there's a special kind of nostalgia that
comes from old Pokémon games and for me
no game in bodies as feeling more than
heart gold and soul silver these games
captured the magic of my childhood in
ways few others could they weren't just
updated versions of old classics they
were a celebration of the Pokémon
experience I haven't played this game in
years but I know I've spent an
embarrassing amount of time shiny
hunting in it so let's take a look back
and see what's hiding on this
10-year-old save file
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let's see what we got awesome really
this video is just an excuse for me to
be nostalgic and look at all these old
Pokemon that I haven't seen in God knows
how long Pokemon Heart Gold so I have
259 hours logged in this game however I
know that's not accurate just for the
fact that I spent so long soft recent
shiny hunting so I have significantly
more hours I have close to 1,000 hours
in this game all 16 Badges and a pokedex
of
305 all right starting off in Golden Rod
City immediately with a shiny septile
I'm going to see just what's in my party
right now it's just septile just septile
who's named
Rico and it's a gentle nature from hoen
which uh got this as a soft res set hunt
in Sapphire and I used pickup Zig zons
to get him to level 100 before I tra
over here uh got him October 25th 2021 I
don't know if that's accurate to be
honest with you I never set my DS times
appropriately I'm going to see my
trainer card Adventure started December
15th
2016 again I feel like I always changed
my DS systems time so I don't know if
that's quite accurate but oh you got my
signature on there that's so cute this
is bringing me back man it really is
Hall of Fame debut August 3rd
2017 yeah man my hall of fame time would
have definitely been way after started
the game just because I spent so long
shiny hunting and everything Random
Encounters specifically I want to see if
I can't go to the Hall of Fame see what
my first time beating the game looked
like okay so here we already see some
Pokemon that I have Stylo the level 100
Dragonite which I got from the game
Corner love this Pokemon so much I don't
know if this is on the safe file or if
it's on platinum I'll I'll look this
isn't my first debut though let me see
if I can't go back to the first one no
we don't have my first one on here but
basically I just I mean like everyone I
use the Hall of Fame as just a way to
level up Pokemon for the decks all right
I'm just going to go straight to the
PC if I remember correctly I used to
organize the PC box by Pokedex number
let's just start back uh to number one
yep yep I was trying to do a living
decks on this game so 1 through 30 31
through 60 and then so on and so forth I
think I got all of
Kanto except maybe the last little bit
there but and we started doing jto I
have a video idea planned for this game
specifically so that might be the best
time to finish this out I would love to
get a complete living decks on this copy
of hard gold all right boys what we came
here for the shinies I'm pretty sure if
I just go back one they're all in this
box there they are this is bringing back
memories man what's kind of cool is I'm
pretty sure these are like sequential
order of when I got them so starting it
off with my very first full odd shiny
ever shiny tyion which I nicknamed Tai
yeah December 19th 2016 I got this from
just sofre setting at the beginning of
the game and luckily for me this was my
Target in my first phase so I didn't
have to like sofa over a Chikorita or
Toto dial I would have Tak regardless
but I got lucky and got what I wanted
and with this safe file I kind of did a
pseudo badge Quest where I would try to
get a shiny before each gym so after I
got syn Quil I'm pretty sure I wanted a
hoppip for some reason that's what I
wanted but I didn't get it I phased and
I got a shiny Aeros met at level six
when I was a little baby Marie and for
some reason I have holding a shed
shell I and know signal beam so that
makes sense I suppose I named her Mari
and this Pokémon has killed a shiny
Articuno as soon as I got the shiny I
got a critical hit and I fainted it of
course that's how it goes I still love
it though I still love it after Mari we
got Arthur which is arguably one of my
favorite Cano shinies I love shiny n
King so much and if you notice too
literally I was so lucky back in the day
caught December 19th caught December
21st caught December 23rd I was getting
a full out shiny so fast I was so lucky
I think the next one though took me
forever to get if I remember correctly I
got through headbutting trees and I got
my target that's what I wanted shiny
Fortress named bomber yeah I got it June
2017 so it was it was a minute after I
got the other three but man this is such
a good shiny I have loved shiny Fortress
forever it looks so much better in
scarlet and violet but man such an
underrated shiny for years and years and
years especially pineco too pineco shiny
is so good and I don't remember what's
that the man the myth the legend Stylo I
love him so much game Corner shiny I
remember grinding voltor flip to get
enough coins to get uh five of them at a
time and I fin got it this was a really
fast hunt I remember it being Stylo I
think was my first level 100 on the save
file cuz I took him through the Elite 4
so many times training up other Pokémon
