Pokemon Red and Blue Glitches You Probably NEVER Heard Of!

Pokemon Red and Blue are filled with glitches, from the popular ones such as the Missingo and Glitch city glitches, all the way down to some more obscure glitches. Today we will be looking at some of the lesser known Pokemon Red and Blue glitches that you've never heard of! Let me know in the comments which were your favorite, or if you knew about these glitches before!
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[@PaPaSea]

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[@PaPaSea]

maltese 84 that would be funny

[@OmaeWaMoShindeiRYU]

when I was a kid I swear I got the trainer next to the seafoam island entrance to turn into professor oak, but i accidentally went into the cave before i could interact with him, do you know if this has happened to anyone else?

[@PaPaSea]

David Nunez that seems possible. I remember when I was a kid seeing something similar in fuschia city with a trainer changing sprites but I have no idea how it happened

[@OmaeWaMoShindeiRYU]

@@PaPaSea I've always wanted to recreate that and see if you can battle him, seeing that the game has data for his team.

[@monarcmonarc8881]

@@PaPaSea ur way of narrating...it's comfusing...y didnt u put like subtitle, a bit of captions etc...

[@katze2176]

The spinning character made the video better 😂😂

[@OrlovKruskayev]

Indeed

[@Sakuya727]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@MineKat]

Ikr xD

[@NottJoeyOfficial]

Absolutely

[@TheSkullkid16]

Does it end if you make a new game? Be hilarious if it didnt.

[@Ospyro3em]

Imagine being cursed to spin in circles for the rest of your life!

[@aminadabbrulle8252]

It's almost like TPP.

[@219ms]

johnny its time for lesson 6

[@watcb]

@@219ms How do you function??

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

"I live in Spain... Without... The A."

[@JabezFuutonSpecialis]

Sounds fun 😂

[@SuperGoker64]

"All you have to do is Surf normally in the water of the Gym like everywhere else" *proceeds to spin through the water*

[@miguelzamora2011]

I laughed so hard at the spining 360 bike jumps, and then again when you kept using the spinning character

[@cutest_pets]

Congrats on 69 likes lol

[@JamesPlaysGames95]

as a kid i always thought the messed up noises from the low HP was just to empathise that the tired pokemon couldn't handle the stress

[@starrrleafy]

SAME I always felt bad ;-;

[@flash4354]

E M P A T H Y

[@kirin1230]

@Tweak Turnup Speak for yourself

[@paradoxzee6834]

Also it is not a glitch just hardware limitation. The gameboy is limited how much sound it can make so when you have the low health beep it was made to skip some sounds.

[@dashiedks]

exactly -- the NES did this too. it's due to how many separate audio channels the hardware can produce at any one time -- i believe the NES was limited to five, but i'm not 100% sure about it.

[@TayoEXE]

The fun thing about being a kid in the late 90s and early 2000s was the fact that none of these glitches were easily verifiable via KZbin. I remember seeing some describe the man on Blaine's gym glitch and then I tried it myself to verify. This went on with many many glitches that were fake and a few that were real until 9 year old me finally found the real Mew Trick and tested it together with my best friend. Even 16 years later, I still don't forget how fun it was to discover new glitches.

[@spongefan155]

A 9 Old Found The Mew Glitch *applause*

[@thewtfverse9763]

The mew glitch is unforgettable.

[@NottJoeyOfficial]

I learned the Mew trick when I was like 12 or 13 online, and I thought it was fake so I tried it, then I got a Mew

[@thewtfverse9763]

@@NottJoeyOfficial same, after a while I even figured out how to use the glitch to finish the rest of the pokedex

[@banodeacido666]

Hell yeah bro lol. I remember going nuts when I found out how to duplicate. Rare candies for days 😂 gathering up in the lunch room trading,discovering glitches, battling man those were good times

[@cxsss]

The Red Bar glitch isn't used for attack sounds, it's instead used for cries and level up jingles! Speed runs play with animations turned off but it also skips sounds that that *doesn't* skip :)

[@greenknight9000]

Title: *Pokemon Red and Blue Glitches You've NEVER Heard Of!* Me, who has read hundreds of pages and watched countless videos of Pokémon Gen 1 Glitches for over a decade: *_I am four Parallel Universes ahead of you!_*

[@eriks8382]

Dork

[@aurafox1]

