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Fun fact. When I was a kid, I actually got a shiny wish maker jirachi off of my friends bonus disk. I was told it “wasn’t possible” that I “clearly used a GameShark” etc. I stayed silent and in my own bubble about it for a long time. I love when people cover the story in general because it’s a small bit of vindication for me. I’m just happy it lives in my Pokémon home to this day 😊

i love how Jirachi has been associated with this whole "extremely rare and tedious but still plausible shiny" event twice now. it's unintentional but it really ties into their role as the Wish Maker.

4:11 no freaking way, I thought I was stupid, I’ve always been a crazy Game completer because I do almost everything the game have to offer to obtain everything. So I used Google to find every hidden item in every single route with the Item finder. And I picked the item on the gill before the one in Wayward Cave, but when I went there I tried to find the red shard for an hour and I couldn’t figure out what I did wrong because the guide clearly showed me there was a red shard in that cave. After all these year I finally got the answer, Thankyou so much been a huge fan of this series since the start 😂

Dude, that shiny Jirachi segment gave off Summoning Salt vibes in the best possible way. I wouldn't mind at all if you made a documentary just covering the comprehensive history of shiny hunting in different generations. You're clearly incredibly knowledgeable on the topic, and your passion for it is contagious. Honestly, I've watched your videos before, but this is the one that got me to actually subscribe, and it's because of that final segment. Props to you for that.

Pretty incredible coincidence that Sonikks also got Jirachi today, the same day you posted this video!!! Everything about Jirachi always makes for a fantastic story

im so glad shiny wishmaker actually happened, i was still under the impression it had never been found yet

I like how it went from telling obscure fact to the story telling of a legend becoming reality thanks to the effort of people

I love the dialogue changes that compliment you in battling well. Like in Sun & Moon, Guzma gives you props for not using Z-moves against Lusimine. The validation!!

Dude, what the HECK. Sonikks got a shiny wishmaker the SAME day you posted this 😭 I literally got chills hearing that part. Love this community and your videos so much.

Here's something I thought was interesting. Everyone knows about the Odd Egg in Pokemon Crystal, and how it can randomly hatch into Pichu, Cleffa, Igglybuff, Tyrogue, Smoochum, Elekid, or Magby. But what's important to note is that they all come with Dizzy Punch as a move that cannot be obtained normally. Presumably, this move came from the parent of these Pokemon, as a way to teach the player about Egg Moves. However, it is impossible for either parents of these Pokemon to be able to pass down Dizzy Punch, because the only Pokemon that can learn Dizzy Punch in Gen 2 is Kangaskhan. Kangaskhan is a Female-Only Pokemon species, meaning that it's impossible to pass Dizzy Punch down since breeding it will only produce more Kangaskhan. But in Gen 4, even though the Odd Egg isn't available in HGSS, there is 1 Pokemon that can be the potential male parent of every Odd-Egg Pokemon except for Cleffa and Igglybuff (due to how egg groups work), capable of learning Dizzy Punch: Lopunny Edit: also, my favorite Pokemon is a tie between Dunsparce and Anorith.

8:10 funny story, my favorite pokemon is Makuhita, specifically because you get it really early in Colosseum and it's one of the strongest in the game. The whole process of having to open the doors to these shadow pokemon's hearts made me actually connect with them a little better than the other games I'd played as a kid had. Also they're just cute.

With the Wishmaker Jirachi there is a way to cut down the reset time with the corruption save method! That's how I hunted my Jirachi and I hope to see more shiny Jirachi in the future

Thank you for including my silly Dugtrio fact in the video! I'm happy to have provided a cool piece of trivia! As far as I could tell, there weren't any other Pokemon out of the original 151 with this kind of thing in their learnset. I have not checked through the entire gen 3 Pokedex, so there might be more in there!

OMG I'm actually hunting the Wishmkr Jirachi now! This gave me all the more encouragement to keep the hunt going. I did know about the slightly better Shiny odds for the Jirachi as well- I looked into this hunt a fair bit before I kicked it off. Also, my favorite Pokémon is Weezing.

I actually managed to see that line Cheren has about not taking damage. Thought it was pretty neat for such a detail not go unnoticed.

