Fixing Glitch Pokémon Sprites
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 มิ.ย. 2020
- Last time I said I wanted to fix all the glitch Pokémon sprites. How exactly, and how did I do it? It's all explained right here.
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Link to all of the Pokémon sprites: rgmechex.com/tech/glitch_poke...
CORRECTION
An error was made (or rather, an error was not simulated properly) that caused some of the
glitch Pokémon sprites to not be decompressed correctly. The affected Pokémon are those with Pokédex numbers 161, 172, 174, 180, 187, 188, 219, 221, and 240. This includes Pokémon with internal IDs 227, 230, 231, and 240.
The fixed Pokémon sprites can be found here: rgmechex.com/tech/glitch_poke...
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So what you're telling me is that the real shape of glitch pokemon is impossible to be processed by the gameboy. They're literal eldritch abominations.
The reality in which they're interpreted cannot contain nor comprehend their true form. Yeah, they're eldrich alright
Plus some of them can learn a move known as Super Glitch. It's name is blank so it goes by that. I suggest watching a video of it in action. It's a perfect move for an Eldritch Abomination and very interesting.
Cthulhu’s Offspring*
@David Gray Maybe we're all just in a higher dimensional gameboy game, and thus can never truly decompress thine sprites of eld.
Considering people sometimes try to implement them as monsters in horror games, I'd love to see their whole, gameboy-incomprehensible size be used.
"What if I revealed Missigno's true form" sounds like the premise for creepypasta.
Someone write this down! Write that down!
Yellow-form Missingno. actually exists, and it crashes the game a lot. It also has "Missingno.'s true cry" when it doesn't crash.
Missingno assumes its true form and sings you to death with its endless true cry
Missigno is actually a irl animal and the universe doesn't know how to awnser it, that's why it's a "type bird" the pokémon universe just doesn't know what a "bird" is and missigno (a bird) somehow made into that universe
I wanna hear it. It sounds like it could be interesting. There is one very creepy glitch pokemon known as “♀ .” Which takes the form of an 80 foot tall blood spire surrounded by pure darkness that emits an eerie tune when encountered.
Also random tidbit but My personal favourite creepypasta is unown king.
this whole video feels like looking at those ink blob pictures
You mean the Rorshach test? Yeah...
@@SakuraCourageSolo duh that's what they mean
How does that make you feel 🤣
That explains why most of these sprites look like two bears high fiving.
Rorschach...
Conclusion: there is a lot of glitched Magnamite sprites in Pokemon
Along with Bulbasaur.
itogi???
Magnamite = missigno
Magnemite is now magnamite.
Canonically.
They're just glitch Pokemon that happen to have Magnemite's dex number.
the 'corrected' missingno(s) actually looks like they have some sort of pokemon in it with a very weird overlay on top of it
It does look like there is a pokemon in there
Maybe it is reading graphical data occasionally?
That's the human brain for you. Our object recognition and permeance skills are so good that they're often better than our eyesight. This leads to over compensation from the brain as it almost always assumes what the eyes are looking at is a logical shape.
There's no actual Pokémon sprite data in it, as the location in memory it reads from is far outside the bounds of where the sprites are held.
There isn't actually any sort of pokemon design in it, but it would be cool to see some fanart interpretations of what it might look like if there was.
The 13x13 looks like something coiled and serpentine. Vaguely like Rayquaza or Steelix.
YOU CANNOT GRASP THE TRUE FORM OF MISSINGNO'S ATTACK!
Hehe Earthbound reference
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Missingno can only learn Water Gun twice and Sky Attack in Red and Blue. Then Pay Day, Bind, and Water Gun in Yellow. So the true form is that it's dual wielding Supersoakers or something?
WynExplode it must like summer or something
@@wynexplode2593 Holy shit you just *_leaked_* gen 9
13:31 I like how there's one that is absolutely massive, but also only consists of a tiny square of glitch.
Even better, there’s a second one that shows up a little later
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Nice
(Grabs large sprite area) This is mine now!
let me have all the sprite
@@Alium4060Obero I paid for the sprite tiles, I'm gonna use the whole sprite tiles
I'm really interested in the fact that Tentacruel, Magnemite, Bulbasaur, and Bulbasaur/Human hybrid sprites turn up more or less comprehensible among the glitches by doing this, often multiple times.
