History UrbanLegendOfZelda / Pokemon

** Some claim they were supposed to be in the game, as the proverbial joker in the deck. They're not. Glitches trick the game into calling data for Pokemon that it shouldn't because they don't exist; since it can't tell when it's looking in an incorrect place, you encounter placeholder values and/or irrelevant data being treated as if it were a creature. There are 39 placeholders, which the developers eventually admitted used to be extra Pokémon which were cut from the game - while their presence in the code is fairly deliberate, they aren't "proper" Pokémon and aren't intended to be encountered in ''any'' way whatsoever.

* Right next to [=MissingNo.=] was a rumor revolving around a truck in a secret harbor in Vermilion City. You can only access it by surfing around the S.S. Anne, which usually leaves never to return long before you get the Surf HM. Clever players avoided this, either by simply trading for the Cut HM from another game (avoiding the need to board the ship entirely), by deliberately losing in battle (which automatically takes you to the last-visited Pokémon Center and tricks the boat into remaining in harbor), or by exploiting glitches to allow you to pass the guard a second time. While the truck contains no secrets, it became incredible fodder for rumors, the most popular of which being Mew being underneath it. Neither Nintendo nor Game Freak have ever officially explained its presence, but that's not to say that the developers were above referencing it once the rumors took off. The truck is present in both the GBA [[VideoGameRemake remakes]] and ''VideoGame/PokemonLetsGoPikachuAndLetsGoEevee'', with it having a Lava Cookie in the former and a Revive that respawns daily in the latter. And an NPC references it in a song lyric in ''VideoGame/PokemonXDGaleOfDarkness'', as noted in the page quote.

* There were several supposed secret Pokémon other than [=MissingNo.=] They were often referred to collectively as "Pokégods", and were said to be so powerful, they could [[KilledOffForReal kill your Pokemon for real]] or delete your save file if you lost to them. Others were said to be obtained by talking to certain [=NPCs=] so many times that you get them to say something different.[[note]]This worked a grand total of ''once'' in the actual games -- if you talk often enough to the Safari Zone gatekeeper, he'll let you in for free. That's probably how the rumors started to begin with.[[/note]] Many were derived from leaked concepts for [[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver second-generation]] Pokémon, especially in North America, which was eyeballs-deep in the Pokécraze and not thinking about a sequel at all when the Gen II games were under development in Japan. Among the so-called Pokégods were:

* And there were several more supposed [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs secret evolutions into secret Pokemon]], some of which were so popular that they became the basis for [[SuperMode Mega Evolutions]] starting in Generation VI:

* There used to be a long-standing rumor about the move "Attract" (which inflicts the franchise's equivalent of the Charm {{Standard Status Effect|s}}) being known as "Seduce" in the Japanese versions of ''Pokémon'' games. In reality, this isn't the case - the move is actually known as "Mad Love" in Japan, and it being translated as "Seduce" may have been someone's attempt to SpiceUpTheSubtitles.

** "Mewthree" is so common that it's now a particular FandomEnragingMisconception. It originally derives from screencaps of an armored Mewtwo in [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} the anime]], which people believed to be a different Pokémon altogether. Mewtwo got ''two'' Mega Evolution forms in Gen VI, but people saw some screenshots before the concept of Mega Evolution was made public, reviving the rumor for a bit.

** The game doesn't have evolution stones, so Eevee simply chooses an "eeveelution" randomly when it evolves. Rumors proliferated over how to control or predict its evolution, based on things ranging from Eevee's moveset to the color of the nearest gym. It was eventually discovered that you could control their evolution by naming them [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Rainer, Sparky, Pyro, Sakura, Tamao,]] [[VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon Linnea, and Rea]] (for Vaporeon, Jolteon, Flareon, Espeon, Umbreon, Leafeon, and Glaceon respectively) -- but only once for each name. Since then, rumors persisted about how you could control its evolution ''every'' time, but none have been proven to work.

* Nidoqueen and Nidorina cannot breed and have never been able to from the very start, for some unexplained reason. This sparked rumors that you can use a Nidoqueen to breed an incredibly powerful Pokémon if some conditions are met. (Almost every version of this rumor claims that you need a Nidoking as the breeding partner, but can't agree on what the other conditions are.) Game Freak itself has confirmed that this is false; Nidoqueen cannot breed, period. (At least not in the games; the anime is a different story, and they [[NewRulesAsThePlotDemands break the rules of the games anyway]]).

