A Piece of Mail Just BROKE Gen 3 Pokemon Speedruns Forever

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Blumagma7 - Helped a ton with the video and has been leading the charge with the hunt to break Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire.
Mindofdamon - Has been helping Blumagma with the findings and broke apart the Japanese version of Ruby with a recent World Record!
Keepingiticy - Responsible for optimizing a lot of little things in the glitched route. Like Teleporting after doing the glitch. An absolute legend!
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[@PulseEffects]

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[@peterbraunschweig2779]

These VPN ads are hilarious. *NOBODY* is going to DDOS your laptop.

[@anothertakenname]

wee snaw

[@thatcloveplant]

i fucking love massive glitch discoveries, tears an old game right open!

[@SirStazian]

Like nut jump in SMO or basically anything in SMO😂 But I agree it’s so fun as a speed runner to see something new and huge

[@jacencade4019]

imagine being the guy who cracked the code to catch mew in gen 1. seriously, how tf do you figure that out?

[@SirStazian]

@@jacencade4019 or the dude who discovered darkri glitch

[@shivinpokemon]

Insane how they just discovered this in 2023 decades after the game came out

[@TheMadJellyfish]

That's impossible. If Ruby and Sapphire, the premier pokemon games of my childhood, are decades old, then that would make me an old man, and I... oh... oh god. NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[@literallygrass1328]

@@TheMadJellyfish i mean technically its not decades yet

[@Raidraptor_-_Ultimate_Falcon]

@@literallygrass1328it is R/S released November 21, 2002 in Japan, March 19, 2003 in North America, April 3, 2003 in Australia, and July 25, 2003 in Europe Ruby and Sapphire is two decades old.

[@jamesrussels7766]

@@literallygrass1328it’s been over 20 years, it is “decades”

[@kkrstudios]

​@@literallygrass1328i dont think you know what "technically" and "decade" means lol

[@Cosmic_Espeon]

Most Trainers: “God I am so sick of Tentacool, I wish they didn’t exist.” May: “I can give you purpose.”

[@1manApocalypse_CP]

"What is my purpose?" "To beat the game in a speedrun after your fellow pokemon commit federal crimes by stealing and abusing mail." "Oh my god."

[@E4439Qv5]

​@@1manApocalypse_CP"yeah, welcome to the club."

[@PokeShadow77]

oh my...

[@Ca7iburn]

​@@1manApocalypse_CPnot to mention the illegal performance enhancing candy and breaking a person's fence.

[@ladyriethegoldendelmo5441]

@@1manApocalypse_CP tentacruel also good in like cythina run as well lol. since u can abuse the glitch and get a level 40 tentacruel lol. also its a really good pokemon. and if u want to train special def tentacool is a way to go. pretty tenta-cool yes?

[@felix_irgendwas]

I like how on top of getting an overpowered Tentacruel to sweep the game with, this also skips any further Exp gain messages and LvUps during battles, likely saving lots of time over the classic Mudkip route.

[@Deadgye]

I was wondering why someone hadn't calc'd the min level needed to one shot practically everything to save time. But that makes sense. I wonder how much time that saves. Like, compared to being level 99.

[@theJACKHAMMER13]

​​@@DeadgyeProbably a decent amount since the time spent buying one extra mail and doing the glitch one extra time, plus using one more rare candy, probably is faster than the experience gain and level up screens by a bit.

[@Typh3621]

​@@DeadgyeThis also eliminates any rng factors regarding battles as well. Since simply being able to step on anything versus being just strong enough to get by wont let you get cheesed by things like random stat drops, misses, or critical hits. Im also sure using a move like acid (40pp) to wipe everything saves tons of time in recovery as well since you can use it more often than a move like surf which has only 15 pp

[@Nishiluke]

This glitch was somewhat well known in the Japanese community since the mail glitch was much easier to activate in Japanese games. It got patched for all other languages and its so cool to see how people found a way around the patch by thieving their own pokemon! With more people being aware of this, I wonder what else might be found?

