@@greasemunkeyyy Two things: 1. Not a "he", I'm a "she"; 2. This comment was posted 2 days ago. While I may not be posting videos anymore, that doesn't mean I can't comment on them. I'm still here. 😉
There were originally 190 pokemon planned for red and green, but 39 of the were formatted before release and they became missingno but some still have thier cries, and back sprites.
Ikcuras20xx Quite a bit of wrong information sir Most of missingno’s are unused Pokémon sure, but the reason they share the same sprite and cry is because of their index number, they have different ID numbers but the index number is the same The reason the hall of fame gets corrupted is because his compressed sprite starts going out of bounds directly into the hall of fame data, corrupting it The other glitch Pokémon do the same, but except for missingno they are unused data, there could be 255 Pokémon but they only used some of the data.
@@scrunkypoopoo9159 I already knew that, but i wonder why did they not include the 39 pokemon they intended for the game because the game has 255 slots.
Hmm. This could be a new urban legend. We can tell small kids to stay away from the edges of water or risk getting taken by missingno. Into a rip in reality.
So many people are wrong about missingno. He was not an unfinished Pokémon, not yoshi, not an Easter egg, but an error that has to do with how 8bit games work and the extra spaces in the pokedex (264 total) and there are only 151, so the other numbers, are "missing numbers" (missingno.)
Thought missingno was the result of Gamefreak not adding in Johto pokemon because the original amount they wanted to put in was like 180 or something. Because if you trade missingno to Gold/Silver missingno would turn into a random Johto pokemon.
For those who wonders what really happens: The game saves your name . This name has its own place in the game memory and stays there. The only time it is moved is when you have the old man catch a Pokémon for you. That's because it's the old man's name that appears in the battle screens, not yours. Internally, the memory then stores the name "Old Man" in the place where your player name was stored until then. So currently, when you go to the island, the trainer name is still in the field that tells you which Pokémon to hit. Normally, this information would be overwritten as soon as you enter a route with tall grass. Then the field is used to store the corresponding Pokémon. Before we get all the information together so far, it takes one last foray into the technology of the code for an explanation of what exactly MissingNo is in the first place. MissingNo stands for Missing Number. The fact that it exists is because all 151 Pokémon are recorded in a memory location. However, these memory locations - always powers of 2 - can have lots of space, so 1, 2, 4, 16, 128, 256 locations, and so on. The smallest unit to store 151 Pokémon has 256 spaces and therefore 105 too many. Now, an error or something like that can cause these unused spaces to be accessed - which is exactly what we're trying to do with the glitch. So that the code can give an answer here, there is MissingNo. It is simply a placeholder for the emergency. Exactly this emergency occurs on Vermilion Island. However, not always and immediately. As mentioned before, the info for new sections is overwritten as soon as you enter a new route. That happens here too, but we're on a water route. Water, as you know, doesn't have tall grass, so there's no wild Pokémon info stored for tall grass. So there is still the name of the trainer there. This name now comes together with an error in the code: The coastal section at Vermilion Island is defined as tall grass, not water. Therefore, the game accesses the last data stored in memory to find out which Pokémon should appear here. In our case: the trainer name. The letters of this name determine which Pokémon at which level you will now encounter. With certain combinations, this leads to MissingNo appearing because a number is being searched for that does not exist in the memory. More specifically, the familiar l-shaped MissingNo will appear if the third, fifth, or seventh position of the trainer's name contains either one of the letters G, H, J, M, S, T, :, ], a, b, c, m, o, p, or v, or the end mark. The latter is placed in the field after the name to indicate its end. Other letters in said places lead to other Pokémon, so MissingNo. need not appear. And whoever's trainer name doesn't fall into these defaults is out of luck, unfortunately. And why does this maximize the item count? The game stores two bits for each Pokémon, one for "Seen" and one for "Captured". If they are set to 0, it means no, 1 means yes, so you have seen or caught it. Since MissingNo is an unintentional exception, the bits for it are stored in other places. Namely at the place where the number of the item is stored at the sixth place in the bag. If you see MissingNo, a 1 is set here at the sixth place of the binary represented number. Therefore this is increased by 128. This also explains why the 99x for the specific item doesn't look right, because the game is actually trying to represent a number that can't be represented with two digits. And that's the whole secret of MissingNo, where exactly it comes from and why you can hit it at all.
@@frazlaz You find it in my answer already "And why does this maximize the item count? The game stores two bits for each Pokémon, one for "Seen" and one for "Captured". If they are set to 0, it means no, 1 means yes, so you have seen or caught it. Since MissingNo is an unintentional exception, the bits for it are stored in other places. Namely at the place where the number of the item is stored at the sixth place in the bag. If you see MissingNo, a 1 is set here at the sixth place of the binary represented number. Therefore this is increased by 128. This also explains why the 99x for the specific item doesn't look right, because the game is actually trying to represent a number that can't be represented with two digits."
What makes missingno encounter scary is that long gap between the encounter and the start of the battle compared to normal encounter. It gives that ominous feeling that something bad is about to happen. Personally, I think the wild encounter music also adds into the creepy factor of encountering missingno.
This long loading time is due to the decompression of the MissingNo sprite. The data in MissingNo's two sprites is somehow corrupted and far exceeds the normal size of a sprite. This causes a longer loading time but it is also what causes the corruption of the Pokemon League data because this data is located immediately after the space used to decompress the sprite and the MissingNo sprite data overflows into the pokemon league data space.
@@asyran_silly it caused suicide (I know its a creepypasta (the suicide thing) isnt real, but it can still give headaches around the age of atleast 10 - 12.)
This makes me think that Missingno was a powerful demon who corrupted humans and made them his slaves and then he was stopped and banished by Arceus. Edit: changed it to humans instead of pokémon cause it makes more sense like that
I once tried to beat the E4 with Missingno. Upped his defense with Irons, and taught him better Physical moves than Sky Attack. He basically became an Ultra Beast to me.
Absolute legend hearting comments 10 years later. I remember when I was younger, I watched a video by The JWittz about missingno. I also watched his videos on pokemon myths like Blue's dead Raticate, Lavendar town, white hand, buried alive, etc. That shit terrified me and I couldn't sleep the night I watched that vid lol.
It would be cool if they actually implement Missingno as an actual pokemon, and have him appear in this form. He would be a pokemon that's literally a sentient fragment of broken reality, who was sealed away by Arceus for trying to destroy reality as we know it.
