English fossil conversion glitch (get absolutely any Pokémon/glitch Pokémon)
Posted by: Torchickens
Date: 2014-12-13 20:51:34
With this adaption of the Japanese fossil conversion glitch I made, you can get any glitch Pokémon, even FB-FD; Pokémon you can't get with the Johto guard glitch, unless you can somehow get a Gen II hex:FB or hex:FD and (somehow) get it to convert into FB-FD (see this and note how this this doesn't have hex:FB-FD).
The fossil conversion glitch has you depositing a fossil and then changing what it is afterwards. In the Japanese versions, the trick involves a Pokémon's total experience modulo 256 determining the species. With my English adaption, it's the Pokémon's Attack stat modulo 256 that determines the species.
For this trick you need access to over 6 Pokémon. After you get over 6 Pokémon and deposit a fossil, you need to swap any Pokémon with the 33rd (note, in the Japanese trick it is the 32nd; and the 32nd Pokémon was accessed with the 32nd PC item)
The only ways I know to get over 6 Pokémon in the English version are 'save abuse glitch' and Super Glitch, but it's not realistic to use save abuse for this glitch, so my method involves Super Glitch.
Side note: One of our users called xeno, or kuriatsu on Youtube calls Pokémon counter overflow the Poke-dos Cartouche. They supposedly somehow accessed it with the ZZAZZ glitch and I don't know how because it normally[?] doesn't corrupt D163/2; the species counter. However, I know you can do a cool item counter overflow glitch with ZZAZZ glitch, so I don't doubt it.
Unfortunately one of the things Super Glitch does is corrupt your name, and if a 50 is not present on the eleventh character, saving will destroy the save. But there is a work around, documented by TheZZAZZGlitch.
[size=20pt]Red/Blue[/size]-
[size=18pt]Set up:[/size]
Happily taken from TheZZAZZGlitch's Super Glitch thread, cheers TheZZAZZGlitch:
1) Do the Ditto trick to get an LM4 (Special stat 198)
2) Put LM4 in the first position. Have the first three of LM4's moves have 28 characters in total, e.g. BODY SLAM [9 chars], DOUBLESLAP [10 chars], WATER GUN [9 chars]. LM4 has Hypnosis, Water Gun, Doubleslap and Body Slam at level 7 in that order, so you just need to swap Hypnosis to the bottom.
3) Level up LM4 to level 24 with Rare Candies, in this spot to avoid a potential freeze, then replace its fourth move with Super Glitch.
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4) Go to the spot below, open your party Pokémon menu here , don't open it after then go to a battle with LM4 in the first position and keep opening and closing the fight menu until the corruption happens (this depends on luck). Repeatedly viewing LM4's summary from the spot below may also work.
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5) Run away. When you open your party Pokémon menu you'll notice you can go past slot 6 if the corruption happened. You actually have 124 (hex:7C) Pokémon now. Pokémon 1 and 2's species byte 1s will turn into Nidoqueen (hex:10), Pokémon 3's becomes Krabby (hex:4E), and Pokémon 4's becomes Missingno. (hex:50) but don't worry, putting them into the Day Care and out again later will bring them back to normal, and you actually 'need' Nidoqueen for the Yellow version of this trick.
[size=18pt]Fossil conversion glitch:[/size]
Notes:
Don't use the fossil conversion glitch to remove your LM4 as you still need to fix your name (add a terminator on or before the 11th character) to enable saving.
I tried this with the FF terminator after Pokémon 6, so I had 6 Pokémon before party counter corruption. I'm not sure if that matters.
6) Fly to Cinnabar Island and go to the Pokémon Lab. Deposit a Fossil.
7) Select a Pokémon of your choice (the Attack stat modulo 256 will determine what the fossil becomes e.g. 21=Mew, 252=O (FC)) and switch it with the 33rd Pokémon. Go out of the lab and back in and you'll get a fossil Pokémon from the scientist based on the Attack stat of the Pokémon you swapped with the 33rd Pokémon.
