I desperately wanted to find anything I could to extend the joke but..when I say that it was HARDER then the shiny hunt it'self I don't mean it as hyperbole.. or maybe it's just my adhd idk
-Be JWittz -Take a year haitus to be a responsible member of society and a good dad -Break the haitus to shatter the notion of the impossibility of shiny Manaphy -Refuse to elaborate
JWittz, I’m 21 years old and have been watching you throughout my life. Been a on and off shiny hunter throughout the last 9 years. If this is your final video, I just want to thank you for everything. You’re the OG Pokemon RUclipsr and I hope the newer generation of pokemon fans discover your channel. Feels like your history of mewtwo video was uploaded just yesterday. Thank you for everything you’ve done for the pokemon community, for pokemon content on RUclips, for shiny hunters, for gaming in general. You’re a true og of this scene and we all truly appreciate the entertainment you’ve put out for us within the last 15 years. We do and always will love you man.
True, but the Holy Grail is also just a cup. Yanno what I mean? It's not so much about what it is, as much as what it took. :3 And the endless accusations of cheating if you try and use Manaphy 😭
There was a community Sinnoh shiny hunt recently, and Manaphy was included. The lady who got it had an arbitrary code execution setup so that every time she spoke to an NPC, it would randomise her ID numbers. (Which is basically what you were doing with your few eggs, just cutting out a lot of time that would've been spent replaying the start of the games and trading the eggs over). And she had this setup on SIXTEEN different games, for a total of EIGHTY EGGS hatching at once. And it still took her over THIRTEEN CONSECUTIVE HOURS of hatching, soft resetting and changing IDs to finally hatch the shiny. A total of 11840 eggs hatched. ELEVEN THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FORTY.
I took a student led college course for actual units on Pokémon. The student instructors would give us homework and assign Jwitzz Pokémon videos as assignments and it was pretty awesome. He’s been someone who I’ve always watched growing up and to watch him again in my adult life was a full circle moment
@@erc3338 it was a De-Cal at UC Berkeley, they would quiz us on Jwittz videos among other Poke-tubers in order to justify the college credit. The student teachers were pretty cool and would even host raid hours after class on Pokémon Go
@@erc3338 it was a DeCal at UC Berkeley and it was about the world of Pokémon. In order to justify the actual college units, the student teachers would assign Jwittz vids amongst other Pokémon RUclipsrs and quiz us on the topics on lore. They connected the world of Pokémon with the real world in terms of economy, biology, and how different environments influence society. It was a nice break from the stress and everyone in there was extremely passionate about Pokémon.
It makes me happy to see one of the OG Pokemon RUclipsrs of my childhood come back after a whole year. Even with his new responsibilities he still likes making videos and it shows
What’s insane is that he sounds exactly the same for the past decade. Every video feels nostalgic because it’s basically the same (in a good way), just higher production every time Seeing him appear in my sub feed just makes me happy
The end of this video actually made me tear up. I've been watching your channel for over 10 years. Seeing you grow as I did is awesome. I'm a dad now & have a full-time job too. You're awesome, man. I appreciate you.
As a Manaphy hunt success, I felt every. OUNCE. Of your pain. Played through 4 copies of Ranger... spent 2 years Hatching eggs. I have said it before, "never again" :) but I have my baby.
A friend of mine has a living shiny dex, meaning a shiny version of EVERY SINGLE POKEMON including every form, and I continue to be amazed at that dedication.
God I've been watching the Wittz since... 3rd grade? 2nd? 1st? I'm an adult now? And his RUclips videos still make me just as happy. Glad dude is still kickin online
Yeah I came to say the same thing. I've been watching since like 2011? I graduated high school last year. Makes me really happy that he's still thriving
Small note about "overcooking" the eggs. In gen 4 and before, the game doesn’t store the exact amount of steps required to hatch; instead it stores a number of "egg cycles". This counter is is ticked down by 1 every 256 steps, (by 2 with magma armor/flame body), giving an effective number of steps to hatch each egg. This is why it will always take a few hundred steps between egg hatches in the older games, even if you store them in a box immediately after receiving (so that all the eggs have been in your party the same amount if time) and hatch them later. Gens 5+ store the exact step count, so you can get eggs hatching on consecutive tiles (which very much surprised me back in the day!) For how the effects things with the hunt. I believe the gamewise egg cycle ticker (which counts steps and subtracts an egg cycle from each egg when it reaches 255) resets back to 0 when you soft reset. Assuming this is the case, you shouldn't ever need to worry about eggs hatching in only a few steps and the worrying here is unnecessary, it will always take at least 256 steps to hatch from power on. That said as I type this up I realise it's entirely possible it doesn't reset and that the shiny hunters (who are no doubt more knowledgeable than me) know this. Regardless I hope you found this interesting, random internet stranger. :)
nope, it does not reset when you turn off the game. if you take the wrong number of steps before trading on a new file, the egg can be permanently unable to be traded without hatching. what most people who does this hunt do is just make and restore a save backup of a file that has all the eggs unhatched, but if you consider that cheating you can always leave your eggs at two cycles before trading to remove the risk… though there’s also the risk of accidentally deleting the file with the eggs instead of the one without them, so yeah just use save backups if you want to use the fully “legit” original eggs lol
As someone who has been watching One Piece for the past 20 years, putting the number of hours in context of One Piece episodes was a really good way of framing it
@@TheJWittz You’re very welcome! I’m so glad to hear that you and your family are well! I’m having a great weekend so far! Thank you so much! All the best!
