Researching MissingNo Glitch in Pokemon
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- We are using an emulator to research what triggers MissingNo and come up with a hypothetical story how one could have found and analyzed this glitch.
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He showed us the missingno with a mew just to flex
Ikr where do you get mew? Never seen it done.
@@Eluderatnight there are guides out there. You can get one (even 2) with a glitch or you can use an editor for the rom file
@@Eluderatnight the trick I found and used involved walking in front of a trainer and hitting pause and teleporting with Abra. I thought it was a load of crap because you can't input move + pause on an emulator. Months later I was curious, pulled out a gameboy and tested it and was shocked when it worked.
@@Eluderatnight You can get it with the exact same glitch that spawns Missingno. You just have to have the right characters in your name.
@@Eluderatnight NO NO NO you guys are all wrong.
The REAL way to get Mew is to get surf and strength before losing access to the S.S. Anne boat.
Then instead of getting on the boat, you surf to the side.
Then you use strength on a weird van that's there, and it will move and Mew will appear from under the van.
Trust me I'm an officer of the law. I can confirm.
MissingNo. was a huge influence on me as a kid, pretty sure it's the main reason I became so interested in coding and hacking as a kid. It was a lot of peoples first exploit.
Huge agree for my case, not just that, it also got me accustomed to binary/assembly/C and such, meanwhile others were hating them, I was able to work fine! I really am glad that I saw it as a kid!
Nice Dream Theatre profile photo btw
Me to.
Well said. I never thought about the impact of that + gameshark
Same here. As soon as i discovered this glitch i lost my virginity the next day. Thats how powerfull this glitch is!
“Your intelligent friend is a NERD”
Sike, I _am_ the intelligent friend
neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerd
@@bigmistqke @Technoblade joined the game.
this part got me lmao
Hahaha and then even bigger nerds
4:48 - "Now, it doesn't seem too farfetched..."
[does not show an image of Farfetch'd]
"My disappointment is immeasurable... and my day is ruined."
"Reality is often disappointing"
I'm too busy thinking about the "keys" that belong to the "man"
Just wanted to note, in case someone wants to know, the youtuber 'Retro Game Mechanics Explained' has uploaded a video recently about why missingno looks the way it looks. I find these indepth analyses quite interesting.
Leon M another great channel to check out is missingnoxpert. He has his stuff unlisted but you can find it in the community tab of his channel. It’s great stuff! Here is his video on the old man glitch: ua-cam.com/video/-Lrq4smiAzE/v-deo.html
14:47 "(...) but for some reason, the tutorial of the Old Man writes our player's name exactly into that spot (...)"
It might be that for the purposes of the tutorial, the Old Man takes over as the player character and the 'real' character name has to be temporarily saved somewhere. One could actually check this with a similar analysis - checking which region the player name is written to at the start of the game and then looking up whether the tutorial writes "OLD MAN" into that region.
Good theory! Could also confirm if Prof oak does the same in the very first patch of grass.
Wait... so if the game saves the player characters data to an unknown location and later on the game reads that as instructions on what Pokémon shows up at that weird shore line, does that mean we kind catch ourselves if we catch missingno?
Well kinda, you catch a pokemon whose tipe and level depends on your name, so I bet you could actually cheese the game into spawning whatever pokemon you want there by simply naming yourself some very specific set of numbers.
@@eddycolangelo I thought the same thing someone should try that lmao
@@eddycolangelo Bulbapedia has a table showing what Pokemon and trainer fights you'll get depending on what characters you put in the third, fifth, and seventh slots of your name. But you can't enter numbers into the name select, so this is all you can get from this glitch. m.bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Old_man_glitch
Showing you own the console and the game before using the emulator: smart
Could just be using a flash cart.
It does actually work, we did it as kids when the game was just out!
Rare candy cheat
He owned Blue, emulated Red. 😂
Will this bug works on legendary
retro game mechanics explained just made a video about this too!!
the crossover that shall not happen
That was an amazing video! I surely recommend you to watch it.
Better watch it if you are curious why the character is look like that.
nope. it was about the appearence of glichy pokemon, and pokemon in general
@@ОлексійКупранець yeah
When my 6 year old self learnd about this glitch suddenly nothing was impossible anymore. But what really blows my mind is how the mew glitch was discovered. This was black magic for my 6 year old self. There's no way someone just did all the steps by accident .
Ive seen a few videos on this now and I just wanted to say thanks, this one is really well explained to someone who "appreciates programming" but with no hands on experience. I can follow in simple logic what is happening, and it is fascinating.