Here's something neat. A couple videos back, you had the bit about Lightning Rod increasing call frequency. But there's another ability that has a substantially more obscure out-of-battle effect. In Pokemon Emerald only, if a Pokemon with the Swarm ability leads the party, the likelihood of hearing wild Pokemon cries in the overworld also increases. Because of course it does

If you go out of bounds in the Alola games, you can find a lot of remnants of other areas that aren't loaded. For example, I noclipped to the Hau'oli City beachfront from the Marina and it had things like trees, the white lines painted on the street, etc.

Phin, every intro: Did you know that …. Me: wow I didnt know that Phin: Oh, You did? Me: 😢

Proud to say I RNG’d Shiny Jirachi a few years ago with Jefe’s help, and a Japanese Pokémon fan who created the tool that I used for part of the process One of the hardest things I’ve done in any game, I popped off so hard I had people down my dorm hall coming to see what happened

For the one about not taking any damage vs Bianca, Cheren mentioned that you didn't lose any HP but you did lose PP. What if you were to not lose PP either, like hack in something with self destruct for Bianca and have something with Damp for yourself. Although I'm almost positive they wouldn't have added anything for it due to it being impossible in the base game, but I guess you never know

My favorite Pokemon is Eevee, though it's definitely been challenged by Espurr... and so long as Sprigatito's evolutions are good, there's a chance it might become a new favorite as well. I like the fluffy babies, and have a weakness for kittens...

In Gen IV, the animations of moves like Spit Up, Strength and Facade cause the sprite of the Pokemon who used it to move 1-2 pixels in a certain direction. Apparently the effect is cumulative, but I'd love to know if it's possible to make a Pokemon's sprite move completely off the screen with this method. Maybe you could be the first to document this, Phin? 😉

You’re the only Pokémon youtuber that I don’t skip the adverts for. Top, top content dude keep it up

I absolutely love these videos! There are about a million Pokemon fact videos on KZfaq, but yours always feel unique. They’re very in-depth and well researched, but more importantly they have their own sense of style and tone! I am always impressed by the way you end each video with some kind of question, mystery, cliffhanger etc. that makes the viewer hooked for the next one. That’s a freaking genius way to string your videos together, and I can say that it totally works!

The red shard thing would be caused by the shards incorrectly sharing an ID. This also happens in Banjo-Kazooie regarding the mumbo tokens. There are two tokens that share an ID, and when one is collected, the other is no longer collectable.

I didn’t realize the wishmaker Jirachi could come with different natures. 😂 I tried with several save files as a kid and I kid you not - every single one of them had a Serious nature. I had about a dozen of them before I gave up. I didn’t even think about shiny hunting it. I just wanted one that wasn’t serious. 😂

This series is so cool, I've been paying pokemon ever since I was 7 and I'm 22 now and I still play it consistently, and I just think it's amazing that we can find out these little hidden secrets in games that have been out for decades

Altaria is my favourite Pokémon, hopefully with a regional variant in gen 9 (swablu was the main focus on one of the images and altaria seems to fit a Spanish setting)

My favorite pokemon is Metagross. I was always so sad that I could never get a Beldum early game in most games, but I finally bred the perfect one in Sword and transferred it to Home, then back into a new game and used it as my starter and it was fantastic.

Hey phin! Another cool idea could be the shiny johto starters you can hunt in pokemon xd gale of darkness. A lot of people were skeptical about it actually being able to be shiny but I just got one and speedtwister96 also got one. As far as I know we are the only people to ever get a shiny johto starter in pokemon xd. You are welcome to use my video if you want to use that as a fact!

a video going over your entire shiny hunting journey would be so cool!!

The ending of this video was phenomenal. I'm skeptical when I see videos like this recommended to me, but ever since the first one of yours I saw a couple months ago I was so happy it just wasn't part of the youtube cesspool and that it was actually good. Keep it up!

