Lumiose City save glitch

The Lumiose City save glitch is a glitch that occurs in Pokémon X and Y Versions. The glitch occurs whenever the game is saved and reloaded in the North and South Boulevards of Lumiose City and causes the game to not load properly. Nintendo acknowledged the existence of this bug, and released a patch in the Nintendo eShop to fix the bug.

Performing the glitch

In order to trigger the effects of this glitch, the player must save the game in the North or South Boulevards in Lumiose City. Then, upon reloading the game, there is a large chance that the game will fail to load properly, resulting in what appears to be a game freeze.

Effects

Upon reloading the game, the player will find that they cannot continue from the point they saved at when the glitch was triggered. The player will be unable to move or use the touch screen, and certain textures will fail to load properly. However, despite the apparent freeze, the background music will continue to play. Due to the fact that the player cannot proceed past this point, and that the save file will continue to fail to load, this glitch will prevent the player from progressing any further in the game and will force them to start a new save file.

Fix

Nintendo quickly acknowledged the problem, and, on October 25, 2013, they released a patch to move the game up to version 1.1. This patch fixed the Lumiose City glitch as well as the GTS filter glitch. The glitch can, however, still occur in any game that has not yet updated to the new version.

This glitch Pokémon article is part of Project GlitchDex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on glitches in the Pokémon games.