Any experience on cheating/glitches in the games?

[PageEmp]

What the title says.

As for me, almost never because how the fuck do I buy an actual action replay or whatever?

Although, do things like trading items such as evolution items that normally can't be found in the game until later or postgame count as cheating? I personally fon't count it as cheating at all because so many of them come way too late. I do it quite often myself.

But as for cheating in emulators, well, in a ROM hack that has no grinding areas, maybe, but overall, it's very very rare.

So for you guys?

 

[pkmin3033]

I've used an Action Replay to gain access to things I should have been able to access in the DS games - the event Legendaries in DPPt, the GB sounds from the start in HGSS, Challenge Mode without that ridiculous transfer mechanic in Black 2, etc. But otherwise…not really? I never really felt the need to speed up grinding, get items, make my Pokemon shiny, etc.

As far as I'm concerned it's not cheating to circumvent arbitrary restrictions though. Gating off Legendaries behind limited time events is a stupid practice.

 

[Nah]

I remember using an Action Replay at some point during gens 4 and 5. In DPPt I know I used it to get the event items for Darkrai/Shaymin/Arceus so I could complete the National Dex for the first and only time. In Gen 5 I just remember using it to spawn shiny Zekroms and Reshirams, but sometimes the game would generate a shiny Ferrothorn instead.

Way back when I was a kid, I used a Gameshark on my Yellow, though the only thing I can remember doing with it was teaching my Pikachu Recover....for whatever reason

 

[Zeostar]

I used two cheats on Emerald. One was an EXP code cheat, and the other changed the spawns of Wild Pokemon.

My Cradily I used through the main story turned into a bad egg. I think the second cheat caused it.

 

[ReKoil]

I remember doing the MissingNo glitch in gen 1 way back when I was a kid.
Other than that nothing comes to mind.
Never used Action Replays or cheat code stuff.

 

[Devalue]

Performed the Missingno glitch in Generation 1 as well. Circumvented the limited nature of TMs. Attempted to influence Pokeball captures with A and Up, if you wish to count that.

Recalls no other abuse of glitches or cheating. Would not count trading over items or Pokemon before their natural appearance.

 

[Sydian]

i used an action replay in gen 4 to get 99 of all the TMs and i still have them lol i find it incredibly useful since i like to replay plat and HGSS and it's just. easy to trade a TM over that might be in the post game or something. like if i'm just playing to have fun who really cares if i hacked items or game corner coins or tms or whatever at the end of the day. i didn't like to hack in pokemon tho, that always felt meh to me unless it was a pokemon i could never get. i didn't have wifi that worked with my DS in the early gen 4 days, didn't have a TRU near me, and earlier than that, the events just never came to where i lived. so a hacked shaymin didn't bother me. but like hacking in something that i could have just traded myself i was like meh. but to each their own really, do what you want to do. i just didn't like when people would do crazy illegal shit and use it against others lol.

as far as glitches go, i didn't like activating them as a kid cause they scared me and by they i just mean missingno lol. i didn't like it messing up my hall of fame bc i was a kid and i worked hard for that and now the record was fucked up. i did use a glitch in silver once to get all the starters, too. it's easy to perform and i felt kind of bad but also not rly. i had a lot of fun playing the game with all three starters and showing off my team. other than that though, i don't think i played around with any other glitches. i never did tweaking in gen 4 either, though i wanted to try. i was too afraid of the consequences of fucking up tho haha.

 

[Wuzzy]

When I played Diamond I used an action replay to catch a bunch of random Pokemon with the cheat that let's you catch any Pokemon you want in the wild. In my Pokemon Battle Revolution file, you'll just see a bunch of random Pokemon found in Stark Mountain inside Master Balls. I also wanted 99 of every single TM because let's face it, TMs are so freakin scarce it's almost unfair.

Though just to save myself time, I do use the glitch that automatically spawns shaking grass anytime I do a challenge run of BW1/2. I've realized a lot of the challenge runs I do in those 2 games require me to do a lot of grinding so, I like to save myself the effort.

Other than that, I really didn't really use cheats. I didn't own an action replay (I borrowed the only one I used from a friend). I also never knew about any sort of glitches to exploit like the Battle Tower cloning glitch in Emerald I found out during High School.

 

[Corveone]

I did use cheats in some of my challenge playthroughs while using emulators, but only to fix dumb mechanics and save time on stuff that you can do legally, it would be just a boring waste of time that you can use on way more productive or fun things:

-Wild Pokémon Nature modifier, so that I don't have to catch the same Pokémon 20 times until I get one with a good nature.
-EV modifier, so that I don't have to defeat 252 wild Zubat to max out a Pokémon's speed EVs.

Other than that, I don't like using cheats to give myself things that I couldn't normally obtain, such as Pokémon, TMs, or items that you're meant to obtain later.

For trade evolution Pokémon, there are tutorials on how to change them to level-up/item+level-up if you're playing on emulator. In console playthroughs, I just avoided using Pokémon that evolve via trade because even if I could trade I never liked having traded Pokémon on my team.

As for glitches, never used them, I don't even know about them except for a few well-known from gen 1.

 

[Sheep]

I had a GameShark back in the GSC days and used it to death, and it often glitched out my game/broke things lol. That breaking things due to glitches trend continued but to a lesser extent in DPPt when I got an AR, I really wanted to complete the dex, was super hard since I didn't have working wifi at the time. Gen IV was the last time I ever cheated in my official copies of the games... but when I emulate I sometimes turn on 100% catch rate, just makes it so much easier when I want to quickly capture things and go along with my challenge/millionth run of x old game.

