I Caught a Shiny Stuck in a 20 Year Old Pokemon Event

Having an event Pokemon available for 3 hours is such a Pokemon move

Watching shiny mew transform into the shiny opposing Pokémon is so cool!

My single most impactful Pokémon memory was BEGGING my mom to take me to Toys R Us for the 3 hour Mew distribution after a soccer game when I was 8. I still have that Mew on my copy of LeafGreen til this day. This is still so much cooler. What a special shiny to have!

The next shiny Parasect I catch is gonna be named “mushroom brisket”. Thank you for this Johnstone. 😂

Fun fact! Prior to po go/vc crystal, shiny mew/ditto tranforming was the only way you could legitimately see a shiny celebi

A few years later: I shiny hunted Wynaut on Mirage Island!

You’d think after that Shiny Prof Oak challenge, he’d be turned off from ANYTHING having to do with Shinies.

You said this challenge took about 40 hours to complete, but you missed the chance to say "this challenge took about seven years to complete"

He indeed caught a shiny stuck in a 20 year old pokemon event

For future reference, both Bulbapedia and Serebii have individual pages for every existing move and they always include the Japanese name with its proper characters near the top of the page, right next to the English name.

I actually set out on a shiny Mew quest of my own back in 2022. Obtaining the Japanese cartridge, beating the game (in Japanese obviously), sending the cartridge out to have the old sea map injected and shiny hunting it took almost a year to do, and after failing it at 1401 encounters, I finally obtained it at 3332. THEN, I spent the ridiculous time and effort to transfer the mon from console to console so that I could have it in the modern Pokémon titles on the Switch. It was an insane process to go through, but it's also an awesome flex. Way to go on getting yours, Johnstone. 🎉🎉🎉

The pokemon Emerald rng seed wasn't meant to be the same every time it's just a bug. The devs forgot to implement the "random seed picker".

While we thankfully got events like this again in the Scarlet and Violet DLC, it would be pretty cool to make them shiny huntable and not have them be unobtainable for years!

So the parasect's moves were 茸の胞子 (mushroom spores), leech life flash, growth

Having Shiny Mew transform into any shiny is a pretty nice detail

Congrats on getting your beautiful blue boy. While I didn’t get a copy of Japanese Emerald that had the event on the cart, I did hunt my Shiny Mew on Japanese Emerald after injecting the Wonder Card. It became my longest hunt ever: 17,526 encounters. I was legitimately going crazy while hunting it. Once I got it, I knew I would transfer it out, so I went the extra mile and got it every single Ribbon it could possibly have. Since then, I’ve made sure to get it every possible Ribbon and Mark it could get, including the Master Rank Ribbon from the brief moment it was allowed in SwSh Ranked Battles and the Mightiest Mark from the Mewtwo Tera Raid event.

I had never heard of Pokémon events when I was playing back in the early 2000s.

Mew transforming into another pokemon's shiny is such a cool detail that I never even thought about

The moment it appeared made ME unbelievably excited and it's not even my Mew- congratulations on such an incredible successful hunt dude!!!

Really wish they would do some cool events like this again. Something about physically having to go somewhere to get a rare pokemon is super cool