PsychedelicJellyfish
formerly R. New
I remember, in the first Pokémon handbook, it was claimed that Bill had hidden the "EV files" somewhere in Celadon Mansion. I wasted an awful lot of time looking for them. I mean, what the hell? Seriously.
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The worst and the best old pokemon 1st gen rumors
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I remember the Mew one about the truck XD. I don't remember any other ones though.
I forgot about that one. I exploited it a lot
. And I loved getting the over lv. 100 Pokémon too. Also, I loved to use it to help get the Safari Pokémon easier...
That there were actually Kangaskhan, Chansey and Scyther in the Safari Zone in Red version. I went there some 35 times without seeing a glimpse of them. My friend kept telling me, "Why, sure, they're there". At least Scyther really being there occured to me when I finally sacrificed my 5500 coins to one at Celadon game corner prize exchange and looked for area from the Dex... As for Kangaskhan, I don't remember if I even caught one at the first playthrough, or did Giovanni have one so that its area could be seen from the Pokédex and then roam Safari Zone endlessly to a) find and b) capture one... hmm... Chanseys can be seen elsewhere in the game, too, at least in the Cerulean Cave, but to this day I have seen a Chansey in Safari Zone TWO times...
Finding Dratini, though, was no problem. But somehow catching one was. D: Still is, every time.
For some real rumours, yes, the truck was the worst. It was so clear Mew was at Vermillion, because the place seemed a one-time opportunity to visit. My friend and I gave up our 150 chace and started new saves to get a Surf before Vermillion docks - and then there was no Mew after all! >: ( I don't think we ever had Strength to push the truck, but it's impossible as well. Also we didn't know we could visit the docks after the departure of S.S. Anne via a save game glitch.
Beating the Elite Four 30 times? More like 100 times? I remember hearing some insane number like that once... We never used internet at that time so we didn't really know which rumours were true and which weren't.
Finding Dratini, though, was no problem. But somehow catching one was. D: Still is, every time.
For some real rumours, yes, the truck was the worst. It was so clear Mew was at Vermillion, because the place seemed a one-time opportunity to visit. My friend and I gave up our 150 chace and started new saves to get a Surf before Vermillion docks - and then there was no Mew after all! >: ( I don't think we ever had Strength to push the truck, but it's impossible as well. Also we didn't know we could visit the docks after the departure of S.S. Anne via a save game glitch.
Beating the Elite Four 30 times? More like 100 times? I remember hearing some insane number like that once... We never used internet at that time so we didn't really know which rumours were true and which weren't.
it was definitely the mew truck at the S.S anne the truck was there it kept the rumors alive and annoying especially when people would add onto them and say fly here then here then here and use strength they fly here talk to this trainer ect ect. It got worse in yellow since the S.S anne re appeared after 200 hours if i remember correctly not sure if it did that in R/B though
other than that i would say missingo glitch, catching mew glitch in red blue, and in yellow the glitch cities.
pikablu, poke gods bill ******** garden the list goes on and on.
I was surprised at the catching mew glitch being real that was great news for us all.
other than that i would say missingo glitch, catching mew glitch in red blue, and in yellow the glitch cities.
pikablu, poke gods bill ******** garden the list goes on and on.
I was surprised at the catching mew glitch being real that was great news for us all.
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mattman324
aka Shiny_Feraligatr
...there are.
Also, best rumor ever was the Mew Glitch. Sereously, read the (now archived) topic where the finder disscused his findings. Almost everyone said it was fake, at least until Jolt135 (One of the greatest people on the internet even now) said it was true.
I remember everyone talking about "Pikablu", and, I knew it was fake, it just sounds fake. They were so adamant that that was it's name. MissnigNo glitch was popular, though I never tried it. I also heard that if you surf around the S.S ANNE area, you could find a MEW. Bill's Garden. Never heard of the MEW truck. Safari Zone was tough. I always remember trying to go to places in the game that seemed inaccessible. That was part of the fun, I think, hearing the rumors and debating if they're true or what.
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Also, this is new information to me, but someone said that when Pocket Monsters came to the states, they just split Japan's Blue version and made US's Red and Blue from it. Idk if it's true, but it's interesting.
During summer, a friend of my said that Japan had a "Black Version", but it was secret or unreleased or prototype or something. Sounded foolish to me.
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Also, this is new information to me, but someone said that when Pocket Monsters came to the states, they just split Japan's Blue version and made US's Red and Blue from it. Idk if it's true, but it's interesting.
