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Glitch City is a term used by Pokémon Gamers to refer to a hidden Fictional City caused by a Bug that occurs in the Pokémon video game Red , Blue and Yellow versions. ACCESS Glitch City can be activated by following these steps: #Bring a Pokémon that knows Fly #Go into the Safari Zone and then go back out through the same door twice. #When asked, "Leaving early?", say no. #After being sent back into the Safari Zone, save the game, shut it off, and turn it back on. #Leave the Safari Zone again, and you will be asked if you want to enter the Safari Zone and pay $500, even though you are already in there. Say no. #You will be sent back into Fuschia City. Once you are in Fuschia City, use a Pokémon to Fly to Cinnabar Island. #Go to the east (right) coast, and Surf up and down with a Pokémon that knows Surf. You will run into Pokémon that are usually seen in the Safari Zone. Surf until an announcement comes up that reads "Ding-Dong!" when you have taken 500 steps. #You will be sent to the Safari building. When you leave the building, you will be in Glitch City. (Sources: see ''External Links'' at the bottom of this article) Players may encounter Missingno. , a "glitch" pokemon in Glitch City. FACTS Reason for Occurring "Glitch City" is essentially what happens when the game does not know which map to insert the player into, so the player is plunked into an area that does not exist. Glitch City may only be entered if the Safari Timer hit 0 while the player was in a map that has no doors or cave entrances (such as Sea Route 20). After the character leaves the Safari building after their session is over, the game tries to put them back onto the map they were previously in. However, if there were no doors or cave entrances (or entrance points of any kind) then the player finds him- or herself in Glitch City. Location There is more than one Glitch City, and one can find them by going somewhere other than Cinnabar (like Cycling Road or Victory Road).This means that you can create different glitch cities depending on where you are when the timer sounds. The Seafoam Islands and a few routes allows the player to move around; however, in most other Glitch Cities, the player will be surrounded by glitches and unable to walk around. When a player uses their map in the Glitch City accessed through the Cinnabar Coast, it will say that they are in the Sea Route 20. However, Glitch City looks nothing like the Sea Route 20. (The player's map depends on which Glitch City they went to; for example, if the player goes to Cycling road instead of the Cinnabar Coast, the map will say the player is on Cycling Road instead of Sea Route 20). The Glitch City accessed through the Cinnabar Coast is located below Sea Route 20. Highlights The most common Pokémon found in the Glitch City accessed through the Cinnabar coast are Tentacool. A player can also fish for Pokémon in this Glitch City. Going too far to the left or right will often get the player stuck in an invisible wall. If one presses Start, often the graphics and pixels of the city will change briefly. In Pokemon Yellow you may also see Pikachu running in random places. There is a connection with this and the Missingno glitch. The area in which the surfing part of the glitch takes place has some sort of 'unspecified' designator given by the designers which makes numerous glitches happen. The music in the Glitch City accessed through the Cinnabar Coast is the same music theme as the one played on routes. In Glitch City, pixels and graphics from different parts of the game are mixed up (see picture). The land and water can also be mixed up so sometimes it appears that the player is standing on water or surfing on land. This is usually caused by using a fishing rod or pausing the game (which causes parts of Glitch City to change). If the whole city turns to water (which is sometimes possible), the player can keep surfing forever until the player gets stuck or the game automatically shuts off. (However, a player should not surf for long distances while in Glitch City, because it can corrupt a player's game.) In the Yellow version, if one goes to the right, they will find a row with 3 9's. If you walk into this, Pikachu will disappear. When you walk out of it, Pikachu will follow your "recorded" path back to you. In the Glitch City accessed through the Cinnabar Coast, in some cases you are able to surf in northern direction until you reach the barrier that normally prevents you to leave Sea Route 20 northward. When reached, however, the graphics become even more glitchy and the entire game freezes. If this is done while playing Pokemon Stadium, it will say the game has been corrputed, but the game is actually ''not'' corrupted (Pokemon Stadium just interprets it as being corrupted). Because invisible walls that trap the player exist on the western side of the city, going north is usually the only way to escape the "normal" Glitch