* ''VideoGame/PokemonLetsGoPikachuAndLetsGoEevee'' have the traditional three Poké Balls on the table in Professor Oak's lab. Your starter is in the middle one, and your rival gets the one on the left. The one on the right never gets picked. In ''Red and Blue'' the three Pokémon would have been Bulbasaur, Squirtle, and Charmander, but since you and your rival get Pikachu and Eevee in this game, the third one could be pretty much any Gen 1 critter, and examining it only tells you it "contains a Pokémon." There's no data in the game for it, but despite this, most believe that it contains a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE-_CMRLUuU Clefairy]].

* ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'' allows you to tip certain [=NPCs=] after conversations, your choice of nothing, 100, 500, or 1000 in-game currency. Since the mechanic had no obvious benefit, it started to circulate that tipping 1000 all the time slightly increases your chance of getting a Shiny Pokémon to appear in the wild. Nothing has ever been conclusively proven, and tipping is actually a completely a pointless mechanic.

** Some claim they were supposed to be in the game, as the proverbial joker in the deck. They're not. Glitches such as the above-detailed "Old Man Glitch" trick the game into calling data for Pokemon that it shouldn't because they don't exist; since it can't tell when it's looking in an incorrect place, you encounter placeholder values and/or irrelevant data being treated as if it were a creature. There are 39 placeholders, which the developers eventually admitted used to be extra Pokémon which were cut from the game - while their presence in the code is fairly deliberate, they aren't "proper" Pokémon and aren't intended to be encountered in ''any'' way whatsoever.

* ''VideoGame/PokemonStadium'': The only Pokémon not available for rental in the first game is Mewtwo, leading many people to wonder how to unlock him. Theories included OneHundredPercentCompletion of the tournaments and [[BossBonanza Gym Leader Castle]], or getting every Pokémon into the Hall Of Fame. There exists no Rental Mewtwo in the game however, with the claims of how to get him either doing nothing or netting you different rewards (completing everything unlocks [[NintendoHard Round 2]] Hard Mode, while getting every Pokémon into the Hall Of Fame instead gives you a Psyduck with Amnesia that you can transfer over to a mainline game). Similarly, the sequel doesn't have any rental Mewtwo, Luigi, or Ho-oh.

* [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pokerus Pokérus]] is effectively a subversion, since it sounds exactly like a made-up fan myth; a secret status effect that increases EV stat gains, which ''themselves'' are a hidden mechanic never fully explained to the player? It's real, for all main-series games starting in Gen II, but it's incredibly rare (a 0.00458% chance of being generated per battle, about three times as unlikely as the lowest possible shiny rate), so you almost certainly won't see it in a casual playthrough (or several).

* [[GlitchEntity The Missingno. glitch]] is the most famous [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] of this in the series. It's a real glitch, and it looked [[RealityIsUnrealistic as insane and arbitrary as any of the rumors]] unless you were versed in programming. Missingno. was one of several "secret Pokémon" who would show up if you did a series of unlikely things: you had to talk to a seemingly irrelevant tutorial NPC in Viridian City, then Surf along a specific beach on Cinnabar Island, which would make weird Pokémon show up, like Golbat and Snorlax over the level cap of 100, and weird new Pokémon like Missingno.[[note]]There are at least twelve such glitched Pokémon, some of which are only available through [=GameShark=], as chronicled by [[http://www.glitchcity.info/ Glitch City Laboratories]]. The best is [=LM4=], which is a blur of dots that will, at level 18, evolve three times back-to-back: first into Clefairy, then into Clefairy ''again'', and then into Nidoking.[[/note]] Missingno. would make weird stuff happen if you caught one, like screw with in-battle graphics, permanently glitch the Hall of Fame, and possibly become permanently irretrievable if you put it in a PC box. And encountering or capturing it would duplicate the sixth item in your inventory up to 255 times, so if you did this with powerful items like Master Balls or [[RareCandy Rare Candies]], you could [[GameBreaker break the game wide open]]. That's all very weird -- and all true, but people also made up many more rumors about Missingno. and its glitch brethren:

** Some claim that if you catch Missingno., it will erase your other Pokémon, or even your entire save file, if certain conditions are met. It's supposedly named "Missingno." because your files are missing now. In truth, it's not ''that'' destructive to your game, though some other glitches can be. The "Missingno." designation actually stands for "missing number", partly because it's a placeholder value and partly as a reference to the Japanese superstition that certain numbers are unlucky due to their [[FourIsDeath association with death]].
** The usual methods for encountering Missingno. are urban legends in most European countries. The games released after they did in North America and, since they were working off the [=NoA=] build of the game, they took the opportunity to patch some of the glitches that were present. Including the ones that lead to Missingno. Unfortunately for those European gamers, gaming publications (largely borrowing and translating from North America) didn't get the memo and left in the steps to get the mysterious Pokémon, which now did nothing. Naturally, the glitches that ''did'' remain in European copies didn't help matters there.
* Right next to Missingno. was a rumor revolving around a truck in a secret harbor in Vermilion City. You can only access it by surfing around the S.S. Anne, which usually leaves never to return long before you get the Surf HM. Clever players avoided this, either by simply trading for the Cut HM from another game (avoiding the need to board the ship entirely), by deliberately losing in battle (which automatically takes you to the last-visited Pokémon Center and tricks the boat into remaining in harbor), or by exploiting glitches to allow you to pass the guard a second time. While the truck contains no secrets, it became incredible fodder for rumors, the most popular of which being Mew being underneath it. Neither Nintendo nor Game Freak have ever officially explained its presence, but that's not to say that the developers were above referencing it once the rumors took off. The truck is present in both the GBA [[VideoGameRemake remakes]] and ''VideoGame/PokemonLetsGoPikachuAndLetsGoEevee'', with it having a Lava Cookie in the former and a Revive that respawns daily in the latter. And an NPC references it in a song lyric in ''VideoGame/PokemonXDGaleOfDarkness'', as noted in the page quote.

* There were several supposed secret Pokémon other than Missingno. They were often referred to collectively as "Pokégods", and were said to be so powerful, they could [[KilledOffForReal kill your Pokemon for real]] or delete your save file if you lost to them. Others were said to be obtained by talking to certain [=NPCs=] so many times that you get them to say something different.[[note]]This worked a grand total of ''once'' in the actual games -- if you talk often enough to the Safari Zone gatekeeper, he'll let you in for free. That's probably how the rumors started to begin with.[[/note]] Many were derived from leaked concepts for [[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver second-generation]] Pokémon, especially in North America, which was eyeballs-deep in the Pokécraze and not thinking about a sequel at all when the Gen II games were under development in Japan. Among the so-called Pokégods were:

* Mew in general was such a hot topic for urban legends that he could be credited for saving the franchise from potentially fading into obscurity and elevating it into the planet's largest CashCowFranchise. The original games were released late into the UsefulNotes/GameBoy's lifespan in Japan and were given minimal advertising [[AndYouThoughtItWouldFail as they were not expected to sell well]], and their performance on launch was actually not too stellar, but interest in the game was kept alive in part thanks to rumors surrounding the elusive 151st Pokémon who was added to the games as an internal prank that wasn't meant to be discovered by general players. Word of mouth surrounding the legendary Mew's existence and potential ways of obtaining it (such as the aforementioned truck myth) helped advertise the games as a whole, and so the games' sales kept exponentially increasing well past their initial launch numbers (a rarity for Game Boy games, especially near the end of its lifespan) to the point where they became a [[SleeperHit hit]], and the rest is history.

* Mew in general was such a hot topic for urban legends that he could be credited for saving the franchise from potentially fading into obscurity and elevating it into the planet's largest CashCowFranchise. The original games were releases late into the UsefulNotes/GameBoy's lifespan in Japan and were given minimal advertising [[AndYouThoughtItWouldFail as they were not expected to sell well]], and their performance on launch was actually not too stellar, but interest in the game was kept alive in part thanks to rumors surrounding the elusive 151st Pokémon who was added to the games as an internal prank that wasn't meant to be discovered by general players. Word of mouth surrounding the legendary Mew's existence and potential ways of obtaining it (such as the aforementioned truck myth) helped advertise the games as a whole, and so the games' sales kept exponentially increasing well past their initial launch numbers (a rarity for Game Boy games, especially near the end of its lifespan) to the point where they became a [[SleeperHit hit]], and the rest is history.