Your videos on first generation Pokemon glitches are amazing! I've been learning about all sorts of gen one glitches since I was 11-12 and already know quite a bit about how they work, but all of your videos always add to what I already know. On top of that, you always frame and present the information in a very engaging way! Thank you for your hard work and the effort you put in to creating narratives for us to follow! :)
0:35 Is it Ben Eater's 8-bit Computer-on-a-Breadboard ?
I think so
Yeah built it in a series of livestreams
Visit his Twitch-Channel or LiveOverflow2 for the 8-Bit breadboard computer.
I was wondering the same thing haha
I have a slightly different theory on how the Old Man Glitch was discovered. I think the weird Pokemon on the coast would have initially come from the Pokemon Mansion. I remember my first experience with that coast was running into random Fire-types in the water, since I came out of the Mansion and went right to the coast to catch Water Pokemon.
Then the Old Man could come in if people thought it had something to do with the Pokemon you encountered. Since he finds a wild Weedle, someone may have thought that that might trigger finding Weedles on the coast. Then they obviously got the really strange encounters.
the sadly easiest and most obvious answer is that a QA tester leaked it after launch
@@kevin-bf4ww There are much easier answers. Namely, that the Old Man Glitch is NOT the only way to find Missingno. on Cinnabar Island. In fact, there's an easier, albeit one-time method that is much more likely to be discovered by accident: trade with the NPC that asks for a Raichu in the Lab, then go to the Cinnabar coast. You will be able to find Level 80 Missingno.s
@@kevin-bf4ww I mean, someone might be looking for how to get a legendary, they talk with the old man, they leave the encounter because they dont want to go through it again, and then they find missingno
back in the day we discovered the name of the character you make changes the over level 100 pokemon that appears with missingno, specifically the first letter - quite interesting looking back
This is a PERFECT video on explaining reversing, and bug hunting generally. It's general enough to not require specific knowledge, and taught using a popular approachable topic while still being specific enough to understand and learn what is being covered.
Excellent! I'll be saving this to my "RE" playlist to share with others interested in reversing and other topics requiring learning about the functioning of a piece of code.
Love how we know so much about missingno, we're now at a point where we're researching how we found the first glitch that found it.
Guess everyone's talking about MissingNo? I first saw it w/ Retro Game Mechanics Explained few days ago, and now you!
(that's called plagiarizing)
@@Michael-cg7yz ??? these videos are obviously very different, with the only common thing being missingno, the rgme video is more about why it manifests in the way it does. Unless you were making a joke, in which case it was a shitty joke
@@Provoxin Exactly. I came here to check this out since this is one of my two favorite YT channels, the other one being RGMechEx. The two videos have substantially different content, and I really love the two complementing explanations!
@@rayredondo8160 we must find a third to complete the trifecta!
@@Michael-cg7yz Unfounded accusation is tantamount to shitposting
I love your creative editing style, with the little drawings that it make more clear what you try to explain!
I remember finding Missingno at Seafoam Island's Coast. It was how a classmate teached.
I also remember catching it and it was water/flying type. Then training, I leveled it up by 1 and it evolved into a Kanghaskan level 61.
Sane thing happend to my younger brother
This youtuber did such an intensive and comprehensive research. I cant leave this video without clicking the thumbs up button.
13:27 For a moment I was secretly hoping for an extra S to show up 😂
Super nice video! I really enjoy the Pokémon videos ;)
This was very interesting! Thank you for making this video, I'd love to see more of this in the future :)
Just wanted to congratulate you on the immersive amount of research you have done! I watch plenty of UA-cam videos a day and I think it is safe to say this is one of the few videos I've ever liked. Keep up the good work and your comprehension on the scientific method and ability to research is amazing!
This is an explanation I heard about on tiktok where as the old man is turned into your character, your actual character is stored in the memory. Turns out your actual character data is stored next to the code where wild pokemon spawns. The coast is the one place where your name data is not refreshed. So by going there after talking to the old man, you have a chance to encounter impossible pokemon and missingNo
I remember fighting that guy that did this on my gameboy because i thought he broke my game...
I miss the 90s...
It was cool and amazing how it spread with no social internet means.
Weren't forums just proto social media? That's how I found out about it as a kid.
Exactly what I was thinking... I remember being like 12 years old when this glitch was spreading like wild fire
I mean, we all used gamefaq and similar websites then.
4:48 It doesn't seem too Farfetch'd to experiment more with it
Oh damn R/woosh totally missed that 😂😂
@@Burn377 what have i missed?