[@simpson6700]

i wonder if those TV interviews could be overflowed some how

[@bobmanperson599]

Stealing mail is a felony, but luckily, it created the perfect getaway route

[@Rinnerott]

Believe it or not, Mail has some slight strengths in DPP Ubers as it prevents a lead Deoxys Speed from being tricked. But I do agree it's very useless otherwise - just wanted to comment and support your work. Cheers

[@o-poppoo5117]

Same thing has been used with blissey to lock trick scarfers

[@thebestworst8002]

It’s always DPP Ubers

[@Jestemkioskiem]

Kinda curious that the community only discovered this glitch now, but Gamefreak likely knew about it ever since gen 4 development - hence you can't trick mail anymore.

[@thebestworst8002]

@@Jestemkioskiem they likely anticipated that something like this could happen so they changed a few mechanics to prevent it. Trying to prevent bugs from happening is a big part of debugging even if you don’t know if a bug has happened

[@BluMagma7]

Good point! It's pretty funny that the reason this glitch works is because although you can't Trick mail in Ruby/Sapphire, you can still Thief or Covet it. They actually patched this in Emerald so that you can't Thief or Covet it either.

[@jacobnguyen8372]

Man, who is doing EVERY possible action at EVERY point in the game to discover this by specifically buying 81 Harbor mail!?

[@DJFracus]

They aren't. They do something called planning. For one thing, you know you need at least 65 Harbor mail for the 65 Rare Candies that Tentacruel needs to get to level 100. They didn't discover this by buying 81 Harbor Mail, they discovered it by seeing that using Thief on Mail leads to a memory error (data where it shouldn't be). After that you use your brain.

[@jonstewart5525]

It’s likely a stack smashing or readpass memory error. Once you’re looking at the memory you can find them if you know what you’re doing. From there you can find which parts of memory actions would write into then start identifying what memory you want written where. It’s a hack in the most true sense of the word.

[@BluMagma7]

The specific amount of mail really doesn't matter too much, we just need a lot to make all the rare candies. But the action of equipping mail and thiefing it was definitely very crazy!

[@DavidJCobb]

there are fan projects to analyze and decompile the GBA games' code. my guess is someone spotted this oversight while digging through how mail works, and that made its way to the speedrunning community

[@Nocturne989]

Buying 81 specifically doesn't do anything. He bought 81 cause it's how many he needs to do the glitch and then get Cool to 100.

[@Seven19Eighty7]

**Grabs mail** **world starts folding in on its self**

[@hellishBells]

Random ass Tentacool: My time has come.

[@ackoladeTV]

always love seeing how overlooked pokemon find ways to be useful in speedruns, great stuff pulse!

[@ryomaanime4563]

The sad thing about tentacruel is that it was originally designed to be a monster In Gen1 it's the water pokemon with the highest Spe Atk, and he also has a great speed. And for the adventure the poison type is a great comfort as it resist a lot of opponent and poison. Only two weakness : weak to the overpowered (in gen1) psy type, and slow growth rate meaning very slow to train so an other incentive to ignore him. Beside tentacool being the zubat of water. Then in Gen2, special was split and he lost 35 SpA without any benefit. That's a crazy nerf..

[@johnmartinez7440]

​@@ryomaanime4563Tentacruel in Stadium was a pain in the arse. Very fast and could absorb all Special damage quite easily. Ground types could take it out, but Tentacruel could take them out first. I'm sure Werster used a Tentacruel in his Platinum speedruns because it was relatively easy to catch a high level one while Surfing.

[@bastian_5975]

And this is why stealing mail is a felony offense.

[@pumapandora1310]

Okay if mail gets mentioned I have to pitch this idea: Mail could make a comeback and since so many types of mail exist, it’d be cool if the mail would change the type or effect of some moves such as delibirds present or some effects on pelipper

[@johnmartinez7440]

Writing the message "Delibird Sucks" turns Present into a base 250 power move.

