Pokemon GEN2 Legit Egg Shiny Living Dex Save [Gold, Silver, Crystal] Download

[Professor Oak]

This is a work in progress Pokemon Crystal Save created by a long term friend of Digiex's as a gift to the community, the save contains eggs that have been legitimately shiny hunted.

The idea behind the save is you can trade the desired eggs to your own personal save to hatch, so you have a shiny where you are the Pokemon's OT (original trainer).

Current Shiny Eggs:

Box 01: Squirtle (x3), Charmander (x3), Rattata (2x)
Box 02: Cleffa, Nidoran♂ (3x)
Box 03:
Box 04: Abra, Ponyta
Box 05: Magnemite (2x), Drowzee (2x) Voltorb
Box 06: Voltorb, Koffing, Chansey, Staryu
Box 07: Staryu, Mr. Mime, Scyther, Smoochum, Elekid, Magby, Pinsir, Tauros, Magikarp (2x), Lapras, Ditto (Wild Catch), Eevee (x4), Omanyte (2x), Kabuto,
Box 08: Kabuto, Aerodactyl, Snorlax, Dratini (3x), Chikorita (3x), Cyndaquil (3x) Totodile (3x)
Box 09:
Box 10: Sudowoodo, Aipom, Yanma Eevee (x2), Murkrow, Misdreavus
Box 11: Wobbuffet, Girafarig, Dunsparce, Gligar, Qwilfish, Scyther, Shuckle, Heracross, Sneasel,
Box 12: Corsola, Delibird, Mantine, Skarmory, Stantler, Smoochum, Smeargle, Smoochum, Elekid, Magby
Box 13: Chansey, Miltank, Larvitar (3x)
Box 14: Snorlax, Voltorb, Mantine, Yanma (Bonus box for unexpected extra shinies)

Purple are the current obtained eggs, Orange is obtained, however will need to be evolved once hatched, Black = won't be in this save, see this post for info.



As you can imagine its a quite tedious process legitimately hunting these Pokemon on Gen 2, even using the speed up function on an emulator. However the save is off to an excellent start so far I'm sure you will agree.
This save will be updated once more Pokemon are hatched.

Download: Pokemon GEN2 Legit Egg Shiny Living Dex Save - 13.08.25

 

[AlamosIT]

 

[Professor Oak]

Save updated 17.07.25

+2 Elekid +2 Magby +1 Pinsir +1 Eevee

 

[HaxAras]

I changed my mind and decided to comment.

I chatted back in 2013 - 2014~ with my old friend "Big Mike" about doing this using Pokémon Stadium 2. Unfortunately, I don't have a copy of that game, nor do I have the battling skills to beat it, so I'm using an emulator for the speed-up option.

I'm not looking for help or "contributions", I'm not worried about the end goal, it's the "process" for me. I started this in 2023, I don't remember why, and then stopped working on it until recently. I don't play Pokémon, or really video games in general, as a hobby. I played Crystal about up to the daycare, got the shiny Odd Egg Cleffa, and hatched a few of them. Cleffa may have the wrong met location, as I converted my party monsters and the 2023 shinnies back into eggs as an afterthought.

I was talking about sharing it with my friend, and it felt like a waste to go through all of this hassle, only to not share it with more people who might enjoy it. Back in 2013, when I *finally* uploaded my Colosseum save for the bonus disk thread, I thought maybe 10~ people would ever use it. Last I heard, Nutter told me it had been downloaded 8,500 times. So I'm sure there are old-school Pokémon players who will enjoy this, or people who might even import them to HOME using the virtual console, who knows.

Abra is a random encounter shiny I found in 2014, on my old Silver cart. I'm going to replace it, as I found a shiny Rattata and Drowzee last night, and decided to keep them to myself. Inserting random shinnies I found into the save feels like it defeats the purpose of people being able to hatch the eggs to have their own trainer info.

Voltorb 3 and Snorlax 2 were bonus eggs, as was Kabuto (Kabutops) when I initially bred for a shiny Kabuto on the VC in 2017.