Though just to save myself time, I do use the glitch that automatically spawns shaking grass anytime I do a challenge run of BW1/2.

that seems incredibly useful

 

[colours]

i remember my action replay days and i purely used it so my character could walk through pretty much any terrain. what would the practical benefit be to this, you wonder? well, i was a kid, so i didn't put any real thought into this, but it was sure as heck fun!

 

[Duck]

Here are some reasons I break out something like PkHeX / Cheat codes:

- Undo framerate caps
- Bypass trade only evolutions / evolutions gated to the postgame
- Change starter (in monotypes / other challenges of the like)
- Bypass needing Pokémon for HM purposes (either by using something like WTW or just hacking like two Pokémon in with all HMs)

Mostly do deal with game annoyances, really.

 

[Roni]

I PKHex favorable natures onto my main team lmao. I just can't be bothered to grind for it.

 

[Lucifer]

I bought a Gameshark for gens one and two back in 2001/2002 because I wouldn't hear of the gen one Mew glitch for another few years and believed it was the only way to get a Mew.

As for me, almost never because how the fuck do I buy an actual action replay or whatever?

Yeah, it was a bitch to find. I was 13-14, therefore not old enough to shop on the internet, and had just begun to get into the internet so didn't really know about that. Ergo I basically searched every store with an electronics section that I went to with my mom. I don't remember exactly how long it took but it felt like a while. I think I was beginning to call it a lost cause when I found one in K-Mart.

Although I had gotten it for a Mew, I ended up going nuts with it. In both gens.

I also performed some of the glitches that did not require a device; glitch city, cool ditto, and of course the everyone's favorite, the Old man/MissingNo.

 

[Fairy]

Only after I've beaten the game legit and only in older titles (anything pre-BW). I liked having fun messing with Glitch City and Item duplication type stuff and using Game Sharks and PKheX to steroid my team to hell, get a living shiny dex, bypass annoying mechanics, and just break things for fun.

It was innocent back then, hacking Pokémon lol.

 

[Amore]

I attempted to use the void glitch in Diamond...and failed. Other than that, I've sometimes used the cloning glitch in Emerald Battle Tower but no experience with cheat devices...yet.

 

[agravedigger]

I never had an action replay, but I sometimes use emulator hacks like infinite rare candies. some days I just want a good story out of a ROM hack so I play normally until I come to a part which can be cleared with some grinding, but I just choose to go leisurely and take out the candies :p

 

[Orion☆]

Not really? As far as I can remember, I never used any glitches or cheat codes to complete the main story, in any game. I never owned an Action Replay or anything of the sort either.

I did, however, toy around with a Crystal ROM to be able to meet the infamous "Glitch City ghost." I even got that ghost to "transform" into different characters in the game by changing the cheat code! It was one of the most hilarious things I've ever seen.

 

[RadEmpoleon]

My copy of Pokemon Diamond was on this game cartridge thing called a TTDS. It looks like a regular DS game cartridge, except it's white instead of dark gray, and it has a micro-USB port on the top. It had that and 60-something other games on it, and many of them had some amount of cheats (kinda like an action replay, I think). Diamond had a lot of cheats I could turn on and off when I pleased- walk through walls, make all wild encounters shiny Pokemon, max out any item, like Rare Candies and TMs, make any Pokemon appear in the wild at either level 1, 10, 50, or 99. (Random fact- did you know that every time you encounter a wild Dialga/Palkia or Arceus, it'll do the little cutscene and play its battle theme?) There might have been other things too, but these were the main ones I used. My brother also had a TTDS and he showed me how to turn them on and change them. I was at around the 4th gym and pretty much always left the cheats on. A completely unintentional and unexplainable glitch happened to my starter Empoleon- it started off as a regular Empoleon, but somehow it became shiny. I still have no idea how, 8+ years later.

As expected of young me messing around with the glitches, I was fascinated by glitches in video games. I remember I'd watch videos of people showing glitches in Pokemon games. I was bummed when I found out there weren't nearly as many glitches in any of the other games I played. Other than Diamond, I haven't done much glitching in any games. I have done those PKHex things- in White 2 (before the GTS shut down) and Sun. For White 2, I did it for Pokemon I was too lazy to catch myself and trade evos. I made some really stupid things- I gave a Lopunny the ability Multitype, but I think it only works for Arceus so she basically has a useless ability. A Conkeldurr with the ability Compound Eyes and all one hit KO moves, named Conkelderp. A Wonder Guard Drapion (which I wish I thought of Wonder Guard Spiritomb or Sableye at the time...) All the Hitmons with the original trainer's name as "Douche" (I was an immature kid) For Sun, I only used it a few times, for battle-ready mons I can't breed myself. (Trying to breed for perfect IVs and the correct nature is too difficult for me, and I'm lazy)

There was also a GTS exploitation glitch back in gen 5 where you could get a random Pokemon out of the GTS. IDK how to explain it since it's been a while, but I think it took out a random Pokemon that was being offered to trade. I only remember getting a Miltank, a Registeel, and 2 Regigigas. Sometimes I got the same Pokemon twice. I also remember a Youtuber who offered out hacked perfect EVs and IVs legendary Pokemon. (That's the only reason I have any of the legendaries or mythicals in my Pokedex tbh.) I can tell some of them are hacked because when I was transferring all of my Pokemon up to Y, some Pokemon that had illegal moves and such weren't allowed to go up. (Things like my Wonder Guard Drapion are forever trapped in White 2.) They all had legal moves and abilities, but I noticed the catch location for the Pokemon was the "illegal" part: Kanto legendaries said they were from "Kanto" instead of "traveled through time and space from the Kanto region", the same goes for the other regions.

Also I don't think this counts as a glitch, but the internet can still be accessed through a certain method, even though Wifi services for DS systems were discontinued in 2014. So the GTS can still be accessed today in 2022, and you can get old Mystery Gifts from 2013.