MissingNo Visitor Accounts - Part 3

This is the most current MissingNo research center. Going forward, all MissingNo stories will be posted here!

Some odd images from Neko (supposedly you can hack your game to get MissingNo as your starter!):

"I have recently been trying out the many glitches of your site, using Pokemon Red. I came across Missingno, but it was the fuzz, not the ghost. Its not a version thing, because I got a fuzz on my Blue, too. I think different letters get different Missingnos. Your n[ame] probably gets Ghost Missingno. I changed my name so I get Mewtwos and Aerodactyls. Anyway, here's my theory:

"They used Missingnos (fuzz variety) instead of Pokemon while programming the game. Then replaced them with real Pokemon. Now, I reckon there was a 4th legendary bird, and they cut it out. But the Missingno stayed, accessed after talking to the old man and going where they didn't [know] what Pokemon can appear. And as for M', that was probably a de-evolved Kangashkan that was cut out (nearly). The 4th Bird Missingno probably got mixed with it and that made it. But why does it apear by Cinnabar island, you ask. Well, that's probably because of the other Safari Zone Pokemon.

"I made sure to get myself a grass type [MissingNo]. It grew to level one hundred after a battle, like you'd think. But then, it kept jumping between levels 100, 98 and 92. It was freaky! Plus, its type randomly changes. It always has the same moves, though. Plus, the last poke'mon I used in battle was magnemite but the next Missingno I thought was water type with the moves Moltres starts with.

"Here's a theory: Unown is there to stop Missingnos in G/S. He has so many spaces he replaces our glitchy friend. Not fair!

From Al:

"I caught m. It then began to mess up my game. It started small. First, the pokemon at the start up screen were replaced by M's. Then my pokemon began getting glitched. Their images got weird. Then the worst happened. The sound got weird. The i could actually go beyond cancel in the pc withdrawl screen. There were pokemon with messed up names, symbols instead of letters. They were all Lvl. 17. Then my game was completely erased."

"I have to say, the amount of info you have on MissingNo. and 'M is quite amazing. I've never seen the un-Silphed ghost MissingNo., personally, just 'M. And your baby Kangaskhan theory is very interesting. I have my own theory on MissingNo.: it was Lugia. I mean, they say it was the fourth legendary bird, and that's Lugia. Plus it has Water and Flying attacks. Also, Lugia goes with Articuno, Zapdos and Moltres, and Ho-oh goes with Raikou, Entei and Suicune, and the legendary birds are already in the game. Maybe R/B were going to be based around Lugia and the 3 legendary birds, and G/S about Ho-oh and the 3 legendary beasts. That's my theory, anyway."

Naturally I encountered both MissingNo. and 'M Block, though I only caught the MissingNo. After playing around with it a bit (using it in battle, boggling over the scrambled pixels), I went to check on the status of my Hall of Fame. It was entirely garbled, and this upset me so I decided to restart the game.

The next time I started the game I knew the consequences, but I couldn't resist so I re-tried to access the glitch and caught 'M Block this time. This seriously scrambled the graphics in my game and the music, so I released it and again re-started the game. Around this time I heard about the Safari Zone Trick, so yet again I went off to the Island coast and encountered yet another MissingNo.

Around this time I received a Japanese version of Pokémon Yellow, so I forgot about my Blue Version and took it out of the GameBoy Pocket, substituting it with my new Yellow instead. After a while I stopped playing it. Just the other day I decided to fish it out again, but when I turned it on, there were only two options on the start-up screen: NEW GAME and OPTIONS (in Japanese characters, of course).

I thought this was strange since I saved my game the last time I played Yellow. I decided to try it out anyway and started a new game. This is the part that puzzles me. Usually Professor Oak comes up on the screen and explains all about Pokémon. This time, however, instead of seeing Oak, a mass of pixels (similar to MissingNo. and 'M Block) appeared on my screen. The usual Oak speech was still on the screen, though, so I continued to scroll through it.

