Official New and Improved General Shiny Thread

[Jonny7197]

Grats on all the shinies - Heatran & Bronzor are the ones I can remember.

After a hunt of 883 SRs for a Johto starter I thought I'd be in for an easy badge quest, my game has proven me wrong.
Now up to 6600 REs for my 2nd BQ shiny - hopefully Mareep purely because I love it and it would count towards CH.

Anyways the 2nd Phase of my LG/FR hunt is up to 4200 REs, so I hope I can get a shiny by the end of the weekend at least and I'd be so grateful if it were a mareep.

Good luck anyways guys, you all seem to have rediculously short hunts so I'm not sure why I'm wishing you good luck, but yeah, good luck anyway xD

[lavaburst14]

Congratiez on the recent shinies especialy helio finally getting his BQ shiny, Cocoa on drifloon, and all the CH shinies~* Well i'm over 1,000+ eevee eggs(finally gave up), 6,000+ REs at reversal mountain + shiny charm(over the odds and with 2 DS systems), and over 1,000+ SRs for the johto starters(on 3 different DS systems)!!! Y U NO SHINE!?!?! xD xD xD Well maybe something'll shine by the end of my Florida vacation... highly doubt it since i'm sick on top of the broken ankle so i'm really tired x( Oh well. GL to everyone on their hunts, endeavors, and making some stars fly~*

[Markasdarkas]

COMMUNITY HUNT COMPLETE!

Just 1 day after SR'ing a shiny Latios, i SR'd a shiny Heatran 400~500 SR's made it a quick hunt.
Going to EV train some pokes for the upcoming winter friendly then on to Registeel.

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a79...ps9ca7cdf9.jpg

Grats on the Bronzor Aqua

Wow, VictorC you're on a roll keep up the great work man ^^ That is some crazy luck.

Everyone else keep up the great work with your community hunts and whatever else you're working on and do not give up
I will be starting my Regigigas hunt today which will finish out the last of my golem legendary group.

[Dangertrout]

Was wondering if Registeel counted for this month's CH, in the event Regichoc shines soon (1,200 SRs now)... What do you think, Dangertrout?

Because of the red dots on it's face? yes, it counts =)

[DizzyCobraMew]

I'm at 1,270 soft resets on Azelf, hope that when I continue the hunt in a few minutes that it will shine -_- I'm sick of the hunt, its my longest yet

[JAWAYami]

congrats on all the recent shinies[shiny growlithe rocks :P]

anyways my hunt for shiny axew is going much better now[fixed her fainting problem(gave her speed vitamins XD) so its going much smoother] ....i have a 50/50 shot with repel only Axew and Boldore show up[still hoping more for axew though...:P]

good luck on all hunts!!!

edit: CoD grats on the short Mesprit hunt and GL with your Heatran

[Cpchris]

Congrats to Markasdarkas on Heatran, Heliotrope on Growlithe (finally!), AquaRegisteel on Bronzor, and VictorC on Heatran!

Thanks, Ambri! And everyone else before of course, but I said that a while ago :x

This morning, I focused solely on doing Black Tower - not simultaneously SRing for Piplup. I planned on SRing while playing when I got home from work at 4...But, surprise! (NOT!) - a kid called in again asking me to take his shift right after mine ended (goofing off, I'm sure), so I didn't get out till a little after 9...So I'm just going to do Black Tower tonight. Tomorrow I'm a double, so I'm gone from 11-11. And then on Saturday, I'm away for 4 days, and it's a 5 hour car ride (not sure if I'll be driving any of it though), so it's kind of a toss-up as to whether any of this mini vacation will result in much shiny hunting or none at all...

Good luck to everyone

[City Of Delusion]

Community hunt complete!!

Yes! After 7 days Mesprit appears!!

http://i1190.photobucket.com/albums/...psf3b23842.jpg

So happy this wasn't a really long hunt! Unfortunately my modest sync failed and it got a brave nature which is pretty bad but I think I can work with it. Gratz on Growlithe, Bronzor, and those Heatrans! Which is what I'll be going for next. Good luck everyone! :]

[Trainer Frankie]

The shiny number/seed is determined when you turn the game on, right? So I'm right in understanding that if I just close my ds, it'll keep the number/seed from reseting, right?

That's what I did with my shiny elgyem and it seemed to work when I caught it, but since haven't found info on this now that I've researched the stuff. So just want to make sure I am understanding things correctly

[DittoPokemon97]

Just thought I'd say congrats to everyone on their recent shinies. Way to stick with that Growlithe hunt Helio!
Still hunting for a shiny MM Cranidos but I hatched 200 eggs over the past few days so I'm up to 250. Hopefully the shiny charm odds will stay true and I'll get him around 1000 eggs at most. Decided I'm going to hunt in the route outside of Mt. Moon on Leaf Green but idk when I will start that.
Well congrats again to everyone and keep hunting!

Edit: Well it's after midnight but I decided to hatch a few more eggs and on the 256th egg my shiny Cranidos has appeared! I wanted a cool hatch location so since I had saved I took the egg and hatched it while standing next to N in N's Castle. It is a male with a Naughty nature so that's good. Stats of HP:12 Att:7 Def:5 Sp. Att:5 Sp. Def:4 Speed:6 Extremely happy it came so fast being that this is my first official MM hunt.

[JohnNiles]

Edit: Well it's after midnight but I decided to hatch a few more eggs and on the 256th egg my shiny Cranidos has appeared! I wanted a cool hatch location so since I had saved I took the egg and hatched it while standing next to N in N's Castle. It is a male with a Naughty nature so that's good. Stats of HP:12 Att:7 Def:5 Sp. Att:5 Sp. Def:4 Speed:6 Extremely happy it came so fast being that this is my first official MM hunt.

