Hey there! I haven't posted here since 2011, "lol," so I guess I'll rejoin!
Here's my shiny journey thus far:
2006:
Slugma (Emerald) - Random encounter
Electrode (Ruby) - Random encounter
Slugma was the first shiny I ever found, and I was super excited when I found it, even though I didn't really know what shinies were at the time, "lol." I looked it up online and found out all about shinies, and I loved reading the stories of people hunting for shinies!! It was all so cool, and I became determined to hunt shinies too. I looked through all of my boxes, and sure enough, I had gotten a shiny on Ruby without realizing it! Electrode might've been from like 2003, but I didn't rediscover it until 2006, "lol."
2007:
Shuppet (Emerald) - REs
Zangoose (Ruby) - REs
Bulbasaur (FireRed) - SR
Torchic (Sapphire) - SR
Dialga (Diamond) - SR
Uxie (Diamond) - SR
I hunted shinies like crazy after finding my Slugma in February 2006, but I was unsuccessful until 2007. I spent my entire week-long school vacation looking for shinies, and I was hunting on Mt. Pyre for what was probably 12 hours every day, absolutely determined to hunt one down myself. And I was in luck!! My year+ of hunting finally paid off, and I found a shiny Shuppet! That began an awesome streak of luck for me, and I found another shiny every month until the end of the summer!!
2008:
Bibarel (Diamond) - Random encounter
Magnemite (Diamond) - Random egg hatch (!)
Tangela (LeafGreen) - REs
Giratina (Diamond) - SR
Bibarel was a terrifying encounter for me - I found it in the Great Marsh!! Safari Zones are always the scariest places to find shinies (they might run away!), but luckily I was able to capture it. I've tried to avoid the Safari Zone since then, and I pretty much always just start throwing balls right away when I encounter shinies now, just in case anything happens, haha.
Magnemite has a pretty cool story, too. I had Pal Parked a bunch of Pokemon from LeafGreen to Diamond for Pokedex purposes, and it was easier to send up the evolved forms and breed them than send up the first-stages ones and then spend all the time leveling them up until they evolved. So I was just breeding tons of Kanto and Hoenn Pokemon, and I got one egg from the Magneton and Ditto. I was so shocked to see a shiny Magnemite!
2011:
Staravia (Diamond) - Random encounter
Treecko (Sapphire) - SR
Elgyem (Black) - REs
Litwick (Black) - REs
Drifloon (Diamond) - SR
Abra (LeafGreen) - SR
Hitmonchan (FireRed) - SR
Spheal (Emerald) - REs
Beldum (Diamond) - Random egg hatch (!!)
Totodile (HeartGold) - SR
I stopped playing Pokemon for a few years, but fortunately, I got back to the games in January 2011. I decided to join an online shiny hunting community and start playing Pokemon again! But on the very first day that I dusted off my games and turned them on again, I found a shiny Staravia!! I was just going to start off by looking for some random Pokemon to catch for my Dex, but I found a shiny on that very first night back. What a way to get back into shiny hunting!!
Beldum was a very similar story to Magnemite. I was just hatching to get an Adamant Beldum so I could make a competitive 4th-gen team with Metagross as a lead, and I got a shiny Beldum in 20-30 eggs, "lol!" My only hatched shinies to this day are both 1/8192 Steel-types, "lol."
2012:
Spiritomb (Diamond) - SR
Druddigon (Black) - REs
2013:
Dratini (LeafGreen) - SR
Golett (Black) - REs
Golbat (LeafGreen) - REs
Chikorita (HeartGold) - SR
Zigzagoon (Ruby) - REs
Taillow (Ruby) - REs
Zigzagoon (Ruby) - REs
All seven of these were caught in December, "lol." I had gone through a 23-month drought from January 2012-November 2013 in which I only found two shinies, so the seven-shiny month really ended my drought with a bang! "lol"
2014:
Eevee (FireRed) - SR
Charmander (FireRed) - SR
Chikorita (HeartGold) - SR
Squirtle (FireRed) - SR
Piplup (Platinum) - SR
Mankey (FireRed) - REs
Mudkip (SoulSilver) - SR
Chimchar (Platinum) - SR
Duskull (Ruby) - REs
Heatmor (Black) -REs
Sewaddle (Black) - REs
This was a crazy year! I got Eevee during the first week of January, and then I didn't get another shiny until the middle of August. I then found Charmander, Chikorita, Squirtle, Piplup, Mankey, Mudkip, Chimchar, Duskull, Heatmor, and Sewaddle in the span of about a month!!! Duskull took over 22,000 REs and Heatmor took over 7000, but most of the others were in a couple thousand tries or less. I have no idea how I got such crazy luck all at once, haha!
2015:
Rotom (Diamond) - SR
Misdreavus (Pearl) - REs
Totodile (HeartGold) - SR
Shelmet (Black) - REs
Sandshrew (Black2) - REs
Taillow (Emerald) - REs
Yamask (Black2) - REs
Mantyke (Black2) - REs
Taillow (Emerald) - REs
Taillow (Emerald) - REs
Those Taillow are all different ones, too! I turned on my Emerald in June and left my DS plugged in for months to shuffle up the RNG. I really wanted to find a shiny Nincada, so I kept on hunting even though I kept getting so many shiny Taillow/Zigzagoon (I had left Ruby on in 2013 to try the same thing). I dropped my DS in October, but I turned it right back on and just made sure not to hunt on days when I had found a shiny on my previous continuous-gameplay that many days into the game before. My Emerald game's still on and running, "lol."
2016:
Nincada (Emerald) - REs
Machop (Emerald) - REs
Wingull (Emerald) - REs
I finally got that Nincada! It only took 56,303 total Pokemon, including two shiny Zig and four (!!!!) shiny Taillow, "lol!" I figured that since I'm already at such a unique stage in the RNG, with my game having been on for months already, I might as well hunt for some of the cool Hoenn route shinies without fear of getting RNG duplicates. So far, I've done 9800 Fiery Path encounters, 7117 Jagged Pass encounters, and 800 Sandstorm encounters.
After my Emerald turns off, I'd like to get all of the Ghosts shiny.