Glitch a Darkrai... at the cost of your savefile :x

[Misty]

http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs9/genmessage.php?board=925601&topic=31231863

Basically, this has to do with a glitch in the E4 rooms that allows you to enter a ton of areas that can normally only be entered by hacking/events. In fact, you can skip the entire E4 and just go to the end.

Well, Kabigon found a way to get to the area with Darkrai using this glitch. Only downside is, if you try to catch it, you will get stuck to unable to get out without restarting... and if you save, say good-bye to your savefile. Anyone who wants to try to find a nonlethal method to using this glitch is welcome to try, but be aware of the risks X)

 

[Demonic Angel]

What does the game do after you do this? Would it be possible to fly away or soemthign to this extent?

 

[Silktree]

Have we really gone back to the days of Red and Green? I should have been more careful when I wished for Diamond and Pearl to achieve similar impact on players to that of the original games.

 

[Habunake]

Those little glitches were cool though, I remember how cool finding a Missingno was...

 

[Argy]

How does one start the glitch and access Darkrai?

 

[Misty]

Battle the E4. In the first room with the E4 trainer (I believe it's the bug one), use surf on the door you just entered from. Then move towards the edge of the screen. You'll be in a black void. Walk around in there to start accessing odd areas.

 

[Argy]

How did people figure this out? o_o;

 

[Misty]

A video on youtube demonstrated the glitch. I'm not sure how the original user found it.

BTW, I suspect Game Freak is killing this glitch from the US version as we speak.

 

[___]

i suppose they found it by experimentation. I find that the first editions of a game are always the glitchy ones. For example, my sapphire that i got when it released had the berry glitch. A ruby I got two years later didn't.

 

[Trip]

I keep getting stuck in blackness. Might there be more specific instructions?

- Trip

 

[Misty]

They're in the topic...

 

[Iggyness]

Oh, could you post a link to the Youtube video please. I'm interested in seeing this.

 

[Trip]

I'll be trying this once I get my M3 on Thursday. I'll attempt to acquire a save so I don't have to play all the way back through it. Not attempting to save in glitch area on my real cart.

- Trip

 

[Misty]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i33mEOOTmkw It is done.

Hopefully we can get some more testing and a proper instruction set soon.

 

[Zhen Lin]

A video on youtube demonstrated the glitch. I'm not sure how the original user found it.

Hmm, yes, I do recall reading some... strange comments about Surfing in the black area in the E4 rooms on some Japanese forums... so this is it, huh.

Perhaps the bug was discovered when someone walked to the door and tried to talk to it.

 

[Pie]

Personally, I'd love to know what mistake in the programming causes it to happen. That's kind of mind-boggling...

 

[Misty]

It's probably identical or nearly so to the bug that let you surf/fish in statues in RBY.

 

[Zhen Lin]

Not the programming, I think, but the map/tile data. A tile accidentally marked as Surf-able when it's not. Or something like that.

 

[Archaic]

Hmmm....if it's not possible to Fly out of the glitched area, is it maybe possible to Teleport out, or use an Escape Rope?

 

[Habunake]

Dig maybe?