Interesting hatch location. I wouldn't have thought of that.


Got bored with Munchlax so I decided to switch to hatching Lapras. I can't decide whether to take the extra time and hold out for its hidden ability (Hydration), or just roll the dice and hope for Water Absorb. Decisions, decisions.

[Pink Lapras]

Dual hunting Beldum now, hatching on SS and SR on Sapphire.

Also got my back-up DSlite, only preowned one they had was a pink one though.

[RaichuArcanine]

Community Hunt Complete!
After 1062 SR's,Shiny Virizion appears! The video should be on youtube very soon. I was really expecting to get SR's in all weekend but this is just awesome! I was just getting in a few SR's before dinner when I noticed it was pink and screamed OMG. I named it Rose and am going to EV Train it and get it to level 100. The best part is my jolly synch worked and it's Alert to Sounds!. I also caught it in a Heal Ball which was exactly what I wanted. It only took three heal balls to catch and to think that I came well prepared with three hundred. Here's it's IV's:
HP-5-6, Attack-5-6, Defense-19-20, Special Attack-29,31! Special Defense-0-1(lol), Speed-29,30! What a great way to end the first week of year 12! Pics:
http://i1063.photobucket.com/albums/...ps226275aa.jpg http://i1063.photobucket.com/albums/...ps7c13249d.jpg http://i1063.photobucket.com/albums/...psa3ba4738.jpg http://i1063.photobucket.com/albums/...ps700fef24.jpg It's also my first ever SR legendary! ^_^ Congrats on all other shinies too-lady luck seems to be smiling down on us!

~RaichuArcanine~

[2rsa]

Congratz on all the recent shinies(growlith,virizion,latios,heatrans,mesprit,bronzer,crandios and all the others i may have forgotten)!
Anyways,I'm happy to say,Community Hunt Complete!
After 812 egg Cynda decided to shine!I've been hunting for Cynda on and off for a while now.I called him Typhoon(unoriginal,I know).Oh,and sadly he has a jolly nature,but I'm not going to complain.

[rovert]

The shiny number/seed is determined when you turn the game on, right? So I'm right in understanding that if I just close my ds, it'll keep the number/seed from reseting, right?

That's what I did with my shiny elgyem and it seemed to work when I caught it, but since haven't found info on this now that I've researched the stuff. So just want to make sure I am understanding things correctly

I'm pretty sure it changes when you SR as well otherwise you would be finding the same pokemon unless you somehow advance the frames either on your own or from npcs...

[SharpedoX]

I've done over 500 eggs for Zorua and still no MM egg? Is it that difficult?

[Trainer Frankie]

I'm pretty sure it changes when you SR as well otherwise you would be finding the same pokemon unless you somehow advance the frames either on your own or from npcs...

Well sring is technically shutting the game off, so yea, but just closing the screen and not going through the main screen and all will keep it from reseting. Just wanted to make sure I was right.

[Cup of Tea]

I almost MM'ed for a shiny Magikarp recently, SO glad I didn't do that, with it being given away in Japan and all. Ahh well, Mawile is still my goal ^_^

[TheEliteEmpoleon]

So Virizion has sorta become my main hunt now. I've lost interest in Tepig now because SRs for Virizion are so much quicker. Maybe I'll move my first BQ shiny to a route or Flocessy Ranch.

[rovert]

Well sring is technically shutting the game off, so yea, but just closing the screen and not going through the main screen and all will keep it from reseting. Just wanted to make sure I was right.

I just realized I misread your post before. Yeah, as long as you keep the system on and the game loaded, the seed doesn't change. If you don't close it the frames might be way off from an npc or from time in gen 3 (with the broken rng from emerald/RS dry battery)

[goldensteambun]

I've done over 500 eggs for Zorua and still no MM egg? Is it that difficult?

My Zorua took 991 egg by MM without shiny charm, so no worry yet xDD And beside, my shiny Trapinch still hasn't come after almost 2000 eggs for now lol, be patient u v u

[dan2point5]

Congrats on Virizion! Beautiful shiny!

By the way... BOOM!! Shiny Koffing after 4,172 encounters. Also I noticed that shiny Koffing has a red mouth so Community Hunt complete?!

[Trainer Frankie]

I just realized I misread your post before. Yeah, as long as you keep the system on and the game loaded, the seed doesn't change. If you don't close it the frames might be way off from an npc or from time in gen 3 (with the broken rng from emerald/RS dry battery)

I don't understand what you mean by the "If you don't close it"...part. But yea, I'll keep the game on as I have been closing, not shutting it off, as I have been and eventually I'll reach that seed.

[JAWAYami]

gratz on Virizon and Koffing[i wanna get 1 but dont even have a regular 1 yet(ill try to get 1 the next time I go to the Dream World...)]

And on hunt news....My hunt for a shiny Axew is still ongoing but sooner or later somethings gotta shine right??? XD

...oh and Good Luck on all ongoing hunts!!

[Dangertrout]

I don't understand what you mean by the "If you don't close it"...part. But yea, I'll keep the game on as I have been closing, not shutting it off, as I have been and eventually I'll reach that seed.

he means if you don't put it on standby, the frames will continue to advance because of NPCs moving around and such.
although, with the GBA games, closing the lid doesn't put them on standby, they continue to run. so you cant "pause" the RNG in those

edit - I should probably point out that because of the way the frames advance because of NPCs moving, or you moving or using your PC, etc... it's entirely possible to skip over your shiny frame. So leaving the game on forever doesn't guarantee you'll hit your shiny frame.