Hey! Why did you tell everyone how to find me?

Fun fact: That type of missingno found in this video has the highest base attack stat of all pokemon in red and blue at 136.

4:44 here we see one of missingno's most powerful abilities... The ability to completely corrupt enemies and kill them.

As a kid, I were super scared to swim alongside the jetty at our local lake because I was so scared of encountering Missingno lol

What makes missingno encounter scary is that long gap between the encounter and the start of the battle compared to normal encounter. It gives that ominous feeling that something bad is about to happen. Personally, I think the wild encounter music also adds into the creepy factor of encountering missingno.

4:42 missing no used water gun! A tiny drop of water has destroyed into pieces rattata!

So many people are wrong about missingno. He was not an unfinished Pokémon, not yoshi, not an Easter egg, but an error that has to do with how 8bit games work and the extra spaces in the pokedex (264 total) and there are only 151, so the other numbers, are "missing numbers" (missingno.)

This has got to be THE most CLEAN version of getting Missingno I've ever seen.

You just had to start out in Lavender Town didn't you!

4:46 Y'know, Its kinda scary how missingno used its attack and the Rattata's sprite started to break, Its like if anything that Missingno touches just...corrupts itself, and i honestly really like as a concept.

In the start i was like: "OH SHIT, NOT LAVENDER TOWN!" XD

I once tried to beat the E4 with Missingno. Upped his defense with Irons, and taught him better Physical moves than Sky Attack. He basically became an Ultra Beast to me.

For those who wonders what really happens: The game saves your name . This name has its own place in the game memory and stays there. The only time it is moved is when you have the old man catch a Pokémon for you. That's because it's the old man's name that appears in the battle screens, not yours. Internally, the memory then stores the name "Old Man" in the place where your player name was stored until then. So currently, when you go to the island, the trainer name is still in the field that tells you which Pokémon to hit. Normally, this information would be overwritten as soon as you enter a route with tall grass. Then the field is used to store the corresponding Pokémon. Before we get all the information together so far, it takes one last foray into the technology of the code for an explanation of what exactly MissingNo is in the first place. MissingNo stands for Missing Number. The fact that it exists is because all 151 Pokémon are recorded in a memory location. However, these memory locations - always powers of 2 - can have lots of space, so 1, 2, 4, 16, 128, 256 locations, and so on. The smallest unit to store 151 Pokémon has 256 spaces and therefore 105 too many. Now, an error or something like that can cause these unused spaces to be accessed - which is exactly what we're trying to do with the glitch. So that the code can give an answer here, there is MissingNo. It is simply a placeholder for the emergency. Exactly this emergency occurs on Vermilion Island. However, not always and immediately. As mentioned before, the info for new sections is overwritten as soon as you enter a new route. That happens here too, but we're on a water route. Water, as you know, doesn't have tall grass, so there's no wild Pokémon info stored for tall grass. So there is still the name of the trainer there. This name now comes together with an error in the code: The coastal section at Vermilion Island is defined as tall grass, not water. Therefore, the game accesses the last data stored in memory to find out which Pokémon should appear here. In our case: the trainer name. The letters of this name determine which Pokémon at which level you will now encounter. With certain combinations, this leads to MissingNo appearing because a number is being searched for that does not exist in the memory. More specifically, the familiar l-shaped MissingNo will appear if the third, fifth, or seventh position of the trainer's name contains either one of the letters G, H, J, M, S, T, :, ], a, b, c, m, o, p, or v, or the end mark. The latter is placed in the field after the name to indicate its end. Other letters in said places lead to other Pokémon, so MissingNo. need not appear. And whoever's trainer name doesn't fall into these defaults is out of luck, unfortunately. And why does this maximize the item count? The game stores two bits for each Pokémon, one for "Seen" and one for "Captured". If they are set to 0, it means no, 1 means yes, so you have seen or caught it. Since MissingNo is an unintentional exception, the bits for it are stored in other places. Namely at the place where the number of the item is stored at the sixth place in the bag. If you see MissingNo, a 1 is set here at the sixth place of the binary represented number. Therefore this is increased by 128. This also explains why the 99x for the specific item doesn't look right, because the game is actually trying to represent a number that can't be represented with two digits. And that's the whole secret of MissingNo, where exactly it comes from and why you can hit it at all.