I’m not even invested in Pokémon anymore, but I never miss a Jwittz upload. I’ve been watching this guy since elementary school. He’s like that one cool older cousin that teaches you more about your favorite video games
I am absolutley not built for this type of hunt, but I'm glad I got to learn so much about it. Pokémon's weird timed events and limitations can be such wild roadblocks sometimes, it makes for fantastic stories, despite being a little frustrating sometimes LOL.
You were the first RUclips creator I ever considered myself a fan of, and the fact that you're still around, making videos when you can, makes me very happy. It's been almost 15 years since you first started making content, and even though I wasn't there for all of it, you never forget your first. I pray for your sanity on the hunt, by the way.
I've been waiting excitedly for so long to see this video and you did an amazing job on it like you always do. I'm glad my Pokémon Ranger footage was able to help you with those capture card issues you were having on it.
And this is why I’ll NEVER unsubscribe from you. I never know when you’ll spook my notifications and bring me back to the golden era of RUclips. Glad to see you again. And I can shed some light on the Manaphy Egg hatching that you mentioned at 10:07. How eggs work: An egg is generated with a set amount of cycles, depending on species. The game will take one cycle away from every egg in your party, going consecutively from slot 1 to slot 6, every 256 steps (two cycles will be taken if your lead Pokémon has Flame Body/Magma Armor). In Gen IV, when an egg reaches 0 cycles remaining, it hatches, and all other eggs in the party after that egg will not have a cycle removed (to prevent multiple eggs from hatching at the same time). Where the 1-step hatch can occur is this: the 256 step requirement for taking away a cycle is tracked independent of eggs, it starts as soon as the save file is generated, and it persists with saving (i.e. if you’re 10 steps away from a cycle occurring, save, turn the game off, and come back later, you will still be 10 steps away). And it can (and often will) be different between different games. You can be 10 steps away from a cycle occurring in one game, but if you trade a ready-to-hatch egg to a different game that’s 240 steps away, it will still take that 240 steps to hatch. So, with all that said, if you trade an egg with only one cycle left to a save that is 1 step away from completing a cycle, that is how you can get the dreaded 1-step hatch that will ruin a Manaphy egg. Source: I hunted this dang thing…daily…for six months straight.
I used to watch you all the time years ago. Favorite poketuber. I actually forgot you existed but when I saw the thumbnail and heard your voice, I felt like a teenager again. Glad you’re back (even if it’s just the one video) thank you.
Over several months of hunting, I recently caught a shiny Dialga after 6000+ resets, with each reset taking only 20 seconds. Now imagine that, but HALF AN HOUR between resets. If Dialga took months, you can easily assume Manaphy would take years of active playing. You also can't just press a button and put a movie on to watch, you have to be actively paying attention to the game. It's truly just not worth the time investment
@@KRDecade2009 I typically don't count mystery gifts into my shiny collection, because I didn't hunt for them. It's just a personal preference thing-if you're happy with a mystery gift shiny, then that's good too!
It’s definitely a breath of fresh air to see you come back, you were my childhood throughout my days as an elementary schooler and now I’m in my twenties. When I saw this video pop up in my recommended I was immediately hit with a wave of nostalgia.
I first heard about the glitch and thought it was really difficult, but after comparing it to the original method, the ACE glitch is a cakewalk. It takes about 10 in game hours. Which is MUCH much less time
i found you on my recc and there was an instant smile on my face because i watched your content 10 or so years ago, your voice TOOK ME BACK. glad to see you back! the king lives on🙌
I really love hard hunts like this because finally finding one puts you in a really exclusive group of people that have hunted it! When I found Riley’s Riolu shiny in Gen IV, talking to the really small group of people who had already found it was super cool! It’s like being in that particular hunt’s Hall of Fame! Don’t blame you at all for not liking the hunt, hunts should be fun!!! Great vid JWittz!