These videos make My day it's always nice to see how even something I thought I knew so well can continue to surprise me, that's why I still am into this series all these years later

The shiny Jirachi started appearing more frequently due to the morphogenetic field 🙃 Also my favourite Pokemon is Altaria. It's half of the inspiration for my name....which I came up with 11 years ago as a kid

In all my years playing pokemon I actually NEVER knew that weedle couldn't learn normal moves lol so right at the beginning of your video you hit me with some "fun facts"😅

Jirachi is my favorite pokémon, so it's always amazing to hear facts about it let alone facts I've never heard. Thanks for making this video, it's really interesting

The level of inspiration and optimism that seeps from your words as you wrap up your videos is unreal. Job well done. I thoroughly enjoy watching your content, keep up the amazing work!

Yo, I'm in this video! I'm the dude that found the shared script ID on the red shards in platinum. (pailmer6 actually doesn't exist) The two hidden items activating the same script basically means that the other one disappears if you pick one of them up. Funny enough, this error also exists in Diamond Pearl. It just isn't a red shard. It probably also exists in BDSP, but I don't have the game, so I can't check that myself.

I love your obscure vids. Been binge watching since yesterday, rewatching some of the videos. I really enjoy this series.

bro im so glad im watching all ur vids. 4:06 i just replayed platinum and was shard hunting for moves. i watched 2 videos on where to find red shards and each video showed both those spots but when i collected the 2nd one nothing was there. i was sure i was just high but now this makes so much SENSE.

I love these videos so much and the fact that they cover such obscure things in my favourite series just makes me binge all of them again once a new one comes out. Love the content and please continue teaching us all the weird things gamefreak has hidden from us

The sign isn't the only duplicate thing in Kanto! There's an invisible PC in one of the extra buildings in Saffron City.

Hey, I'm loving this content, I'm beyond impressed that of this whole series, at least 95% of the info is new to me, even from being a regular consumer and searcher of Pokemon trivia since the 00's. Your content and editing are both underrated and deserve all the more love! Plus it was wild seeing that Deoxys Gamestop flyer in your earlier video--I still have that very one stored among my Pokemon books, and had no idea why I saved the thing! If I can be so bold--I was hoping someday to get into both video editing and streaming, to make some similar styled content on different topics; would you by chance have recommendations for editing software, streaming and capture hardware/software, etc? I've never streamed a game before, let alone a handheld or console, and my editing software has always been subpar freeware. Thanks and keep up the great work!

This series is still so absolutely amazing to me, and I enjoy learning even more things about my absolute obsession! It would be really cool if you covered obscure pokemon glitches! (hopefully ones that aren't just in Gen 1, even though, yes, I know, gen 1 is spaghetti code. I just would really like to see some obscure pokemon glitches ranging in the many games about the time!) Maybe even cover things like the obscure pokemon titles! (Like Pokemon Ranger, Pokemon Colusseum, Pokemon Conquest, Pokemon.. Cafe Mix?) Lmao- I think there might actually be hidden details that we still haven't seen yet in these obscure titles :3

Another strange overworld item phenomenon happens in Platinum: There is a honey you can pick up in both the Old Chateau and the Lost Tower. For some reason, both of them actually counts as 3 Honeys

Favorite Pokémon is Articuno. So magical and as a child I wanted to befriend it lol

Obscure fact: there's a name filter that prevents players from naming pokemon naughty things. It was so strict that back in gen 5 you can't even trade a Cofagrigus unless you gave it a nickname (despite pokemon naming it that in the first place) because it had a bad word in it. This was fixed a generation later.

Hey! I found one interesting fact in R/B I haven't really heard mentioned before and thought I'd tell you. Even if you have battle effects turned off, the game still does them against your rival in the champion battle. I have been playing through Red and found it super weird when I suddenly saw the effect for Confuse Ray for the first time lol

Phin ur content never fails to amaze me. You have a way of storytelling that is like no other. You give me Nick Robinson vibes.

Great video! Loved seeing Chikasaurus get the recognition she's due with all the amazing ways shes able to pick apart these games. Cant wait to see more!

Really enjoying this series and learning increasingly obscure Pokémon facts. Keep it up man!