​@@eriks8382 In order to explain why greenknight9000 is not a dork, we'll first have to discuss parallel universes. Okay, so Red's position is a floating point number. But it's converted to a short when the game uses it to test for collision with ground tiles. In short, Red's position can basically be any decimal number, but it's converted to an integer between 32,767 and -32,768 inclusive. So, any fractional numbers are truncated and any numbers too big or too small are moved into this range using a modular operator. In other words, Red's position is limited to a box within those constraints. But if Red leaves that box, then his actual position and the position used for ground detection will separate since the position used for ground detection will remain in that original box. So now I ask you this: If Red is standing outside of this box, but the position being used to test for collision is in the box and on a valid tile, can Red stand over there? The answer is yes. As far as the game sees it, Red is in fact on a ground tile because there is a ground tile where the numbers are pointing to. So for all intents and purposes, there is essentially land over there. A copy of the original map. And this is what we call a parallel universe. Or a PU. And this applies to every one of these boxes, so there's actually a grid of infinite PU's. Now, PU's aren't as glamorous as you might think. The graphics are only found on the original map, so the PU's are completely invisible. Furthermore, PU's have no sprites like NPC's or Pokemon, no trainers, no items like potions or pokeballs, and not even any walls. So really, it's pretty barren. Furthermore, the Gameboy console will actually crash if you go to a PU and let the camera follow you. But luckily, we can avoid that crash by fixing the camera in place on the original map before leaving it. Though that does make it even harder to tell what's going on in the PU's. So, you can travel to a PU if you have enough speed, but it's not as simple as you might think. If you have just enough speed to reach the PU over, it won't actually work. That's because the game checks for a ground tile at each quarter-step of his movement. In other words, the simplest PU movement has to be at least four PU's away. That way, each quarter-step is on a ground-tile and therefore valid. For simplicity, we call this Quadrupal-PU distance one "QPU". Now, at this point I've been glossing over a very important detail which I now need to clear up. What if I told you that the distance Red moves isn't necessarily equal to his speed? The distance Red travels is only a portion of his actual speed and this portion depends on the type of tile. The higher the friction, the less Red will move. Note that it only depends on the friction. Not whether Red is on a walking, surfing, biking, or even spinning. The distance Red actually moves will be called his "DeFacto Speed." Red could have the same speed but different DeFacto Speed if he's standing on tiles with different frictions. So, when we want to move one QPU, it's not sufficient just to have 1 QPU speed. We need 1 QPU DeFacto Speed, which often means our actual speed will need to be greater than 1 QPU to compensate. So, to reiterate, we need to increase our speed so that our DeFacto Speed synchs up to 1 QPU. The speed needed to do this is called the "Synching Speed". So, when we build up enough speed to match the Synching Speed, the quarter steps of the DeFacto Speed will synch up with PU's, and we can move. Now, if we want to travel 2 QPU, we will need to double this Synching Speed. In other general, any multiple of the lowest Synching Speed is in itself a Synching Speed and we can move multiple QPU at once. So remember, every tile has a different set of Synching Speeds. Because of all of this, we can conclude that greenknight9000 is no dork. Him being four Parallel Universes ahead of you means that he has dedicated a very substantial amount of time to his Pokemon Red and Blue glitching career.

[@ReshiLuna]

@@aurafox1 dayuuuuuuum, that must have taken forever to write! :3 (and, holy crap, are you a quantum physicist?)

[@thebigbros9794]

Aura Fox dork

[@aurafox1]

@@thebigbros9794 D:

[@joshuaweiner1]

The glitch where you keep not picking a starter Pokemon until the game freaks out was acknowledged in Pokemon Go. If you keep walking away from the 3 starter Pokemon options in Go, Pikachu will eventually become an option to start with.

[@mono717]

I actually knew the one with the NPC manipulation! I used to do something similar all the time on my blue cartridge. In pallet town, you can manipulate one of either of the walking npcs into the grass that normally oak stops you at, and they will stand there. If you walk into the grass tile next to them, oak will approach to bring you to his lab... but will approach the npc instead. When he leads you, you will be offset one tile to the left or right depending on where the npc was. Your reward for spending 15+ minutes of your time shoving a npc around? You get stuck on an outside wall of the pokemon lab, unable to move or enter the door. Thats a softlock! Whoops!

[@bobby1774]

ik

[@PiterLauchy]

That's actually a category in speedrunning, Softlock%.

