The Pokémon you battle when it resets the battle after glitch (Mew) is based on the special stat of the most recently battled trainer/wild Pokémon (Youngster Slowpoke). So they found this slowpokes special = mews index number. Theoretically if you find a ditto in the wild and have some crazy high special stats you can absolutely break the game with the glitch Pokémon you trigger
Never underestimate what gamers will try. I remember cloning pokemon in silver without knowing about it until I had two lugia. Thats without knowing code errors and stuff so I'm sure people that know how coding goes like to try lots of different things to break they're game.
@@DetectiveJamesCarterThe funny thing is. We knew it on our schoolyard in year 1999/2000 and no one had internet access in the form you have today at that time.
I did know this when I was a kid 😂 I accidentally found it with the dude in the grass above nugget bridge. I happened to have a Abra I was trying to train up.
@@PriestessOfSlaanesh This glitch wasn't first discovered until 2002, and didn't start becoming known until 2003. If you had a Mew prior to then, you probably got it by GameShark.
It's even crazier why this works. It abuses the fact that the old Pokemon games re-use a lot of space for multiple uses. For the curious. 1. By escaping a trainer it makes the game get stuck in a waiting for trainer to approach and battle state. 2. The boy is key because he has a slowpoke with a specific special stat. The special stat will affect the next encounter. The last pokemon faced is stored in the same place as trainer data. 3. When you return to the route escaped from, the game tried to pull the text from the trainer's dialog but opening the start menu stores that in the dialog spot so it opens the start menu. 4. When you close the start menu, the game thinks you talked to the trainer and starts a battle. It pulls the stats from the last pokemon battled because it's stored in the same place as trainer data. 5. Depending on the special stat of last pokemon it pulls the corresponding pokemon from the random encounters. The slowpoke has a special of 21 which is Mew's index number. So the game pulls mew out.
@@TRLT1993 There weren't just one person that figured it out and they weren't the first, assuming they figured it out on their own. Fun fact this glitch Also works on pokemon yellow.
I really loved gen 1 for me it was the start of a long road of Playing Pokemon but years later i realised even if gen 1 is really fun it is a big glitched out mess. But thad makes it iconic.
If you have yellow version and another game to trace in original, use yellow version and trade pikachu 10 times and use a water stone on it. Can’t find it on the internet anywhere but did this in the first gen, obtaining a legitimate surfing pikachu.
I used it on the re-released version of pokemon Red for 3DS and then had to use another glitch to change its ot number to a giveaway one so I could transfer it to pokemon bank and then pokemon home. So now it thinks I have a legit mew from a gamestop giveaway from the 90's...
Ye, you can have Mew even before getting the 2d badge. The only time consuming part may be Abra, cause it only knows Teleport, so if you don't catch it with the first Pokeball or you miss with your sleeping move (Butterfree or Clefairy/Jigglypuff with Hypnosis/Sing) , it's gg. And it has 15% encounter there..
@@8bitmoe u can also dont clear lt surge gym(no cut hence ss anne forever there) Then just clear gym till u unlock strength and surf. Go surf right and viola.
This is called the 'Long Range Trainer' glitch. It can be altered in a few ways. After the 1st fly, the pokemon encountered changes depending on what you fought last, and how many times you growl at it. So if you fight the youngster and growl 6 times, the mew you'd encounter would be level 1. Done on pokemon yellow, there's a high chance that this level 1 'mon can be "underflowed" into a level 100. The more you know.
Lvl 1 is pretty much default and since there are no lvl 1 wild encounters, leveling up will automatically level up to 100. This also happened in Gen 2 too (all egg mons in the daycare will always be level 5). This glitch was fixed in Gen 3.
@@Miguel92398 you'd think they always underflow, but they do not always do so. Only if you have a level 1 with an obnoxious 7 digit xp count in the negative. So no, it will not always automatically
@@ssjbread2803 it definitely seems more likely to happen in yellow. Not sure the determining factor of that part. I can get a level 1 Rhyhorn that will never underflow, and a Nidoking that always will. It's rather strange.
For reference, I've been trying to complete the pokedex without trading via this glitch. Mew was very early, but not the only unobtainable. Yellow has stuff like the Team Rocket lineup and extra pikachu that are normally unobtainable. I've also found missingno with this glitch as well.
You can actually do this trick MUCH sooner. In fact, before you battle Misty. Heal at the cerulean city pokemon center, Catch an Abra, and use teleport before the trainer that's in the grass where you caught the Abra you caught sees you. After you beat the trainer with a slowpoke, use teleport so you go back to the cerulean city pokemon center, and walk back up the nugget bridge, and your new encounter with mew will begin.
@@uncle_Samssubjects Step 1. You need an abra, and DO NOT FIGHT THE YOUNGSTER AT ROUTE 25!!! Step 2. Head up to nugget bridge, then take a left at the end of the bridge. When you hit the corner of the water tile, SAVE! Just in case. Step 3. head towards the grass tile closest to the water. Right before the trainer sees you, hit start. Then go to your pokemon, and select abra, and teleport. If done right, you should teleport before the battle sequence initiates. Step 4. Head back up the nugget bridge, and go towards bills house. there is a youngster on route 25, what you need to do is battle him and his slowpoke. DO NOT STEP ONTO THE TILE IN FRONT OF HIM THIS WILL LOCK YOUR GAME!!! I suggest walking 2 tiles up, then enter his line of sight. YOU MUST BEAT HIM!! Step 5. After the battle, teleport back to the poke center in Cerulean city. DO NOT ENTER ANY OF THE BUILDINGS THIS WILL CRASH YOUR GAME. Head back up to the nugget bridge. When you hit a certain tile, your start menu should pop up. Close out of the menu, and a battle should initiate. It'll be a lvl 7 Mew. If you fail any of the steps, just reset to the original save point. I don't recommend saving after the first save by nugget bridge from step 1.
Youd have to get an older kid to do this for you. So old in-fact that you as an 8 year old would question why this borderline autistic young adult knows this and why theyre even willing to help you...
This also works on the Virtual Console ports of Red, Blue, and Yellow- however, you can't transfer the Mew. Pokémon Box and HOME recognize it as a glitched mon.
It will work on any version of the game period XD The game doesn't magically recode itself. Also fixing this would be alot more trouble than it's worth since the game is written line by line in machine code.
This is probably the most difficult way to do this, you can actually do this with teleport before you even face the second Gym while just staying around Cerulean
finally i was just about to mention i did this with teleport with the abra u can find nearby :D i almost lost hope looking through comments for a bit lol. Edit: this guys comment needs pinning or thumbs up or something so people will know an easier way!
This glitch has an earlier rendition, which can be done by poison or teleport. The poison method is how you activate this glitch in Viridian Forest for a rhydon, or Mewtwo. Different Pokémon will appear depending on which trainer you fought. Also, the fly to Lavender Town is not needed. Just walk back to the Nugget Bridge. Something to note is that the move Growl is somewhat important here. Use it during the trainer battle will lower the Mew's level by 1. If you reduce it to 1 and barely get any EXP, the level will underflow to 100.
