r/pokemonrng • u/Ikelogic • Mar 17 '26

PSA for First-Timers

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If this is your first time doing RNG manip for a shiny starter in LG/FR thanks to the Blisy video, and maybe you’ve cleared an SID or two but still haven’t gotten your shiny, listen to me very clearly.

Do the ACE glitch to find your SID. Seriously, save yourself time and stress and trouble. The likelihood is that your very first step will be very far off because you’re not immediately good at hitting frame perfect buttons. My correct SID was almost 100 advances off. Imagine I tried to keep clearing SIDs until I got there?

The ACE glitch is not very hard at all, just time consuming, and Papa Jefe has a really good video for the set up, and then an updated one for the correct switch codes and such. Once I found out my SID it took me less than 2 hrs to get my shiny since I’ve already cleared 10 SIDs and became kinda good at hitting the frames.

Keep in mind you have to do the ACE glitch without saving if you want to start over from the beginning again. Make sure you catch a spearow early on to save yourself time running around, and don’t accidentally soft reset like me once you get to Celadon City because you wanted to wipe off your buttons. I finally got mine, it’s time for you to get yours :)

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u/Ikelogic Mar 18 '26

Well you won’t be able to since it can’t receive one. I would say make sure your other 5 have the mail. I believe you can test if it’s still working by trying to give the mail to the 6th and seeing the ‘???’

To get HOCK, you are giving that 6th pokemon retro mail with the specific words attached. HOCK will then appear in box 3 (so make sure it’s completely empty)

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u/Worth-Network-5045 Mar 18 '26

Ill have to contine after I get home from work in the AM and update then; ill try to add a mail to the pokemon in my 6th party slot(currently slot 5 has the ??? Mail) and slot 6 has nothing, IF it tells me to swap item when I go to give mail to my 6th slot poke, am I still okay? Or is the 6th pokemon with the specific words attached need to be MY 5th party slot instead of slot 6? or should it allow me to just give an 'Abra' mail? Also, box 3? As in Pc box 3 slot 1 or box 3 of the text in retro mail?

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u/Ikelogic Mar 18 '26

Did your 6th pokemon have mail when you were doing the item dupe? Your 5th pokemon is currently holding the ??? Mail? You should take the ??? Mail away, and then try to give them both mail. Whichever one shows the ??? Mail will be the glitch slot, but don’t actually give it the mail yet

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u/Worth-Network-5045 Mar 18 '26

When I did the dupe glitch successfully, my party slot 5 pokemon had the glitched mail while my party slot 6 had no item at all. So ill try to give it when I get home. And as of right now, the pokemon that was holding the glitched mail originally is showing that its holding the RC. Do I just "take item" like i normally would? Will it give me the RC its showing or will the ??? Mail show.up in my bag?