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Old February 19th, 2010 (9:48 PM).
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I wasn't paying attention one day trying to catch the mespirt I had been chasing around. I was just throwing quick balls at everything ( boredom empties my pockets) to my suprise i threw a quick ball and paused after hearing the "epic" music that comes on during a legendary pkm fight. to my suprise as I did the ball clicked. I was like O.o Now how did that happen? The I realized I had just caught the pokemon I had spent my morning looking for.

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Old February 20th, 2010 (2:14 PM).
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I happened to breed a shiny Squirtle on Diamond while just trying to get a Squirtle with a good nature. Blastoise is my favorite Pokemon, so I was psyched.

On Silver, I've found two shinies on a new file that I created. The thing is, it happened after my Gold died, at which point I had decided that I didn't really care about obtaining anything else rare on the first two generation games. I was just training a couple of Pokemon to use to beat Pokemon Stadium 2, since I'd lost my old Gold team, and I found two shinies (Sneasel and Mareep) within a relatively short period of time.

I also discovered (when viewing it in Gold) that my Red Version Blastoise was actually shiny, which was pretty surprising, considering that I had no way of knowing when I started the file.

Overall, I seem to have much better luck when I'm not hoping for it. I've found several shinies on new files that I don't care that much about only a couple of hours into the game, yet most of my main files take over 200 hours before I encounter a shiny, and on many of them, I've never encountered a shiny at all.
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Old February 21st, 2010 (2:09 AM).
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I was going through the Victory Road, and I noticed a regular (non-shiny) Steelix. I was suprised, so i tried to catch it. I failed, and said to myself "the next Steelix I find I am going to catch." The next Steelix just happened to be shiny! xD

I also traded a Poliwhirl (not holding any items) for a Glameow on the GTS, and the Glameow I got was shiny. :D
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Old February 21st, 2010 (2:46 AM).
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In Diamomd, I've caught a Shiny Buneary in Eterna Forest, and later on found a Shiny Snover, just before Snowpoint City!
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Old February 21st, 2010 (4:02 AM).
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I've had a bit of dumb luck in the games. Mainly with Shinies though.

On the way to Snowpoint City, I found a Shiny Golbat in Mt. Coronet. I was happy, since cave shinies are somewhat rare.

I was trying to chain for a shiny on Route 201, and ran into a doduo. Usually you need at least 40 chains to have a decent shiny find, but I found a shiny doduo as the second Pokemon in the chain.

Those were some good times. : D
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Old February 23rd, 2010 (10:22 PM).
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Ive on every pokemon game so far got at least got one shiny legendary on the first encounter, meaning no Save Resetting. Creepy really, but I kinda hated it. Shiny legendaries look like crap for the most part.
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Old February 23rd, 2010 (11:02 PM).
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I caught Uxie with a Premier Ball. After spending like an hour chucking everything else at it at 1% HP while asleep.
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Old February 24th, 2010 (7:58 AM).
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catching a shiny pinsir was sheer luck, I was doing the chaining thing and within 7 chains out it came :D
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Old February 28th, 2010 (9:22 AM).
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Never found a shiny yet ]= I never knew what chaining was before, though, so I'mma try that. I ran into 4 Chanseys in a row once, though...aren't those kinda rare? I NEVER caught them, those mofos are hard to catch =/
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