• Abra: 2014
• Kabuto 1 and 2: 2017
• Ditto: 2023
• Totodile: 2023
• Charmander: 2023
• Squirtle: 2023
• Ponyta: 2023
• Magnemite 1 and 2: 2023
• Cleffa (Clefable): 2023
• Koffing (Weezing): 2023
• Tauros: 2023
• Aerodactyl: 2023
• Sudowoodo: 2023
• Lapras: 2025
• Magikarp 1 and 2: 2025
• Staryu 1 and 2: 2025
• Mr. Mime: 2025
• Scyther 1 and 2: 2025
• Magby 1 and 2: 2025
• Smoochum 1 and 2: 2025
• Corsola: 2025
• Pinsir: 2025
• Elekid 1 and 2: 2025

My original "process" was "I'm going to shiny hunt stuff I think looks cool or favorites."

So Feraligatr, Charzard, Rapidash, Weezing, etc.

And when I came back to it, I decided to (mostly) pick a box and try to fill it out. I'm also trying to (mostly) do full evolution families at once, although some take FOREVER. I think it took 5~ hours for both Elekid .I'm a book reviewer and a wiki editor, so I'm just doing this to pass the time while listening to stuff, so as I said before, it's about the process, not the destination. I brought this up to say, if there's a specific monster you want, you can put in a request and *if I see it*, I can make it my next hunt. I did that for InsaneNutter, after I got my second Scyther, and I got the Corsola for him.

I've been getting a ton of shinnies in quick succession due to being unable to edit my wikis due to a server migration. So I wouldn't suggest getting excited for continued daily updates.

 

[InsaneNutter]

Glad you decided to post in his thread, its certainly something you should take credit for.

I plan to hatch the Corsola and import that in to Home as mentioned. It will be nice to have a shiny from you in my collection after working on the Gen 3 event save for so long together. Who could have predicted how big that would eventually grow?
(Also I never realised you'd registered on Digiex as far back as 2012, just noticed the date on your profile!)

You've certainly managed to obtain a lot of shinies in a very short amount of time, I do look forward to seeing this save slowly grow over time. It will certainly be one of the more unique Gen 2 saves on the internet.

 

[HaxAras]

(Also I never realised you'd registered on Digiex as far back as 2012, just noticed the date on your profile!)

I found Digiex back in 2011. I was looking into the Colosseum bonus disks at the time, but life was hectic back then. So when I said I "*finally* uploaded my Colosseum save for the bonus disk", I mean *finally*, cause it had been on the back of my mind for 2~ years by that point. I tend not to give up on stuff easily, I simply take breaks.

Hence why I'm back to this shiny living Dex idea after 11~ years.

 

[HaxAras]

Getting you a shiny Corsola was the least I could do as thanks. You set up the Mystery Dungeon Franchise Wiki on our Cloudways server, and then made that blank wiki so I could take my other wikis independent.

I chose Digiex to host this file as a thanks directed towards you. I hope this save will ultimately bring your site traffic, and thus, ad revenue. I personally despise ads, and use an ad blocker, and I don't have the funds to donate to make up for it. So I hope this save, and the Colosseum save will offset that, as a thank you for the work you do.

 

[InsaneNutter]

Happy to help like minded people where I can, we all didn't have the knowledge we do today at some point in our lives.

I hate adverts too so would never hold it against anyone blocking them, sadly a necessary evil. We're lucky enough to break even and keep the content / information we're passionate about accessible to all.

 

[HaxAras]

• +5 Eevee
  • Flareon
  • Jolteon
  • Vaporeon
  • Espeon
  • Umbreon
• +2 Omanyte
• +1 Miltank

I guess it's not fair to make Professor Oak do all of the work. The harvest has been bountiful the last couple of days. And by that, I mean, I now have a level 95 Eevee, and every fossil in these games shiny.

Also, new format: Black circle = you're on your own. I'll be hunting both of the 2 shiny Unown forms for my own personal collection, as well as the legendaries, and 2 Porygon. Apparently you can't breed Porygon in these games, so I have to do it the hard way.

If soft resetting for these, or random encountering them is too much, there is another way. On Project Pokémon forums (purple heart), theSLAYER wrote a guide on how to use the coin case in the English GS to modify Pokémon. You can make any monster shiny by changing its stats, change its species, and so on. It's how I originally got the Celebi for my living dex.

You could always use that glitch to change the DVs of Pokémon, and clone others such as Porygon, if you get a single shiny. Or if you find a random shiny you don't like, such as the Rattata and Abra I found, I *could theoretically* simply change their species. But I mean, why bother, when you can just catch a Pidgey and turn it into a shiny Articuno, and change its name?