During summer, a friend of my said that Japan had a "Black Version", but it was secret or unreleased or prototype or something. Sounded foolish to me.
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Also in Red and Blue The Glitch City while exiting the Safari Zone so that the game still thinks you're in and counts your steps. That turned out to be true, though. That place is annoying, though; you never know where your will stuck.
Someone should map it up. Try every possible directions in every possible screen and see what's the longest possible route there or something...
If the area is even the same every time you go there, I'm not sure...Meg Is Hoenn's Champ
Meg Is Hoenn's Champ
Sounds pretty similiar sounding to the GBA Pokemon fakes that are all over Ebay.
Skia Lucrecia
Johto Trainer
I remember when I was growing up there was supposedly a Pink version where you get Mew as a starter and A Purple Version where you got Mewtwo as a starter. Then there was also the thing where Mew could be caught in the unreachable grass areas near pallet town.
The Mewtwo Master
Banned
Rumor has it, depending on your person's name, depended on the Missingos you'd meet at Cinnabar
OriginalPokeMasta
Original 151 Caught
I remember some rumor that involved all this crazy stuff and if you did it then you go to a certain place and get 3 really high-level pokemon. One was Mew, and I cant remember the other two. Bunch of bs
My lv154 Kinler.... battled any pokemon and it'd level up! to lv100....
One I heard was that you played for 100 hours, went to the SS.Anne and Mew was on the deck.... I played for 64 hours and reset ._.
Also, the truck one....
Oh, there was one I discovered myself, cant remember how tho ._.
I was in Victory Road, I went up a ladder (Moltres's room) and the start menu came up, I pressed B and lo and behold, a wild Draonite ._. so I threw an Ultra Ball and it missed, it then ran away.... Ouch
One I heard was that you played for 100 hours, went to the SS.Anne and Mew was on the deck.... I played for 64 hours and reset ._.
Also, the truck one....
Oh, there was one I discovered myself, cant remember how tho ._.
I was in Victory Road, I went up a ladder (Moltres's room) and the start menu came up, I pressed B and lo and behold, a wild Draonite ._. so I threw an Ultra Ball and it missed, it then ran away.... Ouch
NimhShambler
Some Broke Machine
I recall someone saying if you beat the Elite Four EXACTLY 360 times, and talked to Prof. Oak three times in a row, he'd give you a ticket that gave you passage to the...dun dun dun...Orange Islands. I never tried it, because, even then, I knew Games=/= Animé
Also, if you surfed with a Dragonite outside of the power plant, and rammed toward the 'wall' near it as fast as you could go (done by pressing down as hard as you can on the D pad) without encountering any pokémon, you'd crash through the wall to a secret area with Mew in it, just sitting there, waiting for you.
Also, if you beat The Elite Four 287 times, used Strength on the S.S. Anne Truck for THREE HOURS, and then went home, talked to your mother, went up stairs, and fell asleep, Pikablu would appear on your table down stairs, with your mother running away from it.
~Nemmeh ;107;
Also, if you surfed with a Dragonite outside of the power plant, and rammed toward the 'wall' near it as fast as you could go (done by pressing down as hard as you can on the D pad) without encountering any pokémon, you'd crash through the wall to a secret area with Mew in it, just sitting there, waiting for you.
Also, if you beat The Elite Four 287 times, used Strength on the S.S. Anne Truck for THREE HOURS, and then went home, talked to your mother, went up stairs, and fell asleep, Pikablu would appear on your table down stairs, with your mother running away from it.
~Nemmeh ;107;
Lol, we were all so incredibly gullible & naive back then .
The rumors I got were:
- Bill apparently has a garden in the back of his house, and if you can somehow get access to it you can catch Pikablu in the garden.
- That you can catch Pikablu, Togepi, & all of the other early Johto pokemon that we saw in the 1st movie short in that huge grassy area to the left of Pallet Town. Looking back on it now technically that rumor wasn't that far off seeing as that area to the left of Pallet Town is the area where the Johto region would be located in the next games.
- That if you somehow were able to access a room beyond the Hall of Fame one at the end of the Indigo Pleateau that you'd end up in PokeHeaven & be able to catch the (non-existing) PokeGods. This one had to be the most far out out of all of the rumors I heard at the time, but then again there is a small sense of hilarious irony to it seeing as many years later a PokeGod, Arceus, would be created.
