Glitch City Laboratories Archives

Ages ago, when the internet was still new, and Pokemon was still all the rage… There were many myth type glitches. We all remember the infamous Pikablue glitch involving the Power Plant, or the Pokemon City that was past the Elite Four (though, the actual origin of that one is legit, involving discarded town data, as seen with the extra pallet town on the world map with that specific glitch triggered).

There was once a glitch for accessing some kind of Phantom Cinnabar Island. It involved a complicated sequence of events, and in some versions, use of the RIVAL (an item that works as a debug tool to cross one solid tile). I've been unable to find any mention of this glitch anywhere… and I was wondering if someone still remembered how to do it.

Now, I'm fairly certain this is unrelated to Glitch City, since the locations were actual clones of the real locations, just all the warps would be deactivated, NPCs that did spawn would say lines from other NPCs and there would usually be a solid barrier blocking paths that would normally lead out of the area. That and I successfully duplicated this on at least 30 occasions. For the Fuschia variant, that is. I never did get the Cinnabar version to work. But.. Just having the sequence for the Cinnabar version could likely enable me to successfully pull this off again.

In return… I leave to you an odd glitch that I used rather regularly to get absurd amounts of HP. 65535, I believe. Keep in mind that the following glitch was most likely specific to a certain box, and I deleted the file I did this one at least 5 years ago. So, without further ado. With my name as ASH, I triggered missingno. expecting a hoax, and was surprised when I met the real thing. And I ended up with 128 master balls, and I replicated this effect further for Rare Candies. Now, eventually I ran into a level 146 Snorlax, and seeing its level captured it. I used rare candies to get it to level 255… Then I put it in the PC. When I went to retrieve it later, an odd thing caught my eye. It was level 146 again. But… What had been its Max HP at level 255 was now its current HP at 146, higher than its max. Curious, I went to level it to 255 again, with each level further increasing that current HP. And I deposited it once more, with the same effect. I rinsed and repeated until I had so much  HP that it eventually went to 0. If someone could verify the specific requirements for this, then I guess we'd have another cool glitch to have an article about.

Now, eventually I ran into a level 146 Snorlax, and seeing its level captured it. I used rare candies to get it to level 255… Then I put it in the PC. When I went to retrieve it later, an odd thing caught my eye. It was level 146 again. But… What had been its Max HP at level 255 was now its current HP at 146, higher than its max. Curious, I went to level it to 255 again, with each level further increasing that current HP. And I deposited it once more, with the same effect. I rinsed and repeated until I had so much  HP that it eventually went to 0. If someone could verify the specific requirements for this, then I guess we'd have another cool glitch to have an article about.

This is what happens if you warp directly from one town/city to another without entering from a route/out of a building. You can easily replicate this by activating 01XX5ED3 (with values 00-0A) when warping from any other town/city.

I've done something like that, it wasn't complex though.

I used a wtw code/manipulated the game sometimes, to allow a wtw effect, went through viridian to the phantom pallet town, but just enough so I was still in the grasses where you can see the real pallet town.

Go down to Cinnebar, and then do not go toward it, go the opposite, and you should find a phantom cinnebar.

But that's the easy way, I donno about the more complex route.
Sorry.

No, that's plenty helpful enough. I always knew that this town duplication involved walking through thing, hence the RIVAL requirement. Armed that knowledge, I should be able to recreate these phantom towns. Thanks!


Anyways, thanks for the input, guys. I'll see about making a Post-Level 100 Tricks article for the Wiki.

No, that's plenty helpful enough. I always knew that this town duplication involved walking through thing, hence the RIVAL requirement. Armed that knowledge, I should be able to recreate these phantom towns. Thanks!


Anyways, thanks for the input, guys. I'll see about making a Post-Level 100 Tricks article for the Wiki.

I'd like to add for reference that the RIVAL's item (hexadecimal identifier of A2: 162) along with others with the same effects such as "NAME?" and "NICKNAME?" only exist within Pokémon Red and Blue because in the case of Pokémon Yellow for example; one of the equivalent glitch items (for RIVAL's" is "2 u 4 || #s G G" which has a different effect and most commonly freezes the game.

If you haven't already, I recommend forcing the RIVAL's item via a cheating device such as the GameShark because there is no confirmed method of 'obtaining it' as such.

Hope this helps.

Actually, I've obtained it without cheat codes other than WTW(though that kinda makes the item a moot point lol), via rearranging the pokemon in the Alteran Archives (if anyone has a problem with the name let me know, or if you have a better name let me know that too…)

I think I've got a video of it too, I'll try to find it…

EDIT: I've confirmed "NICKNAME?'s" existence in a video of mine, as well as GARY, JOHN, JACK, RED and BLUE
And a "NEW NAME"

Apparently its not in any of my video's but I KNOW I've gotten it before…

Be careful when doing the glitches, and keep many save state copies if needed.
I'm glad you like them :)