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Chickasaurus (talk | contribs) (→Criticism: Expanding the cheat prevention information a little. It's far from exhaustive though. I moved it to its own header, and added a few examples of how TPC/Game Freak have filtered out cheating from the games or made updates that patch glitches which allow for cheating. I think there are a lot more, or we could comb through the patch information and determine which ones are to prevent illegal Pokémon from glitches?) |
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===Generation I=== | ===Generation I=== | ||
*One of the earliest known anti-cheat (glitch) mechanisms in Pokémon was a hidden patch to {{2v2|Red|Green}}; the first retail Pokémon game (revision A; additionally the version used for [[Virtual Console]]). | *One of the earliest known anti-cheat (glitch) mechanisms in Pokémon was a hidden patch to {{2v2|Red|Green}}; the first retail Pokémon game (revision A; additionally the version used for [[Virtual Console]]). | ||
**This revision A patch (a hidden rerelease of the game; a common practice then similar to other cartridges with revision changes<!--NintendoWiki has an article; add interwiki link if possible--> such as Tetris<!--Add interwiki link to harddrop if possible-->), partially amended the [[select glitch]]es (powerful glitches including sub-glitches that enable manipulating advantages in the game in an unintended way e.g. [[dokokashira door glitch]] allows one to warp to the Hall of Fame, and [[second | **This revision A patch (a hidden rerelease of the game; a common practice then similar to other cartridges with revision changes<!--NintendoWiki has an article; add interwiki link if possible--> such as Tetris<!--Add interwiki link to harddrop if possible-->), partially amended the [[select glitch]]es (powerful glitches including sub-glitches that enable manipulating advantages in the game in an unintended way e.g. [[dokokashira door glitch]] allows one to warp to the Hall of Fame, and [[second type glitch]] was an early glitch to obtain any Pokémon including {{p|Mew}}), by adding code to disable the 'is selected?' memory address if the items menu was closed in battle. However, players are still able to exploit the glitches in revision A and [[Pokémon Blue (Japanese)]] by pressing Select on an item before entering battle, and then continuing the glitch from within a battle or Pokémon menu (i.e. the Day Care menu or Name Rater menu). | ||
===Generation II=== | ===Generation II=== | ||
