The mysterious 255 hours glitch and other walking Pikachu glitches (Yellow)
Posted by: Torchickens
Date: 2014-12-02 08:21:14
1) With the walking Pikachu, go to the Sea Route 20 Glitch City (via Safari Zone exit glitch).
2) Walk two steps down, Pikachu will still be trapped in the glitch tiles.
3) Walk all the way to the right up to a door and then walk left until you're one tile left of the left-most of two "H"s.
4) Repeat step 3 and your play time should become 255:59.
You can do steps 3 and 4 slightly differently and get the glitch to work.
As well as Yellow, I think I may have seen the 255 hours glitch occur on a Pokémon speedrunner's stream in Blue too.
Now, for something that may be completely undocumented. There is more to the walking Pikachu thing. While I was walking around, values were written to addresses D438 and onward! The more you walk, the more the values are corrupted; and the values depend on whether you walked north, east, south or west.
North=02
South=01
Right=04
Left=03
If you walk around for a while, you will corrupt Pikachu's happiness value (D46F). This is probably the origin of the myth that Glitch City "resets" Pikachu's happiness. If you walk around even more, you can get yourself trapped in the Glitch City.
I wonder what else we could corrupt with this.
Edit: Maybe the 255 hours glitch is just an effect of this direction based corruption, because I got it after walking around back and forth over short distances.