I’m thinking about ordering a few older DS games for shiny hunting. I’ve completed Pokémon sun and ultra sun, so I’m looking for something different. Any recommendations? What games are the most fun/easiest for shiny hunting? The older the better! Thanks!
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Pokemon Diamond/Pearl/Platinum have the pokeradar for shiny hunting which can help bring your odds of finding a shiny pokemon to a max of 1:200 from 1:8192 in those games. Since 4 patches of grass can shake using the poke radar, it actually brings your odds up to a max of 1:50.
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Thank you! I will definitely buy one of these games. I usually use the musuda method for shiny hunting. I have never used pokeradar, I’m excited to try it. I’ll have to watch a YouTube video tutorial to see how the radar works.
Radar is a fun method.
I have a copy of SoulSilver where 1/3 encounters are shiny if the lead Pokémon in my team is female and has cute charm. It’s some glitch that happens with only a small subset of trainer IDs. There are ways to manipulate the RNG to give you a special ID but mine was just generated by coincidence and I nearly lost my mind when I was uncovering the glitch on my own
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Diamond/Pearl are a blast. Playing Diamond was what got me back into Pokemon. Fun story, nice map, engaging postgame!
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I’m looking at the Pokémon platinum games on eBay and it seems a lot of them are counterfeits or “remakes”. I’m going to try and avoid these. Has anyone ever purchased one of these remakes?
P.s. thanks guys for the info!
Be warned, Diamond/Pearl/Platinum are slow as hell. Everything is slow. Your character moves slow, the story is fairly slow (lots of backtracking, not always clear where to go), the battle animations (moves, health bar depletion) are slow, and everything in between is SLOW.
That being said, Platinum is my favorite Pokemon game. It’s really great. The locations are lively, the story is good, and the postgame is expansive and fulfilling. I highly recommend getting Platinum. It takes everything that was good about Diamond and Pearl and makes it better. Plus surfing is a little faster, which helps.
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Would you be willing to sell this copy?!?!
I ended up buying platinum last night. Do I have to beat the game before I can use pokeradar? Thanks guys for your help!
I believe so:
In Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum
The Poké Radar is obtained from Professor Rowan in his lab immediately after receiving the National Pokédex from Professor Oak; however, he will not explain how it works very thoroughly. In Pokémon Platinum, once the player talks to Dawn/Lucas’s sister about Pokémon outbreaks, Dawn/Lucas will give a more practical demonstration on Route 202.
Source: bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pok%C3%A9_Radar#In_Diamond.2C_Pearl.2C_and_Platinum
Edit: Actually yes and no:
Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum
In Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, if the player has seen the first 150 Pokémon in the Sinnoh Pokédex, they can obtain the National Pokédex. In Pokémon Platinum, if the player has seen all 210 Pokémon in the expanded Sinnoh Pokédex, they can obtain the National Pokédex. If the player has met the appropriate condition for that game and talks to Professor Rowan in his lab in Sandgem Town, Professor Oak will arrive and upgrade the player’s Pokédex with the National Mode.
HOWEVER:
The “210 Sinnoh Dex Pokemon Seen” and “Defeat the Pokemon League” requirements can be done in any order, but without trades or Underground interaction with friends, the Pokemon League requirement either comes first or at the same time (depending on how many of the other in-game Trainers you’ve fought).
I.e. If you don’t do trades, you probably cannot see all 210 Pokemon anyways without defeating the champion. Most people say it’s both because Cynthia, the champion, has some pokemon you otherwise can’t see during the run of the game, meaning that in order to see all 210 pokemon, you MUST face Cynthia otherwise you will have to trade.
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Play Pokemon Diamond!
If i recall Pokemon black and white weren’t that shabby to, but the Pokemons were bit funky. One was a vanilla ice cream that evolved from a small single scope of vanilla on a cone to a mega double scope on a cone!
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Heartgold/Soulsilver are the best games that they have produced, play Platinum over Diamond/Pearl.
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Honestly not for under $1000 lol
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Generation IV gets a bad rap for being slow and not enough of a step up from Generation III, but I’m a fan of DPP. It was the first generation to split attacks of the same type between special and physical, which increased the playability of a lot of Pokemon. I also enjoyed the added evolutions to certain Gen I Pokemon.
Shiny hunting in Gen IV is effective but can be frustrating and not particularly fun, but YMMV.
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