As I said previously, for me, it's about the process. I find the coin case glitch tedious and boring, and even though many of these shinnies have the same IVs, such as both Snorlax, I still (personally) find it rewarding and awesome to have 2 legit shiny Snorlax, even if they're clones of each other internally.

I started soft reset shiny hunting in 2023~, when I got my Squirtle in Fire Red, and then paused at Magikarp, as I always wanted a shiny Magicrap from the guy who sells you one. I've since shiny hunted Treecko, Groudon, Rayquaza, and Totodile (Soul Silver).

If you change your perspective, and look at it like this, soft resetting becums much more bearable. At least to me. Getting a shiny isn't a matter of if, it's a matter of when, so long as you keep at it. If you're watching a movie, or listening to a podcast or something, get out ye-olde platform, and soft reset in the background while you're doing something mindless. Every soft reset is "progress" towards that inevitable shiny. Sooner or later, it'll shiny, it's simply a matter of persistence.

I got Rayquaza in a few hours, but I started Groudon in 2023, got really impatient, and then back back to it earlier this year and simply resigned myself to soft reset for an hour or two, every couple of days, or every day, and before I knew it, I had a shiny Groudon, and the fire in me to go for others I've always wanted.

https://twitter.com/norainthefuture/status/1718090715056472329?lang=en

Somebody out there has made a mod/patch for RBY, so you can see if a "gen 1" monster is shiny, which should make soft resetting in those games much more bearable as well. In the comments, they also linked to some test saves, to make sure your patched game is functional.

I can't get you a shiny Articuno with your OT, or Mewtwo, Mew, Celebi, etc. But you have 3 routes, the way I see it.

• PCNY Events
• Soft reset, as I will.
• Coin Case glitch, as I've done.

I can share my Silver living dex save file, with the coin case glitch set up, if you want it. But I can't remember what you need to rename boxes 8 and 9 to, to use it. And you have to walk out of the (second town) Pokémon center, stand in front of a bush, and listen to a Bellsprout cry to make it work. It sounds like some 1990s playground rumor, but it's legit.

https://projectpokemon.org/home/tutorials/ram/gs-ace/introduction-r13/

 

[Professor Oak]

I guess it's not fair to make Professor Oak do all of the work.

Post updated to reflect the version of the save as of this post!

 

[Professor Oak]

Save updated 22.07.25

+ 2 Chansey and + 1 Larvitar.

 

[Professor Oak]

Save Updated 24.07.25

+ 1 Squirtle and 2x Larvitar

 

[Professor Oak]

Save Updated 29.07.25

+ Squirtle, Totodile x2, Gligar, Qwilfish, Shuckle, Heracross and Sneasel

 

[HaxAras]

Next save update:

• Wobbuffe
• Giraffe
• Dunsparce
• Delibird
• Mantine
  
• Mantine (Bonus)
• Rattata
• Abra (Alakazam)
• Drowzee
• Drowzee (Hypno)
• Stantler
• Skarmory

I can't seem to upload the save, or a screenshot of the error...

 

[InsaneNutter]

Quite the update!

I've updated the first post for you, its possible Cloudflare blocked you for some reason, as I had to do a Captcha to edit the original post which doesn't usually happen. Sometimes they can be a bit over protective, better to be safe than sorry though.

 

[HaxAras]

I thought Delibird took a long time... Smeargle and Murkrow were 2 of the most infuriating turds ever. It took 10 Mutha 'in hours for Murkrow. It got so bad, I started depositing Murkrow, saving the game, checking my save in PKHeX to see if the next egg would be shiny. AND EVEN THAT TOOK 2 HOURS!

Aipom was a first-egg shiny. I got a bonus yanma literally the egg right after the first one. I've been using the coin case glitch to turn these "bonus" shinnies into stuff I don't want to hunt. Such as Unown, Porygon 1 and 2, etc. But also legendary eggs. I want to hunt those legit, but for the sake of having a 100% cumplete living dex, I'm converting the random shinnies I get as well (2 Drowzee, Rattata, Abra,) into different monsters. Shiny birds, Mewtwo, and Mew are long term goals for me. As are the beasts, Lugia, and Celery.

