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The receptionist's dialog if the opponent is ^P_K^M_N TRAINER Thomas

The Trainer House glitch is a glitch in Pokémon Gold and Silver that affects the Trainer in the Trainer House. It is caused by corrupted RAM for save data, in particular from glitch dimensions caused by glitch Unown. It may be also triggered if the player tries to modify the time just after a Mystery Gift or a trade.

Effects

This glitch policeman may appear on the second floor of any Pokémon Center, and will give the player a random item

A Pokémon over level 100 of the glitch Trainer

This glitch overwrites the Unown's Pokédex data with a random hexadecimal value, causing alterations to the game. If the new value triggers a glitch Unown then the time will be reset and the Trainer in the Trainer House will be displayed without a valid name, but with six Pokémon. This glitch Trainer can be battled, but the screen may display "Waiting...", as if the player was in a link battle. Once the message "Waiting..." is displayed, the game will freeze. Battling the Trainer twice (or even once) in one day often either freezes the game or triggers the glitch dimension. The glitch Trainer may have Pokémon with glitch status ailments and Pokémon over level 100, and is very likely to have Pokémon with impossible movesets and Pokémon with a series of "?" instead of their name. Some glitch Pokémon know a glitch move which, if used, causes the message "But nothing happened" to appear, followed by the game entering the glitch dimension. Additionally, if the player checks Unown's Pokédex data in a Pokémon Center or inside a city, there will be a glitch Policeman on the second floor of all Pokémon Centers. When spoken to, he says "Hello ! You're <player>, right? I have some-thing for you." If the player chooses "YES", the Policeman will say "Here you go!" and the player will receive an item (this item is related to the glitch Unown hexadecimal value). This allows the player to obtain various glitch items, such as the Teru-sama.

Usually the new hexadecimal value will be 20, 21, 7F, 80 or 81 so the Trainer will be displayed without a name, but with the Trainer class ^P_K^M_N TRAINER, and will send out a level 0 Primeape, causing a game freeze. In this case, the glitch Policeman won't appear and the time will work regularly. Sometimes ^P_K^M_N TRAINERs may have other Pokémon such as level 127 Pinsir and level 0 Venonat. ????? may occasionally duplicate the Pokémon that fainted just before it.

See here for all possible glitch Trainers.

^P_K^M_N TRAINER Thomas

A glitch Pokémon with the sprite of the Trainer and a series of "?" instead of its name

A Trainer affected by the glitch; all of his Pokémon have fainted

This is a variation of the original glitch and usually occurs if the player sets the time back just after a trade or a Mystery Gift causing a lack of information to the Trainer House which has already discarded the previous data. The Trainer in the Trainer House is replaced with ^P_K^M_N TRAINER Thomas (the name is an acronym which means "Time, Hour, Minutes And Seconds"). ^P_K^M_N TRAINER Thomas is displayed in the receptionist's dialog as a series of "9" and letters. This ^P_K^M_N TRAINER is displayed in battle with six Pokémon, which are all fainted, and sends out a level 0 ????? with his same sprite causing an immediate freeze. ^P_K^M_N TRAINER Thomas doesn't corrupt the player's mailbox, and can be fixed by doing a new Mystery Gift or a trade, which should replace the missing information. ^P_K^M_N TRAINER Thomas is less dangerous than any other kind of glitch Trainer in the Trainer House because he is not triggered by corrupted data, but simply by a system error.

Related problems

A mailbox corrupted by this glitch. The messages may be signed from unused character strings

It is rare that the Trainer House data is corrupted without simultaneous corruption of other areas of the save.

A glitch message in a corrupted mailbox. It's signed by GREEN

Most commonly, the player's mailbox is corrupted. If so, the list is not properly terminated. Some of the messages may be signed from unused character strings, such as GREEN (a default character name remnant from the Japanese version), and some may freeze the game or reset it into a glitch dimension if they are read.If the player gives one of these messages to a Pokémon, and the mail appears as a purple version of the Flower Mail from the mailbox, the game will transform it into a random item. By reading those messages, a series of side-effects will happen:

• The screen will turn black and the NPC sprites will become ????? sprites.
• The options "PACK" and "SAVE" will disappear from the menu.
• Trainers in the Trainer House will be glitchy. When battled, their party will be determined by the glitch messages, but due to the fact that opponent's moves aren't programmed, the screen will display "Waiting..." and the game will freeze.

Sometimes, after that a glitch message has been displayed, also the others Trainers will behave as the Trainer in the Trainer House.

Another common problem is having an excessive amount of room decorations, which may include glitch decorations placed directly into the PC.

List of obtainable items through the glitch Policeman

In the brackets there's the hexadecimal value needed to trigger each item. Missing hexadecimal values don't trigger any item. Some hexadecimal values triggers more than one item, and this will be determined by where the Unown's Pokédex data has been viewed.

• TM03 (1C, 4B, 83, B8, F3, F4)
• TM04 (CF)
• TM09 (1D)
• TM10 (23, 3C, 67, 69, E4)
• TM12 (8E)
• TM14 (94, F2, F9, FA, FC, FE)
• TM15 (31, E3)
• TM18 (4A, E5)
• TM19 (70)
• TM20 (91)
• TM26 (73)
• TM27 (97)
• TM38 (5F)
• TM42 (84, CD)
• TM48 (39, CA, C4)
• HM08 (B0, F7)
• HM12 (50)
• Antidote (F1)
• BrightPowder (6B)
• Coin Case (B9, ED, EE, F0)
• Energy Powder (7D)
• Ice Berry (5F)
• Leaf Stone (60)
• Leftovers (4E, 60)
• Lemonade (6B)
• Lure Ball (1F)
• Master Ball (41, 58, 66, 86, B2, D3, D4, D5, D8, DF)
• Max Ether (C3)
• Max Revive (6B)
• Metal Powder (C0)
• Mint Berry (E7)
• Moon Stone (54)
• Nugget (6B)
• Polkadot Bow (47)
• Poké Ball (5D)
• Poké Doll (1E)
• PRZCureBerry (6B)
• Potion (99, 9B, 9E)
• Repel (46)
• Revival Herb (29, 52)
• Scope Lens (3A)
• Squirtbottle (24)
• Stick (59)
• Super Potion 54)
• Super Rod (6B)
• Teru-Sama (26, 65, 82, D0)
• X Accuracy (4C)

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