[@renatatostada3318]

i swear i was laughing my ass off while your character casually spun into cerulean's gym

[@OtterSeaborne8901]

Redbar's pretty easy to understand how it happened. Normally, the game waits until the current sound effect ends to read the next input. But the redbar sound lasts forever, so if they left that instruction in, the game would hang. So they disabled the "wait for sound effect" flag while that sound plays, which means you can skip over normally mandatory sound cues. Also, the time save isn't mostly in moves with sound effects, since you can skip battle animations in Settings. It's primarily about cries when pokemon enter battle, which can take several seconds per pokemon but can be skipped entirely by mashing A during redbar.

[@ninjacell2999]

Also when Pokémon leave battle by fainting

[@L._Vireo]

In order to stop the character from spinning, you might wanna try going on to the spinning tiles again and after you stop on a stop tile it should set the player sprite sheet back to normal.

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

Exactly what I was thinking. The flag for spinning doesn't get turned off so it keeps going. Just need to turn the flag back to normal.

[@CommanderWiggins]

You can actually do the NPC manipulation on the girl in Pallet Town, and eventually get her to walk into the grass. If you then walk into the grass next to her, the Professor Oak cutscene triggers. But the girl will block you from following Oak properly, so you get stuck in the wall of Oak's Lab, soflocked. It's a joke speedrun category for Gen 1, "Softlock the Game"

[@poopyoldhag9020]

You forgot my favorite one: The one where your stats get an extra albeit temporary stat boost of +12.5% depending on the badges you have whenever your pokémon's stats get modified during the battle. The boost wears off when the stats are changed again or the battle ends. This information is very useful for speed runs!

[@B3Band]

"Pokemon Glitches You've Never Heard Of" an intellectual: "Hey, you forgot this glitch I've heard of!"

[@demoleramera]

What I really like about the Gen I games are that they remind me of all these rumours for different games you would hear at the playground back in the day, like "if you stand on this spot for exactly x amount of time, and press this button combination, you will unlock hidden features in the game" for example. Except that in Red and Blue, a lot of those rumor-like instructions actually WORKS

[@SeleDreams]

you might fix your spinning state by walking again on spinning tiles

[@SEFSQklOR0VS]

Never thought I'd find a VOCATuber here but aaaaaa I love you

[@elitegamer2272]

NPCS: I wonder what that trainers listening to? Trainer: Around the world, Around the world, Around the world, Around the 🌎

[@LucasRazorBlade]

I don't know why, but the constantly spinning character is making me somewhat happy.

[@TrainerDLYellow]

I don't think the sound glitch you mentioned is a glitch. The Game Boy only has 4 channels for sound. The sound indicating low HP has to take up one of those channels in order to get around this limitation, hence parts of the music stopping when HP is low.

[@Echidneys]

Correctamundo

[@TrainerDLYellow]

@@Echidneys And they said watching KZbin all day wasn't beneficial

[@winnipeginstinct]

its an "exploit" or else speedrunners wouldnt be allowed to use it

[@reason9262]

@@winnipeginstinct speedrunners use glitches all the time

[@TrainerDLYellow]

@@winnipeginstinct I'm not sure I understand your point. To clarify my point, glitches are an unintended consequence of programming, like MissingNo. The Game Boy having four channels is a design feature. The low HP sound can be exploited for sure, but it is an intended feature functioning as it should. It's all a little semantically, but I hope that clarifies.

[@Sencilia]

I can explain the hidden PC in the hotel! Red is using a laptop, and that spot is a hot spot for wifi.

[@ОлексійКупранець]

the title: you have never heard of these! the ZZAZZ glitch: are you kidding me? i know every red and blue glitch to ever exist!

[@thecollectorsinged113]

Item manipulation(red & green): yeah right

[@ОлексійКупранець]

@@thecollectorsinged113 dude you cant read or smthn

[@thecollectorsinged113]

@@ОлексійКупранець welp looks like you don't get it, foget about it

[@ОлексійКупранець]

@@thecollectorsinged113 jeez frickin idiot i said red and blue and you said red and green how dumb are you

[@petenite]

The way sounds work in Pokémon RBY is this, you have 4 oscillators, basically 4 instruments. 3 that can play analog sounds and one is auxiliary that can play white noise (typically for drums). When your Pokémon reaches low hp and you have the beeping, the reason why the music cuts out is because the game only has four instruments, so one instrument has to go to so it can play the beeping sound. This also happens in Mario, same concept. Next time you play the original Mario brothers, notice what happens to the music whenever you interact with a coin, the sound card has to compromise the music for the fx of the coin being collected. I hope this was helpful 😅

[@dizzydial8081]

Another youtuber covers this sort of thing. He talked about pokemon cries, too. A lot of the pokemon in original games shared the same cry. Only difference was the speed they played and the pitch.

