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Generation I Glitch Discussion

TM55 - Page 1

TM55

Posted by: LedZeplin2
Date: 2007-10-16 14:21:20
Recently I was looking through the Attackdex, looking at all the attacks. This one caught my eye. TM55.

Description of Effects
TM55 is a Glitch Move with superb power… and lackluster…well, everything else. It has both 0 PP and an accuracy of 0. Using this move simply causes your turn to end. Also on rare occasions, this move begins to infect the RAM with FF Hex values everywhere, and soon, the game dies.


So it appears we have a very dangerous move here. By the way, anyone care to tell me what "And soon, the game dies" means?

Re: TM55

Posted by: Guy
Date: 2007-10-16 15:07:34
Probably a freeze. RAM isn't the main coding is it?

Re: TM55

Posted by: LedZeplin2
Date: 2007-10-16 15:10:37
How does it infect the RAM?  O_o Does that mean this could actually kill (as in make it unusable) your game?

Re: TM55

Posted by: Guy
Date: 2007-10-16 15:13:36
It just does, randomly enough. With FF hex values too, the highest possible.

Re: TM55

Posted by: LedZeplin2
Date: 2007-10-16 15:21:31
You've used this before? You mean it DOES make your game unusable? Wow, then this might be more dangerous than the ZZAZZ Glitch…

Re: TM55

Posted by: Missingnoguy55
Date: 2007-10-16 19:43:40
Doesn't Glitcherino know this move? I've heard that it not only kills your game, it deletes itself.

Re: TM55

Posted by: LedZeplin2
Date: 2007-10-16 19:51:12
So it freezes?

Re: TM55

Posted by: Bent`
Date: 2007-10-16 20:17:11
FYI, no GB game can actually glitch itself so it's totally unusable – however, they can sometimes corrupt the SRAM and thus make the game glitch from there. If it ever gets to that condition, you can replace the game's internal battery to fix it (but you'll lose all your save data).

It's possible for a GB game to damage the hardware of the actual Game Boy (by switching off the LCD outside of V-blank), but no Nintendo-approved game does that.

Re: TM55

Posted by: LedZeplin2
Date: 2007-10-16 20:38:25
Oh, so it freezes and can screw up the game. Thanks for clarification.

Re: TM55

Posted by: Guy
Date: 2007-10-17 14:55:10
Glitcherino knows TM42, which only freezes the game. Seen it for myself.

Re: TM55

Posted by: LedZeplin2
Date: 2007-10-17 15:42:20
Actually, if TM42 knocks out your Pokemon, the game doesn't freeze. It only freezes if it fails to kill your Pokemon.

PS. This is my 400th post!  ;D One of only 13 or so to reach this many!

Re: TM55

Posted by: Guy
Date: 2007-10-17 15:52:16
43 more 'till the high scores list ;).
Ah, so it only needs to KO yur PkMn. No wonder it never worked. My PkMn would never lose to any attack from a Lv32 XD.
It also makes the opponent disappear. Is this for the rest of the battle?

Re: TM55

Posted by: LedZeplin2
Date: 2007-10-17 15:58:19
Yeah, I think so.

Ever hear of TM09, the so-called "Suicide Move"?

Re: TM55

Posted by: Verinin
Date: 2007-10-27 04:40:40
Most of "Cooltrainer" moves will freeze your game…

Re: TM55

Posted by: Guy
Date: 2007-10-27 06:17:32

Most of "Cooltrainer" moves will freeze your game…
Actually not necessarily. I've been doing research on that  here: http://forums.glitchcity.info/index.php/topic,2252.0.html

It's possible for a GB game to damage the hardware of the actual Game Boy (by switching off the LCD outside of V-blank), but no Nintendo-approved game does that.
Is that just like how ROMs can crash the computer?