THE POKESTRUGGLE!

This Celebi glitch I was attempting is a trick that manipulates eggs using a very specific corrupt clone. The way it works is that using some very complicated steps (found in this Bulbapedia page here: http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Celebi_Egg_glitch) you can manipulate eggs into giving you a Pokemon with an index number that matches the index number of the attack in the parents' 3rd attack slot. What I mean by this is behind the scenes, there is actually a numbered list of the games different attacks just like there is for Pokemon. Celebi is #251, and #251 in the move list is Beat Up. Sneasel learns beat up at level 57, apparently the only Pokemon to learn it at all naturally throughout the game. Sneasel can unfortunately not be caught until route 28 / Mt. Silver which require 16 badges.

It's worth mentioning that while this glitch is often referred to as "the Celebi egg glitch," it is by no means Celebi specific. It can work with any Pokemon aside from Ledyba (due to Ledyba's index number matching the index number of "struggle" which can't be learned.) For example, Splash's index number is #150, Mewtwo's index number is #150, so doing this glitch with 2 parent Pokemon having splash in their 3rd attack slot would result in a Mewtwo.

To take things a step further, the FOURTH attack slot manipulates the item the Pokemon will be holding upon hatching, and there is a numbered list of items behind the scene as well. Most notably in Crystal Version you can get a GS Ball doing this.

NOW FOR THE STRUGGLE!

I got all 16 badges then had some sort of corruption as seen in the video. I then tried to clear back to that point and a few badges into the game my game crashed without me having saved so I had to start over a 3rd time. Finally, I decided to try and use Gameshark as seen in the video but after many, many hours of trying I was not able to get the corrupt clone I needed. See, the level 255 clones in the video don't work. You need a very specific level 0 clone for the glitch to work, and after hundreds if not thousands of tries I didn't get it even once. I heard that emulators have a lot of trouble with this and it's actually very easy if you do it on an N64 using Pokemon Stadium 2 and a physical copy of Gold/Silver/Crystal plugged into it. So I got out my N64, got a copy of Pokemon Stadium 2, got a physical copy of Silver and TWO copies of Pokemon Crystal and all 3 did not have working save batteries and because this glitch requires saving that didn't work either.

A+Start also tried to perform this glitch as well, but I'm not sure how much time he spent on it. With all of that said, DANG that glitch beat me, but I don't consider it a total failure. While the specific effect wasn't achieved, the tools from the glitch were used to great extent in other ways and we really broke the game with 'em!