Researching MissingNo Glitch in Pokemon

We are using an emulator to research what triggers MissingNo and come up with a hypothetical story how one could have found and analyzed this glitch.

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[CentiZen]

MissingNo. was a huge influence on me as a kid, pretty sure it's the main reason I became so interested in coding and hacking as a kid. It was a lot of peoples first exploit.

[imveryangryitsnotbutter]

4:48 - "Now, it doesn't seem too farfetched..."

[does not show an image of Farfetch'd]

"My disappointment is immeasurable... and my day is ruined."

[katze]

He showed us the missingno with a mew just to flex

[leonm]

Just wanted to note, in case someone wants to know, the youtuber 'Retro Game Mechanics Explained' has uploaded a video recently about why missingno looks the way it looks. I find these indepth analyses quite interesting.

[starkvolkan]

0:35 Is it Ben Eater's 8-bit Computer-on-a-Breadboard ?

[metleon]

I have a slightly different theory on how the Old Man Glitch was discovered. I think the weird Pokemon on the coast would have initially come from the Pokemon Mansion. I remember my first experience with that coast was running into random Fire-types in the water, since I came out of the Mansion and went right to the coast to catch Water Pokemon.

Then the Old Man could come in if people thought it had something to do with the Pokemon you encountered. Since he finds a wild Weedle, someone may have thought that that might trigger finding Weedles on the coast. Then they obviously got the really strange encounters.

[eliseosterbrink]

Your videos on first generation Pokemon glitches are amazing! I've been learning about all sorts of gen one glitches since I was 11-12 and already know quite a bit about how they work, but all of your videos always add to what I already know. On top of that, you always frame and present the information in a very engaging way! Thank you for your hard work and the effort you put in to creating narratives for us to follow! :)

[SaltedNeos]

Love how we know so much about missingno, we're now at a point where we're researching how we found the first glitch that found it.

[cmbaz]

I remember fighting that guy that did this on my gameboy because i thought he broke my game...
I miss the 90s...

[bobthebase]

This is an explanation I heard about on tiktok where as the old man is turned into your character, your actual character is stored in the memory. Turns out your actual character data is stored next to the code where wild pokemon spawns. The coast is the one place where your name data is not refreshed. So by going there after talking to the old man, you have a chance to encounter impossible pokemon and missingNo

[lostmyplaintext]

In Pokemon Emerald there are a lot of special event locations that you're not supposed to access even though they are programmed into the game. This series of videos motivated me to hack my way into some of those maps using the in game glitches which was a lot of fun :D

[fetterkeks]

I love your creative editing style, with the little drawings that it make more clear what you try to explain!

[dghouse]

From my exp. as i was just 4-6 years old, you describe the finding of that big very accurate how my sister, brother and me found it. We innocently thought that that was just a special coastline for Ponyta´s, and also we found Missing.No but our big sister prohibited us to catch it, because she thought it corrupted our last savefile.

[DerrickTay]

This youtuber did such an intensive and comprehensive research. I cant leave this video without clicking the thumbs up button.

[profanecreation]

I found it randomly when I was a kid. Started off with a level 170 something Mewtwo which was kinda scary as it is. Then bam, a level 0 "M". That glitchy amalgamation popping up with a Zapdos cry gave me fucking nightmares as a kid.

[easternmining]

Just wanted to congratulate you on the immersive amount of research you have done! I watch plenty of YouTube videos a day and I think it is safe to say this is one of the few videos I've ever liked. Keep up the good work and your comprehension on the scientific method and ability to research is amazing!

[dnns]

Thinking a bit more about the fact that there's a difference between land and water pokemon in memory sounds reasonable. That way you can handle pokemon in grass and pokemon in water in the same zone differently, what can be neccessary when you start fishing. 🤔

[marcoroth_]

Super nice video! I really enjoy the Pokémon videos ;)

[wChris_]

Retro Game Mechanics Explained has made a video why missingno looks like it does. Also he left some information out to what all is effected, but i hope you can find all the effects encountering missingno has!

[amirouchedz]

Excellent videos ! Keep going my friend 😇