Pokemon Ranger came out when I was in like 4th or 5th grade and I beat that game through hard work and persistence. It brings me immense pride every time I think about it.
My boyfriend unintentionally got a Shiny Manaphy when we were kids. We had no ideas what Shinies were. We both got Shinies during are first time playing a Mainline Pokémon. He had Ranger while I also Explorers.
I was and original gen 1 kid that forgot all about Pokémon until I stumbled on to your channel during the x/y let’s play. I haven’t missed a single game since and have loved every bit of it. It’s good to see you back, I owe you one
Huh. I haven’t thought about this channel in years, just to pop in and find out you uploaded your first video in over a year. What a breath of nostalgia. Hope you’re living well!
I honestly loved Pokemon Ranger over the years and I agree that it is severely underrated and deserves more attention This is just how my brain works, but I can never understand how people find it frustrating or tedious, even though everyone explains it very well! I love all 3 Ranger games equally for different reasons; the OG was my favourite capture mechanic because it gave me that challenge ❤❤
1 year or 10 years, you post a new video, I'm watching. I've been a fan of yours from the beginning, when I was first getting into competitive tcg. I've loved watching you grow, and you are one of the most genuine, heart-led people in the content business. Hope the family is well ❤
God you were one absolutely one of my fav RUclipsrs to watch when I was younger. You and ProtoMario. Like, I was elementary school young when I discovered you. Im graduated now. From high school. Time flies, huh? Good to see you around, hope life has treated you well all these years. Congrats on being a dad. ❤
I'm glad someone finally talked about the sequels wifi events. Back in the day that is exactly what I did to get a dozen eggs while the event was running. I was confused when people talked about only getting 1 egg per game.
It's cool if you get a random shiny or if you hunt for your favorite shiny, but "hunting for the rarest shiny" is virtually no different from a pathological gambling addiction, the only difference is that you're not giving your money to a casino 💀
for whatever reason one of your old videos about creepy pokédex (specifically jellicent and pringles) entries is a core memory of mine that keeps bringing me back - nice vid! one of my BYOATs
aw man i havent watched the channel since X/Y were the current pokemon game and this being the video to return me was fun! Glad to see your still around!!
Woo Jwittz is back! Shiny hunting is a mystery to me. I remember in Gen 5 I found some website where I could just type what Pokemon I wanted (moves, EVs, etc) and it would magically be sent to my game. Hacking your DS so you don't have to play Ranger is so silly to me. Just hack yourself a shiny Manaphy...
A Jwittz video. Christ man, what a channel. Started watching this channel when I was a kid, now fully grown adult and so much happened. Always appreciate you my man
You should've done a stream where you ask people to finish Ranger and send you the Eggs. Have everyone else complete the games for you and we all band together to see if our contribution is enough.
Nice. Appreciate seeing a youtuber doing a crazy thing and quitting because yeah, probably the right call there. Fun seeing people do things I'd never do, but at some point, nice to see someone not being totally bonkers to say it's normal not to.
even if you quit the hunt, it was still a very entertaining and well put together video. i had no idea manaphy was the hardest pokemon to shiny hunt :)
I’ve hunted some crazy stuff over the years, and I cannot agree enough when people say this was the end-all-be-all. Under-levelled Salamence, Antique Sinistea, even other non-event shiny legendaries. None of them compare to this. In any case, welcome back!
It's so nostalgic and wonderful to see a new JWittz video anytime the magic reappears~ Inspired me ever since many many years ago, and I'm happy you will continue to.
Jwittz was a big part of my childhood. Hearing him say "I've already put out most of the stories I want to tell" was a surprisingly humbling moment for me... The older I get, the more I believe that we should not always be striving to one-up our past or trying to recapture lost magic. Life is beautiful in so many forms, and it will always continue to change. Jwittz used to share so much of himself with the public, putting so much of himself out there. And just because he did it for so long does not mean that needs to continue forever, nor should it. Endings do not make the journey obsolete. Jwittz has made his mark on my life, and I'm so happy to hear that his life has moved a satisfying direction where he feels no resentment for his past, no sense of failure or guilt for being away... Time moves forward. Things change. We keep getting older. And with some proper contextualization, that can be a good thing. A very good thing.