The next screen usually shows your character picture. This one, however, was also in the form of a mass of pixels, only it was sort of shaded (not the usual light-colored pixels that MissingNo. and 'M Block are made out of).

I'm not sure if continued exposure to MissingNo. and 'M Block has corrupted my GameBoy, or if it's just a side-effect of exposing my Japanese Yellow Version to a GameBoy where American Blue Version glitches were found.

Either way, I know I'll be sticking to my uncorrupted GameBoy Color for now. ^_^

"MissingNo and M are apparently not the only Glitches. One of my friends told me on his game a strange Japanese Gary appeared that was impossible to beat and totally screwed up his game. Interesting. I'm not sure what Pokemon he had, or even if they were real Pokemon and not just pixelly things, but you just couldn't defeat him. Rumour or truth? Who knows.

...I always get M as my glitch, never MissingNo. I'm not sure why. Maybe this is compensated for by the fact I get two high level random Pokemon as well. I get a level 139 Starmie and a 140 Muk. I caught them both and flattened my opponents, but the annoying thing was, as soon as I used them, they turned back to level 100. But they beat the Elite Four for me so I'm not complaining.

...Japanese Gary appeared on one of the first games out, but I don't know if this makes a difference or not. My friend ordered it the second it was released."

"Okay, so this trainer named ASH, I think, goes out to duplicate some rare candies, see? He had spent hours of hard work raising an Articuno, a Charizard, and a Mewtwo all to Level 100. He goes and runs into a few MissingNos, but only the glitchy, boxy kind. He never saw any MissingNos or M's other than the scrambled ones. He also never caught a MissingNo or M or even one of the superPokemon you can get. So he runs into this M, and takes it down easily. He was just slicing through me, my friends, and my family...

About a month or two later, he turns on his N64 with Pokemon Stadium 1. He goes and tries to register his team of Level 100s.The game says, 'No data on Game Pak' or something like that. MissingNo deleted his file..."

"Something cool (and wierd) happened on my pokemon blue and silver. I caught "m", taught it phychic and fly, deleting one watergun. Next, I gave it a rare candy and watched it evolve into kangaskan. Then, I traded it to my silver, and now I have a really cool kangaskan!

"Missingno can be found in Pokemon Pinball I think only through Gameshark but I might be wrong. However it's definitely in Pokemon Pinball
I forgot to say Missingno has a Pokedex entry in Pokemon Pinball(I wonder why it's even in there in the first place let alone it having it's own pokedex entry)"

"This is just something I remember from a few years back.

A while ago, before the save battery on my brother’s Red version died, we had been playing around after beating the Elite Four fifteen or so times. I remembered about two years before that seeing someone looking for Missingno., so we did that. We found Missingno., but couldn’t catch it even though we had four L100 Pokémon. We also ran into a Ponyta (which had levels ranging from 12-54) and a L152 Mewtwo which only knew Mist, Rest, Recover and something I can’t remember. (We couldn’t catch it or anything.) This is the first weird part, because although I can’t remember exactly what the name was, I’m almost positive it had neither a “d” (for Ponyta) or a “D” (for Mewtwo) in it.

The Hall of Fame screwed up completely, featuring lots of PokéYen signs and music which ranged from the PokéCenter theme to a slow bassline in a minor key. The fifteenth data set was especially messed up, as it featured two Mews.

But that was only the beginning. We later traded a L100 Venasaur, a L70 Mewtwo, and a L100 Chansey named AAAA!? (and some other stuff, and yes, we did name it that) to Yellow. Two things happened because of this.

First, the Pikachu’s name changed to JAN. We couldn’t change it back because the Name Rater said it was “a good name” or whatever it is he says.

Secondly, after a battle near where Missingno. is normally found, the game blanked out and then displayed:

ERROR 5

Please turn off game and remove cartridge.

…or something along those lines. But the music was messed up, being just a treble line.

Weird, huh?

