Uh... were you hatching or something? Because I don't see how you could "run into" a shiny Zigzagoon while hunting for a shiny Torchic... and quite frankly, I myself wouldn't be angry. As I said with my Voltorb, even if a Magnemite had appeared, it wouldn't have been shiny because the codes are different. (Unless, of course, you meant Poochyena or whatever. Or I'm forgetting something)
So take what you can when you can. This also backs up the "people who sometimes get 2 shinies in a row", and why I'm hunting on Emerald for Magnemite although I've already gotten 2 shinies from it: It simply doesn't matter. Maybe some IDs are better than others, sure, but that's now my least concern.
My SR Pokemon require more than a few taps of the A button... With Scyther I have to use the control pad, and if I do Charmander at the same time (which I have been), it's hard because I have to stop doing one handheld in order to SR another. So I try to time it exactly so I can stop during a pause where I can't do anything (such as "Bandit recieved the CHARMANDER from PROF. OAK!"). And I encounter too many Pokemon at once in Emerald to try and do it and a SR Pokemon at the same time. I could somehow go 5 for 5, seeing as I have 5 GBA game players (GBA, GBA SP, DS, DSLite, GBA Player), but it's too confusing and it will hurt my hands.
I'm not feeling so great. I'm sick to my stomach, and it's not because my grade tests are this week.
No shinies for me, either. But I'ma think I'm getting close. :) But I'm running out of time. Not for the contest, but for the month. I want to try and get 2 shinies this month, but I'm not sure if I will or not. I've tried all my targets today and decent amount. Even if I didn't get one, I inch closer and closer to it though.
-DDD