BASIC STEPS 1. Catch a perfect Nidoran using the 7 A press manip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iOx592-xhU 2. Hold A or B during all normal text boxes during the Nidoran encounter/catch 3. Clear the following text boxes within the buffer window: - Wild NIDORANM appeared! (3-4 frames) - All right! NIDORANM was (3-4 frames) - caught! (~120 frames) - New POKEDEX data will be added for (3-4 frames) - NIDORANM! (~60 frames) - First Pokedex text box (~90 frames) - Second Pokedex text box (~21 frames) - Do you want to give a nickname (3-4 frames) - YES/NO (4 frames) 4. Give the Nidoran a 1-character name within ~8 frames 5. Follow the movement instructions below, using the NPC1 column to check which nickname frame you hit ----- MOVEMENT INSTRUCTIONS Lowercase direction (u, d, l, r) indicates facing; uppercase (U, D, L, R) indicates movement PATH TIME NPC1 NPC2 NPC3-5 ROUTE 1 Early/mid d L D,l,l Normal, but turn 1 tile early on way down before Weedle Guy 2 Early u-->U R Normal, but A press on 51#25,43 3 Early u-->L L d-->D Normal, but enter Route 2 grass 1 tile early and turn ASAP 4 Early r-->L L Normal (can also do non-manip movement) 5 Early/mid d L D,d,d Normal, but A press on 51#25,43 6 Mid r RR Normal 7 Mid d-->UR L Normal 8 Mid d-->r L Normal, but enter Route 2 grass ASAP and continue all the way up LESS COMMON PATHS (maybe ignore for now): 9 Mid d R (?) Normal, but turn 1 tile early on way down before WG 10 Mid d-->D-->D ? Non-manip 11 Early r-->D ? Normal, but turn 1 tile early on way down before WG