How to get shiny starters in pokemon sapphire?
If you choose your starter, and it’s not shiny, just restart the game and try again. Shiny Pokemon are extremely rare, so it will take a while. I’ve only encountered one shiny Pokemon in all my years of playing Pokemon. There’s nothing too special about shiny Pokemon besides the colour is different. You can’t get shiny Pokemon easily. Only by random chance and luck. Good luck.
Well, if you want to get a shiny in the beginning, all you can do is reset until you get one. However, if you just want a shiny, you can either trade a ditto from FR/LG/E or reset until you get a female (which wouldn’t take as long as resetting for a shiny) and breed until you get one. This would still take a long time. Unfortunately, I don’t believe RNG abuse (a method to obtain shinies) works unless you have D/P/P/or Emerald. You could increase your chances of hatching one by using the Masuda method (breeding with an international pokemon), but since you don’t have wi-fi with sapphire, obtaining a national pokemon is obviously very hard. Good luck!
You have to be really lucky, i don’t think there is any specific way to get a shiny other than the red gyarados in gold/silver/crystal. There is a 1 in 8192 chance to get a shiny but it is very possible, just keep restarting your game to get the shiny, may take a long time, but eventually you’ll get it.
