I think I'm onto a new shiny hunting soft reset strategy--entropy pool manipulation.
My current hypothesis is that the game uses user input as a source of random data for the random number generation. Here's what I have to go on--not much, but something:
This is a listing of the natures of several 20HP females I've encountered. Before the stars, I was simply resetting and trying for the Treecko again. At the stars, I walked around a bit, saved, then resumed soft resetting. The significant recurrence of Relaxed and Impish (I had seen a couple of Impish before writing them down) ceased, suggesting that what steps you take/when are used in the RNG's entropy pool. Now, without knowing exactly how the RNG operates and the current state of the entropy pool, there's not much we can do as far as manipulation goes, but we can ensure its randomness by taking short breaks (walking around randomly) when in an otherwise endless trial of SRs.
16683 Treeckos seen.