Trainer House glitches
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 from attempting to modify the time just after a Mystery Gift or a trade, or glitch dimensions caused by viewing the entries of glitch Unown.
Time method
This is method usually occurs if the player sets the time back just after a trade or a Mystery Gift . The Trainer in the Trainer House is replaced with PKMN TRAINER Thomas . PKMN TRAINER Thomas is displayed in the receptionist's dialog as a series of "9" and letters. This PKMN 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. PKMN 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.
Unown method
This glitch overwrites data associated with the mailbox and Trainer House with a certain index number depending on the hexadecimal identifier of a viewed glitch Unown in the Unown Dex, 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 may 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 Policeman on the second floor of all Pokémon Centers, as if the player had received a Mystery Gift. 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 index number). This allows the player to obtain various glitch items, such as the Teru-sama.
The roster of the glitch Trainer depends on the index number of the Unown used. See here for all possible glitch Trainers obtainable through glitch Unown.
Registering glitch Unown
To register a glitch Unown in the Unown Dex, the player may obtain a ????? (Hex FF) as a bad clone from the Celebi egg glitch. If the ????? is placed as the first Pokémon in the party, the player can use the "MOVE PKMN W/O MAIL" option to withdraw over 6 Pokémon. This corrupts RAM data located past the expected end of the Pokémon data structure, although there are only a limited amount of Pokémon that the player can withdraw before the game freezes. If details about a 'post-6' Pokémon conflicts with data about Pokémon in the Unown Dex, then it is possible to replace entries with glitch Unown, provided that the player already has the Unown Dex, for example the index number of the current fourth move's PP of Pokémon #11 conflicts with RAM data associated with the first Unown. It is possible to replace the first Unown with a glitch Unown this way provided that the player used PP Ups to raise its associated index number past 26. In the process of obtaining glitch Unown, the player will be corrupting the values of other RAM addresses such as those determining seen or owned Pokémon in the Pokédex, or the number of options on the menu.
If the player added a glitch Unown which activates a glitch dimension, then there is a possibility that it will trigger the Trainer House glitch depending on its index number. Since getting a glitch dimension from glitch Unown only partially saves the game, any values changed prior such as the number of Pokémon seen and owned in the Pokédex will be returned back to normal, provided that the player did not already save from the menu. A list of glitch Unown which give obtainable Mystery Gift items can be found below.
List of obtainable 'Mystery Gift' items
Below are a list of Mystery Gift items obtainable through glitch Unown, based on the viewed hexadecimal identifier (indicated in brackets). Missing hexadecimal values don't trigger any item.
- 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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Related problems
It is rare that the Trainer House data is corrupted without simultaneous corruption of other areas of the save.
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 an equivalent item depending on its index number.
By reading or scrolling past these messages, a series of side-effects may occur, depending on the amount of glitch mail in the mailbox:
- The overworld will become corrupted, the screen may turn black and the NPC sprites may become corrupted sprites.
- The options "PACK" and "SAVE" will disappear from the menu.
- Sometimes other Trainers not inside the Trainer House will become glitchy. The screen will display "Waiting..." when the player attempts to fight as if they were in a link battle.
Another common problem is having an excessive amount of room decorations, which may include glitch decorations placed directly into the PC.
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