@@lugui i think he meanssss that he missed the joke
@@furball_vixie oh, makes sense
@@lugui yea it's been a good 20 years since I played Pokemon 😂
Theory time~
(Keep in mind I’m no coding expert or anything like that-)
The water must have its own code for what kind of pokemon you can catch in the area (like shown in the vid around 14:00 -ish I think). However, due to some development or coding mishap, that one coast doesn’t share the same area code as the rest of the water, and instead shares it with the land.
Because you can’t catch any pokemon on the actual land of cinnabar island, it doesn’t update the code when you fly to it.
So, with the area code being from the Old Man’s encounter (a place that you can never actually access, and a place that probably doesn’t have any actual Pokémon attached to it; remember, it’s kind of like a pre-scripted event) the game freaks out a bit and instead loads a glitched pokemon. MissingNo.’s Pokédex numbed probably comes into play here (which is “00” I believe) as it would make sense for a area code that wasn’t ever supposed to be accessed to have a default of 0 or to be set to 0.
In fact, it’s likely that the area code only exists solely for the Old Man’s little training tutorial against a wild pokemon.
If you have a “wild” encounter, but you ONLY want a very specific pokemon to spawn and don’t want anything having the chance of breaking it, why not create an area where no Pokémon can spawn? Of course, the area would probably have to let SOME pokemon spawn, otherwise it wouldn’t (in code) have a reason to exist, so.... let’s set it at zero!
Until someone realized some easier way to just put that darn caterpie in the foreground and have it override whatever tried to spawn, but they didn’t want to risk it and left that area in anyways.
So basically, everything adds up and eventually overflows and spawns MissingNo. On that coast there.
Note: I wrote this before finishing the video, so I apologize for any repeats or something of what was already stated.
Edit: ok never mind I guess my theory is just exactly what was already said. Oops :T
Edit 2: spelling is hard.
You are a really talented nerd. I enjoyed listening to you, keep going with more game bugs! 🙆👍
In Pokemon Emerald there are a lot of special event locations that you're not supposed to access even though they are programmed into the game. This series of videos motivated me to hack my way into some of those maps using the in game glitches which was a lot of fun :D
From my exp. as i was just 4-6 years old, you describe the finding of that big very accurate how my sister, brother and me found it. We innocently thought that that was just a special coastline for Ponyta´s, and also we found Missing.No but our big sister prohibited us to catch it, because she thought it corrupted our last savefile.
That’s cool that you all shared 1 game and cooperated.
@@cocomunga lets say we manage Not to kill each Other ;)
Excellent videos ! Keep going my friend 😇
Really loving the analysis of interesting Pokemon glitches from both you and stacksmashing. These videos are so fascinating to me. Thanks for taking the time to make them!
Thank you by thinking out loud, the progress of finding the address was really impressive and inspiring!!
Wow such cliffhanger.
Great video visualizing something that others have covered. Your way of showing it side by side with the memory getting changed is really nice. Looking forward to the video on that 6th item.
Never knew it was possible to debug like that.
Enjoyed going through your thought process👍🏽
Can't help but notice the parallels between your video and actual academic research. Great video!
Very well made video, I hope you continue with this philosophy of showing how it can be figured out because it’s so interesting
Thinking a bit more about the fact that there's a difference between land and water pokemon in memory sounds reasonable. That way you can handle pokemon in grass and pokemon in water in the same zone differently, what can be neccessary when you start fishing. 🤔
Yeah land-tiles and water-tiles
Maybe for accident they removed tiles that were previously land and changed it to water and forgot to change the zones
@@donverga As far as I remember from other videos, that's the reason, the tiles right at the shore don't count as water, they are due to a bug somehow treated as land.
I found it randomly when I was a kid. Started off with a level 170 something Mewtwo which was kinda scary as it is. Then bam, a level 0 "M". That glitchy amalgamation popping up with a Zapdos cry gave me fucking nightmares as a kid.
That is the one thing I will miss about childhood, I was more easily scared.
So videogames would scare the sh** out of me.
It gave the stories an extra level of depth that I will never get back.
I had this stupid educational laptop toy that had a spelling checker in it. It had a tiny dictionary and would tell you if a word you entered was in the dictionary. I was playing with it one night when it glitched or something and the display turned into random characters. Gave me nightmares lol
Lvl 170 mewtwo?
