Don't even need a new game. You could clone pokemon by turning the game off mid-trade. My school had a kid that got a Mew from an event, then cloned it for everyone who wanted one.
CrazyEddie041 130 points 3 years ago
spicytuna62 29 points 3 years ago
It became possible in GSC to clone with a single cart. Switch boxes and time a restart correctly during the save and bingo bango, you have a cloned pokemon with whatever item it was holding.
This was awesome for getting extra Master Balls and Rare Candies.
ABC123itsEASY 12 points 3 years ago
You could clone items in the original games too iirc you would go swimming somewhere near cerulean city and keep going back and forth over the same spot and I think it would buffer overflow the item count for a certain slot in your backpack with a nearly infinitely high number.
Kitering 14 points 3 years ago
If you're talking about the missingno glitch, you'd add 128 to the item count of your 6th item. This had the added bonus of potentially triggering an overflow if you already had 126 or more items there.
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RickyRigatoni 44 points 3 years ago
You could do it with one copy probably. But this was pre-internet so harder to know about the glitches and such.
DrQuint 10 points 3 years ago
I think many people figured out the Missingno shoreline kept some form of "last encounter table" in it, so I wouldn't be surprised some people may have tried to go there right after Mewtwo to chance themselves at more.
Unfortunately we do have that info nowadays, and we know that doesn't work.
ArcaneSlime 3 points 3 years ago
Don't forget to try and move the truck, there's a Mew under there I promise, my cousin got it!
RickyRigatoni 7 points 3 years ago
Yeah but not a lot of people actually had it, let alone a computer.
AtomicPurple 2 points 3 years ago
Not to mention that useful information was harder to find and more difficult to verify, especially for niche technical topics like the inner workings of specific games.
killeronthecorner 21 points 3 years ago
This is gangsta shit
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bobs_monkey 37 points 3 years ago
Uh yeah they were, Big Daddy was 1999 and all the others were prior to that
Thunderbird4 9 points 3 years ago
First Pokemon movie released in Japan in July 1998, in the US in November 1999.
Pokemon red and blue released in the US in September 1998, yellow in October 1999.
No U.
Pregnenolone 14 points 3 years ago
Pretty sure they meant the Adam Sandler movies, which is also wrong
RickyRigatoni 6 points 3 years ago
Mewtwo was still in the games.
ImmortanStalin 6 points 3 years ago
The trick was to clone Mewtwo in a later Pokemon game, trade that to a "middle man" Pokemon game that was compatible with Red and Blue, and BOOM all Mewtwo gang!
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Don't you just need 2 copies? One to hold the Mewtwos and another to keep doing new games?
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