** A large patch of grass east of Pallet Town was rumored to be a direct path to Celadon City which contained the three starters and other rare Pokémon. You can't access it without a walk-through-walls exploit, and the grass contains no Pokémon; but it does have a bunch of {{Game Break|er}}ing glitches. And at least [[http://0.media.dorkly.cvcdn.com/16/16/ab57e0b571b4f08e8b2214b42707a151.jpg one strategy guide]] claims it's a legitimate "Route 26".

* [[TheMissingno The Missingno. glitch]] is the most famous [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] of this in the series. It's a real glitch, and it looked [[RealityIsUnrealistic as insane and arbitrary as any of the rumors]] unless you were versed in programming. Missingno. was one of several "secret Pokémon" who would show up if you did a series of unlikely things: you had to talk to a seemingly irrelevant tutorial NPC in Viridian City, then Surf along a specific beach on Cinnabar Island, which would make weird Pokémon show up, like Golbat and Snorlax over the level cap of 100, and weird new Pokémon like Missingno.[[note]]There are at least twelve such glitched Pokémon, some of which are only available through [=GameShark=], as chronicled by [[http://www.glitchcity.info/ Glitch City Laboratories]]. The best is [=LM4=], which is a blur of dots that will, at level 18, evolve three times back-to-back: first into Clefairy, then into Clefairy ''again'', and then into Nidoking.[[/note]] Missingno. would make weird stuff happen if you caught one, like screw with in-battle graphics, permanently glitch the Hall of Fame, and possibly become permanently irretrievable if you put it in a PC box. And encountering or capturing it would duplicate the sixth item in your inventory up to 255 times, so if you did this with powerful items like Master Balls or [[RareCandy Rare Candies]], you could [[GameBreaker break the game wide open]]. That's all very weird -- and all true, but people also made up many more rumors about Missingno. and its glitch brethren:

** A more insane April Fool's joke (courtesy of the official website of Creator/{{Nintendo}} of America itself) claimed that Lickitung could evolve into Luigi if you fed it a RareCandy while holding your UsefulNotes/GameBoy upside-down. It's particularly nonsensical because it requires Lickitung to be caught in ''Blue'' in a specific type of Pokéball; the games didn't keep track of this until ''VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire'', and you can only obtain Lickitung in ''Blue'' through trade anyway. The sprite they showed for Luigi is also clearly just grayscaled artwork from the original ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'', much higher-quality than the game's real sprites. Game Freak may have referenced this rumor in [[VideoGame/PokemonXAndY the sixth generation]], when we were introduced to Inkay, a Pokémon that indeed ''does'' evolve when you hold your console upside-down.

** The usual methods for encountering Missingno. are urban legends in most European countries. The games released after they did in North America and, since they were working off the [=NoA=] build of the game, they took the opportunity to patched some of the glitches that were present. Including the ones that lead to Missingno. Unfortunately for those European gamers, gaming publications (largely borrowing and translating from North America) didn't get the memo and left in the steps to get the mysterious Pokémon, which now did nothing. Naturally, the glitches that ''did'' remain in European copies didn't help matters there.

** [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Bianca]] is the Champion. This was easily {{jossed}} just by playing through the game, wherein she explicitly tells you that she's bad at battling and is thinking about becoming a research assistant instead, which she affirms in the post-game. And [[http://www.gamefreak.co.jp/blog/staff/?p=202 an interview on Game Freak's website]] makes it clear that her becoming Champion wasn't a case of DummiedOut either. Some people still insisted this to be the case though, perhaps in part due to misinterpreting why the game labels her post-League team data as a Champion team. Some also expected this to happen in the rumored usual third game: this generation saw proper sequels instead however, wherein she's officially an assistant Professor rather than the Champion.

