3rd Gen strangest thing...

Started by Darth Revan January 3rd, 2005 2:24 PM
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Age 31
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Posted January 17th, 2006
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The strangest thing happened to me today i started a new game im at 2hours so far and i have pokeballs i was searching around in the grass near the start and a charmander appeared is this a glitch or a screwed up ruby version? i mean it it really happened i thought the old pokemon could not appear in ruby...

smithy.boy

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Seen September 8th, 2022
Posted August 10th, 2006
554 posts
19.1 Years
odd....i only thought that was possible on hacks. must be a glitch.
lol i would have caught it, a charmander (evolve twice) and bingo, makes game easier

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Aaron5367

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Yeah that is pretty strange. How old is your game cartrige? That may be the problem because as game cartrages age they get dirty and stuff witch may of been the problem.. And its probly just a one time you lucky person glitch (a.k.a it wont happen agien). Or you may be lyeing... One or the other....

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Well if your friend "played around with it" he may have put in some codes (gameshark,action replay,ect.). and the droping wouldent of done it... everyones droped games before. Ohh well... Just have fun with your charmander....

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Some do some dont here are some examples...

-----never turn off-----
All badges
all pokemon glitched
all pokemon able to catch in wild
(almost everything with all)
----mannually turn off----
always catch (your pokemon here)
float
(dont start with all)

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i reckon your making this up.there is only two ways to get a charmander in sapphire/ruby.unless your friend used some kind of gameshark code.and glitched your game up.

1,use a code.
2,trade it from leaf green or fire red.
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Mr Cat Dog

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Sometimes something goes wrong in the production process of almost any product. It may seem that the chip in the cartridge released Charmander as an available character, instead of one jsut recognised when traded.

Either that, or you're lying, you used GS/AR, or you traded it from FRLG which also counts as lying :P

Kitsune_girl

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Posted November 21st, 2005
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Cartridges can get messed up and glitch like that, it happend to me on some tomagotchi game once. I turned it on and I had every tomagotchi in my hall of fame once, and the ones that I were raising were all glitchy like missingno. I went back to normal though when I turned it on and off...


Also, I know lots of people who have seen a question mark in a ball appear and when they catch it it was a bad egg:\

Any way, Lucky you! Now you can get a Charizard n_n
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Your friend (who wasn't around you at the time) must've used some sort of cheating device on it for a Charmander to pop up. That's really the only explination for it, or like Cat Dog said, you may have gotten a very rare Cart. that just had a messed up chip, and auto-glitched. But most likely your friend used a cheating device. How about you ask that friend if he/she did? :P
Matt the Drat
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Perhaps it was a glitch, Like Missingno or M is on Red/Blue. Perhaps at first, Nintendo let you catch wild charmander when they first started making it, then took it out. Maybe you the lucky one that it didn't happen to. But, Its just a guess...Nothing wrong with that, though.
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Then again it never happened.

You cannot catch any pokemon in places they aren't meant to be without a gameshark.

Simply because each area in the game where you catch pokemon has pre-defined what pokemon are able to be caught there with a percentage on it.

You did not catch Charmander in the wild, at least not without a Game Shark.
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A gameshark messed up your game and it got saved that way

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Every game I'm seeing looks exactly like the same one.
The Gamecube, the 'Station, and the other big name one
Hoggin up my deskspace and my money, givin' no fun.

Round the game display--an end to my dismay:
A little box, a Nokia for me to play.
Its jumpin out at me with off da hook extremity
Gotta pick it up so I can get my gamin' remedy.

I pick up the thing, suddenly my legs get weak.
Feel the power from a thing that looks like a beak.
Lookin' at the buttons I realize what It's sayin'.
I can call my mom and tell her what I'm playin'.

Yo, yo, yo, I'm the muchacho,
Holding a device that looks like a taco.
Tards to the left with food from Morocco,
The very same ones who are idolizing Rocco.

She tells me to stop wasting all my time,
That I should get on wit my life, earn maself a dime.
So I look at my watch to see what the hour is,
But I can't see a fing cause i'm gettin' really dizz-
EE!
Must be because of all the games I been playin',
But the games got me me hooked, I never go strayin',
It's just too easy now, so at home I be stayin'.

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There are times when pokemon that aren't supposed to be caught in a certian area appear by some random glitch that wasn't ment to be. My friend (no cheating device) caught a Lediba in Gold (or whichever one lediba is unobtainable in; I think he had gold), and I have heard of people seeing a pokemon with a value outside of 386 (shows up as a questionmark-like thing). Like MCD said, manufactured things (or any physical object for that matter) can mess up ever once in a while. I'm certian Nintendo didn't intend this, and, while it is possible a gameshark was used, it is not the only possibility. The one question I have is did the charmander show up in pokedex, or not?

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Posted January 17th, 2006
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19.1 Years
Nope it did not show up at all and i also saw a pigey a couple days back i didnt catch it thou cause no use having a stupid little pigey but i am quite thankful for my charmander which evolved and is now lv 39 but the thing is it hardly ever listens to my comands which is really annoying.