Followed the painting video by Zak and pretty sure I did everything correctly. I'll try and go through exactly what I did below and if someone can see something wrong please let me know, otherwise I have no idea why it's not hitting! Just a reminder that this is on emerald with mGBA emulator.
- Couldn't generate desired flawless so went and searched for at least 3IV shiny rayquaza
- Put the seed value into gen 3 seed to time and got the target seed, generated that seed and confirmed it was the same advances and stats as the seed to time window
- Put the target seed value into the painting RNG page to get the target painting timer
- After pressing a on the painting the target seed was hit just fine
- Went to battle tower to get the battle record, after losing I saved the game
- Copied exactly what Zak was demonstrating just in case, where he reset to show that after a rest you could go back in, load battle record and be at the same initial seed
- Put the intial seed that was generated from viewing battle record into generator in the seed box of pokefinder, confirmed all stats were the same and a lower advance
- Went to sky tower and saved after at the 2nd set of cracked flooring puzzle
- Got to rayquaza, saved and re-opened battle record for the seed again
- Went right in front of it, paused on the target advance and then while holding a, I unpaused the game
Repeated this many times but no luck, I was shown the txt file for the emerald static encounters and it says to press a in front of it, so I don't think it's that at least. Please help ๐ฆ
Note: While retracking my steps I went back to the pokemonrng website and saw step 4 of the painting RNG saying to use the number of advances in seed to time to finish the RNG. I did not do this and instead used the advance after generating the seed from the battle record, however I have just attempted it with the seed to time advances and it still didn't work.