um I don't remember what's next I have a
feeling I know it might be the the
legendary ho oh this Pokémon right here
this specific hoo means so much to me
growing up I never looked at a counters
I don't know how how many times I reset
this game to get this Pokémon but I know
it was like 6 7 8 months it was a long
time just of constantly reset my game
the night I got it it was like
1154 on my birthday like it was it was
the best way to cap out that day it says
October 27th but that's not accurate my
birthday is November 26th that's the day
I got it and this is like the best
birthday shiny ever um shiny ho is top
tier shiny s tier number one number one
Johto for sure it's it's top five shiny
Pokemon for me ever just been sitting
here admiring it oh my gosh after that I
think I I got reset my copy of soul
silver and did the starter resets again
and instead of getting squil I got
Totodile which is was my second choice I
love shiny total dial so much named it
locky sassy nature uh 2018 so a few
years after I got the first guys and I
didn't know this at the time not that it
matters it bugged my little OC OCD brain
back in the day but if you choose a
female character your name is red I
didn't know that so all these other guys
have blue
names and the everyone I got this sa
prob has a red name which doesn't bother
me now but it did it did back in the day
for sure after that Milton this is a
Pokemon from leaf green this game right
here I remember resetting my game
treating everything over to a copy of
fire red that I had just so I could
shiny hunt on that game I don't know why
I picked bulbas to hunt first because my
favorite Pokemon for a long time was
Squirtle as my first ever Pokemon but I
wouldn't trade up for the world I love
shiny Venusaur so so much holding a
quick claw named Milton I don't know
what you guys name your Venusaur better
be Milton after that got Versace the
shiny Vaporeon I love this Pokemon so
much as well another one from leaf green
notice how it arrived at level 54 that's
probably what level it was when I beat
the Kanto league and just traded them
all up but now it's level 86 this after
Stylo this became my go-to Pokemon to
train other Pokemon up part of me
regrets trading up all of my third gen
leaf green Chinese because the shiny
Sparkle in third gen is just so good
I'll probably go back and reclaim them
one of these days my goal is to get one
of those like GB ba PC connectors uh and
stream stream third gen shiny hunts and
for Gen too but I think I might have to
have a capture card for that I don't
really
know okay Versace then we got trunks
which
dang after versachi we got trunks the
shiny is just
okay I don't regret it though I love
Trunks and I love how he still level 43
he came at level 43 and leaving staying
at level 43 I've not touched him since
oh Ridley
shiny Aerodactyl I'll be honest with you
does not look near as good as it did in
third gen this and another Pokemon that
I have I think there's two other ones
that just do not look good in fourth gen
in my opinion they are so much stronger
in previous games specifically leaf
green fire red yeah he assassinates your
little Ridley after that we
got my favorite shiny that I have shiny
meww this hunt took me like no time at
all to get it was crazy in and out shiny
hunts those are the best ones where it
doesn't feel like work some shiny hunts
last forever and you have to like
babysit them this one was fast arrived
at level 70 I think that's what level
you catch it at but immediately got to
level 100 I I use this Pokemon through
everything I think a big use case I had
from youw was in Platinum for poke radar
I I did a lot of poke radar in Platinum
which I love poke radar so much actually
it's probably my favorite not bdsp poke
radar but like OG Diamond pearl Platinum
so much fun to shiny hunt that way so
much fun all right I'll stop gushing
over Mewtwo after that we got viscus
which was my last shiny off of that Leaf
Green
Copy again I think this just looks just
again I think this just looks so good in
third gen I love it in fourth gen but
something something so special about
third gen Chinese I they just feel like
so they shouldn't exist I don't know
they feel like Chinese they feel like
what Chinese should feel like in every
other game to me after that we got
London which uh I guess I also got in
leaf green fire red but I know I didn't
get it after thisisus I got it before
cuz I think I just hunted it when I was
in silco fighting Team Rocket I guess I
never used it but uh this is another one
I think just looks so much better in
third gen than it does in fourth gen
after that we got Helix oh I love this
Pokemon so much I never used them this
might be my final shiny from leaf green
fire red I don't remember the order
honestly but I remember wanting to use
him in a playthrough of platinum like
just trading him over I thought it' been
fun but never got around to doing that
maybe one of these days oh there it is
shiny guara this was another one that
took me forever to get but as soon as I
got it Master balled it of course I
don't know is that cheap probably but
after Articuno I was I was locked into
catching them so I master balled it but
yeah this was this was another one I I
spent a long time hunting for really
happy I got it I think it's funny my
gutin is somewhat of a clown um I think
it's also my only Platinum shiny I think