That's a really interesting idea, maybe it could be part of quest to get it to the devs at the end of the game and have them fix it or something before it destroys everything or something
4:46 Y'know, Its kinda scary how missingno used its attack and the Rattata's sprite started to break, Its like if anything that Missingno touches just...corrupts itself, and i honestly really like as a concept.
Around 7 years ago, 8 year old me became super into Pokemon and wanted to learn so much that I remember going down a rabbit hole of pokemon creepy pastas with Lavender town to Gary's dead pokemon but what made me stay up the most at night was missingno. Showing that it was a real thing. I was really scared and honestly. It feels funny going back and remembering that feeling.
@@GoldenGamerFox7272fromYT Wouldn't it be great if we could somehow "lock" a Pokemon from gaining any exp at all when it was at like level 255 so it would stay badass forever?
When I was a kid, my brother and I thought that capturing missingno would corrupt the save data from the gameboy. Missingno was some kind of a supernatural thing to us, pretty much a millennial urban legend lol.
@@luigi7834 there are actually 4 save files on the gameboy. Only one (or none) can be loaded at the same time (think of it like a disk drive with 4 disks). One holds HOF data, one the "main savefile" the other two 6 pc boxes each. The game always has the HOF one loaded, unless you just loaded in and have not seen a Pokémon sprite (so before you do any shenanigans, take a look at a non-glitch pokemon). Even if you manage to get the game stuck in a loop that overwrites the entire save with garbage (some other glitch pokemon do indeed cause this), you only ruin the HOF. There are ways to corrupt a save file, but most of them include corrupting the game to some state that cannot be loaded - then save.
I didn't say I played legit. I said I OBTAINED Missingno. through a legit form. Besides, I don't have Porygon, so I don't have ALL the 151 Pokémon in this game.
If you have Mew, plus 149 of the first 150 pokemon, giving you 150 total (but not THE FIRST 150, aka 1-150), can you still get the Diploma? Always wondered this.
Fun Fact: Not sure if anyone already knew this, but if you visit the safari zone prior doing the steps in this video, a lot of rare Safari Zone Pokémon will spawn more regularly in the same coast as Missingno. They also spawn in the same level as they normally would in the Safari Zone. This is a very easy way to encounter and catch Scyther, Chansey, Tauros and Kangaskhan. And you can use regular pokeballs too.
Some versions of missingno use the cries of actual pokemon. However, most use the games equivalent of a blank cry- a nidoran♂️ (cry 0 in the data, the values ranging from 0 to 255) with a pitch of 0 and reverb of 0. Its form is usually dependent on the player's set name, more specifically certain letters, and with the right combinations you can find some real oddities, like the 3 versions that essentially duplicate the movement, stats and back sprite of the previous pokemon sent out in battle and the front sprites using those of the lavender tower ghosts when encountered without the silph scope and the two fossils found in the museum.
I saved afterwards and I was fine. Just don't catch or even battle it. All I did was trigger the actual battle to get tons of master balls and rare candies and then ran away.
Just for reference, the glitch that causes missingno has to do with the way the game references random pokemon in areas of the game. Every area has data linked to it that contains the pokemon that appear. If it cannot find that data, then it will use the data from the last area that you encountered a pokemon. This is where the old man comes in. In order to set his name to old man, the game hasto temporarily store your player name. It stores it in the place that holds the last area,causing glitch
Fun fact: you can teach MissingNo fly and bird type attacks on Gameboy, but once uploaded to Pokémon Stadium he appears as a Kangaskhan that can utilize bird type attacks. 😂
The amount of people that don't know the story behind the MissingNo is astonishing...I've played pokemon since the beginning, missingno was the "trick" used to max out pokemon and rare candy / master balls. This was around '97/98. MissingNo was a pokemon that was pulled from the game late in the production. They didn't remove all the code from the game due to the short time, just some major aspects. That's why you can duplicate items, the code of the game is buggy. Theoretically speaking, you can face MissingNo, defeat him and duplicate all the items you want, there shouldn't be any issues. The probability of a corrupted save is minimal, like 0,0115%. But if you catch MissingNo, i won't say it's a 50/50 chance of getting corrupted but it's pretty close. You can catch it but release it immediately!! And even then, the probability of corruption is high. As for experience, when i duped items, 1/50 or 1/100 games got corrupted and i'm not 100% sure it was because of the trick. When i caught missingno,5 or 6 out of 10 got corrupted and a couple more got corrupted as i advanced in the story line. All that said, the original pokemon MissingNo was the Kangaskhan cub that eventually evolved to a Kangaskhan. Try giving MissingNo a couple of rare candy. Either missingno or 'M will evolve to Kangaskhan. This is very very VERY old information, how do kids today don't know this?
Yeah Missingno was supposedly a alternative evolution to Cubone that would evolve into Kangaskhan . Though that part might not be true. But if you look at the cub in Kangaskhan, you do see a resemblance to Cubone.
@@sans-_-7880 I'm sorry about replying to your comment after 1 year, but in order to multiply your items via encountering MissingNo, you need to select the item you want and place it in 6th place (from the upper perspective).
There is absolutely no problem in catching the missingnos. Whenever your sprites are glitchy, use Missigno to fight against a wild Ditto. When your MissingNo has no visible attacks when you watched its stats earlier (which can happen), you should not try to see them in fight. So if that's the case, swap to MissingNo (or use item when it's your first Pokemon) in order to make Ditto transform into Missingno. Then just swap to another Pokemon and beat Ditto (not this easy if you haven't level enough, cause Ditto can use the hidden attacks - if they are hidden for you). After that fight all sprites (except hall of fame) are set to normal again. Until you resee the stats of MissingNo. I think the hall of fame stats should be reset when you beat it again. Hint: Also you can make 3 of the 4 attacks visible by giving MissingNo a TM. It will forget the first attack without even asking :(
I remember when I was in 3rd grade and someone brought their mom’s old gameboy with this exact Pokémon game, and they actually let me play! I was walking on the shore because I wanted to see if the character could swim? After a bit of walking I actually encountered missingno and we all were like “WHAT THE WHAT IS THAT” and we were all so freaked out that the kid put it in their backpack and never brought it back out for the rest of the day
I actually had a job to repair someone's PC a week ago, and they had a ten year old son that was playing Pokemon Blue and knew everything about catching Missingno and bypassing the Bike Road without a bike! Never thought newer generations would still be interested in this thing. (Lol, and here is 29 year old me commenting on something I used to do when I was 10 myself) Just why in the heck do we love to hack the crap out of this gameboy game?
