u/billyfromiowa

I used to RNG on Emerald because I had already caught a shiny, which made it super easy to deduce my SID. I started a new save file so I could RNG from the beginning of the game (trying to complete a Gen 4 living dex).

I previously thought if you hit a surrounding frame of your shiny frame and the stats didn't match whatever it was supposed to, then you could rule out the possibility of that being your SID.

After a panicked Reddit post, u/szargho patiently explained to me that you need to hit the shiny frame for each potential SID before you can rule it out. It may sound dumb that I didn't find this out on my own, but RNG a SID is kinda tricky for me. Thank God, this saved me so many headaches. I spent 10 hours alone ruling out SIDs without really checking. After his comment, I spent another 4 hours checking shiny frames and FINALLY found mine.

It's an early frame too, only 1 minute and 46 seconds into the game! Shoutout to this community, I would've been lost without it.

This is the only Pokemon for which this is the case, as far as I know.

The shiny was caught after a couple dozen eggs using the Masuda Method. Check out the cool moveset! (ignore tackle)

The Kyogre and Mudkip were from Sapphire, cloned in Emerald, then transferred to Pal Park in Platinum. Beldum was from Pokéradar. And Nincada was from cute charm file.