Credits and data sources

Pokémon species data, stats, types, egg groups, evolution chains, encounter tables, and all sprites (Pokémon, items, and Poké Balls) come from PokéAPI, a free and open Pokémon database. We cache responses to keep our load on them light.

The Gold and Silver shiny sprites come from PokéAPI too. The originals have a solid background, so we removed it to make them sit cleanly on the page; nothing else about them is changed.

Pokémon cries come from PokéAPI's cries repository.

PokéAPI has no ripped sprites for Pokémon above National Dex 650 in the Black and White style, because those Pokémon came after Black and White. The ones you see here were drawn by the Smogon Sprite Project, a community effort of dozens of named artists, and PokéAPI serves them with Smogon's permission. Roughly a third of the sprites on this site are their work rather than Nintendo's, including every shiny you see for a Gen 8 or Gen 9 Pokémon, because those games are 3D and never rendered a 2D shiny for anyone to rip.

The walking sprites on the Ranch page are the work of the PMD Sprite Collab, a community project that draws Pokémon Mystery Dungeon style sprites for every species, shiny palettes included. They are shared under CC BY-NC 4.0, which fits: Shiny Pokes is free and non-commercial. Each sprite is credited to its artist in the project's credits file. The sheets are fetched from the project's repository as they are, and nothing is redrawn or altered here.

The ranch itself (grass, fence, path, barn, trees and the odd mushroom) is built from Tiny Town and Tiny Farm by Kenney, released under CC0. No credit is required for those; it is given anyway.

Region maps, item and hidden-item locations, and wild encounter tables are extracted directly from pret's decompilations of the original games. Reading the games' own data means these lists are exact rather than transcribed, and it lets us credit the people who did that painstaking work.

• pret/pokered: Red, Blue, Green and Yellow
• pret/pokecrystal: Gold, Silver and Crystal
• pret/pokeruby: Ruby and Sapphire
• pret/pokeemerald: Emerald
• pret/pokefirered: FireRed and LeafGreen
• pret/pokeplatinum: Platinum (its map layout is also used for Diamond and Pearl)
• pret/pokeheartgold: HeartGold and SoulSilver

Map layouts are computed from each game's own connection data, which is factual geography. The drawing itself is ours, not a copy of the games' map artwork.

Bulbapedia is the source for item locations in Diamond, Pearl and every later game except Platinum (HeartGold and SoulSilver included), and for wild encounters in Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, Legends: Arceus, Scarlet and Violet, and Legends: Z-A. Where PokéAPI has no encounter data for another game, the site also looks it up on Bulbapedia. We take only structured facts from it. That content is licensed CC BY-NC-SA 2.5, and pages sourced from it link back to the article they came from.

The bag sprites for the Legends: Arceus Poké Balls (Feather, Wing, Jet, Leaden and Gigaton) and Pokémon GO's GO Safari Ball also come from Bulbapedia's archives, since PokéAPI has no sprite for them. They are game assets, used here only to show which ball a catch is in.

The site uses Nunito, Fredoka, Geist Mono and Handjet, all released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. We serve our own copies of the font files.

Some icons are adapted from Lucide, ISC License.

A lot of what this site gets right came from r/ShinyPokemon. The community has given us a steady stream of feedback and honest criticism: directly, from people who tried the site and said plainly what was wrong with it, and indirectly, by being the place where shiny hunting is documented and argued about carefully enough to learn from. Features here exist because someone there pointed out they were missing, and mistakes were fixed because someone there noticed. We are very grateful for it.

• We prefer raw game data from decompilation projects, which is factual game information rather than someone's writing.
• Where we use a wiki, we take only structured facts, such as an item, a place or a game, never the prose, notes, or formatting around them.
• Every dataset records where it came from, so we can credit and update it.

Pokémon and Pokémon character names are trademarks of Nintendo, Creatures Inc., and GAME FREAK Inc. Shiny Pokes is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Nintendo, Creatures, GAME FREAK or The Pokémon Company.

Pokémon names, sprites, item icons and sounds belong to Nintendo, Creatures, GAME FREAK and The Pokémon Company. They are shown here to identify Pokémon, items and games in a free fan project. The region maps are our own drawings.

If you own rights in something shown here and want it removed, email support@shinypokes.com and we will take it down promptly.