gain Perfect IV Shiny Pokemon / Very Rare Pokemon.