@@audermarspiguet6127 he's not lying. Do the glitch. But instead of fleeing, battle it. It will copy whatever pokemon your using but be glitches. Catch it. Then use all the rare candies on it. It should be able to lvl 215 or so before resetting your level back to normal. I maxed out a marowak to max level and gave it as many calcium and power ups. It was fun as a kid.
I was so scared too. Lol
I remember of my heart almost popping out off my mouth
This was so much more informative, than all other explanations out there. Very well done!
MissingNo Glitch in Pokemon Red when I played it was one of the first things that got me into game hacking and it's lead to my ultimate career now in InfoSec. Also, GameShark. And funny thing is I had it happen the same way as you, during the bus ride to boy scout's summer camp a long time ago, some kid sat next to me and saw me playing and we started talking after he saw me playing and then the rest was history. I also have fond memories of hacking the PS1 too.....great beautiful times.
I'm glad this video makes me more understand how does this glitch gets replicated, easy to understand and explained very well. Thanks for the video. :D
Man I spent years trying to figure this out, ever since I learned about python it led me down a rabbit hole that landed on this channel. Thanks!
i literally found this myself :) we didnt have internet back then or money for strategy guides, we played and played, and when this first occured we didnt even find the missing no rather we found lvl 200+ pokemon, we kept doing this and finally we noticed a missing no. was very cool.
I absolutely love this video! The nostalgia mixed with hacking is inspiring!
I learned a lot about Unity game file formats just by compiling many nearly-empty "test games" with different project settings, then comparing the compiled outputs with a hex editor. Glad to see a trick involving a similar mindset finally getting some light.
It's also the way the Cheat Engine tutorial teaches you to find the memory addresses you desire to edit, too.
I like the way how you explain this way of decoding and such. Interesting.
This is a fantastic format! Thanks for a fun learning experience.
Retro Game Mechanics Explained has made a video why missingno looks like it does. Also he left some information out to what all is effected, but i hope you can find all the effects encountering missingno has!
Came to say this. Kind of a coincidence, and the videos complement well each other.
I think that when we encounter missing no, we basically encounter ourselves because 'ASH'.
So what I think happening is that, when we generally do a battle, we might use our items, so t tally up the game mechanism counts the total items we have during the battle by using the keyword as a "ASH" , and this to has some bug due to which only the 6th element is getting duplicated. We CAN TEST THIS by using our sixth element in the battle with missing no, so as to see if we loose one item or 2 items from the doubled count. This can either find out the weird reason or may give a lead to other possibilities. Please consider this and try it. I hope this helps you put.
Red MissingNo Ash MissingYes 😳😬
Refreshing view on it. Very interesting 😀
Also the GameBoy that showed how the insides look, definitely one of the coolest! ❤️
13:37 All these years we wondered where MissingNo. came from; what it was supposed to be originally.
Finally the truth is revealed. MissingNo was _you._
LOVE THIS. So cool and educational at the same time. Can’t wait for part 2!!!
I remember a friend once told me how she found MissingNo. It was very simple. She was showing her dad how to play the game, so she did some basic things to demonstrate, which happened to include showing him the Old Man tutorial and then flying to Cinnabar to show how surfing works. Which, of course, led to an encounter with MissingNo.
I think the biggest obstacle to early discovery would be the Old Man tutorial, since you have no reason to ever talk to him more than once, or think he was linked to anything strange. My guess would be that people would talk to him, mash through the dialogue, and accidentally say yes to seeing the tutorial again.
I think a big part to a lot of people discovering this glitch actually has to do with locations. Old Man is in Viridian City, an early town, but also the town with the final Gym. But, because this Gym is in the middle of one of the earliest areas, what if you’re underleveled at this Gym? There’s no place nearby to train, no Trainers to fight. So where do you go? Back to the area with the highest-level Pokémon you currently have access to. Where is that? Cinnabar Island or Seafoam Islands, where an Articuno is also waiting for them.
So basically, players go to Viridian City, talk to everyone in town either before or after going to the Gym, including the Old Man, get stuck at the Gym or possibly on the rival fight before the Elite Four, fly back to Cinnabar to train, head out for Seafoam Island for training/Articuno, and happen to get a encounter on the coast. Boom, MissingNo.
I would love to be a fly on the wall when your friend encountered Missingno with her dad watching.
i live this so much. thanks for putting this together
Best explaining video out there!!!!🙌
This by far was the best explanation to how Missingno works I have seen on UA-cam like ever.
Please keep doing that work, it is highly interesting.
Let alone I doubt you show these topics for your next Chaos Communication Congress talks :þ
Very cool. I wondered how this worked as a kid and it is fun watching you work through the process.
