Japanese text in English games

In the early Generation I and II games, many glitches contained Japanese Katakana and Hiragana text; most notably the ゥ. The English games were not supposed to contain any Japanese characters at all, however, some characters were left behind within the coding.

Below are the only characters known to be programmed into the games.

Gen I

Blue's Main screen tiles at address 0x8800, Notice ァ, ゥ, and ェ below the Pokémon logo.

Yellow's overworld tiles at address 0x8800, Notice ぁ, ぇ, and ぉ on the last line.

Yellow's in-battle tiles at address 0x8000, Notice ァ, ゥ, and ェ on the second-to-last line.

Yellow's main screen tiles at address 0x8800, Notice ァ, ゥ, and ェ on the middle line and ぁ, ぇ, and ぉ on the last line.

R/B

Maintiles

Address	Character
8E90	ァ (a)
8EA0	ゥ (u)
8EB0	ェ (e)

Overworld tiles

Address	Character
9760	ぁ (a)
9770	ぇ (e)
9780	ぉ (o)

Battletiles

Address	Character
8E90	ァ (a)
8EA0	ゥ (u)
8EB0	ェ (e)

Yellow

Maintiles

Address	Character
8E90	ァ (a)
8EA0	ゥ (u)
8EB0	ェ (e)
9760	ぁ (a)
9770	ぇ (e)
9780	ぉ (o)

Overworld tiles

Address	Character
9760	ぁ (a)
9770	ぇ (e)
9780	ぉ (o)

Battletiles

Address	Character
9760	ぁ (a)
9770	ぇ (e)
9780	ぉ (o)

Gen II

G/S

Gold's Main screen tiles at address 0x8800, Notice ぁ, ぇ, and ぉ on the last line.

Maintiles

Address	Character
9760	ぁ (a)
9770	ぇ (e)
9780	ぉ (o)

Overworld tiles

Address	Character
9760	ぁ (a)
9770	ぇ (e)
9780	ぉ (o)

Gold's in-battle screen tiles at address 0x8800, Notice ど on the bottom left.

Battletiles

Address	Character
9700	ど (Do)

Crystal

Crystal's Main screen tiles at address 0x8800, Notice ぁ, ぇ, and ぉ on the last line.

Maintiles

Address	Character
9760	ぁ (a)
9770	ぇ (e)
9780	ぉ (o)

Overworld tiles

Address	Character
9760	ぁ (a)
9770	ぇ (e)
9780	ぉ (o)

Battletiles

Address	Character
9700	ど (Do)

Glitches in the Pokémon games Multiple generations: Cloning glitches • Glitch Pokémon • Glitch types Generation I: -- • 0 ERROR • Cut glitch • Cable Club escape glitch • Dokokashira door glitch Error codes • Experience underflow glitch • Glitch City • Glitch dimension Glitch moves • Glitch Trainers • Item duplication glitch • Johto guard glitch Mew glitch • Old man glitch • Pewter Gym skip glitch • Pokémon merge glitch Second type glitch • Rhydon glitch • Super Glitch • ZZAZZ glitch Generation II: Celebi Egg glitch • Coin Case glitches • Error codes • Experience underflow glitch • Glitch Egg Johto guard glitch • Sketch glitch • Teru-sama • Trainer House glitch Generation III: Berry glitch • Dive glitch • Pomeg glitch Generation IV: Acid rain • Global Terminal glitches • Mimic glitch Pomeg glitch • Rage glitch • Surf glitch • Tweaking Generation V: Sky Drop glitch Glitch effects: Game freeze • Glitch battle • Glitch dimension • Glitch screen Glitch song • Japanese text in English games • TMTRAINER effect Lists: Glitch moves • Glitch types Glitch Pokémon (Gen I • Gen II • Gen III • Gen IV • Gen V) Glitches (Gen I • Gen II • Gen III • Gen IV • Gen V • Spin-off)

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