I'm what you would call a collector of bootleg Pokémon games. Pokémon Diamond & Jade, Chaos Black, etc. It’s amazing the frequency with which you can find them at pawnshops, Goodwill, flea markets, and such.
They’re generally fun; even if they are unplayable (which they often are), the mistranslations and poor quality make them unintentionally humorous.
I’ve been able to find most of the ones that I’ve played online, but there’s one that I haven’t seen any mention of. I bought it at a flea market about five years ago.
Here’s a picture of the cartridge, in case anyone recognizes it. Unfortunately, when I moved two years ago, I lost the gamI’m what you could call a collee, so I can’t provide you with screencaps. Sorry.
The game started with the familiar Nidorino and Gengar intro of Red and Blue version. However, the “press start” screen had been altered. Red was there, but the Pokémon did not cycle through. It also said “Black Version” under the Pokémon logo.
Upon selecting “New Game”, the game started the Professor Oak speech, and it quickly became evident that the game was essentially Pokémon Red Version.
After selecting your starter, if you looked at your Pokémon, you had in addition to Bulbasaur, Charmander, or Squirtle another Pokémon — “GHOST”.
The Pokémon was level 1. It had the sprite of the Ghosts that are encountered in Lavender Tower before obtaining the Sliph Scope. It had one attack — “Curse”. I know that there is a real move named curse, but the attack did not exist in Generation 1, so it appears it was hacked in.
Defending Pokémon were unable to attack Ghost — it would only say they were too scared to move. When the move “Curse” was used in battle, the screen would cut to black. The cry of the defending Pokémon would be heard, but it was distorted, played at a much lower pitch than normal. The battle screen would then reappear, and the defending Pokémon would be gone. If used in a battle against a trainer, when the Pokéballs representing their Pokemon would appear in the corner, they would have one fewer Pokéball.
The implication was that the Pokémon died.
What’s even stranger is that after defeating a trainer and seeing “Red received $200 for winning!”, the battle commands would appear again. If you selected “Run”, the battle would end as it normally does. You could also select Curse. If you did, upon returning to the overworld, the trainer’s sprite would be gone. After leaving and reentering the area, the spot [where] the trainer had been would be replaced with a tombstone like the ones at Lavender Tower.
The move “Curse” was not usable in all instances. It would fail against Ghost Pokémon. It would also fail if it was used against trainers that you would have to face again, such as your Rival or Giovanni. It was usable in your final battle against them, however.
I figured this was the gimmick of the game, allowing you to use the previously uncapturable Ghosts. And because Curse made the game so easy, I essentially used it throughout the whole adventure.
The game changed quite a bit after defeating the Elite Four. After viewing the Hall of Fame, which consisted of Ghost and a couple of very under leveled Pokémon, the screen cut to black. A box appeared with the words “Many years later…” It then cut to Lavender Tower. An old man was standing, looking at tombstones. You then realized this man was your character.
The man moved at only half of your normal walking speed. You no longer had any Pokémon with you, not even Ghost, who up to this point had been impossible to remove from your party through depositing in the PC. The overworld was entirely empty — there were no people at all. There were still the tombstones of the trainers that you used Curse on, however.
You could go pretty much anywhere in the overworld at this point, though your movement was limited by the fact that you had no Pokémon to use HMs. And regardless of where you went, the music of Lavender Town continued on an infinite loop. After wandering for a while, I found that if you go through Diglett’s Cave, one of the cuttable bushes that normally blocks the path on the other side is no longer there, allowing you to advance and return to Pallet Town.
Upon entering your house and going to the exact tile where you start the game, the screen would cut to black.
Then a sprite of a Caterpie appeared. It was the replaced by a Weedle, and then a Pidgey. I soon realized, as the Pokémon progressed from Rattata to Blastoise, that these were all of the Pokémon that I had used Curse on.
After the end of my Rival’s team, a Youngster appeared, and then a Bug Catcher. These were the trainers I had Cursed.
Throughout the sequence, the Lavender Town music was playing, but it was slowly decreasing in pitch. By the time your Rival appeared on screen, it was little more than a demonic rumble.
Another cut to black. A few moments later, the battle screen suddenly appeared — your trainer sprite was now that of an old man, the same one as the one who teaches you how to catch Pokémon in Viridian City.