[@OrigenalDarkMew]

Only one I didn't know was the spinning glitch. Damn I feel old now

[@danielbotman5341]

Usually, Rage only raises a pokemon's Attack after receiving direct damage from an opposing attack. The exception is Disable, a move that triggers Rage to raise Attack without dealing damage. Even if Disable fails, Attack is raised. I have not found any online footage that displays this glitch, so I guess the glitch is pretty obscure.

[@Blood-PawWerewolf]

3:51 SPEEEEEEN!!

[@cvf4ever]

ˢᵖᵉᵉⁿ

[@Quario]

SpEeEeN

[@spongefan155]

That's Not My Meme

[@prismus6520]

SPEEEEeeeeeeEEEEEEEeeeeeeEEEEeeeeeEEEEEeeee--

[@Str8Edge_]

The Pokémon Yellow glitch where we can complete the whole game is *AWESOME*!!

[@thewitheredsoul8897]

The completing the game isn't the glitch. The glitch is getting out of bounds in the menu to access glitched items. Calling it the glitch where we can complete the whole game is more pointing to the result of the item manipulation in glitch menu. The menu is the glitch because completing the game isn't the only result. In fact, by trashing specific amounts of items like you do you are setting up warps in the game to take you to different places. Just saying

[@Deebofreebo]

“Surf like you normally would” *violently spins*

[@FoxGalahHasMovedToNewAccounts]

You spin me right round round like a record baby right round round round

[@teadrinkerfication9160]

I think that’s the first time I’ve seen Onix’s gen 1 backsprite 🤯

[@halstinton3451]

The spinning glitch is so awesome 😂 I can't believe I'm still learning new things about this game to this day, I played it when it first came out! That's incredible 👏

[@kyled00m]

I'm guessing Misty's gym started as a water area and was reduced to include the statues. The state's tiles weren't checked after adding the statues and then those statues were copy-pasted on every other gym. The Celadon hotel was probably the same-a copy-pasted version of the Pokecenter. They deleted the PC but forgot to delete the script.

[@dudono1744]

There are useful unknown glitches such as arbitrary code execution

[@TheBlueWizzrobe]

I already knew about all of these _except_ for the spin tile glitch with the safari zone. That's a really fun one, and I'm certainly glad to be able to add that to my repertoire of gen 1 glitches! As for the stone evolution glitch, if I recall correctly that glitch works with each of those specific Pokemon because the species index values of those Pokemon are the same as the item index values of the corresponding stones in the game's code.

[@cvf4ever]

Great video! When I was a kid, I used to do the perpetual spinning glitch but instead of letting the Safari Zone alert happen while I was spinning, I would let it happen while I was in the middle of a ledge jump. Turns out that doing this glitches your game to make you keep "flying" while a very glitchy shadow (for me it was some numbers and signs that kept changing to other sprites). So it's like an alternative to the Perpetual Spinning glitch. I wonder if there are another places available to find out where to let the Safari Zone time run out to discover new glitches xD

[@thelegendkillersshittyduff1335]

How did you even know this as a kid when i played this as a kid i didnt know how to get flash lol

[@thelegendkillersshittyduff1335]

So not gonna get a answer i ask you a question

[@cvf4ever]

@@thelegendkillersshittyduff1335 sorry imma cat person lmao

[@aaronjames3228]

@@cvf4ever dang you just gonna not answer

[@mitchellslaughter2963]

iirc if you do the trainer-escape glitch after the safari zone glitch, and manage to reach the glitch encounter before your timer runs out, you can use Safari Balls against the glitch-encounter mon as if you encounterd it in the safari zone

[@bellbottomblues777]

i genuinely had to pause the video and walk away and come back because i couldn’t stop laughing at the fact your character just kept spinning- i cannot explain why that’s so funny

[@DanielLeonis]

Awesome video! My favorite was the spinning glitch. The idea of Red doing bike tricks off a ledge is hilarious.

[@StateBlaze1989]

To this day one of the coolest glitches I remember from red and blue is the starter evolution glitch. Basically you nicknamed your final evo starter a specific name (for example, Rainer for blastoise and charcoal for charizard) and leveled them up. After which, they would start to evolve. I can't remember the entire process since it's been like 25 years, but that one still sticks out to me and I never seem to see anyone mention it in these glitch videos.

