Does anyone have an answer for this? I've been basically having the same exact problem, except with abusing my ID (with a delay of 5000). The second timer always ends up too short, even when I enter in my delay hit. I followed the onsite guide, but I just couldn't get eontimer to cooperate.I'm attempting to start RNGing in Gen 4 (Diamond), after having had a reasonable amount of success in Gen 5. As a Mac user, I found it easier to track down a DS Lite for second-hand watching instead of getting set up with Eon Timer, so I'm now using RNG Reporter and Eon Timer for the first time.
While attempting to calibrate Eon Timer, I'm running into a problem where the secondary timer always ends up too short for me to get from game-launch to the savefile loading screen. Here's a sample scenario, one of many that played out extremely similar over the last four hours:
- Reset Eon Timer to "Calibrated" values of 600 / 15
- I enter my target delay and seconds: 608 and 35 (found with RNG Reporter, see below)
- Set the DS time and start Eon Timer simultaneously
- Turn the DS Lite back on and wait for the first set of beeps; launch Diamond on the last beep
- Mash 'A' to get to the loading screen
- Load the game as the last beep in the second set sounds
- Check flips: I actually hit 684
- Put '684' in the "Delay Hit" in Eon Timer and Update. Now the secondary timer is 13.85, which is about 1-1.5 seconds shorter than it actually takes me to get to the loading screen -- I can't get there in time. Calibrated Delay is 676, which makes sense since I was off (slow) by 76.
Regarding the seed I'm trying to hit: I used RNG Reporter, looking for a Method J Stationary Encounter, Mild 31/x/31/31/30+/31, in 2013 with a Delay of 600-610 and a Frame of 1-1000. It gave me a seed of D60E026D, and when I look in Seed To Times (year: 2013, second: 35), every delay is 608 no matter which of the dates I use. I've been attempting to use the first one, 2013-04-30 14:59:35. The game is saved one step shy of the encounter with Dialga.
I feel like I must be doing something obviously wrong, but I just spent an hour trying to search this thread and elsewhere and couldn't figure out my problem. Any suggestions?
If someone could answer his question then I imagine it would help me too, thanks! :)