These Shiny Pokemon Are Getting Cancelled. 

It’s truly disappointing that the biggest entertainment IP on the planet is so actively hostile to fans’ efforts to fulfill the original message of the franchise

This video was great, it's such a shame that the ds online is so limited now when Nintendo definitely has the money to keep the servers running

Honestly, the Gen 1 and 2 Mon's being obtained through hours of work with glitches perfectly encapsulates the essence of playing Pokemon in the 90's. We all were innocent children awe-struck at seeing Missingno and spending hours of fun surfing the edge of Cinnabar Island. These Mons are more than legit. They're special.

The issue with shiny Mew is that the one you can get from Generation 1 is actually illegal. Originally, the 22769 GF Mew was an official event made to promote the release of the Generation 1 games on the Eshop, and thus, is the only transferable Mew. The problem is that while his IVs when you transfert him to Pokémon Bank are random (with 5 out of 6 being maxed out at 31), his DVs, the ancestors of IVs, were made fix in Pokémon Red Blue Yellow by GameFreak. Because the shiny property is linked to DVs in the first 2 Generation games, and his DVs don't match with that, it means this Mew cannot legitimately be shiny. He will still go through Poké Transfert and could be played online, but so are shiny Arceus and Darkrai from events hacked to be shiny. The only legal shiny Mew are indeed the one from Faraway Island in Gen 3 and Mews from Pokémon Go.

I got shiny mew last week from 8F and I got a heart attack when I saw the thumbnail.

honestly, it irks me that so much of the pokemon community gets offended/upset over other people hacking/glitching pokemon into their own games, it's a shiny, it doesn't affect anyone in any way

Thank you for pointing out the Swimmer Trainer in Misty's Gym for the Mew glitch: the other trainer gets the most attention, but for Mew lovers, getting two of them and making one shiny for two different colors of Mew is grand!

as a glitch fanatic it really frustrates me that some poketubers don't seem to do their due diligence when talking about 'em. you did!! you explained everything pretty well. what a great watch, thank you~

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

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!

Very informative, I started shiny hunting Celebi back shortly after Crystal was on VC, but after 19000+ SRs I put it on hold. I should probably return to it soon. I'm really sad that one day we will be losing complete Transfer and Bank access, especially because I still buy and play older games actually quite often. I now feel like I have to rush all my current plays just to transfer a bunch of Pokemon and it has actually been a little stressful, sadly. I collect Pokemon for fun, and it actively feels like the franchise isn't encouraging it like it used to, when was the last time they even said "Gotta catch 'em all"? Sad times.

I had a friend from JP with an old shiny mew he transferred up. He traded it to me when we played sw/sh together. I appreciate him for it, as the only shinies i seem to be able to catch are shinx 😂 (hisui zorua gets second place, only because it just... kinda likes being shiny in hisui outbreaks for me. Not as much as shinx though. Lil cheese man steals every chance he gets to be shiny no matter what game I play, and I love him for it. Yes, i still have my shiny mew. He won a mewtwo tera raid for me.

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

Fun fact. Was just following the steps on getting shiny Celebi and found a random shiny Oddish literally 5 minutes ago.

There is an easier way to do mew If you transfer it to Gold and Silver, you can utilize the coin case glitch to change it. Without the risk of severely corrupting your saved file. I should know, I've tried to transfer a Gen 2 Pokémon from Gen 1. The first attempt didn't go well.

The Shiny Mew will only be considered "legal" if its from a Japanese Emerald, since the event to get it was only released in Japan. Home accepts the Mew from Gen 1 because of the GF ID, but it was never given shiny stats. Most people dont care and even enjoy collecting weird mons like this, but just keep that in mind with some others who hate things like that.

Not sure if this was mentioned, but an alternative method of making the 8f mew shiny is trading it to a gen 2 vc game and performing the coin case glitch on it.

