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?????????? is a Glitch Pokémon that occupies slot 00 (or, to be exact, slot 0000) in Pokémon FireRed, LeafGreen, Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald versions. It was programmed into the game to prevent game crashes. It is not technically a glitch, because unlike previous (and future) inhabitants of slot 00, its information was defined by the programmers. (See image below)
Game dataTrivia
- There are many other variations of this Pokémon in the Generation III games. Their images are the same as ??????????'s, but the individual sprites can be backwards, differently colored, upside down, or any of several other minor differences in appearance.
- Many variations of this Glitch Pokémon are named after moves or fragments of a move's name (truncated to the game maximum of ten characters) (e.g. POUND, CHOP, RBOLT, WING ATTACK, ICK ATTACK, and so on.)
- In the Generation I and II games, hexadecimal slots were from 00 to FF, totaling to exactly 256 Pokémon slots available. However, in the Generation III games, the hexes are from 0000 to FFFF, allowing thousands (65,536 to be exact) of Pokémon to be defined. However, only 439 (counting ??????????, Egg, all Unown forms and 25 double question marks) were defined, filling the remaining 65,097 slots with ?????????? variants, or "decamarks," as they are referred to by glitch researchers.
- Analysis of ??????????'s moveset has yielded Bulbasaur's exact Generation III learnset. However, the moves are all learned at different levels.
- It has been stated that there are also similar glitch Pokémon called ??????????? and ????????????. However, this can safely be dismissed as nonsense, due to the fact that across all non-Japanese versions of the games, the limit is 10 characters (in Japanese versions, it is 5). Coincidentally, this can be confirmed using the catchphrase system in Pokémon Battle Revolution, as the name placeholder is "PPPPPPPPPP."
- There may be similar glitch Pokémon in the Generation IV games, but there has been no investigation into this matter.
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