So i have played Pokemon since red and blue. 
 
In all this time i have NEVER found a shiny =(  (red Gyarados doesn't count :P )  
 
Can any one give me some tips on how to find them?  It would be much appreciated :)

There really is no advice to give you sadly, finding a shiny pokémon is a 1 in 8192 chance so just keep fighting! 
 
I've been playing since red and blue as well, (although I've played almost constantly as well which might help) and I've only ever found 2 shiny pokémon, a shiny Zigzagoon which I caught only because it was shiny, and last generation I managed to breed a shiny Turtwig. 
 
It's pure luck really :/

Download pokemon gold/silver for an emulator, then use a gameshark code to make all wild pokemon shiny. 
 
Boom.

Willpower my friend. 
 
Visualise the shiny pokemon in your head for motivation and go forth.

" @Soap: 1 in 8192! haha thats ummm... ok haha il keep looking! "

There are (were methods) to increase likely hood of catching a shiny in diamond/pearl. It involved using a pokeradar im pretty sure. You could probably look it up. I'm not sure if a similar method is available in black and white. 

I caught a shiny Tentacool in Gold. That was such a good day.

First and perhaps only time that I saw a shiny (not 100% sure) was when I met a shiny Hoothoot at the beginning of Gold. Super annoying seeing as it was in the early game, before I had access to any pokeballs.

I caught a shiny diglett in pokemon firered, I caught it because the nose was blue...at the time I didn't know what shiny was and just thought it was a "special pokemon" so I kept searching for more abnormal colored monsters....never again did it occur.

Doesnt the red garadose count as shiney? 

In Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum, you could use the pokeradar to chain high enough to get a shiny, although the rules were ridiculous for it. Also there was a way to manipulate the RNG of the game using its journal thing, but that is only for DPPt.

@MooseyMcMan
Give me a break.

Don't worry about it, dude.  Do you really wanna be this guy? 
  

I've never had this happen either, and I've played though all the games. 
 
Never bothered me either, but still... it'd be nice. 

" I never even heard of Shiny Pokemon untill I watched a Let's Play of Pokemon Crystal by Chuggaconro "

To be frank, it isn't like shines are any more special other than being a different color (with most of them being hideous colors). It isn't like GSC, where they had specific IVs.

Pokerus is better anyway.

Are there any alternate shinies? I could of sworn back in G/S I had a shiny that wasn't normal colored, nor the same as one some people had online.

What the fuck is a shiny?

" What the fuck is a shiny? "

" Don't worry about it, dude.  Do you really wanna be this guy? 
  

"

I actually got really lucky and managed to catch a shiny Tympole right at the beginning of Pokemon Black, I love it so much that I'm letting it rot away in a PC box of it's own.

" I caught a shiny Tentacool in Gold. That was such a good day. "

I got a shiny Tangela.  What randomness, you know?

I heard a rumor that they did have better stats, was that just bogus?

I found a shiny Ponyta. That was it. And I got mystery gifted a shiny Entei and Suicune from heartgold. 
The whole 8000-1 odds means that I will probably never see a shiny pokemon in this generation since there are only 156 new pokemon to catch, and I generally level up my pokemon on trainers, not wild pokemon. Even with ev training I doubt I'll hit that number of encounters before I get my team fully trained and go online with them.

The only shiny I've ever seen was in the Battle Pyramid in Emerald, which meant I couldn't catch it... 

" @iAmJohn said:

" Don't worry about it, dude.  Do you really wanna be this guy? 
  

H.264

H.264

• 360p MP4
• Flash

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Oh man, that guy is my hero. "

I'd never heard about shiny pokemon until HeartGold and SoulSilver came out, and I for some reason became interested in Pokémon again, and stumbled upon that Ponyta video. 
I just wish it would have ran away when the guy tried to catch it... You have to admit his reaction would have been priceless, or maybe just depressing, we will never know...

I think I found one shiny in silver but I got a load in Diamond and found some in heart gold so perhaps they will also be easier to find in black/white.

Chaining gets easy once you follow the rules strictly you can get them in an hour or two and once you see the shiny pokemon of your choice you can get more! I have like 8+ shiny spoinks! There is also another method called the "masuda method" named after the programer? of the games. You need two different language pokemon to breed ex. jap and french or eng and german and so on, it raises the regular ratio to 1 in 2048!

I am so glad some one has posted the Shiny Ponyta video.

I have a shiny geodude, its fucking gold. Its so awesome.

Shiny Geodude....

I feel your pain. I've been playing since blue and I've never witnessed a wild shiny. :(

 @iAmJohn: ahaha. I feel kind of bad now. I remember catching a blue ponyta once. I threw it in my bank and forgot about  it, because who the fuck cares about ponyta.

The first game i played was gold and the first geodude i saw was shiny, but  I only realised that when i saw my second geodude.

To everyone who doesn't understand why you'd want a shiny pokemon... 
 
Look at my avatar. Then look back at your Charizard. 
 
That's really all you have to do to understand it.

I have the Red Gyrados, the Shiny Legendary Beasts from Gamestop, and a Shiny Gengar I got over the GTS, but I've never actually seen them in the wild.
 
As has been said before, they're identical stat-wise anyways, so it's not that huge of a deal, but it'd be nice to see one.

" @iAmJohn said:

" Don't worry about it, dude.  Do you really wanna be this guy? 
  

"

Oh man, that guy is my hero. "