** The usual methods for encountering Missingno. are urban legends in most European countries, where when the games were finally released, they patched some of the glitches, including the ones that lead to Missingno. Unfortunately for those European gamers, gaming publications (largely borrowing and translating from North America) didn't get the memo and left in the steps to get there, which now did nothing. The glitches that remain didn't help matters there.

* ''VideoGame/PokemonStadium'': The only Pokémon not available for rental in the first game is Mewtwo, leading many people to wonder how to unlock Mewtwo him. Theories included OneHundredPercentCompletion of the tournaments and [[BossBonanza Gym Leader Castle]], or getting every Pokémon into the Hall Of Fame. There exists no Rental Mewtwo in the game however, with the claims of how to get him either doing nothing or netting you different rewards (completing everything unlocks [[NintendoHard Round 2]] Hard Mode, while getting every Pokémon into the Hall Of Fame instead gives you a Psyduck with Amnesia that you can transfer over to a mainline game). Similarly, the sequel doesn't have any rental Mewtwo, Luigi, or Ho-oh.

** Some claim they were supposed to be in the game, as the proverbial joker in the deck. They're not. Glitches such as the above-detailed "Old Man Glitch" trick the game into calling data for Pokemon that it shouldn't because they don't exist; since it can't tell when it's looking in an incorrect place, you encounter placeholder values and/or irrelevant data being read as if it were a proper creature. There are 39 placeholders, which the developers eventually admitted used to be extra Pokémon which were cut from the game.

** Missingno. is a ''complete'' Urban Legend of Zelda in most European countries, where when the games were finally released, they patched some of the glitches, including the ones that lead to Missingno. Unfortunately for those European gamers, gaming publications (largely borrowing and translating from North America) didn't get the memo and left in the steps to get there, which now did nothing. The glitches that remain didn't help matters there.

** Some claim they were supposed to be in the game, as the proverbial joker in the deck. They're not; they're actually placeholder values. The glitch tricks the game into calling data for Pokemon numbered higher than 151, which don't exist, but the game appears to anticipate this problem and calls up Missingno. There are 39 such placeholders, which the developers eventually admitted were extra Pokémon who were cut from the game.
** Some claim that if you catch Missingno., it will erase your other Pokémon, or even your entire save file, if certain conditions are met. It's supposedly named "Missingno." because your files are missing now. It won't be ''that'' destructive to your game. The "Missingno." designation actually stands for "missing number", partly because it's a placeholder value and partly as a reference to the Japanese superstition that certain numbers are unlucky due to their [[FourIsDeath association with death]].

[[caption-width-right:250:''There's no Pokémon under a truck\\
Maybe you'll just find a Muk!'']]

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->''There's no Pokémon under a truck\\
Maybe you'll just find a Muk!''
-->-- '''Beauty Ogoin''' [[AscendedFanon referencing the most infamous of these]] in ''VideoGame/PokemonXDGaleOfDarkness''

* In ''VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire'', and ''Emerald'', there was a rumor that you could get Deoxys or Jirachi by hitching a ride into space on the rocket when it's about to launch from Mossdeep City, but only when the countdown is at an exact number (which varies depending on the account, but 50 and 99 are the most popular). While this isn't possible in the original games, in a bit of AscendedFanon, ''Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire'' actually do allow you to catch Deoxys by going into space during the post-game "Delta Episode", but on Rayquaza rather than the rocket. * * * * There's a more obscure rumor that Celebi was also obtainable, through a one-in-about-200-million chance of appearing on a certain route in pre-order copies of the game, though this one didn't circulate much.

