I need help with the Cute Charm Glitch?
How does it work? What Trainer ID do I need? How to I find my SID? What ID should my Cute Charmer have? How do I get good Natured and IV’d Pokemon?I’ve read the Smogon page on it.
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After reading a lot about it and watching youtube explaining videos, I decided to finally answer this question. I hope I understood it right so that I can explain it right. It’s a bit complicated so it’s gonna take a while.
Cute Charm Glitchis a method for raising the chance of finding a shiny andit only works for Gen 4 games.When you start a new game you are given anIDwhich is unique to you, but just in case you have the sameIDand trainer name with another person, aSecret ID (SID), which you cannot see, is also given to you by the system, so that even if you trade Pokemon between each other the system will still tell the difference,Every time you encounter a wild Pokemon, the system also randomly generates aPokemon ID (PID or personal ID), which decides it’s nature, gender and if it is going to be a shiny or not.In gen 4 games if you have a certain combination ofIDandSIDand a Pokemon with cute charm ability in your party, your chances of encountering shinies is increased to 21.34%, which is what the cute charm glitch is.Let’s assume there are a total 100PIDcombinations. What cute charm glitch does, is reduces the number ofPIDcombinations you encounter to let’s say 10, out of which 2 are combinations that give you shiny Pokemon. That makes your chance to encounter a shiny like 20%. That’s how it works.
Now that you know how it works, you want to know how to find yourSID, right? Right.
There are a few methods for calculating yourSIDand one of them is having a shiny Pokemon and putting his IV’s in this program calledRNG reporter.LinkThere are also some action replay codes that can do the same thing without having a shiny. For more info just type in to google: How to findSecret ID.
Ok, so you have yourIDandSID. How do you know if the cute charm glitch is going to work?
So how do you get a combination ofIDandSIDfor the glitch to work?
That is done by a method calledRNG Manipulation (Random Number Generation). And that’s what theRNG Reporterprogram is really for.
Now you might think that when you start a new game, the system randomly gives you a trainerID, which is impossible to predict since it’s random. That is not the case here. Yourtrainer IDis calculated through an algorithm which is different for each gen. In gen 4 however theIDyou receive depends on the time on your DS and the delay time, which is the time you take to go through the intro part in which the Pokemon professor tells you about the world of Pokemon.
From here on I cannot help you anymore. You need to completelyread the guide in smogon
