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Shiny Hunting with a dead internal battery

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Aquarelle

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Yes, you can still find shinies even when your internal battery has run dry. A dead internal battery just means that time-based events (berries, the tides in Shoal Cave, etc.) no longer occur. Finding a shiny has nothing to do with the time, so it's not affected by the battery being dead.
 
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To quote my post in a previous thread.
EDIT: The post was a still bit vague so here. The RNG affects everything in-game, including shinies. In this case, your dry internal battery in R/S causes the game's RNG to act like Emerald's, which is broken and in a fixed position. It is still possible to shiny hunt with the broken RNG, but it is much more difficult than with a regular R/S cartridge. You can also choose to manipulate the broken RNG to produce shinies but that is a different topic.

So much false information here. Please read up on how the RNG works.

And yes, once the internal battery is dry in Ruby/Sapphire, the RNG runs like Emerald's. That means that it runs consistently, and doesn't change. For an example, let's say at exactly 17 seconds and 32 milliseconds in, I run into a shiny Pokemon. At 17 seconds and 32 milliseconds in, I will ALWAYS run into a shiny Pokemon, no matter what.

Of course, finding a shiny Pokemon requires having a shiny frame first, so if you don't have any shiny frames at all, you will never find a shiny. All you will have is regular frames. This is why it's not generally recommended to shiny hunt on these games.

I have a shiny frame on my Emerald 16 seconds in, which is early enough to soft reset for a shiny starter, so I would recommend starting over and SRing at least 100-250 times. If no shiny appears at all by that point, you don't have an early shiny frame on that file and you must start a new one and repeat the process. This way, you're not actually abusing the RNG.

This particular broken RNG only applies to Emerald and dry Ruby/Sapphire cartridges. Click here to read up more about it.
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If you have any other questions please post them in the Help/FAQ thread sticky at the top of this section.
 
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