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The Buried Relic is a Pokémon fansite aimed at providing guides and tools both for regular play and shiny hunting, mainly focused on some of the older generations of games, although not completely limited to those. You will also find resources available in this dungeon.

The knowledge of the Pokémon community is in constant evolution, and the will to answer the most obscure questions keeps the machinery moving towards the truth. Nonetheless, some information related to niche topics stays confined among the participants in small communities, making it difficult for some users to access it. One example of this are the Gamecube installments of Pokémon (Colosseum/XD: Gale of Darkness) and how one would go on about shiny hunting in these games.

Latest news

17 March 2025

Small update: added Korean names to the White Forest NPC list. You can now also access each generation of the Old-Gen Shiny hunter manual from the side menu bar (desktop) or the top menu (phone).

16 February 2025

The past year has been quite a ride, with some big releases on the web like the Old Shiny Hunter Guide and updates like the level selector for the Dangerous Moves Checker. A lot of work has been put into everything, and there are still many more to come in the future. For starters, I have added two new tools for the 2nd anniversary, the Altering Cave Target Modifier and the Mirage Island Activator! These two projects revolve around editing Generation 3 save files, which is something that I had hoped to bring to the website for quite some time, and hopefully this won't be the last. Make sure to check them out!

On a more personal note, as admin of the Buried Relic, I want to talk about the small hiatus at the beginning of this new year. >> Continue reading

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Latest news

17 March 2025

Small update: added Korean names to the White Forest NPC list. You can now also access each generation of the Old-Gen Shiny hunter manual from the side menu bar (desktop) or the top menu (phone).

Shiny of the week

Hunt suggestions

- Generation 3: Geodude can be found 55% of the time in the Magma Hideout (Emerald only). In Kanto, Geodude can go up to 100% with a level 31 repel trick in Mt. Ember (B1F), having a 70% encounter rate.

- Generation 4: Graveler and Geodude can be found in varying percentages inside Iron Island. The best location overall is B1F West, for a total of 70%. You can take advantage of the double encounters with Riley.

- Generation 5: Graveler can only appear in one location in all of Teselia: the Challenger's Cave (Black and White only). The chance to find it is not high (around 20%), but there are multiple targets worth phasing on.

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