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TwilightBlade January 11th, 2015 6:57 PM

Around June 2006, I found a shiny Poochyena in Emerald and a shiny Pidgey in FireRed within a week apart of each other.

On October 12th 2006, I soft reset for a shiny Lugia and found it within a few days. I posted about it on Serebii http://www.serebiiforums.com/showthread.php?54753-The-NEW-shiny-PKMN-lovers-club/page587

During the next year, I soft reset for the shiny Ho-oh. Many years later, I found that my Emerald file's shiny frame was approximately 40 seconds into the game. Emerald is notorius in having a broken RNG mechanic. You will only find a shiny at xx:yy time in your game upon booting/soft resetting the game. The shiny frame may exist at 40 seconds like mine, may be 8 minutes for you, or may be 52 minutes for someone else. If you always soft reset as fast as you can and interact with the legendary for example in 10.674 seconds, and your shiny frame is not anywhere near 10 seconds, you will not find a shiny. You will instead find that same non-shiny Docile mediocre Pokemon or whatever Emerald is doomed to generate on each boot up.

Anyway, I applied this knowledge to stall my soft resetting just slightly to the 40 seconds to shoot for my shiny Groudon.

Around January 2012, I learned the actual RNG abuse. I used a timer and advanced to a certain frame to obtain shiny Kyogre, Rayquaza, and Regice in Sapphire. Here's the post about the Kyogre anyway. http://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?p=7023851#7023851

Lunos January 12th, 2015 2:14 AM

I guess i only i found a Shiny Tentacool in Ruby sometime ago, near of Fortree City if i remember correctly xD
Never used them, i just kept it in the PC as a trophy, like the legendaries.


Cya~

DyingWillFlareon January 19th, 2015 6:53 PM

I've only managed to find three shines, the first being in my Sapphire cartridge. X3 That was my first Pokemon game too~
I was running around outside Mauville(although I don't think it was for breeding) and found a shiny Wingull, loved him to death but that game was already complete, so I just trained him up a bit but kept doing other things. He's a level 45ish Pelipper now.
I found a Shiny NidoranF in a Gold Rom and she's on that main team, and found a shiny Vulpix on Mt. Pyre in Alpha Sapphire over the weekend.~ Cleverness Contest champ.~
Edit: Chain Fishing got me a Shellder and Skrelp in Y :D

Jet Black January 19th, 2015 9:13 PM

My first shiny was in FireRed, I found a shiny Pidgey at level 5 in route 3. At the time, I didn't know about Shinies so I just got it because I though that the stras that flew out of it made it different :p
My second shiny was in my first Ruby game, where I found a shiny Swablu. By then I was a dedicated fan so I did not hesitate and threw a ball. Too bad I never got round to training it. Picture under: My shiny Swablu in the box:
http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/ultimate-pokemon-fanon/images/f/f8/Untitledss.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width/270?cb=20141124192229

slim spazzy January 21st, 2015 7:01 AM

I have actually met a shiny meowth xp i wasn't even sure if it was shiny at first.

JoshTheTrainer January 22nd, 2015 12:08 PM

It was on Pokemon Emerald 386 hack, found a shiny Nidoran (the male one) sadly I don't like that pokemon and never used it.

Egon Spengler January 24th, 2015 3:56 PM

Ohhhhh snap. I just found a Nidoran M Shiny in the Safari zone on F/R.

"Its right here Ray, its looking at me."

Egon Spengler January 24th, 2015 4:03 PM

GOT IT!!! Wooo woo! I got the vid on my iphone, I was playing the game on my GameCube GBA adapter! I'll get the video up here shortly.

Fun Size January 24th, 2015 4:18 PM

I was able to find a shiny Oddish (safari zone) and a shiny Zubat (some cave somewhere) which I luckily didn't forget about and traded them to my copy of Pokemon Black. However since I'm not really into either of them I guess the PC will be their home for all eternity.

Egon Spengler January 24th, 2015 9:03 PM

Here is the video of my Shiny Nidoran capture in the Leaf Green Safari Zone today! I evolved him into Nidoking rather quickly.

http://www.mobypicture.com/user/SuperSkunk812/view/17775883

Bounsweet February 5th, 2015 11:03 AM

Yep, many times!

In RSE I've found a shiny Swablu, Spinda, Golbat, Oddish, Abra, and Poochyena.

And in FRLG I've found a shiny Venonat, Diglett, and two shiny Rattatas.

Zaphkiel February 5th, 2015 6:59 PM

Found a shiny Zigzagoon just recently. Killed it.

Psychic February 9th, 2015 7:54 PM

My first non-gen 2 shiny was from Sapphire! I didn't play it when it originally came out, though - instead I was playing through it for the first time in 2013, and I came across a Zigzagoon that I was pretty sure did not look brown. I caught it just to be safe, and lo and behold, it was shiny! That Zigzagoon started me on my current shiny streak. :)

~Psychic

Kip February 10th, 2015 6:55 AM

I never encountered a shiny until FireRed in 2005.

It was a Tauros. And it ran away.

I haven't encountered a single shiny in the wild since.

giradialkia February 10th, 2015 9:42 AM

It was a long time before I started encountering legitimate shinies. My first shiny encounter in 3rd Gen was a Metapod in Viridian Forest.
I used Pikachu, Thunder Shock. It did just over half HP damage. My starter had fainted from poisoning, so Pikachu was my only choice.
Long story short, I ran out of Pokéballs, because a METAPOD of all things decided to resist capture. :(

Venitardus February 10th, 2015 6:06 PM

I encountered a shiny geodude, but for some odd reason it fled

CoffeeDrink February 10th, 2015 7:41 PM

A Shiny Zubat. Don't have it anymore, but I caught one. Just like every other game that has shiny Pokémon in it.

PokéMew February 20th, 2015 11:21 AM

Indeed I have, several as a matter of fact.
Shiny Abra
Shiny Hoppip
Shiny Porygon
Shiny Dratini
Shiny Charmander
Shiny Magikarp
Shiny Chansey
Shiny Aerodactyl

Thats 8 shinies. All of these were on my FireRed. There was that point in my life where I was addicted to hunting for shinies, I spent hours a day just Soft Reseting. The only one of those that I found on accident was hoppip. I ended up losing that FireRed while moving :'(

matildamantis February 28th, 2015 9:55 PM

I found one Shiny Scyther in the Safari Zone.

AtecainCorp. March 1st, 2015 8:57 AM

I found two. One in clear Emerald Rom. I found Shiny Whishmur. Secound and third is during my hack testing. I found shiny Ho-Oh and shiny Larvitar.

Banjora Marxvile March 2nd, 2015 3:31 PM

I found a Shiny Dusclops... In the Battle Pike... I still hate RNG to this day...

Charlie_J March 4th, 2015 3:46 AM

I caught a shiny Doduo once in the Safari Zone on a firered save but it ended up getting wiped! I really want a shiny Ponyta!

UkitakeJuushiro March 5th, 2015 3:08 AM

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I can't post links yet so just check the attachment.I'm on a Fire Red shiny hunt.

MegaRegisteel March 5th, 2015 7:57 AM

My first wild shiny was a Spinda on Emerald.


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