Apparently there IS a way to get Mew without going to an event or hooking up a cheating device. It involves not beating one of the trainers early on, and using fly when he locks on you for an encounter. This locks your encounter data so the next time you hit a wild encounter, it will be Mew. I guess trainer data is interpreted differently from wild encounters, but they use the same numbers, and his lineup just happens to read as Mew when you toss it in the blender. I only learned about this a few years ago, when I decided to Google if there was a way to get Mew. I'd legitimately gotten one from an event, but a "friend" deleted that save way back when, and I thought it'd be a larf to get it back.Sniper Team 4 said:I did the Mew one. I found that truck. I got to that island. I tried pushing it from all sides. I was so disappointed when it didn't work. I was afraid I had done something wrong. I tried and tried so hard to move that stupid truck.
Then I was told by a friend that had Mew that wasn't real. Instead, he let me borrow his...shoot, what were those cheating things called for Game Boys? Was it a Game Genie? Anyway, he caught Mew for me that way.
Of course, all that did was make me think that there had to be a real way to get him in the game, seeing as he had a codex entry and animation and everything. Wasn't until years later that I found out the only way to get him without cheating was to go to that stupid event.
You're thinking of the Game Shark, i had one as well to do a bunch of neat cheats for both Gameboy Color and Gameboy Advanced games.Sniper Team 4 said:Instead, he let me borrow his...shoot, what were those cheating things called for Game Boys? Was it a Game Genie?
Ah, the Mew glitch [http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Mew_glitch] (also called the Trainer Fly Glitch). Basically, the glitch makes use of how the gen 1 games alias memory. Because you fly away from the trainer initially, the game will believe there is still a battle to be completed in that area, but the memory address for what you will encounter is shared by the special stat of the last Pokemon you fought. So if you fight a pokemon with a special stat of 21 and then return to the area you flew away from earlier, you will fight a wild Mew. An interesting side note is while you are fighting the pokemon to set up the Mew encounter, if you use growl to lower the in-battle attack stat of the pokemon you are fighting to its lowest level, the pokemon you face will be at level 1, which allows you to use another glitch to underflow the experience counter [http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Experience#Experience_underflow_glitch].ccggenius12 said:Apparently there IS a way to get Mew without going to an event or hooking up a cheating device. It involves not beating one of the trainers early on, and using fly when he locks on you for an encounter. This locks your encounter data so the next time you hit a wild encounter, it will be Mew. I guess trainer data is interpreted differently from wild encounters, but they use the same numbers, and his lineup just happens to read as Mew when you toss it in the blender. I only learned about this a few years ago, when I decided to Google if there was a way to get Mew. I'd legitimately gotten one from an event, but a "friend" deleted that save way back when, and I thought it'd be a larf to get it back.Sniper Team 4 said:I did the Mew one. I found that truck. I got to that island. I tried pushing it from all sides. I was so disappointed when it didn't work. I was afraid I had done something wrong. I tried and tried so hard to move that stupid truck.
Then I was told by a friend that had Mew that wasn't real. Instead, he let me borrow his...shoot, what were those cheating things called for Game Boys? Was it a Game Genie? Anyway, he caught Mew for me that way.
Of course, all that did was make me think that there had to be a real way to get him in the game, seeing as he had a codex entry and animation and everything. Wasn't until years later that I found out the only way to get him without cheating was to go to that stupid event.
OT: Kids are dicks.