NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Glitch City

Glitch City is a term used by Pokémon gamers to refer to a hidden fictional city caused by a bug that occurs in the Pokémon video game Red, Blue and Yellow versions. Image File history File links Information_icon. ... Screenshot of Glitch City, the moment that the player comes out of the Safari Building (The screenshot is also of the Glitch City accessed through the Cinnabar Coast) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards and the PokÃ©mon Collaborative Projects article style, this PokÃ©mon-related article or section may require cleanup. ... This list is of fictional cities: villages, towns, and cities that do not exist in the world we know. ... A computer bug is an error, flaw, mistake, failure, or fault in a computer program that prevents it from working as intended, or produces an incorrect result. ... Pokemon redirects here. ... PokÃ©mon Red and PokÃ©mon Blue were the first PokÃ©mon games released for the Game Boy in the United States. ... PokÃ©mon Red and PokÃ©mon Blue (known in Japan as Pocket Monsters: Red and Pocket Monsters: Green) are the first two installments of the PokÃ©mon series of role-playing video games, released for the Game Boy in Japan in 1996. ... PokÃ©mon Yellow: Special Pikachu Edition is the fourth game in the PokÃ©mon video game series in Japan and the third game in the series in North America. ...

Some people use the term Glitch City to refer to Blue Hell - a more general term that refers to a non-existent area in any interactive game. Blue Hell is the name of a video game glitch present in many systems in which the player is inserted into a nonexistent, undefined, or designated unaccessable area. ...

Access

Players may encounter Missingno., a "glitch" Pokemon if they choose to surf on the Cinnabar coast. It has been suggested that M be merged into this article or section. ...

You do not have to go to Cinnabar, it can be any city or route, the Glitch City will change depending on where you were. However, if the time expires while you are in a city, you will come out of the building into the city, not Glitch City.

Facts

Reason for Occurring

"Glitch City" is essentially what happens when the game does not know which map to insert the player into, so the player is plonked into an area that does not exist. Glitch City may only be entered if the Safari Timer hits 0 while the player was in a map that has no doors or cave entrances (such as Sea Route 20 Spur). After the character leaves the Safari building after their session is over, the game tries to put them back onto the map they were previously in. However, if there were no doors or cave entrances (or entrance points of any kind) then the player finds him- or herself in Glitch City.

Theories

A theory proposed about the Safari Zone's odd behavior after saving is as follows: Image File history File links Circle-question. ...

When the player walks out to leave, perhaps when a player says "no", it sets the response to the opposite of the supposed, "yes". ("yes" is the supposed answer because there is no point in walking up to the door to leave and then not leaving). When asked again, when the player answers "no", it reverses the response again, setting it to "yes", although he remains in the Zone. This makes the game "think" that the player is supposed to be outside the Safari Zone and in Fuschia City since he "left", although he is still inside. This is an obvious glitch with no apparent purpose except a curiosity. Also, it is unknown why the game would allow for the player to be in two places at once. When the player saves, it is unknown why this step is required. Perhaps this step is only included to enable him to retrieve his game after entering Glitch City. Perhaps it is an unknown kind of altering factor which requires more research.

The man at the entrance is programmed so that when the player walks to him from the city, he will ask the player if he wants to enter. Thus, when the player walks to him from the Safari Zone, he thinks the player is in the City and thus asks the player if he wants to enter. When the player says "no", he is programmed to be sent back to the city, which happens.

This theory breaks down at the point where the player says "no" if you want to enter. After this it may not make any sense, although.

However, the player is still in the Safari Zone (doesn't make any sense) supposedly since he just left it. The game then still has two positions saved for him. Since one position is reversed, the other position is reversed as well. Thus, the game "thinks" the player is in the Safari Zone but he's REALLY in the city. Thus, Safari Zone rules will apply. It is not known why the game would not simply adjust both positions to the city and unify them, and also why the game would switch between City and Safari Zone when said "no", since this would send you into the Safari Zone when you said "no".

Anyway, after this confusing segment, it is rather straightforward why it happens, which is explained above.

