glitches in Classic R/B/Y?

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Umm...As I said in my intro I hunt glitches alot, and I found some really weird ones...But I donno if they even count, since they are mainly just an expansion of charizard 'M, so I thought I'd make a thread about the glitch concept...

I've found a ton.
Some Are:
1: If you encounter Charizard M, and your pokemon are turned into bulbasaurs, trade one over to another game somehow, and encounter a wild pokemon or a trainer even, misc pokemon will evolve a few times, maybe 10-15.
Including things like, a bulbasaur into a charizard, or a Fearow into a Doduo.

2: If you encounter a specific breed of Charizard M (SP ID, I think was 253) then 4 blocks in certain area's will vanish and replace themselves with other blocks and effects similar to glitch city, as if Glitch City is Leaking into the game.
(some allow surfing, some are just null freezing the game, some are just walking tiles, some are blocker tiles, etc)


3: If you remove 2 pokemon from your team via the PC(in game)
after Seeing Charizard M (as far as I know, the same one as the glitch city stuff mentioned above) then choose to deposit another, view one of yours stats, then leave and re-enter, you can view the full ramifications of Charizard M's effect, such as your player character name being wiped, and only having about 4 badges.

4: If you leave the PC, and look at your pokemon, you can view them, unlike before, there are around 280 glitch pokemon in your party, but, you can't go more than 2 steps from the PC in any direction, and you can't exit into the black wall, or the game will freeze.

5: You can only access about half of those glitch pokemon, and not all are viewable, to view the others, you need to continuously go down, and view some of the right ones, your game will look like it will freeze, but keep pressing A and eventually, if done right, you will be back to the screen for view them, exit, and your screen will be tinted a darker tint.
Re-enter the pokemon screen and you can see more, or you should be able to.

5: If you do the right things in the secondary screen for viewing glitch pokemon, then you can make missingno's song esque music combined with additional sounds and music, usually not selected, but random, if you attempt to save, exit the menu, or use an item, the game will freeze and you will have to reset, and if you load a state before resetting, then the game will have the graphic based on immediately before it froze.

6: If you attempt trading any of these, before going into the darker tinted mode, to any game, it will freeze them, as its far too much for the trade menu to load.

7: If you go past the "infamous grass of pallet town" then you will find possibly beta sections of pallet town, up to 7 times and then it will loop to the opposite side of the screen you were on before going past the grass.
This applies with almost any location.
But the different towns are actually just based on what the ram saw before you entered the grass.
(found the main glitch from a youtube video that wasn't mine, but used it to find the above)

8: If you trade the bulbasaur that is infected with Charizard M into a new game, and follow the same instructions to get the glitch pokemon viewable, it will work the same way, but the names will be different, because of the same reasons that there are 7 different versions of pallet town beyond the grass.

9: After being infected with the right Charizard M, if you go to lavander, go left and right from wall to wall, just above the lower exit of lavander town, the right amount of times, then exit, route 12 will become a route 11 and route 12 hybrid.

and 10: One of the Glitch Cities locations, is right above route 11 and to the west of route 12's exit into Lavander.

I can demonstrate them, and I had some questions.

Do these count as glitches even?
Has anyone else seen these types of glitches before?
I've looked around and it doesn't seem like it...

What kinds of glitches have you seen that aren't on the bulbapedia wiki?

I apologize if this is spam, or it seems like showing off, more than asking questions...:(
Neither are my intent.
 
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I think I've ended up with a weird variation of the fabled glitchy charizard. Whilst trying to trade a vaporeon from my japanese green version for a pidgey from my english red version, I ended up getting two completely different pokemon. On my red version, the vaporeon ended up becoming a charizard (even said that it was a charizard during the trade) whose name is "77777777777". I can't view it's stats because the game crashes every time I try to select it for anything.

