Missingno. Discussion

[Sethster]

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Good News! I may get a Gameboy for Christmas, so I will be able to try these out for real!

Ok, has anyone tried the Mew Glitch? You may already know this, but to properly perform this glitch, a player must have had acquired the HM containing Fly or have a Pokémon that knows Teleport, and must have avoided the Youngster on Route 25 and the Gambler near the underground path, right of Saffron City, until ready to perform the glitch. First, a player must stand above the Gambler so that he is no longer visible. Next they must take a step down at him and quickly press start to open the menu (Note: If the Gambler spots the player the glitch will fail). While the menu is open, Fly to Cerulean City. If this step is performed correctly, the Gambler will spot the player, but the player will fly away right before the Gambler approaches him. Once the player arrives in Cerulean City, they are unable to talk or use the menu. Next, the player must battle the Youngster on Route 24 that was avoided earlier (Note: When going to battle the Youngster, the player must be a few steps away from him so that he walks to the player. Standing right in front of him will cause the game to freeze. The music will still be playing and, if you tried to talk to him, he will face you when you pressed A.). After defeating him, Fly to Lavender Town and walk onto Route 8, this will cause the start menu to pop up. DO NOT DO ANYTHING! Simply exit the start menu. Once you exit, the player will be put into a battle with a Lv. 7 Mew.

Another way is the version in Cerulean City. First, you need a Pokémon that knows Teleport. Then, player must stand above the Youngster so that he is no longer visible. Next they must take a step down at him and quickly press start to open the menu and Teleport to Cerulean City. After that, you will notice that the menu is unusable. Battle the first trainer in the Cerulean City Gym, then head to the Nugget Bridge. When you get to the bridge, the menu will suddenly appear. Press B and Lv. 7 Mew will appear. You can also encounter other pokemon this way.

[Konradix]

Not quite Missingno (maybe rename it to jusr "Pokeglitches"), but yeah. I've done it on both legit cart and rom. Pretty cool glitch for a little kid like me at the time. I wonder if you can get all 151 pokemon with one cart using this method (assuming it's even possibru to do this glitch multiple times). Would certainly be interesting.

There's this other one about skipping past the INVISIBLE PLOT WAL--*shot* in front of Pewter City without beating Brock. Involves saving and resetting bunch of times. I'll edit this and write more later.

[Sethster]

Though you can gameshark your way to the left side of the barrier in Pallet town and encounter pokemon, I don't get why the right side barrier justs crashes the game on you when you cross it.

EDIT: I realize you can't get all 151 pokemon with the Mew Glitch. You can't catch any legendaries besides Mew, no pokemon that evolves twice, like the Weedle, Caterpie, or Dratini eveloution lines. Boo, I wanted to catch a Mewtwo with this glitch...

[Sethster]

IDK if it is against the rules to bump your own topic, I really just wanted to post more pokegods.

Today we have .4 or .4444444444 as our pokegod today. He is alittle dangerous
Quote: (LP Archive) .4 will f*** up your game if you're not careful.

.4's max starting health is 179 and his actual max health by leveling up is 561. He also starts with 96 attack, 209 defense, 96 speed, and 21 special. His Max atk: 290, Max def: 516, Max spd: 290, and Max spl: 140. .4 has very high defence, a level 15 A takes 3 turns to take down the health of .4, even then it still has some health left. It's capture flag is magneton, which means if you have seen one you don't have to look at .4's pokedex file. One thing we all know about glitch pokemon is that the pokemon screen should never be veiwed, neither a pokedex entry. If you do It will crash your game. His first time is Pokemaniac, and he doesn't have a 2nd type. His moves start out with 2 agilities, TM28, and TM29, a nameless move at the top. His moves can also put your the last trainer you fought or your rival's name after every move. TM28 is bug type with 85 attack. Also, His hex is C2, for all you ROM users out there. Plus never use TM29, as it will activate Superglitch and start the TM Trainer effect. Overall TM29 is a pretty useless move, it has no effect on early pokemon like Rattata. Afterwards using the move, of course the TM Trainer effect starts. Sometimes using TM29 can also have a random effect after battle, such as gaining a crap ton of pokemon or having your own pokemon reach a ridiculously high level and then evolving into a random, unrelated pokemon. If the latter happens and you had a good pokemon, say bye to your prized killing machine. As for the other, try avoid going to the pokemon center. Though you gained alot of pokemon though, you actually have zero pokemon in the pokemon center. There's a value in RAM which stores how many Pokemon you have in your party for things like Pokemon Centres; when adding Pokemon to the machine it executes a "subtract one, compare with 0, if not equal do it again" loop. When that value is zero the first subtraction circles over to 255, so it ends up drawing 256 Pokeballs (most of which end up being glitchy crap at the top of the screen due to overrunning the end of an array). This is the same glitch that causes the kill screen in Pac-Man. Since you can't look at your pokemon screen, you can actually use Bill's PC to veiw them. Bill's PC works differently, so you can actually fiddle with arbitrary bits of system memory. You can get Level 0 nameless pokemon that are also Missingno, pokemon that have zeros on all stats and levels, etc.

[*Emelia K. Fletcher]

Thoughtful/interesting posts warrant a bump. Copypasting a block of text does not.

[Sethster]

There was no copy and pasting in that post at all, I just reworded some parts and added my own words.
(The quote was the only thing I actually took.)

[*Emelia K. Fletcher]

You can't just "reword some parts and add your own words" without you having actually taken something - I highly doubt "it executes a "subtract one, compare with 0, if not equal do it again" loop" and "If the latter happens and you had a good pokemon, say bye to your prized killing machine" were anything but quoted since the context is iffy and a solid block of text does itself no favours

[Zunar]

You should rewrite it in your own words, not just copy-paste and edit. I know it's a copy-paste because I've read that article many times over, don't try to deny it. Main thing that gives it away is all the statistical information, like what EmKay pointed out. You should've just written a little summary in your own words and linked to the article, something like this:

.4 is a dangerous pokegod that can eff up your game if you're not careful. He has a glitched moveset containing two agilities, and two "TM" moves. TM28 is a powerful bug-type move whereas TM29 is basically useless except for the fact that it activates the "TM Trainer" effect and affects your Pokemon in various ways, such as giving you a lot of random ones or evolving your own into random unrelated pokemon. The reason for this is that TM29 actually makes you have 0 Pokemon, which screws up the Pokemon Center healing loop, causing it to instead draw 256 Pokeballs (which most end up as glitchy garbage). If you look at the Pokemon screen or a Pokedex entry after using TM29, your game will crash, but you can use Bill's PC to look at your Pokemon. They're pretty useless though, most of them are either at level 0, have zeroes on their stats, etc.

See the difference? Much cleaner, and it pretty much summed up that whole block of text in half the words.