[@thesye1014]

That kinda sounds like the eevee trick on pokemon go or a nod to it

[@StateBlaze1989]

@@thesye1014 The eevee thing in Go is more coincidence.

[@astrouphel]

Nice to see some other glitches get some light besides the usual Mew glitch, glitch city, Missingno glitch, etc.

[@chibbysadventures5555]

I feel so bad I watched this just to see how many of them I didn’t know (I hyperfixated on Pokémon glitches for a long time) but I stayed for the enjoyable video and spinning character lol

[@PaPaSea]

I thought people would be annoyed by the character spinning for no reason in a few clips but people loved it

[@rumiyano]

I like this video, by now I would have seen so many glitches for the game already. However, I still love seeing these videos to prove me wrong of my knowledge!

[@fatcerberus]

I’ve known about the invisible PC for a long time, it was one of the better-known “minor” glitches back in the day; I remember first reading about it on one of those old Pokémon fan sites (Pojo I think?). I didn’t know about any of the other ones here, though! Nice to see a video like this where the title actually isn’t clickbait for once!

[@thewitheredsoul8897]

The invisible PC is not a glitch. The map is a copy and pasted Pokémon center and they simply forgot to remove the tile where you can interact with a PC in a Pokémon center

[@tetrisgoat]

The visual glitch from Cycling Road was actually new to me. I knew the others, but I didn't expect to see a new one. Cool!

[@ProfesorTeto2]

Lmao, i love this permaspinner glitch

[@SwiftCreationStudio]

"Surf like you normally would" *proceeds to spin while surfing* "Okay sort of like you normally would" I'm honestly surprised certain events like walking through doors, surfing, getting on the bike or on the ledge didn't stop the spinning.

[@PaPaSea]

I was more surprised that resetting the game didn't even fix it

[@ninjaguyYT]

Programmer here. I bet they have a flag called "rotate = True" (but in assembly) and it gets set to False when you touch a stopping point. Since you can't save while being forced to move, there's no point in resetting that flag when turning the game off. Or at least they thought

[@SwiftCreationStudio]

@@ninjaguyYT I did some programming myself but forget 90% because I preferred the visual end. But yeah that sounds about right.

[@Exrier]

When you use a stone outside of battle, it stores the item used on the same place in memory that the species of the active Pokemon would be stored in during battle. It then runs the same "try to evolve Pokemon" subroutine that the game is runs on each Pokemon that leveled at the end of battle. And so after battle, it will try to check to see if you've used a stone, but the ID of the last active Pokémon will come up instead of an actual item used. Also, not any missingno will work as a stand in for a fire stone, it must be one with the correct index number.

[@fatcerberus]

I don’t think the low HP sound overriding other sounds is a glitch - just an inherent limitation of the Game Boy’s sound hardware. The GB couldn’t play more than one sound effect at once; I guess they figured the warning sound should take priority.

[@PaPaSea]

yeah it’s not really a glitch, quite a few people already commented that already

[@vasudoesstuff]

@@PaPaSea You gave a heart to every other comment😂😂

[@PaPaSea]

Vasu Mathur yeah I give a heart to comments I don’t have a reply to but sometimes KZbin glitches and removes the heart

[@RobotnikPlays]

5:23 - Those are trees, not boulders. The white section on the underside of the sprite is a trunk, the rest of the 'boulder' shapes are leaves. Kinda changes the outlook of the original Pokemon games being set in some extremely rocky region, but makes a lot more sense thematically. Later games that visit the region (GSC, FR/LG) make it more obvious they are trees.

[@drake7754]

Yup! You can tell they're trees in Pokémon Yellow as well as on Red/Blue if you're using the Super Gameboy or SGB2 (there are also videos on KZbin showcasing this)

[@MarcoFD]

i remember the cool thing about the missingno glitch was that it depended on the players name which set of high level pokemon would appear on the coastline at cinnabar. if you named ur player default Red for example on pokemon red, mewtwo would appear. the glitch i wish i knew back then was the one where udd actually could get mew through a series of steps above cerulian city.

[@MidwestArtMan]

For the second one, it looks like your rival is wondering where everyone went.

[@samhayes-astrion]

No one: Nobody in the entire world: Not a single trainer in the history of the franchise: Red: BUT FIRST WE MUST DANCE!

