CLOCK INPUT
GENERATION II SYSTEMS · ORIGINAL GOLD & SILVER RULES
The rules that make Johto feel alive
Set the clock, identify a rare Headbutt tree, plan a swarm call, track all three roaming beasts, model friendship and breeding, inspect every phone rematch, and calculate an exact Bug-Catching Contest score.
9 mechanics
28 phone trainers
251 hatch records
16 roaming routes
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REAL-TIME CLOCK
Three encounter bands, one 24-hour clock
ACTIVE CONSEQUENCES
What the current band changes
SEVEN-DAY ROUTE
Build a weekly Johto checklist
TREE ENCOUNTERS
Decode bad, good, and rare Headbutt trees
TREE CALCULATOR
Coordinate score vs Trainer ID
RESULTING TABLE
Forest · common table
MAP ASSIGNMENTS
City and None entries are intentionally inactive in the engineWhich areas use each Headbutt set?
PHONE OUTBREAKS
Six swarm calls and their replacement tables
Daily behaviorA successful caller sets the daily swarm flag. Further swarm branches fall back to generic calls until the daily flags reset.
ROAMING LEGENDARIES
Raikou, Entei, and Suicune share one route graph
ROUTE EXPLORER
Inspect the next connected routes
Selected beast replaces an encounter25 / 2569.765625%
Any beast passes the random selector75 / 25629.296875%
ENGINE RULES
When a roamer moves or appears
JOHTO NETWORK
Select a node to inspect it aboveThe complete 16-route roaming graph
ONE-BYTE FRIENDSHIP
Project every change from 0 to 255
CURRENT VALUE
Friendship simulator
70/ 255Not used to you
PLANNED EVENTS
Each action reads the current band firstChange ledger
SOURCE TABLE
Haircut outcomes are listed separately because the game rolls one resultApply a friendship event
DAY-CARE & EGGS
Test compatibility and calculate hatch distance
PARENT PAIR
Compatibility calculator
GEN II PIPELINE
What the Day-Care actually does
ALL 251 POKÉMON
Hatch steps = egg cycles × 256Hatch cycle lookup
POKEGEAR DIRECTORY
Every trainer number and rematch team
Gold/Silver distinctionThese games include rematches, six swarm callers, and Bug Contest reminders. Crystal's phone-item gift branches are not included.
NATIONAL PARK
Calculate the exact Bug-Catching Contest score
JUDGING FORMULA
Use the caught Pokémon's calculated battle statsScore your current catch
PLACEMENT TARGETS
Prizes and NPC ceiling
Guaranteed first-place score376+The highest possible NPC roll is 375.
WILD TABLE
Percentages sum to 100%Contest encounters
NPC BENCHMARKS
Five of ten NPCs are removed each contest