PhoenixTears wrote:I don't know first hand because I never even thought about catching a Missingno. But I've heard from plenty of people that it basically froze their game and then erased some, if not all, of the data on the cartridge.
Akonyl wrote:iirc, there's different variations of missingno, at least differing in how much they mess up your game, or something. I'm pretty sure I caught one back in the day, and at the very least it didn't immediately kill my game.
Nintendo didn't start off too perfect.
PhoenixTears wrote:I think there was the Missingno and the 'M, and it may have been the 'M that killed data files. But like I said, I didn't catch one, I just cheated to get masterballs/rare candies/high level pokemon.
Yeah, Google pictures showed the glitch Pokemon as "M" not Missingno. And I wish I knew of all these cheats when I played the 1st Gen games.
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