[@connorjl7]

@@johnmartinez7440bet❤😂

[@BluMagma7]

Huge thanks to Pulse for putting these new glitches in the spotlight! This video honestly explained these glitches better than I ever could, so I'm super happy to see it presented in such a cool way. If anyone has any questions about the details of these glitches, or even has any ideas about how to use these glitches for the speedrun, please feel free to ask me through the links in the description! I love experimenting with this stuff, so I'd love to help more people get into the world of Ruby/Sapphire glitches.

[@ItsNumber84]

Awesome find dude, this kind of stuff is really mind blowing. I can only imagine how hype it must have been when you realized what you found!

[@BluMagma7]

@Anonymous7056 Thanks so much! Credit where credit is due, glitch hunters like Chickasaurus (and many others) found the fundamentals of this glitch way earlier. The discovery of the glitch on the English version, figuring out the version differences, and the Tentacool strat were all brand new and really exciting though!

[@evilduck5691]

If I'm understanding correctly and thieving the mail is writing to the memory just outside of the memory normally allocated to mail, and so you can only change the tiles which happen to be within that extra memory - then could you thief multiple pieces of mail to access more memory and potentially gain access to the waterfall, or is that not how it works? Awesome work, by the way. Glitches like this are the pinnacle of what makes speedrunning so awesome. It's great to see some more weirdness added to the run

[@BluMagma7]

@evilduck5691 That's what I hoped would happen at first; unfortunately the technical details behind the glitch prevent that. Normally the game determines the section of memory based on each Pokemon's 'mail slot', which is usually 0 through 5, or 255 when it isn't holding a mail. When we activate the glitch, we can equip a mail but keep the value of 255 for the mail slot. If we could change this value from 255 to anything else, we could corrupt basically any tiles we want! But there's currently no known way to do this.

[@evilduck5691]

@@BluMagma7 ah, very interesting

[@Bowshewicz]

It makes me smile any time I hear the SM64 File Select theme underneath an explanation of game tech

[@anothertakenname]

brings back memories

[@superdejan64]

An A press is I'm not even gonna finish you all know how the saying goes

[@DivineBanana]

Idk why it always reminds me of zoo tycoon lol

[@tiltmasterflex7220]

Just imagine that shopkeepers face when some kid comes in and asks for 81 pieces of mail out of nowhere

[@anonymous2858]

Just confirmed that this does work. I used my Sapphire game which was already post elite four. I used this to get infinite rare candies. This will work on any double battle like Gabby & Ty and if youre planning to duplicate Thief tm or just dont have it, you can level up Mightyena or Lombre who can learn it. You can change the Thief users held item if you want to clone something else, basically youre trading mail for the cloned item

[@johnmartinez7440]

Didn't realise there were any postgame double battles.

[@robotbootyhunter6878]

@@johnmartinez7440There's the Gabby and Ty pair that cycle from north of Mauville, to east of Mauville, to east of Fortree, back to Mauville. I used them to grind for cash and EXP as a kid. Other than that, there's the Jr&Sr pairs that can be rematched via the Trainer Eyes system. If you do any breeding, there's a set just south of the Daycare who you can check every few passes. There's another set west of Fallarbor and one by the Safari Zone, though I don't think they reset. I think there's also a set of Twins that you can rematch, though I don't remember which ones it is.

[@kingjeffwx5331]

Gen 3 speedrunners: You've got mail!

[@the_godbodor7026]

Kinda glad Tentacool/Tentacruel gets to be the one used for the speedrun, the Pokémon line is pretty cool and so being cemented in speedrunning history like this is a great thing for them.

[@ashryver7992]

Tentacruel is actually used in some any% Platinum speedruns, but yeah it is always neat to see.

[@alexpotts6520]

​@@ashryver7992 It's kind of wild that there are now *two* Pokemon games where the fastest route involves glitching into the water early and bodying the rest of the game with an overlevelled Tentacruel.

