Here's a good question...
Okay, here's the sitch: I'm restarting my game in Ruby, and I wanna try to get a shiny starter. I'm really determined this time (I only gave up after three hours last time, lol), so I don't wanna hear how ridiculously stupid it is, and how N00b1$h I'm being. :P I just have a question, and it's a doozie. This is for any of you who've had the fortune to get a shiny starter in Ruby or Sapphire:
When you put the cursor on the Pokemon, did it have a different color in the preview pic? Or was it just a preset image, and gave no indication of your pokemon's er... shininess? If any of you have caught a shiny starter, please try to remember... I'm curious to know if I'll be able to tell before I actually engage that stupid Poochyena in battle, lol.