Legend has it, that Missingno meant that secret for the player, away from everyone else. *_Away from the prying eyes of the reality._* That message was for you only, _WASN'T IT?_
Imagine that you are waiting for another kid to come and get beaten by you and that random kid just pulls out a Pokemon that you've never seen before and glitches you into oblivion
“Ḡ̶̡̺͎͚̲̘͔͍̞̹̈́̿̈́́͑̂̎̊̇͝͠o̶͙̞͍̼̳̺̙͍̬̝͈̼̦͖̊͊̒̃̉͜͝ţ̶̛̛̟̮̺̮̱̝̞̦͚͕͙̝́̂͌͒͂̈́̎̾̀̋̓͒̑̕t̶̢̛͚̤̺̜͉̳͉͎̟̩̙̒͋̂͊͂̆͒̋̇́̏̍̊́̕͜͝ą̷͎̳̫̝͎̑̔̀̈́͐̿̓͒͒́̏̎̕͝͝ͅ ̸̝̻̿͛͐̇̀̄̌̅͑͘̚c̸̰̮̯̏͋͑͋̍̀̽́͘͘͝á̷̛̬̺̬̼̱̞̥̾̒͌͠ț̷̠̀̽̇̈́͋́̏̈́̓͋̀̀͂̓̕͠ć̷͔̉͋̽̎̇ḧ̷͕̦́̓̆̾͛̕͜͠͝ ̶̢͔͖̖͈̖͔̯̆͒̍̌̉̕‘̴̧̢̧̛̟͕͉̟̖̦̙̤̗̫̙̟̐͌̃̕͝͝ę̴͈̯͉̲̰̰͗̾͜m̷̦̫̲̾̓̍̓͜ͅ ̶͕̜̰̤̫͓̥̞̑͒͑͜a̴̧̛̤̲̰̩͙̳̦͙͖̯͍͈͐̒̐ͅͅl̴̛̹̇̎̂͂̈́̑̋͂̂̌͂͐̚͝l̵̢̯̳̐̂̏̀͋͐̃͑͑́̿̎̌…̴̺̙̞̦̽̑͊͆̑̀̈́̎̚͜ͅ” they mutter as they pass your glitched remains by.
I remember doing that to a friend just to have some fun and then he didn't talk to me in a few days, he was also scared of turning on the game until I told him it would be fine lol
They just *knew* that someone would be sniffing around to get them. Also, fun fact! It actually has a name, called Decamark. (Correct me if my spelling’s wrong)
I'm sorry to say, but it's most likely they didn't "give" the pokemon a sprite and a dex entry. The reason it looks like that is because that's what undefined pokemon would have looked like during development in order to avoid crashing the game during testing, probably.
@@callmevexx there are also tens of thousands of unique Decamarks thanks to larger integer limits. nobody has fully documented all of them, to my knowledge.
In some fan games it’s similar to a mythical, for instance you can encounter it in Pokémon Insurgence after telling a guy to divide by zero. Its ability instantly kills anyone who uses contact moves on it
I remember my brother firmly telling little 5yo old me to NEVER catch missingno because he didn't want his game corrupted. I just wanted lots of rare candy and master balls.
I don't think that was intentional, it's probably just a placeholder animation the game uses when a Pokémon doesn't have one. If you notice they often even have the cry of some other Pokémon, so it's unlikely these things were "made" in a strict sense.
I did notice that Bulbasaur's cry was used but I hadn't really considered the possibility that the animation was a placeholder: I was thinking it's CLEARLY not any expected Pokemon's animation, like Bulbasaur's or something, so I assumed it as original ... but maybe it IS a placeholder, after all, lol! That's sad maybe lol
Fun fact: The glitch Pokemon that fights after capture is actually an entirely seperate Pokemon from MissingNo, 'M, but is so very similar to MissingNo that it is often referred to as MissingNo's "sister". The reason the battle doesn't end after 'M is captured is because the game sets a "Transformed" value to an incorrect value, causing an invisible Ditto to fight in the place of 'M
I never heard this explanation for it, nice! I'd been obsessed with Missingno. and M' as a kid playing Blue version, so I knew most of the reasoning behind various things. This is interesting info. :)
@@JasonX920 That theory does make sense, but actually, there's a different reason why Gen 1 MissingNo. appears as/turns into Ditto in Gen 2 games! It happens when you load a Gen 1 save with any kind of glitch Pokémon stored in the party or boxes in Pokémon Stadium 2. Unlike the first Pokémon Stadium, which displays glitch Pokémon using a Substitute doll model, Stadium 2 has a failsafe that displays any sort of glitch or invalid Pokémon as a Ditto. Additionally, if you save any changes made after interacting with your glitch Pokémon using the Stadium 2 lab, like moving it between boxes or adding it to your party, it'll be converted into a Ditto permanently -- in Stadium 2 *and* in your GB game.
@@jadeb.3332 What is interessting to note is that it seems like the substitute doll appears because its internal number just happens to match the Pokedex number of Missingno(which is 152).
Slight correction! The pokemon you showed that keeps fighting after capture is called ‘M, which is a separate glitch mon in the game’s data - although it takes MissingNo’s most famous L shape form and is caught in the same location. Whether your save file can encounter an ‘M depends (like with MissingNo’s various forms) on the name data of the player. 😊
If I remember correctly, ■'M■ can be caught again after it continues battling, registers as a Ditto, and the battle ends for real after that second catch. Also, the ■'M■ evolves into Kangaskhan by level up at any level. If I'm remembering correctly
@@metasteelgaming4373 Also, if i remember right, ‘M shouldn’t be caught if the one you found is level 0 because there’s a chance it’ll corrupt your data. But MissingNo. will always be around level 80 or so, so that’s not a problem usually.
@Maxaroni And Cheese Huh. I only got lvl 0 ones by leveling them past lvl 255. Whenever the glitch pokemon were over lvl 100, you could use rare candies to keep them going, but they reverted back to 100 when they gained exp in battle. I never had an issue with the corruption
@@VoidHearted MissingNo and its glitch brethren were far more likely to cause permanent corruption if you were playing Yellow version, otherwise they were mostly temporary fun.