Shared Dex number with data that coincidentally starts the same way, ig? Perhaps they're reading from offsets that are near each other
All pokemon past Bulbasaur ($99) occupy the same sprite bank, including glitch pokemon. so a hybrid of one of those pokemon would have the same sprite as its normal counterpart. the corrupted Bulbasaur sprite is a result of the game loading the coordinates for Dodrio's sprite, which occupies the same position in its intended sprite bank. in foreign versions there are other hybrid pokemon with unusual sprites - Green has a jolteon hybrid that looks like the pokemon tower ghost because the coordinates for jolteon happen to be in the same place as the ghost. and some of the european versions have a growlithe hybrid that looks like bulbasaur!
@@icecreamsamwich cool :0
my personal favorite is dex #248. it is literally only one tile in a huge space of 32×256 tiles.
13:31
#242 as well
and its even black so you know its ALWAYS like this! hahahah so excessive!
@@lutyanoalves444 it's also the same sprites too
It's looking at you...
lmao
Optimization
just a side note, i really appreciate the fact that you have subtitles in all of your videos. that is really helpful
i agree!!! this makes things easier to process for my ADD brain. i love it when creators do this
so few people on here actually do caption their videos, especially egregious when it comes to bigger creators with bigger platforms & more resources, so it's always wonderful to find channels where the people running them go that extra mile to make their videos more accessible. My auditory processing disorder is super thankful for this.
yeah, im hearing impaired and it makes it much easier for me.
@@NoraQRosa it used to be way more common, *_When TH-cam allowed viewers to add subtitles themselves._*
It’s also useful for non-English native speakers, it lets our brain understand more of the video and let it even relax a bit
5:00 I see a shape in the fog of that completed missing no. It almost looks like a classic "who's that pokemon?" silhouette.
WAIT I SEE IT TOO
By squinting really hard, I see Mario shrugging, but that's only what I see personally.
It's a Clefairy (or a Happiny) wearing a Vileplume / Venusaur head-flower.
@@Yze3 (shrug boye)
Looks like a raichu with a Spurdo Sparde face jumping over a poliwhirl/mankey crossbreed
I probably wouldn't have gone in the direction of supporting sprite placement in up to a 256x2048px area for a system with a 160x144px screen resolution, but where would the fun in that be?
Severely limited space sometimes won't let you make that choice.
Bro, I have no idea what you just said
Diamond The Hedgehog same
@@spiko7 Basically the person who made the video made sure the decompression was better than the original ever could have been.
what resolution is god's screen?
My personal favourite is ID number 191, found in Yellow.
This Pokémon has a sprite that’s 256x256.
Unlike most glitch Pokémon, the game tries to display the full thing. The absurd size of the sprite somehow causes the ENTIRE ROM to be copied to the RAM.
Insane.
imagine loading pokemon red or blue after this and then you somehow use yellow save fils on red or blue which doesnt end well
I believe you have encountered the infamous 4.4 glitchmon
That was 4, 4. Incredibly glitchy and inconsistent. It's sprite is exceedingly collosal. I always wanted to see how big the actual sprite is.
actually 4 4 (191)'s reason the game may crash is because 4 4's front sprite is an unusually large 256x256 pixels, which causes it to overflow from RAM to SRAM and corrupt the current sound bank identifier address to invalid sound banks, and invalid sound banks usually crash. Even if the game doesn't crash, 4 4's front sprite will overwrite enough RAM to otherwise prevent play.
191? That’s 4 4, isn’t it?
8:47 Jesus, what is that humanoid bulbasaur abomination?!
Ah yes, the Bulba-Choke. I always thought it looked like it fused with a Machoke or something X3
Idk, I see MegaMan
I love it so much, I want to adopt it
I see some kid in a hoodie with hands in their pockets. Trippy
It's Bulbasaur's sprite, but with the wrong bounding box, which in turn fucks up the sprite.
All I learned from this is that Missingno's true form is beyond our comprehension.
6:23, That is due to the decompression tampering the sound bank to an invalid value. In Red/Blue, it crashes instantly, but in Yellow, it crashes when the next sound effect plays in that invalid sound bank. You can see what happens if I freeze the sound banks on my Revealed glitch Pokemon front sprite crashers video.
I love how the game is so unbelievably robust that it can meaningfully interpret all sorts of random gibberish as normal pokemon that could (almost) be useable.
8:43 Looks like a Yearbook for a really weird school. Tentacruel being the angsty edgy teenager that's like "whatever, I can't wait for graduation to never see this weirdos again"
you ever just walk into class and it's full of eldritch tv static creatures
8:16 damn Trainer really looks a lot like Magnemite
XD
Everything is magnemite and bulbasaur
Imagine if modern games had to optimize storage like old games had to. Sad that developers don't care to optimize because memory is expendable now.
