Performing the Yami Shop glitch on a translated Pokémon Green rom
Posted by: Stilgar
Date: 2014-03-08 11:15:04
I have always been very interested in the first and second Pokémon generations' alpha and beta elements, especially the unused Badges and items in Red and Green, and how they can be seen using the Yami Shop glitch. This gave me an idea.
I found an English translation of a Pokémon Green rom which is quite hilarious since its literal and done probably using Google Translate or something like that, so I tried to replicate the Yami Shop glitch to check whether the unused badges and items were translated too. The usual method (selecting the 14th item, then the second Pokémon in the party in battle, etc) didnt work, so I experimented a bit by selecting other items and Pokémon in the party and stumbled upon something interesting.
If you select the 8th item in the bag and then one of the Pokémon in the party, it will become glitchy and its moveset will be replaced with some moves it cant normally learn and with some of the unused Badges and items, that were therefore translated in the process. Those moves either freeze the game or work like existing moves like Substitute or Softboiled. One of them (Buddha Badge) does something like increasing my Accuracy by one stage and the animation was like the Psychic move, so maybe is actually an unused move/unused move effect.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/qfIhHna.png[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/vWwDghU.png[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/IHMQd4a.png[/img] [img]http://imgur.com/kTtESy6[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/P2izITL.png[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/0pR477g.png[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/LGSSWhY.png[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/ZtDjrIF.png[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/3roy5gy.png[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/ksiv6wk.png[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/I9Briwb.png[/img]
Here you can see Silver, Fireball Badge, Eagle Badge (mistranslation of Falcon Badge), Thunder Badge (mistranslation of Lightning Badge), Rose Badge, Egg, Gold, Buddha Badge (mistranslation of Jizo Badge), Gold Badge, Friend Badge (mistranslation of Friendship Badge), Little Captain, Captain, Young Bird (mistranslation of Chick), Little Master and Master.
Malicious Teeth, Split, Omnipotent Ball and Skyrocket are mistranslations of Super Fang, Slash, Master Ball and Struggle (not sure of this one).
Substitute also appeared sometimes in the movesets, curiously enough Tri Attack, Super Fang, Slash, Substitute and Struggle are the last index number moves in the first generation.
The movesets change by switching different Pokémon in the third and four slot in the party, but the sprite is based on the one in the first slot. I used many Pokémon and tried multiple times to have all of this to appear, Bronze and Cool Badge never appeared, though.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/HclChOf.png[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/9p5AA7i.png[/img] [img]http://imgur.com/kmezWtj[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/lMSptz4.png[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/YVI6vvQ.png[/img]
If you select the item on the 7th slot a "white" Charizard with this moveset will always appear, if you select an item after the 8th slot TM55 (beta HM05) or empty movesets should appear (notice the strange Standard/Wrestle = Normal/Fighting type), but you select the 10th item the overworld will become glitchy, the player will be stuck and the bag will glitch out and you will se items like non-beta Badges, Trainer classes or your in-game name. WARNING: some items could freeze your game sometimes.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/djaJy4d.png[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/WuunwWk.png[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/7fHWlyP.png[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/0QTPRxg.png[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/qTL9f4K.png[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/w9WRoWx.png[/img]
Moreover, if you select the 19th item (a key item probably works better I noticed), encounter a Pokémon, select your second party member, then check your Bag after battle, glitchy items will appear: here we have the Yes (the "E" is a glitch), Purchase, North and East options, the unused item Coin, 4F (other floors can appear too, unfortunately 8F never appeared), the Pokédex (mistranslated as Handbook, works both in and outside battle) and the Surfboard ("????", Booster is X Speed or something like that, TM52 is beta HM02). If I remember correctly the North item can heal your Pokémon's HP or something like that.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/FdBAOze.png[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/VZeHayZ.png[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/PahO8Mu.png[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/wLYAfKv.png[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/US2mU9T.png[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/iUv0iEp.png[/img]
Then, if you go inside a Shop, click Sell and sell an item with glitchy blocks as a name (it can be blank sometimes too) that has a price of 4999999, then click Buy, the Yami Shop glitch will finally work, now you can buy glitch items (use an infinite money cheat because most are expensive), here you can see some actual non-beta Badges (so Grey Badge throws Bait and Blue Badge throws Rock, both in and outside battle, the others are unusable), Hilluf Director (mistranslation of the unused trainer class Silph's Chief), Ground and Poison types, Teach Aochider (mistranslation of the Trainer class "Okido-sensei", belonging to the unused Professor Oak battle), the Mail item which I don't know what actually is, probably a mistranslation of a normal existing item, and various Trainer classes like Rocket Grunt (beware, some Trainer classes might freeze the game upon selecting or upon using after buying). All the other items you see are mistranslated standard items or existing Trainer classes, nothing worthy of attention, though.
WARNING: The last picture means that after a Pokémon encounter before going inside a Shop for the Yami glitch, your sprite could become desynchronized with your real movements and you are actually "invisible", so move slowly and pay attention because you could go out of bounds and freeze the game. Choose a grass area nearby a Shop and a straight path like the route east of Vermilion City, so it's easier to reach the Shop.
In the end: I tried to see these items and glitchy Pokémon on the Japanese version of Pocket Monsters Stadium using a Transfer Pak emulator, but the glitchy moves are all "???????"s and they can't be used in battle, the items are "????????"s and don't have a description.
I also tried to trade a glitched Pokémon from this Green Version to the popular Pokémon Vietnamese Crystal version, but it isn't tradeable and if I check the stats in the Crystal Version, the game crashes. I have tried to do the same thing on an untranslated Green version but the results and the items that appear seem to be different, but it's hard to recognize all the Japanese characters, I admit.
Another thought: I don't think that "Master", "Little Master", "Captain" and "Little Captain" are Trainer classes because they are actually located in the item name bank, same for "Gold" "Silver" and "Bronze". I think they are the leftovers of a ranking system, probably there was something like a Battle Tower planned but scratched before development, where you could choose the "difficulty" ("Captain" is easier, "Master" is harder, "Little" is probably something similar to the Little Cup or related to low-leveled Pokémon, while "Gold", "Silver", etc. are the "prize"or the ranking you get based upon how far you go in the battles). Maybe the facility was located in the deleted town, who knows. Just a theory, though.
That's all, what do you think about it? Sorry for the very long post and if all of this was already known before, I did some research before posting and didn't find anything other than the original Yami Shop glitch and beta/alpha items stuff. I hope you'll find this interesting.