Years ago, I remember Josh talking about wanting to move away from a regular upload schedule to one where he can higher-quality videos less often. This may be much less often than he meant at the time, but you still always know it's the good stuff when TheJWittz comes through your Subscriptions tab.
Jwittz i have been a fan for many years since the top 10 era. Just wanna say i respect the upload schedule and watching this video is like a passing of the baton. Hope you make just a couple more videos before you fully retire but if you did retire it would truly be the end of a generation for me not an era but a full generation. You are the goat man leave them wanting more
I know you only come by every so often, but I love seeing your vids pop up. You’ve never lost your touch, new vids or old vids. Hope life is treating you kindly 😃
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They say you can't have it all in America, a full time job, a kid, a shiny Manaphy...
Life is cruel 😭😭
Tamashi on a Jwittz video? Feels like 2013 again
I desperately wanted to find anything I could to extend the joke but..when I say that it was HARDER then the shiny hunt it'self I don't mean it as hyperbole.. or maybe it's just my adhd idk
She's here!! 🎉
Just like old times 🥺
I feel old when I see you and Josh here on RUclips.
-Be JWittz
-Take a year haitus to be a responsible member of society and a good dad
-Break the haitus to shatter the notion of the impossibility of shiny Manaphy
-Refuse to elaborate
The Prodigal Son has returned. We missed you, Josh
He was playing yugioh and basketball
Hope j witz never stops uploading
Prodigal son is a great parable, highly recommend reading it. Luke 15:11-32
@@ideji3918 AMEN CHRIST IS KING
Amen
JWittz, I’m 21 years old and have been watching you throughout my life. Been a on and off shiny hunter throughout the last 9 years. If this is your final video, I just want to thank you for everything. You’re the OG Pokemon RUclipsr and I hope the newer generation of pokemon fans discover your channel. Feels like your history of mewtwo video was uploaded just yesterday. Thank you for everything you’ve done for the pokemon community, for pokemon content on RUclips, for shiny hunters, for gaming in general. You’re a true og of this scene and we all truly appreciate the entertainment you’ve put out for us within the last 15 years. We do and always will love you man.
The best part of this is that, in my opinion, shiny Manaphy isn't even that great of a shiny.
I didn’t want to say it out loud, but….
…You might not be wrong…
@@TheJWittz GASP
True, but the Holy Grail is also just a cup.
Yanno what I mean? It's not so much about what it is, as much as what it took. :3
And the endless accusations of cheating if you try and use Manaphy 😭
I think it looks good on Gen 4 and Gen 5 because of how much more vibrant the colors are. But in the 3d games yeah it isn’t the best.
It’s probably not even Jwittz favorite mythical Pokémon too
There was a community Sinnoh shiny hunt recently, and Manaphy was included. The lady who got it had an arbitrary code execution setup so that every time she spoke to an NPC, it would randomise her ID numbers. (Which is basically what you were doing with your few eggs, just cutting out a lot of time that would've been spent replaying the start of the games and trading the eggs over). And she had this setup on SIXTEEN different games, for a total of EIGHTY EGGS hatching at once. And it still took her over THIRTEEN CONSECUTIVE HOURS of hatching, soft resetting and changing IDs to finally hatch the shiny. A total of 11840 eggs hatched. ELEVEN THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FORTY.
Do you know where I could find that video? Would love to see that ACE setup
I was looking for this comment. Nora the goat
I took a student led college course for actual units on Pokémon. The student instructors would give us homework and assign Jwitzz Pokémon videos as assignments and it was pretty awesome. He’s been someone who I’ve always watched growing up and to watch him again in my adult life was a full circle moment
wait what? what was the course and how did jwittz factor into this?
@@erc3338 it was a De-Cal at UC Berkeley, they would quiz us on Jwittz videos among other Poke-tubers in order to justify the college credit. The student teachers were pretty cool and would even host raid hours after class on Pokémon Go
@@erc3338 I'd assume that it's a course on game design/development.
@@erc3338 it was a DeCal at UC Berkeley and it was about the world of Pokémon. In order to justify the actual college units, the student teachers would assign Jwittz vids amongst other Pokémon RUclipsrs and quiz us on the topics on lore. They connected the world of Pokémon with the real world in terms of economy, biology, and how different environments influence society. It was a nice break from the stress and everyone in there was extremely passionate about Pokémon.
Was this the decal at Berkeley? I wanted to take it but it always conflicted with a course I needed
This is the best explanation of hunting Manaphy i've seen, also did not expect to be jumpscared by my own face in this LOL 1:53
hi pat :D
Somehow JWittz returned
Best comment 😂😂😂
Lmaoooooo
Was his return also revealed beforehand in Fortnite?