Is it possible to nest these? i.e. use the glitch in viridian to make a Rhydon appear with the correct special for Mew, then a second time to get Mew itself?
@@IamGrimalkin No, because it requires the use of another battle to restore some game function. However! You can use a Ditto encounter to set up any arbitrary Special stat, because the Special stat is what's responsible for which Pokémon shows up. Once Ditto has transformed, you can run from the encounter, and wander back to the trainer that you escaped from. There are several eligible candidates. In fairness, though, we have Arbitrary Code Execution available in Red/Blue/Yellow, and TheZZAZZGlitch will absolutely be a valuable resource for getting into the meat and potatoes of bending Gen 1 to your will.
@@Omio9999 Thank you for mentioning the Ditto variant; it's so useful because you can get any pokemon this way, including most glitch pokemon. All you need to do is look-up what the corresponding Special stat you need.
The most glitching battles take place swimming by the eastern shore of cinnabar, you can get any Pokemon at any level depending on the steps you do, your character name, and the special stat of your last catched mon. I don't remember the specific steps, but i recall u could get a lvl 100 nidoking without fighting brock, by the "brock through walls" glitch and so... The game has so many glitches that once data miners studied its innards, they found glitches to get almost everything in the game
This is probably the most convoluted method of doing this. Catch an abra and heal in cerulean center. Step down on the trainer in the grass next to nugget bridge and press start when he come onto frame. Teleport to the center. Go up and battle trainer with the slowpoke. Then teleport back to cerulean. Go up nugget bridge and unpause when prompted. Also of you use growl 6 time's on the trainers slowpoke and the mew will be lvl 1. After catching him Use him in battle but swap all pokemon in so mew does not gain enough experience to lvl up. If done correctly mew will lvl up from 1 to 100 instantly.
Also works with the first trainer in the cerulean gym (the guy with a shellder) and abras teleport, using the guy in the grass in place of the biker by the underground trail. You effectively could get mew before the second badge.
pro tip, if you growl the slowpoke 6 times it will show up as a lv 1, and if you go back to pallet and swap mew from the first slot and give it under 60 xp it’ll be lv 100, have fun gamers
I did this year's ago before the Internet was everywhere. Everything used to be word of mouth. Don't remember where it came from but definitely knew all about it
Back in 2000. I was invited to the official Nintendo magazine HQ in London following a promo I won. they had the Mew distribution machine and gave me a Mew on both my yellow and red carts. still have them to this day.
@@ToneyCrimsonit might be true, the gold/silver/and crystal versions spent the internal battery faster due to the clock function. I have blue, yellow and silver, and I only needed to change the battery on silver while the other two still have my save files intact.
You can use this glitch to obtain any Pokémon. It all depends on the Special stat of the last Pokémon you battle before activating the encounter. I once got myself a Lv. 7 Dragonite to use in the Lv. 10 Battle Tower in Crystal.
Fun fact: the level of the pokémon also depends on the attack boost/debuffs of the opponent. So you can use 6 growls on the opposing pokémon and you will get a level 1 pokémon, which underflows into a level 100 if you give it any amount of XP.
You can also use abra with the camper on route 24 with teleport, then battle the same kid with distance in mind, and walk down the bridge, mew will pop your menu, close it with balls and pc space, you got it
Teleport also works, and you can get mew just after completing the nugget bridge. The trainer in the patch of grass to the left of nugget bridge can be teleported away from enabling the glitch also.
@@rodrigohidalgo1425 the move teleport works the same as fly for the purposes of the glitch. you can trade clafairy for mr.mime in yellow. which also knows teleport
Yes so you could technically catch 3 mews right? I remember catching more than 2 that’s for sure but I can’t remember how I did it all those years ago.
Yeah, but transferring it requires you to heavily manipulate the game's code through glitches in order to change its OT, and unless you're super lucky the same goes for shininess, which is even harder because you also have to figure out what your mew's IVs are and what you need to change them to.
I caught 2 mews, made 1 shiny. Also made mewtwo, zapdos, articuno, moltres, snorlax, lapras, scyther, blastoise, kangaskan, porygon and some others shiny as well before transferring them.😊
@@ssjbread2803bro I tried using the PokeTransporter and it said my Mew was a "problematic pokemon" and denied the transfer. I followed all the steps perfectly, so why?!
@@ssjbread2803 I believe AustinJohn did a whole tutorial on it and it's a long glitch that takes hours to do because you have to hit certain triggers in a certain way executing ACE (arbitrary code executions) combinations that result in you renaming the OT and reassgning the ID on top of reassigning the IVs that would have been in the distribution. While it can be done on both VC/physical and emulation, it's definitely recommended to make backup savestates just in case something gets royally screwed because people have corrupted their game before if they don't follow the guide verbatim. Getting the Mew is easy, doing all the rest is a metaphorical road trip.
This is wild. Ive never seen some one do it this way. Always with Abra and the trainer next to the bridge in Cerulean City. I would do it on every run. I didn't think you could do it any other way
There's actually a lot of trainers you can pull this off on, and you can also get a variety of different pokemon depending on what you fought last before triggering the final part of the glitch. It's a lot of fun.
This will also work with Abra’s teleport move outside of battle. I would love to note that the there are a number of other opponents that can also trigger the event, other than this gambler. I typically acquire Mew after seeing Bill, but before taking on Misty. That said, there is a trainer in Misty’s Gym that will also yield a Mew. I use this glitch method to genuinely “catch em all!” every time I play in Gen 1!
You can actually get it before the 2nd badge. If you use Teleport with an Abra on the Trainer in the grass on the left side of the Nuggetbridge if you walk to him from the top and you open the menu before the trainer reacts to the Battle. After that you do the same on the Trainer with the Slowpoke like in the Video. After the match the Menu will pop up, you use Teleport again, Walk to the top, where you faught the rival before the Nuggetbridge. The menu will pop up again, you close it an an Mew will appear on lvl 7.
You do this weirdly. The whole thing can be done in cerulean city before you beat misty. Go north of nugget bridge and catch an Abra. In the grass in the strip of land to the left of nugget bridge is a lone trainer. Open the menu as you walk onto the tile where he would notice you and select teleport from abra. He will notice you but you will teleport back to cerulean city without battling. Now your start menu is disabled. Go north and fight the same youngster as shown in this video, then teleport back to cerulean city and go north once again. As soon as the music changes from you entering the nugget bridge area, the menu will open. Close it and the battle with a lv 7 Mew will begin. Can be done with 1 badge (or 0 if you skip Brock with a glitch)
I remember this glitch in 5th grade we all were obsessed with the rumor that a mew could be found under the truck near the SS Anne then an 8th grader showed us how to really get it and I've never not recovered from that single moment ever it was the early 2000s when Pokemon was at the height of its popularity.