I remember doing this back in the days lol, me and my friends were scared that our gameboys would break xD. To this very day, I still got my green gameboy, and my pokemon red casset..
It depends on how you're viewing it. In battle it makes the shortened Nidoran sound. In the Stats menu it makes the Zapdos sound. And I think there's a third one that I'm not quite remembering.
10 years later wow! It’s hard to believe 2010 was 10 years ago 😭. Great video! I wanted to show this to my brother because I talked to him about pokemon glitches
Without getting too technical the missingno glitch is dependant on the hex values of your name thats why one person gets a lv 255 tauros and another gets a lv 2 pidgey, also if you picked one one of the preset names it also changes the result.
I can't imagine how many kids would've flipped their lids upon finding MissingNo (or its cousin 'M). I always found it kinda interesting how the game stores your name in its code then conjures eldritch horrors on the coast of Cinnabar Island.
Am I the only one who has nightmares because of MissingNo.? I seriously dread running into this glitch but I use it for the master balls since I don't have a Gameshark anymore. I don't think anything has ever creeped me out in life more than MissingNo.
Yeah... when I first heard about it, I didn't even sleep! I've only played the DS Games, and I was scared that it could infect my games, and I just kept seeing that strange, demented "L" shaped box of glitch pixels... Really gave me the creeps...
The Tilugphobia is a rare disease it may include insomnia, amnesia, paranoia, blindness, and the eternal torture of nightmares inside eye, ear, troath and brain into an extreme hell. 150 milions years ago, in the planet zaizazth, the aliens has found a seek young rynoid with 3 years old and get her to operate her. The true problem is the Phyopletzak'unkuhno succubo di Levriga(Kolmya's Phyopletzak'unkuhno succubus).
I used to do this glitch in gen one, I have no idea how I discovered it because it was way before RUclips tutorials on the net. Was the best for item duplicates. Good vid blast from the past. I’m deep into arceus now very different times
Scared me as a kid !! I remember playing it and I screamed when it appeared and turned my game boy off and hid it and wouldn’t touch it for like a week no joke ! 😂😂😂
@@OwlyFisher That didn't happen because it was a glitch Pokemon, that happened because the level overflowed. Max level is always 100. So if you find a Pokemon over that level and it gains any experience at all, it immediately goes down to 100.
I wish this game had an end game side quest that was triggered by "Missing No" being transferred to Professor Oak's Computer. Once receiving this incongruent abomination of pixels, Prof Oak begins having an existential crisis that turns into a full on mental breakdown and detachment from his reality as he realizes he only exists as data in a game.
I remember my buddy booted up his copy of blue and showed me how catching it and saving the game permanently ruined his game; not only was his save file erased, but when starting a new game, the music started playing, and right after Professor Oak's sprite would finish loading, Ghastly's cry could be heard, then the music stopped playing, and all you see is an angry looking Professor Oak staring back at you, nothing else. It was haunting enough that I still think about it from time to time 23 years later.
"ash is walking on The border of cinnabar island,frustrated because He lost to blaine,He walked over and over again thinking of an strategy when suddenly something strange appeared in front of him, a pokemon? He doesnt knew, He tried tô throw a poke Ball, but i dindt had any effect sent out bulbasaur to begin a fight but bulbasar began to get strange, his body began assembled, its Hard to explain in words, and then ash began tô get his boy assembled too and then He blacked out..."
@Pog Mom well if you searched hypno lullaby the first thing that comes up is fnf and you will clearly see that missingno is in the fnf mod so he originates from fnf not pokemon
@@markymark5198 You can just do it anytime after having Surf. I think Fly is probably not required but it makes things a heck of a lot easier. The Elite Four victory only serves to add the Hall of Fame list. If you encounter MissingNo. after a list has been made, it'll get scrambled and stay that way even if you reset the game without saving it.
@@markymark5198 I forgot to add, the moment you get an Abra with teleport, you can go ahead and start catching Pokemon in a glitched way (the mew glitch) and MissingNo is occasionally one of them.
@@Bro-cx2jc no no fly is required because when you talk to the old man your name turns into old man temporarily, and your name is stored in pokemon encounter data. If you go into tall grass it will go back to normal.
@@RemHayden1806 Then you can simply avoid a tall grass encounter. Get Abra with teleport Get surf and surf to Cinnabar from pallet town Go in the Pokemon center and use it so Teleport will take you there Surf back to pallet town, go north to viridian, talk to the old man, see his demonstration, then teleport back to the cinnabar Pokemon center and go right into the water. I can't remember for sure, but I may have done this myself at some point.
I think there is a lot of potential to turn MissingNo into an actual, real pokemon. The surrounding lore is already there, Nintendo just needs to put the pieces together.
A few things I learned from testing out Missingno myself. -It CANT corrupt your data, that is a myth. It just messes with your hall of fame data -It doesn't really duplicate the 6th item in your inventory. It just changes the number, but you still have the same amount. -If it is over level 100 and it gains xp, it levels down to Level 100.
Have you tried leveling a missingno over 100 with rare candies until it's level 1 and then battling with it until it evolves? Don't do that if you value your red or blue version cartridge. It not only corrupts your save file but it distorts any new games you try to make on it.
Well if someone is wondering what missingno is, like Ermac in MK he was an error, missing number was supposed to be Yoshi, but nintendo decided to scratch the idea on the last moment, so some of his codes can still be found, and why the game fucks up? because you are not supposed to find the error, hope this cast some light on the subject.
Jiggsaw Puzzle What Raichuu26 said, they propably re-programed the game and deleted all traces of the error, but why one gotta do all that random stuff in order for him to appear I don't really know, maybe that was the requirement for Yoshi to appear in the first place? just a guess tho.
With this cheat you could catch and raise Pokémon to level 255. I remember kids at school would want to battle and once they saw a team of Mew, Mewtwo, Gyrados, Charizard, Zapdos and Venasaur at level 255 they ran lol. Such nostalgia.
Hey! Why did you tell everyone how to find me?
Yo he hearted your comment 10 years later lol.
