I have been doing a lot of Pokemon, and to celebrate the lugia I caught in crystal, I decided I'd draw on out! Also made a shiny version, as with the magic of Arbitrary code execution, I was able to turn my lugia shiny! Gen 1-2 glitches are awesome. Whoever at gamefreak decided to keep them in on the virtual console releases should get a promotion.
Normal Variant can be found here
its over a 1 in 8000 chance, so that is bound to happen at some point XD. Its why I used glitches to get mine shiny. Still, I have massive respect to those who soft reset! I have considered it in the past so I can say i properly earned my shiny. But for now, i'll stick with altering my pokemons DNA to make it shiny!
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Diddgery
Fun fact! My girlfriend got a shiny Lugia in Silver on VC in under 200 soft resets. Meanwhile I'm well over 6000 soft resets on Ho-Oh and still going...