[@ultralowspekken]

I love how the planets aligned so that Abra could hold a letter with written Abra on it to to to perform magic on the game

[@myhandleiswhat]

I remember I booted up Ruby on my DS and there was some weird tile corruption in the PC after I caught Latios. Then again I also remember there was a glitch that caused tile corruption in the Pokemon School as well. Such weird programming mistakes.

[@Protofall]

That Pokemon School Tile corruption glitch is a known glitch. Might be Emerald only and involves viewing certain PC boxes or something. Not sure about Latios. Could be a random glitch? I got something weird on my Sapphire when viewing the PC. I chalked it up to dirty pin connectors since I didn't do anything unusual.

[@SirToastyToes]

Ah the mail cloning glitch, I used this to get a bunch of Nutpea Berries once it was great (this glitch has been around in the Japanese version for a long while cool to see it in English)

[@johnmartinez7440]

This is the first I'm hearing of Nutpea berries despite playing 100s of hours of Ruby. Wish they'd kept the berry aspect from those games more.

[@elysahatestostudy9364]

Clear Body skipping the Intimidate animation is just a perfect Speedrun concept

[@lionyx98]

Crazy that such gamebreaking bugs are discovered over 20 years later

[@DecayedPony]

Thats the beauty of speedrunning. People innovating games even after they've been out for over a decade or longer.

[@Niosai]

In order to perform the glitch, you must first invite everyone BUT Abra to Super Smash Bros.

[@SJrad]

*first sentence* Pomeg berry & glitzer popping: am i a joke to you?

[@gamerfreak5665]

I'm actually surprised this didn't get discovered and implemented into runs sooner, considering the sheer determination and dedication of the speedrunning community.

[@worldsboss]

Surely it doesn’t actually need to be level 100 though, right? Really cool to see new glitches being discovered so long after the game’s release though!

[@648]

inb4 you run at like level 90 with risk of losing to steven just to save 10 seconds

[@PaulDk]

Being level 100 skips the 'gained 120 exp' text after every battle, I assume level 100 may be not even slower

[@somenameidk5278]

@@PaulDk ah that explains why

[@648]

@@PaulDk Fair enough, didn't think of that

[@kingofgrim4761]

@@PaulDkthat’s a good point, probably more of a time save than most would think bc people from the getgo have used small names for small but eventually big time saves

[@werisekk3]

How do people come up with this stuff... it never ceases to amaze me. Thanks for the report, Pulse! Can't wait to see how this will evolve in the future!

[@DaikoruArtwin]

I don't know if this helped for this specific bug, but some people have been working on Decompile projects of certain Pokemon games, that is, they converted the binary code of the game back into a human-readable scripting language. That can definitely help discovering some flaws in the game or figuring out how exactly some bugs work and see how much you can abuse them.

[@MrCheeze]

Cliche question, but I really would liked this video to include information on the discovery of this new glitch.

[@im-essi]

if you've done a bunch of programming, at least low level programming like c/asm, places where the player can enter info like player/pokemon names, the mail contents, etc, tend to stick out a bit as something you might be able to mess with :) not super uncommon for things like that to have some kind of issue allowing you to edit memory you're not supposed to be able to. bit similar to being able to scroll past the cancel button in RBY bag and edit memory.

[@Sherkel]

@@MrCheeze Love your stuff! Any plans to do anything TAS-related with this glitch? Great that you're still around anyhow!

[@MrCheeze]

@@Sherkel Not likely, but I am interesting in knowing more about to what extent the glitch possibilities have been fully explored.

[@mayborneflower]

Oh, this is probably a sister glitch to the Trick Mail glitch. Where you put mail on a Pokémon that knows Trick, Trick the mail on to an opponent in battle, rinse and repeat till the tile corruption kicks in. This was in the first wave or two of Ruby & Sapphire before getting patched well before international release. But if this Harbor Mail thing works in the international versions, then does it also work in Emerald?