Fun fact: The Gen 2 glitch Pokemons' garbled map tile appearance is actually like that because the devs anticipated that this kind of situation would happen and added an error handler to prevent the game from displaying the real glitch sprite and imploding. If you disable the error check with a cheat code, most of ?????'s true sprites crash the game either immediately with a black screen or when the sprite finishes moving rightwards.
Yes! Retro Game Mechanics Explained has an awesome video on how this happens, plus a second one where he reveals the true, unshackled forms of every Gen I glitch Pokémon.
@@taebeebee It's a 3-part series, although the stuff I mentioned is all in parts 1 & 2. Part 1 is called "MissingNo.'s Glitchy Appearance Explained". Part 2 is "Fixing Glitch Pokémon Sprites". And Part 3 is "Pokémon Sprite Decompression Explained".
BTW, I misread this comment originally. RGME's videos don't explain the Gen _2_ behavior. They are about Gen 1. This fact about Gen 2 is very cool, and I didn't know this. Gen 1 also has an error-check that protects us from these Pokémons' true forms.
so in gen 2, missingno is an entity that goes against the laws of physics so much that even a glimpse at it's true form would destroy the fabric of reality, so the creators of the simulation had force a mask onto wherever it may spawn in anticipation of it's apperance
Just because you didn't show it off I actually discovered missingno in legends Arceus from playing with cheats on a modded switch. The missingno for Arceus is a level 0 Lucario named egg and after you capture it you obtain an egg that you cant do anything with because breeding isn't present in the game. I thought it was actually pretty neat.
I really, REALLY wish Game Freak would do a special Missingo Event for a Halloween thing. C'mon, corrupted Tera Raid dens, weird glitchy things that behave oddly and maybe interface screw a bit...they can clearly make it so you can't capture a Pokémon there, so they could easily make it uncatchable or something.
10:39 Kid tried to warm you. Some goddess Bulbasaur named Pikachu will be knock you out if you attempt to venture into the wild without your own Pokes. That's why Pokemon Mastery is so essential to this society.
What i find the most interesting is that missingno is not even composed from pokemon data It's just random numbers from the game's memory turned into a pokemon, since pokemon save data is nothing but numbers (well, technically all computer data is, but pokemons ARE saved as int numbers (and i think some letters as well) ) If the memory pointer happens to end up in your inventory, you could probably even design it yourself by adding/removing inventory items
@@mint_marigold1229 it's easier to just take advantage of a glitch that allows you to scroll past cancel in your bag, allowing you to execute arbitrary code that sends you to the hall of fame.
@@Bulliegh I'm a somewhat experienced programmer actually, and i looked up how the save data is structured Also it's not like it has any unique inner workings, it's just simple and good serialization that i find really neat (despite not liking the games) Knowing how a bunch of bits are read separately from the rest isn't exactly something i'd brag about
This was one of the best videos I've seen and it was very entertaining giving tribute to such a wonderful old-school Pokemon. Thank you so much for making it.
The anime protagonist is staring at the pokedex, but the pokedex is then hacked and for a few frames you see missingno. as the thing that the pokedex shows while its glitching
I remember the time where in Gen 8, hacked raids were a thing I saw a MissingNo. Max Raid and i couldn't resist to catch it just for curiosity, it worked pretty similar to Gen 1 MissingNo., being able to clone Pokémon and items I think it should've been mentioned that in Gen 8 ( with hacking ) you could catch MissingNo. as an egg or a Pikachu
Yeah a similar glitch can be done by hacking galarian slowbro into an unupdated game (really old glitch) it would look like a pikachu (and it would have very bad ivs after a battle or camping, not sure why) and would have a kanto slowbros moves and would be normal type
They finally added a handle for invalid pokemon data Can't believe gen 7/8 just crashes lol But again, those games ARE incomplete, couldn't even port most moves, i imagine they didn't have time for that either
7:18 YOOOO! You actually managed to catch a shiny ________?! That's insane! I've never seen a shiny ________ before! It looks so good! This is also the first time I find out that using underscores around a sentence or word italicizes it.
it’s really not that dangerous. missingno. cannot erase your save data, all it can do is crash the game or meddle with in-game properties if not handled correctly.
I played a ROM hack once that actually incorporated missingno into the story, and glitched out the entire world as part of that story. It was a surprisingly high quality ROM hack tbh
@@stevenneaves8079 Took a little digging, but I found it! It's been a while since I played it. FireRed Rocket Edition. I personally thought it was a really cool ROM hack that expanded a lot on the story.
Gen 7 and 8 where rushed as hell and incomplete, they can't even handle invalid pokemons Gen 9's aproach is the most sensible, they wouldn't add glitches intentionally
@@Sasuhinagirl1 here is the thing, the difference between a glitched and non glitched pokemon is that the glitched one was not intended to be playable MissingNo is as much of a pokemon as any other, but his stats are abnormally different from the rest and some values can surpass what the UI was intended to handle (which is why the hall of fame gets wonky) MissingNo is just a pokemon with randomized stats, the visual errors is because it looks for a sprite past the list of pokemon sprites and ends up taking graphics from other parts of the game The only thing required for MissingNo to look normal would be to add a sprite for him and ensure he looks in the right place for it
@@planteruines5619 iirc trying to port MissingNo to newer gens tends to fix some of it's values, like it's ID (Because if your MissingNo got ID 180, that ID would be valid in a newer game that has a pokemon for the ID) Altho it really depends on what kind of MissingNo you have, if the numbers are too far off the new game may not even recognize it as a pokemon
I think they should make a Pokemon based off of MissingNo. How cool would it be if there was some sort of ditto clone that had the ability to transfer its DNA onto other pokemon for a brief amount of time? It'd be sick.
Missingno (pokemon blue) was that one bug where everybody SWORE on their mother and jesus's grave that it would corrupt your save file, but I had one of those blessed cartridges I guess, because I had a whole ARMY of Missingno's. I was the Missingno master scientist, doing experiments by leveling it up (levels up to 255 then resets to 0 on the 256th level), seeing what it would evolve into (Rhydon lol).. there seemed to be several sub-types of Missingno's so i kept digging until i got bored.