[@Empr4evr]

It irritates me when people say "MissingNo glitch" when, in Red and Blue, there are 2 separate, unrelated glitches that can have you encountering a MissingNo. I'm guessing the creator is referencing "Old Man Glitch", however, you can also get a MissingNo from the "Mew Glitch", aka the "Trainer-Fly glitch". In fact, the "Mew Glitch" method is the only way to encounter a MissingNo in Pokemon Yellow.

[@PaPaSea]

When I say Missingno glitch it can mean any of those related glitches since they all invoke it and are commonly known glitches

[@leftysheppey]

There are a few other ways to encounter it too, not just these 2. Theres a shore you can surf down (forgotten which town, apologies), and you encounter glitchy shit like prof oak battle and missingno. Theres ACE, which is arguably a glitch too

[@Empr4evr]

@@leftysheppey The town you are thinking of is Cinnibar Island, and that's the Old Man Glitch that you're describing. Exactly what weird shit appears as you Surf up and down Cinnibar's eastern boundary (or the Seaform island's eastern boundary, but you have Surf through more bs to get there, where you would Fly to Cinnibar) is determined by what you named your character, whether it's upper-case or lower case letters, or symbols. Each has their own value that equates to what Pokemon shows up. Exactly what appears is on Bulbapedia's website (this response is long enough already). Perhaps the other glitch you're also thinking of is the set-up where you have a ditto transform into a copy of a pokemon with a certain Special stat; that, however, is a variant of the Trainer-Fly/Mew Glitch. You still have to Fly or Teleport away from a long-range trainer, then find a different Trainer you haven't fought yet, in order regain the use of your controls (because after you've activated the long-range trainer and flown away, all buttons, except for the D-pad, freeze/don't work).

[@wfow1448]

One relatively obscure fact about the Gen I glitches concerns two of the more well known glitches. Did you know you can combine the Mew and the Lv. 100 Overflow Glitch? If you do it right, you can have a Lv. 100 Mew before Misty, since Cerulean is the earliest point in which you can catch an Abra. It's extremely hard to pull off, because EVERYTHING needs to go right, but it's fun.

[@PaPaSea]

I heard about that glitch before and a similar one with getting a level 100 Pokemon in viridian forest

[@joelmavity1467]

The fishing/surfing statue and invisible PC I knew about. But my favorite one is catching Pokémon outside of the Safari zone on Seafoam Island.

[@Moucheron1990]

That was actually a 1080 off that ledge.

[@reddragoon2423]

Fun fact, if yo manipulate npc movement in pallet town, and get one on route 1 just right, then activate prof oak, the npc blocks the route you take and some funny pathing can happen

[@drake7754]

I remember doing this back in the day on Yellow. What a blast from the past!

[@Terashi]

I heard about the ghost PC back when Red and Blue were new. Also, I didn't know about the stone evolution glitch, but that does explain why my Pikacho tried to evolve in Lavender Tower that one time. It was on the brick Gameboy so I coudln't see what it was trying to evolve into that clearly, and because of the location I thought it might have been a ghost thing (Pikachu may or may not have fainted during that fight) so I canceled the evolution out of childish fear. (Well, adolescent fear, but you know what I mean.)

[@salinaember9527]

nice glitches! these games are what got me into glitches and creepypastas and stuff. lots to uncover and very strange discoveries exist :p

[@justsomejojo]

I knew about the PC in Celadon and the fishing statue. Everything else, though, was new to me. The funny thing is that the evolution stone glitch explains how a friend of mine years ago (must have been a decade by now) was adamant about his Staryu evolving by level up. I thought he was just misremembering all this time.

[@Treavex]

360 bike jump is the best glitch in the game, I love it. 😂

[@RariYork]

You spin me right round baby right round like a record baby right round round!

[@hineraable]

No one: *Red for half of the video* You spin me right round, baby, right round like a record baby, right round round round.

[@dexterdextrow7248]

Not sure why KZbin recommended a obscure little video covering pokemon glitches,but I'm happy it did. Your video was actually rather pleasant, maybe not as "comical" and "funny" as some other, but as a result it's also not annoying and screamy, so I much prefer this.

[@PaPaSea]

Thanks, I just don't like forcing excitement or talking to viewers like I'm hosting a show on Nick Jr

[@B3Band]

OMG even the surf was spinning...this is hilarious!

[@coheedbeast2113]

Who would ever try and fish in front of the gym statues? 7 year old me in 1999! This video reminded me that I figured out you could fish in the statues as a kid. My 7 year old brain rationalized it as water somehow being underneath the statues and the little square placque thing being a window to fish inside the statue!