Absolute legend hearting comments 10 years later. I remember when I was younger, I watched a video by The JWittz about missingno. I also watched his videos on pokemon myths like Blue's dead Raticate, Lavendar town, white hand, buried alive, etc. That shit terrified me and I couldn't sleep the night I watched that vid lol.

4:40 I DON'T THINK THAT'S A WATER GUN

It would be cool if they actually implement Missingno as an actual pokemon, and have him appear in this form. He would be a pokemon that's literally a sentient fragment of broken reality, who was sealed away by Arceus for trying to destroy reality as we know it.

back then when u had to know someone who knew the glitch instead of going on the internet

Totally destroyed that rattata!

Around 7 years ago, 8 year old me became super into Pokemon and wanted to learn so much that I remember going down a rabbit hole of pokemon creepy pastas with Lavender town to Gary's dead pokemon but what made me stay up the most at night was missingno. Showing that it was a real thing. I was really scared and honestly. It feels funny going back and remembering that feeling.

Still active after 10 years. Legend.

The fact that her account is still active after 13 years is amazing

4:43 BAH GAWD HE KILLED 'IM

"The max level for a Pokemon is 100" Missingno: Allow me to introduce my level.

When I was a kid, my brother and I thought that capturing missingno would corrupt the save data from the gameboy. Missingno was some kind of a supernatural thing to us, pretty much a millennial urban legend lol.

LoL Missingno got downgrade from lvl 143 to 100 ;)

I didn't say I played legit. I said I OBTAINED Missingno. through a legit form. Besides, I don't have Porygon, so I don't have ALL the 151 Pokémon in this game.

What I love about Missingo. is the fact that it functions as a regular pokemon, just a bit more dangerous to reality.

Fun Fact: Not sure if anyone already knew this, but if you visit the safari zone prior doing the steps in this video, a lot of rare Safari Zone Pokémon will spawn more regularly in the same coast as Missingno. They also spawn in the same level as they normally would in the Safari Zone. This is a very easy way to encounter and catch Scyther, Chansey, Tauros and Kangaskhan. And you can use regular pokeballs too.

Every time I have encountered Missingno., it's cry was similar, if not exactly like the cry of Zapdos.

We learned about this at 10 years old... No Google searches or whatever. Just kids talking and spreading the word. I'm 32 now.... I'm up to 4 badges on blue version again! Yeah buddy!!!!

Happy 10 year video

Raichu looks so damn cute in this game... (*.*)

It's 11PM and you were at Lavender Town at the start. Thanks. xD

MissingNo starts off at lvl 146 then goes to lvl 100 XD good job game freak

I didn't do anything, this is how the game looks when you play it on a GameBoy Color or on a GameBoy Advance.

0:01 I love the song-

Fun fact: for those who didn't notice, the type that the missingno is, is the Bird type, this type is a prototype of the flying type

As weird as it sounds, I hope Missingno becomes a real Pokemon one day, or at least heavily inspires one

I love how most of the comments are about lavender town

You just had to start the video in Lavender Town

“Oh God… *IT’S A BIBLICALLY ACCURATE ANGEL!!* “

Hes probably like “All right ima just completely destroy my game thank you very much”

Fun fact: you can teach MissingNo fly and bird type attacks on Gameboy, but once uploaded to Pokémon Stadium he appears as a Kangaskhan that can utilize bird type attacks. 😂

Just for reference, the glitch that causes missingno has to do with the way the game references random pokemon in areas of the game. Every area has data linked to it that contains the pokemon that appear. If it cannot find that data, then it will use the data from the last area that you encountered a pokemon. This is where the old man comes in. In order to set his name to old man, the game hasto temporarily store your player name. It stores it in the place that holds the last area,causing glitch

Welcome to KFAD2, you infamous glitch! Good luck on winning the crown

Imagine being a kid in the 90s and seeing this

10 years later wow! It’s hard to believe 2010 was 10 years ago 😭. Great video! I wanted to show this to my brother because I talked to him about pokemon glitches

Ah yes, the famous *B I R D T Y P E* pokémon

I saved afterwards and I was fine. Just don't catch or even battle it. All I did was trigger the actual battle to get tons of master balls and rare candies and then ran away.

