How do you get a shiny starter Pokemon in platinum?

Answer 1

Delete your continued game. then on your new game, before you choose your starter, save. then turn your DS off. put Pokemon platinum back on your new game. you should see the shiny starter. ( it is called soft resetting)

Answer 2

ok first off all this is a very interesting question and second of all you have a 1 in 8.5 thousand trys to get a shiny starter you save befor you pick ur Pokemon and it should take you like 72 staright hours to get 1