[@simpleasliam657]

That spinning character Sprite is amazing Haha! I knew the floating bike owner and the visual effects on the bike path, I heard a rumour when I was younger about the fishing the statues too but I never tried it or believed it

[@brickz79]

Cancel spinning by going back to the gym where you triggered the glitch. Go back on a pad and its stops.

[@aurafox1]

To stop the perpetual spinning, did you ever try going back into Viridian Gym and stepping on the spinning tile again? It's possible that hitting one of the stop tiles would restore your original non-spinning status. Also, I could be remembering things wrong, but I seem to recall that bullying an NPC into a doorway can be used for some glitch related to Cinnabar Gym. If I had to guess, perhaps it's possible to get into the gym early by stepping onto the tile where you're normally turned away from the door, but talking to an NPC on the same frame, canceling the automatic movement and allowing you to step into the door.

[@PaPaSea]

I haven't tried going back on a spinning tile. As for the NPC bullying there probably are a few glitches that can be done with it, I just don't know of any others

[@zaccwalker3098]

Gah, the spinning is HILARIOUS.

[@sofiabent9129]

I tried the mew glitch, I got mew and then kept doing the same thing only with different trainers and each time a different pokemon showed up on the bridge. One of the battles I lost but a pokemon still appeared on the bridge anyway and I didn't expect that. Scyther, rhyhorn, nidoran, nidoqueen, lapras and gengar all showed up on the bridge one at a time depending on which trainer I battled. The gengar was a total surprise and made me happy.

[@ookamiko9500]

Fun fact, the safari zone glitch can be used in another way. Instead of going on the movement pads, run the timer down until you have 1 on the timer. If you were to jump over a fence as the timer hits zero, you will be in a perpetual jumping state. It can be used to bypass walls and scenery like the GameShark.

[@micahqgecko]

The spinning one is weird, I only knew that you can walk through walls using the safari zone PA

[@dervertica]

There are also 'Invisible PCs' in some Safari Zone houses assuming you can go out of bounds though.

[@auraplayz2582]

Your character must've been so dizzy lol

[@jeiku5041]

I knew of all of these. I'm not sure whether to be happy or disappointed in myself.

[@PaPaSea]

Jeiku Furame nothing wrong with being interested in lesser known glitches. I used to read up on them and watch videos about glitches all the time a few years ago

[@MissAshley42]

Spinning Surf > Spinning Bike Fish go "Weeee!"

[@bottinator22]

1:53 Usually opening your menu will reveal some glitched tiles (which are also responsible for you being unable to move and the disappearing NPCs). Close your menu again and the glitch is fixed, no need to reload. 2:21 The low HP alarm making things go faster isn't because it interferes with other sounds, it's because the game actually just doesn't wait for sounds to finish when it's playing. (The code for waiting for a sound to finish explicitly checks if the low HP alarm is playing, and returns early if that's the case. This is likely due to how the sound engine works, and if it were not present, it's likely that the game would softlock upon attempting to wait for any sound to finish.) 4:01 It is pretty funny, but have you tried stepping on another one of these tiles? With many bugs like these in not just this game, where you manage to interrupt something and have weird effects everywhere else, doing the interrupted action again can often fix the issues. 5:27 The weirdness of the boulders and water is a bit of a weird one, I've never seen someone mention that before. It's most likely just the border tiles of the maps you're going through, most likely the upper area has the boulders/bush tiles as a border while the lower area has water as its border tile. The game doesn't update the visuals of these tiles live, it just updates tiles as you move. You can also just open your Start menu to see what's *actually* there. These border tiles are out of bounds. Stepping on them, even with walk through walls, will crash the game, as the game has you walk through a map connection to an invalid map that happens to crash the game. 6:27 I've had an NPC in Pallet Town do this completely on its own once, just in the player house's door.

[@ShockInazuma]

Fun Fact about that second glitch, sometimes if you do it, the sprites with get all glitchy. I believe it only happens if you check your menu every time you go down, though. For the classic statue glitch, an important thing to note is it only works on the bottom tile for some reason, as the top tile remains unaffected.

[@ivorymaster9716]

Welp, thanks to ur spinny little guy, I’m now gonna subscribe. Had me laughing so hard 😂😂😂

[@TheAlan136]

The constant spinning is super funny.