@@TheJWittz The funniest thing about this comment is that you can "translate to English?" But when you "translate it" you just get one less 'o' lol 😂
@@TheJWittz I've watched your videos since middle school...thanks for coming back.
0:02 Yeah, Agumon probably would be a hard Pokemon to shiny hunt
LOLLL
It makes me happy to see one of the OG Pokemon RUclipsrs of my childhood come back after a whole year. Even with his new responsibilities he still likes making videos and it shows
What’s insane is that he sounds exactly the same for the past decade. Every video feels nostalgic because it’s basically the same (in a good way), just higher production every time
Seeing him appear in my sub feed just makes me happy
It’s because this hunt took a year
Also one of the few OG RUclipsrd that didnt end up being a diddler
The end of this video actually made me tear up. I've been watching your channel for over 10 years. Seeing you grow as I did is awesome. I'm a dad now & have a full-time job too. You're awesome, man. I appreciate you.
As a Manaphy hunt success, I felt every. OUNCE. Of your pain.
Played through 4 copies of Ranger... spent 2 years Hatching eggs. I have said it before, "never again" :) but I have my baby.
Fellow Shiny Manaphy owner here. I can attest: our pain was immeasurable. Congrats on getting yours!
Two YEARS. My god, the dedication of some people is truly special.
Your next goal should be getting a shiny manaphy with perfect IVs so you can enter a tournament with it
@@kevindong9999 I hyper trained my Baby thank you very much 😁
@@Flamyll That sure is some kinda sentence.
A friend of mine has a living shiny dex, meaning a shiny version of EVERY SINGLE POKEMON including every form, and I continue to be amazed at that dedication.
That's...amazing? Insane? Dedication? Obsession?
All of the above, & more...
I unironically believe if he put that account on auction he could easily receive 6 figures if not more.
@@cccop0nah cuz hacks are so easy and it’s really hard to prove legitimacy
lmao he absolutely used hax
@@machinegunlament Nope, she did it 100% legit
God I've been watching the Wittz since... 3rd grade? 2nd? 1st? I'm an adult now? And his RUclips videos still make me just as happy. Glad dude is still kickin online
Yeah I came to say the same thing. I've been watching since like 2011? I graduated high school last year. Makes me really happy that he's still thriving
@@flamingythermit314 I’m working full time now 🥲
Saaaaaaame
I was obsessed with him in grade school. Esp his wittzgaming channel
WELCOME BACK!
_- Hunting shiny Manaphy: ❌️_
_- Explaining how to hunt shiny Manaphy: ✅️_
Small note about "overcooking" the eggs. In gen 4 and before, the game doesn’t store the exact amount of steps required to hatch; instead it stores a number of "egg cycles". This counter is is ticked down by 1 every 256 steps, (by 2 with magma armor/flame body), giving an effective number of steps to hatch each egg. This is why it will always take a few hundred steps between egg hatches in the older games, even if you store them in a box immediately after receiving (so that all the eggs have been in your party the same amount if time) and hatch them later. Gens 5+ store the exact step count, so you can get eggs hatching on consecutive tiles (which very much surprised me back in the day!)
For how the effects things with the hunt. I believe the gamewise egg cycle ticker (which counts steps and subtracts an egg cycle from each egg when it reaches 255) resets back to 0 when you soft reset. Assuming this is the case, you shouldn't ever need to worry about eggs hatching in only a few steps and the worrying here is unnecessary, it will always take at least 256 steps to hatch from power on. That said as I type this up I realise it's entirely possible it doesn't reset and that the shiny hunters (who are no doubt more knowledgeable than me) know this. Regardless I hope you found this interesting, random internet stranger. :)
nope, it does not reset when you turn off the game. if you take the wrong number of steps before trading on a new file, the egg can be permanently unable to be traded without hatching. what most people who does this hunt do is just make and restore a save backup of a file that has all the eggs unhatched, but if you consider that cheating you can always leave your eggs at two cycles before trading to remove the risk… though there’s also the risk of accidentally deleting the file with the eggs instead of the one without them, so yeah just use save backups if you want to use the fully “legit” original eggs lol
As someone who has been watching One Piece for the past 20 years, putting the number of hours in context of One Piece episodes was a really good way of framing it
Welcome back, JWittz! Good health to you and your family!
Thank you, we’re doing great! Hope you have an awesome weekend :)
@@TheJWittz You’re very welcome! I’m so glad to hear that you and your family are well! I’m having a great weekend so far! Thank you so much! All the best!
