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lewisflude
Is this machine assisted or could I do this on a regular Game Boy? Regardless, this is very interesting. That music brings back childhood memories of insomnia.
kanzure
Here's a similar exploit for Gold/Silver: http://forums.glitchcity.info/index.php/topic,6716.0.html

edit; If you are interested in finding other glitches, there's commented source code over here:

Red/Blue: https://github.com/iimarckus/pokered

Crystal: https://github.com/kanzure/pokecrystal (Gold/Silver doesn't compile yet)

hacker789
The explanation (and subsequent discussion) in your first link is wonderful.

I love that there are nerds tucked away in random corners of the internet, making themselves happy by working on obscure, challenging problems like these.

jds375
This was my favorite part of playing around with old Pokemon games. It's actually unfortunate you can't do them in the newer games
liuyanghejerry
I think it's mostly because old games written in ASM, while newer ones in C/C++.
jimmaswell
Writing an entire game in ASM must be a pain.
ekimekim
More importantly, new hardware has proper memory protection, so instead of cool tricks you just get segfaults...
failrate
I want a pokemon-type game with robots, where this isn't a cool trick, but a critical part of the game.
derefr
Something like Core War, but with more RPG (or possibly MOBA) elements?
failrate
Yes, similar. Also, the collectibility aspect is key to knowledge acquisition. Or, you could also go the Jade Cocoon route, which used genetic combination.
Ellipsis753
This is insanely cool. Someone on the thread linked to this Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3EvpRHL_vk . He uses the glitch to program an entire game into ram and then runs his own breakout clone style game through this code execution glitch.
drakaal
I predict this could be more popular than Node.JS

Already has a good install base. Hardware is proprietary, but it is cheap. There are emulators/VMs to run on more commodity hardware. The demographic is young so it will have time to mature before enterprise adoption. It will be awesome.

pbrook
This is one of the most elaborate hacks I've ever heard of. Programming via adding items to your inventory in Pokemon. Incredible.
Dragonai
Seconded. Hands down the most sophisticated hack I've seen in my life. I am absolutely amazed that something like this is possible.
em3rgent0rdr
awesome! Fun example to teach arbitrary code exploitation!
pearjuice
Reading that thread felt like being on the play ground as a kid and some noisy classmate "who's dad worked at Nintendo" explains how to get a 152th Pokemon. I was pretty amazed that at the end it wasn't a made-up lie or joke but that those trivial steps (5 steps to the left, go there and there) actually led to something.
chilldream
It's neat how many glitches people have found in these particular games. A couple other Pokemon "arbitrary code" hacks (in the Yellow version):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UnB1fomvAw (Pi day celebration)

http://aurellem.org/vba-clojure/html/total-control.html (proof-of-concept for a clojure-to-pokemon-to-assembly compiler)

A "normal" playthrough in which the author shows off various glitches (most without any kind of cheat device): http://lparchive.org/Pokemon-Blue/Update%2001/