Remember Missingno?

Yeah.. uh...

What about it?

Meh, just thought it was interesting how that works out. Here is a more detailed page about it. It was at the bottom of the page, don't know how I missed it.

Hah. I remember that.
Pretty cool.

wikipedia::rofl

seriously, that guy always freaked me out. i made him do some wicked stuff, though.

funny how quick hacks can come to hunt you :)

pokemon... those were the days...

Wow, I remember that glitch; that and the pokemon trading glitch. No one in my neighbourhood could beat me because I messed up my blue version to have 6 lvl 100 mews with different elements on my red. haha

*sigh*

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Original post by PumpkinPieman Wow, I remember that glitch; that and the pokemon trading glitch. No one in my neighbourhood could beat me because I messed up my blue version to have 6 lvl 100 mews with different elements on my red. haha *sigh*

Damn I loved that game... then I turned 9.

Hmm, unallocated memory on an array. Makes sense. I've been bagged by that one quite a few times.

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Original post by lethalhamster Quote: Original post by PumpkinPieman Wow, I remember that glitch; that and the pokemon trading glitch. No one in my neighbourhood could beat me because I messed up my blue version to have 6 lvl 100 mews with different elements on my red. haha *sigh* Damn I loved that game... then I turned 9.

pwned! lol. I really have no clue what your talking about even having read thos articles. So was it pretty much depending on what your name was, you could get super cool/1337 pokémon?

Pokemon is actually a pretty good game if you get past all the Pokemon merchandise and all that other crap. The various viruses such as Missingno were very fascinating to play with. This is sort of cool since I was just thinking about how the virus was made.

Did anyone else notice that if you focus all your attention on one pokemon that pokemon will become so powerful that you could eradicate any opponent? Bosses would fall in a matter of seconds.

[Edited by - TravelingCoder on April 4, 2005 7:30:24 PM]

Virus?

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Original post by TravelingCoder Pokemon is actually a pretty good game if you get past all the Pokemon merchandise and all that other crap. I (Mushu) lived in hiroshima for a couple of weeks in 1945. It wasn't all that bad if you ignored all the radiation. Oh, and the fish tasted funnay. The various viruses such as Missingno were very fascinating to play with. This is sort of cool since I was just thinking about how the virus could have come about today it would pwn all the pokemon in the world because it evolves into kangaskhan which is like a giant stuffed animal bought off the black market in former soviet satellite state Kazakstan. Did anyone else notice that if you focus all your attention on one pokemon that pokemon will become so powerful that you could eradicate any playerassuming they didn't have the opposite element that would uber pwn you and you'd be unable to severly damage (wow, so many memories of me getting pwned over and over again ;_;? Bosses wwould fall in a matter of seconds.

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I went O_o so many times as I was reading your post, I'm not even going to say anything. D'oh!

EDIT: rawr.
EDIT2: I'm going to BSOD myself to repent for this post. brb in the 20 minutes I'll take me to reboot this hunkofjunk which, suprisingly, performs rather well once you get past all the errors and stuff.

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Original post by _Sigma I really have no clue what your talking about even having read thos articles. So was it pretty much depending on what your name was, you could get super cool/1337 pokémon?

GBA MEMORY SPACE  a  b A[w]B[F][x]C[F][y]D[F][z]E[9][F]F[F][F]G[r][F]H[s][F]I[t][F]J[F]K[v][F]

Let's say that this represents memory available to the game. Each slot can store something. at aE, we find '9'. That could be the character's level. When the game needs to display the character's level it looks in memory address aE. The character's name, BOB, is stored ad memory address aA, represented here with B. Let's say r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y,z are different pokemon types. F just represents a full memory address

When you play as the old man, the game needs to display his name instead of BOB. The computer replaces the name at memory address aA to old man, shown here with an M. Thing is, the GBA can't just go and forget your character's name. It needs to store it for later. However, all the memory is full. A work around was to store the character's name in the memory used by some of the pokemon. This should be ok because these areas in memory should re-fill with pokemon data when the player enters a new area after this.

GBA MEMORY SPACE  a  b A[M][w]B[F] <--- We got rid of pokemon 'x' for now, replaced it with BOB.C[F][y]D[F][z]E[9][F]F[F][F]G[r][F]H[s][F]I[t][F]J[F]K[v][F]

Well the problem is that one section of land where the pokemon data DOESN'T refresh in memory if you stay on it. Thus, when chance has it that the pokemon stored in memory address bB is called to fight, the data there is not pokemon x, it's BOB. The code does what it can to interpret the data there as a pokemon (in a sense trying to turn BOB into a pokemon). Thus, different names = different results :)

ah...gotcha. cheers

Thats actually pretty cool, and I now see the fasination with it. Was there ever a type that nuked the game? :P