I’m not even invested in Pokémon anymore, but I never miss a Jwittz upload. I’ve been watching this guy since elementary school. He’s like that one cool older cousin that teaches you more about your favorite video games
Jwittz: I BROUGHT THE MILK!
Us: DAD?!? IT'S BEEN A YEAR! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN???
I know this is a joke comment but he's been busy being a real dad
@JLMetak i always forget that lol
@@JLMetakthat's the joke
He had to find the shiny milk
@@PsychoticEevee milk with glitter sounds gross...
I am absolutley not built for this type of hunt, but I'm glad I got to learn so much about it. Pokémon's weird timed events and limitations can be such wild roadblocks sometimes, it makes for fantastic stories, despite being a little frustrating sometimes LOL.
JWITTZ BACK FOR THE WIN!
You were the first RUclips creator I ever considered myself a fan of, and the fact that you're still around, making videos when you can, makes me very happy. It's been almost 15 years since you first started making content, and even though I wasn't there for all of it, you never forget your first.
I pray for your sanity on the hunt, by the way.
A legend returns.
I've been waiting excitedly for so long to see this video and you did an amazing job on it like you always do. I'm glad my Pokémon Ranger footage was able to help you with those capture card issues you were having on it.
And this is why I’ll NEVER unsubscribe from you. I never know when you’ll spook my notifications and bring me back to the golden era of RUclips. Glad to see you again.
And I can shed some light on the Manaphy Egg hatching that you mentioned at 10:07.
How eggs work:
An egg is generated with a set amount of cycles, depending on species. The game will take one cycle away from every egg in your party, going consecutively from slot 1 to slot 6, every 256 steps (two cycles will be taken if your lead Pokémon has Flame Body/Magma Armor). In Gen IV, when an egg reaches 0 cycles remaining, it hatches, and all other eggs in the party after that egg will not have a cycle removed (to prevent multiple eggs from hatching at the same time).
Where the 1-step hatch can occur is this: the 256 step requirement for taking away a cycle is tracked independent of eggs, it starts as soon as the save file is generated, and it persists with saving (i.e. if you’re 10 steps away from a cycle occurring, save, turn the game off, and come back later, you will still be 10 steps away). And it can (and often will) be different between different games. You can be 10 steps away from a cycle occurring in one game, but if you trade a ready-to-hatch egg to a different game that’s 240 steps away, it will still take that 240 steps to hatch.
So, with all that said, if you trade an egg with only one cycle left to a save that is 1 step away from completing a cycle, that is how you can get the dreaded 1-step hatch that will ruin a Manaphy egg.
Source: I hunted this dang thing…daily…for six months straight.
I used to watch you all the time years ago. Favorite poketuber. I actually forgot you existed but when I saw the thumbnail and heard your voice, I felt like a teenager again. Glad you’re back (even if it’s just the one video) thank you.
Over several months of hunting, I recently caught a shiny Dialga after 6000+ resets, with each reset taking only 20 seconds. Now imagine that, but HALF AN HOUR between resets.
If Dialga took months, you can easily assume Manaphy would take years of active playing. You also can't just press a button and put a movie on to watch, you have to be actively paying attention to the game. It's truly just not worth the time investment
That's what I did mostly. I watched and rewatched the first 2 Alien Movies and the Madlax anime sooooooooooooo many times during my hunt.
Mine took me 9 hours to do 84 encounters. I had 5 eggs I was hatching per reset
Does it hurt knowing that you can get the box trio through mystery gifts and then send them to BW2 then to Pokémon home?
@@KRDecade2009 I typically don't count mystery gifts into my shiny collection, because I didn't hunt for them. It's just a personal preference thing-if you're happy with a mystery gift shiny, then that's good too!
@@BeeTheBee how did you hatch 5 at a time? You can only trade 4 at a time
Nothing tickles me quite like knowing 13 years have passed and I still click JWittz videos when they pop up
Hearing your voice over a pokemon video is nostalgic. Welcome back!
It’s definitely a breath of fresh air to see you come back, you were my childhood throughout my days as an elementary schooler and now I’m in my twenties. When I saw this video pop up in my recommended I was immediately hit with a wave of nostalgia.
