These Shiny Pokemon Are Getting Cancelled.

Some shiny pokemon are tied to specific methods in the older generations of pokemon games. Today, these methods are in danger, as 3DS online services shut down, potentially bringing pokemon bank with it in the future. Locking all access to them.
In this video, I investigated the fastest ways of getting the generation 1 and generation 2 legendary
and mythical pokemon shiny, and tested them.

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[SalamiMilk]

As a shiny hunter who has tried various methods for Pokemon that sparkle, I love these glitch shiny hunts. It's something completely different and so much more challenging, in a good way. While other shiny methods are a battle of attrition, where success is dependent on how much patience you have, these glitch hunts require such pinpoint precision. Any small error or timing will affect the outcome, never in a good way.

And that challenge to detail is so oddly enjoyable! To use the games' own system against itself, to bypass any hack checks, and having that shiny legendary or mythical as a reward for your tenacity, it's a wonderful thrill! All thanks to those before us who were able to understand the code of these relics of games in old forums of the early 2000's so that we may do such shenanigans too. Their names will never be known, but their information remains.

It's such a thrill!

[fredthegonzalo]

I legitimately got my shiny celebi in crystal vc back when it came out and I recently transferred it up to sword and shield

[AkamexAris]

"So now this video is a Pokemon Gold Let's Play" instant sub. Love the randomness and enjoyable video 😂

[CyborgForgael]

I was among those to shiny hunt Celebi the old fashioned way in VC Crystal. While it was arduous, it was quite an experience, and it was definitely rewarding when it paid off!

[CometTheArtist]

Pokémon Go: Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power.

[stgigamovement]

So here's something to note:

Shiny Mew obtained through using glitches that run the arbitrary code needed to make a Virtual Console Mew event shiny aren't actually legitimate. ONLY Faraway Island Mews from Japanese Emerald cartridges are legitimate shiny Mews (unless you were lucky enough to get one in Pokemon GO).

Migration from GBA to modern generations necessitates usage of at minimum an original DS or DS Lite as well as a 3DS, plus a Gen4 (DPPtHGSS) Pokemon game and a Gen5 game (BWB2W2), in addition to a 3DS game and Poke Transporter plus Bank.

Japanese copies weren't strictly required to migrate Japanese Pokemon.

Also, the Pomeg glitch to warp to the Mew island is technically the incorrect way to obtain one. The Old Sea Chart item was actually given out to Pokemon Festa players in 2005 to Japanese Emerald games, but it was also given out at PokePark Taiwan during that time. So Taiwanese players who imported Japanese Emerald and eventually migrated the Mew to Traditional Chinese Gen7 games also would have been possible.

2005 was an era in which Shiny hunting strategies were at best just being explored, and that's just in the West. Also, what person wouldn't redeem their elusive Mew immediately?

Note that this Mew despite moving around a lot on the island is handled in the code as a stationary legendary (Method 1 PID). It was only fairly recently that a way to change Pokemon Emerald's RNG seed to a non-zero value post-first-save was found.

On an RNG seed of zero in Emerald, if you want 6x31IV, the first frame you can get such a PID on for a Method 1 Pokemon like Mew is over 176 million frames in (34 days). Most people hunting for 6x31IV wouldn't go beyond that unless not using their actual console. Also you need to have a TID and SID that would XOR with that PID (7942ef72) to get a value of 0-7. Apparently if the TID is the 60510 of the PokePark 2006 Taiwan Mew (distributed a year after the Old Sea Chart Mew, and was virtually identical to the Old Sea Chart Mew, down to even moveset and level), and the SID is 31337, the resulting XOR operation results in a Shiny 6x31IV Mew that, if caught in a regular Poke Ball, will, for all intents and purposes, visibly in-game resemble a Shiny version of a shiny-locked event, yet isn't hacked.

Anyone who knows how Square Shinies work would assume that because the TID, SID, and PID XOR to 7 (rather than the zero required for Square Shiny), the Mew would be a Star Shiny. However, any Pokemon with a Fateful Encounter flag, if shiny, will ALWAYS be a Square Shiny regardless of the value of the XOR operation. If a Mew or Deoxys in Gen3 doesn't have a Fateful Encounter flag, it will never obey the player. This was done to stop cheaters. So any Shiny Mew from Gen 3 have to have this, and since Shiny Mew from Gen3 and GO both have Fateful Encounter flags, legitimate Shiny Mew are always Square Shiny. So they truly are a special thing.

