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1st Gen Official glitch discussion thread.

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MasterZman

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The Glitch Pokemon

Hello and here we talk about the many glitch pokemon in Pokemon R/B/Y/G/S/C.
My Discovery: PkMn Is Ho-Oh how about that!
2: The Ultra MissingNo a pixalated Water Bird.
Um i will post some more later i have to go.
 

Zenite

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Is Missingno a real pokemon glitched or an unfinished pokemon?
 
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Neither, it's a place holder. It's got somthing to do with hexi-decimals and whatnot.
Also, the real missingno is only in red and blue, and this is the g/s/c section =/
I can't say much for glitches I've seen, because the only 'old' game I have is crystal and I don't care for trying to get glitches and such.
 

Name

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i think missingno. is more of a...how to call... fail-safe
every spot in the game has certain odds for catching pokemon, and odds for what pokemon are going to be caught. each of these must individually add up to 100%
but in the event that something was missed a placeholder, as you called it Mr. P, appears.
in the case of the right hand side of cinnabar island, the programmers must have forgotten to put in the value for the pokemon that can appear there, so the placeholder shows up.

at least...this is what i think...

because i used to be able to make a missingno. appear with my game shark....

boy, those were the days...
 

~Night

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In Silver version I decided to clone my Scyther, so I did exactly what you were supposed to do, like I had done a million times in my gold version with no side effects. So anyways, when I turned my game back on and looked in my PC, there was the clone Scyther, but the funny thing was, it's nickname was EKANS even though the original never had a nickname. Can anyone explain?
 
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Sometimes when you clone a Pokémon in GSC, the data for it is mixed with that of a different Pokémon. If you do it exactly right, you can give one Pokémon the moves and stats of another. I have a Dratini named GYARADOS and a shiny Gyarados named DRATINI. Yes, I was trying to make the Dratini shiny, but it didn't work...
 

~Night

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Sometimes when you clone a Pokémon in GSC, the data for it is mixed with that of a different Pokémon. If you do it exactly right, you can give one Pokémon the moves and stats of another. I have a Dratini named GYARADOS and a shiny Gyarados named DRATINI. Yes, I was trying to make the Dratini shiny, but it didn't work...

Does that mean it can learn the same moves as Ekans? Or does it just have the same attack, etc.?
 

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In this forum's jounal thread, I read that it's possible to get all three of the starter pokemon, as well as clone pokemon. Can anybody tell me how this is done, and if it can be done with items (i.e. Master balls and Rare Cany, etc)?
 

Niprop

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This one time, when I was bored...

And now, for some Diamond/Pearl fun.

After hearing on a site that you could get Ditto to learn Dunsparce's move set, I thought "Dunsparce being useful, no wai!" paired with the fact that Transform is known to be a VERY buggy move, so when the opportunity struck, I just had to try out.

First I flew to route 208, or whatever the name of the route where you found dunsparce, then I proceeded as follows:

1.) Encounter a Dunsparce.

2.) Have Ditto transform and fight with it
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3.) Make sure that Ditto uses up all it's moves as dunsparce, without KOing the dunsparce you're fighting against. (which is thankfully easy seeing that dunsparce only has one attack, rage.)
4.)Then, KO the enemy dunsparce with struggle.

5.)If Ditto didn't faint while fighting, then it should have Rage, Glare, Yawn, and some other fourth move I forgot about all at 0PP.
Restore it at a Pokemon center to regain the PP.

6.) Since Ditto forgets Transform in the process, you need to go to the move tutor in order for it to relearn the move.

And there you have it, though I don't know why you'd want a Ditto with dunsparce's move set, other then for the novelty of having a Ditto with yawn.

It's been reported that this technique can be used on other Pokemon for Ditto to learn even more moves, but my attempt with cubone bore no results.
 

Zenoah

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These ones arnt really a glitches but interesting.

If you go thru nugget bridge and over to the left patch of grass where the trainer is, he says "I saw your feat from the grass!" instead of feet.

Then I was in Saffron last night, up near the gyms and I saw a Rocket member, then he dissapeared.

Both of these happend in Blue.
 
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GSC Trainer House Glitches

As far as I know this cannot be replicated on an emulator and it is still a mystery as to what causes it but I can say it has to do with mystery gift. (unitentional pun. sorry)

Several years ago I went to trainer House in Viridian City on my Silver version for the first time. When I went to battle there I was surprised to notice that the trainer I was battling Had The name PKMN Trainer. Nothing else. He sent out a level 127 Pinser. My level 80 something Ho-oh took care of it in one hit of a Fire Blast. Next he sent out a level 0 Venonat.
I quickly defeated it and was awarded 0 Exp points.

