Cartridge Tilting?
Posted by: crobatfan11
Date: 2019-06-25 11:51:44
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Has there ever been any documentation on what cartridge tilting can do in gen 3 games? I'm trying to figure out an oddity I remembered from years back, said oddity involved one of my regular wild encounters being replaced by a Shiny Bad EGG (The text for the encounter said "A wild Slugma appeared!", so presumably this should have been a normal encounter.) A few minutes later the game crashed with a screen resembling what punching the screen would do to it while powered on black and white colorations resembling a cracked screen, colors were flickering (No damage to the cart, save or console occured). No sorts of cheats were in effect, just playing on a normal Emerald cartridge. Nothing like it ever happened since.
Has there ever been any documentation on what cartridge tilting can do in gen 3 games? I'm trying to figure out an oddity I remembered from years back, said oddity involved one of my regular wild encounters being replaced by a Shiny Bad EGG (The text for the encounter said "A wild Slugma appeared!", so presumably this should have been a normal encounter.) A few minutes later the game crashed with a screen resembling what punching the screen would do to it while powered on black and white colorations resembling a cracked screen, colors were flickering (No damage to the cart, save or console occured). No sorts of cheats were in effect, just playing on a normal Emerald cartridge. Nothing like it ever happened since.
Oooh wow! :O That sounds amazing. I don't know if there has been any documentation, sorry. I was only aware of the typical freeze sound and halt.
Thanks for sharing. ^^
I want to commit a day grinding at this. Maybe it could occur often enough to be viable. In relation to potential uses: I guess it's a reasonable way to acquire Pokérus if you can keep the Bad Egg. Maybe as well, because storage box data takes up loads of the RAM you could corrupt stored Pokémon in the box? I guess it depends on whether the game lets you save; hence (on an assumption that could be wrong) keeping the corrupted data, and also not returning a save error message/bad save message after reset.
Cart tilting then could explain the Bad Egg someone found in FireRed, apparently without cheats according to their report.
https://forums.glitchcity.info/index.php?topic=8320.0
https://forums.glitchcity.info/index.php?topic=8459.0
Has there ever been any documentation on what cartridge tilting can do in gen 3 games? I'm trying to figure out an oddity I remembered from years back, said oddity involved one of my regular wild encounters being replaced by a Shiny Bad EGG (The text for the encounter said "A wild Slugma appeared!", so presumably this should have been a normal encounter.) A few minutes later the game crashed with a screen resembling what punching the screen would do to it while powered on black and white colorations resembling a cracked screen, colors were flickering (No damage to the cart, save or console occured). No sorts of cheats were in effect, just playing on a normal Emerald cartridge. Nothing like it ever happened since.
Oooh wow! :O That sounds amazing. I don't know if there has been any documentation, sorry. I was only aware of the typical freeze sound and halt.
Thanks for sharing. ^^
I want to commit a day grinding at this. Maybe it could occur often enough to be viable. In relation to potential uses: I guess it's a reasonable way to acquire Pokérus if you can keep the Bad Egg. Maybe as well, because storage box data takes up loads of the RAM you could corrupt stored Pokémon in the box? I guess it depends on whether the game lets you save; hence (on an assumption that could be wrong) keeping the corrupted data, and also not returning a save error message/bad save message after reset.
Cart tilting then could explain the Bad Egg someone found in FireRed, apparently without cheats according to their report.
https://forums.glitchcity.info/index.php?topic=8320.0
https://forums.glitchcity.info/index.php?topic=8459.0
I wasn't aware there were even other cases of this occuring that were actually documented. Poor contact caused by dirt is another thing that also could have happened. (That would explain that one person who had a whole ton of things replaced by Bad EGGs better than a cartridge tilt) The only other thing I can remember about when that appeared is I was attempting that fake Navel Rock trick that Munching Orange posted back in the day (I think I was like 8 at the time, and was desprate to get Ho-Oh for my Pokedex as it was the last one legitimately obtainable and I never owned Colosseum plz don't judge xD)
I don't remember much else about what I was doing prior to that. Sorry.