[@BluMagma7]

Yep! The reason this works on English is because although Trick cannot steal mail, Thief and Covet still can (which was honestly the biggest discovery). I've heard there is also a way to activate the glitch on Emerald, but it involves the Pomeg Glitch since normally you can't steal mail at all in Emerald. It supposedly also corrupts different data in Emerald (PC data instead of map data).

[@mayborneflower]

@@BluMagma7 Good to know, thanks for the input.

[@Astar24653]

aw i wish you had mentioned how much faster it is as of the time of recording

[@Obviouse]

It probably isn't faster yet, this is so knew people are gonna have to route it I'm assuming

[@headbobsr]

The eng any% record recently beat the glitchless record by like 1 1/2 minutes (I think it’s a mid 1:55)

[@BluMagma7]

My current run on KZbin is about 90 seconds faster than the glitchless record, but it can go a lot lower with a good run. I think a good glitched run can be about 5 minutes faster than the glitchless record!

[@nerdyfalco408]

This is so huge, it's like when they discovered that secondary effects of moves don't proc on pokemon of the same type in RBY

[@glitchy_weasel]

Absolutely crazy - am I correct to assume thar you can write arbitary values to memory using this glitch? If that's the case, it's only a matter of time until someone figures out an ACE glitch as well.

[@jbillion]

This has become one of the few channels where I'm always waiting on content to be released. You've been putting out some great stuff Pulse!

[@rami-lb5he]

Imagine youre some person watching the player buy 81 letters , giving them to abra and snatching it 64 times , walking in the ocean and coming back with a level 100 tentacruel

[@mjc0961]

Okay, now I need one of the "explain how the code works and why the glitch happens" channels to explain what the heck is happening here

[@BluMagma7]

I wrote a little summary of the technical details here: docs.google.com/document/d/1TFgMWHzHSufb0QIUnqSB4oVaYq2V0Yh7R-8nxanCqWk/edit Maybe I'll make a full video explaining the details of the code at some point!

[@niklasz9120]

Here is a comment to appreciate the work behind your great videos. ❤ May the algorithm push your channel more.

[@awesomelink2347]

This is absolutely inSANE, jeez.

[@Spencer-F0x]

Breaking news: local ten-year-old becomes region’s newest champion using the power of porch pirating and a very strong squid, more at 7

[@lucafreak5]

This is really insane. Finding new glitches in these old games is awesome

[@ihaveproblems9779]

The Super Mario 64 music feels like a lovely nod to the "Watch Out for Rolling Rocks" glitch video for speed running.

[@rokuzer00]

always a treat seeing a new video covering some sort of ridiculous pokemon bug! love hearing the trauma center music at the very end too, it's nice to see some love for that series's incredible soundtrack! godspeed in your endeavors :)

[@coolethanlegoguy]

Absolute banger of a video as always, Pulse! Been loving your content you've been putting out this year. Always gonna keep supporting you. Keep it up!

[@ZuluGamingSeries]

Damn mailman in that uni has the hardest job!! 😂😂

[@vulpinitemplar5036]

Such a goofy and simple oversight, not surprised it took so long to be discovered but it's a welcome addition :b

[@kip258]

The amount of crazy glitches in Hoenn never fails to impress me. We got berries, pokéblocks, Decamarks, and now this crazy stuff.

[@sagacious03]

Neat analysis video! Thanks for uploading! Looking forward to seeing how this technique & its use develops!

[@Sean081799]

I'll always be in awe of how people discover stuff like this.

[@ForeverFree2Play]

As soon as I'm able I'll be firing up my old ruby cart to attempt this myself. This is insanely cool stuff!

[@kindkindred]

Thumbnail is just stellar work. Glitched zigzagoon really nailes it!

[@shinyshinx789]

Wow, this is insane. Cant wait for the cool things that can come out of this.

[@professionalfangster1510]

I appreciate the Fate/Extra music in the background. Nice video!

