Oct 04 2024, 11:55 PM

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autisming tf out 2 myself over pokemon again lol cuz istg NO1 WILL LET ME TALK ABT GLITCH POKEMON W THEM!!!!!!!!

anyways ive been thinkin abt missingno so heres a mini infodump abt the crittr

missingno is a placeholder pokemon. their name is literally 'missing number' referring to the missing number in the internal storage of the pokemon from where pokemon were removed/scrapped to make room for other parts of the game/code. there are actually supposed to be 255 internal places for pokemon, however the pokedex only stores 151. most of these unused data slots are taken up by missingno.

missingnos internal number is 000, and its the pokedex value that gives the pokemon their appearance actually, it shows the games sprite decompression code where to look to find it, the reason missingno looks so weird is that the pointer of 000 doesnt actually point to any real sprite code, so instead random parts of code are translated as sprite data instead :P. the irregular shape of the sprite is from the sprite decompression not being able to calculate the size of the bounding boxes used for the sprite (as those values are made of garbage code and therefore tend to be unreadable by the program).

a lot of people have this misconception from/about missingno that glitch pokemon can all fuck up save files and ruin game data, and while yes SOME can do some damage thats definitely not the case for missingno. the only glitches missingno can produce are the item overflow and visual glitches, the most notable being the hall of fame.

the only reason missingno affects the hall of fame data is because it is a FAT FUCK. no im not kidding. its garbage data points to a sprite that is so big it bounds out of the boxes used for sprite decompression over into the next sector of the data, which just so happens to be the hall of fame data area lol.

even as a regular pokemon, missingno fails to be anything interesting to use. its horrifically fragile, with terrible special and defence to protect it from attacks, however it has an extremely high attack stat making it a literal glass cannon. the convenient part of missingno is that its normal type, meaning it gets access to some stab boosts, immunities and strengths over other types rather than other glitch pokemon that tend to be glitch types.... loosing but also gaining nothing..... and missingno can learn pretty much every tm and hm in the game meaning that if you set up missingno just right in a battle you can use it to sweep entire teams, unfortunately due to how fragile it is it would be insanely difficult to pull off correctly.

a final (??????) fun fact ig is that if you fail to register a marrowak (one appears in the lavender tower and i dont think you can register one before then) in the pokedex, otherwise missingno will just constantly try and evolve into kangaskhan which is p funny. missingno also likes to take the forms of other abandonded sprites left in the games depending on what u names urself.

so yeah, missingnos a placeholder for removed pokemon, a pretty mediocre glitch pokemon, and a really shit pokemon...... but i still love it. ot may be a horrific piece of garbage code never meant to exist but its MY horrific piece of garbage code that was never meant to exist thank you very much.

autism rant over now methinks...... yawn...