"When I was playing my old Pokemon Blue game, I beat it and decided to mess around with the MissingNo. stuff. I ran into M' first and beat him. When I fought him a second time(with my Dragonite), I looked up by his name at the glitchy boxes. The box closest to me looked like a pixel from Dragonite's back! I looked at the other box and it looked like one of M's pixels! Weird!"

"I catched the M’, and I made it learn Fly, Psychic, Sky Attack, and Water Gun, then, I eveloved it into a Kangashkan! Then, i transfeded it to my Crystal, and tada, i had a Kangashkan, with Fly, Watergun, Psychic and Sky Attack!

’’Tip for all players, you can catch a M’, and learn it all type of TM attacks.
Then, evelove it to a Kangashkan, and transfer it to your Crystal, or wathever.
You will be the only player with a Kangashkan, that for example knows Fly, or Psychic! ^^‘’

"Ok. This happened awhile ago, but I pretty much remember it. Critical hits don't work the same way for glitch pokemon. This is what happened one day...

I was playing my Pokemon Blue version, doing the missingno. trick. I was on that strip of water in Cinnibar Island, when I encountered a glitch Starmie! (The name I use is TAYLOR.) So I send out my Blastoise, Squirtie. I use Hydro Pump. The glitch Starmie hits me with tackle and takes a big chunk of HP out of Squirtie. Hydro Pump misses. Stupidly, I select Hydro Pump again. The Starmie attacks! It only takes away a sliver of HP. Then: "Critical Hit!" o.0 Shouldn't a critical hit do more damage? Anyway, Hydro Pump misses again. This is pretty much how it goes for the rest of the battle. The Starmie only gets one more Critcal Hit, with the same results. Hydro Pump misses every time. Eventually, Squirtie faints...and then the Starmie pummels the rest of my Pokemon. Without a Critical Hit, It's strong.

Another thing: Has anyone noticed that Moltres can learn Sky Attack? As in the Sky Attack Missingno. uses? Yup. It says on Serebii.net...and the rental Moltres on Pokemon Stadium 2 knows it. I wonder if all the legendary birds were origninally supposed to learn Sky Attack? That would make sense if Missingno. was a deleted legendary bird. And somewhat makes sense that M''s cry sounds like a Zapdos' on my Blue version. Think M' was supposed to be a fifth legendary bird? Probobly not, but you never know..."

"I read some of your articles about MissingNo., and decided to catch one. Nothing happened. She acted like a normal pokemon. (MissingNo. is a FEMALE, as odd as it may seem because she had 'female signs' all over her pic in the hall of fame.) Anyway, she didn't have any weird effect on my game except the hall of fame.

I found out that the reason for this was that I gave her a nickname. As son as I looked at her status, on page two, it said MissingNo. after the game actually displayed the word MissingNo., The graphics screwed up. So the game only glitches when it knows you have a MissingNo.. As long as the game dosn't display the word, everything is OK."

"Okay, here's the thing. I traded my MissingNo (level 150 some) and my M (level 80) to Yellow from Blue. In Yellow, i find some odd (and boy do I mean odd) things. Observe:

MissingNo stats:
Level 150
HP: 300/300
Attack: 352
Defense: 12
Speed: 8
Special: 366

M Stats:
Name: 1st Screen-M 2nd Screen-3TRAINERPOKE
HP: 180/80
Attack: 177
Defense: 177
Speed: 177
Special: 177

So, I get into the trainer before Brock battle. I win. Odd things that happen:
-MissingNo seems to have a set sprite for fighting. (same glitch block every time)
-M is 3TRAINERPOKE (only on 2nd page of stats)
-M's cry is the sound that emits when you use a potion on one of your pokemon.

Here's the weird thing, though. MissingNo levels up after the fight. Not to level 100, but to level 1. Yeah. LEVEL 1. Stats:
HP: H99/12
Attack: 5
Def.: 5
Speed: 5
Special: glitch block

I fight with him. When he gets hit, his HP will drop big time, but will happen like this.
Turn 1: H99/12
Turn 2: H13/12
Turn 3: G76/12

Weird, huh? I trade them back to Blue and it's like nothing happened. Not even boosted EXP bonus..."

