oh and one more fact about diamond/pearl shiny. my friend got an elder brother, and this guy one day find a shiny geodude in the grass and because it happens that im with him that day, he shows me the geodude. next, because at that time i know nothing about shiny, i just envy him for getting one (although me myself got one few days before, a snover). now for the interesting fact, he didnt save and soft resetting instead, so of course he didnt caught that shiny geodude. after soft resetting, he fought some wild pokemon looking for a shiny while counting the numbers of pokemon he met during the process. after he found a shiny (it was about 30+ encounter), he soft resetted again and fought some more wild pokemons up to one pokemon before supposed shiny pokemon and save the game. after that he goes to where regigigas is and fought it AND HE SHOWED ME A PURPLE SHINY REGIGIGAS @_@. after that he goes to azelf and do the same thing (show me a shiny azelf). im not really sure because theres alot of people says that they keep soft resetting until find shiny dialga or something, but if shiny encounter was certain for every XX number then soft resetting would be useless (except for starters which because it will create a new game and trainer id), at least in diamond/pearl. i havent tested this one yet because as far as we all know, finding shiny thru normal encounter (not pokeradar) will takes quite a luck (i myself already played pearl for 550+ hours and only find 3 shiny thru normal encounter which are snover, unown, and koffing), but if i already found out, ill share this one to u guys too, that if im lucky enough to find another shiny without the pokeradar ^^!