The worst missingno does is corrupt the hall of fame, however some methods of encountering and obtaining glitch pokemon can mess up your file a lot more
I like how the newer games can either try catch and do something with the errors, or outright crash; because the newer engines would spill an exception instead of happilly handling invalid data
I should also note that from my experience the gen 4 bug is very unreliable and often causes a crash starting most battles, and it seems that it'll only allow the game into one if the battle used a special intro (I tested it on wild Azelf in my case). I should go back and see what happens if I use a revive on one of my pokemon and if the glitchmon faints.
Something I’ve noticed is that these games, whilst immeasurably buggy, are also rock solid and somehow don’t crash with all these glitches and memory corruption going on.
When I caught Missingno and put it in my boxes, it turned to level 137, showed the sprite of a Snorlax and it would 1-shot everything. The funniest thing after that is I tried to send it to my Gold Version and it came through as a Ditto at level 80 something 😂
If you trade with jap version green with USA version blue red or yellow you can get different Pokémon sometimes you create a missingo or raichu it’s crazy happens because each game has its data placed in different areas of the pcp
1:13 how missingno remembers the hall of fame 2:26/2:45 just a normal trainer sprite nothing to see here 5:17 missingno used teleport 6:05 missingno: what's a move again? 6:44 azumarill became too powerful 9:08 you cannot grasp missingno's true form 11:00 missingno: where am I and why am I a level 999 bulbasaur? 11:36 trainer: I want to initiate a battle sword and shield: I'm sorry I'm afraid I can't do that 12:04 pokemon eggs pokemon eggs everywhere
The pomeg berry glitch you used in gen 4 can actually be used similarly also in pokemon emerald (and it's part of a bigger glitch that allows you to do almost everything in that game)
GameFreak was really on it in Gen 1 with those tiny details like how when the battle with BEAUTY was finished and she yelled "WAIT!" Because she was already getting corrupted; real crazy detail right there
Okay, I laughed very hard at the Eggs in the wild having a ? above their heads, equally confused as to why they were summoned and what they should be doing.
MissingNo Bird/Glitch (Normal-Flying/Electric-Ghost) Genderless Moves: Metronome (Normal). Volatile data (Flying). Sets the target's highest EV to 0. If all EVs are 0, set all IVs to 0. If all EVs and IVs are 0, set their type to "typeless". If all previous conditions are met, remove all their PP from all moves. If the target has no PP on any moves, this move is a 1HKO System crash (Electric). Changes the opponent's move with the highest base power to another completely random move of the same type, regardless of learnset. If the target has no moves with base power, change all their moves to Metronome. Glitched spirit (Ghost). 100 base power, Special. Ignores user's attacking stats and opponent's defensive stats. Causes the user to get a random status condition or lose a third of its hp (50/50). If the user already has a status condition, heal it, give it to the target, and lose 50% hp as the side effect instead (guaranteed). Only Metronome can be forgotten/changed, and the other options are: Explosion Hyper beam Scary face As for stats, a fast yet frail dual attacker (slightly stronger special attack), basically a glass cannon.
You mention MissingNo evolves Gen 2 and onward sometimes, but in Gen 1 if you give MissingNo a Rare Candy they evolve into Kangascon. And since MissingNo could learn almost any TM/HM it leads to a Kangascon that could have nearly any move in the game.
I was today years old when I learned that MissingNo can appear in other gens too. I thought it was gen 1 exclusive. I played red and blue as a kid, I'm the "Mew under the truck" generation, oh boy..
something i noticed about missingno when i was doing my 8F shiny mew glitch is that if missingno is named ‘M when you catch it the battle will continue, but when missingno is named MISSINGNO once you catch it, the battle ends. if you use a rare candy on ‘M it will evolve into a kangastan
Another way to encounter MissingNo. Is in the Pokémon DP Demo versions, where you need the walk through walls cheat code, and put the Roselia in the PC in the Oreburgh Pokémon Center, then talk to Professor Rowan and he exposes the first Pokémon in your party to a shiny stone, evolving it into an invisible shiny bulbasaur. It just functions the same, but whenever you open the Pokémon menu, the game crashes if you have that Pokémon in your party.
Always something to see how bits and pieces of missingno lore get passed down but rarely does any info video on missingno ever have all the information. Everyone knows about item duplication, less know you can catch missingno, even less know it keeps fighting you after catching it, even less know you can send missingno out against itself in the same fight and if it wins or gets exp at all it'll evolve into a few possibilities but the most likely one I've seen is a khangaskhan with water gun, water gun, and sky attack.
@Brandon Fulstone because each pokemon in gen 1 and 2 are stored as index values from 0-255, the pokemon Missingno becomes if you transfer to gen 2 (which requires a whole lot more glitching so that gen 2 sees it as a "legal" pokemon) can be any of them. For example, missingno with an index number of 31 will be a scizor, while those with a value of 184 will be lugia
@@PokeMario-pk4ot If I recall, what number it's index was was driven by your ID/name, too. It's been absolutely ages since I've messed with this stuff. I'm more know about gen 1-3 Missingno./M'/glitches, really.
Imagine some day this... "Pokémon" dropped one day out of an ultra wormhole. You cannot really comprehend its appearance, but some people claim that it looks like a shiny bulbasaur. Although its existence was never fully been proved, it is there. It exists. But somehow it appears mostly around young people that walk around without a Pokémon, and thus being in danger. A creature most likely to appear if you're in danger - what a dark thing to think about 😁
2:38 I love when the battle ended and the glitched trainer just said "wait!" like they know something is wrong-
Not "like" they know something is wrong they know what is wrong
You mean
Wa-Qpあ灰ゲイリーゴールドバッジPkMnサイホーン
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing.
In emarald in his pc, theres a lvl 0 feebas? What?
She's not such a beauty anymore lol
"I'll tell you a secret if you win!" *Entire universe crashes*
Exposed to the eldritch truth...