An interesting tidbit that I don't think everyone is aware of, is that many moves have changed their animation mid generation. In G1 and G2 it was only for localization (G1 toned down flashes in moves like Hyper Beam or Thunderbolt... ironically though, some were made WORSE, like those in Confusion and Hypnosis - before being toned down properly in Yellow. G2 has different animation for SonicBoom, for whatever reason), G3 has nothing as far as I know, but I could be wrong. But then G4 started doing things, like how Spacial Rend looks different in Diamond and Pearl, or how Thunder looks different in HeartGold and SoulSilver. This would then happen again in G5 with some moves like Aeroblast, Overheat, Shadow Claw, or Night Daze having different animation in Black 2 and White 2, and even again in G6, though it's harder to tell because this is the 3D era now. I know in ORAS, at least two moves were changed - Fire Blast (it now resembles the 大 more) and Thunder (the electric effects are noticeably different; you can easily tell by checking Mixeli's video from 2018 about this move). Some changes are easier to tell, some you wouldn't be able to tell unless you saw the different animations back to back. This technically also happens in G7, but Let's Go games are on Switch while Alola games are on 3DS, so I don't really think it's that notable. Anyway, my favorite Pokemon is Bellossom.

My favorite Pokémon is female Pyroar (in my pfp), but a close second is Lugia - and I don't thiiink you've covered it's weird origin story. It's not all that in the games themselves, but it's weird and very cool! I'm currently writing an essay on it and I suppose I'm just curious if you're interested. There's a really neat video on it already, though.

Always a good day when the legend uploads. Congrats again on 100k my man

I don’t know how to pull it off, but even if your text is in fast while playing BDSP, while you are in the Underground, it can slow down and Pokémon in the cave will have be fully hot pink

Bro that ending was beautiful. I'm always grateful for the communities I'm in.

You've become my favorite Pokemon content creator, thank you for taking the time to make and provide the entertainment! Would you be willing to take suggestions for other types of videos like this? I'd like to see someone on YT make a video on the strongest to weakest stat pokemon (or something to that affect) in any or every pokemon game.

Love these vids, keep up the good work!

As a 34 year old man that has played Pokémon since day one I highly appreciated your video, anything to do with the franchise especially obscure facts just gets my rocks off, great video and I've also subbed to your channel, looking forward to more great content✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻

Neat thing that I found in my Unova playthrough: There is an old lady in Driftveil City in Pokémon Black and White that talks slower that your text speed.

Always nice to see when you drop an obscure fact video!

Wow, this was a great video!!! I really thought there wasn't much I didn't know, and you proved me wrong! And what a heartwarming story about Jirachi. (Also loved the pause screen, gotta say my favorite has to be Pikachu, go figure, but it was my first and has remained as such) so thanks for making my day! And I can't wait to check out your other videos!!! 😎🎶

4:19: Love the underwater DKC music you are playing here. That gave me a nostalgic trip.

My favourite Pokemon is Arcanine. Ever since Gen 1. It has never changed, though I will say the Duskull line (more Dusknoir than the other two) is a pretty close second. Not sure why since they're pretty wildly different, but the heart wants what the heart wants I suppose lmao. Keep up the good work! I went through most of your videos pretty recently and enjoy them very much! I'm one voice among many (or one comment I suppose), but I definitely hope that seeing any amount of random people from around the world praising your content brightens your day! 🤘🏻 Keep on rockin'!

I encountered something that I think only I've experienced so maybe you or the community can answer this 19-year long mystery for me. Story time! So, the first main series pokemon game I beat was Ruby/Sapphire. My older brother bought Sapphire for me and Ruby for himself the day the game released (only mentioning in case having a Day 1 cartridge is relevant). Anyways, this is where I encountered by first shiny, which was Wingull. I was excited and thought it was a glitch at first, but I caught it anyways, and had my own Wingull with red stripes instead of blue. I was nervous to evolve it into Peliper, but sure enough, the red markings stayed, and I had a shiny Peliper. Neat! Fast forward to high school about 10 years later. Some friends and I were talking about our first shiny encounters, and I mentioned the Wingull. I mentioned that I like how the red looked, even though Wingull isn't the most exciting pokemon. My friend looked at me like I was stupid, and told me something. Shiny wingull doesn't have red stripes. They're supposed to be green. I told him he was wrong, and looked it up when I got home. Literally speechless. It was green. Same with Peliper. I did the logical thing and took a colorblindness test because I know CB people can mix up those colors, but my eyes worked fine. I tried to think back HARD, and I know it was red even to this day. Red and green are opposite on the color wheel, so there's no way I could confuse it for a color so opposite. I've tried googling this, and NOTHING comes up. My running theory is that some shinies may have been different when the game first released, but nothing I've researched has supported this. If anyone asks where the cartridge is now, in probably one of the top 3 worst decisions in my life, I traded it into a GameStop to put money towards a Nintendo DS. Bad move, lost my favorite childhood cartridge, and the mystery with it, and what's worse is that my sister broke my DS a year later lol. Anyways, assuming my 8 year old eyes didn't mistake the colors on ONE pokemon in the entire game and I actually saw what I saw, I would love to see this mystery tackled. It's such a minute mystery about a minute pokemon, so I'm curious to see if this will every get an explanation. Thanks!