* In many ''Pokémon'' games, it's rumored that you could increase the chance of catching a Pokémon by [[http://www.vgcats.com/super/?strip_id=8 mashing buttons]] in a specific way, with every young player having their own method. This claim was even repeated on the official Nintendo website for a while. Although it certainly ''[[PlaceboEffect feels]]'' effective, it usually doesn't work. The random number generator ''can'' be [[http://tasvideos.org/PokemonTricks.html#LuckManipulation manipulated slightly through button inputs]], but this requires, among other things, that you know the random number generator's exact state at all times, making it useful only to [[{{Speedrun}} tool-assisted speedrunners]].
* Ever since the first sequels were announced, ''Pokémon'' rumors focus hugely on the next generation of games before they're released, especially on which Pokémon are rumored to be in them. You've got [[http://gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=195801 fake magazine scans]] showing Pokémon that are supposed to (but obviously don't) exist in the next game, a [[http://nintendo3dsdaily.com/nintendo3dsnews/japanese-twitter-users-fooled-by-fake-pikachu-evolution-pokemon-x-and-y-related/ fake Pikachu evolution]] that spread like wildfire across various Japanese Website/{{Twitter}} feeds, and tons and tons of lists of rumored things supposedly in the next ''Pokémon'' game and told to the author by their friend/relative/someone who works on the development team.
* There's always at least one Pokémon in each set of games that can't be captured during regular gameplay -- later dubbed "Mythical Pokémon", before online distribution simply made them regularly occurring TemporaryOnlineContent, players had to physically attend promotional events (or use a VideoGame/GameShark) to receive them. Many rumors revolve around a hidden point and/or series of actions to take that allows you to get one without needing to deal with this:
** The biggest proliferation happened with [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue the first generation]], which was released before sites like Website/GameFAQs hit it big and enough fans were talented enough to dissect the game code. They had probably 73 different ways you could get a Mew. Fans finally discovered one that worked -- a glitch, found in 2003, five years after the game's North American release, by which time most people had lost interest (and the [[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire contemporary games]] wouldn't even accept a first-gen Mew due to compatibility limitations[[note]]In fact, there's still no way for the transfer to work, at least not through normal means. The closest you can do is get a Mew on the UsefulNotes/VirtualConsole version, which can be sent to the Gen II virtual console games, but can't be transferred to Gen VII games using the Poké-Transporter unless you by some highly unlikely miracle end up with the same name and trainer ID as Game Freak, or use a ''very'' complicated glitch involving arbitrary code execution to manually change the Mew's OT and ID data so that it appears legit.[[/note]]).
*** One of these became AscendedFanon when the Generation III remakes were made. One of the most proliferated rumors were that Mew would be found if you used Strength on a random truck in the S.S. Anne dock area, or alternatively if you used Cut to deflate the tires. This one got so much attention that when [=FireRed and LeafGreen=] were released, it was discovered that interacting with that same truck allowed the player to obtain a Lava Cookie, a reward for testing the same rumor.
** In [[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire the Generation III games]], there was a rumor that you could get Deoxys or Jirachi by hitching a ride into space on the rocket when it's about to launch from Mossdeep City, but only when the countdown is at an exact number (which varies depending on the account, but 50 and 99 are the most popular). While this isn't possible in the original games, in a fit of AscendedFanon, ''Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire'' actually do allow you to catch Deoxys by going into space, but on Rayquaza rather than the rocket. There's a more obscure rumor that Celebi was also obtainable, through a one-in-about-200-million chance of appearing on a certain route in pre-order copies of the game, though this one didn't circulate much.

* [[TheMissingno The Missingno. glitch]] is the most famous. It's a real glitch, and it looked [[RealityIsUnrealistic as insane and arbitrary as any of the rumors]] unless you were versed in programming. Missingno. was one of several "secret Pokémon" who would show up if you did a series of unlikely things: you had to talk to a seemingly irrelevant tutorial NPC in Viridian City, then Surf along a specific beach on Cinnabar Island, which would make weird Pokémon show up, like Golbat and Snorlax over the level cap of 100, and weird new Pokémon like Missingno.[[note]]There are at least twelve such glitched Pokémon, some of which are only available through [=GameShark=], as chronicled by [[http://www.glitchcity.info/ Glitch City Laboratories]]. The best is [=LM4=], which is a blur of dots that will, at level 18, evolve three times back-to-back: first into Clefairy, then into Clefairy ''again'', and then into Nidoking.[[/note]] Missingno. would make weird stuff happen if you caught one, like screw with in-battle graphics, permanently glitch the Hall of Fame, and possibly become permanently irretrievable if you put it in a PC box. And encountering or capturing it would duplicate the sixth item in your inventory up to 255 times, so if you did this with powerful items like Master Balls or [[RareCandy Rare Candies]], you could [[GameBreaker break the game wide open]]. That's all very weird -- and all true, but people also made up many more rumors about Missingno. and its glitch brethren: