1st Gen Mew, Mew, so much Mew!

Started by Mr Cat Dog December 3rd, 2012 2:11 PM
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Truefax time: About two weeks ago, I sat next to someone on the train who was playing Pokemon Blue on his GBA SP. So retro, I know! While I was looking over his shoulder and at his game, I noticed that he had a Mew in his team. All of this got me thinking about the lil' critter's place in the first series of games. Most of us remember the Mew glitch, but how many people actually used it? Or did you just use an Action Replay to program yourself one? Or did you manage to get yourself to a Nintendo Event? (I remember one tie-in with the first movie; I think it involved a training card as well...) Or did you not even care about Mew? Overrated lil' thing... Which is it to be? :D
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I never knew the mew glitch as a kid unfortunately, I knew a friend who had one via trading, so he cloned it on his silver and then traded it along to me. Unfortunately that game file I had is corrupted, it used to have a whole team of mews! To be honest, the main reason I restarted my pokemon blue the other day was to do the glitch my self. I fudged it a few times but when I finally got it, I was elated.
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I always heard it was under the truck that you could push away with strength when you'd beaten the Indigo League but I never managed to do that obviously. But my friend and I did find out about the Mew glitch in Blue about a year ago and we actually got it! Not much we could do with it though haha.
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This is the very first time that I heard this Mew glitch stuff.
Now I'm happy that I can finally have one of my favorite pokemon without any action replay.

As for answering the question, I never had a legit Mew in any of my teams, but I once used an AR to catch a Mew.
I didn't felt anything by doing this method, so I ended up releasing the Mew.

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As a kid, I never knew how to do the Mew glitch, but I obtained one via trade from a friend, whose cousin did. It wasn't until a few years ago that I did learn it. Now I make a note to catch a Mew every time. At least in challenges, it makes a good HM slave.

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I always do the Mew glitch when I play though a first gen game c:
I also didn't know about it as a youngin, however my one friend had one, but never told me how he got it. I didn't learn about it until much later when I was researching glitches.
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Once I found out about the Mew Glitch during the Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald generation, I decided to experiment with this glitch by downloading a ROM of both Red and Blue and performed it. I've always wondered as a child how to get Mew because I saw it in the first movie, but it didnt phase me enough to get it though.


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To be honest, I always used the glitch. Then I went through the rest of the game using only Mew.
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I never knew about the glitch. I had a gameshark, I just used that. I didn't really like Mew (not as a kid, not now), so I never really used it that much.

That said, I did discover Missingno without even knowing about it (I even remember exactly where I was when I did it). I wasn't able to reproduce it though because I didn't know how I did it, so nobody believed me until years later. I think that's worth a few points.
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I got Mew legitimately for Yellow... somehow. Toys 'R Us or, geez, something. Maybe it was at some event at a mall. Well, whatever it was legit.

When I learned about the Mew glitch, I used it during a quick run through Blue, and got two of 'em. Those old games were the home of some really nifty exploits, I must say.

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I didn't know about the glitch when I was a kid but I bought one for $5 from a friend that got it from an event. Both of us knew the Missingno/Duplication glitch but that was the extent of our glitch knowledge. I actually have a legit Mew from an event on my Platinum, moving it to Black 2 soon. I never reset my Red because it has a complete Pokedex. I also have no way to complete that Dex again so I won't be resetting it.

I really like Mew and think it's very underrated. It can learn ANY move and can Transform like Ditto. You send out Mew when battling a buddy and they never know what it can do. On a side note regarding why I like it outside of gameplay, Ditto comes from Mew and Ditto is my favorite Pokemon.
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I only found out about it a few months back and only used it in pokemon yellow for the 'dex data.. I never really understood the merits of having a Mew on my team until I got one on my HG version. (Yes, I had it hacked to cause random encounters. No, I don't even participate online so it's ok in my eyes!).. Now I think Mew is my most overused Pokemon cause I taught it Thunderbolt, Flamethrower, Ice Beam and Psychic.. It is pretty underrated tho :D

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Wow... I remember Mew. Got him legit through a mall event. Don't remember which game he's on though. Should go find these games again and see if the nickle size batteries in them still alive.
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About 5 years ago, I learned about the Mew glitch and I performed it in Yellow, unfortunately, I lost my Yellow cartridge not too long after I got Mew. I'd love to get another one, but right now I no way of getting on the GTS and I refuse to hack my game using a Gameshark.
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I learned about the Mew glitch when I was absolutely addicted to Gold/Silver. I was at a summer camp thing and the only other kid who liked Pokemon mentioned it, that he had it written down. Unfortunately he didn't realise that I actually HAD Yellow until the last day so I couldn't get the glitch info from him.

Since that was years ago, now that I can use YouTube to find out how to do it it's no problem. I stupidly erased my file so that I could get a Mew, and typically I got bored around Mount Moon. Which is a shame. If I get around to playing Yellow again someday, I'll likely try to make the glitch work, anyway.

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I never did it in Red or Blue, but I always did the one in Cerulean City in Yellow. That Mew would stay for the duration of the game because I was stubborn and didn't want to replace it with something useful.
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I never cared for Mew, when i was a kid i didn't knew the glitch, but otherwise i was a lonely player, nobody to trade, so i could never complete the pokédex with my original blue version. When i played a rom on my emulator, i tried it out and found out that the glitch worked and it was true, and a friend of mine told me there were other glitches and ways to obtain Mew, but never tried them.
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