[@dylanzlol7293]

Pokemon, the Game that tells you "don't be a thief" if you throw a pokeball in a pokemon trainer battle but rewards you with a lv. 100 tentacool and a lot of rare candies if you commit theft

[@dorneyparkisAWESOME1]

Petition to name this “the mail fraud glitch”

[@tatlxtael2303]

I need to see this speedrun for myself holy cow this is nuts

[@ShialeeHeart]

I love pokemon ruby. I grew up on it as a kid and seeing the fact the game is still being destroyed just as i did as a kid makes my heart warm :)

[@Xigzagamer]

Zigzagoon's pickup ability is just as useful as ever. Never leave home without it.

[@Aconics]

This is crazy. Hope to see some speedruns using this glitch soon

[@goku3460]

*starts humming the mail song from blues clues to self*

[@Kreceir]

The fact that people are still finding new stuff to break in older Pokemon games (or just games in general) for speedrunning is just amazing.

[@theruleroftheinternet8260]

Can you clone other stuff besides rare candy? Could be a fun trick to use in a casual playthrough of the game to get unlimited tm moves or something

[@BluMagma7]

Yep! You can clone any item as long as you can equip it to a Pokemon.

[@robotbootyhunter6878]

@@BluMagma7 I'm sure the Discord has already discussed it, but would it save any time over just using a PC to dupe stuff like HP/PP recovery? Like, buy the first round of mail, create a bunch of nuggets and sell them, buy a bunch more mail, create a fat stack of Elixirs and Rare Candies, then do your Grand Tour.

[@BluMagma7]

@@robotbootyhunter6878 We honestly don't need any healing items for this route since level 100 just sweeps the game without many issues! The newest optimization now skips the only two healing items we picked up, which were a Full Heal and a Max Elixir. It would be really nice for a Catch 'em All speedrun though, since you're able to dupe Master Balls and any evolution items you might need.

[@Jacob-qr8pl]

Nice to see a move that is literally called ACID be powrful in Pokémon 😅

[@justarandomalt255]

Who knew that useless piece of mail in my bag can break reality as much as that berry that I don't have

[@Polygonyall]

overleveled pokemon speedruns reminds me of when i was a kid playing sapphire for the first time and I had no idea how to get through the cave in dewford and by the time i figured it out my mudkip was a swampert

[@rotomnation7662]

Im extremely curious about that new tile corruption glitch. I wanna know how far we can push that glitch, and if its possible to even further behond the tiles, and corrupt other things as well.

[@IngwiePhoenix]

Bismuth left a lasting impression, it seems. x) That is one heccing random glitch... Really enjoyed the explanation too!

[@sarojandongol1482]

Imagine tile corrupting the door to the hall of fame or something idk.

[@Navienikboy]

Abra is not a teleporter he's a WHOLE CANDY FACTORY

[@LunarWingCloud]

Always love to see big new discoveries for exploits and glitches in old favorite games

[@Zzzlol94]

I thought Emerald was the only extremely broken Gen 3 game with the bad egg glitching. This doesn’t beat being able to create any pokemon, but it’s definitely breaking it much earlier.

[@Schaex1]

Always love glitches that abuse memory manipulation. My favorite is the one in PM TTYD :D

[@SpectreXS]

It's so cool when these glitches get discovered several years after the game's launch! Love that english ruby sapphire now have major glitches too!

[@Royale9]

Major (re)discovery. Can't wait to see it being implemented in attempts.

[@KrymsonScale]

Love the discoveries people are making!

[@darknessblades]

Now I hope someone uses it with a TAS for that perfect run.

[@LonesomeDevil]

Welp, I guess that means that all first 4 Pokémon Gens had a way of altering the game's code from within the game itself. This officially gives the title of the least glitchy Pokémon games to Gen 5 without any contest... for now anyway. Wait until they figure out you can rewrite stuff using the Prop Case used in Musicals or something.

