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What does YMMV mean?
MissingNO. is a glitch. Who told you it isn't?
What does YMMV mean?
Your Mileage May Vary. In other words, ?This works for me, but I don?t guarantee it will work for you.?
MissingNO. is a glitch. Who told you it isn't?
Missingno. is encountered through glitches and has glitchy effects, but is an ?empty Pok?mon,? not a glitch. It is a data structure physically defined (though only partially) by the programmers.
The difference between MissingNo. and a glitch Pokemon:
-The developers put MissingNo. in as a placeholder (it's the only Pokemon other than the 151 in the game that has an understandable name). They did, but that means that it can still be a glitch pokemon, right?
-Yes, you use a glitch to capture it but that does not mean he is a glitch Pokemon. That doesn't mean he isn't.
-Don't call him a glitch if it looks like a blob of pixels. It would think you offended it. O_o…
On a side note: I actually LIKE MissingNo.! I actually use a Gameshark to capture one at a low level and I raise it through the game. Sure, it faints alot of the time but it has an epic moveset.
I believe what they mean to say is that the developers completely intended to create Missingno. They just didn't intend for anyone to find it. Thus, the method is an error and a glitch but the actual pokemon is just a placeholder.
I always thought that MissingNO. (and other generation 1 placeholder pokemon) were the only REAL glitches in the games. All the others in the beyond generations are just placeholders that are impossible to find without hacking, thus cant be found through any normal circumstances in the game.
Actually, I've read about MissingNo. on a PokemonWiki, website and the reason for MissingNo. are also this is from the Pokemon Wiki website.
The reason there were non-existent pokemon was caused by how they made the games, because of this, the lowest variable possible to put on the game was 256. In the original games there were only the original 150 (with exception of Japan, which had 151) there were still about 105 - 104 slots left. And thus, all 105 slots were filled with MissingNo. or 'M.
Even so, we consider it a glitch for all practical purposes, like how most people consider tomatoes vegetables.
'M is a glitch. One easy way to tell it's a glitch is the glitch blocks in the name.
The difference between MissingNo. and a glitch Pokemon:
-The developers put MissingNo. in as a placeholder (it's the only Pokemon other than the 151 in the game that has an understandable name).
-Yes, you use a glitch to capture it but that does not mean he is a glitch Pokemon.
-Don't call him a glitch if it looks like a blob of pixels. It would think you offended it.
On a side note: I actually LIKE MissingNo.! I actually use a Gameshark to capture one at a low level and I raise it through the game. Sure, it faints alot of the time but it has an epic moveset.