It's especially frustrating because the result of that was, as you'd expect, most games nowadays tend to be poorly optimized if at all. The specs needed to run them can get massively inflated for no good reason, making it unplayable on hardware that would otherwise be able to handle it.
I really like the fact that you take time to go into such detail about how these glitches work - it’s very enjoyable and I appreciate the hard work you must be doing behind the scenes to make these videos.
It’s mental to think that the game points to unrelated data when you force the game to & it still has a sprite. These games were programmed so weirdly to accommodate for the Gameboy’s primitive technology. It’s actually quite fun to learn about gen 1, they are the most unique Pokémon games in regards to glitches for sure
fun fact: in one of the japanese games (can't remember if it's red/green or blue), despite having jolteon's pokedex number, the glitch pokemon with index number 0xfd has the sprite of the ghost missingno., due to jolteon's sprite pointer being conveniently located at the same spot as the ghost sprite, just in a different bank
a random person: "Hey, what are you watching?"
me: "Ehm... Contemporary art..."
Something about these videos is calming. Tysm for this
It's like watching How It's Made or the Weather Channel
Couldn't agree more
The reason I watched every Pannenkoek video about Mario 64.
It's probably his voice. I find it soothing.
He feels like a modern day bob ross, as odd as that sounds
these are beautiful. seeing all the sprites of the nonexistent glitch pokemon nearly brought a tear to my eye
A lot of the sprites look like an amalgamation of gun barrels and artillery. I'd hang some of them up.
this is a digital Rorschach test. fear not, two guys with a straight jacket are on the way.
one of these looks like the Dragon's Fury from TF2
Did you ever see the Spaceworld 1997 designs for Remoraid and Octillery? The revolver/tank motif used to be a lot more obvious.
11:22
So theoretically, if you extend the ROM through the arcane magic of hacking and alter the pokedex and index pointer tables, you can add sprite data for every pokemon from Gen 2 into Gen1? I know they did some crazy compression tricks to make that (and the two-region thing) work.
There's a hack out there that added every Pokemon up to Gen 6 into ROM.
@@mewnani WHAT!? HOW!?
@@TinchoX Quite likely by expanding values in the code, and adding the entries into the lists and the spritework, etc. Whether or not the resulting ROM would play in an emulator probably depends upon the emulator being willing to overlook boundaries. I know BSNES in particular refuses anything that wouldn't work on real hardware (which is why certain fan-translated games don't work on BSNES, because they took shortcuts and did other things that would fail on real hardware).
@@TinchoX Most emulators allow you to make ROMs larger than the maximum cartridge storage capacity. In theory there's no limit, but the Gameboy had a max RAM size of 128KB, so there's a practical limit of a few dozen MB.
now. USE A.C.E AND MAKE EVERY POSSIBLE GLITCH POKEMON BY BRUTE FORCE@@cameronl1859
8:14: That one magnamite that was in the wrong zone at the wrong time
It has seen some things...
the right magnamite in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world...
Given it's name, it appears to be self aware and waiting for a chance to take control of humanity, but had it's obfuscated code overwritten during cleanup.
Him and charzard m from around the end of the section.
And that Tentacruel wants to watch the world burn...
Some very fun visualizations in this video! Definitely neat to see what unused Pokédex numbers would produce.
I don't recall Steelix being so petite.
In the "fixed" Missingno sprite representation it totally looks like there's .. something in the lower half, second quarter.
Excuse me you broke time
I see a three-headed group at the very top that connects to that bottom half you describe
It is staring at me menacingly
@@AL1CE_
He could be a patron and therefore get to see the video earlier
I see a screaming monstrous face with bulging eyes facing left
I'd love to see fixed versions of Yellow's Glitch Pokemon sprites too!Also, wouldn't the graphics differ between the different language releases of the games?
They do. Some Missingno are more unstable in other language versions. I believe Chickasaurus has a video about them
@@pokemario6456 yep
I can't claim to understand what's going on, but I appreciate your dedication and all the work that went into decoding them and making this video
There is something pure and beautiful about asserting that your presentation of garbage data is more faithful than the game's presentation of the same garbage data. Shine on.
Huh... I'd like to see the movesets and statlines of unused Pokedex numbers.
Bulbapedia and Glitch City Labs may have that information. (GCL is more in-depth)
At 5:18, I'm seeing a fighter jet in the lower-right corner of the right-most Missingno image.
