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'''Super Glitch''' is the nickname for a large amount of volatile glitch moves that exist in hexadecimal slots A6 to C3 in {{game|Red and Blue|s}} and Pokemon Yellow.These moves generally have either no name, a number of glitchy symbols as a name, or the name of a Pokémon in one's [[party]] as its name. Super glitch effects can also occasionally be caused by the move {{m|--}}. If the move is used, the opposing Pokémon will be burned, and will either faint, or its HP will drop until it has almost fainted.

Super Glitch can cause some rather strange effects. The most famous scenario is a chain of events starting with the music slowly fading out before stopping altogether known as the '[[TMTRAINER effect]]'. The opponent's name then changes to "TMTRAINER" followed by several lines of [[glitch]] dialogue, and the {{stat|HP}} of his or her Pokémon rises to a very large value which is often larger than the amount of max HP that the opponent Pokémon has, which causes the HP bar to stretch and wrap around the screen (the filled part the bar also instantly jumps from empty to full repeatedly before fainting (0HP) during damage animation due to the fact that the calculations to display how much fill in the bar in percent has been overflowed, thus causing the fill to wrap between empty and full). It will display that the enemy Pokémon is {{status|poison}}ed, but the game will state that it is {{status|freeze|frozen solid}}, followed by the enemy Pokémon becoming hurt by a {{status|burn}}. This burn will often deplete all of the enemy Pokémon's health, causing the giant HP bar to loop several times before all the HP is depleted, causing it to faint. If the battle is won before the game freezes, the glitch Pokémon that used Super Glitch may grow to a random level (sometimes even exceeding level 100). Also, sometimes many random Pokémon not part of the player's team evolve right after a battle. On such cases, Pokémon that cannot evolve can evolve into themselves.

Super Glitch is possible to activate outside of battle. By having a Pokémon that knows Super Glitch learn another move by level, the glitch will activate, just without the TMTRAINER effect, as you are not in battle. An example of this happening is [[Q◣]], which will learn Mega Punch at level 11. However, if it knows Super Glitch, then the effects will activate as if the player had just exited a battle using the glitch.

On occasion, a player may return to the game after a battle in which Super Glitch was used, but everything will be severely glitched. It will appear as if some Pokémon are poisoned in the player's team as every few steps a Pokémon faints. However, these Pokémon have glitchy names and were never part of the player's team before the battle. Some positions of the map will be glitchy and volatile, as if parts of [[Glitch City]] merged with the regular map. The player's name will have changed to a scrambled string of symbols. The player will be unable to view his or her Pokémon (if the Pokémon option is selected in the menu, a blank screen will show from which one can't escape) and hence it becomes impossible to {{m|Surf}} or {{m|Fly}}. Pokémon will disappear out of the Pokédex after taking a few steps. The music everywhere (except in battle) becomes eerie and glitched. The game may unexpectedly freeze at any point. The player may also randomly get stuck.

The starting location of Super Glitch's {{wp|memory corruption}} can be calculated from an equation: ''StartingLocation = D0E1₁₆ + MoveLengths + NumberOfMovesBeforeSuperGlitch''.

Something important to note is that it is the move that is dangerous, not its users. For example, [[ゥ .4]], which knows Super Glitch as a starting move, is mistakenly believed to be extremely dangerous to one's game and save file. However, ゥ .4 as a species is no more dangerous than [[MissingNo.]] or [['M (00)]]. In fact, a ゥ .4 acquired by trading a [[PPkMnp' '|p{{PK}}{{MN}}p' ']] from {{game|Yellow}} will pose no threat whatsoever to the game, and a ゥ .4 that has forgotten Super Glitch is completely safe. Though obviously, a wild ゥ .4 will still pose a significant threat, as it will know Super Glitch.

{{Moveentry/Level1|080|4 4Hy|1|Water|Psychic|250}}

{{Moveentry/Level1|061|a|1|Water|Water|121}}

{{Moveentry/Level1|015|ゥ ( Z4|2|Bug|Poison|182}}

{{Moveentry/Level1|080|4 4Hy|1|Water|Psychic|3, 208}}

{{Moveentry/Level1|061|a|1|Water|Water|195}}

{{Moveentry/Level1|094|h POKé|2|Ghost|Poison|205}}

{{Moveentry/Level1|015|ゥ ( Z4|2|Bug|Poison|35<br>175}}

{{Moveentry/Level1|121|Q◣|2|Water|Psychic|224}}

{{Moveentry/Level1|062|ゥL ゥM 4|2|Water|Fighting|24}}

{{Moveentry/Level1|061|a|1|Water|Water|43<br>238<br>239<br>240}}

{{Moveentry/Level1|015|ゥ ( Z4|2|Bug|Poison|42}}

{{Moveentry/Level1|062|ゥL ゥM 4|2|Water|Fighting|55<br>56}}

{{Moveentry/Level1|121|Q◣|2|Water|Psychic|9}}

{{Moveentry/Level1|062|ゥL ゥM 4|2|Water|Fighting|71}}

** Despite this, one would still have to view a special text box (such as the "HEAL/CANCEL" ones at Pokémon Centers) to avoid any glitch message boxes crashing the game.

* Super Glitches may sometimes reveal certain unused data portions, like beta battle systems in {{game|Yellow}} or the cardinal direction boxset.

* Super Glitch index A6 is especially dangerous, since its invalid name points to a constant memory location, which always causes {{wp|memory corruption}}. According to [http://forums.glitchcity.info/index.php/topic,6992.msg198569.html#msg198569 TheZZAZZGlitch], since older versions of VBA do not emulate VRAM inaccessibility, index A7 name is displayed as "qq", because of a B0 B0 50 pattern in VRAM at address $83C5, thus the move will not cause any side-effects (while it will cause memory corruption if viewed in the overworld). On BGB (and real console), the finishing 0x50 byte at $83C7 is not read, causing Super Glitch effects.