Trading between different languages?

[Barry]

I've heard that trading between different language games during Generation 1 can cause some pretty intense glitches to happen.

Has anybody tried this?
What happened?

I'd really like to know!

 

[Zesty Cactus]

Never tried it. I actually own the Japanese Red version but I'm not keen on testing this out in case it really does screw over my game haha

 

[Gligar13]

It's probably true as the names and that stuff are in japanese and the game will interpret them different. They fixed it in Gen IV, though.

 

[glow]

My personal experiences as taken from the "Glitches in RBY" thread:

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.