[@DJFracus]

Gen 3 already had it with Emerald's infamous Pomeg Berry glitch (which is far more powerful than the Mail glitch, allowing you modify basically any memory you want, and is used to warp to the hall of fame)

[@dudono1744]

There is ACE in gen4 now ?

[@LonesomeDevil]

@@dudono1744 I'm not sure, but considering you can literally unload parts of the map by just biking too fast on certain tiles and stuff like that, I certainly wouldn't call them stable.

[@DJFracus]

Yeah I wasn't sure what you meant by gen 4, but the void glitch isn't editing memory either.

[@LonesomeDevil]

​@@DJFracus Usually I write entire essays' worth of comments to make sure I get every last detail, but this time I said "screw it" because I've just been "TL;DR" one too many times. My point was that Gen 5 doesn't have world-altering glitches nor memory editing, and its engine's performance is perfectly stable, unlike the following games. Therefore, Game Freak devs have always been hilarious bad with programming since the beginning, peaked in Gen 5, then went downhill again. That's all there is to it. Doesn't make the games bad or anything. Do people think all Bethesda games are bad, after all? I guess I could throw in even more hot takes to farm even more comments interactions for PulseEffects, but I'm feeling too lazy to manage all that right now. I hope he'll forgive me.

[@christopherballero866]

Got to appreciate the craziness & absurdity of speed running

[@MateusSFigueiredo]

Interesting how both the Pokémon Abra and the word Abra help in this glitch

[@travischristensen5385]

The first time I played Ruby as a child I couldn’t find where Steven was and I tried and tried to figure out if I could use the mail to ask him lol

[@mensb1936]

So proud to have been born mail

[@RadiantGoblin404]

Alternate title: Abra commits mail fraud

[@splitthesoulgaming7431]

The super metroid music in the background got me hyped

[@flygawnebardoflight]

I accidentally performed a tile corruption when I was like 11 years old. (I'm 24 now) I don't remember what I did, but I remember seeing a roof in the trees directly south of the daycare. I could not get to it, I had no idea why they were there, and since I was unable to recreate the event I just moved on with my life. The funniest thing was that I had 2 GBA systems, a link cable, 2 Gen 3 Hoenn games, and more importantly I loved exploring the many experiences the game could offer. I even messed around with mail a bunch when I was younger, so maybe this is what happened!

[@1umbreon4life]

For a little bit of the video, i wondered why you'd go all the way to 100 rather than cutting it off at a lower level to save time, but i assume it's too avoid ever gaining exp again, which would save a lot of time in the rest of the run.

[@snake2250]

Can't wait for them to corrupt one of the times and turn it into the entrance to the champion's room somehow.

[@agaba5500]

that metroid soundtrack always hits the spot

[@RationaLess]

Its so wild to hear fate/extra music in a video

[@OryxTheMadGod3]

finally after 21 years someone used the mail feature in the gen 3 games

[@sunxnes]

I found this out when I was a kid. Never really thought much of it.

[@mattpostingcinematicuniver7920]

You thought you were buying mail But you were actually buying Arceus' design notes

[@coconyt3623]

That's amazing! Another rock crumbles!

[@linkheroofwinds]

Is there somewhere I can read more in-depth about the technical details of this glitch? The video is a great overview!

[@roobeedooo]

this is so obscene and specific, what a wild setup!!

[@Zackattackplayspokemon]

Man I started to get Jwittz evil voice vibes for a split second near the end 😅

[@jason6569]

Love Pokémon glitches. They are so random and I always wonder how long it took to find these insane things lol.

[@Thewiiboy55]

I love this channel it so enjoyable Ty pulseeffects for another great video.

[@lightyagami3492]

Its always fun to discover new glitches. It looks very game breaking to. We will see if its more game breaking than the pomeg berry glitch in time.

[@rezracer6986]

PulseEffects: just Mudkip Me: a trainer of culture

[@Evan20000]

I can't wait to see calc optimization for just how many candies you can cut out under level 100 without compromising expected run speed.