Pokemon Generation 1 Iceberg Explained

[@taebeebee]

my cousin took my copy of red and said "wanna see something cool?" and did the missingno trick and it scared me so bad i cried for an hour at applebees 😂

[@taebeebee]

also how does this video have such low likes and views??? this video is excellent!:)

[@VaultLore]

Aw thanks so much! Idk hopefully more people will see it. Glad you enjoyed it! Making me want to go play red haha

[@Nagatem]

No joke my cousin also showed me, my sis and lil bro how to Missingno too XD, unfortunately for my sister it wasn’t doable with pokemon yellow so me and my lil bro with red and blue had the advantage

[@VaultLore]

I shared a save file with my brother and it messed with it pretty bad hahaha

[@BlueHazeBurnout93]

⁠@@VaultLoreMissingno can‘t physically mess with your Save File. The only place Missingno is able to corrupt is the hall of fame. Also a few things you said in the video: It can‘t "combust" your inventory, as it just flips the first byte of the seventh item‘s amount ID, effectively increasing its amount by 127. That‘s all Missingno. does to your Inventory. There are indeed several different Missingno. Forms, but you can only encounter one variant with the Missingno glitch. There is one other very similar Pokémon to Missingno with almost the same effects that can appear as well, called M'(and a bunch of glitched characters). Changing your Name won‘t let you encounter more Missingno. variants. Missingno's cry is btw. just Slowbros cry. M's cry is basically Cloysters cry. You must have heard either of those (probably Cloysters, because Slowbros cry doesn‘t sound menacing at all).

[@Chungus581]

I always assumed TM’s were just for the trainer to watch and then teach the Pokémon. Like an instructional video burned onto a CD

[@rightwingsafetysquad9872]

That's kinda how the anime presents them.

[@BlindGirlUK]

Same

[@popstarzombie]

Or you put them in the pokedex. In one of the old manga, it was a little box you open and put each side at the pokemon's head and the pokemon like...downloaded it lol

[@victoriousf.i.g.3311]

I always thought they downloaded them into the pokemon when it was digitized in its pokeball. There was an insinuation that pokemon could be stored as digital data in the early days, one they kind of moved away from when Digimon came around to avoid brand confusion.

[@alecrutz956]

To answer your fun lil question, I've caught them all in blue, obviously since it was on emulator I had no way of trading, I had to use the mew glitch to get the trade evos, the mutually exclusive pokemon (like the eeveelutions, the starters, and the fighting dojo fellas) and version exclusives. and mew. It took over 100 hours of game time, but I did pull it off, ending by evolving dragonair into dragonite.

[@VaultLore]

That’s awesome! I feel like I always capped out around 70 or 80. Always started strong but lost interest in catching just for sake of catching.

[@jakemartin2356]

I finally, after 20+, years completed a pokedex in pokemon red, but decided to take it a step forward and complete a living dex on top of it. Using og hardware with an n64 transfer pak.

[@davidcarney1533]

Using strength on the truck, pushing it from the left 3 times, then using teleport 2 steps to the right of it didn't get me Mew, though it did cure my hiccups

[@VaultLore]

Sounds about right!

[@andyghkfilm2287]

I think if you use strength on the truck, use cut on the tires, push it to the left twice and then use strength again on the front door of the truck, the game takes a screenshot as well

[@BlueHazeBurnout93]

This is so much less cruel than the rumors we had, when I was a child. If I remember correctly, you allegedly needed a Lv. 100 Golem with 100% perfect stats and Strength. I assume this was to keep people from just cloning rare candies. Luckily nobody of us really sunk time into that rumor, but we also had no idea about DVs and stat experience back then. I only knew about vitamins. By the way, we had a completely glitchless way to access the SS Anne again back then. Interestingly nobody talks about this (in my opinion) obvious way. You just have to black out on the ship after getting HM1, and it will never leave. Now you can just enter the dock again when you have Surf, even without using the Surf glitch. We didn’t even know about the Surf Glitch back in the day 20+ years ago.

[@Magikarp-4ever]

@davidcarney1533 you forgot to turn the Gameboy upside down when doing the last step 🙄

[@SulliP1492]

Technically, they did add a Game+ on Gen 2, you go back to Kanto and collect another 8 badges

[@turtly4360]

btw, the old man glitch works because the old man tutorial stores your player name in the encounter table's data (because the game needs to change your name to Old Man for the tutorial and it needs somewhere to put your own name whilst its changed and the encounter table won't be used until its changed since your in a city) When you fly to cinnabar, the encounter table doesn't change because cinnabar has no encounters but the water route next to it only has water encounters so land encounters don't get changed but the shore of cinnabar is improperly labelled as a land tile rather a water tile even tho you surf on it so you encounter land pokemon and since the land pokemon encounter table is currently your name, you'll see weird pokemon based off your name (with each odd character being the pokemon encountered and each even being the level) its actually really cool how this works because it means you can encounter any land encounters next to cinnabar, if you enter the safari zone then leave and fly to the cinnabar shore, you'll encounter the safari pokemon in a normal battle, meaning you can get chansey/scyther/pinsir without having to do the safari game

[@VaultLore]

so cool how all these old glitches worked!

