He's playing gen 3. Masuda method is from Gen 4 and everything after

I'm aware, I'm just saying he could easily breed it instead in one of the newer games instead of sring 9001 times.

But he wants it for Fire Red, not a later game

What is a Soft-Reset, if I may ask?

L+R+Start+Select. Used to be A+B+Start+Select. Slightly faster than turning whatever device you are using on and off completely.

When you do it, it goes back to the Title screen so you don't have to shut your game off at all :)

Good luck...It's gonna take quite some time...Here's hoping it doesn't though.

I've already gone through a good 50 - 60 times...

My assumption is it'll take 1000+, I never have bothered with SR'ing. Idk if it would be worth my time. Probably explains though that in 13 years of Pokemon I've only caught 1 shiny...other than the red Gyarados ofc. It was a fucking Tympole. Better then nothing though. I did catch pokerus once as well, I guess that's pretty rare too. Most people I know have caught at least 4+ shinies just randomly though.

Pokerus is 3 times rarer than a shiny

I thought so. It was way back in Silver, I THINK I caught a Yanma with it, that or a Yanma gave it to me. So long ago, can't remember properly, if I caught it, the odds of that are crazier.

You need to catch it if you want it to spread, so yes. You did

No, just battling a pokemon with pokerus will give you the virus. You don't have to catch the pokemon that has pokerus, just beat it in a battle and the pokemon that battled it will have pokerus.

No, battling with a Pokemon on Pokerus in your team spreads it, but only if the infected one was used, as well as the one next to it in the party