@@greasemunkeyyy Two things:
1. Not a "he", I'm a "she";
2. This comment was posted 2 days ago. While I may not be posting videos anymore, that doesn't mean I can't comment on them. I'm still here. 😉
@@Platinum1904 sorry lol
@@Platinum1904 by the time 10 year passed, i may have forgotten my password lmao
@@FarrelRvno Yeah, I forgot mine too, but had it recovered lol 😆
Fun fact: That type of missingno found in this video has the highest base attack stat of all pokemon in red and blue at 136.
There were originally 190 pokemon planned for red and green, but 39 of the were formatted before release and they became missingno but some still have thier cries, and back sprites.
Ikcuras20xx Quite a bit of wrong information sir
Most of missingno’s are unused Pokémon sure, but the reason they share the same sprite and cry is because of their index number, they have different ID numbers but the index number is the same
The reason the hall of fame gets corrupted is because his compressed sprite starts going out of bounds directly into the hall of fame data, corrupting it
The other glitch Pokémon do the same, but except for missingno they are unused data, there could be 255 Pokémon but they only used some of the data.
Fan Fact!
@@scrunkypoopoo9159 I already knew that, but i wonder why did they not include the 39 pokemon they intended for the game because the game has 255 slots.
Ikcuras20xx Because they were either scrapped or they had too much sprite data
As a kid, I were super scared to swim alongside the jetty at our local lake because I was so scared of encountering Missingno lol
Hmm. This could be a new urban legend. We can tell small kids to stay away from the edges of water or risk getting taken by missingno. Into a rip in reality.
@@rudycp88 yeah that would work back in 2005
HAHAHAHA
@@rudycp88 All I can imagine now is just MissingNo, wearing a glitchy hockey mask and machete lol.
Real
So many people are wrong about missingno. He was not an unfinished Pokémon, not yoshi, not an Easter egg, but an error that has to do with how 8bit games work and the extra spaces in the pokedex (264 total) and there are only 151, so the other numbers, are "missing numbers" (missingno.)
I wokred for Nintendo, and the "Missingno." Is a pokemon they coded in, what we see now is the remnants of the code.
@@TheGiggleWarehouse Yea you sure did bud
And yet, you call missingno a he.
Thought missingno was the result of Gamefreak not adding in Johto pokemon because the original amount they wanted to put in was like 180 or something. Because if you trade missingno to Gold/Silver missingno would turn into a random Johto pokemon.
Is it possible to put missing no in the Pokémon bank on the 3ds?
For those who wonders what really happens:
The game saves your name . This name has its own place in the game memory and stays there. The only time it is moved is when you have the old man catch a Pokémon for you. That's because it's the old man's name that appears in the battle screens, not yours. Internally, the memory then stores the name "Old Man" in the place where your player name was stored until then.
So currently, when you go to the island, the trainer name is still in the field that tells you which Pokémon to hit. Normally, this information would be overwritten as soon as you enter a route with tall grass. Then the field is used to store the corresponding Pokémon.
Before we get all the information together so far, it takes one last foray into the technology of the code for an explanation of what exactly MissingNo is in the first place.
MissingNo stands for Missing Number. The fact that it exists is because all 151 Pokémon are recorded in a memory location. However, these memory locations - always powers of 2 - can have lots of space, so 1, 2, 4, 16, 128, 256 locations, and so on. The smallest unit to store 151 Pokémon has 256 spaces and therefore 105 too many. Now, an error or something like that can cause these unused spaces to be accessed - which is exactly what we're trying to do with the glitch. So that the code can give an answer here, there is MissingNo. It is simply a placeholder for the emergency.
Exactly this emergency occurs on Vermilion Island. However, not always and immediately. As mentioned before, the info for new sections is overwritten as soon as you enter a new route. That happens here too, but we're on a water route. Water, as you know, doesn't have tall grass, so there's no wild Pokémon info stored for tall grass. So there is still the name of the trainer there.
This name now comes together with an error in the code: The coastal section at Vermilion Island is defined as tall grass, not water. Therefore, the game accesses the last data stored in memory to find out which Pokémon should appear here.
In our case: the trainer name. The letters of this name determine which Pokémon at which level you will now encounter. With certain combinations, this leads to MissingNo appearing because a number is being searched for that does not exist in the memory. More specifically, the familiar l-shaped MissingNo will appear if the third, fifth, or seventh position of the trainer's name contains either one of the letters G, H, J, M, S, T, :, ], a, b, c, m, o, p, or v, or the end mark. The latter is placed in the field after the name to indicate its end. Other letters in said places lead to other Pokémon, so MissingNo. need not appear. And whoever's trainer name doesn't fall into these defaults is out of luck, unfortunately.
And why does this maximize the item count?
The game stores two bits for each Pokémon, one for "Seen" and one for "Captured". If they are set to 0, it means no, 1 means yes, so you have seen or caught it. Since MissingNo is an unintentional exception, the bits for it are stored in other places. Namely at the place where the number of the item is stored at the sixth place in the bag.
If you see MissingNo, a 1 is set here at the sixth place of the binary represented number. Therefore this is increased by 128. This also explains why the 99x for the specific item doesn't look right, because the game is actually trying to represent a number that can't be represented with two digits.
And that's the whole secret of MissingNo, where exactly it comes from and why you can hit it at all.
After 12 years... Man u have determination lol)
@@Serr410 I‘m sometimes bit slow 😉
as for the letters thing--this trainer is named RED, which doesn't have any of the letters you specified. explain?
Didn't it also give you lots of a certain item in your inventory aswell? Wasn't there a glitch to get like 100 master balls? Why was that?
@@frazlaz You find it in my answer already "And why does this maximize the item count?
The game stores two bits for each Pokémon, one for "Seen" and one for "Captured". If they are set to 0, it means no, 1 means yes, so you have seen or caught it. Since MissingNo is an unintentional exception, the bits for it are stored in other places. Namely at the place where the number of the item is stored at the sixth place in the bag.
If you see MissingNo, a 1 is set here at the sixth place of the binary represented number. Therefore this is increased by 128. This also explains why the 99x for the specific item doesn't look right, because the game is actually trying to represent a number that can't be represented with two digits."
What makes missingno encounter scary is that long gap between the encounter and the start of the battle compared to normal encounter. It gives that ominous feeling that something bad is about to happen. Personally, I think the wild encounter music also adds into the creepy factor of encountering missingno.