- Togepi was the 152 pokemon. Technically this one was probably the most believable out of all the rumors that I heard as a child because (prior to the revealing of the new Johto starters) we had evidence from the anime of Togepi's existence, and by extent his existence alone had proved that there were more pokemon beyond the original 151 pokemon that we were lead to believe only existed.
- Pikachu had an evolved form beyond Raichu called Pikabird, and he was accessible in Bill's garden.
- If you use strength to move the truck near the St.Anne ship that you can find a Mew there.
- That Missingno was actually Togepi! Ever since I first saw Togepi in the anime I've wanted to catch him for 2 reasons: 1. He was an EXTREMELY valuable & rare pokemon at the time not being a part of the 151 set, and 2. He was an EXTREMELY cute pokemon. These two reasons were the ONLY reasons why I had kept Missingno on my team.
- That because Pikablu, Togepi, & all of the other early Johto pokemon revealed to us were rare pokemon that weren't in the pokedex at all that once we found them they'd all be on level 100, and we'd need a Master Ball just to even catch them. I can see why this rumor was also believable back in the day because as you progressed in the game the levels of the wild pokemon that you had encountered DID get higher.
.The rumors I got were:
- Bill apparently has a garden in the back of his house, and if you can somehow get access to it you can catch Pikablu in the garden.
- That you can catch Pikablu, Togepi, & all of the other early Johto pokemon that we saw in the 1st movie short in that huge grassy area to the left of Pallet Town. Looking back on it now technically that rumor wasn't that far off seeing as that area to the left of Pallet Town is the area where the Johto region would be located in the next games.
- That if you somehow were able to access a room beyond the Hall of Fame one at the end of the Indigo Pleateau that you'd end up in PokeHeaven & be able to catch the (non-existing) PokeGods. This one had to be the most far out out of all of the rumors I heard at the time, but then again there is a small sense of hilarious irony to it seeing as many years later a PokeGod, Arceus, would be created
.- Togepi was the 152 pokemon. Technically this one was probably the most believable out of all the rumors that I heard as a child because (prior to the revealing of the new Johto starters) we had evidence from the anime of Togepi's existence, and by extent his existence alone had proved that there were more pokemon beyond the original 151 pokemon that we were lead to believe only existed.
- Pikachu had an evolved form beyond Raichu called Pikabird, and he was accessible in Bill's garden.
- If you use strength to move the truck near the St.Anne ship that you can find a Mew there.
- That Missingno was actually Togepi! Ever since I first saw Togepi in the anime I've wanted to catch him for 2 reasons: 1. He was an EXTREMELY valuable & rare pokemon at the time not being a part of the 151 set, and 2. He was an EXTREMELY cute pokemon
. These two reasons were the ONLY reasons why I had kept Missingno on my team.- That because Pikablu, Togepi, & all of the other early Johto pokemon revealed to us were rare pokemon that weren't in the pokedex at all that once we found them they'd all be on level 100, and we'd need a Master Ball just to even catch them. I can see why this rumor was also believable back in the day because as you progressed in the game the levels of the wild pokemon that you had encountered DID get higher.
Kutie Pie
"It is my destiny."
My brothers and I believed Togepi was a Legendary when it first appeared.
The PokéGods rumor is not familiar to me, but Pikablu is ringing a bell. What was it again?
I actually once believed this one kid that Mewtwo and Mew were aliens (and I heard "Nyu" and "Newtwo" the first time, so that's what I called them for a while) and that you could catch them on the way to Indigo Plateau.
...I was seven at the time. How was I supposed to know -_-?
But yeah, the truck rumor is the more common one I know, even though it was for a Togepi egg instead.
The PokéGods rumor is not familiar to me, but Pikablu is ringing a bell. What was it again?
I actually once believed this one kid that Mewtwo and Mew were aliens (and I heard "Nyu" and "Newtwo" the first time, so that's what I called them for a while) and that you could catch them on the way to Indigo Plateau.
...I was seven at the time. How was I supposed to know -_-?
But yeah, the truck rumor is the more common one I know, even though it was for a Togepi egg instead.
BuizelPidgeot
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when i first got the game red to gameboy i belived you could evolve all pokemon with moon stone becouse it was so special.
LegendariixMeganium
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if i remember correctly...i thought somebody told me something about catching missingNo and having to battle Prof. Oak? o.o it was creepy whatever they told me..i thought they said he was a ghost or something and tried to take all of your pokemon.. who knows though.
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