4G1950 Attempting to Use the Mew Encounter Exploit With a Pokemon With a Special Stat of Over 250 Results in Encountering a Glitch Trainer Who Causes the Game to Just Flip the Absolute Fuck Out When Trying to Calculate How Much Money to Award Vou Afterwards This Causes the Relevant Memory Poiner to Shoot Off to God Knows Where and as a Result It Just Sets a Solid Two Hundred Unrelated Hexadecimal Values in the Game to 99 in the Process Filling Your Party With Level 153 Bulbasaur That Can Only Use Explosion I Dont Understand Half of the Words Here but God if This Isn't the Funniest Thing I've Ever Read Trenchgun Im Pretty Sure Red and Blue Weren't Programmed but Just Sort of Mutated Into Cartridges Prettyflyforajeskai Red and Blue Are Why QA Teams Were Invented Biggaybunny for Fuck's Sake They Weren't Badly Programmed They Were Bleeding Edge It's So Easy to Forget That but Red and Blue Were Literally Pushing the Limits of What They Could Fit on the Cartridge They Used Every Trick in the Book in That Way the Programming Behind Them Is GENIUS It's Frankly a Lost Art in This Era Where Hardware Is Insanely Cheap 4G 1950 Biggaybunny for Fuck's Sake They Weren't Badly Programmed They Were Bleeding Edge It's So Easy to Forget That but Red and Blue Were Literally Pushing the Limits of What They Could Fit on the Cartridge They Used Every Trick in the Book in That Way the Programming Behind Them Is GENIUS It's Frankly a Lost Art in This Era Where Hardware Is Insanely Cheap and Scalable When You Can Just Keep Throwing More Resources at the Problem but Red & Blue Were When Programmers Had to Get Creative Not Currently Using a Piece of Memory? Repurpose It We Can't Just Leave It Lying Around Only Have a Couple Registers? Juggle Them Keep Careful Track So We Can Restore Them When We Needed Does This Data Need to Be Single Purpose or Can We Also Use It for Say a Seed Value? And All This WORKED I Guarantee You 99% of Children Playing This Never Saw a Bug in Casual Play MODERN Games Are Buggier by a Landslide Remember When X&Y Came Out and There Was an ENTIRE CITY You Couldn't Save in Because It'd DELETE YOUR SAVE? Imagine That Happening in the Days of Red&Blue It Couldn't Have I Can Turn on My Red Cartridge TODAY and Have It Work and the Bugs That Did Exist Those Edge Cases They Missed? They Produce This Behavior Because the Game REFUSES TO CRASH Sure You Can Make It Crash if O41951 Possible Y'all Looking Down From Your 64-Bit Quad-Core Smartphones With 128GB SD Cards Like Red & Blue Were Programmed by Amateurs What You Also Going to Bitch That the Wright Brothers Didn't Make a Jet Engine? These Are Artifacts From Pioneers Who Wrote the Goddamn Book That Others Would Use as Gospel Sincerely a Pissed Off Goddamn Programmer Fuente Banshees 79986 Notas Howl-Osullivan Tilthat TIL in 2006 a Sudanese Man Was Caught Having Sex With a Goat and as a Punishment Was Forced to Take the Goat as His Wife While Paying a Dowry of Around $50 to Its Owner via Redditcom 109 Notas Nikanono It's a Masterpiece