There is a critical bug Nintendo did not fix for the Zelda Game & Watch. Selling Links Awakening in 2021 with this is not a good look. - Tales pre-internet

[Irrational Exuberance]

Like all the retards who did Missingno despite all the warnings, dipshits have nobody to blame but themselves.

Please, think of the children.

 

[Mimic]

ENGAGE RIDLEY
MOTHER FUCKER

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Like all the retards who did Missingno despite all the warnings, dipshits have nobody to blame but themselves.

Missingno doesn't cause any harm to your save or the cartridge. Improving the Hall of Fame does not count as harm.

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

Missingno doesn't cause any harm to your save or the cartridge. Improving the Hall of Fame does not count as harm.

Whatever. Point stands.

Edit: MissingNo fucks up Pokemon Yellow if you encounter it, apparently. But not the save file itself.

 

[DDBCAE CBAADCBE]

Missingno doesn't cause any harm to your save or the cartridge. Improving the Hall of Fame does not count as harm.

It actually can in rare cases but you’re right that most of the time it is harmless.

 

[gaystoner]

I remember using Missingno as a real pokemon.

Ahhh the good ole days

 

[TV's Adam West]

You guys don’t even know what you’re talking about.

The possibilities of the Select Glitch are scary. And frankly I have seen very little documentation of it’s true potential.

Why are you talking about this glitch like it's the fucking Bughuul

 

[Pringles Can]

I remember using Missingno as a real pokemon.

Ahhh the good ole days

If you did not have missingno as a kid then you were a loser. He was the true 151st pokemon.

 

[Toolbox]

crying AND shitting, on TOP OF THAT, I AM CUMMING. We can not STAND for Nintendo ripping US GAMERS OFF like this!!!

 

[MooseGump]

I did the select glitch and link turned his head 45 degrees toward me and then said shhhhhhhfuck so my mother broke down the door screaming DID YOU SWEAR and I said no mother it was link

Then she threw a dodongo into the room and burned down the entire house all because of Link

 

[The Lawgiver]

I’ve went WAAAAAAY too far beyond the boundaries. If you just keep going right in the dungeon layouts, the game loads up diabolical dialogue. It’s like I’m unlocking a dormant game demon.

YOU KNOW NOT WHAT YOU HAVE UNLEASHED UPON THIS REALM. HE IS INSIDE YOUR HOUSE.

 

[James Roancrest]

I did the select glitch and link turned his head 45 degrees toward me and then said shhhhhhhfuck so my mother broke down the door screaming DID YOU SWEAR and I said no mother it was link

Then she threw a dodongo into the room and burned down the entire house all because of Link

Then mother said "No more bad Link for you."

 

[Peru oso donas]

Then mother said "No more bad Link for you."

Then who was phone?

 

[Sanshain]

Imagine buying a Nintendo game when you could've emulated them.

 

[Pissmaster]

It actually can in rare cases but you’re right that most of the time it is harmless.

I spent some time trying to figure out what the fuck exactly Missingno even is, and couldn't find anything for a long time, but eventually Retro Game Mechanics Explained put a video up, which is extremely technical and has 14 minutes of preamble to explain what the fuck's even going on. The tl;dw of it is: Missingno's graphic is derived from the game trying to decompress sprite data, but it pulls the supposed sprite data from program code that draws graphics intended for text boxes and dialog. But, other parameters it uses to decompress the graphic data is just as glitched as the rest, so the classic Missingno glitch image isn't even shown in full. Pokémon RBY uses 5x5, 6x6, and 7x7 tile sets to draw Pokémon from small to large, but Missingno is 13x13, which, in comparison to even the biggest ones being 7x7, Missingno is colossal. But since the game tries to write so much data, and it just doesn't have provisions to keep the ongoing attempt to draw Missingno's graphic from fucking up what's in RAM, it reaches all the way over to your Hall of Fame data. It gets corrupted because Missingno is, in reality, the size of a fucking planet.

 

[Boom Boss]

It actually can in rare cases but you’re right that most of the time it is harmless.

Missingno messed up my Pokemon's data and I had to start a new game.

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

Imagine buying a Nintendo game when you could've emulated them.

In many cases today, probably even in this case, you're buying it AND emulating it.

 

[Sanshain]

I spent some time trying to figure out what the fuck exactly Missingno even is, and couldn't find anything for a long time, but eventually Retro Game Mechanics Explained put a video up, which is extremely technical and has 14 minutes of preamble to explain what the fuck's even going on.

I've seen the issue defined in much simpler terms. Basically the early games were too ambitious for the hardware and therefore every single line of unnecessary code was cut in order to fit the minuscule cartridge space. This included all the checks and balances code normally has to abort functions with corrupt results.

On software made by sane and rational people, failsafes will abort an operation when the system 'realizes' that it has gone off the rails. This is a very good thing as otherwise all hell can break loose, with permanent and irreversible hardware-level damage being eminently possible.

Buuuut GameFreak had no time or space for that nonsense when making the original games, so when their functions hit unexpected results, there are no statements to tell the program to abort. So it will happily proceed to generate absolute nonsense, gibberish results as long as any part of the game can compile. It will only crash when it hits a hardware limit.

 

[Idiot Doom Spiral]

I swear to god, I have never read the opening page of any thread on any forum EVER, and laughed until the tears are streaming down my face.

The hilarious autism of the OP was matched perfectly by the ensuing responses. Only the ‘True ‘n’ Honest’ badge convinces me that this OP is legit.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

I remember using Missingno as a real pokemon.

Ahhh the good ole days

• Teach it fly
• give it a rare candy to evolve into Kangaskhan
• use it in Pokemon Stadium, Fighting types BTFO'd

Missingno is colossal.

Especially in the US version of the game

>3507 lbs
THICC BOI!!!