On my green version, the pidgey ended up becoming a level 16 voltorb (was originally level 3 as a pidgey). It's got some pretty odd stats, and no OT.
HP = *insert glitch block*60/*insert glitch block*60
Attack = 0 :-(
Defense = 768
Speed = 40
Special = 92

Yeah, it's pretty weird. I can't even view my pokemon on my red version anymore, the game just crashes.

Forgot to add, the voltorbs only move is doubleslap, with a PP of 10.
 
Small update to the above. I'm able to view the glitchy charizard's stats now, for some reason, albeit the health bar stretching across the screen...

Level: 0
Hp: 21/10 (?)
Attack, def, speed and special are all 5.

It's status is frozen and the OT is "I", and the only attack it knows is "TM24", with a PP of 0/0. Trying to give it PP ups doesn't help bring it up at all.
 
That sounds typical of the more harmless after the more lethal pokemon.
Usually they are fainted for me though.

As usual, I could be wrong though.

I imagine that the HP is actually 2100, since its an improper fraction, the game can't really handle it that well.
 
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That sounds typical of the more harmless after the more lethal pokemon.
Usually they are fainted for me though.

As usual, I could be wrong though.

I imagine that the HP is actually 2100, since its an improper fraction, the game can't really handle it that well.

I see. It's good to have someone knowledgeable on RBY glitching, they've interested me for a while now. I ended up having to release that charizard, unfortunately; to bad though, I wanted to tinker around with it some more.
Also, for some reason I can't get wild pokemon to show up anymore at all. It's not just a coincidence either, as I've gone all 500 steps of the safari zone and through to the end of cerulean cave with absolutely nothing showing up.

Oh, and it may be unrelated, but in one of my glitched up hall of fame entries, there's a glitchemon that makes the EXACT same cry that crobat does...
 
I see. It's good to have someone knowledgeable on RBY glitching, they've interested me for a while now. I ended up having to release that charizard, unfortunately; to bad though, I wanted to tinker around with it some more.
Also, for some reason I can't get wild pokemon to show up anymore at all. It's not just a coincidence either, as I've gone all 500 steps of the safari zone and through to the end of cerulean cave with absolutely nothing showing up.

Oh, and it may be unrelated, but in one of my glitched up hall of fame entries, there's a glitchemon that makes the EXACT same cry that crobat does...

Wow... no wild pokemon at all... That is one glitched up game.

And about the Crobat thing... I guess the glitches must've somehow been able to make the game play Zubat's cry like GSC would to make it sound like Crobat. Intersting...
 
Wow... no wild pokemon at all... That is one glitched up game.

And about the Crobat thing... I guess the glitches must've somehow been able to make the game play Zubat's cry like GSC would to make it sound like Crobat. Intersting...

I don't know what to say about the Crobat cry...I have heard weirder cries from other missingno'd hall of fame entries. I had one hall of fame entry play the vermillion city music in slow-mo.

Oh, fishing still works, by the way. I still can't force any wild pokemon to appear, even with the gameshark!
 
I've actually encountered a similar glitch, and wasn't able to encounter wild pokemon.

I think it was doing the steps for glitch city, but instead of being on a route, I was spinning in the Viridian City Gym.

Once I entered back to the Safari Zone, I found I was spinning and was unable to encounter any wild pokemon, and I was able to ride the bike still :ksmile:

But to deactivate it, I THINK, I went back on a spinning tile, not sure...

As for the Crobat sound, I think I've heard that as well.
And there are some pretty strange sounds in those games...
But I only have Red, so I can't say for Blue and Yellow...

Donno what to do to help, with the lack of wild pokemon encounters, Sorry about that :(
 
I've actually encountered a similar glitch, and wasn't able to encounter wild pokemon.

I think it was doing the steps for glitch city, but instead of being on a route, I was spinning in the Viridian City Gym.

Once I entered back to the Safari Zone, I found I was spinning and was unable to encounter any wild pokemon, and I was able to ride the bike still :ksmile:

But to deactivate it, I THINK, I went back on a spinning tile, not sure...

