I was looking through the document uploaded to the site by Pokeguy and i somehow managed to overlook the part in the beginning where i had to change the date. So anyways i was playing up till Opal, and it went pretty well for a test run. But then i had to change the date to the 23.rd of september and from there on i was confused. I quickly figured out what i had missed so i tried to leave the wild area, change the date, go back and see if i could find drilbur and the nchange the date again.

I couldnt find any drilburs despite my best efforts so i wonder if any1 got an answer to my following question:

"Had me not changing the date from the start anything to do with me not being able to encounter drilbur to progress?"

I play on a (European) physical copy of the game if that helps in any way.

So the idea with that section is you need a Drilbur to spawn on 9/21, since that's when weather is right for it to spawn. Then, after it's spawned, change the date to 9/23 and then encounter it. The reason for this is that Drilbur only spawns in Harsh Sunlight and Sandstorm. In Harsh Sun, your fire moves will do too much damage to him and probably KO him, not to mention the fact that it's only a 10% spawn. In Sandstorm, you will take damage every turn, which is really slow, but it's a 35% spawn so we want that

So basically: Start with 9/21 -> Spawn Drilbur -> Change to 9/23 -> Encounter Drilbur

If you need to encounter a second one (first one died or was overlevelled), change the date back to 9/21