149 points

Don’t you just need 2 copies? One to hold the Mewtwos and another to keep doing new games?

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Don’t even need a new game. You could clone pokemon by turning the game off mid-trade. My school had a kid that got a Mew from an event, then cloned it for everyone who wanted one.

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72 points

King

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It became possible in GSC to clone with a single cart. Switch boxes and time a restart correctly during the save and bingo bango, you have a cloned pokemon with whatever item it was holding.

This was awesome for getting extra Master Balls and Rare Candies.

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12 points

You could clone items in the original games too iirc you would go swimming somewhere near cerulean city and keep going back and forth over the same spot and I think it would buffer overflow the item count for a certain slot in your backpack with a nearly infinitely high number.

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7 points

When I was like 12 I caught a ditto in the Mewtwo cave and use it to lower the Mewtwo’s health. Except it turns out the main attack of Mewtwo can one shot the Mewtwo and I hadn’t saved in forever. I was so devastated.

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43 points

You could do it with one copy probably. But this was pre-internet so harder to know about the glitches and such.

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10 points

I think many people figured out the Missingno shoreline kept some form of “last encounter table” in it, so I wouldn’t be surprised some people may have tried to go there right after Mewtwo to chance themselves at more.

Unfortunately we do have that info nowadays, and we know that doesn’t work.

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3 points

Don’t forget to try and move the truck, there’s a Mew under there I promise, my cousin got it!

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5 points

The internet 100% existed in 1999 lol

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7 points

Yeah but not a lot of people actually had it, let alone a computer.

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55 points

this was basically me for a while, had a team that was all deoxys forms named after 4 of the spice girls + two Arceus named after the last spice girl and Barack Obama

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20 points

Which spice girl got to be arceus?

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3 points

Which plate was Barack Obama holding? Come on, be honest now.

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20 points

This is gangsta shit

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40 points

Uh yeah they were, Big Daddy was 1999 and all the others were prior to that

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22 points

That’s what I first thought, but the latest one mentioned there is Big Daddy which came out in 1999. Crazy.

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8 points

First Pokemon movie released in Japan in July 1998, in the US in November 1999.

Pokemon red and blue released in the US in September 1998, yellow in October 1999.

No U.

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14 points

Pretty sure they meant the Adam Sandler movies, which is also wrong

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7 points

Mewtwo was still in the games.

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7 points

The trick was to clone Mewtwo in a later Pokemon game, trade that to a “middle man” Pokemon game that was compatible with Red and Blue, and BOOM all Mewtwo gang!

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