Strange Viridian City Battle

I had this creepy battle a while back while an elder was at my house. I posted it in the hints (accidently) but it couldn't be discussed there so I thought I'd put it here and then disscuss it.

I came across a very strange glitch a few days ago. I had gone to the Viridian Trainer Hall and the lady said that I would be battling BUDDY. This is what she should've said. However, when the battle started it wasn't so. It said I would be battling Pokemon Trainer Thomas. I have no clue why. It also made his Pokemon seem like they had fainted before I battled him (you know, the orange pokeballs with X's on them). Interested, I started the battle. The first thing he sent out was something called ?????. It had lots of health, looked like a purple/blue Pokemon trainer, was a male, and was poisoned so I couldn't see what level it was. I went to "fight" and selected flamethrower. The screen froze and I couldn't even restart by pressing A+B+start+ select. I then restarted the game and tried again.

Thomas and his Pokemon (if it is one) were still there. This time I tried to switch to my Golbat but after I selected it the game had "Waiting..." in a box like the one in a link battle if your opponent has not made his move. It didn't go away, so I resarted. This next time I decided to use an item so that ????? would have to attack. But it said "Items can't be used here" another link battle occurance. Then I selected "run" and to my surprise it did the waiting box again instead of saying..."No! There's no running from a trainer battle." The battle music was still playing, though. Then I remembered doing Mystery Gift with BUDDY. and went to the Trainer Hall in that game. The battle was completely normal except when I beat Craig's Jolteon, Odd, my level 255 Vileplume (a Gameshark accident) grew down to level 48, like it was before the mess up. I won the battle and got $2900.

This time I got creative. I changed my Poliwhirl's name to ????? and used only him in the battle. Nothing changed. I selected fight and the screen froze, making this high-pitched beeping noise. The time after that I put my Pidgeot first and selected fight. Now the game automaticly resarted and all colors were a redish shade. Now I put my Furret first and selected fight. Again the game auto resarted with all colors a brownish shade.

This time I put Pikachu first and selected fight. The screen froze making a high-pitched beep again. I then put Dratini first and selected fight. Once more the game auto resarted and all colors were pale yellow, blue, or white. Then I had to stop because I wanted to sleep. I did, of course, so I had no further expiramenting.

I did Mystery Gift again with BUDDY. and he had a level 255 Voltorb (another Gameshark accident). The same things happened in the Trainer Hall, giving me this idea of what happened: A level 255 Pokemon, and all Pokemon above level 100, will show up as a messed up Pokemon in the Hall. Can someone please test my theory? Also what does the Unknown stone do?

This is copy/pasted from the hints of G/S. Written, of course, by me.

Interesting...but cool. This kinda stuff happens to me in link battles sometimes.

A lot of that stuff happens only in link battles. What about Thomas, the items, and all the other weird stuff?

I don't know. I usually end up battling level 150 something Granbulls, Starmies, and others I don't remember.

On 20-Jul-2005 spideraman99 said:

I don't know. I usually end up battling level 150 something Granbulls, Starmies, and others I don't remember.

Do you mean you fight those if you put a 101+ pokemon in the opponet's lineup and then battle it then?

No, I fight my bro's normal Pokemon via link cable and then the screen blacks out and I fight those.

That happens with my friend's link cable and I get the same results. But that's only because my friend threw it accross my yard and into our tree. But waht about a strange Viridian City battle?

That never happened to me.

That has happened to me.

So can you describe that a little better? I'd be able to "dig dat".

hmm that is REALLY wierd! I have NO idea what happend! Sorry i couldnt help cuz nothing like that has ever happend to me! That is soo wierd!

Can anybody test this?

What do you mean?

He means test the viridian battle thing, I think.

whoa is this real?

On 03-Aug-2005 can u dig dat said:

What do you mean?

I mean to take a level 101+ pokemon and do Mystery Gift and see what happens in the Trainer Hall when you battle it.

On 03-Aug-2005 Rayquaza2233 said:

whoa is this real?

Yes it is. I guarentee it happened to me.