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11-01-2017, 01:10 PM
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If it can be shiny, it would be determined when you pick it up. How'd you come to the conclusion that the Nuclear Pahar can be shiny, though? If it's because the wiki has a shiny sprite pictured, that's not sufficient evidence by itself. Pokemon can have shiny sprites in the data and be unavailable as shiny. Purpose of that is so the game doesn't crash or experience errors if someone tries to hack in something that doesn't exist (another example of this is the various unavailable shiny legendaries and mythicals in the main series games, or ??? type Arceus in Gen 4).
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11-01-2017, 03:01 PM
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Ah, in-game proof. Interesting. Alright, carry on then. Don't mind my skepticism.
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The reason I assumed it could was because I found a shiny sprite in the folder containing the sprites. I guess it was a bit of a stretch, but at least now I know I can just select it on the save I have set for it and be able to update
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....and I found out that somehow my game "auto-updated" in some way to remove the previous mystery gift (the Pahar), despite not having the files for the new stuff installed by the patcher yet. This wouldn't be an issue except that I'd assumed the shininess was determined when you select it from the mystery gift menu option, so I hadn't actually grabbed it on the save.
Soooo.... crap. There goes that then :/
Well, at least the Halloween Lunapup looks pretty cool
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11-01-2017, 11:10 PM
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To clarify, the Nuke Pahar can be shiny, but it's status is determined when you pick it up from the Pokemart
The Lunapup has no shiny form, and as Dragonstrike mentioned, Mystery Gifts are server side, but the image data for the Mystery gift (The sprite) is client side. So not updating your client so you can keep trying at an old Mystery gift won't work.
Backup your saves, don't lose progress!
C:\users\<Username>\Saved Games\Pokemon_Uranium
Save Backups:
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