Im still wondering how it was first discovered. Like who would talk to that old guy then go to that town
This long loading time is due to the decompression of the MissingNo sprite. The data in MissingNo's two sprites is somehow corrupted and far exceeds the normal size of a sprite. This causes a longer loading time but it is also what causes the corruption of the Pokemon League data because this data is located immediately after the space used to decompress the sprite and the MissingNo sprite data overflows into the pokemon league data space.
@@Carnidoomit’s probably someone who knows about the who is a code expert and knew that that was an error
Yup! That waiting gap always freaked me out and gave me goosebumps as a kid
You just had to start out in Lavender Town didn't you!
THAT'S WHAT I WAS THINKING
ASIAN KIDS:Aight ima headout
@@pokeranger-nz3hd Lavender Town Syndrome was a hoax. At worst, it caused headaches.
@@pokeranger-nz3hd im asian and i think that song is beautiful why you guys are scared with that song i heard it and it seems fine
@@asyran_silly it caused suicide
(I know its a creepypasta (the suicide thing) isnt real, but it can still give headaches around the age of atleast 10 - 12.)
This has got to be THE most CLEAN version of getting Missingno I've ever seen.
such an old comment
@@shad758 I think we should call it retro
@@199NickYT yuh
@@199NickYT the retro comment
@@199NickYT retro comment
4:44 here we see one of missingno's most powerful abilities... The ability to completely corrupt enemies and kill them.
This makes me think that Missingno was a powerful demon who corrupted humans and made them his slaves and then he was stopped and banished by Arceus.
Edit: changed it to humans instead of pokémon cause it makes more sense like that
@@Charlie-yi8cf dude, wtf?
@@Charlie-yi8cf Is everything okay at home?
@@fxdefiancy why do you ask
@TheSeaBeaver 😃
I once tried to beat the E4 with Missingno. Upped his defense with Irons, and taught him better Physical moves than Sky Attack. He basically became an Ultra Beast to me.
They could 100% make MissingNo a ultra beast and it would be cool as hell
4:42 missing no used water gun! A tiny drop of water has destroyed into pieces rattata!
WHATT!!??
Water gun? More like chainsaw attack or some shit like that 😂
back then when u had to know someone who knew the glitch instead of going on the internet
OH MAN HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED
The internet was a thing back then still tho. Im sure it was on a forum somewhere
Cry about it
@@TheLudicrousLuv what
Uhh
I think Internet Explorer was still a thing
Absolute legend hearting comments 10 years later.
I remember when I was younger, I watched a video by The JWittz about missingno. I also watched his videos on pokemon myths like Blue's dead Raticate, Lavendar town, white hand, buried alive, etc. That shit terrified me and I couldn't sleep the night I watched that vid lol.
It would be cool if they actually implement Missingno as an actual pokemon, and have him appear in this form. He would be a pokemon that's literally a sentient fragment of broken reality, who was sealed away by Arceus for trying to destroy reality as we know it.
That's a really interesting idea, maybe it could be part of quest to get it to the devs at the end of the game and have them fix it or something before it destroys everything or something
@@biscuitmixx fourth wall breaking is not cool, just missingno is cool
Deoxys
I thought the Unown pokemon were a reference to it
They Can also be the only citizen of distortion world and they worship giratina as their God
Still active after 10 years. Legend.
nah this is 11 years ago
@@redactedmemories it is now!
12 years now
Welcome curious people, hitting 13 years now. Fuck time moves fast.
In the start i was like: "OH SHIT, NOT LAVENDER TOWN!" XD
Same,I know is fake but lol xD
same i was so scared
Bruh, I listened to that song and it didn't make me suicide.
Sans Skeleton you heard the American non Japanese edit. Not the original release
E Enderman XD
4:40 I DON'T THINK THAT'S A WATER GUN
Semen
Cum of eternal destruction
@Marcela Banszelova, pokémon is not a kids game, it's a game for everyone, this is not a video aimed towards kids either
CuM
@Marcela Banszelova All of us were born with cum tho
4:46 Y'know, Its kinda scary how missingno used its attack and the Rattata's sprite started to break, Its like if anything that Missingno touches just...corrupts itself, and i honestly really like as a concept.
Rattata got corrupted into a oblivion
overthinking it
@@Yesimthatgreenguy no he is not retard. he is just saying that it’s kinda cool
Totally destroyed that rattata!
THIS^
chopped it up and killed it dude...
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Literally jajajaja
leo anch del holy crap, already 6 years have passed?!? 😱
The fact that her account is still active after 13 years is amazing
woah really
Around 7 years ago, 8 year old me became super into Pokemon and wanted to learn so much that I remember going down a rabbit hole of pokemon creepy pastas with Lavender town to Gary's dead pokemon but what made me stay up the most at night was missingno. Showing that it was a real thing. I was really scared and honestly. It feels funny going back and remembering that feeling.
LoL Missingno got downgrade from lvl 143 to 100 ;)
Yep, when you capture a pokémon that has a higher level than 100 by old man glitch, when gaining xp it will increase directly to 100.
nah, his level just overflowed from 143 to 100
@@GoldenGamerFox7272fromYT Wouldn't it be great if we could somehow "lock" a Pokemon from gaining any exp at all when it was at like level 255 so it would stay badass forever?
@@Bro-cx2jc i think you can do that with game shark codes...
@@GoldenGamerFox7272fromYT I guess I should start looking then lol
Toobad I usually play these on the original Gameboy or my MP5 Player XD
When I was a kid, my brother and I thought that capturing missingno would corrupt the save data from the gameboy. Missingno was some kind of a supernatural thing to us, pretty much a millennial urban legend lol.
back before forums and meta, good times
wait im pretty sure it actually can? nintendo power said it can
My cousin caught missingno and it deleted his game
@@luigi7834 there are actually 4 save files on the gameboy. Only one (or none) can be loaded at the same time (think of it like a disk drive with 4 disks). One holds HOF data, one the "main savefile" the other two 6 pc boxes each. The game always has the HOF one loaded, unless you just loaded in and have not seen a Pokémon sprite (so before you do any shenanigans, take a look at a non-glitch pokemon). Even if you manage to get the game stuck in a loop that overwrites the entire save with garbage (some other glitch pokemon do indeed cause this), you only ruin the HOF.
