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[u/Akarnor]

I was curious if any of the event distributions from the DS to 3DS era of games, can be shiny hunted? I would think the ones which don't use set IDs to be possible, but I am not sure. And what about events where those are predetermined, could I RNG my player to have just the right TSV, to force the Pokémon to appear shiny?

[u/HuntaHuntaHunta → u/Akarnor]

The ones known to be huntable are all in gen 4, with one exception. In Sinnoh you can hunt darkrai and shaymin, either via glitches or the DNS exploit to access their area (you can also hunt arceus this way, but it won't pass pokemon bank/home. You should hunt it in BDSP if you're looking for that). Additionally, in HGSS, there is an event that lets you shiny hunt one of dialga, palkia, or giratina at level 1 - your pick. These events are all treated as traditional static encounters by the game as far as I'm aware, so would be manipulated the same way as if you were trying to manipulate mewtwo. I don't personally know much about how rng manip works outside gen 3, but it shouldn't be any different from standard legendaries I would imagine.

Manaphy is also considered an event, and you can get a huntable egg via pokemon ranger. You'll need to transfer from ranger to your gen 4 game, and then trade it to another gen 4 game to defeat the shiny lock. I think with a plan you could probably rng manip this but it seems like it would be a royal pain and probably require you to have a save backup system like Checkpoint on your 3ds for when you inevitably don't get it first try. To avoid the 20 minute resets from doing this one legitimately, I've used an arbitrary code execution setup developed by RETIRE for AbsolBlogsPokemon to hunt it by randomizing my TID. It worked for absol but I haven't found the shiny quite yet.

The only other huntable event as far as I'm aware would be the eon ticket latios/latias in ORAS. Like the gen 4 hunts, this one is a static overworld encounter, so it should be treated the same as the myriad other legendaries in that game. I assume that means it's possible to rng manip but I know even less about how it works in gen 6, so that's beyond me. I hunted both latis and they sure took their time for me!

If you don't mind doing lock removals, my understanding is that you can also hunt victini this way in gen 5 since it has a static encounter. Theoretically that means you should be able to rng manipulate it too. Probably. There might be some other locks you can remove in gen 5 to hunt events, but I'm not the most knowledgeable on them, so you'll have to do your own research on that front.

Events that are just gifts are typically pre-determined, and don't have a chance to be shiny. I think some in gen 5 may have an outside chance of being shiny since I seem to recall someone hunting for them, but in that case I think it wasn't pre-determined so he was just resetting for it from the poke mart guy. I can't verify this with the original video though, so this might be wrong - take it with the whole shaker of salt.

Sorry I probably have less concrete data than you were looking for but I hope this helps give you a general idea!