"I have found that if you put an item such as Dome or Helix Fossil or Old Amber in the sixth slot instead of a Rare Candy (or whatever), you end up with many of that item like usual. Let us say you duplicated your Dome Fossil and revived it at the Cinnibar place to get a Kabuto. You would still have a (actually, many) Dome Fossils! If you did it again you could get another and another. Total, you could get around one hundred and twenty (that is a lot of Kabuto, Aerodactyl, or Omanite. o_O)! Quite strange, but I suppose this is because, even though it does not show a certain number for how many you have, it still duplicates things. This also works with things like Bicycle or PokéFlute, but then it would take an awfully long time to deposit it into your PC if you did not need it. I figured this out when trying to duplicate Full Restores. I forgot that you put the item in the sixth (I put it in the 7th) slot and my PokéFlute was in the sixth. I did the duplication trick to no avail (or so I thought) and was going to deposit my PokéFlute. When I tried, it seemed not to go in the PC. After a few minutes of "A," "Deposit," I gave up and rembered that it was the sixth slot where items where duplicated! I did this with my Dome Fossil and Old Amber, so now I have quite a collection of Kabutos and Aerodactyls."

"One time when i caught a Lv.146 MissingNo, this happened:
My team was full, so it got sent to the PC.
Depositing and Withdrawing Pokemon worked. No harm done to the PC.
When i checked MissingNo's stats it had become a Rhydon. it only said MissingNo for the name because it became a Rhydon nicknamed MissingNo. It had Rhydons cry and sprite. I took it out of the PC. I had a Lv.146 Rhydon that knew Water Gun, Water Gun, and Sky Attack. I taught it some good moves (can't remember what they were, but they were awesome ones. i think one was earthquake. i kept sky attack), maxed out it's stats, "rare candied" it up to Lv.255, and i had the greatest Pokemon in the history of the world."

"I have a missingno in gold silver, no gameshark. I kept using the mew trick in red and had 5 missingnos, I traded them to silver, 1 turned stantler, 1 turned porygon2, 1 turned scizor, 1 turned totodile, and the last 1 when I traded it it started showing a scyther evolved to scizor,, then it did, I thought, yay, I have a scizor, but then I took a few steps and red started battling me, except all his pokemon were lvl 0 and he had 8, the last 2 were a lvl 174 nidorino, and the other was a lvl 224 electrode. I beat him because somehow my lvl 7 stantler defeated them both in 1 hit (of couse the +100s), and I took a few more steps, it then sayed, huh? Mystery Egg is evolving, it then showed a kangaskaun (sp) evolving into a kangaskaun (sp), sound familiar? I stopped the volution and had a missingno!!!

It was lvl type 1, knew fissure, fissure, fissure, and fissure, it was type 1/type 2 and type 2/mystery egg. The picture was missingno and it was him. I checked my items, in 6th slot of all the packs there was just regular stuff, except, in the ball pocket, I had 129 lure balls, I had a lure ball there before. Getting weird? This is just the beginning, I checked my hall of fame, worried my 67 shots (I have a lot of free time) would be ruined, but, no, they weren't, only problem was it had a tiny glitch block at the top of the last guy (as in the 1st one had in my party when I beat them the 1st time).

So I thought I was safe, okay, my name was changed from BSM to MISSINGNO. on my data page it said, Corrupt File. Error 0. 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111. Error 0. Error 0. Error 0. Error 0. Error 0. Error 0, Over and over again. By now I was worried for my game as 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111. Error 0... was the last thing my pokemon red eversaid before finall flashing a few times and dying, permanently. That set me of glitch hunting for a while but now I'm back, of course I'm worried again.

