Missingno is stuck in my head!

[Bob423 52]

It's late(2AM), and i cant stop thinking about missingno. i need to post this topic before i go to bed.

 

i need help, i've heard (or read as it were) that missingno is connected to kangahskan (or however its spelled) and Marowack/cubone, as well as a fourth legendary bird, and 30 or so other rejected pokemon. but what i want to know is the truth. what are these rejected pokemon? why does kangahskan not have 30 forms? why are they connected to the name of the player? why is it found on the coast of cinnabar island after talking to the old man in viridian city? Why are some of the forms actual sprites found in the game? why does it give over 100 over the item in the 6th slot if you see him. why are there so many glitches associated with catching it? what up wit its stats, bird type, and two water guns?

 

GAAAAAH!!!! if anyone knows anything, please post it. im about ready to call the head of game freak himself and ask him about this, but i dont think that will ever happen.

[kellessdee 48]

Supposedly, Missingno. was error handling implemented by the programmers of the game. When the game tries to access non-existant pokemon; it creates missingno instead.

 

Encountering a MissingNo. Pokémon is the result of three computing events. The first is the game's random battle encounter system: each area assigns values to Pokémon in a data buffer, which the game accesses for the player's encounters with wild Pokémon. However, no values are assigned to this buffer on the right side of the Cinnabar and Seafoam Island locations—the information from the previously visited area is used instead.[7] The second factor is the old man's demonstration, which temporarily stores the player's name in the data buffer. This causes the game to access the hexadecimal values of the player's name for Pokémon encounters at Cinnabar and Seafoam Island. The third factor is the game's error handling system; if the game selects a value from the data buffer that is not an existing Pokémon, a subroutine is triggered that causes the appearance of a Pokémon named MissingNo., short for "Missing Number".[6][7]

As with any wild Pokémon, players may flee from, fight or capture MissingNo.[8] After an encounter with MissingNo., the quantity of the sixth item in the player's item menu is increased by 128, and the game's Hall of Fame Pokémon gallery becomes permanently glitched. Temporary graphical glitches may also occur,[8][9] which can be removed by viewing the statistics page for another Pokémon or resetting the console. A captured MissingNo. is a fully functional Pokémon, and appears in the game's Pokémon index as number 000. All MissingNo. possess consistent abilities, type, statistics and sounds. The Pokémon commonly appears as a scrambled "d"-shape, but certain encounter values cause it to appear as one of three sprites not used by other Pokémon.[8]

 

Does this help? The reason is, there really is no reason. Missingno was not intended to be visible to the player, ever.

[Joey 9]

lol...MissingNo, good times....gooood times. If only he existed in generation 5. xD

[madanchi 18]

Missingo is all mighty, that's all you need to know ;)

 

Also, I loved finding it back in school ;D ssuch memories

Edited August 15, 2011 by madanchi

[Bigace360 38]

Missingo is all mighty, that's all you need to know ;)

 

Lol, almight at what; destroying your game :jay:

Edited August 15, 2011 by bigace

[Bob423 52]

thanks kell :alright: that really helped. now that ive had some sleep though, its not a big deal anymore :lol:

[rgangsta 43]

I ran into Missingno once. It messed up my game. <_<