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'''Glitch City''' (Japanese: '''故障都市''' ''Broken Down City'') is a term used by players of the [[Pokémon games]] to refer to corrupted maps that result from a [[glitch]] present in the [[Generation I]] games of {{game2|Red|Blue|Yellow}}. Glitch Cities in {{game|Yellow}} are different from those in {{game|Red and Blue|s}}.

==Accessing Glitch City==

To access Glitch City, the player must enter a Safari Game, then immediately after entering, attempt to leave. The attendant will ask if the player wants to leave early to which the player must answer "no". The player must then reenter the Safari Zone. The game should then be saved and reset. The player must now attempt to exit the Safari Zone. The attendant will ask if the player would like to join a Safari Game, to which the player must answer "no". The player should then {{m|Fly}} anywhere.

After taking 500 steps, the Safari Zone's PA will ring, and the player will be warped into the Safari Zone gatehouse. By leaving the gatehouse through the south exit, and the player will enter Glitch City.

Glitch City cannot be accessed if the player runs out of steps in [[Celadon City]], [[Cerulean City]], [[Lavender Town]], [[Saffron City]], [[Fuchsia City]], [[Viridian City]], [[Pewter City]], [[Cinnabar Island]] or [[Vermilion City]].

==Escaping Glitch City==

==Explanation==

This glitch occurs because the player manages to trick the game into letting him or her out of the Safari Zone while the step timer is still running, by saving the game. When the steps run out, they are warped to the Safari Zone gatehouse, regardless of whether or not they are actually in the Safari Zone.

The reason the player may find themselves in Glitch City upon exiting the gatehouse is because the door that ''would'' lead out to [[Fuchsia City]] is coded so that the warp points to warp 4 on the last map the player was on. This would work perfectly normally, however, many areas in Generation I [[Kanto]] lack a warp 4, and so the glitch goes through. The maps that have a warp 4, [[Celadon City]], [[Cerulean City]], [[Lavender Town]], [[Saffron City]], [[Fuchsia City]], [[Viridian City]], [[Pewter City]], [[Cinnabar Island]] or [[Vermilion City]], do not result in a Glitch City, instead taking the player to wherever the warp 4 is and letting them leave it normally.

Due to warp-breaking, of course, this means that Glitch City is nothing more than a corrupted version of whatever map the player was on when he or she ran out of time. When the [[Town Map]] is viewed in Glitch City, the map will say that the player is in the area they were in just before entering Glitch City, because they technically are in the area, just a corrupted version of it. This is why the Glitch City found by running out on {{rt|17|Kanto}} will cause the player to constantly walk downward and why attempting to use the [[Bicycle]] results in the message "You can't get off here.", and why wild Pokémon data is is the same as that of the map that the player entered Glitch City from.

Although some aspects of the source map of Glitch City are preserved, such as tiles, most other attributes are completely changed, such as what is and isn't walkable terrain. There are essentially five types of tiles in Glitch City: Walkable tiles, ledges, walls, {{m|Surf}} tiles, and traps, which can be walked onto but not walked off. Map links, which allow players to travel between two adjacent areas without a warp (such as from {{rt|22|Kanto}} to [[Viridian City]]), are also apparently ignored, so if a player manages to navigate to where an adjacent map should be and try to walk into it, the result will be the same as if they walked outside of the map.

Normally {{m|cut}}table trees cannot be cut down in Glitch City, no matter how many times the move is used on it. No signs are readable, doors cannot be entered, and doors and cave entrances will not work. This is because objects (such as the invisible ones placed over signs) and warps (such as those placed over doors and cave entrances) are not present in Glitch City.

In {{game|Yellow}}, Glitch City has a profound effect on [[Red's Pikachu (game)|Pikachu's]] overworld AI, causing it to run to and from random places. Walking onto certain glitched tiles also make it disappear, though after the player leaves such tiles, Pikachu will reappear and follow the player's recorded path. Pikachu's happiness level will reset in Glitch City, causing it to dislike the player.

==Specific Glitch Cities==

===Route 20===

In the Glitch City accessed through {{rt|20|Kanto}}, players are sometimes able to {{m|Surf}} north until they reach the barrier that normally prevents them from leaving {{rt|20|Kanto}} to the north.

===Rock Tunnel===

===Route 13 (Yellow)===

In {{game|Yellow}}, if a player goes to {{rt|13|Kanto}} to activate the glitch, after leaving the gatehouse the player will be transported to a Glitch City where any move the player makes will send them to the [[Saffron Gym]]. After leaving the Gym, the player ends up in a completely different Glitch City.

===[[Generation II]]===

The [[Beta Safari Zone|Safari Zone]] was not included in {{game2|Gold|Silver|Crystal}}. A similar effect, however, can occur after capturing or defeating [[Five question marks|?????]].

===[[Generation III]] [[Generation IV|and onwards]]===

In [[Generation III]] and {{gen|IV}} games, including the remakes of Generation I, the warps are programmed differently.  However, using an Action Replay on the Sinnoh games to run/walk through walls, then biking through certain places will result in a corrupted version of a city, in which many tiles are white. When jumping off the bike, the character is a scrambled block.

* The Pokémon fansite [[Glitch City Laboratories]] is named after the Glitch City glitch.

 

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