#glitch tricks

[the-barrel-man]

All the videos are played live on Twitch and by me! ErkTheJerk for keeping vintage gaming alive! Classic not Retro!

[antialiasis]

Look! Look! It's the site that had the Mew trick in 2002, the one I saw and rolled my eyes really hard at and dismissed as obviously fake! It's so obviously fake and even has a disgruntled commenter saying it's bogus. Ridiculous arbitrary instructions about how you must not have battled these particular random trainers (so conveniently you can't test it without restarting your save file), overly complex confusing instructions, supposedly the menu will just pop up out of nowhere and then if you press B a wild Mew appears. Urgent allcaps insistence that it DEFINITELY WORKS and if it didn't work you must have DONE IT WRONG. So, so fake except for the bit where it was actually real, I cannot.

I am delighted that this has been found. The link seems to have been quietly added by Damian001 to the Bulbapedia page for the glitch this October 31st and I'd heard nothing about it. God damn.

[combiner1p]

True Angel.

Happy Haloween 2024! @gooseworx

[sysig]

You're still standing off to the side. Somehow, center stage has shifted from under your feet without you realizing, and you're standing in the wings, performing to no one.

Starring Role (Patreon)

[astrrrx]

" can you hear me calling, please look out for me " /lyr

pallet i used for this was also legit picked from the lesbian flag in the bg LOL

[gingerbravecookie]

big fan of the horrors beyond comprehension

[m3tr0n0m333]

TRICK OR TREAT!!!

LIL TAILS ARTTT FOR YOU MY FRIEND ^_^

[sparkbreeze]

snack or treat !!!! :3

you're a little late, but there's still blue fruit left over!

[itzgmann]

Ranked Gang!

RANKED GANG!

RANKED! GANG!

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nearshore

[quinoa-adjacent]

I know it's a dead topic but the whole games as art thing really shows it'd teeth with bangers like Outer Wilds and In Stars and Time

Like yes they both tell a story you can tell through text or film

But to experience that? Personally?

To have to trudge the same halls and kill the same enemies and find the same items? The pay off at the end it's so much better than just Watching someone experience that and have the abridged maybe 3-5tops looping scenes with ~~slight differences~~ in either editing or acting

But to watch the sun explode every 20 minutes or to Feel the impatience of dialogue boxes grow within you as a person is significantly different

It's another layer of nuance that's executed PERFECTLY

[thetwstwildcard]

Happy Halloween!!

Oisín, as the TV monitor flicks on: [Will you pick trick? Or will you pick treat? The choice is yours. Choose wisely~ UwU]

'How strange... there is something about them that feels familiar but I can't place it..' "Oh, I apologize I was distracted" Leah apologized with a shy smile, pushing her thoughts to the side. "I'll go with... treat!" she gave a closed eye smile.

[pad-wubbo]

"Murdered, by all of you!"

Infinite Painter + GIFMEP.

Very erratic and glitchy full-body redraw of the man in red from Ghost Trick. Sort of like the Kristoph one I did a while back.

[antialiasis]

Speaking of R/B/Y-era rumours, @johtotimes just published a very fun issue going over some of the wild stuff that was getting spread around back then!

I'm particularly tickled by the Pikablu rumour screenshotted in the article:

It's similar to but not quite the same as the one that was on Mew's Hangout that I genuinely believed for a time (in that one, stated to be confirmed by Nintendo, you needed seventeen Pokémon at level 100, and I just never got there). It's very illustrative of the sort of thing that was going around, and the commonalities with the actual genuine Mew trick are uncanny:

There's a high barrier to entry: you probably can't just go try this right now. Maybe you've used a GameShark ever and then too bad, it's not going to work for you. Or you haven't completed your Pokédex. Or, while your team of six may be high-leveled, probably you don't have seventeen Pokémon that you've trained up. Similarly, for the Mew trick, you need to have not fought these two random trainers that you had no reason to avoid on your playthrough, and if you have - oops, too bad, you can't try it. So you can't prove it doesn't work, right?

You need to perform a secret arbitrary sequence of steps involving interacting with these particular random NPCs in very particular ways, ones that have no sensible connection to "Pikablu". They're just the key that unlocks it, for some reason. Similarly, the Mew trick, again, involves an encounter with Mew being unlocked by interacting in very particular ways with these two particular random trainers, for some reason.

You need to stand in this one very specific spot and then immediately use Fly to go to a specific place. In the Mew trick you also need to stand in a very specific spot, then move down and very quickly press Start to Fly to a specific place.

It describes some funky vaguely glitch-sounding behaviour, where you get this mystery item where trying to use it just acts like you selected Cancel, and when you talk to Oak it gives you recycled dialogue about a different item - juuust enough to sound kind of weird and spooky, but not like any kind of full-on memory corruption is happening. Similarly, the Mew trick involves little mildly weird spooky bits like that: an exclamation mark appearing above a trainer's head while you're flying away, your Start button not working for a bit, the Start menu popping up by itself. But there's no obvious apparent full-on corruption going on. All the visibly glitchy behaviour is subtle and temporary.

It was truly such a perfect coincidental storm of circumstances that happened to make it fall so neatly in line with all the rumours. In hindsight, there are of course also some noteworthy differences we can identify: most prominently, in the Pikablu rumour there's an NPC with supposed dialogue specific to this sequence, which would mean this would have to be an intentionally programmed easter egg with the prior random interactions as a very obtuse but presumably intentional trigger, whereas the Mew trick features no new NPC dialogue because it's simply a legitimate glitch that these NPC interactions happen to trigger. But not every rumour involved new dialogue, and legitimate glitches in games can also sometimes trigger unused dialogue; even with hindsight, nothing about the instructions themselves should have been a giveaway that the Mew trick was the genuine article in a sea of urban legends.

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[itsmeblogname]

Glitched out of a lava pool and into this place from the natlan trailer