Silver froze. I restarted the gameboy and after the credits when it showed lugia I pressed A, then it said: NEW GAME OPTIONS MYSTERY GIFT Strange, if my file waa deleted why do I have mystery gift, I went to NEW GAME, then press up to go to MYSTERY GIFT, but then above NEW GAME was glitchy blocks, I cliked them and my game data came up, I went ahead and my file was good, the bad thing, It said I was out of usable pokemon, nd it deleted all the pokemon I had gotten in my run between turning on and shutting down. I lost Porygon2, Stantler, and all the others, plus a sentret and ladyba I had caught just before that.

I restarted the gameboy again and CONTINUE was there again, so my file is safe. As you can see I have witnessed what a glitch can do in a game where it doesn't belong and in a while, when I get over how close I was to killing my silver, I'll do it again, except experiment with some things on the PC, and, to check on my favorite glitched town, takin' a little trip to Fuchisa. So, for now, Over And Out."

"Once, on my friends Red version, i caught the so called 'M. Since he didn't care about his Red version anymore, i caught it. it was not at Lv.0. It was at Lv.80. Must be a certain hex for that. Weird because MissingNo is at Lv.80. It's graphic was the bird keeper (out of battle). I went to catch a Lv.146 Golbat, a Lv.145 Starmie, and a Lv.136 Golduck. I did it, but it was a series of glitchy battles. One thing, Seel, which was nicknamed Sailor, used Aurora Beam on Golduck, and it nearly beat it. Another time he did it and it was a critical hit and it barely did any damage. I experimented with the other Pokemon and discovered that against the Lv.100+ Pokemon, attack damage works backwards. If you use something not very effective it does more, and if it isn't a critical hit it does even more. Second glitch: When Charizard used Flamethrower (or was it Fire Blast?) when it said 'It's not very effective' instead of doing the "Not very effective" sound it just did the sound for Fire Blast again. Then i ran off to the elite four, with three Lv.100+ Pokemon, an "'M", and a glitched Ditto. Lucky i had saved before, because i forgot to get rid of the glitch Ditto. I had "'M" first in my team. In battle, from the back, he looked like just a red line. I went through them all normally. At the Hall of Fame, Articuno came first. Then something, then something else, then "'M", but it had Articunos cry. I ran through the elite four one more time with a glitch Ditto first, and "'M"'s cry was nothing and it's sprite was a Ditto. I did it again with Zapdos first, and it did Zapdos's cry. I mean, exactly Zapdos's cry. Not it's "glitched up" cry that 'M has. But every time that 'M didn't look like a Ditto, it had no picture. You could still see the back, though. It looked INSANE. And, all of the other Pokemon from the back looked glitched."

"I went through the procedure on by Pokemon Blue, and found an 'M'. I cam only find 'M' on mine so far, because of my game name (I restarted my game so I could catch Mew, and now my name in REN. pretty dull isn't it). Anyway, this 'M' was at Lv. 80, and I decided to sent out my strongest pokemon (a Lv. 36 Pidgeott), and attack it with Fly. I expected this to only do a tiny bit of damage, but it took the 'M' out in one go.

Then I found a Lv. 132 Electrode. I sent out a Lv. 34 Wartortle, and Electrode used Explosion. As usual, it killed itself, but failed to kill my Wartortle.

After encountering other 'M's, I tried to capture one. My ultra balls were in my 6th spot, and I eventually ran out. I just thought that it was funny that my Ultra Balls said x0, and then said x9.

I eventually caught the 'M', and as I expected, 'M' and I were still in battle, but one thing that did surprise me, was that 'M' didn't look like a Ditto. I caught it again, and it said that it was a Ditto, so all was well.

In my party while I was still in battle, my newly caught 'M' didn't look like a person, But a few blobs around the edge of a square. When you move your cursor over the 'M', the blobs on the edge of the square go to the inside and back out again, so it looks like 'M' is clapping. I also found that in other battles, 'M's little picture box thing looks like a nasty face, while out of battle, 'M's picture looks like the person, and jiggles to look like a demented face, or can look like a section of the scenery around you.