Hey phin, stumbled accross your channel yesterday and im currently watching through your backlog now, I really appreciated your secret pause text and my favorite pokemon are totodile and luxray

Man this has got to be one of my favorite pokemon videos to date, the last on jirachi was incredible. Thank you

I actually have seen the Bianca battle fact. The attention to detail in Gen 5 was great. Fave pokemon is Celebi btw lol

The red shard one feels like a quantum superposition reference of sorts.

1940: In 2022, we're gonna have flying cars. 2022: OHMYGOD SHINY WISHMAKER JIRACHI GUYS

That's crazy about the Jirachis! Though I have to say every time I hear somebody's story about finding a shiny after hundreds or even thousands of encounters I become more convinced that I could never be a shiny hunter, since I simply do not have that kind of patience. I still would like a random shiny though as I've never gotten one (the only shinies I have are from distributions, or guaranteed ones like the shiny Ponyta in Legends Arceus). In fact, I'm pretty sure one of my partners in a raid I joined a couple days ago in Sword had a shiny Latios, cause I remember thinking "I don't think Latios is teal."

So, Phin, thanks for the great content. I really hope that you will see this comment, because you made me enjoy Pokemon again. Thanks for the incredible videos and I hope that your channel will keep growing, cuz ya deserve it, mate. Also, Grovyle, no matter that I usually start Gen 3 with Mudkip. One love ❤️

8:09 I like Leafeon a lot! I've been using one for the first time in Legends Arceus and it's really fun, and definetly deserves more attention like other eeveelutions

Just wanted to say great vids and awesome music choices. 3rd strike, Gran Turismo, bomberman, and even the dope gta3 opening. Solid

Yo love your vids

I've got no way to prove it or nothing to gain, but I had gotten a shiny Jirachi from the colosseum bonus disk many years back while hunting for a modest one. It died with a reset out of laziness with carrying it forward or went on with one of the cartridges being sold off on ebay, honestly I have no idea. I never thought it was a big deal. :(

Just so you know I’m sure it was just a mistake but the Jirachi was not a pre order gift for XD Gale of Darkness. The Wishmaker Jirachi disk was a preorder gift for the first Pokémon Colosseum game. The only preorder gift for XD in the states that I know of was a Shadow Luigia skin for the GameCube. You can tell even more when you see that the preorder box features the protagonist of the first Colosseum game as well as both the first game and the wish maker movie releasing around the same time.

8:10 Always Loved Ditto, and Mew. Then I played Moon and decided to try Rowlett as I rarely pick Grass Starters for the first run. He got to level 34 and Decidueye instantly became my new favourite, after 7 Generations.

The patience of some people is insane. I could never imagine shiny hunting, props to the people who have the determination to reset thousands of times for a different coloured pokemon. I wish I was that patient.

Ok so i began watching your channel when i was looking for stuff to sleep on... And now i use this to sleep and to entertain myself too. I love your voice and it either relaxes me or makes me be ultra awake and attentive.

I had only played White once, just finished recently; I got into gen 5 super late. And I had no idea that beating Bianca without getting hit was rare. I feel dumb not knowing that. She just kept growling at me. It's cool to know that I experienced something so uncommon.