[@magnawaves]

Oh wow so that's how it works. Crazy ass coding man

[@cartoonistanonymous]

37:30 which gen?

[@louis-ip1nm]

Also if you want infinite items you put it in the 6 slot and do the missingno glitch

[@FoulUnderworldCreature]

About Lt. Surge and "the war": with Team Rocket being analogous to the yakuza (Japanese mafia) and much of Kanto seeming reminiscent of Showa era Japan, it can be inferred that Lt. Surge is an occupying American soldier. This would make "the war" actually World War II.

[@CarlYoungII]

The Venonat & Butterfree thing blew me away! Can't believe I never noticed that! Nice video!🔥🔥👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽

[@VaultLore]

Crazy, right?! Thanks for watching! Glad you liked it!

[@Adoublelan13]

Later, when they introduced Shiny Pokémon, Mew and Ditto's Shiny version are both blue. It almost feels like a confirmation of the, "Ditto are failed Mew Clones" Theory. Maybe just a coincidence as well.

[@brotbrotsen1100]

I'm pretty sure the shiny color is what spawned these theories in the first place. Back when gen released we weren't thinking about theories really

[@hichannd5190]

Iirc shinies used to just be a pallette shift from an algorithm, so it's because they both have the same original coloration.

[@HunterCoyle-z2p]

That and the fact ditto spawn both at the mansion and the cerulean cave where mewtwo was created and found post game

[@angusyoung119]

I’m still sure its a company confirmed thing, but never explicitly stated in-game. There’s just no way with all the “beating around the bush” “evidence” in the lore, its just a little too in our faces to dismiss.

[@Goodroosters]

@@angusyoung119 completely the opposite, series director Junichi Masuda has openly stated he has no idea about this theory and that it's never been on the devs' minds.

[@JoKad17]

This iceberg isn't deep at all. Here some truly deep facts: -Ultra balls are rarely the best ball, and in certain scenarios are outperformed by regular pokeballs. -Missingno is incredibly weak actually. -On the same note onix too is often remembered as a strong mon but is actually one of the weakest regular mons. -Npc trainers don't use pp. -You can use counter to counter your own moves under certain circumstances. -This allows gengar to make use of counter: normally they can learn the move but since it only works on normal and fighting moves in Gen 1 it would always fail. That said gengar is quite fast so you can explode with a mon and counter your own explosion as long as you outspeed the opponent it will work and deal absurd damage. -Before Gen 3 introduced EVs, stat bonuses (called Stat exp) only had individual caps and not a shared cap meaning you could max out stat bonuses on all stats. -On that note, in pokemon stadium unevolved Pokémon are balanced with their evolved counterpart by having better stat bonuses and sometimes better moves -Also stadium is the game that nerfed hyper beam to the ground -Blizzard was nerfed in the International releases: in the Japanese exclusive Pokémon Green blizzard had an astounding 30% chance. -Also Pokémon couldn't taw from freeze on their own, the only way was to use an item or get hit by a fire type move -The bike costs more than the money cap -Among the changes in Pokémon Yellow there are some movepool and encounter changes to give the player the means to defeat Brok easier since you start with a Pikachu. -Allegedly there were more planned ghost and dragon mons but they were scrapped due to time constraint or cartridge storage space. -Allegedly, since the game are so content dense they crammed the og cartridges to bust but there was still a tiny sliver of space left to add a new mon, this is apparently how mew was inserted in. Originally it was supposed to just be a part of the lore not represented by an actual mon in game and it seems even Nintendo was unaware of it's presence. -Satoshi Tajiri, Pokémon's creator was inspired by his childhood, when he would roam the countryside trying to catch insects and critters. -The game had a particularly long development, it took 6 years to make.

[@MementoMoriv2]

These are facts. Not icebergs

[@chandranapier2259]

@@MementoMoriv2aren’t icebergs also about facts?

[@brixen0623]

My original red version file, I had caught all 150. Started at age 8. Finished at age 10. Was SUPER pissed when the game devs in Celedon basically gave me nothing for it. I was under the impression that I would get mew or access to it.

[@Arvenyte]

Fairy type was introduced in gen 6. That mistake made me actually make a double check of what you said. As for catching them all, I've gotten a living dex (so not just getting all pokemon in the dex, but ALL evolution stages in your box (IE having a charmander, charmeleon, AND charizard in your box instead of just your fully evolved charizard) in blue, yellow, gold, and crystal. I'm working on ruby/sapphire/emerald and firered/leafgreen atm.

