Having caught my very first Shiny pokemon, a Shiny Carnivine, on Soul Silver, it reminded me that the last time I caught a shiny pokemon was on Emerald; a shiny Houndor.

So, my question to all you pokemon fans; have you caught any shiny pokemon on the most recent pokemon games, Soul Silver and Heart Gold? 

Gyarados(Not Lake of Rage one), Staravia, Bidoof.

I once caught a shiny metapod on the original gold game, in the bug catching contest. But it didn't make me win the contest, so I switched off without saving :) Only afterwards I realised I shouldn't have done that.

Gyarados on SoulSilver, Golbat in Ruby and a Bibarel in Pearl(Lvl 4!!!!)

Oh damn :/

First time I found a shiny pokemon was a shiny Goldeen, on gold. I thought something was wrong with my game, like a bad sprite or something, but I caught it anyway. 

I only found out about Shiny pokemons a few years later xD  

In Fire Red I came across a shiny Koffing, it self destructed. I cried my self to sleep that night T_T

I've seen a lot of hacked Shinies on GTS. Probably all of them are also hacked for Pokerus and maximum EV/IV. 

Heck, one guy whose box I peeked had two shiny Arceus >_< 

Nah, I use Repel 90% of the time. Yeah, shame on me.

You only gain levels through trainer battles? 

I'm the contrary, I like to farm a lot. I have over 2K pokemons defeated on the Elite League PC stats xD 

I first go trough the game using a single pokemon, defeating every trainer but avoiding grass pokemon as soon as possible (first few levels of course come from grass). In soul Silver if you do that and then repeat the elite four three times or so you'll have a lv 100 pokemon already. After every region is unlocked and I have a though guy, and if I'm actually gonna build a team, the bulk of any training I have to do will be on the elite four as soon as I get the EVs right. So yeah, I spend a lot of money on Super Repels.