As insane as this whole journey is, the new method at the end actually sounds easier LMAO
I first heard about the glitch and thought it was really difficult, but after comparing it to the original method, the ACE glitch is a cakewalk. It takes about 10 in game hours. Which is MUCH much less time
Weirdly enough, a new JWittz video is exactly what I wanted for Father’s Day
The promised day is here, JWittz has returned to us
i found you on my recc and there was an instant smile on my face because i watched your content 10 or so years ago, your voice TOOK ME BACK. glad to see you back! the king lives on🙌
I really love hard hunts like this because finally finding one puts you in a really exclusive group of people that have hunted it! When I found Riley’s Riolu shiny in Gen IV, talking to the really small group of people who had already found it was super cool! It’s like being in that particular hunt’s Hall of Fame! Don’t blame you at all for not liking the hunt, hunts should be fun!!! Great vid JWittz!
He should watch your shiny Riolu video to become a professor in egg cycles . Congratulations with the uxie btw 🎉
22:41 same energy as "Are you telling me I just bought Ratatouille for NOTHING?!"
Even if it's just going to be one video a year, it's always a nice day to see JWittz upload! Glad to see you again, Josh.
Pokemon Ranger came out when I was in like 4th or 5th grade and I beat that game through hard work and persistence. It brings me immense pride every time I think about it.
My boyfriend unintentionally got a Shiny Manaphy when we were kids. We had no ideas what Shinies were. We both got Shinies during are first time playing a Mainline Pokémon. He had Ranger while I also Explorers.
We’re gonna need to see some proof cuz that’s insane
@HDGamerofficial This was week after D/P released. I only have my Shiny Infernape.
Did he trade the egg to another cartridge or something. Because it’s impossible to get a shiny manaphy on the original game it was transferred to.
@@bagelgod946 He traded it with his sister. I'm still looking for his old Pearl Cartiage.
Oh my god. Look harder. Please, I actualy want to see that.
I was and original gen 1 kid that forgot all about Pokémon until I stumbled on to your channel during the x/y let’s play. I haven’t missed a single game since and have loved every bit of it. It’s good to see you back, I owe you one
We’re happy to have you back man. Even if you only post rarely. You got a job and family. It be like that. It costs nothing for me to stay subbed!
Huh. I haven’t thought about this channel in years, just to pop in and find out you uploaded your first video in over a year. What a breath of nostalgia. Hope you’re living well!
The prodigal son has finally returned!!!
I love how this went from the hardest shiny to maybe one of the easier hunts with all the possibilities/options you gave.
"Let's see whats in my sub feed"
"IS THAT A NEW JWITTS VIDEO?!?!"
The ending made me laugh as a viewer and sad as a gamer.
Welcome back!
Congrats on being first
I honestly loved Pokemon Ranger over the years and I agree that it is severely underrated and deserves more attention
This is just how my brain works, but I can never understand how people find it frustrating or tedious, even though everyone explains it very well!
I love all 3 Ranger games equally for different reasons; the OG was my favourite capture mechanic because it gave me that challenge ❤❤
TheJWittz, this video is a w
Scam channel.
1 year or 10 years, you post a new video, I'm watching. I've been a fan of yours from the beginning, when I was first getting into competitive tcg. I've loved watching you grow, and you are one of the most genuine, heart-led people in the content business. Hope the family is well ❤
Man seeing that Pokemon Ranger gameplay made me so nostalgic - I remember playing that game as a kid specifically for that Manaphy egg LOL
God you were one absolutely one of my fav RUclipsrs to watch when I was younger. You and ProtoMario. Like, I was elementary school young when I discovered you. Im graduated now. From high school. Time flies, huh?
Good to see you around, hope life has treated you well all these years. Congrats on being a dad. ❤
HE LIIIIIIVESSS!!!
I'm glad someone finally talked about the sequels wifi events.
Back in the day that is exactly what I did to get a dozen eggs while the event was running. I was confused when people talked about only getting 1 egg per game.
Deeply appreciative that my Autism/OCD hasn't ever demanded I got super into Shiny hunting.
It's cool if you get a random shiny or if you hunt for your favorite shiny, but "hunting for the rarest shiny" is virtually no different from a pathological gambling addiction, the only difference is that you're not giving your money to a casino 💀
Play Legends Arceus. Pretty easy to trip over shinys
for whatever reason one of your old videos about creepy pokédex (specifically jellicent and pringles) entries is a core memory of mine that keeps bringing me back - nice vid! one of my BYOATs
Your Magnum Opus should be ALL the dark and creepy pokedex entries over the years
aw man i havent watched the channel since X/Y were the current pokemon game and this being the video to return me was fun!
Glad to see your still around!!
Ahh shiny Manaphy no wonder its been a year lol
Woo Jwittz is back!
Shiny hunting is a mystery to me. I remember in Gen 5 I found some website where I could just type what Pokemon I wanted (moves, EVs, etc) and it would magically be sent to my game.