[@VaultLore]

Just misread IV and VI in my script nbd

[@Ukn0wn0611]

Fun fact: TMs and HMs are used in a computer type of thingy to teach the pokemon NOT futuristic and Egyptian codes or pokehistory. Ha "how to insert them?" In the anime and animations they use a computer to teach a pokemon a TM or HM. Much us like humans if you watch a movie on a cd in a computer you remember the plot, characters and everything in that movie just like TMs and HMs.

[@Hex.A.Decimal]

Teachy TV moment

[@triggeredcheese5318]

I always just imagined it as inserting the disc inside of the pokemon's forehead akin to White snake in JoJo

[@tvb5509]

I figured you insert it into the Pokéball.

[@HesGotaGun505]

I like how in FRLG you set it on you Pokemon’s head.

[@alecrutz956]

37:31 fairy type was not introduced in gen 4 it was in gen 6

[@VaultLore]

Yeah mixed up gen IV and gen VI when I read it. Oops!

[@jackhageman9983]

I hate the misconception that poke-dollars are equivalent to American dollars, in reality it’s based on the Japanese currency Yen and 100 yen is roughly 1 dollar so that “million dollar bike” is only like 10,000 dollars, still a ludicrous amount but not a million dollars. The trainers aren’t giving you 3,000 dollars at the end of a battle, it’s 30 bucks so no you’re not stealing a ton of money from these people.Also throughout a Pokémon gen 1 play through the max amount of poke-dollars you can get is 999,999 which would only be 9,999 dollars, so no you’re not a millionaire or even that rich by the end. Hate this misconception with a passion

[@VaultLore]

What an incredibly specific thing to hate with a passion, but good point!

[@noahnorris5830]

Especially cuz the shop prices would be absurd. If a great ball was $300 there would be riots.

[@wavemasterxyra1630]

I always called it Poke-yen. Poke dollars is stupid

[@Carwinley]

​@@wavemasterxyra1630 I've always called them "Poké-pounds" because the crossed P looks vaguely like a £ - round out the top and remove the bottom line.

[@kayleelockheart8208]

@@jackhageman9983 yea, you're basically taking other kids lunch money

[@SaerasChuu]

I forget where, but in some media TMs and HMs are shown to literally be CDs that the Pokemon listen to to learn the move (with little headphones and everything. Very cute). Hence why they keep the 'music' theme in SWSH with TRs, which are literally records like for a record player. I do love the FRLG animation though, where you just slap it on their forehead and they absorb it somehow. As for the Butterfree-Venomoth switch... I don't think young kids would notice or care about the difference between a butterfly and a moth, particularly with jank RGBY sprites. I do think that, originally, they were they were the other way around, but I don't think the switch was an accident. I think they wanted a stronger contrast between the intimidating Beedrill and the cuter Butterfree in the early game. Venomoth is kinda creepy looking if you don't like bugs. I think they realized Butterfree was more appealing to a wide audience, design-wise and swapped them thinking no one would notice or care. Pokemon's success was kind of a miracle, and I don't think they EVER expected the game to be scrutinized to such an insane degree as it has been.

[@VaultLore]

That’s true, hindsight is crazy when we’re talking about a game when they had no idea if it would be a success.

[@mileskintnermusic7349]

Better than the imagery of Red force-feeding a TM disc to a Pigotto like the pokemon are supposed to EAT them. XD

[@dontecrosland1883]

Your character talk when he lets his Pokémon out when you catch a Pokémon or if you miss a pokeball 🤣

[@Nick_Slavik]

I managed to get all 150 once. Went back to the guy in Celadon expecting to get Mew, instead I got some stupid certificate to print out with the game boy printer 🙄👍 lol I was so mad at such a useless effort

[@MonsterTaming420]

I remember looking up how to glitch Yellow, used my hand-me-down cart from my big brother, found Mew, lv100s before Brock, and even Yellow's Missingno. Poor thing doesn't boot anymore lol.

[@VaultLore]

Haha honestly some thing might be best left in the past… but also I bet you could buy a game boy and Pokémon yellow for not that much.. gotta get that SP for the backlit screen though.

[@sammorrissey9094]

I did once collect all 151 pokemon. So worth it to get a printable certificate for the gameboy printer that was never released in the UK. Massive letdown

[@paulglenn8945]

Back in high school, this was in 2000, I had Pokémon red and my friend has Pokémon blue. We worked together to get most of the Pokédex until he gave up. I had 9 Pokémon left to collect!

[@ARDIZsq]

37:32 Correction: Fairy Type wasn't introduced until Generation 6. Not exactly sure where Generation 4 came from in this situation. Also, as far as TMs go, they've been depicted in several different ways throughout the series. Most of the time they're CDs, but in some original artwork for Red and Green, they're bands that Pokemon wear. In GO, they're some sort of digital scroll type thing. And then, perhaps the most interesting, is in The Electric Tale of Pikachu, where they're these weird cubes of... dust? Data? I'm not entirely sure, but it's certainly unique. They also appear as cubes in the early TCG, but they're machines that you put a Poke Ball into. TMs are also absent in Legends Arceus, suggesting at the very least they're a more modern invention, which tracks with the name, "Technical Machine." Also, on Pikablu: There are actually official Topps cards for the promotion of the First Movie that feature Marill, which is explicitly referred to as Pikablu. Seems that someone at Topps caught wind of the rumor and mistook it as the official name or something.