The part where you have to warp to lavender town doesn't matter. You can do it in most cities. As long as you are able to walk to a different area. The transition is what sets up the encounter.
if you use growl on the youngster's last pokemon it will alter the lvl Mew spawns at. If you stack all 6, Mew will spawn at lvl 1 and any experience will cause it to boost to lvl 100 instantly
You can also,if you have an Abra, teleport right before you are seen by trainer to the left of the top of nugget bridge. From there, battle the lass below the youngster in this video and you'll get a Lapras. You can do this with different pokemon depending on who you battle.
This is like how to disable a seat belt alarm in a car. "Button and unbutton the seat belt three times, turn the car on and off, step the gas pedal to the floor 5 times slowly."
If you use growl until it has no effect in the youngster's slowpoke, the mew will appear at lv1. Level it up with less than 59exp and it willbimmediately loop to lv100
You can manipulates its levels by using stat buffing moves too. Growl 7 times and it can be level 0 when you catch the mew. Then the first battle it gets experience will shoot it to level 100
You can get two right after beating nugget bridge. You need: 1. Abra with Teleport 2. The top left trainer in the grass after nugget bridge First, activate the glitch by walking towards the sight of the dude in grass, open menu immediately after walking down. Use abra to teleport. Glitch worked if you cannot open your start menu. Trainers you want to battle (from the farthest possible distance) is the slowpoke guy and the first trainer in misty's gym. After their defeat, use teleport again and walk up to nugget bridge. Repeat the glitch for both trainers to get two Mews before Misty.
You can actually get mew much quicker and easier than that. You don't need fly, you can use teleport. Teleport away from the kid with the slowpoke. You can have mew before you get your 2nd badge
There's TONS of variations and you can aquire literally any pokemon with this general method. It doesnt have to be fly, it can be teleport or escape rope or dig or whatever. I forget which stat, but a particular stat of the pokemon you fight in the middle part of the trick determines the pokemon you encounter at the end. Thats why he uses a trainer with a particular guaranteed stat to make mew appear
this is actually the longest route to do the glitch, use teleport abra, which can be caught right after nugget bridge. then use the quick pause in interaction at the trainer just outside the patch of grass where abra is found. don't need fly at all. mew before second gym
Did this all the time as a kid. I went as far as to try it on different trainers to see what pokemon appear and I was able to get a Level 7 Gengar, and a Nidoking to pop up once.
I did this trick before Lavender Town. Similar concept. Except it's the trainer in the tall grass left of the Nugget Bridge. And you can use Teleport from an Abra you catch in the area to teleport to Pokemon center. You can also use dig, fly, (anything that will teleport you). Same thing, go fight the trainer with at least one space between you and him, then afterwards, teleport to the Pokemon center again, and start walking up the bridge, and a few steps up, the game will either pause or some random text will pop up, and Mew will be encountered. There are also several other trainers that summon Mew. I once went through using this long range trainer trick to see what else appears. One of them up on the way to Bill's house caused a level 7 Gengar to appear, which if caught, removes the need to trade someone for a Haunter. All kinds of random Pokemon appear, depending on the trainer you do actually battle. I've gotten some that were only supposed to be catchable in the opposing version (playing Red, caught one supposed to only be caught in Blue). Also caught a level 7 Golem doing this trick. I forgot which trainer made it appear, but it removed another needed trade. And I never picked Squirtle anymore in the beginning, cause there was one who made a Blastoise appear. Everything that appears with this trick was level 7, but it's got a few neat things. I think if you use growl, leer, or stat decreasing attacks in the trainer battle you do partake in, it can somehow make the random encounter on the bridge a level lower than 7.
Pro Tip: you can get an infinite amount of mews by losing to that youngster’s slowpoke. Even though you lost, you can go back to lavender town (if your last pokecenter was lavender town then you’ll already be there) and walk to the rout to the left and get the mew. Since you lot to the youngster, you can now rinse and repeat as many times as you want to get as many mew as possible. I currently have 2 lvl 100 mew and 2 lvl 7 mew in a Pokémon blue save I’ve been playing on my 3DS
There are many alternatives For the Gambler, you can use any trainer that sees you when you go into the screen with the trainer and he sees you For the Youngster, you can use the Swimmer in Misty’s gym, or use ditto to transform to your Pokémon with a special stat of 21. Then run away. Make sure to RETURN TO THE ROUTE WITHOUT BATTLING ANY TRAINER/POKEMON
another way to get mew: requirements: be in cerulean city, NOT battling the first trainer in cerulean city's gym step 1: go to the nugget bridge and go to the left until you see the patch of grass thats 2 tiles wide, now go 1 more step to the left so it doesnt trigger the encounter that is a part of the glitch now find a Abra and catch it, then heal at the cerulean city pokecenter step 2: go up until you aren't in the grass anymore, then go 1 step to the right. SAVE OR SAVESTATE HERE. now, go down and press Start fast so it opens up the menu, then Teleport using Abra step 3: you go to cerulean city gym, fight the first trainer the thing your looking for is the Shellder (2nd pokemon of the trainer i think) (OPTIONAL) use growl 6 times as that makes the mew level 1, and if a pokemon is level 1 and gets less than 63 experience, it underflows (or overflows idk) to level 100 for some reason there you go! level 100 (or not if you dont growl 6x) mew before the 2nd badge
Something not mentioned, using growl against the youngster’s last Pokemon 6 times will cause the Mew to be Level 1, and gaining any XP will instantly cause the Mew to become Level 100 Also the reason Mew is encountered is because the Youngster’s last Pokemon has a special of 21, which matches Mew’s Index Number. You can encounter any Pokemon with this glitch including a Level 100 Nidoking before Brock.
You can do it in R/B as soon as you finish nugget bridge. Catch an Abra, then use Trainer Fly glitch (only using teleport instnead). Go into Misty's gym and battle the trainer to the right. Use growl on the shelder 6x then finish the battle. Go to Nugget bridge, as as soon as you hit the zone Line you'll be in a combat with a lv 1 mew
it's easy if you can build the leaks. some function triggers the specific npc in pokecenter to infinitely give mew (until you turn it off, you can't save!) but, you have to build the rom.
I did this back in the day with my original yellow cartridge. I had read about it online on the computers at the library and printed the instructions to take home. I had to delete my save file and start all over to even try this. I traded over my favorite pokemon from yellow to gold using my brother's gameboy and then set out on this mysterious mission. It actually worked! Call me a nerd but this was one of the most fun and memorable experiences of my young childhood. I ported over that mew to my gold cartridge where it probably no longer exists due to a dead battery 😢
The easy way to do this is actually to use a trainer just past the nugget bridgein the grass to the left and do the glitch (you can actually use an abra and teleport instead of flying) then return to that same grass patch and get a random encounter with a mew...
My best friend and I actually took advantage of this not too long ago using the Abra teleport method in Cerulean City. He caught the Mew in his Yellow Version then traded it over to my Silver version via the time machine. From there, I glitch-cloned the heck out of it using the box save glitch so we could make copies for his gold, my crystal and back to his yellow so that all of our cartridges had a copy of Mew. There's so much fun to be had with these old cartridges despite their age LOL.
