Why does soft resetting for lottery tickets only work in Emerald?

Jul. 6, 2020

So I tried soft resetting for a winning lottery ticket in ruby and sapphire but I would always get the same number. I then tried doing the same thing but in my emerald version and what do you know, a different number every soft reset… My question is why? Why does this only work in emerald?

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I actually managed to find the reason why this happened. Whenever you boot up the game and it’s a new day, go to the lottery, get a lotto ticket number, soft reset. It will always be different as long as you do not save the game. This means that if you saved the game in front of the lady that gives you the number the day before, you can just keep soft resetting until you win! This works for Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald!

I wonder if the daily mirage island number works the same way…