A Beginner's Guide to Shiny Hacking

Hey guys!
This tutorial will teach you everything you know about Shiny Hacking. If you want to make some sort of epic event that gives you a Shiny Pokemon for your hack (or if you just want to learn it), then this tutorial is for you. I'm trying to make this tutorial as beginner-friendly as possible and I hope everyone reading this would understand this tutorial :)

Someone has already made this tutorial somewhere before but the thread died out so I decided to make another one but this time more beginner-friendly. But if you are a newbie, please make sure to learn how to use AdvanceMap and PKSV first, since there are many tutorials here explaining how to use it.

Below is a video demonstrating the miraculous works of this hack.



Now to get started...

Programs/files needed:


Getting Started:


And that's all for now :)

Thanks for wasting spending your time on this tutorial. I plan to update this post soon and create an XSE tutorial as well once I learn XSE basics and stuff.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask me anytime :)

What's changing if you changed the shiny routine? Is there a bigger chance now for encountering shinies? Or is it that you can "force" to make Shiny events?

N!elz said:

What's changing if you changed the shiny routine? Is there a bigger chance now for encountering shinies? Or is it that you can "force" to make Shiny events?

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It alters the shiny routine for our specified 'callasm' script to match with the new routine. So in a way, it 'forces' the game to make shiny events, yes. :)

dragon456 said:

It alters the shiny routine for our specified 'callasm' script to match with the new routine. So in a way, it 'forces' the game to make shiny events, yes. :)

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Okay! Thanks for the answer :) I'll be using this one in my hack I think!

Oh, and by the way, if I wanted to make it a battle against a ''forced'' shiny, can I use that same "callasm" script but place it in a battle script, or doesn't it work that way? (you don't have to give explanation if you don't feel like it)

N!elz said:

Okay! Thanks for the answer :) I'll be using this one in my hack I think!

Oh, and by the way, if I wanted to make it a battle against a ''forced'' shiny, can I use that same "callasm" script but place it in a battle script, or doesn't it work that way? (you don't have to give explanation if you don't feel like it)

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Yes, it works exactly the same way, but you'll need a different script, I guess. You'll still be using the same 'callasm' command, though. :)

dragon456 said:

Yes, it works exactly the same way, but you'll need a different script, I guess. You'll still be using the same 'callasm' command, though. :)

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Thanks for the answers, I really appreciate that! :) I just wrote my first working scripts today! A plain message script, a give Pokémon script and edited a PokéMart script to my needs. And I also want to thank you for being responsible for a part of my understanding for scripting!

This is great!!! I can't wait for the XSE tutorial (because that's the one i use, i no longer use pokesav) Once again this is a great :)

Okay so this is the only way I can force a Pokemon in like another Trainer's party? Like Im making a optional Trainer battle and he has a Celebi that is suppose to be shiny while the other Pokemon are normal. How would I go and just add Celebi into being a shiny?