survyguy79 : Missingno wasn't for PKMN Pearl.

Its true that you can hack into it for any of the Pokémon games. If you cherish Ur progress I'd advise against it though. Ive had my games freeze my whole computer before.. The only safe way to do it is red and blue version, least chance of having the game glitch

vizwiz123 : You can also encounter Missingno in Pokémon yellow version as well so it happens in all three retro titles of Pokémon not only red and blue.

That's great but I want to know is MissingNo a legendary.

Missingno infected my Pokemon Yellow once. I think it happened because my brother wanted to trade me, and he had Missingno in his party during the trade. By this, I mean Missingno evolved into another pokemon (Hypno) and the trade kind of was really glitchy.


Good grief, my game went really screwy after half an hour. It was probably creepier then the Pokemon black creepy pasta with GHOST. It was fine at first, but little things began to change, like textures messing up. Sometimes beats of the music were missing, or it'd play the wrong song file for stuff. (Like surf sound for tackle, but cut out when the animation ended because the enemy would move next turn)


I was kind of scared to save my game, but I don't think it really mattered. The game really got messed up when I entered Agatha's room in the elite four. Really disorted music, the tomb stones were completely repositioned and cluttered with other random objects. Agatha said really strange things about draining my blood (I believe that line is actually from one of the "possessed trainers" in Lavander's tower) and refused to battle me. And then my game just froze while playing a really low tone note. I reset my game, and my 200 hour file was gone. (200 hours, but had the aid of Pokemon Stadium's X3 speed)

I. Was. Not. Impressed.



Other strange things happened with my brother and his friend as well. They each had a spare Pokemon Gold and Crystal, and both brought a Missingno into a pokemon battle.

This was the most F-ed up battle that still confuses me to this day.

They were doing moves against each other and then the connection got slower. Then it picked up again but soon they were not even doing moves that they ordered. And eventually they were sending out pokemon they didn't even bring with them. They both disconnected the cord and each person's battle still went on. My brother was fighting a shiny Butterfree that had so much HP, it actually went off the screen with TWO bars, which cut out somewhere a little past Butterfree's picture (except when my brother damaged it, it went down of course). The thing was (apparently) poisoned and had a fetish of spamming Psychic and sleeping powder. On my friend's side. He was fighting a Rapidash (Something my brother did actually have) but it kept using struggle that was only doing 1 damage, but seemed to be doing immense damage to itself. It seemed to have really high HP, but it turned out it was really low, and it had far more HP more then it's maximum.


The problem with these pokemon was that both of them seemed to have infinite health. The HP's went down but once it hit 0 it reset to going back across the screen. Finally my brother's friend got fed up, and tried using Perish song. That would have worked except that this "AI" retreated Rapidash, and then sent it back out on the exact same turn. (That, or it was another Rapidash but the HP was the same)



Very very strange glitches. My brother managed to repeat that with another friend as well, but it was short lived because when my brother cut off the connection, it properly disconnected that time.

Vincent Swiftstrike : Many people get bad problems when they catch youknowwhat for me all I had was changed ghraphics and chopped up sprites until I viewed a non-glitch pokemon's file. Did you vied a non-glich pokemon profile?

imhere : No, didn't view the profile for Pokemon Gold. It showed up as a Mageneton sprite but still had the name MISSINGNO.

I believe this is because with how the Gameboy was programmed, if it can't find the file, it will search for one, and it will play every single type of that file to search for it. If it can't find the file, it will use the next graphic in line, or just a random graphic. I suppose Gold chose Magneton. I can't remember what it chose for Silver, but I know it wasn't Magneton.

This is why when you watch video's of Missingno, and the gameboy plays a whole slew of random sounds, the gameboy is looking for the proper sound data for Missingno, but can't play through it. So that's why it plays every single "sound" file in it's archive, and that is why it can go on in an endless loop.

Vincent Swiftstrike : Ive men't viewing a pokemon thats not Missingno.

imhere : You mean viewing their profiles after you caught MISSINGNO, but not MISSINGNO itself?

I haven't because I don't think it's necessarily important, not unless I'm viewing the stats of a pokemon MISSINGNO evolved from. (For example, my brother caught a MISSINGNO, and it evolved into a Hypno which knew Fly, Sky Attack, TM 28 (Acted like Selfdestruct but did far less damage and didn't actually kill yourself in turn) and Surf. It also had an assortment of random stats. 28 Attack, then the next stat could have been 582 defense at level 100.

For the record, the profile of viewing such pokemon was perfectly normal, as was viewing any other profile either prior to the catch or after the catch at any time. The only profile I know that becomes glitched is Missingno itself, unless it evolves and gets a very weird HP stat, then your HP bar in the stat hud may be oddly placed or even go out of bounds off the screen, but that's about it.

Vincent Swiftstrike : Oh, my bad viewing a  Pokémon that's not Missingno in Red will make him half normal.

I never knew it was on Yellow, though I should of assumed since the originals were Red, Blue and Yellow. My bad though. Thanks for correcting me though

I never tried but I wanted to catch it but I also don't want to my saved file to get erased

That is cool I guess. Though really it is the one Pokemon that I would not really actually want to catch. The game is just a broken one with it. I like to pretend Pokemon is perfect.

Ok so if I was surfing u cinnabar island and a giant screwed up bar code attacked me, I think I would run.






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