I was in Victory Road in my Pokemon Ruby version and I found a Shiny Golbat! See, I didn't know anything about Shiny Pokemon, or that they even existed, but I knew it looked different, so I caught it. I was so happy with my new, "gold" Pokemon (what me and my friends used to call it because the Shiny Golbat's body was gold-ish) that I knew I had to train it until it became a Crobat, and back then me and my friends thought trying to evolve a Pokemon with friendship was very, very, hard. Not too hard, really. (I was good at Pokemon, but I didn't know much besides what you see in the game. Stuff like Shiny's and events and all that that you aren't told about I didn't know. Then one day I found Serebii.net and I changed!)
I think I found a Shiny Pokemon in my Fire Red, let me see... I think I found a Shiny Pidgey. I'm pretty sure I did. Yeah! I did! Also, I made some trades for a Shiny Castform, Pikachu, and Meowth/Persian (its a Persian now, but I can't remember if it was a Meowth when I got it) by giving away Pokemon my friend were somehow unable to get like Entei, Regice ect.
After that my days of collecting Shinys were over....... until one day, when I was testing my hack of Pokemon Ruby, Pokemon Iron Ruby - Rage of Flare (this was before I changed the whole beginning), I was testing somethings I had added, and I picked Torchic as my starter. BAM!!! Shiny! Too bad I really can't use that file as I am going to have to restart at some point... Not to mention Red Gyarados from Silver/Crystal (I don't have Gold, its the only game I never got, not counting all the sidegames like Pokemon Snap, Ranger, Mystery Dungeon ect.) And also the Red Gyarados in Shiny Gold, Zel's hack.