Secret:
I AM ARCEUS' CREATOR.
Legend has it, that Missingno meant that secret for the player, away from everyone else. *_Away from the prying eyes of the reality._* That message was for you only, _WASN'T IT?_
@@Burmilla. Dang, blud made entire MissingNo lore
I love that missingno seems to corrupt the trainers it touches with the battles. First yours and then the enemy after defeat
Thats the concept of the strangled red and glitchy red creepypastas
When the Beauty in the video says “Wait”, I’m this context it sounds like she’s begging MissingNo. for mercy.
thats why its only good stat is physical attack
This glitch traumatized me as a child
i blame MissingNo. for deleting my Articuno (it was in the PC at the time)
Everyone’s talking about their MissingNo. experience but no one’s talking about how the Tentacool in the box is named ‘Dive Bitch’
Yes lol
And da castform named "." + For dos who don't know da time 5:42
"Dive B*tch use Dive!"
That's pretty damn funny. I got one named crusty bish once
And a level 0 Feebas with a blank nickname-
MissingNo is one of the most underrated Pokémon in the franchise. It doesn't even have a single anime appearance, which is pretty sad.
Because it was a glitch not intended
to be honest, there should be an episode entirely about it. It should be named like, "It's Missing,No?" a clever way to sneak it a pokemon's name.
@@dundee6402 get the joke
But it is famous in fans' heads.
@@zachpro5475 r/woooosh
8:36 I’m not exactly sure why Gen 4 Missingno seems to delete some of the text as it loads, but “Wha do?” made me actually laugh out loud
I fucking love "Wha do?"
It's like the game is just absolutely befuddled at whatever the hell is going on right now.
Missingno straight up giving characters brain damage.
“o
moves left!”
Lol
Imagine that you are waiting for another kid to come and get beaten by you and that random kid just pulls out a Pokemon that you've never seen before and glitches you into oblivion
The kid: REEEEEEEEEeeEeeeeeeeeEejsmsjsjeuejd
“Ḡ̶̡̺͎͚̲̘͔͍̞̹̈́̿̈́́͑̂̎̊̇͝͠o̶͙̞͍̼̳̺̙͍̬̝͈̼̦͖̊͊̒̃̉͜͝ţ̶̛̛̟̮̺̮̱̝̞̦͚͕͙̝́̂͌͒͂̈́̎̾̀̋̓͒̑̕t̶̢̛͚̤̺̜͉̳͉͎̟̩̙̒͋̂͊͂̆͒̋̇́̏̍̊́̕͜͝ą̷͎̳̫̝͎̑̔̀̈́͐̿̓͒͒́̏̎̕͝͝ͅ ̸̝̻̿͛͐̇̀̄̌̅͑͘̚c̸̰̮̯̏͋͑͋̍̀̽́͘͘͝á̷̛̬̺̬̼̱̞̥̾̒͌͠ț̷̠̀̽̇̈́͋́̏̈́̓͋̀̀͂̓̕͠ć̷͔̉͋̽̎̇ḧ̷͕̦́̓̆̾͛̕͜͠͝ ̶̢͔͖̖͈̖͔̯̆͒̍̌̉̕‘̴̧̢̧̛̟͕͉̟̖̦̙̤̗̫̙̟̐͌̃̕͝͝ę̴͈̯͉̲̰̰͗̾͜m̷̦̫̲̾̓̍̓͜ͅ ̶͕̜̰̤̫͓̥̞̑͒͑͜a̴̧̛̤̲̰̩͙̳̦͙͖̯͍͈͐̒̐ͅͅl̴̛̹̇̎̂͂̈́̑̋͂̂̌͂͐̚͝l̵̢̯̳̐̂̏̀͋͐̃͑͑́̿̎̌…̴̺̙̞̦̽̑͊͆̑̀̈́̎̚͜ͅ” they mutter as they pass your glitched remains by.
I remember doing that to a friend just to have some fun and then he didn't talk to me in a few days, he was also scared of turning on the game until I told him it would be fine lol
Important addition: he saw that mess of pixels in _full hd._ you just saw an eldritch horror beyond comprehension be sent out by a 10 year old
Lol
2:42 That *"Wait!"* as the Beauty Trainer is corrupted feels a bit ominous
Yeah, so does the "But there was no target"!
actual tho
"What have you done to me?!!"
Biblically accurate Beauty. Be not afraid.
@@Jeremy-uy4ulOMG FACTS
In Emerald, the fact that they gave an error handler sprite *animation* and *flavor text* is wild.
They just *knew* that someone would be sniffing around to get them. Also, fun fact! It actually has a name, called Decamark. (Correct me if my spelling’s wrong)
i love how it uses sweet scent
I'm sorry to say, but it's most likely they didn't "give" the pokemon a sprite and a dex entry. The reason it looks like that is because that's what undefined pokemon would have looked like during development in order to avoid crashing the game during testing, probably.
@@callmevexx there are also tens of thousands of unique Decamarks thanks to larger integer limits. nobody has fully documented all of them, to my knowledge.
Also the "Animation" is just the sprite moving around. Usually Pokemon in Emerald have two frames. Missingo just one.
id honestly love to see missingno appear as a mythical, maybe like a glitched porygon that got extremely corrupted but escaped into the code
A paradox Porygon would be so cool frfr
Past paradox Porygon, Missing Number
It is just the og missingno but with an eye
In some fan games it’s similar to a mythical, for instance you can encounter it in Pokémon Insurgence after telling a guy to divide by zero. Its ability instantly kills anyone who uses contact moves on it
@@LegoEngineer003 I'm sorry you encounter it after doing WHAT
have you played pokemon team rocket edition? you can use missingno there
I remember my brother firmly telling little 5yo old me to NEVER catch missingno because he didn't want his game corrupted. I just wanted lots of rare candy and master balls.
bro got the wrong entity
you wanted balls?
