Pokemon Red 151 Pokedex FAQs

F.A.Q. for the Pokemon Red 151 Pokemon Category

Q: How does this category work?
A: The run is completed by registering all 151 pokemon in the pokedex, then beating the elite 4.

Q: Why Charmander?
A: Charmander has growl, which is crucial for the experience underflow glitch (see a later question). It also lets me get to Mt. Moon as fast as possible.

Q: What kind of name is "ZZZkkkr"?
A: This is part of the old man glitch that causes missingno or M to appear (which also causes the 6th item in your backpack to have 100+ uses). In addition to the glitched pokemon appearing, you can have others appear based on the character in spaces 3, 5 and 7 in your name. Z will give Bulbasaur, k will give Porygon and r will give Squirtle. The 2, 4 and 6 slot determines the levels they appear at, but that doesn't really matter. See here for more details: http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Old_man_glitch

Q: Wait, how do you get Mew and the version exclusives on one version?
A: We will be exploiting the well known "Mew Glitch" and the lesser known, yet similar "Ditto Glitch." Both glitches are described on this page in major detail: http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Mew_glitch

Q: What is this trainer fly you keep mentioning?
A: It's part of the Mew Glitch/Ditto Glitch in the previous question. It allows you to Fly/Teleport/Dig/Escape Rope away from a trainer that can see you from one tile away from being offscreen. This loads a battle in the area you're in, but since you fly away, the game gets stuck and you can't access menus unless you fight a trainer battle where the trainer walks toward you or you save and quit using the pokemon center PC. When you go back to the area you flew from after fighting a pokemon, a pokemon loads based off the special of the last pokemon you fought. This happens because you initiated a battle there, but never started it, and the game needs to put something there to load a battle when you go back.

Q: How do you get a level 100 pokemon so early?
A: I use a combination of using the Mew Glitch to obtain a level 1 pokemon within the medium-slow experience pokemon category and exploit the leveling to get it to level 100 right away. This is called the experience underflow glitch (details: http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Experience#Experience_underflow_glitch)

Q: What is the walk through walls glitch?
A: It allows me to walk through any wall in the game. You have to have only one pokemon in your party that's poisoned. You get out of the Safari Zone by saving right at the entrance, reseting, and walking out (the game triggers the wrong dialog when leaving). Your steps are now counted as if you were in the safari zone. If you walk over a ledge at the 500th step, you will be teleported back to the Safari entrance room. You can now walk through anything, but you're stuck on the plane above everything, so you can't leave until the poisoned pokemon faints. Once you're out, you can walk through anything into previously blocked areas (ex. Cerulean Cave before beating the elite 4)

Q: Any other glitches you use?
A: I use the Pewter Gym skip glitch so I don't have to fight Brock early with Charmander. http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pewter_Gym_skip_glitch

Q: Any banned glitches?
A: ZZAZZ, save corruption, 8F and super glitch moves. All these glitches simply let you change the pokedex value of the pokemon to "caught" and/or execute arbitrary code.

Q: Did you remember to catch (insert pokemon here)?
A: Yes