It's actually easier than that. Just have teleport, Go to the man next to/around the bridge in cerulean. Hit start when he sees you and teleport to the cerulean pokecenter. Then go fight the same kid trainer mentioned in the video, then go up to the bridge again and mew will appear. Been doing that glitch since 1998 haha
Best part is, this gets even better. You can abuse this glitch to change the level of the mew you encounter. When you fight the boy, every time you use the move growl it will lower the level of the mew by 1. If you use growl 6 times, you will encounter a lvl 1 mew. Only problem is, the game doesn’t respond well to lvl 1 Pokemon. If you go into a battle with a lvl 1 mew against a weak Pokemon and immediately sub it out before winning, the mew should gain less experience required to lvl up. If this happens your mew will immediately become lvl 100. Interesting thing about this glitch is that the Pokemon you encounter depends on the special stat of the Pokemon you fought before. This means you can easily end up catching a lvl 100 incoming or gyarados using this same strat by changing what Pokemon you face.
Next to the bridge there is a field where you can get an abra that knows teleport so you don’t need fly and can get mew just before you hit the second gym. I have to say it took a lot of edge of the game because it usually had the highest stats in my team while not being highest level. It was super powerful.
You can do it using an abra that knows teleport too. That way you can get it before the second gym. Also you can get many other pokemon based on which trainer you fight.
dang this was here the whole time. after wasting countless hours in my childhood chased mew myths. i ended up getting my mew legit at the mall at a pokemon event lol
The requirements are a lot less. Get a lucky abra in the grass before Mewtwo cave, and use the trained in that grass for the long range encounter and teleport in stead.
This, along with the clone anything glitch in Emerald at Battle Tower, is absolutely EPIC. This made my childhood tonight as I played Yellow again for this specific purpose. Too bad Mew, at this point, is FARRR behind the rest of my team. But seriously. Thank you.
It’s easier to do it all on the same route, i cant remember the exact order but you fight the trainer you showed, so the last poek is slowbro or something, then go into the left of the bridge but tp with abra when trainer sees you, spawn in cerulean, was back to the bridge and mew appears
You can actually get 2 mews before your second badge! Using teleport. You fight the same trainer for the 1st mew and the first trainer in mistys gym for the second mew!
I did this on my Game Boy color. and there is another trick with the guy in the grass in Azuria and so I had 2 Mews in the same game and I transferred them to another cartridge, and so on and I ended up having a team of 6 Mews and knowing that Mew can learn any attack, I made a team with the attacks I wanted, it was incredible.
ITS also possible with Teleport from abra u Get there second badge. There are 3 Trainers WHO allows mew to spawn Also you can do this way earlier on another Spot B4 second Gym. Use growl to Get mew to lvl 1. Catch it an kill a pkm so mew doesnt Get to lvl 2 - Level underflow and boom ITS lvl 100 mew B4 second gym
HOW THE FUCK DID ANYONE FIGURE THIS OUT
Seriously, I always wondered how they did it since it seems so random.
Usually they decipher the coding in the game to figure out how to force certain actions.
The Pokémon you battle when it resets the battle after glitch (Mew) is based on the special stat of the most recently battled trainer/wild Pokémon (Youngster Slowpoke). So they found this slowpokes special = mews index number. Theoretically if you find a ditto in the wild and have some crazy high special stats you can absolutely break the game with the glitch Pokémon you trigger
Never underestimate what gamers will try. I remember cloning pokemon in silver without knowing about it until I had two lugia. Thats without knowing code errors and stuff so I'm sure people that know how coding goes like to try lots of different things to break they're game.
@@DetectiveJamesCarterThe funny thing is. We knew it on our schoolyard in year 1999/2000 and no one had internet access in the form you have today at that time.
Having this information in primary school back in 2002 would get you respect in the whole neighborhood
The whole region you mean
You didnt? I had it in 1999. Everyone here had mew
I did know this when I was a kid 😂 I accidentally found it with the dude in the grass above nugget bridge. I happened to have a Abra I was trying to train up.
BRO FACTS!!! Would be a LEGEND TO THIS DAY!!
@@PriestessOfSlaanesh This glitch wasn't first discovered until 2002, and didn't start becoming known until 2003. If you had a Mew prior to then, you probably got it by GameShark.
It's even crazier why this works.
It abuses the fact that the old Pokemon games re-use a lot of space for multiple uses.
For the curious.
1. By escaping a trainer it makes the game get stuck in a waiting for trainer to approach and battle state.
2. The boy is key because he has a slowpoke with a specific special stat. The special stat will affect the next encounter. The last pokemon faced is stored in the same place as trainer data.
3. When you return to the route escaped from, the game tried to pull the text from the trainer's dialog but opening the start menu stores that in the dialog spot so it opens the start menu.
4. When you close the start menu, the game thinks you talked to the trainer and starts a battle. It pulls the stats from the last pokemon battled because it's stored in the same place as trainer data.
5. Depending on the special stat of last pokemon it pulls the corresponding pokemon from the random encounters. The slowpoke has a special of 21 which is Mew's index number. So the game pulls mew out.
Wow, that is retro nuts. Thanks for the lengthy explanation, I appreciate it 🙏🏻
You must have been the person to figure out how to do this lol
@@TRLT1993
There weren't just one person that figured it out and they weren't the first, assuming they figured it out on their own. Fun fact this glitch Also works on pokemon yellow.
You the real MVP here.
🐐.
Still waiting for my Mew to come out from under that damn truck
same!
Bro it's been 30 year's, I don't think the mew is there
@@bobombbricks5404its there! a guy on the schoolyard told me, so it must be true😂
Man the amount of effort put into this for nothing was crazy as a 10 year old
It’s probably skeletal remains 😂
Gen 1 is comically goated on cool glitches and bugs
I really loved gen 1 for me it was the start of a long road of Playing Pokemon but years later i realised even if gen 1 is really fun it is a big glitched out mess.
But thad makes it iconic.
I did this on original hardware to see if it would actually work. It works PERFECTLY. I saved after and my game has no glitches or issues.
I did this a few times and had like, four Mews on one save
but then my battery died, don't cheap out on your replacement batteries!
If you have yellow version and another game to trace in original, use yellow version and trade pikachu 10 times and use a water stone on it. Can’t find it on the internet anywhere but did this in the first gen, obtaining a legitimate surfing pikachu.
I used it on the re-released version of pokemon Red for 3DS and then had to use another glitch to change its ot number to a giveaway one so I could transfer it to pokemon bank and then pokemon home. So now it thinks I have a legit mew from a gamestop giveaway from the 90's...
I did it on my brothers copy, but in fuschia city I think, and somehow gave him a level 99 caterpie 🤣
@@wolfetteplays8894 level it up by one and cancel the evolution, then give the caterpie on someone's birthday
You can do it with teleport from an Abra caught in cerulean city, and use teleport from the trainer in the grass to the Mewtwo cave
Ah was not aware! I know this is really just an exploit that alters some code in the game so I wouldn’t be surprised if there were more methods
Ye, you can have Mew even before getting the 2d badge. The only time consuming part may be Abra, cause it only knows Teleport, so if you don't catch it with the first Pokeball or you miss with your sleeping move (Butterfree or Clefairy/Jigglypuff with Hypnosis/Sing) , it's gg. And it has 15% encounter there..
