An incomplete list of some of my favourite early Pokemon game glitches

konekoling:

If you end an encounter in a draw, the game will behave as if you lost, but the victory jingle will still play anyways.

You can evolve a Pokemon that requires a stone to evolve without using an item by leveling it up in battle, and then finishing the battle with a Pokemon with a hexadecimal identifier equal to the needed stone.

All items intended to quadruple attack accuracy actually quarter it instead. Whoops.

Some of the hidden items in the Japanese releases of Red and Green just have flat-out incorrect coordinates for the itemfinder’s reference, and if you pick up one out of this set of six miscoded items, the other five become unobtainable.

The aforementioned hidden items can, however, somehow be made obtainable again by moving a fossil item out of your inventory.

You can use the storage system to get yourself a party of only fainted pokemon. This results in the player character blacking out four steps after leaving the PC

If you catch a Pokemon that has used transform, via legitimate moveset, use of metronome, or otherwise, the game will just assume it was a ditto once it’s in your possession.

You can end the encounter with the Ghost Marowak without a Sylph Scope by just throwing a Pokedoll at it.

Catching an ‘M with a Hexadecimal identifier of 00 will leave behind an invisible but otherwise Completely Normal Ditto with its previous moveset at level 0 or 80 that needs to be caught or defeated before the battle can properly end. These games have been out for twenty years and we still don’t know why this happens.

You can buy any of the drinks in the Celadon vending machines as long as you have enough to buy a Fresh Water.

Walking around enough with Pikachu off screen in Yellow can just completely destroy the game for some reason.

If you force a glitch Pokemon with a hexadecimal value of FF into your party, the game will treat it as a hybrid of both Charizard and the cancel button. The game treats this whole scenario about as well as you would expect.

Attempting to use the Mew Encounter exploit with a Pokemon with a special stat of over 250 results in encountering a glitch trainer who causes the game to just flip the absolute fuck out when trying to calculate how much money to award you afterwards. This causes the relevant memory poiner to shoot off to god knows where, and as a result it just sets a solid two hundred unrelated hexadecimal values in the game to 99 in the process, filling your party with level 153 Bulbasaur that can only use explosion.

prokopetz:

sexhaver:

1st gen pokemon games are the only video games produced so far with better glitches than Bethesda

Early-generation Pokémon glitches seriously read like something out of the Cthulhu Mythos.

random-beard-man:

robot-thighs:

Really wanting to talk about the thing you’re obsessed with but your friends aren’t into it like

This is too real

nostalgebraist:

faerytxt:

broliloquy:

strongfishwife:

nostalgebraist:

nostalgebraist:

Man, I love glitch Pokemon

Precious gibberish children

Another notable glitch Pokemon is named

She (?) looks like this

and, at 80 feet and 3 inches, is tied with another glitch Pokemon for tallest of all Pokemon.

When encountered, she begins to play an endless glitchy song, which continues until the player resets the game (you can hear it here, but don’t listen with headphones because it includes high-pitched noises)

I’m glad there is a lesbian pokemon glitch who only wants to sing to us forever

If you read this, please take a moment to appreciate the fact that breaking this game in a very specific manner causes you to encounter an 80-foot spire of crimson light that draws you into a pocket of frozen time and surrounds you with eerie music for eternity

Singing lesbian glitch

I was wondering why this post was swamping my notifications again (I have Notification Block on my laptop but I don’t know of a way to get it for the mobile app)

Apparently it is due to this cool fanart!

h33h33h33:

pope-benedict-xvi:

the story behind that fucked-up sollux gif is that i was trying to upload this gif

to tinypic but somehow it got corrupted into this fucking abomination

ITS 4:30 AM AN DI AM CHOKGING ON LAUGHTEWR

namisis:

brilliant-smallfish:

The gods know what you’ve done.

this is the funniest shit i’ve seen for like 3 years

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)