10:38 the kid saying it’s not safe to venture further without Pokémon only for Brendan to just walk around him is hilarious
The fact that they took the time to make Missingno. roll around on appearance in generation III is adorable lol
I don't think that was intentional, it's probably just a placeholder animation the game uses when a Pokémon doesn't have one. If you notice they often even have the cry of some other Pokémon, so it's unlikely these things were "made" in a strict sense.
I did notice that Bulbasaur's cry was used but I hadn't really considered the possibility that the animation was a placeholder: I was thinking it's CLEARLY not any expected Pokemon's animation, like Bulbasaur's or something, so I assumed it as original ... but maybe it IS a placeholder, after all, lol! That's sad maybe lol
@@amoura39 It looks to me like a pokeball animation, so maybe they just used that
Oh! Maybe! 😊
voltorb maybe?@@faekeeper5946
Fun fact:
The glitch Pokemon that fights after capture is actually an entirely seperate Pokemon from MissingNo, 'M, but is so very similar to MissingNo that it is often referred to as MissingNo's "sister". The reason the battle doesn't end after 'M is captured is because the game sets a "Transformed" value to an incorrect value, causing an invisible Ditto to fight in the place of 'M
Didn't know about that!
That might explain why mine turned into a Ditto when I traded it to Gold lol
I never heard this explanation for it, nice! I'd been obsessed with Missingno. and M' as a kid playing Blue version, so I knew most of the reasoning behind various things. This is interesting info. :)
@@JasonX920 That theory does make sense, but actually, there's a different reason why Gen 1 MissingNo. appears as/turns into Ditto in Gen 2 games! It happens when you load a Gen 1 save with any kind of glitch Pokémon stored in the party or boxes in Pokémon Stadium 2. Unlike the first Pokémon Stadium, which displays glitch Pokémon using a Substitute doll model, Stadium 2 has a failsafe that displays any sort of glitch or invalid Pokémon as a Ditto. Additionally, if you save any changes made after interacting with your glitch Pokémon using the Stadium 2 lab, like moving it between boxes or adding it to your party, it'll be converted into a Ditto permanently -- in Stadium 2 *and* in your GB game.
@@jadeb.3332 What is interessting to note is that it seems like the substitute doll appears because its internal number just happens to match the Pokedex number of Missingno(which is 152).
Slight correction! The pokemon you showed that keeps fighting after capture is called ‘M, which is a separate glitch mon in the game’s data - although it takes MissingNo’s most famous L shape form and is caught in the same location. Whether your save file can encounter an ‘M depends (like with MissingNo’s various forms) on the name data of the player. 😊
If I remember correctly, ■'M■ can be caught again after it continues battling, registers as a Ditto, and the battle ends for real after that second catch. Also, the ■'M■ evolves into Kangaskhan by level up at any level. If I'm remembering correctly
@@metasteelgaming4373 Also, if i remember right, ‘M shouldn’t be caught if the one you found is level 0 because there’s a chance it’ll corrupt your data. But MissingNo. will always be around level 80 or so, so that’s not a problem usually.
@Maxaroni And Cheese Huh. I only got lvl 0 ones by leveling them past lvl 255. Whenever the glitch pokemon were over lvl 100, you could use rare candies to keep them going, but they reverted back to 100 when they gained exp in battle. I never had an issue with the corruption
@@VoidHearted MissingNo and its glitch brethren were far more likely to cause permanent corruption if you were playing Yellow version, otherwise they were mostly temporary fun.
✳️♻️✅💲💹m♻️✳️💹 alive
❌💢🆘❓🆎m💢❌🆎 no hp
Fun fact, at 11:00 the glitched shiny Bulbasaur is called ピカチュウ, which literally means... Pikachu 🤣
Oh thanks i was confused on what it meant
😳
Bulbachu?
Lol
Bulbasaur glitched so hard it had an identity crisis
8:21 the fact that Dawn appears twice when you are obviously with your rival make me laugh more than i should be 😂😂
8:35 When the game said "Wha do?" I really felt it
Fun fact: The Gen 2 glitch Pokemons' garbled map tile appearance is actually like that because the devs anticipated that this kind of situation would happen and added an error handler to prevent the game from displaying the real glitch sprite and imploding. If you disable the error check with a cheat code, most of ?????'s true sprites crash the game either immediately with a black screen or when the sprite finishes moving rightwards.
Yes! Retro Game Mechanics Explained has an awesome video on how this happens, plus a second one where he reveals the true, unshackled forms of every Gen I glitch Pokémon.
@@arashikou6661 do u know what the vid is called?
@@taebeebee It's a 3-part series, although the stuff I mentioned is all in parts 1 & 2. Part 1 is called "MissingNo.'s Glitchy Appearance Explained". Part 2 is "Fixing Glitch Pokémon Sprites". And Part 3 is "Pokémon Sprite Decompression Explained".
BTW, I misread this comment originally. RGME's videos don't explain the Gen _2_ behavior. They are about Gen 1. This fact about Gen 2 is very cool, and I didn't know this. Gen 1 also has an error-check that protects us from these Pokémons' true forms.
so in gen 2, missingno is an entity that goes against the laws of physics so much that even a glimpse at it's true form would destroy the fabric of reality, so the creators of the simulation had force a mask onto wherever it may spawn in anticipation of it's apperance
Just because you didn't show it off I actually discovered missingno in legends Arceus from playing with cheats on a modded switch. The missingno for Arceus is a level 0 Lucario named egg and after you capture it you obtain an egg that you cant do anything with because breeding isn't present in the game. I thought it was actually pretty neat.
Don't suppose there's any online any footage of this is there?
@@Superluigi881 I could possibly post footage of it on my page if there's none online
@@tythestoner97could you still??
@@archlinuxsucksdebianbetter I forgot all about this comment but one of these days I could
@@tythestoner97 please do I love stuff like that
The original missingno gives me the idea of what the out of bounds is, just a void that you shouldn’t be in, giving you a creepy feeling
I really, REALLY wish Game Freak would do a special Missingo Event for a Halloween thing. C'mon, corrupted Tera Raid dens, weird glitchy things that behave oddly and maybe interface screw a bit...they can clearly make it so you can't capture a Pokémon there, so they could easily make it uncatchable or something.
