3rd Gen Shiny Discussion/FAQ [Read all of first post if you don't want an infraction]

[SuperSparky1]

I remember my first shiny; an Oddish. I was in the route with the Cycling Road in Emerald where you fight May also, and I went into a wild battle. It was an Oddish... but something was wrong... It wasn't blue, it was green... and it sparkled. I thought, "What the...? Is this a hack?" I've never heard about shinies before so I thought it didn't matter as much. I threw a ball, and guess what?! I caught it! Years later, Oddish is still in my PC. I don't know when I'll transfer it. :3

[makenshi_au]

Can Jirachi from Pokemon Channel ever be shiny just want to know for certin to many sites say yes or no if anyone can help would be great.

[zefinho10]

Can Jirachi from Pokemon Channel ever be shiny just want to know for certin to many sites say yes or no if anyone can help would be great.

Only from WISHMR i think it is.I found a site where a guy uploaded a rom save with a shiny jirachy OT/WISHMR - ID/20043
for channel check this http://www.smogon.com/forums/showpos...&postcount=953

[RaichuArcanine]

I started a BQ in my Firered and I'm hunting for my first target, Squirtle and I'm at 340 SR's. Good luck to everyone else too! EDIT: I just got three females in a row!

~RaichuArcanine~

[tomatohater]

Hey All!

I've been poking around the R/S/E Threads for a while now, but I cannot seem to find a Thread DEDICATED to Shinies (So 'Recent Happenings' doesn't count) anywhere for these games!

I mean, we have a 'Shiny Pokemon Failures' Thread, so why not have a 'Successful Shiny Thread'?

So anyway, come here to talk about your Shiny Hunts/Encounters and Good Luck on all your Hunts!

[ashiemore]

Only successful shiny on RSE: Poochyena. I know. I really don't have the time to go searching for something that's a 1/8192 chance, so I just take what I get.

~ashiemore

[tomatohater]

Hey ashiemore!

I think 1/8192 Shinies are the best, you don't expect them and they could be anything (providing you don't SR).
Look at it this way, you already have more 3rd Gen Shinies than me!

[Winter02]

My successful shinies in R/S/E was a Duskull in Ruby as well as Poochyena, Oddish, Whismur and Spinda in Emerald. Never got one in Sapphire. Or through breeding either, all of them were random encounters.

[tomatohater]

Wow Winter02!

You have gotten so many Shinies! I wish I had luck like yours!

I am going to try and get myself a Shiny Registeel soon via SR!

[bobandbill]

I'm afraid we already have a thread for shiny discussion in 3rd gen games... as there's a few posts already I'll just merge it for you.

[ShinyGoogleplex]

And first off I don't like the idea nor practice RNGing myself, and yet I'm facing a dilemma that ups my respect for those that do it and it requires ASAP attention.
I'll copy/paste this to three other threads to hit the proper one handling this situation of mine and to abide by forum rules.


It's on a burned-out (dry battery) Sapphire, I was planning on just doing a 'fun' playthrough not taking more details seriously, with a hopeful chance of (E) encountering nice moment shinies.

Yet I had thought of this theory of Saving at a stationary each time I first power-on my GBA and Save after a soft reset, as a way of building up the time letting seconds go by, I called it a step-by-step ladder method because I was Saving and time was going by even on this dry game.

I wasn't doing this a few minutes ago of this writing and was just playing thru when I found a very, very, early shiny Zigzagoon above Oldale, at a part of the game I'm not carrying Poke balls but I'm so excited just knowing that I have a great early shiny frame ID number (I saved this good ID number and before I selected a starter! I'm saved at 3 minutes about to go out the professor's House.). I won't update my save just yet, even to maybe bring me closer in passed time to the Treeko I do want now.

I'm real happy 'bout this and I know my desired shiny Treeko must be somewhere in the 2 hour (tops!) timeframe. I've been trying to click on him at different intervals of time but this is hard, every micro-second.

That footprint fossil guy hasn't moved yet so I'm thinking those further doorways to thousands of more frames not opened yet is good and will limit where the wonderful shiny frame pops at it's pre-set, designated time (2 hours hopefully, no more.). Where the Zigzagoon was was on the top grass patch of two grass patches that's left to the guy beside water on Route (103?), where you also find Wingulls. It was around the playtime of 18-19 minutes. When I saw that orange Zigzagoon I knew what it meant, that I have a very early ID number for shinies between those two routes and that I can go for Treecko at the correct givin' time.

I'm calling to RNG experts to please help me determine when shiny Treecko, or any starter, will take place. My Trainer ID number which I've been referring to is: 58455.


Around what minute (if determined) would a shiny starter appear? Please assist.



Also it was hard to reset on that orange Zigzagoon, but I had no balls anyway and I know what frame it was & around what time it was when it happened. I could go get him again, but I want a starter. Treecko shiny in particular.