I just wish there was some sort of pre-checker we could run our Pokémon through..you know, before we get banned just transferring pokemon over.😅

Got a shiny Celebi last year in the Crystal virtual console and also got shiny extremespeed Dratini from the Dragons den. Been enjoying shiny hunting lately. Just got shiny Lugia in SoulSilver. Will probably start multi hunting Mew or Deoxys in FR/LG/E and will probably go for HO-OH when I get back to the virtual console playthrough.

If they do this, I hope they re release all of the games on switch, god please. I just wanna be able to ribbon hunt all of the ribbons from the previous game all the way up to the newest game

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!

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

This was a great watch, id love to see you do this with more generations!

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

Why can't they just give an answer if any old gens will get ported to the Switch. Considering Stadium is already ported, it's a high possibility though they will trickle old gens onto the Switch slowly, but man this is so annoying

I have an event shiny jirachi from Japan, so I'm covered on that one lol. Also have the GO masterwork research for one underway. One of the best cloning methods I've found is to use a hacked 3DS. Copy your save file, trade the pokemon to a different game (or transporter), then rewrite the save. You now have 2.

I successfully got the shiny GF Mew by following Austin's video. I'm so glad I was able to do this before Bank shuts down. Great video!

ay yo this was heat. great video. thanks for the RNG shoutout :)

I got Shiny Mew, Celebi, Deoxys, and Darkrai from Pokemon GO so it's fun. GO is the only game is its viable to actually collect every shiny since they can be transferred to the main games.

I did this with Austin John’s guide. I also then sent over the Mew to Silver and did the shiny Coin Case glitch lol. Also, I really love your voice. It’s soothing and very deep. 😅

here's my take, they should not shutdown online stuff in 2024, keep it until 2030

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

4:17 austin john plays is the goat for Pokémon tutorials

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

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

I have a shiny faraway island Mew that I also used for the recent Mewtwo raid so it also has the Mightiest mark now. Probably the single rareset pokemon I have

As someone who doesn't want to use GO and wants to hunt in older games, this is awesome that I need to try!

And this is why I have been doing my shiny mythical quest. Last month I found shiny Celebi after only 3,851 resets which was awesome. And then just like a week ago I found shiny Mew in my fastest ever 8192 hunt, after only 1,594 runaways I got my little blue guy. I kept my game boy on literally for three straight days to make sure I wouldn't get any repeat frames. Because obviously the RNG in Emerald is a bit silly. But I'm working on getting every single shiny that you can only get by transferring them up through pokémon. Which are obviously Celebi, Mew, deoxys, jirachi, Manaphy, (If you didn't get the BDSP event) shaymin and Darkrai, poipole, Nagamadle, and partner cap Pikachu with the QR code from Ultra Sun Ultra Moon. There are also some pokémon that are not yet returning to the switch, being the patrat line, furfrou, And of course The elemental monkeys. They will eventually return but for right now they are trapped on older systems

1:40 Imagine being a small dumb child who got a few traded hacked Pokemon from friends a very long time ago and when trying to bring them to the newer games Nintendo freaking bans you from their online servers.

I’m really late to this, but what an awesome video, congrats for the shiny kyurem, it’s also one of my fave!

I got shiny celebi from the secrets of the jungle promotion

I will never understand why they do this shutting down crap,let players do what they want

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)

im just soooo mad that gamefreak removed transfer only moves from sv that’s what really felt cool about previous pokemon not these ribbons🙄

I got traded a shiney mew and never questioned it and became a goblin

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.

I kinda wish you made the RNG dream team lol.

Love the Blisy & Jefe shoutout. Total RNG gods

rayquaza overheard shiny deoxys' violently racist comments on gardevoir and chandelure's marriage, how does this affect the pokemon community

Almost killed myself when i tried to clone mew and lost 8 hours of work lol

Trails we've been waiting 5 weeks for a stream

Hey dude I don’t know if you will see this but I was watching this while reset hunting Crystal VC Celebi and I got it at 10:29. Your most recent vid about Gen 3 mythicals lit the fire for me to start hunting again and I got it so fast!

