Good to hear you got your game back
RaichuArcanine! And sorry to hear about your cat
Scherzando, hope he gets better soon.
So, you know when you say you're going to post more, and then 10 days later you haven't posted anything? Yeah...
Congrats to everyone on your shinies!
And sorry for the blanket congrats, I will try and post more in future.
So, my order arrived last week. It seems it's always the Sapphire game which is legit, doesn't it? The GBA SP worked fine and the Sapphire game was legit (though the internal battery is unfortunately dry). However, the FireRed copy turned out to be a fake - just my luck as that's the one I was wanting in the first place. However, I messaged the seller and he was fine with giving me a partial refund for the return of the fake cartridge, so that was resolved nice and easily, luckily. I didn't give up though, and a few days later managed to win a definite legit copy of the game - boxed, item description said bought on high street, seller had 100% feedback, and picture was good enough quality to see the indented numbers on the sticker of the cartridge. So I was very happy about winning that, and it arrived yesterday. As thought, it is legit and is in very good condition. So I might finally be able to do some Gen III shiny hunting in future!
I think I'll attempt to change Sapphire's internal battery too, as I would really like to be able to get shiny Kyogre and Rayquaza, and I have an annoying feeling they're going to be shiny locked in OR/AS. Also I don't feel like leaving Emerald on forever while hunting for Rayquaza, as the frames reset every time you start up the game so I'd have to constantly leave the game on, even while I'm not hunting, and GBA games don't have a sleep mode, so... (Do correct me if I'm wrong about this, though.) So yeah, it'd be really great to be able to hunt on Sapphire so if all goes well I should be able to soon.
Not much news in terms of actual shiny hunting (sorry!). I did a lot of hunting today and small bits over the past few days. Heracross now stands at 540 eggs hatched on X and counting. Releasing all of these things is gonna be a pain. Lugia stands at 2160 SRs, having reached 2000 today, so progressing kind of slowly but steadily. I haven't touched my Tepig hunt since my last post, I think I want to get these two hunts finished before resuming that, but my moods change so we'll see what happens.
I was thinking about immediately starting a BQ on FireRed, but I think I want to finish the majority of my legendary hunts before attempting a BQ. Not to mention I haven't done a proper RE hunt yet so I should probably test that out before starting a BQ then giving up. We'll see. I'd like to do some sort of hunt on it anyway, perhaps for Eevee or Gastly.
Anyway, good luck to everyone on your shinies! So many long hunts I've been seeing while reading the last few pages, I hope they all shine for you soon!