How to Find Your Secret ID Without Cheats – All 4th Gen Games + Emerald

This works in HeartGold, SoulSilver, Platinum, Diamond, Pearl, AND Emerald. Black and White are 5th gen games; their RNG hasn’t been figured out yet. I’ll make a new video if that ever happens. Also, for 3rd gen you can only use Emerald, not the other GBA games. BEFORE ASKING QUESTIONS, read the FAQ section in this video description, further down… Yes, you can skip over half the video after finding the exact IVs of your shiny, by inputting them into the ‘IVs to PID’ function of RNG Reporter. That program is found here: users.smogon.com UPDATE 26th August 2009: There’s now a way to find the Secret ID with “4 to 8″ Poke Radar shinies, so you don’t necessarily need a 1 in 8192 chance random shiny (except in Emerald, obviously). This video explains it: www.youtube.com Answers to Frequently Asked Questions: 1: The first number in the binary version of the PID is a 0 and I can’t put it in first in the calculator!? A: A zero in front of a number means literally nothing. Eg 00011 = 11. However, if your final Secret ID result has less than 5 digits – eg. 4183, then add zeros to the front until it’s 5 digits (04183 for the example). 2: If I trade my shiny from Game A (eg. Emerald) to Game B (eg. Platinum), can I use it to find the Secret ID for Game B? A: No. A shiny’s data is created using the SID of the game where it was found, so if you traded an Emerald-obtained shiny to Platinum, you’d be able to figure out your Emerald SID, not your Platinum one. 3: Can I use a shiny event …