yes you can but its very hard your best bet is soft resseting
if it's a different color then normal
save before you go to the lake, then keep on restarting your game till you get a shiny, you can also get shiny ledgendaries by doing that
Luck. You have a 1 in 8,192 chance of your starter Pokemon to be Shiny.
Save in front of where you get your starter Pokemon, then reset until your chosen starter is shiny.
What do you mean how do you make a shiny Pokemon stay shiny if you get a shiny Pokemon it stays shiny ok!
Shiny Pokemon can be anywhere, it is just very rare.
The starter pokemon for Diamond and Pearl are Turtwig, Piplup, and Chimchar.
No
luck You CAN get shiny Pokemon WITHOUT a full Pokedex(I have done it :P)
To get a shiny Pokemon try using the poke radar
Once you find a Shiny Pokemon just catch it and it remains Shiny forever.
shiny Pokemon are rare you can find them almost any were but they are super rare