Don't you just need 2 copies? One to hold the Mewtwos and another to keep doing new games?
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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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.
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.
If you're talking about the missingno glitch, you'd add 128 to the item count of your 6th item. This had the added bonus of potentially triggering an overflow if you already had 126 or more items there.
Jesus that was like a quarter of a century ago…
It's funny, the things that stick in your mind aren't always the things you would expect
Yup, go to coffee guy who shows you how to catch Pokémon, fly to Cinnabar Island and go straight right, surf and swim up and down without leaving the shore, enjoy scrambled encounter data
Some nerdy kid at my school was selling printouts of how to do that. I didn't like him so when I heard about it I just printed a bunch out at the library and started giving them away. He got a couple of his friends together and they jumped me coming in from recess. I was laying on the ground just like ".... seriously, you want to fight me over that?"
I'm more impressed that a pokemon guy had enough friends to initiate a jumping.
To this day, I think what set me on a path of hermit isolation and no friends, is the fact that they patched that in Pokemon Yellow.
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.
You could do it with one copy probably. But this was pre-internet so harder to know about the glitches and such.
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.
Don't forget to try and move the truck, there's a Mew under there I promise, my cousin got it!
The internet 100% existed in 1999 lol
Yeah but not a lot of people actually had it, let alone a computer.
Not to mention that useful information was harder to find and more difficult to verify, especially for niche technical topics like the inner workings of specific games.
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
Which spice girl got to be arceus?
Which plate was Barack Obama holding? Come on, be honest now.
This is gangsta shit
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!