If the name of the character is written into memory (in this case "Ash") does that mean that if we choose a different name at the beginning of the game, we could expect a different pokemon? Could we influence the pokemon by naming our character in a certain way?
Yeah, I got a Lv 152 Rapidash that way
Sure. There's a video that shows how to encode pokemon encounters into your name
@@Invizive yes but using one of the built in names allows more access to pokemon because the player names of the default names don't have 0x00s at the end. They just run into the next name in the list. So you typing in ASH vs choosing ASH from the list will result in different pokemon
Yep! Search "Scrumpy MissingNo" and go to 6:11 in that video to see him doing exactly that
Yep, this is the most common way to get Mew in Blue/Green.
I loved this! Very well done
My cousin and I actually stumbled upon the "glitch" pokemon (He thought I broke his game because I suggested to try the old man lol) in pretty much the way you described, but never noticed that it multiplied any items... I didn't learn this until watching your video just now! lol
The item multiply thing is probably just something about the sprite. Same reason for hall of fame data being corrupted, which if you don't know, that data corrupts because, sprite data decompilation. Instead of writing sprite data for missingno, it goes far off where it should place the sprite data. Coincidentally, right next to the sprite data is hall of fame data, since the write place is far off, it instead overwrites the hall of fame data.
Your research was great! 👍🏼
0:03 I’m not calling out anyone but THAT’S ����’M����
Awesome video and great immersion!
Just wait until you get to the crazier glitches, like 8F (a glitch item used for arbitrary code execution, TheZZAZZGlitch has covered it extensively but maybe you could do it even more justice). Or better, the Mew glitch - I'd love to see you try to explain how _that_ was found, due to how it's a more convoluted glitch than the Old Man glitch and found way, way earlier than 8F.
Assuming it wasn't intentional, the trainer glitch was probably "oh shoot, a trainer, I didn't want to fight him. I'm gonna hit start and see if I can pause. Oh, good, I can. I wonder if I can fly away? Oh nice, I flew away hahaha"
6:52 you set memory_trace and memory_trace_ignore size to 0xffff (65.535 in natural number), Gameboy has a 16 bit address bus, 2^16 (65.536). So, If you try to save in one of two array, in position 0xffff, you'd have a coredump error.
*finds M'*
*calls it Missingno.*
*E T E R N A L S C R E A M I N G*
What makes a Missingno a Missingno? Is it the name? The Pokedex ID number? The sprite? Or the internal ID number?
Technically there are multiple Missingno's which are all clones of each other. There are also multiple M''s, but only one M' is is a Missingno clone, aside from the name. However, the name M' includes tiles from the Missingno sprite, so in that way it's even more of a Missingno clone.
I know, right? I mean I understand the confusion, but still.
Bleh.
@@JackBond1234 The glitch Pokémon 'M is not MissingNo. because it has the internal index number of 00, it can learn moves by level up, and it can evolve into Kangaskhan. None of these traits are shared with any MissingNo. variant. They are not the same.
Edit: There are indeed multiple Pokémon with the name 'M, however these are different as well. The one people are familiar with is hex:00, while the second one is hex:FF, and shares many of its traits with Charizard. hex:00 only has tiles from it and MissingNo.'s sprite because it's name data takes characters from screen RAM which aren't meant to be displayed as text, but instead as part of the Pokémon sprites.
@@JackBond1234 1: the REASON why 'm has the sprite of missingo is explained in the most recent video of retro game mechanics explained. 'm has a charizard form, which misssingo doesnt. same with missingo, except it has a ghost form and 2 fossil forms. missingo is a DIFFERENT pokemon from 'm. just because it LOOKS like missingo doesnt mean that it IS MISSINGO. OK? just because glitch pokemon LOOK like eachother doesnt mean that they ARE eachother. plus, charizard 'm has SO MUCH GLITHCES that it can do. like if the ZZAZZ glitch saw you comment, he would be so MAD. like just look up differences beetween missingo and 'm. IF 2 pokemon share most traits, hovewer one has a trait that the other FOESNT means that THEY ARE DIFFERENT POKEMON. EVEN THE NAME MAKES 'M 'M AND MISSINGO MISSINGO
@@mjdxp5688 yeah, charizard 'm is easier to obtain in yellow. TONS of bugs that it can do, that normal 'm cant. so there is a HUGE difference. and 'm doesnt have the ghost form, nor the fossil forms. AND it has saying 'm is missingo. is like saying a zorua transformed into a caterpie is a caterpie. it is just false.
