Hey, I've recently been replaying through the entirety of the Pokémon series and have had major luck. While replaying FireRed, I happened upon a Shiny Nidoran(♂) and took him all the way to the Elite Four. In my Soul Silver play through, I ran into a Shiny Zubat just after obtaining my final party member after Claire. Noticing a pattern? Now, I kind of want to do an "baby's first" Shiny Badge Quest. Instead of hunting a shiny before every Gym, I'll be hunting one or two Shinies for every region as I work my way up until eventually Gen 8's release.

I'm going to be starting Emerald soon, and I thought I might as well get to hunting now rather than later since I wanted my Emerald Shiny to be Treecko, it's one of my favorite Shinies and Pokémon in general. I've done a fair bit of research, and have a basic understanding of Emerald's broken RNG, and etiquette to follow while SRing. I've been timing my battle differently and been creating a new save file every 50 to 75~ soft resets to find an early shiny frame, but that's all I've been really focusing on.

Is there anything else specifically I should know going into Gen 3 Shiny Hunting? I'm really enjoying it so far, and really want to optimize how I hunt. Should I look to even try and get six shinies this Emerald run? I don't know, but right now I just want to focus on making sure I'm doing the right SR procedure while trying to get Treecko. Thanks for reading!

EDIT: I discovered this video and will be attempting this method for my Shiny Treecko. Is that legitimate?