City. If a player goes to the westernmost "checker-board" water pattern in the city, and goes left of it one square and then right one square, this will enable the entire city to become water (when the player presses "start") and allow the player to swim north until they reach the barrier that normally cannot be crossed (causing the game to freeze). Once the player is far enough north, before reaching the northern border the player can swim west or east for a long period of time until the game freezes. The reason the game freezes when heading too far north, west or east is because the player is surfing into a location that does not exist in the game's memory; as a result, the game cannot function. It also happens in places that do exist but are completely altered. For example, when the player is able to surf considerably far north and then surfs west, they will reach where Cinnabar Island ''should'' be. However, because the game is in a glitched state it does not recognize the Island and when the player tries to go where the Island is, it will freeze. (The reason flying out of Glitch City successfully ends the Glitch is because those places are in different parts of the games memory.) In several Fanfic s Glitch City is the origin of 'M and Missingno. . Other Facts The only way out of Glitch City is to fly out, so if one saves the game, one should make sure there is a Pokémon that can fly out. As a precaution, players going to Glitch City should ''never'' save the game in Glitch City, even if they have a Pokémon that can fly out. (For example if you save the game in Glitch City and you realize you do not have a Pokémon that can fly out you will be stuck in Glitch City permanently.) Also, research has been done by several people playing Red and Blue versions. They have found that overaccessing Glitch City can result in deletion of data and all Pokémon the player has caught. It is recommended that players do not overaccess Glitch City for this reason. The Glitch Cities found in the Yellow version are different than those that are found in the Red and Blue versions. It is not clear if game designers purposely added Glitch City to the game, although it is speculated that the creation of Glitch City is caused by the game attempting to load two maps simultaneously (the Safari Zone map and the map of the area the player was in). Glitch City is also sometimes called "Sunny Town" by fans. (There is no city named Sunny Town in the games.) If a player goes to Cycling Road instead of the Cinnabar Coast to do the Glitch City trick, they will go to a Glitch City where they are always automatically walking downward. This is because normally the bicycle the player is on in Cycling Road automatically goes downward. Also, if you try to get on your bike it will say "You can't get off here," which is the normal message displayed when you're tring to get ''off'' your bike on Cycling Road. If a player were to surf north until you hit a wall like the ones that keep you in the sea routes, the screen will show a garble of glitched graphics and the game will freeze. Also, if you surf until the wall is on the top of the screen and then surf west, the game will show a different glitchy screen and then freeze. While doing the Glitch City glitch, go to Victory Road instead of Cinnabar Island. When you get to Glitch City, the statues from the Indigo Plateau/Victory Road will be there. By careful study of many situations with players accessing Glitch City from various areas, it has been proven that Glitch City will have many pixel arrangements that are found in the area that one explored prior to access of it. LATER PREVENTION The Safari Zone was not included in the Gold , Silver and Crystal versions, and since the Safari Zone is needed to complete this glitch, it is impossible to do it in these three versions. Players have theorized that the Safari Zone wasn't included in the Gold, Silver and Crystal games because of Glitch City. The code and map of the Safari Zone still exist in the three games, though before releasing the game to the public, the only action took to prevent accessing the glitch is removing the door to the Safari Zone. In Pokémon Ruby , Sapphire , and Emerald , the player must exit the Safari Zone by using the Start menu and selecting "Retire." A warden also goes outside and blocks the door, so the player cannot return to the Safari Zone lobby while using the Safari Zone. This was most likely done to prevent a Glitch City-type glitch in Ruby and Sapphire. In Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen , the player cannot save the game in the Safari Zone, therefore making it impossible to access Glitch City. The stability of these games would make it impossible to recreate the glitch regardless. G/S TRICK
SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS ''Note: The following links are also used as references (sources) for the article''
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