I remember doing this back in the days lol, me and my friends were scared that our gameboys would break xD. To this very day, I still got my green gameboy, and my pokemon red casset..

I used to do this glitch in gen one, I have no idea how I discovered it because it was way before KZfaq tutorials on the net. Was the best for item duplicates. Good vid blast from the past. I’m deep into arceus now very different times

I remember when I was in 3rd grade and someone brought their mom’s old gameboy with this exact Pokémon game, and they actually let me play! I was walking on the shore because I wanted to see if the character could swim? After a bit of walking I actually encountered missingno and we all were like “WHAT THE WHAT IS THAT” and we were all so freaked out that the kid put it in their backpack and never brought it back out for the rest of the day

I was hoping the game would crash...

This is a certifyed hood classic.

I must say huge Thank. With this video I caught new two 132 level I will subscribe for you!

Pokédex entry #000 Missingno: The Glitch Pokémon Type: Normal/Bird You may encounter this Pokémon by surfing along the east coast of Cinnabar Island. Not much is known about Missingno, but theories point to it being a glitch in the code of reality.

Amo los vibes que da el video con el hecho de estar ambientado a un juego antiguo

That one Japanese kid after listening to the first second of this video:

@AnDrEwRaSmUsSeN4 According to Nintendo, "Missingno. is a programming quirk, and not a real part of the game."

This video is 12 years old this channel is a legend

There is absolutely no problem in catching the missingnos. Whenever your sprites are glitchy, use Missigno to fight against a wild Ditto. When your MissingNo has no visible attacks when you watched its stats earlier (which can happen), you should not try to see them in fight. So if that's the case, swap to MissingNo (or use item when it's your first Pokemon) in order to make Ditto transform into Missingno. Then just swap to another Pokemon and beat Ditto (not this easy if you haven't level enough, cause Ditto can use the hidden attacks - if they are hidden for you). After that fight all sprites (except hall of fame) are set to normal again. Until you resee the stats of MissingNo. I think the hall of fame stats should be reset when you beat it again. Hint: Also you can make 3 of the 4 attacks visible by giving MissingNo a TM. It will forget the first attack without even asking :(

I remember using this glitch all the time to duplicate my master ball and rare candy

I can't imagine how many kids would've flipped their lids upon finding MissingNo (or its cousin 'M). I always found it kinda interesting how the game stores your name in its code then conjures eldritch horrors on the coast of Cinnabar Island.

Old But Gold

The uploader is still alive after 11 years lol

I miss these days

I find it funny everyone somehow knew about this glitch without there being really a way for people to find out easily and tell others online

Man this takes me way back ❤❤❤ the songs. The green and black screen

Without getting too technical the missingno glitch is dependant on the hex values of your name thats why one person gets a lv 255 tauros and another gets a lv 2 pidgey, also if you picked one one of the preset names it also changes the result.

Fun fact: raichuu still hearts comments even after 11 years

I think there is a lot of potential to turn MissingNo into an actual, real pokemon. The surrounding lore is already there, Nintendo just needs to put the pieces together.

There better not be that one kid that's like EXCUSE ME, BUT MISSINGNO IS FROM FRIDAY NIGHT FUNKIN

I always wanted MissingNo to actually appear as an actual Pokémon in a game. Like, a minor Pokémon that only appears once as an easter egg.

4:42 More like... MISSINGO used DISTORTION!

Raichu is my favorite pokemon so I subscribed. Also your missing porygon.

“First you need to weaken the target pokemon.” Doesn’t weaken the target Pokémon Me:”Thanks old man.”