Really a beautiful, simple video. Loved it. Makes it seem like I could have done this if only I had thought of it haha
This video is super cool! Loved it and subscribed ^^
Great explanation! Looking forward to part 2 !
man this series is amazing.. thank you!!
When I first saw missingno I thought it was a newspaper.
if you don't feel like you have this 'intelligent Nerd' friend then I have bad news, you are one.
Sad but true...
I'm afraid I don't understand; that's _bad_ news?
Objection!
All my friends are intelligent nerds, and I'm one too.
@@hostiusasinhostilityhostil7853 it's lonely when you're the only one in your group
Meh 😪
this is just the perfect corssover between my child- and adulthood (since im studying comp sci)
amazing video once again my dude :)
I always loved this stuff. When some random kid told you about it, not the internet
This is incredible! What a great piece of work and information - thank you for your brain!
Absolutely loved this. I used to use rare candy on all my Pokémon to level them to like 255 (I think) even though 1 exp from a fight set them back to 100.
Meme
"Dude let me"
"I'll give you infinity ammount of your 6 item"
I see this more as someone being bored, doing random things like talking to npc and flying to random places, surfing for fun, only to find Missingno by sheer coincidence
Such an entertaining yet educational video, thank you!
The missingno glitch was an insane revelation as a kid. And doing it for the first time was absolutely mind blowing.
Im learning Python while writing a Discord bot and loved your practical example of research, thank you!
OHHHHH it writes player name to memory because it has to change the player name to old man and then after that it restores it from memory
This right here is likely the answer. Due to the cart size limitations, they likely used an existing variable to store the current player's name temporarily, and just happened to decide to store it in the land pokemon list due to it being unneeded, and didn't add code to remove it later since it'll get overwritten when the player's logical next step would be to travel to an area to catch pokemon on the land. They never planned for someone to do the steps with missingno/'M as why would someone who knows how to catch a pokemon view the tutorial again? Thus they never tested for that case. Also, those specific tiles could register as land for a very simple reason: those tiles are likely stored with land tiles in the code/graphics table.
3:00 Actually (adjusts glasses), if you go off the coast or hit that corner then the wild pokemon table is overwritten, so returning to the coast *won't* have weird pokemon appear anymore, they'll be the same pokemon you encounter in the ocean.
This is interesting code structure. It seems to have many reference errors resulting in unintended actions. I am surprised how well the game holds up during some of theses reference errors.
Well since it's written in assembly, there simply aren't that many fail safes as in modern programming languages.
On modern hardware usually the operating system prevents such stuff from happening.
In assembly it just works with everything just how it comes... But u should also not forget that there are also many bugs that actually do crash the gameboy.
This was beautifully done.
i remember playing as a kid and leveling up one of my pokemon at that exact spot and that came up and I shit myself, never knew about the glitch or anything just found it on my own and later learned more about it
Big brain video. I actually understood the whole video. Cool stuff.
I found a similar bug as a kid on my own. The fly away glitch. I remember using like an escape rope or an abra teleporting to do it as a kid. Kept looking up stuff about it until I found the mew glitch
If you look up into a Pokemon game rom map editor, each ground mapping tile have a Pokemon spawn type, a few of the tiles have reference spawn, it spawns recent type pokemon. They added it to make it easier for level editors. Eventually when you find it you can use the glitch to get rare Pokemon. Even rayquaza
That 'M you showed there is even more beautiful: It contains parts of its own sprite!
Personally, I think that the discovery of the Old Man glitch was just an extension of finding out about the Cinnabar coast. All that would require is enough people to mention finding weird encounters until that one line of tiles was understood- then, more people come along and find out "oh, wait, this is giving me encounters from the last place I was just at", leading to people then trying to figure out how that works and what the limits were. That would explain some intentionality behind talking to the old man.
Does anyone know why i cant get from level 1 to 100?? All my glitched pokemon (using trainer fly glitch in cerulean) come out at level 1 and only need 7 exp instead of 63 exp... when i fly back to pallet town, switch pokemon out and crush a level 2 pidgey, all my pokemon get 5 exp but my level 1 pokemon never goes to 100? WHYYYY
Old man:this is how you catch a Pokémon
Game:Write that down! Write that down!
I really wish you explained in such details Super Mario World Yoshi glitch that writes directly to the memory
The video I always wanted as a kid
that opening brought me back, because it went down like that exactly.. Because everybody had red or blue and Remember one of my friends finding out then telling me after we tried to link cable battle but it wouldn't work XD damn you brought me back.