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this is like differentiating between "male" and "not female"...
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[[Image:Bad_egg.png|150px|right|thumb|A bad egg in the [[party]]. Note how it is capitalized as "Bad EGG."]] | [[Image:Bad_egg.png|150px|right|thumb|A bad egg in the [[party]]. Note how it is capitalized as "Bad EGG."]] | ||
A '''bad egg''' (Japanese: '''ダメタマゴ''' '' | A '''bad egg''' (Japanese: '''ダメタマゴ''' ''bad egg'') is a phenomenon present in the [[Generation III]] and [[Generation IV]] Pokémon games that results from a corruption of Pokémon data so that the {{wp|checksum}} does not match up with the data's calculations. | ||
Bad eggs are not really [[Pokémon egg]]s, and may possibly never have been, but instead the default message returned by the game if the checksum is off (which happens only if data is altered badly). Bad eggs will never hatch and cannot be released, merely taking up space, though there are methods of removing them. | Bad eggs are not really [[Pokémon egg]]s, and may possibly never have been, but instead the default message returned by the game if the checksum is off (which happens only if data is altered badly). Bad eggs will never hatch and cannot be released, merely taking up space, though there are methods of removing them. | ||