Fair enough, I suppose. Perhaps the guy I talked to was confused or something. I know they did basically randomly generate the starter roms, and it was within the realm of possibility that a shiny would occur.
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Is there such thing as a Shiny Mystry Mew?
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Fair enough, I suppose. Perhaps the guy I talked to was confused or something. I know they did basically randomly generate the starter roms, and it was within the realm of possibility that a shiny would occur.
First of all I'm not buying a Wii and PBR just to play pokemon which I can already play. Secondly, and just to play devil's advocate I don't quite think hacking pokemon is unethical behavior. Stretching the term a bit no? Breeding is a time sink Nintendo designed to help the obsessive compulsive or those with to much free time. The meat and potatoes of the game is the intricacy of team building and various matchups and strategy battling presents, not breeding 4 boxes of garchomps to get a good one. Hence the reason that the very moment competitor becomes active I will never again touch my pokemon cart unless it is to sell it. Now please note I don't hack and have no idea how to do so and don't care. Nor do I trade hacked pokes to little kids and rip them off.
Certainly, but using a device not available to all players of the game so that you personally can skip around the timesink for some reason compromises the integrity of the game. There are a bevy of games within which removing the timesink component correlates to unethical behavior, because you (the hacker) are generating an advantage to yourself unavailable to other players. Many players CANNOT generate perfect IV pokemon even with the time required and are forced to make decisions (about which stats to sacrifice) that you are circumventing.
Obviously, competitor is not going to fall under that kind of umbrella, as there everyone has access to the tools required. But suggesting that the same holds true for the in-game is unacceptable.
That's the response to the devil's advocate. =) And my personal platform on why hacking is unethical. I don't have the time to get truly great in-game pokemon, what with a social life, work, and school, but I certainly wouldn't want to hack around the barriers present in the game itself.
So you don't want to fully enjoy your game because you don't have hours to breed in? I would disagree with you if breeding took any modicum of skill, even as much as poffin making. It is absolute tedium and stat grinding though and is designed in a way to make it a time sink. I want to try a wish Togekiss or whatever. Well shit now I have to breed to get wish on it via egg move, then breed a good one, then EV train. And it may not work at all as I planned. FUN!!
In short I don't find hacking to be unethical because it does not take the place of skill. It takes the place of repetition. And I would argue that the 20 or 30 bucks an AR costs is far more readily available to the vast majority of people than the insane amounts of free time needed to breed godly pokemon.
Eh. Deleted my response, this is one of those debates that's endless on both sides, and it's way too off topic for my own tastes. =D
No shiny mystry mews, so I'll ask this odd question: Which event _giveaway_ legends can be shiny? Can PokeCol's bonus disk generate shiny Jirachis? What about Celebi?
No shiny mystry mews, so I'll ask this odd question: Which event _giveaway_ legends can be shiny? Can PokeCol's bonus disk generate shiny Jirachis? What about Celebi?
The Colo Disk seems to be able to. As it does generate Jirachi's randomly from the 4 games I've used it on.
Channel, the US bonus disc, and the JP bonus disc can all generate shinies. I don't know about any other events.