Something else I noticed about 'M', is that when you're in battle, and an 'M' is on the battlefield, the glitch block before the M is a section taken out of the character on your side (whether it be person or pokemon), and the glitch block after the M is a section of the opponent or opposing pokemon.

Another thing. When duplicating items against an 'M', it only duplicates once you leave the battle. I know, because I put my master ball in my 6th spot, and then used it to capture 'M'. I lost my Master Ball."

I recently restarted my game so I could find the truck that's near the SS. Aqua or whatever it's called in Blue. I named my character Azwzxzy, so I could find all of the Missingno. Here's some notes about what happened:
14.6.05
Started a perfectly innocent Blue Game. Experimented with glitches in previous game.

17.6.05
Rock Tunnel. Recently traded my Dragonite (lv 58) from my Gold version, along with Sandshrew (I forget the level). I didn't have the right gym badges, so Dragonite would not obey. Here's something just a bit strange: I was in a battle, and it said 'Dragonite turned away' 'It hurt itself in its confusion!' But Dragonite was never confused!

UPDATE
MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH!
I got to Cinnibar Island, (after finding the truck of course) and flew to the Weedle Man. Then I flew back to Cinnibar, and started surfing. I finally fun what I was looking for. The wild Aerodactyl Fossil Missingno! Without hesitation, I caught it.

Its stats looked like this:
Type 1/ Ground
Attack - 411
Defense - 227
Speed - 141
Special - 261
Lv 171 (It reduced when I caught it. I'm not sure why)

Attacks: Scratch, Growl (these are the starting attacks of a Sandshrew, and I think a Charmander. I had both traded Sandshrew and Charmeleon with me at the time)

Next I caught the Kabutops Fossil Missingno.

Type 1/ Ground
Attack - 552
Defense - 408
Speed - 312
Special - 423
Lv 185 (This didn't reduce)

Attacks: Wrap, Leer, Thunder Wave, Agility (They're a Dratini's attacks! I have never owned a Dratini in this particular Save File! I had the Dragonite in my party, but it has completely different moves)

I put Aerodactyl Fossil @ the front of my party and surfed some more. I evetually found another Kabutops Fossil. When Aerodactyl Fossil came out, it took the form of a glitched Charmeleon. Charmeleon wasn't the last Pokemon in my party, but it was the only fainted one. Won the battle. Aero Foss = Lv. 100
Found 'M', Lv.0. Beat it.
Put Kabu Foss at front of party. Battled, reverted to Lv. 100.

Flew to Lavender, Name rater, changed my Missingnos' names to Aero Foss, Kabu Foss.

Back to Cinnibar. Found Ghosty Missingno! Sent out Kabu Foss, fainted.
Sent out Aero Foss. Still Charmeleon. Hmmmmm.

Ghosty duplicated my 6th item (Master Ball)
Caught Ghosty, and named it Ghosty.

Type 1/ Fire (!!!??? that's the first fire type Missingno I've heard of)
Attack - 264
Defense - 223
Speed - 349
Special - 301
Lv 185

Attacks: Scratch, Growl, Ember (this leads me to the conclusion that Aero Foss was a Charmander, as well as Ghosty)

I deposited my Charmeleon, and found a Pigeotto on the East Coast of Cinnibar. Aero Foss was just your average Gliched Square. Hmmmmm.

I saved my game and turned off at this point. I wanted to get my digital camera.

UPDATE

Ghosty's now a Ground Type! I have no idea why.

I decided to do the Mew trick, and kept Aero Foss at the front of my Party. All was well until I battled the Youngster. Aero Foss "Grew" to level 70! Grew. Yeah. Sure. Right.

My digital Camera is out of batteries, so no pictures.

At one point I caught another Aerodactyl Fossil, but it had normal moves (for a Missingno that is).
I don't know why my Glitches have normal Pokemon moves. It's just weird."

"I've got one very interesting story that you probably haven't even heard of yet (I wouldnt know, I didnt have time to read all the stories).