[@VaultLore]

I just flipped gen “VI” and “IV” when I read it, that’s all.

[@bigg7505]

PikaBlu and Mewthree...which turned out to be sneasel and Marill lol

[@BernasconiDerLangobard]

Really good vodeo. Mew truck was very famous even here in Lombardy. Missingno, because of how we read in Lombard, my native language, and italian, was pronounced with a sound that english doesn't have, where "gn" is very soft. It was not "missing no", and noone knew the meaning of that strange name. Also, if you did something like covering 3 times in a row the cycle lane you ended up in a strange, mistesrious world with pieces of things everywhere and pokemon encounters, including Missingno and another kind of Missingno with a different sprite. It was so special.

[@joshuacaleau2328]

I can’t quite put my finger on it, but there’s something about your writing that I really liked. Well done!

[@VaultLore]

I appreciate it! Thanks for watching!

[@samdavies2069]

You will never not convince me holding down and b increases catch rates .

[@shalabazertheboltstruck8645]

Dude, best pokemon vid out there… goosebumps, mindblows and many more. Holy cow

[@Venemofthe888]

In the remakes in the truck area not only is the truck there but theres also a lava cookie hidden there too almost like a reference. Poke Balls could be used in war cause you think it could be thrown as a grenade of sorts with the pokemon coming out like a tank and explosive powers. Also Clefairy became Fairy type in gen 6 and not 4

[@magnawaves]

I had yellow, a cousin with blue, and a friend with red. Completing the dex was my priority above battles, so I got all 151. Good times. I had named my character Ash and my rival Gary, and when I tried the missingno trick, it took ages to encounter anything and when it finally happened it was like a lv70 Starmie, and then an aerodactyl fossil. I got no duplicated items, and Gary's name changed to Zary. I felt very confused and never tried it again lmao

[@VaultLore]

Hahaha dang you’re one of the only people I know that actually did the full 151. Nice!

[@ryanmeek6284]

What I love about this video is the massive amount of research, coupled with the lack of innate pokemon knowledge. Calling it Ar-Canine, saying he had to grind for it, it really is wholesome. So much of pokemon KZbin is lifelong fans who have played every game 6 times through that just a nostalgic casual fan making a huge video like this because he loved that period of his life is so nice

[@MementoMoriv2]

What a backhanded compliment. Also names are pronounced differently depending location. We say AR-canine too.

[@g-radical349]

@@MementoMoriv2 i always said ah-cah-nee-nay

[@Jobiin]

Insane how this channel hasn’t blown up yet, great video

[@VaultLore]

Fingers crossed! Thanks for watching!

[@dutchdude1985]

19:03 He was likely the champion before Lance, the original opening credits are Agatha and Oak battling. Much like Gary he started his journey as a high tier trainer and lateron retired to become the professor as we know him.

[@TheSmilingFear]

Blue's raticate went on to drive the mew truck.

[@haunterghostpoison4651]

37:30 yeah I think you mean gen 6 not 4

[@Hex.A.Decimal]

Hey, wanna know a secret? If you bought these games on eshop the glitches ALL still work. Also Evil Cousin 'M is the one that duplicates the 7th item, and really messes up your Hall of Fame data. I personally have played and beaten the E4 with a Missingno. in my party, but I don't recommend catching 'M. 'M is always at level 80 (Wild pokemon caught via Mew and OLD MAN glitch can be >255, 256 it resets to 0) and when you catch it there is an invisible one behind it at level 0 that you can catch again. So I think it is a backdoor into a function. Idk what function, someone probably could do the math and figure it out. I think Missingno. are indeed empty spaces or scrapped 'mon (39 actually do correspond to GBC Pokemon and turn into them when traded through time capsule. This would have made an even 190.) (Plus extra sprites like GHOST or FOSSIL are stored in the extra spaces.)

[@andyghkfilm2287]

There are actually NEW glitches on the virtual console versions lol!

[@Ryan-kf7of]

Reviving a fossil seemed confusing.. but we had Jurassic Park

[@sleepyleperchaun]

I never heard about the Mew truck glitch until like 2008, but I still find it hilarious that there is a way to get Mew far earlier that was real chilling right under our noses the whole time. I didn't hear about this glitch until like 6 years ago so I get why we didn't know back then, but it's still funny that we were so close but so far on how to get Mew.

[@ThatOneRedDitto]

I like this! Your voice makes the video feel much more mysterious at points. Keep up the good work!