In Pokemon Crystal, there's also a glitch that allows you to get all three starters by using the pc and corrupting your save file.
@@8bitmoe u can also dont clear lt surge gym(no cut hence ss anne forever there)
Then just clear gym till u unlock strength and surf. Go surf right and viola.
@@apolloolympian4669 That is false. Misty’s badge grants cut you can actually challenge Surge at 7th of 8
Bro the fact that people figure out these freaking glitches is insane to me
The crazy part is this has been around since early 2000's if not earlier.
not a glitch.. it's never a glitch..
It’s fake 😂
@@ducksauce2746Then how did I do it the last time I played Blue?
@@ducksauce2746This is definitely not fake lol, I've done it personally several times
Thank Arceus nobody at school figured this out back in the 90's. I got a Game Shark and sold Mews for $2 a piece.
That's a good deal
@@benjamindavis2475 I felt like a Team Rocket executive!
@@A_Bottle-Of_Orange_CrushReal life Giovanni.
how many did you sell
0115d8cf still burned into my memory after all these years
Ah, yes, the infamous Mew Glitch.
This is called the 'Long Range Trainer' glitch. It can be altered in a few ways. After the 1st fly, the pokemon encountered changes depending on what you fought last, and how many times you growl at it. So if you fight the youngster and growl 6 times, the mew you'd encounter would be level 1.
Done on pokemon yellow, there's a high chance that this level 1 'mon can be "underflowed" into a level 100. The more you know.
Actually the underflow works on the original games too, not just yellow. I don't know if the numbers are any different though.
Lvl 1 is pretty much default and since there are no lvl 1 wild encounters, leveling up will automatically level up to 100. This also happened in Gen 2 too (all egg mons in the daycare will always be level 5).
This glitch was fixed in Gen 3.
@@Miguel92398 you'd think they always underflow, but they do not always do so. Only if you have a level 1 with an obnoxious 7 digit xp count in the negative.
So no, it will not always automatically
@@ssjbread2803 it definitely seems more likely to happen in yellow. Not sure the determining factor of that part. I can get a level 1 Rhyhorn that will never underflow, and a Nidoking that always will. It's rather strange.
For reference, I've been trying to complete the pokedex without trading via this glitch. Mew was very early, but not the only unobtainable. Yellow has stuff like the Team Rocket lineup and extra pikachu that are normally unobtainable.
I've also found missingno with this glitch as well.
So as i've heard, the first pokémon game was kept together with duct tape and dreams
What's sad is the games we got were technically the revamped version of the ones that Japan got. Now those were buggy as HELL.
I’ve literally never seen anyone make a short about this just simply explaining it, thank you 🙏
You can actually do this trick MUCH sooner. In fact, before you battle Misty. Heal at the cerulean city pokemon center, Catch an Abra, and use teleport before the trainer that's in the grass where you caught the Abra you caught sees you. After you beat the trainer with a slowpoke, use teleport so you go back to the cerulean city pokemon center, and walk back up the nugget bridge, and your new encounter with mew will begin.
AND if you use grow 6 times on the youngster slowpoke, Mew will be lv 1. Give him less exp that he needs to evolve, and he will lv up to lv 100.
No bro i swear he's under the truck by the port 😂
You can get 2 Mews before getting the second badge. The first trainer in the second gym while using the teleport Abra version gets a Mew.
Ahhh the origin of Mewtwo’s name
How?
Drop the tapes bruh !
@@uncle_Samssubjects Step 1. You need an abra, and DO NOT FIGHT THE YOUNGSTER AT ROUTE 25!!! Step 2. Head up to nugget bridge, then take a left at the end of the bridge. When you hit the corner of the water tile, SAVE! Just in case. Step 3. head towards the grass tile closest to the water. Right before the trainer sees you, hit start. Then go to your pokemon, and select abra, and teleport. If done right, you should teleport before the battle sequence initiates. Step 4. Head back up the nugget bridge, and go towards bills house. there is a youngster on route 25, what you need to do is battle him and his slowpoke. DO NOT STEP ONTO THE TILE IN FRONT OF HIM THIS WILL LOCK YOUR GAME!!! I suggest walking 2 tiles up, then enter his line of sight. YOU MUST BEAT HIM!! Step 5. After the battle, teleport back to the poke center in Cerulean city. DO NOT ENTER ANY OF THE BUILDINGS THIS WILL CRASH YOUR GAME. Head back up to the nugget bridge. When you hit a certain tile, your start menu should pop up. Close out of the menu, and a battle should initiate. It'll be a lvl 7 Mew. If you fail any of the steps, just reset to the original save point. I don't recommend saving after the first save by nugget bridge from step 1.
Just fight any mon with 21 special. That's the trigger factor
I would've shat bricks if i knew about this back in 98, when i was only 8 years old.
YOU ARE OLDER THAN 1,926 YEARS!!!
1998@@kevindarcy4000
bro he means 1998
Youd have to get an older kid to do this for you. So old in-fact that you as an 8 year old would question why this borderline autistic young adult knows this and why theyre even willing to help you...
“HEY YOU!”
*fly’s away*
This also works on the Virtual Console ports of Red, Blue, and Yellow- however, you can't transfer the Mew. Pokémon Box and HOME recognize it as a glitched mon.
Awww man that's soooooo lame.
There is a way you can transfer it, for anyone willing to try, watch the 45min video from AustinJohnPlays.
It will work on any version of the game period XD The game doesn't magically recode itself. Also fixing this would be alot more trouble than it's worth since the game is written line by line in machine code.
This is probably the most difficult way to do this, you can actually do this with teleport before you even face the second Gym while just staying around Cerulean
finally i was just about to mention i did this with teleport with the abra u can find nearby :D i almost lost hope looking through comments for a bit lol.
Edit: this guys comment needs pinning or thumbs up or something so people will know an easier way!
True OGs know this.
If you keep doing the glitch you can get an array of Pokémon after Mew. I got a level 100 Gengar once. Swear to god!
U can do this glitch in virdian forest and get a mew as well as gengar, slowbro and others
@@bejanetemadi23 Are you able to do this glitch multiple times? I was about to do the Gengar one, will I be able to get Mew after?
This glitch has an earlier rendition, which can be done by poison or teleport. The poison method is how you activate this glitch in Viridian Forest for a rhydon, or Mewtwo. Different Pokémon will appear depending on which trainer you fought.
Also, the fly to Lavender Town is not needed. Just walk back to the Nugget Bridge.
Something to note is that the move Growl is somewhat important here. Use it during the trainer battle will lower the Mew's level by 1. If you reduce it to 1 and barely get any EXP, the level will underflow to 100.
Is it possible to nest these?
i.e. use the glitch in viridian to make a Rhydon appear with the correct special for Mew, then a second time to get Mew itself?
@@IamGrimalkin No, because it requires the use of another battle to restore some game function.
However!
