RNG Issues in Gen 3 Pokemon Games

[ScarlettHaze]

I'm catching Pokemon that have a single ability and it should always result in a Ability bit set to 0 but it's being set to 1 sometimes because some frames in the RNG shouldn't be landed on yet the emulator isn't as accurate with the RNG

The disassembly shows that if a Pokemon does not have a second ability defined, it does not set the ability bit
https://github.com/pret/pokeemerald/blob/e4149e83f89b8b86478e03b8112c1d1e922e65a6/src/pokemon.c#L2296

[ScarlettHaze]

it's to do with vblank from what I've researched

[fleroviux]

Yes, I'm aware of RNG issues with games like Pokemon. Unfortunately this requires an extreme level of timing precision to get the same RNG values as real hardware and we're just not 100% there yet to make this work.