[@ThatOneRedDitto]

Also, for the HMs and TMs, there's something else in the game that leads to maybe them being some sort of ancient technique used by trainers. After defeating Koga, he gives you the TM for Toxic and tells you that it was a technique passed down in his family. So, this could lead to the theory that TMs could be ancient techniques from ancient tribes and trainers.

[@VaultLore]

Ooh yeah good point! And thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it!!

[@ThatOneRedDitto]

@@VaultLore you're welcome! Happy to support!

[@VaultLore]

🎉

[@profesorgonzalezpontiles9070]

i did catch all 150 pokemon in pokemon red back in the day with my first playtrough, i played other versions but never beat it completely like that first time

[@FFKonoko]

15:15 Some sort of floppy disk? Those are CDs 😅

[@VaultLore]

They also show up as floppy discs!

[@icedo1013]

3:10 The simplest "in depth" explanation I can think of is that the game only has one spot in memory dedicated to the name of the player trainer, so in order to keep your name intact it stores each byte of your name into the wild pokemon data and temporarily makes your name Old Man so that the tutorial script can proceed. Since no wild pokemon are supposed to be found in that area anyway it wouldn't typically matter or affect anything. However, it doesn't reset the wild pokemon data once the Old Man battle is over, and won't have another chance to do so until you enter an area where there is wild pokemon data to be updated. Since Cinnibar Island also doesn't have any encounters, the game still neglects to update the data. Surfing on the edge keeps you within the confines of Cinnibar Island and still acts as wild pokemon encounter tiles, allowing you to encounter pokemon whose data corresponds to the characters in your name. In short, you've basically carried a small oversight in tying up a coding shortcut's loose ends all the way to an area of the game where you can abuse that oversight without ever allowing the game to correct itself.

[@Someone-101]

Fun fact, flying to Cinnabar Island from ANY location keeps that location's encounter table. While that wouldn't be noteworthy for most locations (beyond the humorous novelty of finding a geodude in the water, for example), it also works for the SAFARI ZONE! Meaning you can go to the Safari Zone, fly to Cinnabar Island (before your time is up), and encounter _and catch_ ALL the Safari Zone pokemon *_AS NORMAL ENCOUNTERS!_* No running away or BS Safari ball mechanics, just good old "battle to lower its HP and catch it!" Without using a GameShark, this is the BEST way to catch those four Safari Zone pokemon that are TERRIBLE to try and catch (if you've ever gotten all 150 in OG Red and Blue, _you know the ones._ ) The only thing you still have to deal with is the encounter rate, but that's nowhere near as big a pain without the catch rate and flee rate on top of it! (For anyone wanting to try this themselves, just be aware that each Area in the Safari Zone has its own encounter table, so if you're looking for a specific pokemon, you have to go to one of the Areas that has that pokemon _before_ flying to Cinnabar. Good luck and happy catching! 😊)

[@user-fb8bo3ys2f]

Missingo: I don’t recall needing to name my player “Ash”. And I ONLY remember the encounter to result in an “infinite” item (slot I cannot remember).

[@brixen0623]

For the charmander cubone thing, the one I lean towards is it's a charmander who's mother passed before the egg hatched. So it's tail never got lit and the altered evolution is tied to the lack of a flame. I prefer the kangeskhan theory myself.

[@BobtheExile]

14:58 I caught all 251 Pokemon in Crystal version a few years ago. Not quite what you were asking but I did. It took me six months and I am NEVER doing that again

[@dontecrosland1883]

It’s crazy somebody had randomly talk to the drunk guy flew too cinnabar Island use surf and encountered missing no and boom the who world knew lol😂

[@eliasb22]

Slight error at 37:37 (Clefable). The fairy type was introduced in generation 6, not 4. Apart from that, awesome video man. I’ve watched my share of iceberg videos before, but I really like your style and energy. Edit: I’m sure others commented on this so I don’t mean to nitpick. Really enjoyed this video, man.

[@VaultLore]

All good! I flipped “vi” and “iv” when i read it. Thanks for watching! Glad you liked it!

[@Dragondan1987]

Missingno cheat in this video was way easier than the way we got him in my school. We only knew about the seafoam island missingno

[@mickeystackhouse7259]

While you cant get mew from under a truck you can actually manipulate the rng in Blue version and catch one on nugget bridge.

[@dan5974]

blue and red

[@krystlspoonz]

And a number of other places as long as you have an out of reach ranged encounter you can manipulate, but just left of nugget bridge is def the earliest spot.