You can use a Ditto encounter to set up any arbitrary Special stat, because the Special stat is what's responsible for which Pokémon shows up. Once Ditto has transformed, you can run from the encounter, and wander back to the trainer that you escaped from. There are several eligible candidates.
In fairness, though, we have Arbitrary Code Execution available in Red/Blue/Yellow, and TheZZAZZGlitch will absolutely be a valuable resource for getting into the meat and potatoes of bending Gen 1 to your will.
@@Omio9999 Thank you for mentioning the Ditto variant; it's so useful because you can get any pokemon this way, including most glitch pokemon. All you need to do is look-up what the corresponding Special stat you need.
@@jajjfajsidjoigfeyou can even use it to fight an encounter with unused Trainers and fight them.
Of course, it's in lavender town.
My thoughts exactly
This also works in many other locations
Nice kyouma pfp
The most glitching battles take place swimming by the eastern shore of cinnabar, you can get any Pokemon at any level depending on the steps you do, your character name, and the special stat of your last catched mon. I don't remember the specific steps, but i recall u could get a lvl 100 nidoking without fighting brock, by the "brock through walls" glitch and so...
The game has so many glitches that once data miners studied its innards, they found glitches to get almost everything in the game
This can easily be done at Nugget Bridge. idk why they decided to use Lavender Town and Fly when they can just use an Abra with Teleport.
This is probably the most convoluted method of doing this. Catch an abra and heal in cerulean center. Step down on the trainer in the grass next to nugget bridge and press start when he come onto frame. Teleport to the center. Go up and battle trainer with the slowpoke. Then teleport back to cerulean. Go up nugget bridge and unpause when prompted. Also of you use growl 6 time's on the trainers slowpoke and the mew will be lvl 1. After catching him Use him in battle but swap all pokemon in so mew does not gain enough experience to lvl up. If done correctly mew will lvl up from 1 to 100 instantly.
Also works with the first trainer in the cerulean gym (the guy with a shellder) and abras teleport, using the guy in the grass in place of the biker by the underground trail. You effectively could get mew before the second badge.
This trainer can also be fought pre 2nd gym badge with abra teleport
If you’re feeling feisty you can also perform the hilarious Brock through Walls glitch and battle either trainer with 0 badges
This. I've had fun with dual Mew playthroughs in the past.
@@dannymurray1854maybe you're a genius, but I think that's exactly what the op said..
@@mantizshrimp Benefit of the doubt 👍thanks friend
I actually did this on a emulator. Was wild af.
You just answered my question for me thanks lol
I always knew about the Nugget Bridge Mew but I never seen the Lavender town mew glitch sweet info
pro tip, if you growl the slowpoke 6 times it will show up as a lv 1, and if you go back to pallet and swap mew from the first slot and give it under 60 xp it’ll be lv 100, have fun gamers
There is also a super complicated way to get level 100 Pokemon earlier in the first forest (forgot what it's called) using a similar glitch
I did this year's ago before the Internet was everywhere. Everything used to be word of mouth. Don't remember where it came from but definitely knew all about it
Everyone and their brother knew the rare candy code too. It’s amazing how fast and wide info used to travel
But there were magazines!!
Teleport also works. Just make sure the cerulean pokemon center was the last building you entered
Back in 2000. I was invited to the official Nintendo magazine HQ in London following a promo I won. they had the Mew distribution machine and gave me a Mew on both my yellow and red carts. still have them to this day.
Lies, your internal battery died and you lost the save.
@@ToneyCrimsonit might be true, the gold/silver/and crystal versions spent the internal battery faster due to the clock function. I have blue, yellow and silver, and I only needed to change the battery on silver while the other two still have my save files intact.
@@ToneyCrimson no both saves are still on there.
@@themetal6216cool man! Crazy to hear those old copies still alive
I have mine somewhere. Its got some gameshark mews
You can use this glitch to obtain any Pokémon. It all depends on the Special stat of the last Pokémon you battle before activating the encounter. I once got myself a Lv. 7 Dragonite to use in the Lv. 10 Battle Tower in Crystal.
Yup I caught all 151 with this method. Individually without evolving them
Fun fact: the level of the pokémon also depends on the attack boost/debuffs of the opponent. So you can use 6 growls on the opposing pokémon and you will get a level 1 pokémon, which underflows into a level 100 if you give it any amount of XP.
@@JadeJuno actually, you have to give it a certain amount, if you give it too much then it levels up properly
You can also use abra with the camper on route 24 with teleport, then battle the same kid with distance in mind, and walk down the bridge, mew will pop your menu, close it with balls and pc space, you got it
I got a copy of yellow in a repair bundle. After saving it i started playing for the first time. Can't wait to try some of the tips I've seen
Teleport also works, and you can get mew just after completing the nugget bridge. The trainer in the patch of grass to the left of nugget bridge can be teleported away from enabling the glitch also.
it's even easier than that you can get a lvl 1 mew before beating misty buy catching an abra or clafairy.
How?
@@rodrigohidalgo1425 the move teleport works the same as fly for the purposes of the glitch. you can trade clafairy for mr.mime in yellow. which also knows teleport
You can do this literally right past Nugget bridge via the trainer in the grass on the left…
Yes so you could technically catch 3 mews right? I remember catching more than 2 that’s for sure but I can’t remember how I did it all those years ago.
You can substitute fly for teleport, allowing this trick to be performed earlier in cerulean city.
I'd count glitches into the "cheating" category, but whatever.
I remember doing this on my Pokémon yellow :). Brings back memories.
I don't think this works on Pokemon Yellow.
@@ridwanulislam2511
It does.
@@ridwanulislam2511he’s literally playing yellow in the video.
You can also make that Mew shiny and transfer it to Sword and Shield if you’re using the virtual console game 👍
Yeah, but transferring it requires you to heavily manipulate the game's code through glitches in order to change its OT, and unless you're super lucky the same goes for shininess, which is even harder because you also have to figure out what your mew's IVs are and what you need to change them to.
I caught 2 mews, made 1 shiny. Also made mewtwo, zapdos, articuno, moltres, snorlax, lapras, scyther, blastoise, kangaskan, porygon and some others shiny as well before transferring them.😊
@@ssjbread2803bro I tried using the PokeTransporter and it said my Mew was a "problematic pokemon" and denied the transfer. I followed all the steps perfectly, so why?!
@@ssjbread2803 I believe AustinJohn did a whole tutorial on it and it's a long glitch that takes hours to do because you have to hit certain triggers in a certain way executing ACE (arbitrary code executions) combinations that result in you renaming the OT and reassgning the ID on top of reassigning the IVs that would have been in the distribution. While it can be done on both VC/physical and emulation, it's definitely recommended to make backup savestates just in case something gets royally screwed because people have corrupted their game before if they don't follow the guide verbatim. Getting the Mew is easy, doing all the rest is a metaphorical road trip.