I've had red for years, but I only discovered this glitch about one and a half years ago. I cloned master balls and rare candies dozens of times, returning to Viridian after every sighting of missingno. I caught many mewtwo along the way too. One day i decided to move my pokemon into boxes instead of scattered, even though I normally stored them in the box that came next. I almost fell out of my chair when I looked at the box list: I appearently had pokemon in boxes 9 and 11(according to the little pokeball symbol. I opened to box to find no pokemon. I got even more confused when I noticed that my curser could move within the box, even when there was nothing there, and a couple times there were weird pokemon with names of 9999999999 with strange symbols in between. I tried to see what this was all about, but when I tried to withdraw one, my game froze and I had to restart.

But this was not when I discovered it actually, but in another twisted accident. I was playing pokemon stadium (with red) and went to the trainer castle or whatever. I decided to use my red pokemon, and discovered mystery pokes in box 11. I investigated, and then i really did fall off my bed(i was in my room), when I saw random pics of bulbasaurs, tentacools, cloysters and a whole mess of pokemon I never caught, all with the name 99999999 with symbols like ` and & in between (they were weirdly colored too).

I checked out a yellowish bulbasaur and nearly passed out-it had the wierdest attacks I've ever seen: 1.)poison powder(not so wierd), 2.) vine whip(yawn), 3.) vine whip(okay, a little awkward), 4.) thunder punch (HOLY CRAP!). I had officially seen everything. I used it in battle and it worked fine too! I got it to use thunderpunch and it just ran at the dewgong i was fighting with an electricly charged foot. I went to the lab (after i lost anyway) to see whats up with the random pokemon, and they were still in the boxes, except in boxes 9, 10 and 11, and each one was a little substitute(like the ones you see when you use substitute) of various colors like pink, blue and purple. Still on the floor, I went to free battle and they were still there, only this time they were different. They were in box 10, and all bulbasaurs were gone, but i did have 2 nice articuno. I didnt get to see their attacks because the game froze when I pressed a, but then it froze every where but the lab and trainer castle. Well, that should cover it. It was really wierd. Even more so because when I tried the same with blue, which i had done the same cheatage to, there was nothing to be found."

• From dragonslayerboy:

  "The same thing that happened to charcoalcharizard happened to me. I was playing my blue version, after a nice trip throuch glitch city, and all of my other boxes were full, so i decided to put pokemon in box 3. When ii looked at the pokemon in there, they were all 999999s, i dont remember how i managed to get them out, but i did.Tjis is wierd because you cant nickname your pokemon numbers. A sandshrew, a pidgey, a tentalcool. I didnt really mind becoause they were low level pokemon that i didnt care about. One is a sandshrew, and if you look at its status, before you see its picture it says: tentacruel (the pokemon i have below it) . Its previous owner was me, and it always has been, but it says, OT/FRFCE I think they might have put 3 more letters in front of my name because CE are the last 2 letters in my name. Its attacks are the normal, slash, sand attack, dig, and cut. After you view its status, the background turns wierd but you can still play without restarting. If you wiew it more that 1 time in a row, it will show your rivals name about a million times. The lev 3 pidegey i use for flying, and when you look at its status, it say venomoth befor you see its picture (venomoth is below it) . It says its owner is 99999999999., and it has regular attacks. Its lvel randomly changes but always starting with 3 and ending in a letter. before i look at tentacool (nothing under it) it sayus 9999999999pixel99999femalesign9999 something like that. It say its previous owner is ABA E. Normal attcks. When i use them in battle, they are normal
  exept for sandshrew. WHen it is battling a missingno. it makes the missingno dissaper if an attcak is used on it. Yeah.....wierd"

"[] 'M [] is a (R[]pjapanese symbol) Pokémon that is 23 feet tall and weighs 880 lbs. The Pokédex data came up for it for some reason."

"I found out something about 'M! The block at the start of the name is part of the back sprite on the screen. Look at it when it first says "Wild ### 'M ## appeared!" The first block is a part of your character's hat! And when you send out a pokemon, that first block turns into a segment of the pokemon! Weird..."