[@Kahadi]

I know this is an older video, but the Blue's Raticate stuff has always been stupid to me. All of the "evidence" is BS. Blue's demeanor never changes, not even in the next battle in the Pokemon Tower. It's misinformation. He says "Hey, Red! What brings you here? Your Pokemon don't look dead! I can at least make them faint! Let's go, pal!" right before the battle, says "What? You stinker! I took it easy on you too!" when you win, and "How's your Pokedex coming, pal? I just caught a CUBONE! I can't find the grown-up MAROWAK yet! I doubt there are any left! Well, I better get going! I've got a lot to accomplish, pal! Smell ya later!" Exactly the same as always. Before the battle, he's arrogant and rude, suggesting he'll win. After losing, he's defensive, insisting he lost because he went easy on you. And then when you speak to him after, he gives his usual "smell ya later!" Oh, and his dialog directly explains the gap on his team, though a bit of common sense helps. It's a Raticate. As strong as it is early on, it gets outclassed quickly. He's also in Pokemon Tower, where Raticate is... Not useful. By level up, it can't hit Ghost-types in generation 1. With very, very few exceptions, that's what NPC teams were limited to, level up moves. Even if we assume he had access to TMs, everything it could use against a Ghost-type would be better used on another Pokemon on his team. Finally, while we don't ever get to see it, he said he just caught a Cubone. So that's the gap. He left Raticate in the PC because it would be useless there and was starting to get outclassed, and then caught a Cubone. I'm guessing the Cubone was fainted, so he doesn't use it in the battle, but he still has it.

[@johnosbron5311]

There was a Pokémon rumor that everyone in my elementary school knew of that I’ve never heard anyone else ever repeat. Everyone at my school “knew” that if you beat the Elite Four 50 times and then surfed into northwest most wall tile of the Seafoam Islands you would go through the wall and wind up in the Orange Islands. I was devastated when it didn’t work.

[@Hex.A.Decimal]

Also if anyone is interested in how the OLD MAN/Cinnabar Island glitch works or if they want help creating a name to generate a specific Pokemon I can help.

[@IceGangsta]

I had fun using Brock through walls and Ditto glitching me a team and defeating the Elite 4 with no badges 😎 (Trainer fly glitch, I got an Abra and never used a Pokémon center) I even obtained the ????? Surf board item, bike too

[@IceGangsta]

Item underflow and whatnot

[@Whisdom.]

What a great video essay! Good and enjoyable work.

[@josecorzo5517]

I was watching this while I was playing ddlc. I was in the section you hang out with Sayori, right before the festival

[@DARKMK-lj4bx]

AHH HELL NAH BRUH

[@MarvinPowell1]

I actually caught all 151 Pokemon in Blue version twice. In the original Game Boy game using the actual hardware and no cheats and in the Virtual Console version. Not just that but I had a Living Dex (back before that even had a name) and every single move in the game at the time, including Porygon's Conversion and Kadabra's Kinesis. Pokemon Stadium helped me organize things. The hardest part was getting middle starters like Ivysaur, Charmeleon, and Wartortle. You could at least ask friends to loan you their final form starters to get the Dex info, but very few players had the middle forms.

[@saltysumo7991]

There's also a Japan-only book which came out not long after the games and it also lists Arcanine as a legendary.

[@KefkeWren]

The thing about the pushing buttons to improve catch rates is that it's _kinda_ true...technically. Player button presses do affect the RNG of the game, and in a way that can be predicted and manipulated. Speedrunners will do this to get things like good layouts of Lt. Surge's trash can puzzle. So, at least in theory, if you did the right button presses at the right times, you _could_ manipulate the random number generator to give you a better catch rate. It's just that there was no single specific input to do it.

[@VaultLore]

Oh interesting!

[@nickyb7571]

I had Red as a kid and my neighborhood buddy had Blue. We both beat the game and then focused on getting 150 pokemon. Tauros was the last one I needed, spent a lot of time in the Safari Zone to get it. I was incredibly excited back then. Eventually someone traded me a Mew they got from a special event. I didn't keep it, but that got me to 151. Miss those days dearly. Edit: Spelled Tauros wrong lol

[@sleepyhead758]

I remember there was a trick where you could catch Mew in Lavender town by pressing B then the menu would pop up and then you would be in a battle with a lvl 5 mew. I forgot all the steps but it involved not battling a youngster on the way to Bill until you get fly. I don't remember every step that was years ago but i wiped my save just to try it and it worked.

[@kyle666man]

45:36 mine was always pressing B as soon as the ball opened to begin catching the Pokémon. If the Pokémon was caught I’d think “yeaaah it worked!” And if it wasn’t, I’d be like “damn, I didn’t time it right.” Been doin it since ‘98, even tho I know it’s bull 💩 now lmao

[@Gilbert_Dice_Gottfried]

When I was doing the missingno trick on my game boy, one time I encountered a level 142 cloyster. Most random thing in the world. Of course, once I caught it, it turned into something else and messed up my game. I think there was also a glitch you can run into called M3. Missingno was just one of them and probably the most common. At least that’s how I remember it, I could be misremembering it.

