The new leak didn't include Shinies... but I got them.

Yesterday I made a Patreon post about the new Gen 4 beta sprite leak -- take a look if you haven't seen that yet. I got in touch with the leak-holder late last night (China time) and spoke for a bit. I say "leak-holder" because he's not the guy who leaked the sprites on 4chan -- basically, this was the guy in possession of the beta sprites when someone else leaked his collection. This leak-holder doesn't want to be identified by name -- he prefers to be called "550D5A658330C3598DEE08D09ADEF54E50BA86EA84958C11C3DB3C4F51D435484CA654A2F877." Lol yeah, I'm serious.

Anyway, if you've seen the leaked Gen 4 sprites, you might have noticed that Weavile was the only Pokemon whose Shiny was included. The leak-holder gave me 64 more Shinies that haven't been leaked yet, including the Absol pictured here. However, when the sprites were *ahem* acquired from Nintendo, the Shinies were ripped improperly. So the colors are off, and need to be indexed. I don't personally understand color indexing, but someone who does is helping me to fix the Shinies.

I'll admit, 64 Shiny versions of the leaked gendered sprites isn't super exciting -- it ain't no Spaceworld, to be sure. But as far as I can tell, only a few people outside the dev team have seen these sprites up until now: the person who *ahem* acquired them from Nintendo, the leak-holder, myself, and the person helping me index the colors. The leaker himself hasn't even seen them. You folks reading this are the only other people to see this Absol, and you'll be seeing all 64 fixed Shinies once they're fixed.

Once they're fixed, I'll include them all in a download link here for you, like I did with the other 700 or so leaked sprites in yesterday's Patreon post. I'll publish them afterwards, once I've gotten a chance to write a proper article about them.

Cheers guys. Lemme know if you have any questions. I know this might be somewhat confusing.