A signature attack that deals a specific glitch status making the opposing pokémon like confused but Always, and a sprite being broken
Aw man uncatchable?
That would awesome if they did
@@planteruines5619 Berserk Gene incarnate....
G-Max MISSINGNO? What would that even look like? All of its forms combined?
10:39 Kid tried to warm you. Some goddess Bulbasaur named Pikachu will be knock you out if you attempt to venture into the wild without your own Pokes. That's why Pokemon Mastery is so essential to this society.
What i find the most interesting is that missingno is not even composed from pokemon data
It's just random numbers from the game's memory turned into a pokemon, since pokemon save data is nothing but numbers (well, technically all computer data is, but pokemons ARE saved as int numbers (and i think some letters as well) )
If the memory pointer happens to end up in your inventory, you could probably even design it yourself by adding/removing inventory items
That could make an incredible TAS.
@@mint_marigold1229 it's easier to just take advantage of a glitch that allows you to scroll past cancel in your bag, allowing you to execute arbitrary code that sends you to the hall of fame.
This should be an actual concept for a Pokémon game.
Imagine fighting the goddamn code of the game you’re playing.
@@Bulliegh I'm a somewhat experienced programmer actually, and i looked up how the save data is structured
Also it's not like it has any unique inner workings, it's just simple and good serialization that i find really neat (despite not liking the games)
Knowing how a bunch of bits are read separately from the rest isn't exactly something i'd brag about
"(and i think some letters as well)"
You're thinking of hexadecimal which translates to binary anyways.
This was one of the best videos I've seen and it was very entertaining giving tribute to such a wonderful old-school Pokemon. Thank you so much for making it.
Since Poketips disappeared, they had to do it
@@kapkan6930 so sad that he stopped :(
There needs to be a Missingno appearance in the anime. Even just a hint to it.
The anime protagonist is staring at the pokedex, but the pokedex is then hacked and for a few frames you see missingno. as the thing that the pokedex shows while its glitching
Is that fake what you said?
@@cookiesnet8145 Pretty sure its a yes
Not everything in the games has to exist in the anime. In fact the anime is pretty bad and it's gotten worse since Best Wishes.
@@chrisredfield11 so let's make sure to not make it better!!!!
1:20 Oh, hey. Criminals do that, too!
I remember the time where in Gen 8, hacked raids were a thing
I saw a MissingNo. Max Raid and i couldn't resist to catch it just for curiosity, it worked pretty similar to Gen 1 MissingNo., being able to clone Pokémon and items
I think it should've been mentioned that in Gen 8 ( with hacking ) you could catch MissingNo. as an egg or a Pikachu
Yeah a similar glitch can be done by hacking galarian slowbro into an unupdated game (really old glitch) it would look like a pikachu (and it would have very bad ivs after a battle or camping, not sure why) and would have a kanto slowbros moves and would be normal type
I guess they put pikachu as a place holder until the pokemon is updated to whatever pokemon it’s suppose to be.
5:07 missigno got a pokedex entry cool he deserves
Can't believe Missingno was cut in Gen 9.... May it rest in peace for now.
They finally added a handle for invalid pokemon data
Can't believe gen 7/8 just crashes lol
But again, those games ARE incomplete, couldn't even port most moves, i imagine they didn't have time for that either
Missingno will come back , it Always will
We have a place for IT
@@rompevuevitos222you know gen 7 has every move
Gen 9 and 8 don’t
@@chaosenforcerdhm969 Yeah i mistook the gens
7:18 YOOOO! You actually managed to catch a shiny ________?! That's insane! I've never seen a shiny ________ before! It looks so good!
This is also the first time I find out that using underscores around a sentence or word italicizes it.
_There is no way that actually works!!_
_a_
@@connorfrommars_yes it does_
*_-yes-_*
_holy cow_
You’ve answered my question about a yellow bulbasuar in gen three. I remembered having one but couldn’t remember why. Thank you.
Shows how DANGEROUS MissingNo is in each gen
it’s really not that dangerous. missingno. cannot erase your save data, all it can do is crash the game or meddle with in-game properties if not handled correctly.
@@Meowzipan I think it's known to corrupt hall of fame data, but no one really cares about that.
How can you call it dangerous, its stats are abysmal
@@Schnort iirc you can view the pokedex and fix that? i’m not sure actually you might be right
Who cares if it can be caught lol also cool design
Ah, good old game destroyed. Brings back memories.
Also loving that Colloseum/Gales of Darkness soundtrack.
Finally someone who mentions the music of pokemon Colosseum/ XD
"Congratulations! Your Fearow evolved into *ominous humming from a long distance* "
I played a ROM hack once that actually incorporated missingno into the story, and glitched out the entire world as part of that story. It was a surprisingly high quality ROM hack tbh
What was the name of the hack?
@@stevenneaves8079 pokemon FireRed rocket edition
@@stevenneaves8079 Took a little digging, but I found it! It's been a while since I played it. FireRed Rocket Edition. I personally thought it was a really cool ROM hack that expanded a lot on the story.
@@stevenneaves8079 i think it is team rocket edition, i have played the game before
Yeah bro say the name don’t leave us dry.
Can’t believe even the boi MissingNo. Was cut in gen 8, you’d think they’d bring him back in gen 9 with the rest of the glitches
Gen 7 and 8 where rushed as hell and incomplete, they can't even handle invalid pokemons
Gen 9's aproach is the most sensible, they wouldn't add glitches intentionally
@@rompevuevitos222 Couldn't they make it not a glitch and design it as an intended pokemon?
