Many Charm glitch enemy sprite effects, etc. (Emerald)

• published: 29 Mar 2015
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Read description for more information: As many of you may be familiar with, using a Pomeg Berry in Pokémon Emerald on a Pokémon with high enough HP EVs allows you to underflow a Pokémon's HP from 1 to 65535 or 65534. This has opened up various other glitches, including the major access Pokémon beyond slot six glitch that lets you corrupt your boxes and potentially hatch any Pokémon. Another application of the Pomeg glitch in Emerald is when you heal your Pokémon with 65535/4 HP with an item from within battle, its sprite and HP bar will disappear. If you get hit by a damaging move, the HP bar will reappear but the user's sprite won't. This opens up various move and sprite related glitches, for example, the enemy using Odor Sleuth after getting no sprite and the HP bar showing causes the game to lock up indefinitely. If you use Charm (or perhaps another unknown move) after getting no sprite and the HP bar showing, then only then you can access some specific sprite glitches. These work when the user or the foe uses a certain move/does an animation. Many moves cause weird effects. A lot of moves share the same effects, but there seem to be at least 65 or so enemy sprite related glitches accessible with Charm glitch (underlined or linked in my documentation download below). However, the differences between some of those sprite glitches are hard to spot, e.g. the difference between Dragon Rage and Conversion 2's glitch. Examples of particular enemy sprite glitches include the foe using Pound making the foe's sprite become small, the foe using Fire Punch making its sprite become small but a little bigger than the Pound effect, the foe's sprite becoming enlarged to fill a square (e.g. Water Gun), the foe's sprite being stretched in (e.g. Encore), the foe's sprite turning upside down (e.g. Metronome) and strange effects with distortions and rotations. Some moves make the user's sprite temporarily re-appear too. For example, when the foe uses String Shot, the user's sprite will move across the string. Or if the foe uses Absorb, the user's sprite will move towards the foe. Or if the foe uses sprite the user's sprite will appear momentarily where the teeth are, etc. For a small number of moves, they may be considered as neither foe or user sprite glitches. When Heat Wave is used under the Charm glitch, one of the waves is prevented from moving left for a while but still moves down. When Bullet Seed is used, two seeds appear back near the source they were fired from abnormally and fall. Some moves 'do nothing' or may restore the foe's sprite back to normal (e.g. Hail). If you would like documentation of lots of non-switch Charm glitches, including for all 354 valid moves, you can download my project. It includes: 1) Videos for every move, including separate videos for when you use Thief and you have an item, Weather Ball and it is hailing, etc. - why the file is so big. I should have compressed the videos. 2) My OpenOffice Calc (an Open Source "Excel" program) document, and an exported HTML version if you can't open it, which explains each Charm glitch effect, listing them by index number. 3) A dump of screenshots for different Charm glitch effects. https://mega.co.nz/#!Q8s0TSrR!56p0_kpFHQ78q6l2lvDsvjmHqEK4mUlYfXvweh9pHvw Note: The Charm glitch also works in FireRed and LeafGreen if I recall correctly, but you'd have to trade a glitched HP Pokémon over because the Pomeg Berry doesn't have the HP EV reducing effect in those games.