Crystal - ????? and too many dupes.

[SloshedMail]

This was ripped by Yuzi's GP21 Forums, but I wasn't sure if this was already posted somewhere.
If this isn't enough, I'll provide more meaning.


I played my Pokemon Crystal and used the Duplication Glitch, but before that I moved my Pokemon (Moving it without mail selection), so I can get my Poliwhirl's there to dupe. After getting about 37 Rare Candies, I put them back and leveled my Larvitar.

But when I did the RC to Pokemon dupe...

(That meant that I had to save, then level the Pokemon up and deposit it. Dupe that and you'll still have your RC's and your leveled Pokemon.)

...Larvitar was a Pupitar when I did this; I found out that instead of my nickname of Larvi, it changed to Whirl. I checked her stats and saw Poliwhirl's attacks instead of my Pupitar. It was not temporary although.

Now that I have my Tyranitar, now she will have these attacks:

Whirl (Tyranitar)
Level 100
Attacks: Surf, Ice Punch, Crunch, Earthquake

This also happened to my Mew, but her attacks wasn't changed.

Mhirl (Mew)
Level 100
Attacks: Thunderbolt, Psychic, Explosion ( Red ), Metronome


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I also found out about duping with incorrect timing.


Steps on how this worked:

1 - Duplication. But try doing that with two Pokemon holding items that could evolve traded Pokemon.

How it happened to me:


Scyth and Jarrygo (That was my Scyther and Porygon) was deposited for duplication. But instead of the same old, I found that they were ?????'s filling 64% of the GBA window. Of course this wasn't temporary, but from looking at it (Pressing Withdraw) locked-up or restarted the game.

I took a couple of my own steps of trying to see this without locking/freezing the game.

1 - Changed the box.
2 - Selected move Pokemon without mail.
3 - ???

Some of the time, I have to press A up to 4 - 8 times to keep going down. But it didn't show my Jarrygo (Not looking at stats), instead there was a level 236 Kingdra.

To fix the game, try doing a battle or making a Pokemon learn a TM that you can get from shops. All the ?????'s in there will be "???????????????*insert attack / item here*". That way, I wouldn't have to keep restarting Crystal and get my Pokemon safely.

I traded one of the virus'd Pokemon to Blue, but the nickname and OT was all blank. Attacks was the same and I was safe doing this. But trading back affected the glitch once again.

[Newo]

That be a bad clone that be.
We use them in the Bad Clone trick (Celebi trick) which allows you to get any Pokemon.

[SloshedMail]

Oh, really?

Thanks for the notice. I never saw this glitch before, so I'mma probably learn it.

If they see this message, you can lock this topic.
I gotta keep track of everything.