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Glitch City

Major glitches of the Pokémon series


Arbitrary code execution

0x1500 control code arbitrary code execution (Crystal) | Cart-swap arbitrary code execution | Generation I custom map script pointer | Generation I invalid meta-map scripts | Generation I item ("8F", "ws m", "-g m", "5かい", "てへ" etc.) | Generation I move ("-", "TM42") | Generation I Trainer escape glitch text boxes | Generation II bad clone | Generation II Burned Tower Silver | Japanese Crystal Pokémon Communication Center SRAM glitches | Coin Case glitch | Generation II glitch Pokédex sortings | Pikachu off-screen glitch ACE | OAM DMA hijacking | Pikachu glitch emote | Generation III glitch Pokémon summary | Generation III glitch move animation) | Remote code execution | TM/HMs outside of the TM/HM pocket | ZZAZZ glitch Trainer FC

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Cloning | Item duplication glitch (Generation I) | Pokémon merge glitch ("Q Glitch", Generation I) | Time Capsule exploit | Bug-Catching Contest data copy glitch (Generation II, Japan only) | Berry glitch | Battle Tower Lati@s glitch (Generation III) | (Mimic) Transform Rage glitch (Generation IV)

Transform held item glitch (Generation IV, Japan only) | Mimic glitch (Generation IV, Japan only)


[hr] Buffer overflow techniques

99 item stack glitch | LOL glitch | Rival LOL glitch | Instant LOL glitch | RAM LOL glitch | Out of bounds LOL glitch | blockoobLG | Instant encounter infinite chain glitch | LGFly | Super Glitch (Generation I) | Party remaining HP glitch | Super Glitch (Generation III) | Text pointer manipulation mart buffer overflow glitch | CoolTrainer♀-type move | Double distort CoolTrainer♀ corruption | Yami Shop glitch | Party Pokémon box data shift glitch | Unterminated name glitch item instant encounter (Japanese Red/Green)

[hr] Item stack duplication glitch (Generation I)

Generation I expanded items pack (Glitch Rocket HQ maps, Map FE (English and non-English European Yellow) | Map script pointer manipulation (arbitrary code execution | Map script pointer item ball manipulation) | Text pointer manipulation (arbitrary code execution | Item ball manipulation | Mart buffer overflow) | Trainerless instant encounter glitch

[hr] Bad clone glitch (Generation II)

????? party overloading (Type 0xD0 move glitch | ????? map corruption | Celebi trick | Celebi Egg trick | Shiny Celebi trick | Glitch move map corruption | Overloaded party map corruption | Glitch Unown (Glitch Unown map corruption) | Duplicate key items glitch (Infinite items and item creation, Expanded Balls pocket (Wrong pocket TM/HMs, Glitch Pokédex categories))

[hr] Closed menu Select glitches (Japanese Red/Green)

Dokokashira door glitch (International) | Fossil conversion glitch (international) | Second type glitch | Skip to Level 100 glitch | Trainer mutation glitch | Walk through walls (International) | Lift glitch | Badge describer glitch

[hr] Pomeg glitch (Generation III)

Pomeg data corruption glitch ("Glitzer Popping") | Charm glitch

[hr] Voiding (Generation IV)

Tweaking

Broken escalator glitch (Japan only) | Elite Four door glitch (Japan only)


[hr] 2x2 block encounter glitches (Generation I)

Left-facing shore tile glitch (in-game trade shore encounter trick, Old man trick, Trade link up shore encounter trick, Fight Safari Zone Pokémon trick) | Viridian Forest no encounter grass tiles glitch

[hr] Glitch City

Safari Zone exit glitch | RAM manipulation | Out of bounds Glitch City (Generation II) | Slowpoke Well out of bounds corruption (French Gold/Silver/Crystal)

[hr] Large storage box byte shift glitch

Storage box remaining HP glitch | Generation I max stat trick

[hr] Pikachu off-screen glitch

Trainer corruption glitch

[hr] SRAM glitches

Generation I save corruption | 255 Pokémon glitch | Expanded party encounter table manipulation (Generation I) | Send party Pokémon to a new game (Generation I) | Generation II save corruption | Mailbox glitches | Mystery Gift item corruption | Trainer House glitches

[hr] Trainer escape glitch

Death-warp | Ditto trick | Experience underflow glitch | Mew trick | Text box ID matching | Meta-map script activation

[hr] Walk through walls

Ledge method | Museum guy method | Rival's effect | Select glitch method (International Select glitch method), Brock Through Walls

[hr] Surf down glitch

Grass/rock Surfing glitch (Spanish/Italian only) (adaptions: Submerge glitch (international)) | 8 8 (0x7C) grass/rock surfing glitch (English Red/Blue))



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For the website, see Glitch City Laboratories.

Glitch City (known in Japan rarely as バグった町, Bug Town or Bug City) or glitch location is a generic term used to describe an 'area' which is a glitchy mess of tiles, often generated using an existing location.

It is not to be confused with an unused map (although some unused maps may appear to be glitchy and/or incomplete).

One of the most well-known types of Glitch City is a wrong warp Glitch City caused by the Safari Zone exit glitch.

"Glitch City" does not refer to when the game's colors are altered among other minor things. Instead, this is often referred to as a Glitch Dimension. Some glitched areas in Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow may be named after what area was altered to create it. Examples of this are "Glitch League", accessed by taking the 500th step at the Pokémon League, and "Glitch Mountain", accessed by taking the 500th step on Cycling Road.

Types of Glitch City

Generation I

  • Valid source map Glitch Cities, accessed through:
  • Wrong warps (Safari Zone exit glitch, changing item 36's quantity in the expanded items pack, 99 item stack glitch with Yami Shop glitch)
  • Stepping out of bounds when y-position is greater than y-boundary
  • Manual editing of D35F/D360
  • 10F glitch item in Red/Blue
  • Invalid D056 value accessed via unterminated name glitch item in Yellow
  • Silph Co. PC glitch
  • Pikachu off-screen glitch (Super Glitch City)
  • Phantom City
  • Out of bounds Glitch Hell (Red, Green, Japanese Yellow)
  • Descent glitch maps

    (Pokémon League descent glitch maps 0xED-0xEE, 0xF1-0xF4 (English Yellow), Map E7 Glitch Hell (Japanese Yellow), Map 0x0B (French Yellow), Map 0x0B (German Yellow), Map 0x0B (Spanish Yellow))
  • Map 0x0B (Italian Yellow)
  • Redirection glitch maps (Map 0xFE (English Yellow), Map 0xFE (Japanese Yellow), Map 0xFF (Spanish Yellow))
  • Freeze glitch maps (Many)

    Generation II

  • Out of bounds Glitch City (Generation II)
  • ????? Glitch City
  • Map 21FF (Gold/Silver)
  • Map F121 (Japanese Gold/Silver)
  • Map F121 (Japanese Crystal)
  • Freeze glitch maps (Many)

    See also

  • Glitch City RAM manipulation: When a Glitch City's block source pointer is in a location in RAM, it allows for the player to set up a specific Glitch City from buffer overflow techniques that use the screen data or cut a tree to modify a specific address in RAM to a value based on the original 4x4 map block.
  • Mystery Zone
  • Out of bounds

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