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

They marketed this so heavily to U.S that neighboring countries doesnt even know this thing exists. Thanks for sharing the expensive experience ❤

this vid is great from documentation purposes

Many thanks! Just a couple of points for people who come here for Celebi and Mew: 1. Celebi is not allowed anymore in SV; 2. Making Mew legit for Poke Bank is as time consuiming as shiny hunt him.

Well, I wouldn't worry about mew considering that they make a giveaway for mew and mewtwo every single gen

They need to make a physical transfer adaptation to acomidate for online services shutting down. Like imagine a device that looked like a gameshark & could both plug into the DS systems & hold cartridges for example where you would plug in your Gen 5 game into it, store your transferred pokemon in it, then when you wanted to move to Gen 6 or 7 you'd simple put those cartridges into it. They'd have to revisit hardware for that system but it would be reminiscent of tge transfer method between Gen 3 to Gen 4 cartridges. Idc if they charged $50 for it I'd rather spend that then them shutting down online services in a few years for being unprofitable

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.

If at all possible could you do a step by step video? I know itd be drawn out, but i have had a shiny celebi in my home for about 2 years now. Caught it in go, never would o have ever put it in go had i known its not transferrable like other game to game transfers

5:38 _"You can just beam them up....... that's probably too old of a reference these days, huh."_ Dude, "Beam me up, Scotty" is the face of incorrectly remembered quotes on TV Tropes. I never watched Star Trek and I know what beaming up means (roughly).

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 similar-to-Faraway-Island-but-shinylocked 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.

Why do they not just allow people to host pokebank and transfers their selves. Like, not giving away the source code, just allow self hosted alternatives. So I can download a program that is obfuscated and encrypted to shit, but it allows me to transfer and hold my 3ds/wii pokemon to it, be it on my pc or server. And then allow transferring from said program, to switch and next gen consoles.

I did this so long ago. Why are people only bringing this up now. XD I remember my friend so scared to take my gen 1 shiny mew thinking I hacked it. What a cutie.

Technically pokemon go has two different research missions that reward a shiny celebi and there was even one for shiny mew.there is still a slight chance for people if you have an account and played back when they where available.i personally sent both my shiny celebis and my shiny mew to home from pokemon go because I knew about the 3ds cutoff.

yeahhhhh as far as action replay went, it was pretty safe last time I checked. transported hacked pokemon pretty consistently up to gen 7 for a while. did they actually start checking after that? because I put some definitely unobtainable pokemon through there.

Rng manipulation is absolutely hilarious because its legal and actually is just as fast or faster than grinding

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.

if you were to do kanto pokemon unobtainable in gold silver with the glitched method in gold would it be flagged as illegal? sure you could have traded to johto from say red or blue and then sent it trough poke transfer but wouldnt those have the tag "met in Kanto" and if you do say a mewtwo glitch in gold it would say "met in johto"? making it not possible and illegal grinding gold right now to get shiny dog trio was wondering if i could do say birds and starters with this method or if i would have to get red or blue and do a run through of that too

I ended up doing the 8F Mew and corrupted the file a few days in. After retrying it the next week I got the Mews with the proper OT and ID but to make them shiny I transferred them to silver for the coin case glitch. Any chance they're considered illegitimate for that? When in scarlet, the description says they Mew cage all the way over from the good old Jotoh region

NOW is STILL the most exciting (and complicated) time to be a Pokemon Fan

I find it so fun the way you manipulated Mew. "Oh? The glitched Mew from Pokémon Red, Blue, Green and Yellow isn't legitimate enough? Fine, we'll just hack it then"

You know..... there was a Shiny Celebi event for Sword and Shield? I have one..... So..... Its not lost

I have a shiny celebi from an event and I’m so sad I can’t transfer it to scarlet and violet but at least I transferred my shiny zacian that I also got from an event

Poipole is another one. Even though it’s obtainable in sword and shield, it’s shiny locked on the switch. Can only hunt it in USUM (I could be mistaken but I’m pretty sure type:null is locked on switch too)

Theoretically couldn't you get all the gen 1 pokemon through gen 2, and wouldn't it be easier that way since you only have to set up the coin case not 8F? Also is there a coin case tutorial you recommend?

