Don't hate me for emulating, but I had a SoulSilver ROM (my DS was, and still is, broken). I started with a Totodile that was shiny, and it was a mint game. No other starters were shiny, I haven't inputted any codes, it was just luck. Just got this new ROM and I managed to get a shiny Totodile. I was just like..."Yeeeees~!". I had to clean out my PC's desktop, though. Too cluttered for me :s.
....come the next morning, and one cleared recycling bin later, I lost my save file. ;~; NOMNOMS NO ;-;
On another side of the universe, back when my DS was fully operational, I continued to get swept by Lucian's damn Alakazam in Platinum. Couldn't get around it, it was simply too fast and too strong for me. Every time, the other Elite Four members didn't give me trouble, but when it came to that literature-reading Lucian >_< I just got rekt. Every. Single. Time. Oh, that brings me onto more Generation 4 misfortune. I ran away from a shiny Medicham because I thought my DS was being weird...I was new to the series, and every time I think about it, my face cringes more and more. How could I be so st00pid? :<