I shiny hunted nope that's not true I
forgot I have a few more this is my
favorite Pokemon that I have have in the
safe file probably other than Stylo
other than Mewtwo I love electivire so
much it's one of my favorite Pokemon if
not my favorite Pokemon especially shiny
electivire I always nickname my
electivire vice and I have a shiny Alpha
electivire in Legends arus which is like
my staple Pokemon in that game and I
think I have it on scarlet and violet
right now I think I transferred it over
so little bashful Vice likes to thrash
your bout you and me both buddy my final
Johto starter I did that hunt three
different times and got three different
starters so I was very blessed in that
sense holding a miracle seed impish
nature August 8th 2020 that sounds about
right during lockdown probably pick
shiny hunting back up I don't remember
uh strong W God it's such a cool Pokemon
really is PE the second I got a PE the
first wasn't shiny but I love love shiny
Al Kazam so much uh this was game Corner
met gold Ron City sassy nature October 6
2020 I have been working on a shiny
sandrew ekins shiny hunt for a minute
now I think I'm like 16,000 deep into it
I'm double
odds after that Kyogre I got this so
fast when I say so fast I hunted it for
maybe an hour was like maybe 200 300
Encounters in it was wild ah like it
took longer to set the hunt up than it
did to get this shiny I want to go back
and get Groudon shiny and then get
Rayquaza shiny in this game so bad that
that's that
is dream team right there Fort Shiny
Rayquaza would be crazy after that Lugia
another really fast one I remember
setting this hunt up at my job I was uh
I worked at a subway and I remember
bringing my DS in when we weren't busy
and getting to the point where I could
get toia Soul Silver cuz I was already
there in Heart Gold I just wanted to
have a second game to hunt on and
literally that night got it set up that
night went home and got it I think it
was like 67 encounters like it was
stupid fast first shiny on that safe
file too so I definitely use this more
than hoo met at level 45 level 67 now
it's such a good shiny uh I I don't know
I don't know if I like it more than ho
oh I it's they're up there though for me
for sure I just love these Pokemon so
much so much Nostalgia uh Heming way the
shiny bronzer this was a platinum this
was a radar shiny however it was like a
one chain or something like it was I
think yeah it was a one chain stupid uh
I remember catching this in college and
if I remember correctly there's a full
odds shiny that I got through radar
chain not through a shiny patch just in
general I think it's next yep Yuko the
shiny Skitty I love this Pokemon so much
I remember being floored I was in like
like a conference Hall in college and
radar
chaining and I like was like dialed into
something else I look over and see the
shiny Sparkles and I was just what the
heck this was back when I was uh doing
radar chain and going through sun and
moon doing some shiny hunts that I had
never done in that game like Wim pod and
typ N stuff like that
Yuko and then finally I think this might
be the final shiny in this box shiny
Shaman which I got on Diamond and Pearl
through exploiting through the void so
it was a risky hunt and I think I got in
like 4,000 encounters super sad though I
can't turn to Sky form unfortunately
apparently this Shaman doesn't like
trigger the event to get the item so it
stuck like this I love it regardless I
think it's such a good shiny nope shenzi
might be the final one I don't know I
don't know I don't know but this is a
full out shiny pooa that I got in
Sapphire doing the starter shiny hunt I
game sharked myself in some Pokeball so
I could catch it so I wouldn't fail it
jenzi and then Rhonda we got Rhonda here
shiny Machamp I forgot all about Rhonda
I think I used this on like a a mini
playthrough of platinum that's why it's
like level 31 which is kind of crazy
that I would use I'm Machamp I I don't
feel like that's me oh my gosh and we
got shiny dusk Noir named Churchill
which is such a fun name for dusk Noir I
got some Pokemon here I do not remember
I don't remember ever catching this
beong after that January 9th 2000 homie
was a Y2K baby that's crazy beong is
such a cool name for meta type and then
that's the final of this box however I
know I do have more that I think were
radar Chained and the thing is I'm
pretty sure I have more shinies as well
that are just in other games right now
and and even on like my third gen games
I know I have shinies that aren't on
here obviously so moving back a box we
got Ezekiel the basic shiny you get in
every safe file of hard gold soul silver
Calamity this was a radar chained uh
Pony when I got it super cute I love I
love this Pokemon actually I I Ed this
in a playthrough of a so silver then
after
that I'm not proud of it boys I'm not
proud of it I don't claim it as my own
but he's here and that's everything I
think a a so nostalgic I love these
games so much I love shiny hunting I
miss special events for mythicals I miss
things not being shiny locked and most
importantly I just miss these Pokémon so
if you made it all the way to the end of
the video thank you for watching I was
feeling really nostalgic today so this
was a video for me I just wanted to
catalog my reaction of these guys but I
think that's all I got for today so see
you