8) Your Fly locations will become corrupted too; the relationship is PP move 4 and level (D18B/C) into D70B/C (Fly locations). You might even get glitch Fly locations that have bad effects, but we can fix that too; with the only catch being that you get all but one Fly location; you lose Fuchsia City. So, select Pokémon 122 (hex:7A). This is three spaces above the top Pokémon. Swap it with the 33rd Pokémon. Your Fly locations will be set to 7F 7F (this is taken from C4EF/F0 in RAM; some data which seems to be always 7F 7F on the party Pokémon menu. 7F 7F is 'good', you get no glitch Fly locations.
[size=18pt]Get a reasonable amount of Pokémon:[/size]
9) Replace LM4's Doubleslap with Mega Kick (via TM05, can be bought from Celadon Department Store) to get a total of 27 (1 less than before) real move letters. This is to put later screen data into earlier addresses.
10) Go to the spot below, open your party Pokémon menu here, don't open it after, then go to a battle with LM4 and keep opening and closing the fight menu until the corruption happens (this depends on luck). Repeatedly viewing LM4's summary may also work.
[img]http://i.minus.com/ibxPoFRCenomoK.PNG[/img]
11) Run away. If the corruption worked, you'll now have 16 Pokémon instead of 124 Pokémon; and 16 is a much more reasonable amount for when we deposit Pokémon later. Additionally, it's now only Pokémon 1 who is Nidoqueen, Pokémon 2 becomes Krabby, Pokémon 3 becomes Missingno. 50h.
[size=18pt]Terminate your name (so that saving and restarting doesn't erase the save):[/size]
Don't change your LM4 (should now be a Nidoqueen/LM4 hybrid for being in slot 1)'s moves.
12) Fly to Cerulean City and walk to the spot below:
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13) Open the party Pokémon menu here, don't open it after, close it then enter a wild battle and keep opening and closing the fight menu until you get corruption.
14) If the corruption worked, your name will now be blank. You're free to save and restart after talking to a nurse but cancelling out of Heal/Cancel.
[size=18pt]Party clean up, fixing the option boxes:[/size]
15) Fly to any town/city/Cinnabar and go to the Pokémon Center. Talk to the nurse but cancel out of Heal/Cancel. This will fix your option box which became glitched and could cause a freeze/corruption if it opened when you try to save.
16) Deposit Pokémon in the box. Try depositing Cancels until it doesn't work to make sure you have 6 Pokémon or something. Don't deposit Pokémon below Cancel or the game will probably freeze, as it did for me. Also, a weird 'blank name' Pokémon did this (from swapping Pokémon beyond slot 6 I believe), even when I withdrew it and Rare Candied it. Putting it into the Day Care and withdrawing it made it non-freezing though.
[size=20pt]Yellow differences[/size]
These are the changes you need to do to make this glitch work in Yellow:
1) Use another Super Glitch Pokémon where you can have Super Glitch as the fourth move and 28 letters in moves before it. What immediately came to mind is "Z4" (Special 195, hex:C3), and it works.
1a) : Have Z4 know Fury Attack, Horn Drill, Reflect and Super Glitch. Fury Attack is a starting move, Horn Drill is a level up move at level 13, Reflect is possible through TM33 (can't be bought, unfortunately). It learns Super Glitch at level 35.
1b) : When you do the 'remove 1 letter' part, replace Fury Attack with Mega Punch (TM01). It can learn it because it will have became part Nidoqueen at this point.
2) When you do Super Glitch corruption, I think you have to do it by viewing the Pokémon's summary in the right location; because you apparently can't carry over screen data into battle in Yellow.
3) You'll need to consider that the glitch Pokémon between Red/Blue and Yellow are different, so a Pokémon in Red/Blue might have different base stats, moves, etc to the Pokémon with the same index number in Yellow.
…And that's the end of the glitch, you'll have one or more level 30 'fossil' Pokémon, and you can get even Johto guard glitch Pokémon or remaining HP glitch "only" Pokémon. You may want to try releasing your junk Pokémon, but save first; as I haven't tried this yet.
If you use TheZZAZZGlitch's over 6 Pokémon trick and the fixes, you can adapt any other select glitch from Japanese R/G/B to English R/B/Y, but the select glitches will be different in some way.
Additionally, I think it's cool how the Attack stat is a significant glitching variable now, like the Special stat.