Ok, fact time. The Wishmakr Jirachi came from a COLOSSEUM Bonus Disc, not XD GoD, and it was found in 2009, so hardly 15 years later, since it was first released in 2004. It was then promptly hunted. My theory is A, you did little research, and B, after the conclusion it rarely came up, since unless you were specifically doing this, the bonus disc was pretty much nonexistent, only coming back up again as recently as 2013 when Bank didn't let it pass, due to this Jirachi technically being an oversight. Now, about the oversight. The JP Bonus Disc gave Celebi. In the process of changing things over for localization, it was decided everyone else would get Jirachi instead. Two mistakes were made. For starters, they didn't re enable the Cart shiny check. In this transfer, both the disc shiny checks, then the cart shiny checks. If a Shiny is the result on either, it rerolls the PID for a different result. For the GBA Cart, that part wasn't re enabled. Second, the disc check somehow got messed up, and now read PIDs backwards. Because of this, the 9 Shiny PIDs would slip through. And finally, there AREN'T only 7, this thing has been hunted for a long time now, until Bank closes, there's assumed to be several hundred out in the wild. I personally have 9, hunted myself, which easily disproves your 7 only line.

Saw your text in the video. My favorite Pokémon is Rayquaza (especially it’s shiny version). I thought it would go a bit further and mention what my favorite team of 3 starters would be: Charmander (Charizard) Treeko (Sceptile) Froakie (Greninja)

Wow this video was an unexpected delight, I was expecting background vid to work on projects to and instead I get sucked into a story of triumph. Thank you for this sir, you've earned that sub

Clone pokemon in gold or pokemon silver, when you clone 1 pokemon 5 times , sometimes one of the pokemon has 1 hp more, take it , clone again , take the one with 1 hp more, you will be able to get insane stats that way.

9:46 10:54 11:11 the sheer volume everyone screams and loses their absolute marbles in reaction is so funny to me 😭

once again these videos are my fav pokemon facts, there's always so much more obscure shit that somehow hasn't been uncovered by many!! i love learning more about these games :')

I spent so much time as a child trying to get shiny Pokemon in Fire Red. I didn’t want to lose my game save, but really wanted a shiny Charizard so left mine in a daycare centre with a ditto. I kept hatching all the eggs and releasing them until I got a shiny. I hate to think how much time I spent doing this, but it was well worth it!

Around 1998-1999ish, my dad was stationed in Saudi Arabia for several months, but while he was there, he bought a bootleg ps1 and Gameboy and over 100 games that he had shipped home to us. They were the real games, just pirated and put onto blank cartridges or disks, and there were sometimes some alterations. I had some Pokémon game for the bootleg ps1, but I can't remember the name of the game and I haven't been able to find it online, especially considering that Pokémon never released anything for the ps1, so my searches have been useless. But also, I had Japanese Yellow version that was translated into English, and I had blue version, and I remember the Bootleg game had some minor differences, but they were noticeable. I can't think of any right now, but I eventually got a real yellow version, and it was definitely slightly different. I don't have them anymore due to going homeless at one point and selling everything I had, but I wonder if anyone else out there has the bootleg Middle Eastern pirated games.

That end speech almost squeezed a tear out of me. Deserved sub. Great video

My favorite Pokemon is Dratini. I've had a figure of it since I was a kid and I just think it's an adorable dragon Pokemon.

It's actually impossible to beat Bianca legit without taking damage. She is programmed to ALWAYS tackle on turn 1 and it has 100% accuracy in gen 5. None of the starters are capable of getting a OHKO, either. You have to hack the game for this dialogue.

This series is so great that I've seen people ripping it off lately. GGs, you're a pioneer

5:06 probably a programing error because even the cartages for the SP weren’t that reliable and probably wouldn’t be easily programmed

Phin: I'm 100% sure you've never heard this fact Me, who has watched this video 10 times: YOU FOOL!

“I’m 100% sure you’ve never heard this one before” Me, watching this video for the seventh time: “Oh yeah, it’s big brain time”

I had always wished there was a way to turn the bottom screen off. it's not used for anything, it's just there to drain battery. I wanted to turn it off so I could go longer between charges, I had this thought even as a little kid

I have watched all of these and have only known about one (maybe two) of these. Well done.

I like Eevee. It's definitely not the best Pokemon but the fact it has so many types it evolves into and the fact it's so adorable it makes me love it even more.