Wiki information finding
Posted by: bwill11
Date: 2019-05-29 08:19:05
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All of this.
Move index numbers are basically the designation of what moves a Pokemon knows. We can forcefully change a Pokemon's known moves, so we iterate through all indexes we don't know and see what happens.
Most of the time, there's a table for each Pokemon that determines when it learns moves. At level 100, each table stops and a new one starts, meaning moves learned over L100 are pulled from some other table, sometimes incorrectly. We can do this manually as the tables always have a structure, and the game does almost no error checks ever, so we can just continue the pattern entries have past the end of the table.
No sprites means either the sprite can't be seen due to a crash, no one's generated one yet, or the Pokemon index is usually a Trainer (we still can get them in this case, it's just harder.) Blank sprites will have a blank sprite placeholder (IIRC) on the page.
How is the index number of a glitch move found? On the wiki, The index of Super Glitch moves learned by a glitch Pokemon is shown, but how is that found? Also, how are the moves learned over level 100 by a glitch Pokemon found? Finally, on the wiki, when it says N/A in place of a sprite, what does that mean (front sprite crash, blank sprite with nothing, nobody has seen the sprite yet, etc)?