Pokemon X and Y Player Builds Automatic Shiny Finder

[Baldr]

Considering the fact that this device only works on fishing chains, nothing else. Most of the fishing pokemon are not Gen 6, and that I can hack any Gen 5(or lower) pokemon for Shiny with my iPhone in less than 2 minutes and the games can not tell if they are hacked or authentic. It leaves very little usefulness/must have for obtaining of Shinys.

 

[Thebazilly]

Man, I spent three days chain fishing and never even saw a shiny. I'd use this, if only to make sure I can reel in the Pokemon every time. "You were too slow!" my ass...

 

[Elvis Starburst]

WHIIIIIINE goes the thread. Cmon guys, this is pretty cool. Give him some points for coming up with this! How many people do you see pulling off stuff like this? I certainly don't see it often

 

[TheEvilCheese]

I have absolutely no problem with any of this, in fact it's ingenious. The problem comes when he takes it online. Using any 3rd party anything in an online space damages the experience of other players (even if it just devalues shinies). This generation has been the first where we couldn't datamine the gmaes. Combined with trading and breeding / EVing being far easier than ever, the online interaction is more satisfying than it's ever been and I don't want people to spoil it.

That said, props to him. It's a cool piece of kit made very smartly on zero budget.

 

[TimeLord]

While I'm not doubting the technical skill, that I do not possess, that it took to make this, I kinda feel that it defeats the point. Shinys are supposed to be a reward and a rare occurrence, not something reduced to farming for.

Considering the fact that this device only works on fishing chains, nothing else. Most of the fishing pokemon are not Gen 6, and that I can hack any Gen 5(or lower) pokemon for Shiny with my iPhone in less than 2 minutes and the games can not tell if they are hacked or authentic. It leaves very little usefulness/must have for obtaining of Shinys.

I finally got my first shiny in years in XY by manually chaining a grassy area. It felt fantastic to finally see one on my game for real and capture it. I was litterally bouncing in my seat. I also used to hack shiny pokemon into my Soul Silver game until I realised they were litterally worthless as I had not earned them and released them all.
Hacked Pokemon are fine so long as they aren't traded beyond your personal game, but bragging about having multiple Shinys due to hacking seems like you're missing the point of Shinys in the first place.

 

[nightmare_gorilla]

see this seems like a lot more work than you need. I mean he cracked his 3ds open and sodered to the motherboard. if you really want shinies without having to "farm" them isn't it easier to just hack them. I mean for the same amount of work he could've cracked into the cart and altered the code so everything is shiny by default right? I don't know much about modding but it seems like a weird round about way to go. I don't care either way. I've never seen a shiny as far as I know, I think I got lucky and got one from a wonder trade but if so it's the first one I've ever got, and I just don't care really.

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

I think it's great as an engineering challenge and solution, and having just done Introductory Digital Systems I actually understand what they did, but I would be against it as a gameplay tool IF it weren't for the fact that finding shinies is such a stupid arbitrary mechanic anyway. I've wasted days in previous games and found no shinies. So I'm bitter as well. But all in all well played.

 

[Shymer]

This is great. More consoles and handhelds should come with the ability for players to script/automate play/controller input. Development of more advanced AI algorithms for more complex game play would fundamentally boost kids skills in real-world programming/software-engineering and possibly electronics. Even developing short macros like this will help with real world engineering problems.

If my son were to build such a microcontroller and write code to automate the collection of shinies, I would be a very proud dad.

 

[LordMonty]

I little against what the shinies are about i feel but it is impressive what can be done... but damn i couldn't do that to my 3dsXL i'm too fond of it

 

[SD-Fiend]

For the people telling him to hack them in: As far as I know that isn't possible yet and even if it was Nintendo/Game Freak has blocks that can mess up your game if you attempt to use them in online play making them functionally worthless.

For the people that say it ruins the fun of getting a shiny: it doesn't really. Actively looking for a shiny is boring and takes up lots of your time that could be used for something else. And tt's really a waste of time if the shiny comes out worthless with a bad nature and crap IV's
Shiny pokemon aren't really rewards either. I got a shiny sewaddle on the first day of White 2 without even thinking about it and when they are given as rewards then they aren't anything special since everyone can get one.

 

[Baldr]

While I'm not doubting the technical skill, that I do not possess, that it took to make this, I kinda feel that it defeats the point. Shinys are supposed to be a reward and a rare occurrence, not something reduced to farming for.

Considering the fact that this device only works on fishing chains, nothing else. Most of the fishing pokemon are not Gen 6, and that I can hack any Gen 5(or lower) pokemon for Shiny with my iPhone in less than 2 minutes and the games can not tell if they are hacked or authentic. It leaves very little usefulness/must have for obtaining of Shinys.

I finally got my first shiny in years in XY by manually chaining a grassy area. It felt fantastic to finally see one on my game for real and capture it. I was litterally bouncing in my seat. I also used to hack shiny pokemon into my Soul Silver game until I realised they were litterally worthless as I had not earned them and released them all.
Hacked Pokemon are fine so long as they aren't traded beyond your personal game, but bragging about having multiple Shinys due to hacking seems like you're missing the point of Shinys in the first place.

I get it, I love shinys, I've got a Cubone from the Glittering Cave. Just because I can hack them, doesn't mean I want hacked versions. I'm just saying when the bank comes in December, there going to be a ton of hacked shiny (Gen 5 and below) floating around, and shiny trading just isn't going to be the same when someone hacked that shiny instead of getting it the normal way. Those rare shiny are not going to be rare. I use to be able to trade a shiny for a legendary. Those days are over.

 

[Baldr]

For the people telling him to hack them in: As far as I know that isn't possible yet and even if it was Nintendo/Game Freak has blocks that can mess up your game if you attempt to use them in online play making them functionally worthless.

It very possibly. All you need now is a smart phone with one of the apps. In this version of hacked pokemon, the game data is not modified. What it does is you create a custom internet connection between your phone app and DS, then connect to the global trade station and the pokemon is sent to the game. For all purposes the pokemon is legit unless it has stats and moves not normally available in gameplay. The apps are called PokeBuilder or PokeCreator.

 

[JSoup]

Has anyone checked the GTS since this story broke? Just reading the title made me think that the GTS is going to be overrun with shinnies in the days to come.

 

[weirdee]

in any case i don't see anybody scrambling to open up the case of their 3ds and make warranty breaking modifications to their hardware, so i doubt this will really be a huge issue

 

[SD-Fiend]

For the people telling him to hack them in: As far as I know that isn't possible yet and even if it was Nintendo/Game Freak has blocks that can mess up your game if you attempt to use them in online play making them functionally worthless.

It very possibly. All you need now is a smart phone with one of the apps. In this version of hacked pokemon, the game data is not modified. What it does is you create a custom internet connection between your phone app and DS, then connect to the global trade station and the pokemon is sent to the game. For all purposes the pokemon is legit unless it has stats and moves not normally available in gameplay. The apps are called PokeBuilder or PokeCreator.

I mean for X and Y. You mentioned one for Black and White but pokemon bank isn't out yet