3rd Gen soft reseting?

[~Mithos~]

i'm soft reseting for a shiny starter so I can migrate him. when I do this and I click a on the ball does the little circle that pops up shiny? or do I actually have to start the battle.

 

[Random]

I dont think so really, i think you have to wait for the battle to see if its shiny or not, is this for R/S/E?

 

[~Mithos~]

yah it's for sapphire. dang that'll take even longer.

 

[WarHawk]

Yeah you have soft reset about 8000 times and you have to wait until the battle starts.

 

[~Mithos~]

okay, the whole thing only takes like 6 seconds though.

6x8000 = 48000 seconds

48000/60 = 800 mins... wow

and reseting to 8000 is max right?


EDIT: i messed up my math somewhere in there.

 

[Random]

Dont forget your going to want to take breaks, so its going to be even longer.

 

[~Mithos~]

i'm not going to do it for that long, probably half an hour at most every 2 or 3 hours... so this'll take a while.

 

[Random]

Which shiny starter are trying to head for?

 

[~Mithos~]

treeko, I have a level 36 shiny blaziken and level 37 shiny swampert aiming for a level 38 shiny sceptile to complete the odd collection XD

 

[Random]

Oh really? then where did you get those other shinies from?

 

[~Mithos~]

wireless trading fourm ftw.

all with different OT's. this will be the first shiny that I actually got for myself.

 

[Random]

Well if you dont really care about getting your own shiny, then why not save the trouble, and ask for shiny Sceptile. I dont think wasting 14 hours of you life is worth it, unless you really dont care.

 

[~Mithos~]

wow... good point. i'll just do it for an hour every other day, its fine.

 

[kayabeans]

Well good luck with it!:)

 

[~Mithos~]

thanks, I hope I get one soon.

 

[~*!*~Tatsujin Gosuto~*!*~]

or just cheat, I don't see the point of wasting your time on shines, but good luck hope you get it


:t354:TG

 

[yoshikiller995]

Junt fyi, it can take more then the 8000 trys, i've seen people go well over 10k trys before getting one.

 

[Black Ice]

Just because you have a 1/8000-something chance in getting one doesn't mean you'll automatically get it after tryin' 8000 times. No matter how many times you try, you'll still only have a 1/8000 chance of finding one. You can find it early on, or you can find it after 10000 tries. It's just luck, not math.

Oh, and good luck. ;)

 

[~Mithos~]

I know, I was just looking for if It was completely 1/8000 and I got it on the 8000nth one.

 

[Hideki~kun]

Oh, and one of the bad things of starter shiny hunting in R/S/E is the wild Poochyena can be shiny, xD