We've all done some absolutely ridiculous stuff while playing videogames, right? For me, of late, it's been shiny hunting in various Pokemon games, and I wanted somewhere to post them. This is not a Pokemon thread though! Please post whatever you may have done that would be impressive, if even only to losers like myself. Can be from any game ever! Especially if you have pictures.
For me, I've been playing Pokemon Crystal lately, wanting to hunt some shinies there to move up to Pokemon Home on Switch before they close down the 3DS Pokemon apps, so first, my full odds shiny Celebi:
Hunted it on cartridge, but beat the Elite Four on my 3DS Virtual Console so it would unlock the Celebi event (fun fact: they fully translated the Celebi event back when Gold/Silver/Crystal were first released, so it's on the cart, but they never released a way to unlock it until the 3DS Virtual Console release!) and then transferred my save back to the cart so I could hunt on my Analogue Pocket, because the 3DS emulation is so blurry and ugly.
After that, I wanted to try to get some shiny starters with that sweet Gameboy icon up into Home, so I moved the shiny Gyarados you get for free over to gen 1, taught it Mimic, had it Mimic a wild Ditto's Transform, then when that Ditto used Transform twice, it became a shiny Ditto, that I then moved up to gen 2 to begin breeding, since breeding shinies in gen 2 is weird, and having one parent be shiny gives you 1/64 odds for offspring themselves to be shiny. Thus:
As you can see, I've been using the Transfer Pak and a downloaded 100% save for Pokemon Stadium 2 to grind eggs at 3x speed, which makes things go much faster, thankfully, as the bike moves painfully slow in gen 2 and there's no abilities or anything that speeds up hatching eggs. As is though, I estimate these three shinies took me about 7 hours to get (and I actually got two Cyndaquils, somehow, which is wild). Also, Purple Charizard <3
Anyway, please tell/show me/us some ridiculous stuff you've gotten up to! Also feel free to tell me to go touch grass. I certainly at least need to get back on the treadmill, sheesh.
For me, I've been playing Pokemon Crystal lately, wanting to hunt some shinies there to move up to Pokemon Home on Switch before they close down the 3DS Pokemon apps, so first, my full odds shiny Celebi:
Hunted it on cartridge, but beat the Elite Four on my 3DS Virtual Console so it would unlock the Celebi event (fun fact: they fully translated the Celebi event back when Gold/Silver/Crystal were first released, so it's on the cart, but they never released a way to unlock it until the 3DS Virtual Console release!) and then transferred my save back to the cart so I could hunt on my Analogue Pocket, because the 3DS emulation is so blurry and ugly.
After that, I wanted to try to get some shiny starters with that sweet Gameboy icon up into Home, so I moved the shiny Gyarados you get for free over to gen 1, taught it Mimic, had it Mimic a wild Ditto's Transform, then when that Ditto used Transform twice, it became a shiny Ditto, that I then moved up to gen 2 to begin breeding, since breeding shinies in gen 2 is weird, and having one parent be shiny gives you 1/64 odds for offspring themselves to be shiny. Thus:
As you can see, I've been using the Transfer Pak and a downloaded 100% save for Pokemon Stadium 2 to grind eggs at 3x speed, which makes things go much faster, thankfully, as the bike moves painfully slow in gen 2 and there's no abilities or anything that speeds up hatching eggs. As is though, I estimate these three shinies took me about 7 hours to get (and I actually got two Cyndaquils, somehow, which is wild). Also, Purple Charizard <3
Anyway, please tell/show me/us some ridiculous stuff you've gotten up to! Also feel free to tell me to go touch grass. I certainly at least need to get back on the treadmill, sheesh.
This was even back when GameFAQs was still active enough that you didn't have to resort to videos for everything! I probably got like 98% of them myself but there are definitely a few really obscure ones in each game that I had to look up locations for, and a few that are just challenging either because you have to get huge in a short time to be able to pick them up somewhere, or they're in weird stages like the end-when-you-hit-anything-cow-like one. And I remember one case where a unique item is for some reason (might not even be intentional, I dunno) just plain lost under the water (in a land-based stage so you can't see it at all) so that's either a guide or sheer luck.
