Uploaded April 2009 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
This was before, literally right before I switched my original parents out for a Japanese parent and my own parent so I could try out the Junichi Masuda method.
COMPLETE SYNOPSIS OF WHAT HAPPENED:
- I hatch 2,600 eggs right up until the release of Platinum.... no shiny... :(
- I get Platinum. Play it. Blah blah blah, I don't hatch any.
- Yesterday/last night/today I hear about the Junichi Masuda method, how they figured out what he meant on his blog.
- I scurry to the GTS to get a Japanese male magikarp and I do.
- I head to the Day Care. I save one last time before taking that one last egg. I take it, go in, swap out the original parents WHICH ARE Ben's Ditto and my own Magikarp, for that same Magikarp and the Japanese one I got off of the GTS.
- I go back out and hatch it while I'm talking to my friend Anthony. I lay my game on my bed while it hatches while I'm talking to him, surfing the net. I look over, and what will probably turn out as a fairy tale ending, that last Magikarp was SHINY.
So... yeah.... the egg was generated a long time ago. Before I got Platinum. I just decided to stop then cuz I was about to get it.
How awesome is that...?
Sadly, it has a Lax nature, but that won't slow me down any.
Finally.... after 2,601 HATCHES.... I have my own shiny Magikarp!!
Also... I must give out a SPECIAL MENTION to one person.
The man known formerly as dialga2008.
He probably didn't know this, neither did any of you, until now, but he helped me.
When I gave him some Pokemon, he traded over 3 junk Magikarps. I used one of those Magikarps with Ben's Ditto until I got one of my own with good IVs, and then swapped it out.
So he started all of this for me.
Thanks man.
This was before, literally right before I switched my original parents out for a Japanese parent and my own parent so I could try out the Junichi Masuda method.
COMPLETE SYNOPSIS OF WHAT HAPPENED:
- I hatch 2,600 eggs right up until the release of Platinum.... no shiny... :(
- I get Platinum. Play it. Blah blah blah, I don't hatch any.
- Yesterday/last night/today I hear about the Junichi Masuda method, how they figured out what he meant on his blog.
- I scurry to the GTS to get a Japanese male magikarp and I do.
- I head to the Day Care. I save one last time before taking that one last egg. I take it, go in, swap out the original parents WHICH ARE Ben's Ditto and my own Magikarp, for that same Magikarp and the Japanese one I got off of the GTS.
- I go back out and hatch it while I'm talking to my friend Anthony. I lay my game on my bed while it hatches while I'm talking to him, surfing the net. I look over, and what will probably turn out as a fairy tale ending, that last Magikarp was SHINY.
So... yeah.... the egg was generated a long time ago. Before I got Platinum. I just decided to stop then cuz I was about to get it.
How awesome is that...?
Sadly, it has a Lax nature, but that won't slow me down any.
Finally.... after 2,601 HATCHES.... I have my own shiny Magikarp!!
Also... I must give out a SPECIAL MENTION to one person.
The man known formerly as dialga2008.
He probably didn't know this, neither did any of you, until now, but he helped me.
When I gave him some Pokemon, he traded over 3 junk Magikarps. I used one of those Magikarps with Ben's Ditto until I got one of my own with good IVs, and then swapped it out.
So he started all of this for me.
Thanks man.