I love this video! In the middle of 2020, about a quarter century after the release of the games, we're still learning new things and seeing things in new ways thanks to you!
In that sprite I just see demonic Mr. Mime
Damn, this game continues to amaze me - I've been following glitch research in these games since they came out and I was a little kid (though I was only active in contributing to research for a few of my pre-teen years). To think there's a whole set of glitch Pokemon I've never seen hidden by unused Pokedex numbers blows my mind.
Thank you for these really cool videos!
So glad to see a post from you again!
I find it interesting that there's a couple that are just Bulbasaur with the size incorrectly set.
So, I found this chart of unused Pokémon appearances and some of them look pretty strange and some even creepy (probably why they were removed) but one of them, if you look really closely at your “fixed” sprite of the very popular ‘M missingno it seems like it may be the cactus one. Which is odd because missingno’s type says it’s a bird… but the sprite does seem to have the echo of the overlapping circles and little feet and spines of the cactus Pokémon that was never used.
has anyone ever told you you've got a really calming voice? like, I have no idea what you're talking about ever, but listening to your videos is like wrapping a blanket around my brain.
Your aftereffects work is gorgeous. How is everything so mathematically perfect???
Math
I think he actually did a video on his editing process a while back
He'a mathematically perfect.
@@dj505 Wait, really? I need to understand how he does this. His editing skills are absolutely incredible.
I'm quite impressed by all the animations in this and the last video. How did you create them and how much time did it take to make them?
I use After Effects to make videos! This one was a bit of an outlier since it was fairly straightforward, I would say I spent around 15-18 hours on video editing.
Just want to say I enjoy watching your videos, even if I don't understand everything you're talking about. You don't bs around at the beginning; you simply jump into the video. I wish more content creators were like that. :)
4:08 I like how the blank spaces to the right of the sprite take the shape of the original missingno. It could be a coincidence, but it's v fun to see!
Can you do 4 4's sprite, it's Yellow exclusive but I want to see the entire sprite in all it's VRAM induced glory.
Plus a full analysis of that sprite may help out ZZAZZGlitch with their research.
Problem with 4.4 is that its sprite is way too large to compress.
I see you're a man of culture as well.
4 4 : the pikachu from the depths of hell
8:45 bulbasaur what have they done to you?
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Constructive criticism: I think some relaxing music during the scrolling of sprites would be good instead of "nothing".
Some classical, non-copyright song, just for us to listen while we enjoy the graphics ^^
Yes, use public domain or some custom music.
Too many creators use copyrighted music, and then get upset they get flagged. Taking content to just use in the background isn't fair use; only if you actually critique the music, you can play it legally. See: A Dose of Buckley - Musical Autopsy. Also see Tom Scott's video about copyright.
Yeah, if you can't think of or find anything else, Incompetech (aka Kevin McLeod) is always a good bet...
Everyone uses his music, but then, that's because it's fairly good, and an easy to find resource that can be freely used (as long as you credit it appropriately...)
I prefer silence.
I'm not against non-intrusive music either but decided to mention that the opinion is at least non-unanimous. Viewers can also play any music they like in the background if they wish, although doing that may be quite inconvenient.
He already addressed this in his first Q&A video
I love this channel. Finally actual technical explanations with no sugar coating.
I enjoy that you break it down so that non-coders. can understand the basics. I took a look at your videos and there were a lot of interesting ones I am going to take a look at later. You sir have earned a subscriber. Also, very nice editing.
I watched a minute of your video and instantly subscribed
I love this type of content, you don't dumb things out to simplify you just get straight to the point
Keep up man, it's great !
You're a genius. If NASA ever needs to decipher strange martian data, with your skills we can find out what they looked like unglitched.
"don't and can't exist in the original game"
ACE: Are you challenging me?
5:00
Reminds me of the Japanese Blue Version of Missingno
Your dedication is impressive. I really enjoy your videos.
Beautifully made video as always! Gave me an idea too, players who love crazy challenges should try and do some sort of speedrun in getting all non-crashing glitch pokemon! Would love to see someone attempt that
The amouunt of work and expertise that go into these videos is really impressive.
Is there a reason why the [ゥ] tile is seemingly used a lot in glitch sprites?
IIRC, that signifies a note in the programing (like using #s in Java, which tells all Java applications to ignore whatever is on those lines), so when these weird pointers point to unintended places, the name data pulled for them reads whatever is "written" in the code, sometimes containing that symbol since a lot of the glitches point into non-Pokemon related code/data.
