Yea, one of those weird things in gen 1 you can use the statues as fishing spots. Not sure what the actual catch table is as I have only done it with the old rod and you only get Magikap with it.
Yeah I think I remember that too. In gen 1 there’s the “mew glitch” which relies on taking very specific actions so the list of possible wild Pokémon data does not get properly set when transitioning to a new zone.
It’s plausible that it could affect fishing too, especially since many of those locations presumably don’t have encounter tables, as they’re not intended to have wild Pokémon in them.
There were tons of supposed ways to get mew that were total bull. It’s kind of fascinating how that info spread across the world’s playgrounds
Makes sense; IDK how the game logic works, but Magikarp is probably what the game defaults to if there’s no other Pokémon in the lookup table that indicate what can spawn in the particular area you’re in. Since statues are not meant to be fished in, it would make sense for that table to be empty/non-existent.
In gen 1 if you loaded an invalid Pokemon you’d get a glitch Pokemon made from garbage code the game reads from where it shouldn’t, or MISSINGNO. depending on its Pokedex number. Gen 1 is held together with chewing gum and prayers, and there’s very little in the way of error handling. Later games would handle this by defaulting to a giant black and white question mark called ??? that would usually crash the game if you battled with it and could normally only be found using a GameShark.
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Yea, one of those weird things in gen 1 you can use the statues as fishing spots. Not sure what the actual catch table is as I have only done it with the old rod and you only get Magikap with it.
Wasn’t that one of the old purported cheats for catching mew or something? It seemed like every bug / weird thing was a rumored way to catch mew.
Yeah I think I remember that too. In gen 1 there’s the “mew glitch” which relies on taking very specific actions so the list of possible wild Pokémon data does not get properly set when transitioning to a new zone.
It’s plausible that it could affect fishing too, especially since many of those locations presumably don’t have encounter tables, as they’re not intended to have wild Pokémon in them.
There were tons of supposed ways to get mew that were total bull. It’s kind of fascinating how that info spread across the world’s playgrounds
I never knew it to catch Mew, I just remember doing it as a kid for the lolz
Makes sense; IDK how the game logic works, but Magikarp is probably what the game defaults to if there’s no other Pokémon in the lookup table that indicate what can spawn in the particular area you’re in. Since statues are not meant to be fished in, it would make sense for that table to be empty/non-existent.The old rod can only catch magikarps. That why he only fished magikarps.
In gen 1 if you loaded an invalid Pokemon you’d get a glitch Pokemon made from garbage code the game reads from where it shouldn’t, or MISSINGNO. depending on its Pokedex number. Gen 1 is held together with chewing gum and prayers, and there’s very little in the way of error handling. Later games would handle this by defaulting to a giant black and white question mark called ??? that would usually crash the game if you battled with it and could normally only be found using a GameShark.