As for the Crobat sound, I think I've heard that as well.
And there are some pretty strange sounds in those games...
But I only have Red, so I can't say for Blue and Yellow...

Donno what to do to help, with the lack of wild pokemon encounters, Sorry about that :(

No problem, my 'dex was already filled anyway. Though, I will miss running into Missingno. :-/

Going on the spinning tiles didn't bring anything back either. Ah well.

One thing, though: I don't know if it's a glitch or what, but sometimes when I deposit a pokemon and withdraw it later on (after running around outside of the pokemon center for a while), some of the pokemon's stats will be increased by 1 point. For instance, I've had a Gengar's special go from 329 to 330 and an Arcanine's attack go from 271 to 272. Other instances include random pokemon having their Hp increased by 1 point.
All pokemon in question are at level 100, by the way.

EDIT
Small update so I don't have to double post again:
Battling my green version with my red version warranted odd results. For one, my red version showed my green version's lv 49 Charizard as a nameless and leveless Charizard that was frozen and had its HP bar stretch across the screen. My Green version simply made an odd noise when the opposing trainer appeared then just cut off.
Afterwards I noticed my Red's hall of fame was changed to nothing but level 57 spriteless and nameless glitches that have M's cry.
 
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From what I can tell, the NTSC-J, and the NTSC Pokemon classic games are compatible, but they really screw each other up, or something, so it isn't recommended to connect them.

Though, it is interesting as to what happens when you do link them.
EDIT:
Most likely, the reason is the same as what causes the differencial between GSC, and RBY's missingno's.
just different slots in their pokedex possibly.
 
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The only glitches I ever heard in Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow was the MissingNO where you can have up to 99 items if placed in the 4 or 5 slot of the the bag while encounter the glitch. As for the others I know there is the safarie zone and Glitch City glitches which honestly I never encountered but the Charizard M glitch is new to me. What I liked about these glitches was how you can mess around in the game and yeah I know sometimes these bugs and glitches can hinder a game but it is fun sometimes to fool around which the same can't be said in Pokemon Gold/Silver/Crystail since I rarely found any glitches in those.
 
When I was little I spend many a-night fiddling around with cheat codes, the games coding, and I found some truly bizarre glitches... Can't recall any specific ones now though.
 
I think everyone knows missigno can screw up your game, I caught missingno with the mew glitch
but according to bulbapedia..

"Missingno. is safe to capture, since the only game data corrupted is Hall of Fame data, which has little bearing on the game. However glitches such as .4 are considered more dangerous due to learning the move Super Glitch as a starting move. "

-_-' someone might wonna check that?
 
Super glitch can be very devastating.

One effect potentially, is evolving a ton of things artificially, USUALLY ending in a freeze, but sometimes the battle will restart with Ash as the graphic of the trainer, but the pokemon are the same.

Though as far as I know, .4 is harmless aside from its Cry, unless I am thinking of something else.

EDIT: btw, I can provide my youtube page with a couple of these glitches that I've mentioned, but that's primarily by request and I won't post it unless asked.
 
Super glitch can be very devastating.

One effect potentially, is evolving a ton of things artificially, USUALLY ending in a freeze, but sometimes the battle will restart with Ash as the graphic of the trainer, but the pokemon are the same.

Though as far as I know, .4 is harmless aside from its Cry, unless I am thinking of something else.

EDIT: btw, I can provide my youtube page with a couple of these glitches that I've mentioned, but that's primarily by request and I won't post it unless asked.

Lol why not i have youtube so ill rate and comment the video lol :p.
BTW just a quick question , your not supposed to look at MISSINGNO.'s status?
Because I did..
 
Would a Gold/Silver/Crystal glitch thread be ok? I know there aren't a lot besides cloning, but I'd like to discuss them sometime.
 
Would a Gold/Silver/Crystal glitch thread be ok? I know there aren't a lot besides cloning, but I'd like to discuss them sometime.

