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Remember when nintendo tried demonizing Missingno.? - Page 1

Remember when nintendo tried demonizing Missingno.?

Posted by: shatteredClockworks
Date: 2017-01-26 07:04:06
But the players loved it anyway?
"MissingNO is a programming quirk, and not a real part of the game. When you get this, your game can perform strangely, and the graphics will often become scrambled. The MissingNO Pokémon is most often found after you perform the Fight Safari Zone Pokémon trick.

To fix the scrambled graphics, try releasing the MissingNo Pokémon. If the problem persists, the only solution is to re-start your game. This means erasing your current game and starting a brand new one."
I think they were desperate to get players not to use it for item duping.
Also they lied about it being a programming quirk, it was intentional as an error handler.
Nintendo.
Such anti-glitch.

Re: Remember when nintendo tried demonizing Missingno.?

Posted by: ISSOtm
Date: 2017-01-26 10:40:14
It's no error handler. More of a half of a placeholder.
Its name is valid.
In Japanese Blue, it was given a valid Pokédex entry.

But its stats are taken form the data of a Cue Ball's Pokémon.
And when the game tries to set its Pokédex bit, it ends up causing the famous duplication thingy.

So yeah, it's more of a programming quirk in my opinion, but certainly no error handler.
But they did lie about how to reset the graphics.
Releasing him won't do anything to the GFX.
Starting a new save will.
But viewing any Pokédex entry also will. That's where they lied.

Re: Remember when nintendo tried demonizing Missingno.?

Posted by: Yeniaul
Date: 2017-01-26 10:54:20

But the players loved it anyway?
"MissingNO is a programming quirk, and not a real part of the game. When you get this, your game can perform strangely, and the graphics will often become scrambled. The MissingNO Pokémon is most often found after you perform the Fight Safari Zone Pokémon trick.

To fix the scrambled graphics, try releasing the MissingNo Pokémon. If the problem persists, the only solution is to re-start your game. This means erasing your current game and starting a brand new one."
I think they were desperate to get players not to use it for item duping.
Also they lied about it being a programming quirk, it was intentional as an error handler.
Nintendo.
Such anti-glitch.

Don't forget the "If starting a new game doesn't fix the graphics, you have to buy a new cart and trading Pokemon from the old cart to the new one will break the game again" part.

Re: Remember when nintendo tried demonizing Missingno.?

Posted by: ISSOtm
Date: 2017-01-26 11:39:20
They didn't say that.

Re: Remember when nintendo tried demonizing Missingno.?

Posted by: shatteredClockworks
Date: 2017-01-26 11:46:11


But the players loved it anyway?
"MissingNO is a programming quirk, and not a real part of the game. When you get this, your game can perform strangely, and the graphics will often become scrambled. The MissingNO Pokémon is most often found after you perform the Fight Safari Zone Pokémon trick.

To fix the scrambled graphics, try releasing the MissingNo Pokémon. If the problem persists, the only solution is to re-start your game. This means erasing your current game and starting a brand new one."
I think they were desperate to get players not to use it for item duping.
Also they lied about it being a programming quirk, it was intentional as an error handler.
Nintendo.
Such anti-glitch.

Don't forget the "If starting a new game doesn't fix the graphics, you have to buy a new cart and trading Pokemon from the old cart to the new one will break the game again" part.

Where did they say that?

Re: Remember when nintendo tried demonizing Missingno.?

Posted by: ISSOtm
Date: 2017-01-26 11:48:22



But the players loved it anyway?
"MissingNO is a programming quirk, and not a real part of the game. When you get this, your game can perform strangely, and the graphics will often become scrambled. The MissingNO Pokémon is most often found after you perform the Fight Safari Zone Pokémon trick.

To fix the scrambled graphics, try releasing the MissingNo Pokémon. If the problem persists, the only solution is to re-start your game. This means erasing your current game and starting a brand new one."
I think they were desperate to get players not to use it for item duping.
Also they lied about it being a programming quirk, it was intentional as an error handler.
Nintendo.
Such anti-glitch.

Don't forget the "If starting a new game doesn't fix the graphics, you have to buy a new cart and trading Pokemon from the old cart to the new one will break the game again" part.

Where did they say that?

They didn't say that.

Re: Remember when nintendo tried demonizing Missingno.?

Posted by: Yeniaul
Date: 2017-01-26 17:46:53




But the players loved it anyway?
"MissingNO is a programming quirk, and not a real part of the game. When you get this, your game can perform strangely, and the graphics will often become scrambled. The MissingNO Pokémon is most often found after you perform the Fight Safari Zone Pokémon trick.

To fix the scrambled graphics, try releasing the MissingNo Pokémon. If the problem persists, the only solution is to re-start your game. This means erasing your current game and starting a brand new one."
I think they were desperate to get players not to use it for item duping.
Also they lied about it being a programming quirk, it was intentional as an error handler.
Nintendo.
Such anti-glitch.

Don't forget the "If starting a new game doesn't fix the graphics, you have to buy a new cart and trading Pokemon from the old cart to the new one will break the game again" part.

Where did they say that?

They didn't say that.


Oh, but they did in a conference somewhere idontremember

Re: Remember when nintendo tried demonizing Missingno.?

Posted by: shatteredClockworks
Date: 2017-01-26 18:49:11

It's no error handler. More of a half of a placeholder.
Its name is valid.
In Japanese Blue, it was given a valid Pokédex entry.

But its stats are taken form the data of a Cue Ball's Pokémon.
And when the game tries to set its Pokédex bit, it ends up causing the famous duplication thingy.

So yeah, it's more of a programming quirk in my opinion, but certainly no error handler.
But they did lie about how to reset the graphics.
Releasing him won't do anything to the GFX.
Starting a new save will.
But viewing any Pokédex entry also will. That's where they lied.

Yeah.
It replaces encounter spaces so that the game doesn't need to scramble to find some Pokemon data where there isn't any. Or, that is what it was intended to do, should the situation occur by unintentional means.

Re: Remember when nintendo tried demonizing Missingno.?

Posted by: ISSOtm
Date: 2017-01-27 06:34:22


It's no error handler. More of a half of a placeholder.
Its name is valid.
In Japanese Blue, it was given a valid Pokédex entry.

But its stats are taken form the data of a Cue Ball's Pokémon.
And when the game tries to set its Pokédex bit, it ends up causing the famous duplication thingy.

So yeah, it's more of a programming quirk in my opinion, but certainly no error handler.
But they did lie about how to reset the graphics.
Releasing him won't do anything to the GFX.
Starting a new save will.
But viewing any Pokédex entry also will. That's where they lied.

Yeah.
It replaces spaces so that the game doesn't need to scramble to find some Pokemon data where there isn't any.

Uh, no. Viewing a Dex entry will simply reset the flag that flips sprites around, so there's no "scrambling" anymore. Which is just a consequence of sprites being decompressed in the reverse order but then animations not accounting for it.

Re: Remember when nintendo tried demonizing Missingno.?

Posted by: shatteredClockworks
Date: 2017-01-27 08:10:13


It's no error handler. More of a half of a placeholder.
Its name is valid.
In Japanese Blue, it was given a valid Pokédex entry.

But its stats are taken form the data of a Cue Ball's Pokémon.
And when the game tries to set its Pokédex bit, it ends up causing the famous duplication thingy.

So yeah, it's more of a programming quirk in my opinion, but certainly no error handler.
But they did lie about how to reset the graphics.
Releasing him won't do anything to the GFX.
Starting a new save will.
But viewing any Pokédex entry also will. That's where they lied.

Yeah.
It replaces spaces so that the game doesn't need to scramble to find data where there isn't any.