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  1. Pokemon Heart Gold Any% FAQ
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  3. Q: What are you playing on, it is emulator?
  4. A: No, I play on a 3DS using software purchased from 3dscapture.com
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  6. Q: Why do you choose Cyndaquil?
  7. A: Because the Cyndaquil evolution family is the best for the speedrun, without it, my time would not be nearly as fast.
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  9. Q: Why do you keep resetting and changing the time?
  10. A: I need to use a specific time in order to use RNG manipulation, so I set the clock in such a way that I can use it.
  11. The timer counts down to when I need to reset for the correct second.
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  13. Q: What is RNG?
  14. A: Random Number Generator, the thing that determines everything random within the game, such as stats, encounters and lottery numbers.
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  16. Q: Why use RNG Manipulation?
  17. A: RNG manipulation is used in this glitched speedrun, which involves resetting on a specific second starting from a specific time, and hitting the correct frame for the correct seed after resetting. This allows for things such as the lottery number, Cyndaquils starting stats and the encounter rate to be manipulated.
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  19. Q: What causes the resets?
  20. A: I missed the trainer ID. The one I am trying to hit is 44337. If I don't get it I know I incorrectly RNG Manipulated so I reset.
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  22. Q: Why is it important? Why is the lottery used?
  23. A: The reason why this is important is because the lottery number is used to obtain the Master Ball, and this is used to obtain Raikou, who is much faster than any other Pokemon for this speedrun. This happens because the Trainer ID is manipulated to be the same as the Lottery ID.
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  25. Q: Why don't you check Cyndaquils stats? What are Cyndaquils stats like?
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  27. A: Cyndaquils starting stats are the same every time RNG manipulation is used, and also quite decent using RNG manipulaton, but not perfect. The reason for this is because there are a limited amount of seeds you can rng manipulate for, as you also have to manipulate the lottery id to be the same as the trainer id. The Cyndaquils IVs are 9hp, 10atk, 24def, 23spatk, 2spdef, 14speed
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  29. Q: How are you getting 0 encounters on Route 29?
  30. A: The encounters can be manipulated because the RNG does not change if your movement is perfect; so if you just move correctly you wont get encounters on the first route. However, past the Cherrygrove, the old man cutscene as you enter changes the rng in a different way, so it's not always certain you'll get the same RNG for any route past Route 29.
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  32. Q: Why not Soul Silver?
  33. A: Heart Gold and Soul Silver are the same for RNG manipulation and for glitched runs in general, there is absolutely no difference.
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  35. Q: Why do you use Frame 16?
  36. A: Because it's sexy :3
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  38. Q: Why do you play as the girl?
  39. A: The counterpart does the catching tutorial, and the male does it faster, so it’s faster to choose the female for yourself
  40.  
  41. Q: Why do you name yourself and Cyndaquil 'I'?
  42. A: Because it's faster to name them one character for text purposes, and the letter 'I' gives a nice spin as if the game was self-narrating
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  44. Q: What is WR?
  45. A: Whatever the splits are probably
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