@@PhillyCh3zSt3ak yup
This is wild. Ive never seen some one do it this way. Always with Abra and the trainer next to the bridge in Cerulean City. I would do it on every run. I didn't think you could do it any other way
I actually don’t know about the Abra method 👀
@@8bitmoe its not better or worse really. You can just do it /earlier/ basically every run I did as a kid id pick up the Mew before battling Misty
There's actually a lot of trainers you can pull this off on, and you can also get a variety of different pokemon depending on what you fought last before triggering the final part of the glitch. It's a lot of fun.
This will also work with Abra’s teleport move outside of battle. I would love to note that the there are a number of other opponents that can also trigger the event, other than this gambler.
I typically acquire Mew after seeing Bill, but before taking on Misty.
That said, there is a trainer in Misty’s Gym that will also yield a Mew.
I use this glitch method to genuinely “catch em all!” every time I play in Gen 1!
You can actually get it before the 2nd badge.
If you use Teleport with an Abra on the Trainer in the grass on the left side of the Nuggetbridge if you walk to him from the top and you open the menu before the trainer reacts to the Battle. After that you do the same on the Trainer with the Slowpoke like in the Video. After the match the Menu will pop up, you use Teleport again, Walk to the top, where you faught the rival before the Nuggetbridge. The menu will pop up again, you close it an an Mew will appear on lvl 7.
You do this weirdly. The whole thing can be done in cerulean city before you beat misty.
Go north of nugget bridge and catch an Abra. In the grass in the strip of land to the left of nugget bridge is a lone trainer. Open the menu as you walk onto the tile where he would notice you and select teleport from abra. He will notice you but you will teleport back to cerulean city without battling. Now your start menu is disabled. Go north and fight the same youngster as shown in this video, then teleport back to cerulean city and go north once again.
As soon as the music changes from you entering the nugget bridge area, the menu will open. Close it and the battle with a lv 7 Mew will begin.
Can be done with 1 badge (or 0 if you skip Brock with a glitch)
“Yo bro let’s bat-
“shit where tf did the dude go”
good one, funny guy
When I did this this as a kid, I couldn't believe it when it actually worked!
I never wait till I get Fly to catch Mew. In that very area with the slowpoke trainer, you can catch an Abra and teleport does the same thing as fly.
I remember this glitch in 5th grade we all were obsessed with the rumor that a mew could be found under the truck near the SS Anne then an 8th grader showed us how to really get it and I've never not recovered from that single moment ever it was the early 2000s when Pokemon was at the height of its popularity.
The part where you have to warp to lavender town doesn't matter. You can do it in most cities. As long as you are able to walk to a different area. The transition is what sets up the encounter.
We will still be discovering new glitches in 2096.
you think missingno will be a "real" non glitched pokemon by then?
Seeing as this glitch was discovered and widespread in the 90s, probably not.
Does this work on the 3Ds copies ?
Yes, they should!
Yes it works
if you use growl on the youngster's last pokemon it will alter the lvl Mew spawns at. If you stack all 6, Mew will spawn at lvl 1 and any experience will cause it to boost to lvl 100 instantly
I did this multiple times as a kid. One of the only "cheats" that really worked!
This was the longer version but still works .. getting mew before Badge 2 is so much more refreshing ❤
You can also,if you have an Abra, teleport right before you are seen by trainer to the left of the top of nugget bridge.
From there, battle the lass below the youngster in this video and you'll get a Lapras.
You can do this with different pokemon depending on who you battle.
This is like how to disable a seat belt alarm in a car. "Button and unbutton the seat belt three times, turn the car on and off, step the gas pedal to the floor 5 times slowly."
If you use growl until it has no effect in the youngster's slowpoke, the mew will appear at lv1. Level it up with less than 59exp and it willbimmediately loop to lv100
You can manipulates its levels by using stat buffing moves too. Growl 7 times and it can be level 0 when you catch the mew. Then the first battle it gets experience will shoot it to level 100
I only knew about the missingo and used it plenty. All my Pokémon’s where level 100🤣
You can get two right after beating nugget bridge.
You need:
1. Abra with Teleport
2. The top left trainer in the grass after nugget bridge
First, activate the glitch by walking towards the sight of the dude in grass, open menu immediately after walking down. Use abra to teleport.
Glitch worked if you cannot open your start menu. Trainers you want to battle (from the farthest possible distance) is the slowpoke guy and the first trainer in misty's gym. After their defeat, use teleport again and walk up to nugget bridge.
Repeat the glitch for both trainers to get two Mews before Misty.
You can actually get mew much quicker and easier than that. You don't need fly, you can use teleport. Teleport away from the kid with the slowpoke. You can have mew before you get your 2nd badge
You can find any Pokémon doing this it changes with what ever Pokémon you kill. First slowpoke makes a mew butterfree for instance makes a chansey
There's TONS of variations and you can aquire literally any pokemon with this general method. It doesnt have to be fly, it can be teleport or escape rope or dig or whatever. I forget which stat, but a particular stat of the pokemon you fight in the middle part of the trick determines the pokemon you encounter at the end. Thats why he uses a trainer with a particular guaranteed stat to make mew appear
this is actually the longest route to do the glitch, use teleport abra, which can be caught right after nugget bridge. then use the quick pause in interaction at the trainer just outside the patch of grass where abra is found. don't need fly at all. mew before second gym
Did this all the time as a kid. I went as far as to try it on different trainers to see what pokemon appear and I was able to get a Level 7 Gengar, and a Nidoking to pop up once.
This specific trick is for Yellow. Red and Blue(Green) work mostly the same, but most locations are different, apart from the youngster battle.
I did this trick before Lavender Town. Similar concept. Except it's the trainer in the tall grass left of the Nugget Bridge. And you can use Teleport from an Abra you catch in the area to teleport to Pokemon center. You can also use dig, fly, (anything that will teleport you).
Same thing, go fight the trainer with at least one space between you and him, then afterwards, teleport to the Pokemon center again, and start walking up the bridge, and a few steps up, the game will either pause or some random text will pop up, and Mew will be encountered.
There are also several other trainers that summon Mew. I once went through using this long range trainer trick to see what else appears. One of them up on the way to Bill's house caused a level 7 Gengar to appear, which if caught, removes the need to trade someone for a Haunter.
All kinds of random Pokemon appear, depending on the trainer you do actually battle. I've gotten some that were only supposed to be catchable in the opposing version (playing Red, caught one supposed to only be caught in Blue).
Also caught a level 7 Golem doing this trick. I forgot which trainer made it appear, but it removed another needed trade. And I never picked Squirtle anymore in the beginning, cause there was one who made a Blastoise appear.
Everything that appears with this trick was level 7, but it's got a few neat things. I think if you use growl, leer, or stat decreasing attacks in the trainer battle you do partake in, it can somehow make the random encounter on the bridge a level lower than 7.
Pro Tip: you can get an infinite amount of mews by losing to that youngster’s slowpoke. Even though you lost, you can go back to lavender town (if your last pokecenter was lavender town then you’ll already be there) and walk to the rout to the left and get the mew. Since you lot to the youngster, you can now rinse and repeat as many times as you want to get as many mew as possible.
