Made mah day.

[BlackDragonSlayer]

So I learned why so many shinies have been popping up for me in Diamond.

long explanation

Turns out the Cute Charm Glitch is active in my game. Basically if your trainer ID and secret ID are close enough together and you have a Pokemon with the Cute Charm ability at the front of your party (which must be gender specific depending on the IDs) any Pokemon of the opposite gender with certain nature's will be shiny with the exception of Pokemon that can't be with gender like Kangaskhan the Nidoran lines and all legendaries (except Heatran) and other genderless Pokemon.
I haven't tested every part of this glitch yet. So far I know it works with walking in grass or cave, surfing, fishing, headbutting trees (if it's active in HeartGold or SoulSilver), soft resets (like the Heatran in DPPt or the Soodowoodo in HGSS) and the Great Marsh/Safari Zonr. I need to test how this works with breeding, Pokeradar, Honey Trees, static trade Pokemon (which might be shiny-locked anyway, I don't really know).

[close]

Huh. Wonder if that explains why I found a lot of shinies in my copy of Diamond as well.

[mikey]

That's crazy
Dude you can get actual good iv shiny pokemon without having to hack

[Trainer Ave]

I know right. It's freaking insane. Unfortunately it is only possible to do this in Diamond Pearl Platinum HeartGold and SoulSilver

[Nebbles]

Interesting! I've never heard of that glitch before... I wonder if you can RNG seed to get the IDs you need.

[Trainer Ave]

Probably. I did it by accident. I traded over my Clefairy from Platinum because I wanted to train it some in Eterna forest. I wasn't expecting this at all.

[swimswamit]

I think I read a comment by brainylucario not on his profile on musescore before meeting him on ninsheet

Small world..internet

[Dude]

wow, technology!

[Trainer Ave]

So after like 6 hours of running around in (forgot name) cave with Mira, I finally caught a shiny Bronzor. Thing about Bronzor is, it's completely unaffected by the Cute Charm Glitch.

[BlackDragonSlayer]

So after like 6 hours of running around in (forgot name) cave with Mira, I finally caught a shiny Bronzor. Thing about Bronzor is, it's completely unaffected by the Cute Charm Glitch.

solution: diamonds are shiny
thus, pokemon diamond tends to give a lot of shinies

yay i solve the problem

[Latios212]

I DONE ITTTT

[BlackDragonSlayer]

gj latios

you did a lot of walking
and that's good

[braix]

note: when i met latios he legit took this pokewalker out of like his pocket and it was nearly maxed out
who but latios would carry around a pokewalker like that

was quite impressed

[WaluigiTime64]

Now sit still for 64121 hours.

[Olimar12345]

Now do that on a Pokémon Pikahu 2

[mastersuperfan]

I think I broke mine in the washing machine