Hacking your DS so you don't have to play Ranger is so silly to me. Just hack yourself a shiny Manaphy...
Man, I remember driving my stylus straight into the couch trying the Charizard boss lmao
A Jwittz video. Christ man, what a channel. Started watching this channel when I was a kid, now fully grown adult and so much happened. Always appreciate you my man
You should've done a stream where you ask people to finish Ranger and send you the Eggs. Have everyone else complete the games for you and we all band together to see if our contribution is enough.
Dude I haven't seen you around since I was a kid! Hearing your voice again reminds me of those top 10 videos, I'm gonna cry from nostalgia
now im deeply interested to see u do flying shiny moltres from LGPE
i saw this video pop up, and now i have to go down a nostalgia spiral, i used to watch your videos literally all the time it's insane
Me when I argue online about the Legitimacy of a Non-Tangeble Childrens Video Game monster.
Nice. Appreciate seeing a youtuber doing a crazy thing and quitting because yeah, probably the right call there. Fun seeing people do things I'd never do, but at some point, nice to see someone not being totally bonkers to say it's normal not to.
When the world needed him most, the King returned. And with a prince in tow.
...Seriously though, welcome back! 🤗❤️
I am so happy and very pleasantly suprised that Jwittz is back.
Hes back
Glad to see you again! I hope you and your family are doing well.
PS: Please find a cypher to feature on. It's been wayyyy too long
It’s THE TheJWittz
Not sure why this video did not appear in my feed. Glad to see you still making video!!
Oh my goodness JWittz uploaded!! LIGHT THE BEACON!!!!
even if you quit the hunt, it was still a very entertaining and well put together video. i had no idea manaphy was the hardest pokemon to shiny hunt :)
Is this the third lord of the Rings movie cause the king has returned
love that i can come back to this channel after like 7 years and still enjoy the content
He's back HE'S BAACK!!
I’ve hunted some crazy stuff over the years, and I cannot agree enough when people say this was the end-all-be-all. Under-levelled Salamence, Antique Sinistea, even other non-event shiny legendaries. None of them compare to this.
In any case, welcome back!
The Go Rock Quads!
🎶 🎸 🥁 🎻 🪈
🎶Pokémon a go-go!🎶
A classic that should be in the anime
It's so nostalgic and wonderful to see a new JWittz video anytime the magic reappears~ Inspired me ever since many many years ago, and I'm happy you will continue to.
“it’s been a while”
Jwittz was a big part of my childhood. Hearing him say "I've already put out most of the stories I want to tell" was a surprisingly humbling moment for me... The older I get, the more I believe that we should not always be striving to one-up our past or trying to recapture lost magic. Life is beautiful in so many forms, and it will always continue to change. Jwittz used to share so much of himself with the public, putting so much of himself out there. And just because he did it for so long does not mean that needs to continue forever, nor should it. Endings do not make the journey obsolete. Jwittz has made his mark on my life, and I'm so happy to hear that his life has moved a satisfying direction where he feels no resentment for his past, no sense of failure or guilt for being away... Time moves forward. Things change. We keep getting older. And with some proper contextualization, that can be a good thing. A very good thing.
Years ago, I remember Josh talking about wanting to move away from a regular upload schedule to one where he can higher-quality videos less often. This may be much less often than he meant at the time, but you still always know it's the good stuff when TheJWittz comes through your Subscriptions tab.
23:28 LMAO adding the spongebob quote here was PERFECT
A few weeks ago, I was like "Hey, where's JWittz?"
Dude I watched you as a kid and to see you still uploading is so awesome! Fastest sub of my life and glad to see your channel is still alive
HE'S Alive AAAAALLLLLIIIIVVVEEE🎉🎉
1 Year, 10 years, don't matter, New JWittz video is new JWittz video and we shall cherish it
Great to see you back 😃
Holy moly, the legend has uploaded! I was just talking about how one of my childhood youtubers stopped posting, and then I see this appear!
THE RETURN?
The fact that this hunt in its original form will eventually be lost to time due to running out of fresh Pokémon Ranger copies is crazy too.
It's been 3000 years...
Jwittz i have been a fan for many years since the top 10 era. Just wanna say i respect the upload schedule and watching this video is like a passing of the baton. Hope you make just a couple more videos before you fully retire but if you did retire it would truly be the end of a generation for me not an era but a full generation. You are the goat man leave them wanting more
Return of the king
I know you only come by every so often, but I love seeing your vids pop up. You’ve never lost your touch, new vids or old vids. Hope life is treating you kindly 😃