[PkmnMstr]

Ooh shiny discussion! I've hatched a shiny before. I was actually breeding Growlithe for natures at the time. And around only the 20th egg, surprise surprise, it came out shiny. I flipped. Well, that's my only random hatch shiny. I tried breeding for a shiny Scyther. I ended up with 7 boxes of Scyther(about 210 of them) and no shinies. (>_<)

As far as random encounter shinies, one of them got away from me. Way back in Silver version, I was in the bug catching contest. I encountered a shiny Weedle. At the time, I didn't realize what a shiny was, so I thought the little sparkle animation was just in my head or something. I ran away from it in favor of winning the contest. I got so mad at my past self after I realized what I had done.

I did catch a random shiny Buizel once. And once when I was going through victory road in Diamond, I accidentally forgot to use another repel very close to the exit. The FIRST pokémon I run into? Shiny Golbat.

And then as for non random, I chained quite a few shinies with the Pokéradar. And then I made a whole bunch of shinies with the random number generator thing in Diamond. It's a wonderful exploit if you ask me. Makes whatever egg you get next into a shiny and requires no outside hacking like Action Replay or Gameshark or w/e.