How close do my secret ID and trainer ID need to be in order to trigger the cute charm glitch in generation 4?

Jul. 13, 2018

I’m using an action replay to see my secret ID, I’m hard resetting for it. So far the closest I’ve gotten to my trainer ID was 263 numbers away. I’m wondering how close they need to be to each other for cute charm to work. I’ve tried rng manipulator but can’t seem to figure it out, so for now I’ll keep resetting.

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Apparently, they don’t need to be particularly close to each other (or open to each other, for that matter). This is what I was able to find about the cute charm glitch.

First, this is how some Pokemon are shiny. You probably already knew some of this.

sourceThe cute charm glitch works by setting a wild Pokemon’s PID to one of a certain set of PIDs, so PIDs in that set become much more common. As you probably already knew, you want a TID and SID that makes those PIDs shiny, which you can calculate using whatever formula is in the first part of this answer.source and list of PIDs