I'm not sure if there are any glitches in Gold/Silver/Crystail since most of the problems that were in Red/Blue/Yellow were cleaned up in the sequels. I think I heard some where that Game Freak removed the safarie zone's game where you recieve a time limit with safarie balls to catch any pokemon in that area so they can avoid the tile glitch that sends you to Glitch City. Otherwise, I think that explains why the safarie zone in Kanto was never placed back in from Red/Blue/Yellow because of that major glitch but other then that there really is no glitches that I ran into in Gold/Silver/Crystail.
 
For Missingno's status, I've never heard that you aren't supposed to look at it, so you should be fine.
Looking at some glitch pokemon after the screen tints a darker shade, after a charizard M encounter is another story though.

As for G/S/C glitches, there are a number of them known, some in conjunction with R/B/Y.

For instance, if you attempt infection of charizard M, or missingno to G/S/C, then you CAN (don't remember how exactly) turn the screen red and blue, with a touch of yellow, which is very similar the "glitch dimension" by talking to a Machop and using the coin case.

I've also heard that Missingno roams Johto and Kanto, in G/S/C and Hoenn, and Sinnoh in R/S/E, and D/P/P, like Entei, raikou and Suicune, but has an encounter rate of 1/10000 roughly.

Sadly, I have no proof....Sorry.

If you want to make a thread based on the G/S/C glitches, I don't mind if you do that, or you can discuss them here.
I don't mind either one, not that its my definitive say.

As for my youtube account, its http://Youtube.com/kuriatsu

I'll probably put the screen tinting a darker shade sometime this weekend, I don't remember how to get to it exactly, but I can put basics.

EDIT: The safari zone exists in Johto, but its in a "beta zone" that isn't able to be accessed easily, or something like that...So I've heard.

Oh, and I like your avatar AshxDawnfangirl, Chrono Cross was one of the best games ever IMO.
 
Anybody ever go Surfing (in Silver), get out of the water on a beach, and have your trainer sprite start flashing between the Lapras and the normal sprite? It only happened once, years ago, but still one of the freakiest things I've ever seen in a Pokemon game. And the only kind of hacking I ever did was using a GameShark to get shiny Mew, Celebi, Sentret, and a few others.
 
For Missingno's status, I've never heard that you aren't supposed to look at it, so you should be fine.
Looking at some glitch pokemon after the screen tints a darker shade, after a charizard M encounter is another story though.

As for G/S/C glitches, there are a number of them known, some in conjunction with R/B/Y.

For instance, if you attempt infection of charizard M, or missingno to G/S/C, then you CAN (don't remember how exactly) turn the screen red and blue, with a touch of yellow, which is very similar the "glitch dimension" by talking to a Machop and using the coin case.

I've also heard that Missingno roams Johto and Kanto, in G/S/C and Hoenn, and Sinnoh in R/S/E, and D/P/P, like Entei, raikou and Suicune, but has an encounter rate of 1/10000 roughly.

Sadly, I have no proof....Sorry.

If you want to make a thread based on the G/S/C glitches, I don't mind if you do that, or you can discuss them here.
I don't mind either one, not that its my definitive say.

As for my youtube account, its http://Youtube.com/kuriatsu

I'll probably put the screen tinting a darker shade sometime this weekend, I don't remember how to get to it exactly, but I can put basics.

EDIT: The safari zone exists in Johto, but its in a "beta zone" that isn't able to be accessed easily, or something like that...So I've heard.

Oh, and I like your avatar AshxDawnfangirl, Chrono Cross was one of the best games ever IMO.

Thanks I found it on deviant art and I also think Chrono Cross is one of the best game made too bad the sequel Chrono Break was scrapped due Square favoring Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts series:disgust:. Any way I do find the Charizard M glitch to be new like I said before and never really heard of it because the only glitches I ever heard about back then was MissingNO pokemon and how you can collect 99 items when placed in the 5th or 4th slot. I also find that strange that MissingNo is in Gold/Silver/Crystail but the thing is never found these glitches at all and even playing Silver now on Super Game Boy I still haven't run into any glitches.
 
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