

I click a on the game when the first timer ends, then the game starts up. I set my DS time to 03:22:00, and start both at the same time. I put a Calibration of 0, a delay of 8160 (which is what it said), and my target seconds as 21, in EonTimer. I flew to the E4 and I went back to Victory Road, and entered the first cave I saw. After about an hour I find my perfect seed- 409CB1CF, with a frame of 31 I put it to Seed to Time and come out with a date that looks good to me, 2011 07 03, 03:22:21. I changed the method to 5, changed the Mac Address (0026599991E4), put in my ID and SID (0723) hit shiny only, and pressed search. Okay, so I go in and find my seed in RNG Reporter. I’m trying to find the delay I’m hitting to adjust my timer Unless you want a particular nature or set of IVs, it could take under a few minutes to find a good shiny frame, and without shininess it can be even shorter. Personally I'd say Emerald abuse is actually much easier in that scenario because there are less variables complicating the process I've gotten shinies in one try before using the correct-nature Synchronizer. 5th Gen abuse is completely different because of the separation of the MTIV and PID RNGs. That being said, at least for wild Pokémon, using a Synchronizer helps immensely, because 50% of the time, depending on the particular instance, the RNG will skip up to a frame that matches your Synchronizer's nature – every frame in Emerald is set in stone and constant for all games (hence their dependent on a particular time after starting the game), so the RNG should usually hit your target if you're slightly under (we're still talking tenths to hundredths of a second though), rather than duplicating a particular frame with the desired nature, as is the case in 4th Gen abuse.

In Emerald the RNG jumps frames about sixty times every second, so going in cold to RNG a particular Pokémon can be pretty difficult without a fair bit of practice.