[@Sicklarry310]

The 360 spin on the bike, had me dying lol

[@Michael-jo9jz]

You spin me right round when we goin down when we goin down down lol

[@LITTLE1994]

Being a veteran of those games for over 20 years, known some myself and done some things with a Gameshark, some of them are indeed interesting.

[@The9gods]

Since I'm not seeing anyone talk about anything other than the spinning (which is totally the best and if you could move at full speed I'd set it up every single time I play Pokemon), but from my understanding of the spaghetti code the reason the Stone Evolution works is because the game is super limited in its memory and so they have to use memory banks (totally normal and used in every single game) but because of the also limited RAM they had to double up on basically everything. So when in combat the indexes used to check for Pokemon overlap in the same RAM locations as the items in the overworld. This is why is has to be specific Pokemon, and the "failsafe" is basically "Pokemon leveled up? Yes. Are the requirements for evolution fulfilled? *Looks at Onyx* Correct Index *Looks at name* Water Stone? Yup. Evolution is-a go." This is a terrible summery but it is good enough to give you the idea. If anyone is interested in a far better explanation that goes into way more depth than I ever could than check out Retro Game Mechanics Explained. I don't remember if he talks about this explicitly but even if he doesn't you really should check him out.

[@Teifling]

Back when I was 11 playing these games, I noticed the water/rocks thing. Probably because I grew up playing old NES/SNES games that were notorious for have bizarre rendering issues, I didn't think much of it after noticing it. The Man on the roof was another one I caught on back in the day. The PC I heard about much later in life. There rest here are news to me :D

[@PaPaSea]

I remember my sister showing me the man on the cinnabar gym roof glitch and it was one of the first glitches I've ever seen. I was so confused

[@Richtofen-gy9cj]

@@PaPaSea could've mentioned the more destructive glitches as well

[@AniGaAG]

Wanna know my favorite glitch? Here goes, I swear this is actually a thing: 1) New Game. 2) Pick specific names for yourself and the rival. 3) Go downstairs and save, but shut the game off at a specific point while it's saving. 4) Restart, Continue, and switch around Glitch Pokémon you now have in a specific way. 5) Swap glitch items you now have around in a specific way. 6) Walk out the front door. -> Congrats, you are now in the Hall of Fame with a possible timer of 0:00. xD

[@Kevin-gg2bl]

A lesser known glitch video that actually covers lesser known glitches? I actually didn't know a few of these!

[@misamisaa4547]

Video title: Pokemon Red and Blue Glitches You Probably NEVER Heard Of! Me: I take this as a challenge

[@misamisaa4547]

Ok I'll be fair - I had no idea about the spinning glitch and I had to pause the video multiple times from laughing at the character still spinning xD Hell I'm still giggling as I'm writing this

[@j.ackermann9110]

With that many glitches I'm surprised the game even runs and was such a success...

[@LordDonkey67]

7:50 Now we need to find a way that the bird spin-flies us =D

[@Sean.Vosler]

Fun fact the second glitch happens bc of the pathing of the assistant in oaks lab... something to do with too many sprites iirc

[@tuoli3072]

You can cancel the spinning by going on the arrow tile that spins you in the first place

[@WinVisten]

the glitch at Cycling Road where the boulder and water mix like that i called Coastal Flooding. XD

[@undercoverweeb]

the reason why pokemon evolve with a switch trade is because the items and pokemon share some common data between their values. without being super technical, by using onix (which shares the same memory value) it tricks the game when leveling up to think you used a water stone, and causes it to evolve like a typical pokemon would.

[@sebastiang.s.1844]

What!!!!!!?????? Bro, this is crazy. I can't believe more than 20 years later there are still glitches I haven't seen...!

[@PaPaSea]

Most of these are rather minor, but I thought the stone evolution one was really cool

[@sebastiang.s.1844]

@@PaPaSea actually shooketh 🤣

[@uncomfortablecat]

Just looking at the spinning character made me laugh few times.

[@MAZZ0Murder]

lol wow, that no-stone evolving glitch is pretty neat! Never knew about the spinning glitch either... Trapping NPCs on a door was always entertaining, surfing/fishing on the statues were entertaining,. You can surf into the out of bounds areas in Lances room and make your way back to Agitha... not that it does much, but it's amusing! I can't remember if you can bypass Lance altogether or not though... I knew of the invisible PC as well.

[@CaliGrown916]

I'm dying with the spinning lol

[@UnusualPete]

The invisible PC is actually well known. As for the rest, I only knew the Cycling Road block glitch and the "fish in statues" (I didn't know you could surf on them).