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The Question of the Day is my way to facilitate community discussion to help members ponder the unanswered questions of the world that are somehow relating to the hobby. Questions are many times open ended and up to interpretation. Feel free to post your thoughts in as much or as little detail as youâd like.
Todayâs Question: QotD: What was the best glitch you found while playing the games?
Helpful considerations: Fishing in statues, unlimited masterballs, dozens of variation of missingno, gameshark, skipping rocket headquarters, what was the âbestâ when you played?
The best glitch i found through old AOL forums and chatrooms were the 6th item glitch. Instant level 100 âmon with rare candies! Of course the instructions were printed out, 21 steps this way, fly and talk to old man, face the door, walk only in straight lines, surf, redo it all if you were interrupted. People say life was simpler then never had to follow chatroom instructions to maybe find a game glitch.
Of course I once had the worst glitch which was duplicating pokemon by shutting off one game mid-trade. Found by accident when I was trading a naturally caught tauros for a haunter in hopes that i got a gengar and they got a tauros in their pokedex, we were to trade back right away, their gameboy died midtrade and i panicked and shut mine off too only to find that we both were stuck with haunters and tauros was gone forever .
Missingno was the best of course but the Gyarados Mimic trick defined my revisitation of GSC. Pretty insane to be able to produce a shiny Ditto like that, and in a colorless game where there are no shinyâs no less.
Itâs amazing how we all knew about this back in the day, pre-internet. Well at least no internet like we have today and no-one I knew had internet at home.
I didnât find it myself but I love the void glitch in Diamond & Pearl! Being able to get Shaymin and Darkrai when they were supposed to be unreachable was really cool
Oh good question! I donât know if it has a name and I canât find it online (so if someone finds a picture that would be great) but itâs one I found myself as a kid.
Are you ready for the detailed instructions?!
On the start up screen to Red/Blue just mash all the buttons together at one time and it causes the screen to go all different colours.
Ha! Thatâs clever I donât think I ever done that. Although, I wish I did! Thanks for the pallet name that helped me find a picture of exactly what I meant! Updated my post now, thanks!
MissingNo was the best since I could get all my Pokemon up to level 100 easily. My favorite though was the Mew glitch in Red/Blue. I found a guide for it online and it seemed like it was made up because the steps it had me go through were so random but I wanted a Mew so figured Iâd try it.
On route 8 go to where the gambler is on the west side and set up your character to where if you go down one step youâll enter into a trainer battle. Press down and immediately press start and use a Pokemon to fly to Cerulean City. The gambler will then have the â!â pop up above his head but before he starts moving your character flies away.
Travel north to Route 24 and battle the youngster whose only Pokemon is a Level 17 Slowpoke. This requires that you have skipped this character when going through this route previously and itâs very important that you donât battle any other trainers. After defeating the youngster fly to Lavender Town.
Head west to Route 8 and when youâre at the boundary of Lavender Town and Route 8 you will enter into a wild encounter with a level 7 Mew.
The first time I pulled it off I couldnât believe it. I didnât think it would work but it clearly did. Also, itâs not specific to Mew either. The Pokemon that appears is dependent on what Pokemon you defeated last so I think you can also get Gengar and Alakazam with this method.
Ive looked into the breakdowns of some of these glitches and most of them depended on specific byte numbering in the games code to have certain glitches appear. All the seemingly random steps were made to set up the games coding to be at specific ending digits. The interesting part was if you understood what would get those same digits, you could do a multitude of different steps and get the same result as long as you were able to set up the trigger coding correctly.
I canât remember the username right now but thereâs a guy on youtube who goes through a bazillion different Missingno permutations, very cool channel.
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