There are ways to corrupt a save file, but most of them include corrupting the game to some state that cannot be loaded - then save.
It corrupts that cartridge's hall of fame data, that's it
Happy 10 year video
Sad 10 year video
I didn't say I played legit. I said I OBTAINED Missingno. through a legit form. Besides, I don't have Porygon, so I don't have ALL the 151 Pokémon in this game.
God 8 years ago and no comments tf?
@@ApollyonMathy ikr
If you have Mew, plus 149 of the first 150 pokemon, giving you 150 total (but not THE FIRST 150, aka 1-150), can you still get the Diploma? Always wondered this.
Fun Fact: Not sure if anyone already knew this, but if you visit the safari zone prior doing the steps in this video, a lot of rare Safari Zone Pokémon will spawn more regularly in the same coast as Missingno. They also spawn in the same level as they normally would in the Safari Zone. This is a very easy way to encounter and catch Scyther, Chansey, Tauros and Kangaskhan. And you can use regular pokeballs too.
Slight correction: Just fly out the safari zone and go surfing. The encounter table just carries over, no need to talk to the old man
@@wernerderchamp I remember when I did this as a kid, I had the best day ever catching Scyther.
"The max level for a Pokemon is 100"
Missingno: Allow me to introduce my level.
4:43 BAH GAWD HE KILLED 'IM
you know those water guns that bomb checker robots use... yeah... guess rattata should be called splattata.
F for Rattata that turned into a pixelated garbage by an attack of Missigno
Lol WWE
@@anuba3950 wahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Every time I have encountered Missingno., it's cry was similar, if not exactly like the cry of Zapdos.
I used to have the same picture as you.
lol awesome
ambrose luseni until I took an arrow to the knee
ShadyVoxYT but then the arrow missed somehow...
Some versions of missingno use the cries of actual pokemon. However, most use the games equivalent of a blank cry- a nidoran♂️ (cry 0 in the data, the values ranging from 0 to 255) with a pitch of 0 and reverb of 0. Its form is usually dependent on the player's set name, more specifically certain letters, and with the right combinations you can find some real oddities, like the 3 versions that essentially duplicate the movement, stats and back sprite of the previous pokemon sent out in battle and the front sprites using those of the lavender tower ghosts when encountered without the silph scope and the two fossils found in the museum.
Fun fact: for those who didn't notice, the type that the missingno is, is the Bird type, this type is a prototype of the flying type
It's 11PM and you were at Lavender Town at the start. Thanks. xD
11:20PM
F XD
Lol I'm not scared of dat theme rly
It’s 1 am.
@@chid9278 1:05 AM
What I love about Missingo. is the fact that it functions as a regular pokemon, just a bit more dangerous to reality.
You just had to start the video in Lavender Town
It's the only way to get this to work
that's what i was thinking
MissingNo starts off at lvl 146 then goes to lvl 100 XD good job game freak
Well you aren't supposed to have Pokemon over lvl 100
Missingno is just a Pokémon I’m extra Pokédex spaces it was never intended
Raichu looks so damn cute in this game... (*.*)
Listen to the yellow version missingno
I didn't do anything, this is how the game looks when you play it on a GameBoy Color or on a GameBoy Advance.
Not true, it runs with this pallete on the super game boy only
@@StarmenRockyo stfu bro this comment was made 10 years ago dumbass
I saved afterwards and I was fine. Just don't catch or even battle it. All I did was trigger the actual battle to get tons of master balls and rare candies and then ran away.
Same here xD
how many rare candies do you get ?
@@nathannguyen403 I think it's 128
@Basic_Trash No, sixth slot. An item duplicates to 127 if you encounter MissingNo. without catching it. I think it becomes 255 if you do catch it.
OOOOOOOOOOO
I was hoping the game would crash...
+Blake Reid Same.
+Ellie Kirby Such nice people xD
Lunick Martins cx My hopes were set too high
Blake Reid same lol
missingno can crash the game in yellow
I love how most of the comments are about lavender town
Hey, did you know that Lavender Town?
Yes.
Imagine being a kid in the 90s and seeing this
That was me lol
Well I'd just shit my pants.
0:01 I love the song-
Just for reference, the glitch that causes missingno has to do with the way the game references random pokemon in areas of the game. Every area has data linked to it that contains the pokemon that appear. If it cannot find that data, then it will use the data from the last area that you encountered a pokemon. This is where the old man comes in. In order to set his name to old man, the game hasto temporarily store your player name. It stores it in the place that holds the last area,causing glitch
So the game is technically trying to encounter your character but it can’t find any battle data so it sends out missingno?
Hes probably like
“All right ima just completely destroy my game thank you very much”
“Oh God… *IT’S A BIBLICALLY ACCURATE ANGEL!!* “
Fun fact: you can teach MissingNo fly and bird type attacks on Gameboy, but once uploaded to Pokémon Stadium he appears as a Kangaskhan that can utilize bird type attacks. 😂
Welcome to KFAD2, you infamous glitch! Good luck on winning the crown
That one Japanese kid after listening to the first second of this video:
4:42
Missingno is so powerful its water gun obliterated a level 3 Ratata into pieces.
The amount of people that don't know the story behind the MissingNo is astonishing...I've played pokemon since the beginning, missingno was the "trick" used to max out pokemon and rare candy / master balls. This was around '97/98. MissingNo was a pokemon that was pulled from the game late in the production. They didn't remove all the code from the game due to the short time, just some major aspects. That's why you can duplicate items, the code of the game is buggy. Theoretically speaking, you can face MissingNo, defeat him and duplicate all the items you want, there shouldn't be any issues. The probability of a corrupted save is minimal, like 0,0115%. But if you catch MissingNo, i won't say it's a 50/50 chance of getting corrupted but it's pretty close. You can catch it but release it immediately!! And even then, the probability of corruption is high. As for experience, when i duped items, 1/50 or 1/100 games got corrupted and i'm not 100% sure it was because of the trick. When i caught missingno,5 or 6 out of 10 got corrupted and a couple more got corrupted as i advanced in the story line.
All that said, the original pokemon MissingNo was the Kangaskhan cub that eventually evolved to a Kangaskhan. Try giving MissingNo a couple of rare candy. Either missingno or 'M will evolve to Kangaskhan.
This is very very VERY old information, how do kids today don't know this?
shadowownzz that's cool!
