what's going on everyone Austin John plays here and today we're gonna be talking about a device
that gets you shiny pokemon with you doing absolutely nothing shiny hunting is a very
well-known thing in the Pokemon community may have come across one in a previous game or you might be
playing sword and shield and you're hunting for them and raids in the wild or hatching Pokemon
in order to get these mutated slightly discolored Digital Pocket Monsters but there's one thing I
can tell you about shiny hunting it sucks it's a long and it's a boring process I know it is
you know it is shiny hunters know that it is yes every once in a while there's a chance it only
takes like 30 attempts to find one but for that time there's a time that it takes 3,000 attempts
to find one it's all about a game of odds in the end and sword and shield by default there's a 1
in 4096 chance for you to find a shiny pokemon and there's a long list of things you can do to
try to change that to get yourself a sparkly boy all the way is low or as high as 1 in 512
1 2 5 12 compared to 1 to 4096 sounds much better right well think about it this way if you were to
walk or bike or ride the train or bus to school or work every single day you found a dollar on
the floor it would take you 2 years to find that dollar on the floor that's not great odds we as
a community always trying to find easier ways of hunting these Pokemon when it comes to breeding
people have stuck coins under their circle pad to allow them to bike easier you hunt for a Pokemon
with the specific ability to make eggs hatch easier you find the oval charm you fell over
your pokedex for the shiny charm you try to get a ditto from another country from stranger on the
Internet we do some pretty crazy stuff in order to just bring that chance of finding these Pokemon
lower and lower to make your chance of getting it better you watch Disney Plus to distract you
from the boring autonomous work that you're doing but we live in a day and age that when
there's boring autonomous work we have machines for that and today there is a machine that gets
you shiny pokemon this is the switch up its core functionality is that it's a controller adapter
which lets you pair an Xbox one 360 ps3 PS or Wii U pro controller to your switch and use it like a
switch pro controller lets you pair it wirelessly or use a wired connection it's compatible with the
switch and the switch light it also includes a USB C dongle dock in order for you to use it
with the switch light or the switch in handheld mode it's very easy to find it's readily in stock
at Gamestop and eb games in america and canada you could also just order it online it's like
20 bucks but the unique part about this thing is that it's a game enhancer and what it specifically
does is it does a series of inputs in order to do things in games for example in breath of the wild
instead of doing the run whistle glitch with the horse call it'll jut you just hit one button and
it does it for you so you just hold the direction and boom you're infinitely sprinting in that one
direction but when it comes to pokemon and shiny hunting there's a little bit more of a complicated
process for that and the company collective minds reached out to me with their new firmware on one
of them for me to try out full disclosure they sent it to me I didn't know that it was on there
already I thought I had to update it I did update it did not go well apparently I broke it and then
they overnighted me one from British Columbia to New Jersey that couldn't have been cheap it got
here by 9 a.m. today and I was able to get it up and running so shout out to them they just
want some internet points in my book the idea of using machines to automate shiny pokemon hunting
has been around for actually quite a while mostly with arduino boards i found a video on youtube
from someone who's used to nor do we know to hunt for shiny pokemon back in X&Y measuring the amount
of time that the bottom screen stays dark in between encounters this was uploaded in 2014
and they were giving credit to someone who did it before them so this idea has been around for
quite a while and more recently Jade woods put out a video last year called pushing a button for rare
Pokemon in it he discussed that to hunt for shiny a lowland Pokemon you just pressed the a button
in front of an NPC on a joy con to trade for a can Tony and Pokemon for its a lowly in variant
any game veteran knows that this isn't a problem as turbo controllers have been around as long as
home consoles app however let's go Pikachu and even require to use a single joy Kon or handheld
mode to play the game he even at one point builds something out of Legos to press the a button which
then I tried for myself and it worked completely worked and it actually averaged about one point
four shiny pokemon per full battery swap which is kind of impressive in that video j w-- it's
eventually tears down a joy khan and uses an arduino to connect two pins simultaneously to