@@samlay9588 Actually java uses //comment or /* block comment */
The small katakana "u" is tile hex EA. When interpreted as code, this byte stands for the instruction "ld (a16), a". This is a very common instruction, very likely to appear in game code. And thus, it commonly appears in glitch Pokémon names, because these names are in fact pieces of game code interpreted as text strings.
The digit "4" also appears pretty frequently. Its tile ID is hex FA, which stands for a different, very common instruction: "ld a, (a16)".
And my dumb self was sitting there thinking the game had too many NOPs.
@@samlay9588 There are no comments in gameboy ROMS. In general, there are no comments in binaries
These videos are incredibly impressive, thank you so much for putting the time and effort into making them!
Hey just wanted to say a few things in regards to your videos.
1. Your videos are freakin amazing and i absolutely love how you break down and explain everything. You really know what your talking about and i think thats genuinely amazing. Please keep up the awesome work please.
2. a suggestion/request of sorts. The Q Trick or pokemon merge glitch broken down and explained well how and why it does what it does from a similar well researched and explained stand point like you've done with the graphics.
Also what cries do the off-pokédex Pokemon have?
Plaff what a bespoke nightmare. thanks i hate it
Sir Embrum49 The Great Moth I mean, that seems to be the obvious answer. Even though I doubt it plays a whole song. Maybe a phrase or something. How does music work in Pokemon anyway?
It's sort of like how the Neutral Zone is rendered in Yar's Revenge.
Yar's Revenge?
@@purplegill10 The programmer displayed the game's actual code on screen graphically to create a vertical ribbon of scrambled colors down the screen. He also did it to display the ending explosion/screen wipe when you win.
@@robintst Wait, are you serious? It's the actual code being rendered?
Alan Rizkallah Fascinating
i did not know that, but that is pretty freakin' clever!
my only experiences with that game are me failing horribly, though, so..
Awesome video! I really love the amount of detail and attention that you put in, but in terms that are understandable for the average person (such as me). It was a treat to see this video come up!
YESSS!!! He’s back!! First upload since I subscribed!! YES!
12:08 for Dex n°186, something is visible, but it's hard to make out...
It looks like a Monty mole with a long nose
it looks like E-102 Gamma to me :0
@@elianewinter2638 oh yeah. It does look like his gun quite a bit. Good eye!
@@braintwo3398 why, thank you
Anyone else see a cheep-cheep with a mustache at 4:58 ?
Oh God what the Hell I almost spat out my tea.
Yeah
I see an ant-like bug with crab arms sitting up and posing with its claws spread.
It looks like weezing or muk cuz i can see a face that is thicc and weird smile
This is very cool and fascinating, props on writing the script, sounds like hard work
I just got re-recommended your video, so I just re-watched it. Your content is amazing
Underrated channel.
No rime of this comment 100% likes
In the Game Boy, there are just four base colors, but the color range expands beyond that if you use either a Super Game Boy accessory, Pokemon Stadium's GB Tower feature, or a Game Boy Color. Of course the color isn't so much real color as they are based on one specific color palette. Missingno's normal sprite; for instance, used the same palette as the Ghost sprite.
Color is based on a pokemon's Pokedex number, as shown when looking at Pokemon IDs C3 and D4, both having the dex number #94. Both glitch pokemon share the same color palette as Gengar. If the Pokedex number theory is true and if this is possible, we can more easily differentiate the hypothetical/unused glitch pokemon from the real pokemon if we can get the color data for them as well.
I've never actually played Pokemon game, but yourese videos about their inner workings are really cool.
I have been looking/hoping for a video almost exactly like this where it shows other possible glitch sprites for so long!!
That vertical Bulbasaur one is interesting, it's taken an angled section of the sprite and made it vertical.
so my question is, what WAS missingno exactly? Where did his data come from? I can understand that a part of his glitch is reading the incorrect bounding box of a wrong pointer data, but what was that data supposed to be in the first place?
The data that gets used as MissingNo.'s graphics is some data that describes what Pokémon and at what level some of the Biker trainers have in their parties.
@@RGMechEx Can you fix it to show an actual image and not a garbled mess coz i know thay were placeholders for some gen 2 data so i expecting a missingno to show a chickorita or a cyndaquill or some other gen 2 pokemon so can you revisit and show this please
@@EmperorIC Unfortunately that's not true, it's just arbitrary data
@@EmperorIC the pokemon missingno was supposed to be were entirely blanked out with pokedex number 0 which gives them the signature look and the sprite data was replaced with other data
@@EmperorIC That's not true, it's just an urban legend
Thank you so much for having subtitles on these videos!