"I FOUND A WAY TO REVERSE GLICTHES! this may not work if you still have missingno. with you because i released it before i found this out. if you go into battle and your game is glicthed up (bad speller) , use transform with your ditto and after you kill the enemy thats glicthed (your ditto should be fine after the transformation) it wont be glicthed anymore. your game wont be either! the only catch is that your first hall of fame will be screwed up.SO YOU CAN CATCH ALL THE MISSINGNO. YOU WANT! i still wouldn't catch 'm though."

"hi my name's jesse and first i would like to tell you that i have just found out about your site and well i think it's devoted people like you who make the world a better place.

I was a really early pokemon fan, in 97 a friend of mine had the japonese version, and i liked what i saw so i got the blue version when it got out in the US, and i got hooked , i also bought the red version later on, i moved along really quickly but got stuck at lavender town (i didnt know how to see the ghost) and well since i couldn't move on i decided to train my pokemon in diglett cave (don't know if that's the real name but that's what i call it) to see what they evolved to, and after weeks of being stuck, i had really strong pokemon which meant that once i understood you needed the scope to see ghosts, the rest of the game was pretty easy since my level 70 alakazam, level 65 blastoise etc were way superior to any other pokemons in the rest of the cities.

One day (in early 99) i was showing my dad the game and i talk to the old man and so on, i started to see weird things happening, the weirdest was a strange pixel thing appearing , after i fought it and quite a few things were messed up, I thought the game had been messed up so i gave it to someone else. I never told anybody about what i saw.

Later that year my gameboy broke (NEVER spill coke on a game boy) and that was the end of pokemon for me (i never bought an other gameboy, money problems in the family), i never really like the anime, through the years i played for a few minutes version Y, G,S etc, and bought pokemon snap for my N64, that's all.

Then yesterday on another website, there was a topic about game glitches and "missingno" from pokemon R/B kept coming up, intrigued, i did some searches and found your site, and to my great surprise i saw the pixel thing i had seen years ago was "missingno"!

It's really amazing i followed the instructions without knowing it. I was telling my dad "so here is how you catch pokemons...... then you can fly with them!.......and you can also go in the water etc" i still can't beleive it.

And guess what: the hours i spent reading everything on your site reminded me of why i was hooked to pokemon, so when i have the money, i'll buy a gameboy (i still have red somewhere) and all of the new pokemon games!

thank you TRR for reminding me of what i was missing, thanks a lot!"

Hello. My name is Dakota. I have attached in this e-mail a ZIP file with a video of the typical Pokemon player encountering a MissingNo.
I got the gamesave for Pokemon RED off the internet. The video also shows the glitches Hall Of Fame. Plus, in party, is a Mew!

ZIP File - 2.62 MB

this is a wav. for hall of fame stuff. includes weird pokemon noises and change in music.

WAV File - 1.55 MB

I tried to catch missingno on my red but i accidently caught an 'M. I thoguth it was cool, but when i went to my PC to get it out, all my pokemon were replaced with glitch pokemon. I had a venosaur with high jump kick, a multred with bubblebeam, even a bulbasaur with hyperbeam!

I couldn't find 'M So i left my PC and saved, then i uploaded my glitch pokemon to pokemon stadium and had some fun. Bun when i got back on pokemon red, the pokemon center was all messed up. it was all 9's and 2's and the walls and floor were messed up. I couldn't leave because the door was missing. now im stuck inside a pokemon center.

I have discovered that when you use a cheat to find missingno.everywhere, when you watch the old man's demonstration, he captures a kabutops missingno.

I saw your site, and noticed you seem to like Missingno and his glitchy friends a lot. Well, my reasoning is, if there are MissingNo in the Pokemon RPG's, why wouldn't there be any in the two pinball games, or other non-RPG Pokemon games? I'm not saying there definately will be; it's just a thought I had. If there is such a thing, I'd try starting with looking for a glitch in the evolution mode.