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

[AlexSH]

I had been SRing for a shiny Treecko on Emerald. 380 SRs later and I gave up and decided to play through the file. While trying to find a Seedot for my dex on Route 102 (not even 2 hours into the file) I ran into.... a shiny Wurmple! In all it's purple glory. ^_^ Naughty nature isn't great, but that's ok. I think I'm going to wait until I migrate / pokeshift it to White to evolve it
I nearly had a heart attack trying to catch it. It was level 4, I tackled with my level 6 wurmple and crit it into the red.

You do know about Emerald's broken RNG right?

 

[Dangertrout]

You do know about Emerald's broken RNG right?

>.< by Emerald I meant Ruby. I don't know why I had Emerald in my head all day.
... you CAN SR them in R/S, right? I saw Birch's starters shiny on Smogon, so I assumed you could. didn't really look into how the RNG works for gen 3.

edit - silly me, of course I had Emerald stuck in my head. That's what I was playing after I gave up in SRing in Ruby

 

[Ginji]

I caught my very first shiny in my firered while looking for the key to blaine's gym

Spoiler: pic

 

[rykerr1]

Just got the second badge shiny for my Leaf Green badge quest!

http://i40.*******.com/erl9ht.jpg

Was expecting a pidgey or spearow, so I'm pretty excited about this... too bad he has a timid nature... oh well =)

 

[Skyhi101]

Quite surprised today when I was in the car and I decided to try and pull a shiny Whismur. It only took me 29 encounters to find this guy!

Suppose the nature could be better but he still looks cool <3

It's my first shiny on Emerald as well, gonna try looking in the grass patch in route 117 next!

 

[Draknir]

I was busy preparing to fight Winona in my Emerald Nuzlocke, when I got into a wild battle. I could tell I was fighting a Shiny Tentacool while it was shaded out. It broke out of the first Ultra Ball, but after Paralyzing it, I managed to get it. Its nature was Jolly, which I guess isn't too bad, but its a Shiny nonetheless. It shall be put on my team in the event I lose one of my current members.

 

[Scrufox86]

Hi all. Congratulations on recent shinies.

I have a few questions. I have heard about the Emerald broken rng but never tried the rng trick with it but i have recently heard that when Ruby and Sapphire batteries run dry that they basically have an Emerald rng. Can someone explain to me what a shiny file is? And apparently it is to do with the broken rng and if you restart a new file on your game if you find a shiny starter it means you'll find a lot of shinies? I'm confused about all this. Both my Ruby and Sapphire versions batteries have run dry so i was thinking of restarting one of them to do this if i know it can be done and actually works.

 

[KingofGames26]

Hi all. Congratulations on recent shinies.

I have a few questions. I have heard about the Emerald broken rng but never tried the rng trick with it but i have recently heard that when Ruby and Sapphire batteries run dry that they basically have an Emerald rng. Can someone explain to me what a shiny file is? And apparently it is to do with the broken rng and if you restart a new file on your game if you find a shiny starter it means you'll find a lot of shinies? I'm confused about all this. Both my Ruby and Sapphire versions batteries have run dry so i was thinking of restarting one of them to do this if i know it can be done and actually works.

Yeah, Ruby/Sapphire with a dry battery has Emerald's broken RNG. The RNG in it isn't exactly random. Which makes it more difficult to find a shiny unless you have an early shiny frame. I'm guessing a shiny file is a save file with an early shiny frame. If you have an early shiny frame it'll be easier to find shinies.

To SR for a shiny starter with the broken RNG:
1. Start a new game.
2. SR 30-50 times for a shiny starter.
3. If you don't get a shiny, start a new file.
Keep repeating 1-3 till you get a shiny starter. Try to vary your timing when you sr.

I'm just recently started looking into this since I want to try and SR for a shiny treecko. You can change your Ruby/Sapphire's battery if you want to SR the normal way.

 

[Darth Sabreus]

Yeah, Ruby/Sapphire with a dry battery has Emerald's broken RNG. The RNG in it isn't exactly random. Which makes it more difficult to find a shiny unless you have an early shiny frame. I'm guessing a shiny file is a save file with an early shiny frame. If you have an early shiny frame it'll be easier to find shinies.

To SR for a shiny starter with the broken RNG:
1. Start a new game.
2. SR 30-50 times for a shiny starter.
3. If you don't get a shiny, start a new file.
Keep repeating 1-3 till you get a shiny starter. Try to vary your timing when you sr.

I'm just recently started looking into this since I want to try and SR for a shiny treecko. You can change your Ruby/Sapphire's battery if you want to SR the normal way.

Uh-huh, this is the idea. Although, people who are dead set on soft resetting a shiny often do hundreds of resets to make sure they don't have an early shiny frame.

 

[Sapphire Kirby]

Today is my lucky day, and I am going to tell the world why. Today I was surfing up to Shoal Cave in Emerald to catch a Snorunt to send to White (after going through Platinum). Just before reaching the cave, I entered a battle and found a shiny Tentacool! After freaking out for a moment, I check my Pokemon to see if they know False Swipe or any non-damaging status moves. I don't so I throw a Net Ball, hoping to catch it. Luck is still on my side, and I manage to catch the Tentacool with the first Net Ball. I was too excited to worry about Snorunt (I caught one later), so I went back to a PC to look at my Shiny Tentacool.