Videos like this bring me such intense joy thank you.
Either you are an AE expression genius, or I have no idea how you make all these animations, without spending hundreds of hours per video.
9:04 lolz I saw that.
10:56 Clamp, Scratch. So, a Krabby? Or perhaps, a Kabuto?
What I see in those boxes of glitch graphics, aside from the Game Graphic Glitch Gremlin's favorite hangouts (lolz), are what appears to be lots, and lots, of textbox window border graphics.
7:18
"...so he says "only a zero by zero bounding box," This leads to Retro Game Mechanics Explained pulling out a comically large bounding box."
This TH-cam channel is so good. Your editing it superb and your research and knowledge is incredibly respectable. Thank you for explaining this fascinating retro game code to idiots like me.
Do you ever plan on doing a similar analysis on versions other than Red/Blue? Such as Yellow, the Spaceworld Demo glitch species, or perhaps even out of bounds Decamark in gen 3?
There is a particular glitch pokemon less known than Missingno, that is somewhat infamous in the glitching community due to having a sprite so large, the entire games RAM is overwritten and overflowed. (aka. 4 4, which is a very interesting case with how the game handles loading it differently than it's cousin from Red/Blue, which you shown here.)
You should talk about the glitch in the generation 1 games that allows you to merge Pokemon. It seems like it would be interesting to cover.
I remember that one. It's name is Q ◣ ( a Hybrid of Starmie ) having the ability to combine pokemon, either regular or glitched and you can even combine both! Like one time I saw someone use Q ◣ glitch to combine Porygon and X ゥ- xゥ, which makes a Porygon sprite with the purple background of X ゥ- xゥ, as well as having the stats of X ゥ- xゥ,. It's VERY powerful!
@@braintwo3398 Exactly. It's so very cool and interesting. More people should know about it.
This video looks like it took a lot of work. Thanks for making it
Your videos are actually amazing. Love the content, keep it up. Sub.
2:39 I find it humorous that the resulting graphics size of this Game Boy pokemon can only be seen "properly" on at least a 4K display. The dimensions of a screen right below 4K is 1920 pixels horizontally by 1080 pixels vertically. This pokemon has a width of *2048* pixels horizontally. So forget about the Game Boy's screen, not even an HD 1080p can correctly display this, LOL.
"4K" isn't a specific screen resolution, and is a category of them. But (16:9) 1080p is exactly 1920×1080. The common 4K resolution people usually refer to is 16:9 2160p, or 3840×2160.
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But you don't need to go up to that resolution to see the sprite in full. You only need a slightly higher resolution than 1080p. A common size is 1440p, which is 2560×1440. (This resolution is also carelessly known as "2K", even though 1080p should fill that role, which people deny. So please don't use "K" resolutions, it's just a mess).
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But you can technically use any resolution. For 16:9, you can use 1152p, or 2048×1152. That will fit it exactly.
11:37 I like number 171. It seems to fade into corruption.
For some dumb reason I expected some bad ass Pokemon designs we had never seen before! xD
Thanks for the interesting vid! :D
Good video explaining how fixing missingno. I can watch these videos forever and not get tired of them.
5:10 theres a dude chillin with headphones on near the bottom left lol
I cannot unsee it now!
these remind me of when you'd take an image into paint and try to fill in areas only for it to fill in random spots because it was using several different shades.
What a weird art project you have done. Thanks! I love it.
I have thought about this video so many times in the intervening ten months.
6 months later, back again
You delivered. Very nice. Subbed.
I feel like I'm scrolling thru a porn site for machine learning algorithms.
i do not know if you understand how creepy that thought is.
Holy shit...
Glitch Pokémon include:
Missingno.
Missingno.
Missingno.
Rattata
Magnemite
Charizard
Bulbasaur
Tentacruel
Missingno.
you forgot Missingno., Missingno., and Missingno.
How long did this video take you to create? Really looks like a lot of work!
now this is what i subbed for
5:22 oh that’s a good boye right there ooooooooooiohhhhhhhhhhhh he is such a good boye I want to pet him
If glitched Pokemon's true forms cannot be bound by the in game bounding box, resulting in their true forms not being fully shown on screen, could it be deduced that by translating the in game logic to real world logic that glitched Pokemon are actually extra-dimensional beings, and that the form they present to us is actually just the form that can be constrained to 3 dimensions?
Yeah they are gods
Great video like always
Please never stop making these.