Comment on Day 601 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing
MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world 14 hours agoI have trouble keeping patient enough to get a female starter to breed and trade to friends who pick other ones. Getting a shiny one I don’t think I could do
Nelots@piefed.zip 7 hours ago
Mine’s actually a shiny female!
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For Emerald specifically, I learned shiny starter hunting is actually especially difficult. For other pokemon games, your seed is randomly generated when reloading the game, so you have a random change to get a shiny starter every time you select it. But for whatever reason in Emerald, your seed stays the same from the moment you start a new game. So the RNG is completely fixed. What this means is you can’t really soft-reset for the shiny right in front of the bag as easily as you can in other games, because if you pick the pokemon at, say, the 100th frame, then you’ll always see that exact version of the pokemon at the 100th frame. So in between each soft-reset you need to wait longer and longer each time so you don’t risk grabbing it on the same frame as before.
Eventually you’ll be waiting 20+ seconds between each reset, and rather than continue to soft-reset, it will be faster to just start a new save entirely, which properly resets the seed. Which you’ll then need to do again and again until you eventually get the shiny. Now I was perfectly ready for a regular shiny starter hunt, but this? No, this was some crap I wasn’t willing to put up with. So I instead went down a whole rabbit hole of learning how to RNG manipulate using a hex reader. Still took me multiple days on and off, but it was an interesting learning experience. I could technically use this to guarantee any pokemon is shiny by waiting for the correct frame (the one upside to static RNG) since I now know my secret ID (the hard part), but that wont do me much good in a mudkip-only run lol.