Shiny Tentacool is my 5th random Shiny. I previously caught (in order) a Shiny Heracross(LG), Dunsparce(LG), Wailmer(R), and Oddish(E). Only the LG shinies were caught during the 3rd gen.; Wailmer and Oddish were caught during the fourth generation. I've clocked much more hours on my 4th gen, games, but never found a random shiny (nintendo events are fine, though). I know that Emerald has a broken RNG, but I don't know how to manipulate it at all; my emerald shinys were pure random found hours after I turned on the game.

Tentacruel is a decent Pokemon, so I'm going to try to raise it competitvely and use it in a battle tower. Picture of the Shiny Tentacool (named Shiny Wave) is in the spoiler.

Spoiler: Picture

 

[Dangertrout]

I'm doing a Nuzlocke in LG, and currently grinding my team to take on Vermillion Gym. I was watching TV, not looking at my game and thought "what's that weird sparkle sound?" Looked down and saw.. a shiny pidgey! Too bad it has a Hardy nature >.< Still fun to find shinies though =)

 

[Shiny Supercow]

It's been quite a while ago since I last posted anything, but I just started playing Saphire again and something really nice happened like ten minutes ago.

I decided to try the famous "RE" to find a shiny in victory road.
After two. Yes 2 encounters, first one being a wishmur, the second one was a shiny Hariyama!

I really could not believe my eyes. I quickly caught the bastard in a masterball due to the fact that he has whirlwind.
I will post a picture soon!

 

[PikaEevee]

It was a holiday night, so I had school off. I was playing Ruby, and I was on this island like area I just discovered near Rustboro. I was running around in this patch of grass, because I wanted to see if it had any unique Pokemon. The result was a shiny Tallow. I was so excited, it was pure luck. I caught it pretty quickly. His nickname is Shiny, level 26, and his nature is hasty. I don't know if that is a good or bad nature, but his stats are 59 HP, 26 speical attack, 34 attack, 22 speical attack, 18 defense, and 57 speed. I've evolved him into a Swellow, but never saved, because even though I like the shiny Swellow design, I want to keep Tallow the way I found it.

My brother also has a shiny Whismur on his Emerald.

I've never tried soft reseting.

 

[Shiny Supercow]

And here it is!

 

[Hyper_Beam_Attack]

Hi, new here
Congratulations to all in your recent findings!
So...I was looking for a Geodude in that cave on the island for the second Gym, in Sapphire, for my recently restarted monotype run.
When outta nowhere I found a stoned Aron. I was actually reading something off the interwebz before looking down at the DS screen.
I forget her nature, but it's an okay nature, according to me. xD

Good luck in your huntings!

 

[Cutty]

Glad to see this thread a bit active.

I got 2 new shinies from my LeafGreen games to show.

The first one is not exactly I wanted, but it's still shiny nevertheless.
This is my second attempt on shiny Meowth but ended up differently.

Spoiler: Shiny in JPN LG

Got it after 4,690 RE's on route 6.

The second shiny a bit shocked me as it appeared faster than I thought it would. Only took 1,582 SR's in LG again but different version.

Spoiler: Shiny in US LG

My other current hunts in 3rd gen games are Kyogre, Charmander, RE in JPN LG and Ruby. The Kyogre has passed 10k.

 

[Dangertrout]

grats to the recent shinies!
@ Cutty, I hope your internal battery holds out for your Kyogre. Once it dies, SRing won't do you much good

I've been playing a Sapphire Nuzlocke lately, and while training on the route above Slateport I ran into a shiny Zigzagoon!
For once, I caught a RE shiny with a nature that didn't suck! (It's adamant)
I think I may have used up my shiny luck for the month though, which makes me sad. (I'm MMing a female bulbasaur in Black, and was really hoping to hatch it this month >.<)

 

[Aura Of Twilight]

Awhile back, I remember SRing for a shiny Charamander on LeafGreen. Surprisingly, it only took three days to finally get it, but even so its nature was terrible....Oh the irony...

On Pokemon Collosseum, what happened wasn't what I expected. I had just been going through the game normally and at last I battled Miror B for the first time. There had been nothing really special about it, other than the music. After I caught the shadow Sudowoodo I put it in storage, but a few days later I realized something: It was a shiny, and a werid one at that; green body with pink branches. It was so unexpected that I swore. XD

As for XD I wasn't quite as lucky. One day I decided to started over on it, and what happened? A shiny. Except this time it was the Salamance you use in the battle simulation at the beginning. Long story short, I couldn't get it. A little peice of me died inside right then and there.

 

[Lorde]

I found a Shiny Trapinch as I was traveling through the desert portion of Route 111 in Emerald version yesterday. I was actually looking for a wild Cacnea at the time, but I encountered the Shiny instead. I was so happy because I've only encountered a few Shinies in Emerald version. I captured it in a Great Ball after my Sceptile used False Swipe on it. I didn't nickname it, nor have I trained it yet. I just want to keep it in that state. I might transfer it to Diamond version later on, but for now, I'm keeping it as a sort of trophy.

 

[~Silver Aura~]

OK I decided to restart my emwrald file and SR for a shiny Mudkip. Of course the broken RNG wasn't gonna make that easy for me, but thanks to a demonstration (sp?) vid I was able to varie my timing better.After about four days and several files I still didn't have my shiny....but just as I was getting discouraged, a purple Mudkip popped out! I couldn't believe it. Saying I was over the moon is proberly an understatment. Anyway my new shiny has the bold nature. Not the best but I don't care! It's shiny! And I didn't run into any shiny Zigzagoon, not one!