Shinyhunter is a bot that will search/hunt for shiny Pokémon in Pokémon Leaf Green and Fire Red. Shinyhunter uses the VisualBoyAdvance-1.8.0-beta3 emulator for this.

A list of supported shiny Pokémon can be found here.

1. Download VisualBoyAdvance here.

2. Pip install all the Python dependencies

   pip install -r requirement.txt

3. To use Shinyhunter we will need to change the default controls of VisualBoyAdvance.

4. Go to: Options > Joypad > Configure > 1

These are the default controls of Shinyhunter, if you'd like to use different controls you will have to change it in VisualBoyAdvance and in the config.yaml file.

5. Change the video mode, go to: Options > Video > x3
6. Change the render mode, go to: Options > Video > Render Method > Direct 3D
7. Change the color mode, go to: Options > Gameboy > Real Colors

1. Go to a grassy area with atleast 4 blocks of space (vertical)
2. Run the Python (shinyhunter.py) script.
3. Profit. Shinyhunter will now look keep looking for shiny Pokémons. When a shiny is found the script will be executed, so the user can catch the shiny himself.

• Add more supported shiny Pokémons
• Add more advanced movements (currently we can only walk vertical)

For image manipulation/detection I use OpenCV-Python. By using OpenCV-Python we can get the color of a certain pixels. With the color we can decide if there is a shiny Pokémon or not.

Because we need to read a lot of information of the screen I have made my own OCR. This is done with scikit-learn, using Bagging for the classifier and for preprocessing I use the Normalizer.

For the simulation of key input I use a slightly modified version of Directkeys.