My first ever shiny was a roaming Raikou I never caught. I didn't even know what shinnies were at the time. I want to use the coin case glitch to convert my legit Raikou into a shiny, but it still bothers me knowing the DVs/IVs will never be 1:1, not that it actually matters, that OG shiny is long gone anyway.

Just thought I'd let people know what the next batch of shinnies would be. I like doing these big drops where a bunch of new shinnies get added at once. I don't choose when the save gets updated, or when these shinnies decide to 'shine". I simply hatch them, convert them back to eggs so people can hatch with their own trainer info, and then forward them along.

I'm primarily a wiki editor as a hobby, and after a few months of server-related stress, I've been working on this a lot to take breaks from my wikis. I also find it kinda enjoyable late at night, as if gives me something to focus on when I'm too tired to mentally focus on wiki editing, but don't want to sleep yet.

I may end up using the coin case glitch to convert my Ditto into an egg, and then make a "bonus" save file with the bonus eggs/random encounter shinnies converted into Porygon, Porygon2, Unown, the birds, etc. for anybody who wants those. While I can use the glitch to make any monster shiny, I'm still only doing it to random encounter shinnies and bonus egg shinnes. People who aren't interested in such shinnies could ignore the bonus save file. I will also upload my Silver save w/ normal living dex, and with the coin case glitch set up as well. I spent many, many hours trying to find a "low level" monster that would work for the glitch. Had it not been from a credible source on Project Pokémon, and had old Pkmn games not been so busted, I'd have written off the glitch as made-up BS. So I'm sure other people will find value in the save.

I miss posting on forums. I have a couple of thread ideas I'd like to make, one of which involves this save file, which also encourages me to work on it more. Well, 2 ideas, but one isn't limited to this save file. I think it might be fun to use random number generators to pick a number between 1 and 251 6 times, and then whatever you get is your team. But they're also deducted from the save file. So we play through the game using our random party, and make a thread about our adventures. And see what sort of hijinks people get into as the monster selection diminishes, and people get stuck with Unown, Smeargle, Ditto, Magby, and other such monsters as a permanent team member. I think it could be a fun time. Kinda like those old "random egg Nuzlocke" challenges YouTubers used to do. Hell, we could do my initial idea, and have pre-set save files with the eggs ready to go, and whatever you get is already pre-loaded into the save file. Pick-a-save, and go on an adventure!

 

[Professor Oak]

Save and first post updated:

Added: Rattata 2x, Cleffa, Drowzee, Dratini (3x), Chikorita (3x), Aipom, Yanma, Murkrow, Misdreavus, Wobbuffet, Wobbuffet, Girafarig, Dunsparce, Delibird, Mantine, Skarmory, Stantler, Smoochum and Smeargle

 

[Professor Oak]

Save and first post updated:

• Box 1 - 2x Charmander
• Box 2 - 3x Nidoran♂
• Box 8 - 3x Cyndaquil

 

[HaxAras]

Bump post: I haven't forgotten this thread. I get busy and tired during "Fall Cleanup" (mowing lawns for a living), and then take the winter months to no-life editing my wikis with my new abundance of free time.

I'm an audiobook reviewer, and I plan to pick this back up as a mindless task to do while I listen to my review copy collection. At the moment, I'm copying my reviews from my old WordPress site to a new MediaWiki-based site. I have copied over 305, and have 99 left to copy over. Once I finish, I intend to return to this project. I'm hoping to be done with it this weekend, 'cause I've spent all week doing this and I'm exhausted.

 

[HaxAras]

As of last night, I am officially back on this project. I'm currently working towards the 2 Onix needed. It's easy to get impatient, but I'm trying to enjoy the process, 'cause I need *something* mindless to do while listening to my audiobooks. I have hundreds of books.

I have another idea for a "forever project" after this. Using a program on Project Pokémon called "Triggers PC", you can scan save files and eggs to see if any will match and be shiny. There are a LOT of breedable Pokémon in the GBA era games. I may end up making save files for each of them and breeding 420 eggs of each (fill up the PC). That would give me something mindless to do, and people would be able to download a Feebas save file and see if the 420 eggs match any of their save files.

I may end up doing that sooner, rather than later, simply for the sake of variety.

Edit: I got 2 Pinecone months ago and apparently never shared them. One Onix has an attack DV of 2, and the other has 11. Not sure which one would be better as a Steelix.