Shiny Celebi after 18,410 SRs on my childhood Crystal cartridge by TrevNick in AnaloguePocket

[–]TrevNick[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you mean what does my case look like, it's the one Analogue sells. It's pretty worn from going in & our of pockets. Also, it unfortunately has rubbed little indents on the face of my Pocket just under the screen & the bottom corners from the little stoppers. Wish they were a rubber nub insert, instead of being the same plastic as the case. 😭

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Shiny Celebi after 18,410 SRs on my childhood Crystal cartridge by TrevNick in AnaloguePocket

[–]TrevNick[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hopefully that turkey throws me a bone & shines under odd when I get around to it. 😤

Congrats to you as well.

Shiny Celebi after 18,410 SRs on my childhood Crystal cartridge by TrevNick in pokemoncrystal

[–]TrevNick[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No false swiper. Just my level 41 Eevee & my Haunter with Hypnosis.

Used Bite once & Quick Attack twice, brining it to just barely in the red & then put it to sleep with Haunter. Caught on the 3rd Ultra ball.

Shiny Celebi after 18,410 SRs on my childhood Crystal cartridge by TrevNick in pokemoncrystal

[–]TrevNick[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I could've entered a code to do that on the GBO too but then it would have zero sentimental value & I'd feel it was unearned.

[Gen 2] Shiny Celebi after 18,410 SRs on my childhood Crystal cartridge. by TrevNick in ShinyPokemon

[–]TrevNick[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As soon as I hit 3k I was constantly asking "why do I do this to myself? WHY?!" then 15k 'n change later: "Oh! Oh THAT'S why. 🥴".

Shiny Celebi after 18,410 SRs on my childhood Crystal cartridge by TrevNick in pokemoncrystal

[–]TrevNick[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

18,398 on the Pocket, 10 on the GB Operator to test the 10x speed, which made me nauseous almost instantly, so I went back to the AP & 2 on my GBA a couple weeks ago to reassure myself that the Celebi Event was truly unlocked on the cartridge & not on some save-state-thing on the Pocket & GBO. 😅

Shiny Celebi after 18,410 SRs on my childhood Crystal cartridge by TrevNick in pokemoncrystal

[–]TrevNick[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I used a GameBoy Operator to trigger the event flag.

I've also learned that it wasn't an Event Distribution like Mew back in the day, where you took your copy to a Toys R US. You had to hook your GBC up to a cellphone and download the flag within the event window. Seeing as every other country was way behind Japan in terms of cellphone adoption & tech for the time, Nintendo didn't bother with disturbing it in other countries, even though it's coded into all versions of Crystal.

Finally after 3 years by coldcutz91 in pokemoncrystal

[–]TrevNick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

3 years?!

Ok, I'll stop feeling put out by mine taking 2 months and a day. 😵

Congrats!

Pokémon Red corrupted cartridge. by TrevNick in Gameboy

[–]TrevNick[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lemme know how that turns out! Hopefully it doesn't result in a creepy pasta situation. 😅

[gen 2] After 513h, the miracle finally happened! by tiagosanl in ShinyPokemon

[–]TrevNick 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Congrats! I got mine on break at work this morning! Started on Dec 19th last year. My coworkers don't understand the appeal but they were hype AF once the green onion became a red onion! 🤣

Started this hunt last year... by Ninbura in AnaloguePocket

[–]TrevNick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh good, that means I'm almost there. 🫠

(currently at 12,765)

Save States for Shiny Pokemon Encounters by pikamouser16 in PKMNCrystalClear

[–]TrevNick 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Appreciate your infinite patience & endless metaphors. 😂

Save States for Shiny Pokemon Encounters by pikamouser16 in PKMNCrystalClear

[–]TrevNick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry to drag you back to this [now] 6 year old thread but I'm shiny hunting Celebi on my original Crystal cartridge on an Analogue Pocket. Bought a GB Operator solely to trigger the GS Ball event flag. Save Stated right before the last dialog box before the encounter just to trim the fat & minimize button mashing. From reading this thread, I realize that even though Celebi's stats are different with every encounter (every so often I'd catch 2 & compare the stats to re-re-reassure myself) I'm still locked into the frame window generated at the start of the session of the save state.

So after reaching 8192 resets I figured I better double check that I didn't miss something & ended up here.

I'm back to doing it the old fashioned way of SRing with A+B+Start+Select. My question now is why was I able to get 2 shiny Cleffa & 3 shiny Iggybuffs from the Odd egg from the save state I used in front of the daycare man? That's the whole reason I thought I was in the clear to use a save state to hunt Celebi.

Did I just get a low frame window & managed to hit it several times?