SHINY PONYTA YOU GUYS

[Cshad]

RNG abuse isn't hacking because you're not using an external device to change the game's data d:

It's literally just abusing the games random number generator

theoretically speaking, if you were able to copy your actions verbatim from one game to another, would you encounter the same shinies?

Hmmmm nope. You have a different Secret ID for each game file, and that determines your shiny encounter rate. The program that determines the timing you need to hit (since it's the same process per game, though it may vary from generation to generation I haven't tried this outside d/p/p) depends on the information you input, and the factors by which this is calculated is different for each game file.