And now he spits bars Damn can’t wait for people to be saying that missingno is from fnf

I like this Missingno cry. A shortened version of Nidoran♂️'s cry.

I remember my buddy booted up his copy of blue and showed me how catching it and saving the game permanently ruined his game; not only was his save file erased, but when starting a new game, the music started playing, and right after Professor Oak's sprite would finish loading, Ghastly's cry could be heard, then the music stopped playing, and all you see is an angry looking Professor Oak staring back at you, nothing else. It was haunting enough that I still think about it from time to time 23 years later.

Raichuu26 will never be gone :)

I don't remember Missingo having that sound. I remember it's cry being like a glitchy sounding Zapdos

Scared me as a kid !! I remember playing it and I screamed when it appeared and turned my game boy off and hid it and wouldn’t touch it for like a week no joke ! 😂😂😂

The fact that it is a bird type makes me imagine a Pokémon trainer bird watching and seeing that soar across the sky

I actually had a job to repair someone's PC a week ago, and they had a ten year old son that was playing Pokemon Blue and knew everything about catching Missingno and bypassing the Bike Road without a bike! Never thought newer generations would still be interested in this thing. (Lol, and here is 29 year old me commenting on something I used to do when I was 10 myself) Just why in the heck do we love to hack the crap out of this gameboy game?

Heh, I love how Missingno here sounds like a male Nidoran!

Npc on the right: * walks really jolly * **lavender town starts playing** Guy: * stops *

I used to watch these missingno videos before when I was a kid which later on wanting to play red and blue

I wish this game had an end game side quest that was triggered by "Missing No" being transferred to Professor Oak's Computer. Once receiving this incongruent abomination of pixels, Prof Oak begins having an existential crisis that turns into a full on mental breakdown and detachment from his reality as he realizes he only exists as data in a game.

4:50 to before lv 146 after lv 100 .......WTF

The amount of people that don't know the story behind the MissingNo is astonishing...I've played pokemon since the beginning, missingno was the "trick" used to max out pokemon and rare candy / master balls. This was around '97/98. MissingNo was a pokemon that was pulled from the game late in the production. They didn't remove all the code from the game due to the short time, just some major aspects. That's why you can duplicate items, the code of the game is buggy. Theoretically speaking, you can face MissingNo, defeat him and duplicate all the items you want, there shouldn't be any issues. The probability of a corrupted save is minimal, like 0,0115%. But if you catch MissingNo, i won't say it's a 50/50 chance of getting corrupted but it's pretty close. You can catch it but release it immediately!! And even then, the probability of corruption is high. As for experience, when i duped items, 1/50 or 1/100 games got corrupted and i'm not 100% sure it was because of the trick. When i caught missingno,5 or 6 out of 10 got corrupted and a couple more got corrupted as i advanced in the story line. All that said, the original pokemon MissingNo was the Kangaskhan cub that eventually evolved to a Kangaskhan. Try giving MissingNo a couple of rare candy. Either missingno or 'M will evolve to Kangaskhan. This is very very VERY old information, how do kids today don't know this?

I don't know why but this makes me feel Nostalgic. Even though this was out before my time and never played it.

5:37 What an interesting looking zubat

Don't look at its dex entry. It will brake the sprites Edit: to fix the sprites breaking just keep resting to your last save after you have missingno.

O cara desmontou o Ratata ksksks literalmente

That Rattata didn't have a chance. RIP 🪦

they should honestly make missingno a secret official pokémon, i was never a fan, but my heart always considered missingno as an official pokémon

Wait what if you use it in pokemon Stadium ? ._.

2:25 *Then MissingNo. Came* *Me: wtf*

i never Pokemon Red version, bu i know about Missingno and i was thinking that he will corrupt the whole gameplay. Also, good to know that you're active after so much time being on YT, i would forget my old account on it and just create a new one after years, lol

With this cheat you could catch and raise Pokémon to level 255. I remember kids at school would want to battle and once they saw a team of Mew, Mewtwo, Gyrados, Charizard, Zapdos and Venasaur at level 255 they ran lol. Such nostalgia.