No its just a glitch thats caused by
extra space in the pokedex
Yeah Missingno was supposedly a alternative evolution to Cubone that would evolve into Kangaskhan . Though that part might not be true. But if you look at the cub in Kangaskhan, you do see a resemblance to Cubone.
Missingno doesn't evolve, only 'M does
Missingno is a glitch not a cut pokemon
I remember using this glitch all the time to duplicate my master ball and rare candy
Wait, how did you do that?
@@sans-_-7880 search it
@@sans-_-7880 I'm sorry about replying to your comment after 1 year, but in order to multiply your items via encountering MissingNo, you need to select the item you want and place it in 6th place (from the upper perspective).
There is absolutely no problem in catching the missingnos. Whenever your sprites are glitchy, use Missigno to fight against a wild Ditto. When your MissingNo has no visible attacks when you watched its stats earlier (which can happen), you should not try to see them in fight. So if that's the case, swap to MissingNo (or use item when it's your first Pokemon) in order to make Ditto transform into Missingno. Then just swap to another Pokemon and beat Ditto (not this easy if you haven't level enough, cause Ditto can use the hidden attacks - if they are hidden for you). After that fight all sprites (except hall of fame) are set to normal again. Until you resee the stats of MissingNo. I think the hall of fame stats should be reset when you beat it again.
Hint: Also you can make 3 of the 4 attacks visible by giving MissingNo a TM. It will forget the first attack without even asking :(
I remember when I was in 3rd grade and someone brought their mom’s old gameboy with this exact Pokémon game, and they actually let me play! I was walking on the shore because I wanted to see if the character could swim? After a bit of walking I actually encountered missingno and we all were like “WHAT THE WHAT IS THAT” and we were all so freaked out that the kid put it in their backpack and never brought it back out for the rest of the day
Fun fact: raichuu still hearts comments even after 11 years
Heh, I love how Missingno here sounds like a male Nidoran!
Zak Wolf it is, because the male nidoran cry is considered a “blank” cry
Ah yes, the famous *B I R D T Y P E* pokémon
I actually had a job to repair someone's PC a week ago, and they had a ten year old son that was playing Pokemon Blue and knew everything about catching Missingno and bypassing the Bike Road without a bike!
Never thought newer generations would still be interested in this thing.
(Lol, and here is 29 year old me commenting on something I used to do when I was 10 myself)
Just why in the heck do we love to hack the crap out of this gameboy game?
I remember doing this back in the days lol, me and my friends were scared that our gameboys would break xD.
To this very day, I still got my green gameboy, and my pokemon red casset..
How about to THIS day?
@@Bro-cx2jc frrrrrrrrrrrr how about NOW
@@shad758 HOW ABOUT NOw!!!?
@UTGuy blue gameboy with re-carted red because it went through the laundry. Still works just had to sacrifice wings of fury for a case.
This is a certifyed hood classic.
@AnDrEwRaSmUsSeN4 According to Nintendo, "Missingno. is a programming quirk, and not a real part of the game."
I always wanted MissingNo to actually appear as an actual Pokémon in a game. Like, a minor Pokémon that only appears once as an easter egg.
I miss these days
I like this Missingno cry. A shortened version of Nidoran♂️'s cry.
Its random tjo
@@Carnidoom its not random, missingnos cry is the "blank" cry, nidoran male (cry ID of 0), pitch 0 and no echo
I don't remember Missingo having that sound. I remember it's cry being like a glitchy sounding Zapdos
Me too
It may be rhydon or nidoran
It depends on how you're viewing it. In battle it makes the shortened Nidoran sound. In the Stats menu it makes the Zapdos sound. And I think there's a third one that I'm not quite remembering.
10 years later wow! It’s hard to believe 2010 was 10 years ago 😭. Great video! I wanted to show this to my brother because I talked to him about pokemon glitches
Without getting too technical the missingno glitch is dependant on the hex values of your name thats why one person gets a lv 255 tauros and another gets a lv 2 pidgey, also if you picked one one of the preset names it also changes the result.
I can't imagine how many kids would've flipped their lids upon finding MissingNo (or its cousin 'M). I always found it kinda interesting how the game stores your name in its code then conjures eldritch horrors on the coast of Cinnabar Island.
Npc on the right: * walks really jolly *
**lavender town starts playing**
Guy: * stops *
That NPC knew some sh*t was up lmao
Bro yep lol
I find it funny everyone somehow knew about this glitch without there being really a way for people to find out easily and tell others online
The uploader is still alive after 11 years lol
There better not be that one kid that's like
EXCUSE ME, BUT MISSINGNO IS FROM FRIDAY NIGHT FUNKIN
Old But Gold
they should honestly make missingno a secret official pokémon, i was never a fan, but my heart always considered missingno as an official pokémon
Am I the only one who has nightmares because of MissingNo.? I seriously dread running into this glitch but I use it for the master balls since I don't have a Gameshark anymore. I don't think anything has ever creeped me out in life more than MissingNo.
Yeah... when I first heard about it, I didn't even sleep! I've only played the DS Games, and I was scared that it could infect my games, and I just kept seeing that strange, demented "L" shaped box of glitch pixels... Really gave me the creeps...
You and me both.
Lydia ik, what creeps me out that he kills you if you give him burger king food instead of mcdonalds
Lydia, You had the Tilugphobia, the fear of glitch.
Tilug means glitch in zaizaz language.
The Tilugphobia is a rare disease it may include insomnia, amnesia, paranoia, blindness, and the eternal torture of nightmares inside eye, ear, troath and brain into an extreme hell.
150 milions years ago, in the planet zaizazth, the aliens has found a seek young rynoid with 3 years old and get her to operate her.
The true problem is the Phyopletzak'unkuhno succubo di Levriga(Kolmya's Phyopletzak'unkuhno succubus).
I used to do this glitch in gen one, I have no idea how I discovered it because it was way before RUclips tutorials on the net. Was the best for item duplicates. Good vid blast from the past. I’m deep into arceus now very different times
Amo los vibes que da el video con el hecho de estar ambientado a un juego antiguo
Scared me as a kid !! I remember playing it and I screamed when it appeared and turned my game boy off and hid it and wouldn’t touch it for like a week no joke ! 😂😂😂
*finally turns Gameboy back on*
MN: What's up b*tch remember me
*Goes to delete save data*
MN: Yo my man let's talk about this
When i had firered when i was little i thought my save would be deleted if i took the cartridge out while its playing.