Location

There is more than one Glitch City, and one can find them by going somewhere other than Cinnabar (like Cycling Road or Victory Road).This means that you can create different glitch cities depending on where you are when the timer sounds. The Seafoam Islands and a few routes allows the player to move around; however, in most other Glitch Cities, the player will be surrounded by objects with a solid property (such as a post outside of glitch city), and unable to walk around. Image File history File links Glitch_city_map1. ... Image File history File links Glitch_city_map1. ... Cycling Road is a road in the PokÃ©mon video game series that allows only people on bicycles to go on as a route or shortcut to different . ... Categories: Possible copyright violations ...

When a player uses their map in the Glitch City accessed through the Cinnabar Coast, it will say that they are in the Sea Route 20. However, Glitch City looks nothing like the Sea Route 20. (The player's map depends on which Glitch City they went to; for example, if the player goes to Cycling road instead of the Cinnabar Coast, the map will say the player is on Cycling Road instead of Sea Route 20). The Glitch City accessed through the Cinnabar Coast is located below Sea Route 20.

Highlights

The most common Pokémon found in the Glitch City accessed through the Cinnabar coast are Tentacool. A player can also fish for Pokémon in this Glitch City.

Going too far to the left or right will often get the player stuck in an invisible wall. If one presses Start, often the graphics and pixels of the city will change briefly.

In Pokemon Yellow you may also see Pikachu running in random places. Pikachu ) is one of the 395 fictional species of PokÃ©mon creatures from the multi-billion-dollar[1] PokÃ©mon media franchise â€“ a collection of video games, anime, manga, books, trading cards and other media created by Satoshi Tajiri. ...

The area in which the surfing part of the glitch takes place has some sort of 'unspecified' designator given by the designers which makes numerous glitches happen (including missingno. and 'M. However, if the player is not on the Cinnabar coast and in the water just off shore when the Safari Zone "Ding-Dong" occurs, the player will be sent to the same Glitch City that that player would've been sent to if he/she had been on the coast. Also, the Glitch City "Ding-Dong" can take place anywhere (see "Location" section above) even though in some places such as Viridian City, an actual glitched city will not occur. It has been suggested that M be merged into this article or section. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Missingno. ...

The music in the Glitch City accessed through the Cinnabar Coast is the same music theme as the one played on routes.

In Glitch City, pixels and graphics from different parts of the game are mixed up (see picture). The land and water can also be mixed up so sometimes it appears that the player is standing on water or surfing on land. This is usually caused by using a fishing rod or pausing the game (which causes parts of Glitch City to change). If the whole city turns to water (which is sometimes possible), the player can keep surfing forever until the player gets stuck or the game automatically shuts off. (However, a player should not surf for long distances while in Glitch City, because it can corrupt a player's game.) In the Yellow version, if one goes to the right, they will find a row with 3 9's. If you walk into this, Pikachu will disappear. When you walk out of it, Pikachu will follow your "recorded" path back to you.

In the Glitch City accessed through the Cinnabar Coast, in some cases you are able to surf in northern direction until you reach the barrier that normally prevents you to leave Sea Route 20 northward. When reached, however, the graphics become even more glitchy and the entire game freezes. If this is done while playing Pokemon Stadium, it will say the game has been corrupted, but the game is actually not corrupted (Pokemon Stadium just interprets it as being corrupted).

Because invisible walls that trap the player exist on the western side of the city, going north is usually the only way to escape the "normal" Glitch City. If a player goes to the westernmost "checker-board" water pattern in the city, and goes left of it one square and then right one square, this will enable the entire city to become water (when the player presses "start") and allow the player to swim north until they reach the barrier that normally cannot be crossed (causing the game to freeze). Once the player is far enough north, before reaching the northern border the player can swim east or west for a long period of time until the game freezes.

The reason the game freezes when heading too far north, east or west is because the player is surfing into a location that does not exist in the game's memory; as a result, the game cannot function. The only safe way out is by heading due south. It also happens in places that do exist but are completely altered. For example, when the player is able to surf considerably far north and then surfs west, they will reach where Cinnabar Island should be. However, because the game is in a glitched state it does not recognize the Island and when the player tries to go where the Island is, it will freeze. (The reason flying out of Glitch City successfully ends the Glitch is because those places are in different parts of the games memory.)

In several fanfics Glitch City is the origin of 'M and Missingno.. Fan fiction (also spelled fanfiction and commonly abbreviated to fanfic) is fiction written by people who enjoy a film, novel, television show or other media work, using the characters and situations developed in it and developing new plots in which to use these characters. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Missingno. ... It has been suggested that M be merged into this article or section. ...

Other Facts

The only way out of Glitch City is to fly out, so if one saves the game, one should make sure there is a Pokémon that can fly out. As a precaution, players going to Glitch City should never save the game in Glitch City, even if they have a Pokémon that can fly out. (For example if you save the game in Glitch City and you realize you do not have a Pokémon that can fly out you will be stuck in Glitch City forever.)^{[citation needed]}

The Glitch Cities found in the Yellow version are different to those that are found in the Red and Blue versions.

It is not clear if game designers purposely added Glitch City to the game, although it is speculated that the creation of Glitch City is caused by the game attempting to load two maps simultaneously ^{[citation needed]} (the Safari Zone map and the map of the area the player was in).

If a player goes to Cycling Road instead of the Cinnabar Coast to do the Glitch City trick, they will go to a Glitch City where they are always automatically walking downward. This is because normally the bicycle the player is on in Cycling Road automatically goes downward. Also, if you try to get on your bike it will say "You can't get off here," which is the normal message displayed when you're trying to get off your bike on Cycling Road.

If a player were to surf north until you hit a wall like the ones that keep you in the sea routes, the screen will show a garble of glitched graphics and the game will freeze. Also, if you surf until the wall is on the top of the screen and then surf west, the game will show a different glitchy screen and then freeze.^{[citation needed]}

While doing the Glitch City glitch, go to Victory Road instead of Cinnabar Island. When you get to Glitch City, the statues from the Indigo Plateau/Victory Road will be there.^{[citation needed]}

By careful study of many situations with players accessing Glitch City from various areas, it has been proven that Glitch City will have many pixel arrangements that are found in the area that one explored prior to access of it.^{[citation needed]} In some Glitch Cities, there is nowhere for the player to walk, so the player remains fixed in one place.

It also is worth noting that in some versions of Glitch City you may encounter bushes and such that are normally done away with HM01 (Cut), however if Cut is used on these bushes sometimes they do not dissapear-the cutting sequence occurs and there's just another bush.^{[citation needed]}

In one variation of Glitch City brought about by surfing at Cinnabar Island's east (right) coast or on Route 20 playing Red or Blue a very irregular thing can occur. In this version if the player heads south and jumps off of a road and onto some plains, a cave can be seen on the left. If a player goes into the cave, the player will get stuck and only be able to move left. Use the surf feature and suddenly you appear inside a plateau.^{[citation needed]}

Later Prevention

The Safari Zone was not included in the Gold, Silver and Crystal versions, but Glitch City can be accessed in some way using the "Walk Through Walls" Gameshark code.^{[citation needed]} Players have theorized that the Safari Zone wasn't included in the Gold, Silver and Crystal games because of Glitch City. The code and map of the Safari Zone still exist in the three games, though before releasing the game to the public, the only action took to prevent accessing the glitch is removing the door to the Safari Zone.^{[citation needed]} This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards and the PokÃ©mon Collaborative Projects article style, this PokÃ©mon-related article or section may require cleanup. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards and the PokÃ©mon Collaborative Projects article style, this PokÃ©mon-related article or section may require cleanup. ...

In Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald, the player must exit the Safari Zone by using the Start menu and selecting "Retire." A warden also goes outside and blocks the door, so the player cannot return to the Safari Zone lobby while using the Safari Zone. This was most likely done to prevent a Glitch City-type glitch in Ruby and Sapphire.^{[citation needed]} PokÃ©mon Ruby and PokÃ©mon Sapphire are the first PokÃ©mon video games to be released on the Game Boy Advance, and mark the beginning of the third generation of PokÃ©mon games. ... PokÃ©mon Ruby and PokÃ©mon Sapphire are the first PokÃ©mon video games to be released on the Game Boy Advance, and mark the beginning of the third generation of PokÃ©mon games. ... Pokémon Emerald is the fifth game in the Pokémon video game series for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance. ...

In Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen, the player cannot save the game in the Safari Zone, therefore making it impossible to access Glitch City. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

The stability of these games would make it impossible to recreate the glitch regardless.^{[citation needed]} These measures were likely undertaken to prevent a similar glitch in these games.

G/S Trick

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