Considering that I just caught a shiny weedle out of the blue in my copy of Soul Silver, I wanted to see if any of you have caught any shiny pokemon, barring the obvious red gyarados. I do recall catching a purple drowzee back when I had regular gold, but I don't think I have ever seen one in either Ruby/Sapphire or Diamond/Pearl. 

My memory is hazy, but I remember in one of the versions there was some type of cow pokemon and I came across a shining blue version of it.  Unfortunately it was a really low level, so my choice was to either risk attacking it and lowering it's hp for an ultra ball or wasting my master ball on it.  I attacked it.  I killed it.

In my old version of fire red i caught a diglet that had a blue nose instead of a red one....i at first just thought it was a glitch in the game, but it was pretty awesome.

I have only ever seen one.  It was a pidgey and appeared right at the start of the game before I had any pokeballs :(

i have a shiny Arcaus, a shiny Flygon, a shiny Shayman and a shiny Scyther in my Platinum file.

I managed to capture a shiny sandscrew at one point. but when it evolved into sandslash, it lost it's shinyness
a true letdown

Shiny Spinarak

I caught a shiny Onyx in Pokemon Crystal I believe.

you guys are all pretty lucky...i got a stupid diglet lol

I FOUND a shiny Ryhorn but it got away. 
 
and red gyarados. But that barely counts.

shiny psyducks. 3 of them from one of those parks where you use food to catch pokemons.

Never. I've also never played more than about 7 hours of Pokemon in total, which might have something to do with it. I've never been able to get into the game, unfortunately. I tried, but it really isn't for me. 
On second thought I probably shouldn't respond, but I now feel compelled to press reply.

Besides Red Gyarados, I have not seen one in the wild.     :(

Shiny Pidgey caught and raised as my primary Pidgeot.
 
Shiny Budew raised to a Roserade.

i found a shiny once,,, it was a blue unknown p. I cant even think of a lamer unknown to get.

I've only ever met one. It was in Pokemon Sapphire; a black Rayquaza. Needless to say, I spent my Master Ball on it.

Iv been playing pokemon blue/red  and the only shiny pokemon were the red garados in silver/gold and a gold Kricitune in dimond and thats it i think there way to rare

never caught one or seen one in my own game.  But one o my friends caught an orange graveler

Have a shiny Clamperl in Emerald, used to have a shiny Bellsprout in Leaf Green but somehow lost it somewhere. :S
Have also managed to chain enough with the PokeRadar in Platinum to get 3 shiny Shinx, but by the time you start doing that shinies are so easy to come by they sort of lose all of their appeal. :/

and would anyone have any tips for finding them? I know the PokeRadar is supposed to be good for it in D/P but I don't really know anything else that could help. Is it really just chance?

I saw a shiny Ralts.  It knew teleport.

a shiny zubat and a shiny ghastly

Shiny Roserade in pearl. At the Safari zone. I am horrible at the Safari Zone. I (figuratively) shit my pants when I saw it. But then I caught it. I still use it in Soul Silver.

" and would anyone have any tips for finding them? I know the PokeRadar is supposed to be good for it in D/P but I don't really know anything else that could help. Is it really just chance? "

I still have yet to catch or even see one. It's ridiculous. I've played every game that's come out, and I put over 100 hours into Emerald. I don't think I'll ever see one. When I was playing Diamond I ran into the blue version of Snellos and thought I finally caught a shiny. I was so happy that day, and then I came home and found out there is two versions of that Pokemon. What a cruel joke.

Sorry to ask such a dumb question, but a shiny pokemon is just a pokemon with a different color scheme?

I didn't know there were shiny Pokemon.

I don't recall seeing shiny pokemon, and I've played a lot of pokemon. 

" Sorry to ask such a dumb question, but a shiny pokemon is just a pokemon with a different color scheme? "

nope. after all the ridiculous amount of hours i have put in each pokemon game.. still none. (each one has at least 200 hours..) red garidos but that doesnt count..

Never seen a Shiny Pokemon(Besides Red Gyarados), although i hope to find one in soul silver.

My Ho-oh was shiny.

I still haven't after all of these years.  Really unlucky.

I hatched a shiny Roselia. Never used it.

Not that I can remember.

got a shiny flaffy in crystal and a shiny tentacool in ruby.

Zigzagoon, but that's all I ever saw. Glad I caught it.

I think I've run into a total of 2 Shinys in my lifetime, I think. I remember the first one was a golden Hoothoot, I didn't even know about shinys then. The worst thing was that I couldn't even catch it since I was at the very beginning of the game and didn't have any Pokeballs. >_< 
 
I think I accidentally killed the other one, it might have been a Stantler.

I have a shiny Kabutops but I really don't remember how I got it.
 
I have also tried chaining for shinies but failed miserably and gave up on that.

i saw a shiny zigzagoon once before i had even gotten any poke-balls

" I've only ever met one. It was in Pokemon Sapphire; a black Rayquaza. Needless to say, I spent my Master Ball on it. "

" I still have yet to catch or even see one. It's ridiculous. I've played every game that's come out, and I put over 100 hours into Emerald. I don't think I'll ever see one. When I was playing Diamond I ran into the blue version of Snellos and thought I finally caught a shiny. I was so happy that day, and then I came home and found out there is two versions of that Pokemon. What a cruel joke. "

I think I got a Shiny Pichu and Shiny Eevee in a trade. Don't think I've ever really used 'em, though.

Shiny Elekids early on in Gold and Silver are really, really good Pokemon to have.

I got a shiny metapod.
 
It's the most useless piece of shit ever.

I found a shiny zigzagoon, and I traded somebody for a shiny cyndaquil.