@@Sasuhinagirl1 here is the thing, the difference between a glitched and non glitched pokemon is that the glitched one was not intended to be playable
MissingNo is as much of a pokemon as any other, but his stats are abnormally different from the rest and some values can surpass what the UI was intended to handle (which is why the hall of fame gets wonky)
MissingNo is just a pokemon with randomized stats, the visual errors is because it looks for a sprite past the list of pokemon sprites and ends up taking graphics from other parts of the game
The only thing required for MissingNo to look normal would be to add a sprite for him and ensure he looks in the right place for it
@@rompevuevitos222 make him real and valid , bring him from the distorsion world , we need a missingno that is real
@@planteruines5619 iirc trying to port MissingNo to newer gens tends to fix some of it's values, like it's ID (Because if your MissingNo got ID 180, that ID would be valid in a newer game that has a pokemon for the ID)
Altho it really depends on what kind of MissingNo you have, if the numbers are too far off the new game may not even recognize it as a pokemon
Missingno should be a paradox pokemon with the ability glitch which lowers or heightens the defense of the enemy pokemon
Nah the ability should corrupt the opposing pokemon which cuts the accuracy and defense of the foe by half.
Nah it should completely randomize the enemy's stats
I love 8:36 "Wha do?" 🤣
I think they should make a Pokemon based off of MissingNo. How cool would it be if there was some sort of ditto clone that had the ability to transfer its DNA onto other pokemon for a brief amount of time? It'd be sick.
It was suppose to be a vulture pokemon before it got scrapped
10:43 Chad Pokemon trainer
Walks into the forest
Throws out level 999 Bulbasaur
Refuses to elaborate
Blacka out
Missingno (pokemon blue) was that one bug where everybody SWORE on their mother and jesus's grave that it would corrupt your save file, but I had one of those blessed cartridges I guess, because I had a whole ARMY of Missingno's.
I was the Missingno master scientist, doing experiments by leveling it up (levels up to 255 then resets to 0 on the 256th level), seeing what it would evolve into (Rhydon lol).. there seemed to be several sub-types of Missingno's so i kept digging until i got bored.
It was more likely that the steps you took would corrupt your game rather than the pokemon itself
The early gens are held together with duct tape
The worst missingno does is corrupt the hall of fame, however some methods of encountering and obtaining glitch pokemon can mess up your file a lot more
11:02 "you have no more Pokémon that can fight!"
The level 999 Mega Bulbasaur named Pikachu: Am I a joke to you?
Since MissingNo was classified as a glitch, the reality itself cannot comprehend it and thinks that no Pokemon was there.
I like how the newer games can either try catch and do something with the errors, or outright crash; because the newer engines would spill an exception instead of happilly handling invalid data
4:19 Scared the shit out of me as a kid.
love how gen 4 missingno is always shiny
I should also note that from my experience the gen 4 bug is very unreliable and often causes a crash starting most battles, and it seems that it'll only allow the game into one if the battle used a special intro (I tested it on wild Azelf in my case).
I should go back and see what happens if I use a revive on one of my pokemon and if the glitchmon faints.
8:27 Dawn's learned to clone herself
true
Something I’ve noticed is that these games, whilst immeasurably buggy, are also rock solid and somehow don’t crash with all these glitches and memory corruption going on.
Missingno changes for the most part between every game, which is cool. Some of them let the pokemon work, while others don't as much.
When it said “Wha do?” and “? ó moves left” at 8:38 I felt that
When I caught Missingno and put it in my boxes, it turned to level 137, showed the sprite of a Snorlax and it would 1-shot everything. The funniest thing after that is I tried to send it to my Gold Version and it came through as a Ditto at level 80 something 😂
If you trade with jap version green with USA version blue red or yellow you can get different Pokémon sometimes you create a missingo or raichu it’s crazy happens because each game has its data placed in different areas of the pcp
I felt that missclicked pokeball in my soul
4:30
8:16 THE TEXTS ARE SO FUNNY
"A wild TENTACRUEL and æed!"
"Wha do?"
5:40 love the tentacools name
It's called "Dive bit-"
*dirty mind activated*
5:42 Tentacool’s name 💀
1:28 That's not MissingNo. That's 'M, the "sister" counterpart of MissingNo. It can evolve into Kangaskhan while MissNo. can't.
Nice! A family for a glitched mon!
uhm actually its 🟫🟥'M🟫🟥
*Mı§§!Ŋgⁿ⁰Ø*
I didn't even know there were ways to spawn MissingNo in the games after Gen. 1.
That's really interesting. 😮
1:13 how missingno remembers the hall of fame
2:26/2:45 just a normal trainer sprite nothing to see here
5:17 missingno used teleport
6:05 missingno: what's a move again?
6:44 azumarill became too powerful
9:08 you cannot grasp missingno's true form
11:00 missingno: where am I and why am I a level 999 bulbasaur?
11:36 trainer: I want to initiate a battle sword and shield: I'm sorry I'm afraid I can't do that
12:04 pokemon eggs pokemon eggs everywhere
Missingnot (my fakemon, both skinned and unskinned) in the shellnut
2:44
It was there that the beauty trainer realized trainer Jay had done more than just defeated her in battle and instead destroyed reality itself.
" Watch this, Barry! " *walks on water*
The pomeg berry glitch you used in gen 4 can actually be used similarly also in pokemon emerald (and it's part of a bigger glitch that allows you to do almost everything in that game)
Great way to get the old sea chart map and many other items!
3:05bro got attacked by the poke mart
And The Gym
@@JuanjoStudios which gym lol
@@Tripp-y9b On The Square "1x6" Theres a square that says "GY" and that gy IS gym But on half
-which is a jigsaw puzzle
we are all victims under capitalism 😭
3:52
GUYS HE GAINED AN EXCLAMATION POINT 😍😍
Imagine gamefreak actually makes MissingNo an actual functional Pokemon in a future Gen
Pokemon Showdown added the Gen 1 MissingNo as a valid pokemon, so at least there's that
Not enough , but yeah it would be awesome , also it would means that there was 152 pokemons in gen 1 all along ...
@@planteruines5619 there are technically 256 pokemon in gen 1
they will never have that courage, they are not good enough to recognize the great missingNo as canon
Fun Fact: If you catch Missingno in gen 2 and add it to your party, it has a Carbos. Happy Carbos hunting :)
All the stats for meeee..hehe
GameFreak was really on it in Gen 1 with those tiny details like how when the battle with BEAUTY was finished and she yelled
"WAIT!"