I currently have 2 lvl 100 mew and 2 lvl 7 mew in a Pokémon blue save I’ve been playing on my 3DS
There are many alternatives
For the Gambler, you can use any trainer that sees you when you go into the screen with the trainer and he sees you
For the Youngster, you can use the Swimmer in Misty’s gym, or use ditto to transform to your Pokémon with a special stat of 21. Then run away. Make sure to RETURN TO THE ROUTE WITHOUT BATTLING ANY TRAINER/POKEMON
another way to get mew:
requirements: be in cerulean city, NOT battling the first trainer in cerulean city's gym
step 1: go to the nugget bridge and go to the left until you see the patch of grass thats 2 tiles wide, now go 1 more step to the left so it doesnt trigger the encounter that is a part of the glitch
now find a Abra and catch it, then heal at the cerulean city pokecenter
step 2: go up until you aren't in the grass anymore, then go 1 step to the right. SAVE OR SAVESTATE HERE.
now, go down and press Start fast so it opens up the menu, then Teleport using Abra
step 3: you go to cerulean city gym, fight the first trainer
the thing your looking for is the Shellder (2nd pokemon of the trainer i think) (OPTIONAL) use growl 6 times as that makes the mew level 1, and if a pokemon is level 1 and gets less than 63 experience, it underflows (or overflows idk) to level 100 for some reason
there you go! level 100 (or not if you dont growl 6x) mew before the 2nd badge
Something not mentioned, using growl against the youngster’s last Pokemon 6 times will cause the Mew to be Level 1, and gaining any XP will instantly cause the Mew to become Level 100
Also the reason Mew is encountered is because the Youngster’s last Pokemon has a special of 21, which matches Mew’s Index Number. You can encounter any Pokemon with this glitch including a Level 100 Nidoking before Brock.
You can do it in R/B as soon as you finish nugget bridge. Catch an Abra, then use Trainer Fly glitch (only using teleport instnead). Go into Misty's gym and battle the trainer to the right. Use growl on the shelder 6x then finish the battle. Go to Nugget bridge, as as soon as you hit the zone Line you'll be in a combat with a lv 1 mew
it's easy if you can build the leaks. some function triggers the specific npc in pokecenter to infinitely give mew (until you turn it off, you can't save!) but, you have to build the rom.
I did this back in the day with my original yellow cartridge. I had read about it online on the computers at the library and printed the instructions to take home. I had to delete my save file and start all over to even try this. I traded over my favorite pokemon from yellow to gold using my brother's gameboy and then set out on this mysterious mission. It actually worked! Call me a nerd but this was one of the most fun and memorable experiences of my young childhood. I ported over that mew to my gold cartridge where it probably no longer exists due to a dead battery 😢
You can use this glitch to catch all unobtainable Pokemon, multiple Missingnos and also trigger a battle with Professor Oak.
Fun fact Mew can be taught every move in the game.
The funny thing is you can do it with every other trainer. Every trainer Spawn a spefic Pokémon at lvl 7.
The easy way to do this is actually to use a trainer just past the nugget bridgein the grass to the left and do the glitch (you can actually use an abra and teleport instead of flying) then return to that same grass patch and get a random encounter with a mew...
You can manipulate Mew's level by using a specific amount of Growls on Youngster's Slowpoke
Abra teleport can be used even sooner. 1 badge soon even. You can also use it to get a plethora of other Pokémon
I used this to get mew for my crystal Pokédex completion. Worked like a charm
My best friend and I actually took advantage of this not too long ago using the Abra teleport method in Cerulean City. He caught the Mew in his Yellow Version then traded it over to my Silver version via the time machine. From there, I glitch-cloned the heck out of it using the box save glitch so we could make copies for his gold, my crystal and back to his yellow so that all of our cartridges had a copy of Mew. There's so much fun to be had with these old cartridges despite their age LOL.
You can get Mew much easier by using the Abra teleport method, at least in Pokemon Yellow.
It's actually easier than that. Just have teleport, Go to the man next to/around the bridge in cerulean. Hit start when he sees you and teleport to the cerulean pokecenter. Then go fight the same kid trainer mentioned in the video, then go up to the bridge again and mew will appear. Been doing that glitch since 1998 haha
Best part is, this gets even better. You can abuse this glitch to change the level of the mew you encounter. When you fight the boy, every time you use the move growl it will lower the level of the mew by 1. If you use growl 6 times, you will encounter a lvl 1 mew. Only problem is, the game doesn’t respond well to lvl 1 Pokemon. If you go into a battle with a lvl 1 mew against a weak Pokemon and immediately sub it out before winning, the mew should gain less experience required to lvl up. If this happens your mew will immediately become lvl 100.
Interesting thing about this glitch is that the Pokemon you encounter depends on the special stat of the Pokemon you fought before. This means you can easily end up catching a lvl 100 incoming or gyarados using this same strat by changing what Pokemon you face.
Next to the bridge there is a field where you can get an abra that knows teleport so you don’t need fly and can get mew just before you hit the second gym.
I have to say it took a lot of edge of the game because it usually had the highest stats in my team while not being highest level. It was super powerful.
You can do it using an abra that knows teleport too. That way you can get it before the second gym. Also you can get many other pokemon based on which trainer you fight.
I remember back in the 90s there was only fake methods of catching mew lol
And then actually finding this one , was so blown away it actually worked
OG's remember trying to push the truck on the S.S. Anne
dang this was here the whole time. after wasting countless hours in my childhood chased mew myths. i ended up getting my mew legit at the mall at a pokemon event lol
The requirements are a lot less. Get a lucky abra in the grass before Mewtwo cave, and use the trained in that grass for the long range encounter and teleport in stead.
This, along with the clone anything glitch in Emerald at Battle Tower, is absolutely EPIC. This made my childhood tonight as I played Yellow again for this specific purpose. Too bad Mew, at this point, is FARRR behind the rest of my team. But seriously. Thank you.
It’s easier to do it all on the same route, i cant remember the exact order but you fight the trainer you showed, so the last poek is slowbro or something, then go into the left of the bridge but tp with abra when trainer sees you, spawn in cerulean, was back to the bridge and mew appears
You can also catch an abra just north of Cerulean city, and do the same thing by using teleport. Meaning you only need 1 badge
You can actually get 2 mews before your second badge! Using teleport. You fight the same trainer for the 1st mew and the first trainer in mistys gym for the second mew!
I did this on my Game Boy color. and there is another trick with the guy in the grass in Azuria and so I had 2 Mews in the same game and I transferred them to another cartridge, and so on and I ended up having a team of 6 Mews and knowing that Mew can learn any attack, I made a team with the attacks I wanted, it was incredible.
Im pretty sure there was another way to get mew much earlier than this? Man love how the old games were broken in a good way, its amazing
ITS also possible with Teleport from abra u Get there second badge. There are 3 Trainers WHO allows mew to spawn
Also you can do this way earlier on another Spot B4 second Gym. Use growl to Get mew to lvl 1. Catch it an kill a pkm so mew doesnt Get to lvl 2 - Level underflow and boom ITS lvl 100 mew B4 second gym
Worked!! After so long I finally caught Mew ❤😊