Now obviously, Shiny Mew are exceedingly rare unless you're encountering someone who knew how to use Emerald's cloning glitch and in a way that would appease HOME, or are people who have modded their console and know how to edit or insert Pokemon effectively, or who got them traded.

The advantage of a Gen3 Shiny Mew is that the Pokemon XD and Emerald Move Tutors that only teach Mew, and teach moves to it not taught in newer games, are usable, unlike for a Pokemon GO Mew. So Gen3 Shiny Mew with high IVs are most desirable if you're going to play Ubers in competitive. The 34 days 6x31IV frame being Timid (good for Mew) helps as well.

In essence, Mew being shiny is rare, and if you wanna migrate one, do it while Bank and Transporter still function.

[HuddogPlayz]

It's a shame to see these pokemon become almost impossible to shiny hunt but there always a chance that we get remakes of those gens to where we can shiny hunt them

[Axël_der_Steppenwolf]

the way i get around this is by sticking to playing gens 1-5

[kamm]

*A pokemon can be hacked and still legal, able to transfer and do online battles even if it's not obtained legitimately*
*On the other hand a legit pokemon will almost always be legal*
•At the end of the day it's just a bunch of data, if the pokemon goes through their online verification database then it's legal no matter if it's legit or hacked
*If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it is a duck*

So relax and go touch some grass

[cooper-]

Please do a series for each generation legendary if you get the motivation for it

[mobious]

Gen 1 shiny mew is extremely flagged as illegal but i doubt GF will delete them, gen 3 tho doesnt have any illegal flags if you want a more “legit” shiny mew with no possible bad egg effects

[Obtainer]

Shiny celebi from pokemon go is also a legit way

[squeebosh]

Honestly, anything that a game allows without external modifications is legitimate to me.

14:33 A lot of people don't/didn't like the swap breeding method back in Sun and Moon because "it felt like cheating" by allowing you to know exactly when you'd get your shiny but like you said, you're not doing anything outside of the game's standard programming and it still takes effort.

I can't believe that method was looked down upon when it's far less difficult than anything you've done here. It's literally doing the Masuda method with a Magikarp and a Ditto with just a few more steps. It's not game breaking and it still takes just as long as breeding regularly without swapping out the Magikarp.

I've done it like 4 or 5 times and I've only goofed once. Once I got pretty lucky by getting a Magikarp on egg 25 but every hunt I've done using that method afterwards took over 200–400+ eggs. I was not hatching 400+ Gible eggs in Sun & Moon when there was no O-Powers or automatic breeding location like in Kalos City or ORAS.

[SegaMario]

I got a Shiny Celebi via the Coin Case glitch. I turned a cloned Shiny Gyarados into a Celebi, which retained its shininess, so I killed two birds with one stone. Also, using a glitch that turns Pokemon Shiny, I was able to get Shiny Ho-Oh and Shiny Lugia.

I'd do the Legendary Beasts, but they won't show up...and yes, I did awaken them at the Burned Tower.

[Dark_Jaguar]

Alter how Transporter, Bank, and Home work so they run the checks and store the data completely locally, then they can shut down the servers all they want. The content can get transferred between 3DS and Switch via local wifi instead.

[Shiny_DialgaYT]

What was the point of cancelling shiny celebi if it was always an illegal shiny?(Became illegal after gen 2)(Illegal=Unobtainable by almost all means if you can hack, besides that, unobtainable by ALL means period)

[joaogaio]

2025 this video is still useful. I would like to know where did you get the boxes names to make sure the 1st turned to a legendary and shiny at the same time. But great work 👍

[PyR]

Me remembring the 3 legendary dogs where called dogs but are actually cat: can I pet that daaaawgg?!?

[bluebaron]

I can't wait to see Bart, give us an update video exclusively to let us know how Bart's doing.

[FearTheBeans]

Still not shut down. Just got a shiny celebi in 3ds Crystal and got it up! (Also cloning them in crystal is easy af)