[@dstinnettmusic]

So….the cloning in Pokemon is based on Dolly the sheep. And given how cloning works in the real world, Mew 100% birthed MewTwo. Dolly the sheep was created by cloning the sheep and making an embryo, and the implanting that embryo into a female sheep. So, Mew has a baby and that was MewTwo

[@CyberchaoX]

Regarding Cubone, I always went with the Kangaskhan theory but when you said Charmander I was immediately "That's why it's Ghost/Fire!" Referring, of course, to Alolan Marowak I got all 151 in Red and all 251 in Silver. Don't think I've caught them all since then, even though I had an Action Replay DS of my own and easily could have filled up the Gen 4 Dex. I also just need the Scarlet-exclusive Paradox Pokémon to have a full Paldea Dex in Violet.

[@FoulUnderworldCreature]

I remember finding out about glitch city in middle school (so this must've been around 2008 or so) and recreating a ton of those glitches on my copy of Yellow.

[@sadboiz4lyfe]

I wonder, did anyone prove that the Gameboy is capable of outputting frequencies humans can't hear?

[@McPatMan124]

What about mewthree, voltorb being a posessed pokeball, pokemon black, HM jump, forth evolutions, charizard island, the 11 missing eeveelutions. We also had a playground rumor that charizard could melt the truck with flamethrower and become metal charizard. Not sure how that one was supposed to work since flamethrower can't be used outside of battle.

[@BlueHazeBurnout93]

This is the first time I‘ve heard anything about a "Super Splash", nor can I find anything about this on Google. What are your sources, when you said "Fans have been splashing for years" hoping it does something different?

[@VaultLore]

If you google splash and damage there are many people asking in forums and posts about whether it does damage. I remember as a kid being told it could, usually lore passed around a playground is not specific to one group of kids and travels remarkably far. On top of this, as I mentioned, some Pokédex entries are misleading and Nintendo/game freak seems to intentionally make magikarp a little secretive.

[@BlueHazeBurnout93]

Well "splash damage" is a term which already exists. Googling "Pokémon Splash Damage" or "Magikarp Splash damage" yielded no such results, besides the oddball forum entry of someone swearing Splash did do some damage for them once. But nothing about the "hidden one hit KO move", or anything you have described. That‘s why I was asking. I have never heard about this before, but you made it sound like we should have heard about this before. > On top of this, as I mentioned, some Pokédex entries are misleading As far as I know it‘s only the Pokedex entry in Pokemon Platinum, and this is a Gen 1 iceberg. Pokedex entries before Pokemon Platinum made absolutely no secret about how bad Magikarp is. In Pokemon Ruby/Saphire it was even called a sorry excuse for a Pokemon that can only splash around. I‘m pretty sure Pokémon Platinum was the first Pokédex entry to ever make Magikarp not look like the worst thing ever, and this probably has something to do with the easteregg where you can catch Lv. 100 Magikarp in the Resort Area, technically making it the highest leveled wild Pokemon in history. Even tho later games (like HG/SS or Black/White) kept the "A Magikarp living for many years can jump a Mountain" text, the Pokedex entries went out of their way to tell the player, that the move itself is useless. Just in case there is any confusion.

[@VaultLore]

I think the fact that they say it’s useless so explicitly is probably what leads to people asking questions.

[@BlueHazeBurnout93]

@@VaultLore Well, if there really were that many people asking questions in the first place😅 I can only speak for myself, but for us Magikarp has always been a complete joke of a Pokemon. We saw it for Its Gimmick, the weakest Pokemon turning into the strongest non (Pseudo) Legendary Pokemon in the game. That was enough for us. The Anime, and the Narrator in Pokemon Stadium, did the rest for us. The whole Franchise did it‘s best to convey how utterly weak of a Pokemon Magikarp is.

[@VaultLore]

Until one day when game freak slips in a 1 in a million 1hit KO

[@themaniac8294]

I caught all the first 151 Pokémon and still have my yellow version with them.

[@dylanpailing4314]

I only caught all 150 original Pokémon two years ago…when I was 34. I now have every Pokémon from generation one to generation four and working on the rest.

[@brokefangmagepunk3685]

For the TMs/HMs I think that silph co basically recorded brain scans as pokemen learned and used new moves, and those scans being applied to another pokemons brain unlocks that ability

[@lucio989]

All Pokémon can turn themselves into pure light. They do this when they’re in a ball. They turn into that laser and read the tm like a cd player.

[@VaultLore]

😂

[@BalsawoodBeartraps-wf1hz]

You had better reasons than everyone else crying at Applebees.

[@joshuapate6159]

I thought for Mew, you had to have a pokemon with str and push the truck before battling Surge.

[@PhilipMurphy8]

A really good video, Thanks Vault

[@angusyoung119]

You mentioned something about your character’s name affecting encounters. Is this strict to gen I or does this carry over to any other later gen?

[@SoojuuMeup]

Literally my first games for my game boy color nice video again 🔥

[@VaultLore]

Oh yeah playing them in the after I was supposed to go to sleep with a flashlight so I could see the screen. Hits hard. Thanks for watching!