simulate a button press their arduino is an amazing little motherboard that can let you
do a lot of things there's only one problem it requires you to understand is some some amount of
programming and a lot of people are intimidated to get into doing something like that but this
little thumb drive boy right here this kind of changes that it's literally plug and play all
you have to do is take it plug it into the side of your Nintendo switch dock or with the dongle
provided plug it into the bottom of your switch or switch light in handheld mode the game that
requires my map to be in the bottom left of the pause screen an option in the bottom right of the
pause screen I have to have my brooding pokemon in the daycare I have to have the Rotom bike a flame
body pokemon and the Oval charm are recommended and the shiny charm is suggested put the device
into Pokemon mode which friendly reminder this is beta firmware right now hold down the minus button
or on the Xbox one controller it's the screen capture button and then hit left on the d-pad
the controller vibrates to let me know that it picked up everything properly and it began shiny
hunting Pokemon or shiny breeding pokémon it pulls up the menu changes the tech speed to fast pulls
up the map flies to the daycare to align the character properly hops on the bike and makes
small circles to hatch an egg the amount of time can be modified for however long it takes the egg
to hatch and then does some more laps to make sure that the Pokemon have enough time to breed
it will then fly back to the daycare realigns the camera grabs a new egg replaces one of the hatched
pokemon from your party with the brand new egg and repeats the whole process it takes about 120 to
100 of 40 seconds for it to hatch and replace one of these pokemon with a new egg and it doesn't fly
this light it's a game-changer this entire time that I've been recording it's been doing it
hang on dope look it's doing it here's my xbox controller it's paired right now and it's just
going around and doing it now this device isn't smart it doesn't know if you actually got a shiny
pokemon hatched so you need to go to your pokedex and here are my kruky I have my shiny GRU key
entry I have my score bunny and my shiny score bunny entry and then I have my Sabo I can't go
left and right which means that I do not have a shiny sample yet and then to enable it again
all I have to do is hold down the minus button it'll vibrate hit left and it starts the whole
process over it's that easy your question is does it make it too easy part of the joy in finding a
shiny pokemon is that you actually worked for it the other part of that is look how many
shiny pokemon I have and the question is does this start to blur the lines between things that you do
to make your life easier and exploiting the game for your convenience I don't know that's a moral
decision that you have to make now keep in mind while pokemon sword and shield does have a lot
of mechanics that can be exploited mostly by just changing the clock which is funny enough this has
nothing to do with that this is literally just a device that puts inputs into the game so even if
the game had no exploits or glitches or anything whatsoever this would still be able to function
properly by just knowing the amount of time that you should be on a bicycle and where the controls
are and how they work just like an Arduino board would do in fact it's only amount of time until
someone comes up with an Arduino mod for this although this kind of takes care of that doesn't
it instead of it just being a single a button press which in this game that can only get you
the fossil Pokemon here you can get any breathable Pokemon shiny might take a while but it can happen
as a standalone controller adapter it's fantastic you plug this into the side of your docking you
could used your Xbox one controller you can use your PlayStation 4 controller the you're not using
those systems and you're using the switch it works really well like I have nothing bad to say about
it it just feels weird holding an Xbox controller while playing Pokemon know what I mean you know
exactly what I mean as it stands right now with its current firmware released it allows you to
do controller inputs or mods or game enhancements or Legend of Zelda breath of the wild Super Mario
Odyssey and they're working on perfecting this I mean from my experience it works perfectly or
I'll have a link down below if you want to pick one up for yourself if you want to try it out for
its controller functionality and then try it out for a tiny phone ality and you decide whether or
not that it's game breaking or that you actually want to continue using it that's completely on you
but guys I want to know your thoughts down below is this bordering convenience to cheating is it
cheating this is just taking away the autonomous boringness of pressing buttons over and over and
over and over and over and over for hours of your life I don't know leave a comment down below if
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