Random Number Generator

The Random Number Generator or RNG, is the computing method that Golden Sun and Golden Sun: The Lost Age use to determine the occurrence of seemingly random events in the game, such as chance monster battles both on the world map and in non-map areas, and also the drops of Items. The games use separate RNG calculators for in battle and out of battle events.

Manipulation
The Random Number Generator is not truly random, as it's name would suggest, and relies on player actions to determine the "random" events. As such, using the Random Number Generator, the game can be manipulated in a way to achieve a desired outcome (A monster dropping a rare item, for instance) one hundred percent of the time, if the correct methods are followed. Several ways to manipulate it have arisen:


 * The Dark Panther method - Killing a monster with a Djinni of the element it is weak to will increase the chance of the monster dropping a rare item by a factor of four.