Because she was already getting corrupted; real crazy detail right there
conicidence
Made-up narrative gets upvotes
S a r c a s m
3:06 A wild Play Station Network attacked!
11:00 what's even funnier is that the name of this Bulbasaur (ピカチュウ) means "Pikachu"
Okay, I laughed very hard at the Eggs in the wild having a ? above their heads, equally confused as to why they were summoned and what they should be doing.
The fact that Tentacool is named "Dive Bitch" gives me so much seratonin
Summoning an unlisted Pokemon in Gen IX appears to transport you to the LAND OF CONFUSED EGGS
MissingNo
Bird/Glitch
(Normal-Flying/Electric-Ghost)
Genderless
Moves:
Metronome (Normal).
Volatile data (Flying).
Sets the target's highest EV to 0.
If all EVs are 0, set all IVs to 0.
If all EVs and IVs are 0, set their type to "typeless".
If all previous conditions are met, remove all their PP from all moves.
If the target has no PP on any moves, this move is a 1HKO
System crash (Electric).
Changes the opponent's move with the highest base power to another completely random move of the same type, regardless of learnset. If the target has no moves with base power, change all their moves to Metronome.
Glitched spirit (Ghost).
100 base power, Special.
Ignores user's attacking stats and opponent's defensive stats. Causes the user to get a random status condition or lose a third of its hp (50/50). If the user already has a status condition, heal it, give it to the target, and lose 50% hp as the side effect instead (guaranteed).
Only Metronome can be forgotten/changed, and the other options are:
Explosion
Hyper beam
Scary face
As for stats, a fast yet frail dual attacker (slightly stronger special attack), basically a glass cannon.
What
great concept like thing i say 🙂👍
MISSINGNO. then: glitchy
MISSINGNO. now: curious egg
8:42 “wha do” has me in tears
7:18 Not only has he gotten a missingno., He has gotten a Shiny MissingNo. O.O
What started as an error in the code now it follows as a legend!
When you fight a trainer and suddendly brings out a MissingNo.
You know you're actually screwed.
You mention MissingNo evolves Gen 2 and onward sometimes, but in Gen 1 if you give MissingNo a Rare Candy they evolve into Kangascon. And since MissingNo could learn almost any TM/HM it leads to a Kangascon that could have nearly any move in the game.
“You can’t go out there! It’s dangerous!”
You: bet
8:42 wha do?
I was today years old when I learned that MissingNo can appear in other gens too. I thought it was gen 1 exclusive.
I played red and blue as a kid, I'm the "Mew under the truck" generation, oh boy..
1:35
ah yes
*casually has 9 master balls*
He probably had alts and traded them to the current game, that's what I've done with mine.
(me with 24 master balls in pokemon violet)
"if you can beat me, ill tell you a cool secret" *crashes game*
something i noticed about missingno when i was doing my 8F shiny mew glitch is that if missingno is named ‘M when you catch it the battle will continue, but when missingno is named MISSINGNO once you catch it, the battle ends. if you use a rare candy on ‘M it will evolve into a kangastan
10:42 For some reason I found this very funny lol
"You can't pass without a Pokémon"
How about I do anyway?
Bro got me at 11:35, Cause im watching on Nintendo switch, and i actually tried to click the two buttons😂
4:20 Boy, Missingno really let itself go over the years…
I like that the gen IV MissingNo is shiny. Imagine that being the first shiny you encounter
Another way to encounter MissingNo. Is in the Pokémon DP Demo versions, where you need the walk through walls cheat code, and put the Roselia in the PC in the Oreburgh Pokémon Center, then talk to Professor Rowan and he exposes the first Pokémon in your party to a shiny stone, evolving it into an invisible shiny bulbasaur. It just functions the same, but whenever you open the Pokémon menu, the game crashes if you have that Pokémon in your party.
Always something to see how bits and pieces of missingno lore get passed down but rarely does any info video on missingno ever have all the information.
Everyone knows about item duplication, less know you can catch missingno, even less know it keeps fighting you after catching it, even less know you can send missingno out against itself in the same fight and if it wins or gets exp at all it'll evolve into a few possibilities but the most likely one I've seen is a khangaskhan with water gun, water gun, and sky attack.
5:49 trainer: Watch how i casually walk of the edge of trees before i step on the round i was actually supposed to go
Missingno having Slowpoke’s cry in gen 3 is very fitting.
11:08 the level 999 shiny bulbasaur is named "pikachu" lmao
When missingno swaps sprites back in gen 1 just check your status screen and it'll go back to normal.
we need an anime where MissingNo is the main character
I remember evolving my missingnos in gen 1, they always evolved into Snorlax
And plus if you traded Missingno into Gen 2, they would be either a random Pokemon or I think Smeargle. It's been years since I've done that
@Brandon Fulstone because each pokemon in gen 1 and 2 are stored as index values from 0-255, the pokemon Missingno becomes if you transfer to gen 2 (which requires a whole lot more glitching so that gen 2 sees it as a "legal" pokemon) can be any of them. For example, missingno with an index number of 31 will be a scizor, while those with a value of 184 will be lugia
@@PokeMario-pk4ot
If I recall, what number it's index was was driven by your ID/name, too. It's been absolutely ages since I've messed with this stuff. I'm more know about gen 1-3 Missingno./M'/glitches, really.
@@ElysetheEevee nope, the index number of a pokemon is hard coded in the game and not something that can be changed or influenced
It would be interesting if MissigNo was treated as an entity that opposes Arceus by "Bending Reality" so it can destroy him and the world he created
Imagine some day this... "Pokémon" dropped one day out of an ultra wormhole. You cannot really comprehend its appearance, but some people claim that it looks like a shiny bulbasaur. Although its existence was never fully been proved, it is there. It exists. But somehow it appears mostly around young people that walk around without a Pokémon, and thus being in danger. A creature most likely to appear if you're in danger - what a dark thing to think about 😁
In Gen 1, if you caught the Lv 0. 'M and gave it a rare candy, it evolves into a Kangaskhan.