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Thunderbolt glitch

Miscellaneous glitches of Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen and Pokémon Emerald

Exclusive to Ruby and Sapphire:

256x item selling price glitch | Amazing Trainers | Berry glitch | Draining hitpoints animation glitch | Evolution animation glitch | Sticky Hold glitch | Mossdeep City Skitty glitch | Truck glitch | Nightmare glitch | Mossdeep City Skitty glitch

Acro Bike instability glitches (Japanese only) | Dark red selector glitch (International only) | Excessive doll arrangement glitch (Japanese only) | Mail and Trick glitches (Japanese only) | Surf on land (Japanese only)




Exclusive to FireRed and LeafGreen:

Celadon City origin glitch | Pokédex species glitch | Roaming Pokémon Roar glitch



Exclusive to Emerald:

Battle Pike poison knockout glitch | Black curtains glitch | Mart worker glitch | Mover Vigoroth cry glitch (Japanese only)



In various or all entries:

Azurill gender glitch | Boss HP recruit glitch (Mystery Dungeon) | Decamark-specific glitches | Dewford Gym footprint glitch | Evolution move-learning glitch | Focus Punch glitch | Roaming Pokémon IV glitch | Sky Pillar glitch | Thunderbolt glitch | VBlank RNG interrupt glitch



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The Thunderbolt Glitch, or Thunder Glitch is a minor glitch in Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire as well as Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen.

On rare occasions, when the player uses the move Thunderbolt or Thunder, the sound effect may linger until the game is powered off.

  • A list of minor glitches in Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire from Pokéglitch.tripod.com.

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