This has to be a more complex and time consuming process than shiny hunting in other games, I don't see why they'd be considered not legitimate.

nintendo already canceled a ton of pokemon starting with gen 8. Until they add back every pokemon to the national dex, I'm done with the new games. The entire motto of gotta catch them all is now false advertising.

respect for including Bart the feraliagtr.

I did the 8f glitch too get shiny mew a few months ago I transferred it too crystal (Ds version) and did the cloning glitch and got like 15 shiny mews

I’ve gotten the mew on my yellow version and I’ve done duplicate glitch in crystal to get all starters or extra Pokémon or items so I agree glitch Pokémon do i have a charm . I’ve never shiny hunted them or anything extra like that tho

A lot of you probably know this but a few of the new fans probably don't, that Mew's ID number is actually the release date for the original Japanese Pokemon Red and Green. It's basically Pokemon's birthday (and mine too lol)

Quick aside regarding shiny Celebi (as well as Jirachi by extension): They've been released in Go. Celebi launched for a tie in with Secrets of the Jungle and Jirachi became the next Masterwork research. Shaymin's due to launch next month, but BDSP exists...

With the Wii U and 3DS online shutting down, it still baffles me that Nintendo hasn't added the GB, GBC and GBA Pokémon games to the Switch Online applications yet, and probably never will.

If ever there was a case for emulating, Nintendo certainly provides it.

Yo you’re one of my favorite Pokémon RU-vidrs

Well i guess these shinies are not going to able to go on twitter again because they are *cancelled*

Would it be possible if you mod ur wii or ds if other people can make severs so that way we still get to trade and transfer?

One method is also pokemon go events, but those I think are also limited like mystery gift events

Man what did these pokemon say on twitter to get canceled...

I know you from Dauntless. Good old Days! :)

Shiny Celebii was recently distributed in an event. So the method you describe isn’t the only way to obtain a legitimate shiny Celebii

I’d be careful about your shiny Mew, especially if it has the mightiest mark. I don’t know why, but two days ago I withdrew my MM Shiny Mew from Pokemon Home for the Palkia/Dialga raids and now I can’t put it back into home. I have no idea why it’s considered illegitimate now, but it’s stuck in Scarlet.

I remember I got my shiny celibi by soft reseting, I actually got her on pokemon day! And then they released not one but two shiny celibi events later that year. But mine has a nickname so it is better!

There was a Shiny Celebi event in PoGo a few years ago

I got lucky and received a shony mew from emerald back during Oras, which I have clones with power saves and got a bunch all over my gen 6 and 7 games as well as 2 in Scarlet. Forgot to do the mewtwo raid tho. As for the rest, I have them caught already, just gotta turn them shiny with power saves and sent to scarlet hehe

Thank you so much for this video. It has helped a lot. But I do have a question. Hopefully someone can help me.......... in Gen 2 when you were renaming the boxes for the legends, what determines the name of the box?! Should I just put "Ho oh" or is there a specific name or characters I should enter to get ho oh?

I got a shiny celebi in pokemon go. I'm not really able to get pokemon bank on my 2ds so I'm kind of unable to move over any pokemon from my older games into pokemon home. I also don't have the money for a better home subscription so I guess I'll just have to leave them in their little place for now.

OMF HOLY DUDE! .... For the life of me, I could not remember my first Pokémon playthrough from 1998 Pokémon Red.... UNTIL you named your Pokémon "BART" which was my FIRST EVER POKEMONS ....or it was my second playthrough and I named my first "Blaze".... so still can't remember perfectly, and never will. Oh you know what it was "Blaze" was my Charizard and "Bart" was my Nidoran.

Kinda bad how the Pokemon company are punishing us for playing and enjoying their older and more polished games and at the same time forcing us to play their newer more broken and unenjoyable recent installments. Rather play and keep shiny or fav pokemon on gba and ds games titles and than bringing them all the way to the switch games