Sometime after that event I started to notice strange things. When I took mail off of a pokemon and tried to deposit it in the PC I always got this message: "The Mailbox is full!" I looked in my mailbox and sure enough it was. It was full of glitchy, garbled,and untranslatable junkmail. For example: One letter had nothing on it and the name said something like PKMNyk on it while another one had glitch blocks in it. There was even one that crashed my game when I tried to look at it.

When I went to decorate my room I noticed that I had items only available with mystery gift as well as some my gameboy character's mom hadn't bought yet. I had all but a few of the bedroom items. The strangest part was I never did mystery gift with anyone.

Sometime after that I battled PKMN trainer everyday then one day everything changed. I got another trainer Whose name was 9. on the first turn he sent out a level 30 something Cloyster. I beat it in one hit. Then the game text said "9 is about to send out ?????. Will MAX (my character's name.) change pokemon? I pressed B and He sent out a Cloyster At level 30 something but its name was ?????. I can't remember what happend next. I know the game froze but I'm not for sure if The screen said "WAITING" like it does in two player mode or not. some reports have said it has but I can't really remember if it did or not.

My mailbox got crammed full of more glitchy mail. it seemed the more I deleted the more that came appeared. On the plus side I had all the room items including all three big dolls.

I'm not really sure why this glitch happens but whatever the reason it has to do with mystery gift. just to convince you I'm not crazy ther are reports of it on a moderately famous glitch website where you e-mail glitch encounters and they are eventually posted.

I'm apparently not the only one who has had an experience with this glitch so I'm not crazy. I don't want to get into any half cooked theories but I don't know if my theories are any good. This is one theory but I can't test it out unless I find my GBC. Anyone is welcome to test it on their GBC at their own risk:


Here's my theory. I tried Mystery Gift without a partner. (which of course isn't supposed to do anything and was before I knew of the IR connector and how to use it.) now let's suppose I did this around say... a television remote, which also emits infrared light similar to the IR connector on the GBC. Now let's say my GBC's IR Connector picked up the infrared light from the remote and made a mistake reading information given off from the TV remote. The game looks through this data but doesn't pick up the mystery gift item. the game then realizes the information is false which is the reason why mystery gift wasn't loaded. however the game still thinks that the data for the trainer in trainer house was the right one and keeps it on the game. so when the character goes to battle the opponent in trainer house the data from the mystery gift error is loaded just as if mystery gift happend. it may not just be a television remote any waves emitted from electronic objects around the house could be the likely cause. Hmmmmmm. I did try mystery gift next to the computer in the living room maybe waves emmitted from that are the cause.
 

groudonlover

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That was strange...
Very strange...
That has never happened to me, but i am playing in a Phone Emulator, so there is no IR there

BTW: Pinsir is misspelled in the Post...
 
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Oh thanks. I'll fix that at once. But getting to the glitch. This glitch is really rare. I only encountered it twice a long time ago. It hasn't happened since (although I still have glitched mail) Apparently it can be triggered by corrupt mystery gift, turning the power off while saving, Getting Glitched phone numbers (don't ask the guy I last discussed this with probably gamesharked the Phone numbers.) as well as a few other ways as well.
 

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I don't know if this is any help to anyone, but I found a picture of a Missingno.{not sure which one, since I heard there are multiple Missingno.s}and on the backsprite, I saw a figure, kind of like a Mudkip.
missingnounscramble1xx3.png

I highlighted the shape I saw with dark purple.
missingnounscramble1kk8.png

After that I deleted all the other color and got this.
missingnounscramble1mt7.png

After that I changed it to black and gray to make it easier to work with.
missingnounscramble1lh3.png

I deleted all the weird floating pixels and got this.
missingnounscramble1zg9.png

Finally, after cleaning it up a bit, I got this shape.

Some of the floating pixels might have been part of a tail, but I'm not sure.

~Night
 
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Lol that's very interesting.

I've encountered many glitches in my years of playing.
Like when i went to check my Hall of Fame win in Pokemon yellow, my team was just a mew.
The strangest one i have had though was during a Link trade in pokemon silver, i had 4 eevees and two other pokemon. When i went to trade them to my sister on her screen it showed up as 4 celebis a charizard and a blastoise.
 

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I encouted, yet, anther Missingno. and it turned out to be part of random tilesets! No seven Missingno. are the same, only six are exactly the same. I have no pictures to prove it, however. :P
I look closer at the Missingno. I saw and it turns out to be a mix of Route wherever-you-find-him, Lavender and Saffron Cities, and Glitch City! By what this means, Glitch City is at The Safari Zone and the route is slightly easern of it. My idea:
Missingno. travels there from Glitch City whenever you encouter the correct enemy (Yellow idea) and turns out to meet you and likes you so much that it gives you many items! :classic: Nah, that's impossible. There is a much more complicated way.
 
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