14 Obscure Secrets in Gen 1 Pokémon!

[SagaciousSilence]

I thought I knew literally everything about these games but this video completely blew my mind.

[akaczism]

My pikachu once spontaneously evolved after a battle on cycling road and nobody would believe me, insisting I must have used a thunderstone and not paid attention and I cannot describe the level of vindication I felt the first time I heard about the glitch causing stone evolution to occur without using a stone!

[ginger]

As a kid for a long time I had no idea the whole rocket hideout under the game corner. Thought the pokedoll was the only way to beat the last ghost and that it just really wanted a doll.

[Harlesa]

Don't think I didn't notice you casually walking through snorlax lol, but this is the first time I have thought about how messed up the intentional path to Celadon is in the Gen 1 games. Literally nothing but pokemon battles for hours until finally a damn town with a gym.

[rickytickybobbywobbin]

The best part about the safari zone spin glitch is if you do this in yellow, pikachu spins as well

[TrueNomadSkies]

Back as a children, I remember someone accidentally getting the evolution screen for their Pikachu right after a battle. It was mindblowing, but nobody could replicate it because we had no clue what we were doing haha.

[happiestaku]

You don't need Flash to light up Rock Tunnel in Pokémon Yellow, all you need is your partner Pikachu to know either Thunderbolt or Thunder and talk to him. As soon as you do he will light up the area for a few seconds while talking back, allowing you to see the path ahead.

If Pikachu only knows Thundershock however, this will not happen.

[Slickcactus]

That level 100 glitch before is Brock is dope because depending on how you do it will determine the Pokémon you get. I got Gengar when I did it.

[princexaine]

The 'MEW GLITCH' and the 'MISSINGNO GLITCH' are the most famous glitches in all of Pokemon. While everyone knows the Missingno glitch, the Mew glitch is slightly more obscure (slightly is the key word here).

These two glitches aside there is a third glitch called the 'DITTO GLITCH' which is basically just the Mew Glitch on steroids. How both glitches work is the same, but the methods are different. When you teleport away from a trainer, the game is locked in a state that says a trainer should be walking up to you. Your next fight MUST be a trainer battle. This is to force the game to register that a trainer has walked up to you. Now the important bit is whatever the special stat of the Pokemon you last fought is, will determine the wild encounter. Now we explore the difference between the mew and ditto glitch. The ditto glitch allows you to actively control the wild encounter by letting the ditto transform into one of your own Pokemon.

If you reach a point in the game where you have no trainers left, the glitch can still be performed. Simply go to a pokecenter after starting the glitch, interact with the PC (which is still possible), change boxes then restart. With all functions of your start menu and A button back, go to pewter city, talk to the guy who shows you to the museum (say no to his question and he will walk you to the museum). This lets the game know a "trainer" has walked up to you. Now just fight a wild pokemon (ditto glitch) and end the glitch for your encounter.

Mew glitch
start glitch
fight trainer
go back to route you started

Ditto glitch
start glitch
fight trainer
fight ditto as one of your Pokemon
go back to route you started

A list of Pokemon by index number can be found here (Special stat needed for encounter):

P.S. You can encounter Professor Oak after fighting a pokemon with a special stat of 226, who will actually fight you as a secret boss battle! Lots of fun!

[Decekko]

I totally didn't know about number 4, mindblowing. It's amazing how messy the code of these games were and yet how well it worked without incidents unless you purposedly triggered them. Truly a piece of gaming history

[robertreed]

My nidorino once evolved in rocket hideout, no one believed me. I even started a question about it on one of those online boards, people answered me like I was stupid. “Are you sure you didn’t accidentally use the moonstone after the battle?” How the hell can you accidentally use an item?! I’m so happy to know I was not crazy and it did happen

[TheGhostFart]

You can take the safari zone glitch another step further by timing it so you run out of steps as you jump off of a ledge, you can now walk through walls if done correctly

[bearson]

No lie, as a 10 year old kid, using the poke doll on the ghost I thought was a viable option working as intended. I never new until much later that it was an exploit.

[maldium]

I still learning some secret epic tricks from these wonderful games more than 25 years after their releases. How mind blowing is that.

[MoneyHoneyBunny]

It sucks knowing that because of the lack of memory, we lost out on having well over 151 pokemon, the prof oak fight, another island/city, and the dark/steel types. All that has been known for years, BUT, there's a few glitches here I didn't know of. I dont remember the spin trick LOL!

[WowOafus]

I like doing the Nidoking glitch to get Gengar instead and play it from level 1 instead of 100. When spinning off the ledge, he actually spun 3.5 times, which is 1260 degrees. The only thing in this video I didn’t know was that Brock is the only one to hand out the badge in battle. As many hundreds of times I’ve played, I never knew that.

[TheObsessiveGamer]

5:22 Heh love seeing my videos making an impact here. Amazing video

[cullbear]

You forgot the walk through wall glitch! Using the Safari Zone glitch, if you hop off a ledge (preferably around Viridian) right as the PA goes off, they take you back to the entrance of the Safari Zone mid-hop, and if you only had one remaining Pokémon poisoned in your party, you could let its HP run out in the overworld to escape the room without crashing the game, but keep the walk through wall effect! This allows you to do some fun things such as sneak into Cerulean Cave early and get some powerful Pokémon/rare items.

[spicytuna]

More than just getting Fissure right before the Elite Four, you also get TM07 Horn Drill in the Rocket Hideout and can be bought at the Celadon Department Store.

[LITTLE]

As a Gen 1 veteran, I knew some, but then there are some I do NOT. Nice video.