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Generation III Glitch Discussion

Mail glitch to duplicate Rare Candies discovered in Japanese Ruby - Page 1

Mail glitch to duplicate Rare Candies discovered in Japanese Ruby

Posted by: Torchickens
Date: 2018-01-15 15:59:31
It looks like a Mail glitch was documented recently that meant the Pokémon Ruby any% category was split into any% and any% glitchless, and it allows you to take many Rare Candy hold items from a Pokémon (wondering if its part of the Mail and Trick glitches)

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/209202090

I don't know how this particular glitch works though, would anyone like to elaborate? Thanks.

Edit: Maybe it's not exactly the same glitch, epicdudeguy said the Japanese community thought it was only possible with a move "really hard to obtain" which could be Trick.

Edit 2: They use Twins Amy & Liv (と) on Route 103 to start a Double Battle with Harbor Mail attached to Pokémon 1, 3, 5, 6, Abra (Pokémon 2) uses Thief on the first of your Pokémon (holding a Harbor Mail), then Thief on the opposing Minun. The mail is taken off of Abra and into the PC. A Rare Candy is equipped to a Wingull with one-character name (Pokémon 4) like Pokémon 1. Then a Harbor Mail is attached to Pokémon 1 and the phrase Geodude () is entered. Then another mail is attached to Pokémon 2 (also name). Then you attempt to attach a Mail to the Wingull holding a Rare Candy, causing you to take away one mail in the pack and obtain one Rare Candy each time, and this can be repeated many (how many mails you have) times.

I wonder then whether the length of Pokémon 1 and Pokémon 4's name is important. On our wiki article it says to "repeat steps 2. and 4. five times" but it could be related to Kadabra's five character name (). In the video Wingull and Marshtomp only have a one character name.