[@grandeofrenzo3112]

Ditto is 100% afailed mew clone

[@sibirty]

Blues Raticate ran off with the Mew under the truck

[@monsutaman1]

If Arcanine is a legendary, perhaps his "Alternate" Ninetails was also a legendary.......... Imo, the starting 3 are also legendary Pokémon. They are the first 3, and all Reptilian-esque. Jynx Lapras Fossil Pokémon Perhaps Blue's Raticate was lost during the boat sinking. That is why he shifted towards being a Pokemon caretaker. Bll's path may lead north, if you refer to a Pokemon regional map.

[@ExxessoE3]

Fun fact: it IS possible to transfer a Totodile from Yellow to Gen 2, you can even teach it Psychic, Ice Beam and Submission. I did it around 2007-2008.

[@ZackForester]

Imagine beating the Pokemon Champion and Professor Oak stands between you and the Hall of Fame. lol

[@black4277]

Stuff like missing missingno and mew and mysterious ways to obtain pokemon even though most ways don't technically don't work, but I do miss doing extra stuff and hard work to unlock things. But now it's let me gat that credit card.

[@aizakkurhoads7527]

I had a buddy that won a Mew from the first Toys R Us giveaway, and he traded it to me for Dex entry. So I had truly completed Blue Versions Pokédex. I wouldn’t complete a Dex again until Let’s Go Pikachu/Eevee in 2018 😅

[@SulliP1492]

I once did the missingno trick and ran into Mewtwo over and over

[@RogueJadeite]

I always heard about the truck. New it was fake. I always used the Nugget Bridge trick to get my Mew early on. I found MissingNo using the trick for Cinnabar Island to catch the Pokemon in the Safari Zone. Didn't ever talk to the old man that teaches you how to catch Pokemon. So that's something new I learned. Hard to believe I was 13 when I started and I'm 41 and still going hardcore.

[@JesseHuskey-q8z]

What about the mew 3 myth? Or cyber mewtwo? You also touched on the pokegods but nidogod and nidogoddess were the inly pokegods o ever heard. Pikablu was just a random pokrmon I heard of being number 152. Not a pokegod. Lol I'm 36 now an remember these myths alot from when I was a kid. The frustration I remember feeling trying to push the truck, or get a pokegod because friends of mine said they did it, but never could show me because they left their Gameboy at home or their file was corrupted lol. Anyways yeah mew 3, cyber mewtwo and the pokegods were ones I feel you shoulda included as well. Great video tho

[@Oblivion420]

With MissingNo you can also surf the edge of Seafoam Islands on the Fuschia City side

[@joshuaweiner1]

If you use the Ditto glitch to encounter a LVL 7 Mew, and happen to catch it after it uses the move Transform, the Pokedex will register it as a Ditto.

[@jerodwatson6492]

I remember the infamous mew truck. Never worked but did lead me to learning how to get a legit mew. Well legit-ish. But mew with no game shark

[@fallonvandrunen4336]

as a kid i despised every single tune all throughout the game but not lavender town. i was an evil, evil kid.

[@DerHinsetzmann]

Proud owner of a 151 blue cartridge, and I did it as a kid without cheating (except the Mew glitch if you count that)

[@brixen0623]

I had found missingno by accident on my own as a youngster but had no idea wtf it was or how it happened. The internet cleared things up for me. Mostly.

[@haarlembrando]

so I had 149 mon, all I needed was electabuzz. then i left my gameboy and pokemon blue in the family car overnight in a cold canadian winter. in the morning my save was gone and I was devastated. the cold must have killed the small battery in the cartridge

[@pizzalover346]

I’m not the only one who’s confused by the statement in the Clefairy section about fairy type being added in gen 4 right? Fairy type was a gen 6 addition that was a big deal initially

[@BAN3FromNoWhere]

I think maybe hm and tm is a thumb drive or game cartridge style digital device you plug into the pokeball itself and downloads it into the Pokemon as a fast and easy way to learn a move

[@chris071810]

You dont need to be named ash to trigger the missingno

[@diddles976]

Pal, you SHOULD get a GameBoy to replay them. I recommend the SP unless you're going for a real retro DMG-001

[@salmagundi_media]

Down + B gang here

[@Darth_SurgeYo]

11:54 professor oak invented the pokeball when he was a kid in the Celebi movie

[@Reshithewhite]

I have no nostalgia for these games and they are likely ones I’ll never play but I do agree Gen 1 has a lot of interesting stuff about it. Not to mention the glitch sub community which is crazy

[@benjaminleo7011]

Missing# actually had a name when the game first came out. Miss-in-go.... the no was silent lol

[@Cyc0de]

the CDs of TMs are inserted into a computer. It's shown in the Anime. It's basically Data & then transfered to the pokemon similar to how pokemons are healed in the pokemon center.