@@ZakaryShindle1-933 Only if you take it out while it's saving
@@Bro-cx2jc i was only 6, but i thought, so i did not know that.
4:50 to before lv 146 after lv 100 .......WTF
Is not fake
It's a glitched Pokémon, what do you except
@@OwlyFisher That didn't happen because it was a glitch Pokemon, that happened because the level overflowed. Max level is always 100. So if you find a Pokemon over that level and it gains any experience at all, it immediately goes down to 100.
*P O K E M O N L O G I C*
I wish this game had an end game side quest that was triggered by "Missing No" being transferred to Professor Oak's Computer. Once receiving this incongruent abomination of pixels, Prof Oak begins having an existential crisis that turns into a full on mental breakdown and detachment from his reality as he realizes he only exists as data in a game.
As weird as it sounds, I hope Missingno becomes a real Pokemon one day, or at least heavily inspires one
This video is 12 years old this channel is a legend
4:42 More like...
MISSINGO used DISTORTION!
I remember my buddy booted up his copy of blue and showed me how catching it and saving the game permanently ruined his game; not only was his save file erased, but when starting a new game, the music started playing, and right after Professor Oak's sprite would finish loading, Ghastly's cry could be heard, then the music stopped playing, and all you see is an angry looking Professor Oak staring back at you, nothing else. It was haunting enough that I still think about it from time to time 23 years later.
Don't look at its dex entry. It will brake the sprites
Edit: to fix the sprites breaking just keep resting to your last save after you have missingno.
"ash is walking on The border of cinnabar island,frustrated because He lost to blaine,He walked over and over again thinking of an strategy when suddenly something strange appeared in front of him, a pokemon? He doesnt knew, He tried tô throw a poke Ball, but i dindt had any effect sent out bulbasaur to begin a fight but bulbasar began to get strange, his body began assembled, its Hard to explain in words, and then ash began tô get his boy assembled too and then He blacked out..."
And now he spits bars
Damn can’t wait for people to be saying that missingno is from fnf
@Pog Mom The Gaming God just saying
I can't wait aswell
he's from fnf tho
Search up hypno lullaby fnf missigno is from fnf this video was inspired by fnf
@Pog Mom well if you searched hypno lullaby the first thing that comes up is fnf and you will clearly see that missingno is in the fnf mod so he originates from fnf not pokemon
The fact that it is a bird type makes me imagine a Pokémon trainer bird watching and seeing that soar across the sky
This is real. No troll about it. Get Pokemon red or blue and you can find him by following this video
I foeget but do u have to beat the elite 4 first or can you just do it?
@@markymark5198 You can just do it anytime after having Surf. I think Fly is probably not required but it makes things a heck of a lot easier.
The Elite Four victory only serves to add the Hall of Fame list. If you encounter MissingNo. after a list has been made, it'll get scrambled and stay that way even if you reset the game without saving it.
@@markymark5198 I forgot to add, the moment you get an Abra with teleport, you can go ahead and start catching Pokemon in a glitched way (the mew glitch) and MissingNo is occasionally one of them.
@@Bro-cx2jc no no fly is required because when you talk to the old man your name turns into old man temporarily, and your name is stored in pokemon encounter data. If you go into tall grass it will go back to normal.
@@RemHayden1806 Then you can simply avoid a tall grass encounter.
Get Abra with teleport
Get surf and surf to Cinnabar from pallet town
Go in the Pokemon center and use it so Teleport will take you there
Surf back to pallet town, go north to viridian, talk to the old man, see his demonstration, then teleport back to the cinnabar Pokemon center and go right into the water.
I can't remember for sure, but I may have done this myself at some point.
I think there is a lot of potential to turn MissingNo into an actual, real pokemon. The surrounding lore is already there, Nintendo just needs to put the pieces together.
Weedle does some weed.
starry raven stpow is hdusjwj
WEEDle
I just saw Missingno, now crushed to death under the weight of infinite Master Balls
Wait what if you use it in pokemon Stadium ? ._.
Banned!!!!
Metagross 1604 i think it turns into ditto
Shiny Lugia it looks like w substitute doll
Kota Zestro how can you use it on stadium if you can’t save and transfer it?
You cant missingno will corrupt the game if you catch it.
A few things I learned from testing out Missingno myself.
-It CANT corrupt your data, that is a myth. It just messes with your hall of fame data
-It doesn't really duplicate the 6th item in your inventory. It just changes the number, but you still have the same amount.
-If it is over level 100 and it gains xp, it levels down to Level 100.
Have you tried leveling a missingno over 100 with rare candies until it's level 1 and then battling with it until it evolves?
Don't do that if you value your red or blue version cartridge. It not only corrupts your save file but it distorts any new games you try to make on it.
Well if someone is wondering what missingno is, like Ermac in MK he was an error, missing number was supposed to be Yoshi, but nintendo decided to scratch the idea on the last moment, so some of his codes can still be found, and why the game fucks up? because you are not supposed to find the error, hope this cast some light on the subject.
How come this doesn't work on yellow version
Well, Yellow's a different game, made for a different platform. You know, not the same. Different.
Jiggsaw Puzzle What Raichuu26 said, they propably re-programed the game and deleted all traces of the error, but why one gotta do all that random stuff in order for him to appear I don't really know, maybe that was the requirement for Yoshi to appear in the first place? just a guess tho.
+Raichuu26 they kept the mew glitch in yellow tho
Yes, but it's a different method.
With this cheat you could catch and raise Pokémon to level 255. I remember kids at school would want to battle and once they saw a team of Mew, Mewtwo, Gyrados, Charizard, Zapdos and Venasaur at level 255 they ran lol. Such nostalgia.
“Wild missingno appeared” you mean “wild God appeared” ?
NO
“First you need to weaken the target pokemon.”
Doesn’t weaken the target Pokémon
Me:”Thanks old man.”
I did this exactly the same thing that you did.
But somehow the game managed to give me a wild Lvl 132 Mewtwo and I'm not even kidding lol
@@tunod- The level caps are 130 if you give them candies, and the game glitches, it has no cap
Poor Rattata. MissingNo just chopped him into peices.
2:25
*Then MissingNo. Came*
*Me: wtf*
I used to watch these missingno videos before when I was a kid which later on wanting to play red and blue