Ghost appeared on the other side, along with the words “GHOST wants to fight!”.
You couldn’t use items, and you had no Pokémon. If you tried to run, you couldn’t escape. The only option was “FIGHT”.
Using fight would immediately cause you to use Struggle, which didn’t affect Ghost but did chip off a bit of your own HP. When it was Ghost’s turn to attack, it would simply say “…” Eventually, when your HP reached a critical point, Ghost would finally use Curse.
The screen cut to black a final time.
Regardless of the buttons you pressed, you were permanently stuck in this black screen. At this point, the only thing you could do was turn the Game Boy off. When you played again, “NEW GAME” was the only option — the game had erased the file.
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I've seen this before. It was pretty scary the first time I've read it, but it's lost its charm.
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somelia wrote:
I've seen this before. It was pretty scary the first time I've read it, but it's lost its charm.
cool
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It's been posted on the scratch forums at least 3 times. There was another Pokemon creepypasta called Lost Silver that was reposted onto the forums 8 times with a different name each time (Lost Red, Lost Yellow, Lost Purple, etc.) all by one user I think.



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Ace-Of-Hearts wrote:
There was another Pokemon creepypasta called Lost Silver that was reposted onto the forums 8 times with a different name each time (Lost Red, Lost Yellow, Lost Purple, etc.) all by one user I think.
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What?

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Ace-Of-Hearts wrote:
It's been posted on the scratch forums at least 3 times. There was another Pokemon creepypasta called Lost Silver that was reposted onto the forums 8 times with a different name each time (Lost Red, Lost Yellow, Lost Purple, etc.) all by one user I think.
No, this one is different. I re-read my Lost Platinum and I will have new nightmares of headless owls. DX
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I made Pokemon CP Lost White.
I decided to edit Lost Silver a little bit... ∑:<
This is not my story. And I know what your thinking "AH A wall of text AH!!!" but just read. and for all the mods, I censored the cursing so you don't have to bother ^_^
You see, I am a simple college student living alone in an apartment. I was very enthusiastic about the release of Black/White on the states. I have purposely locked myself out of all media and the internet aside for school purposes. That means no 4chan, no /v/, no Bulbapedia, etc.
As I was busy with the school year and being a poor *** at the time, I wasn't able to buy Black on launch date. After my school year ended, I ordered Black on Amazon (sorry, I rather be poor than a pirate). However, it would take a week for it to arrive. I decided that during that time, I replay my White version on my DS.
However, I realized that long ago, my mom threw it away because I told her the save went dead, and I was very upset about it then. She also threw away my Platinum version, so all I have is my DS lite. As such, I set out to Gamestop and bought a used White version, as it's the only Pokemon game left that they have for the DS. Ten dollars - fairly cheap despite it being Gamestop (******* GAMESTOP!).
I went home and started it up for a Unova trip. However, that's where things started getting bizarre, and most likely the reason why you read this.
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The Gamefreak logo started up as normal, but it just froze there. I thought the cart was just errored or something, so I turned it off and on. The same thing happened. I tried pressing A and Start over and over, and all of the buttons. Eventually, the logo vanished and there was a black screen for about five seconds. Suddenly, rather than going to the usual menu screen, I was already in the game in a previous saved file, which was odd as I was expecting all of these carts to have been wiped by the dusty container. Either way, I wasn't complaining, as I would have chosen the "Continue" option to see what the previous guy did anyways.
First off, I checked his trainer information. His name was just "..." - He didn't have much originality. I checked his profile and apparently he had 999:59 hours put into the game, with all 8 badges, 999999 Pokedollars and all 643 Pokemon on the Pokedex. Since he must had Mew and Celebi logged also, I am guessing he either used an Action Replay or is a really hardcore Pokemon player.
I checked his Pokemon to see what ****** team he has. To my surprise, I saw 5 Unowns and a sixth Pokemon named "HURRY". I'm thinking that this must be some cruel joke by the person who last played this game, but I decided to check the profiles of those Pokemon anyways. As expected, they were different letters of Unown, all Level 5. I was a bit shaky with my Unown alphabet at the time, but I identified the word spelled out to be "LEAVE".
As for the sixth Pokemon, it turned out to be a Tepig. The Tepig looked normal, but it was Level 5 with only 1 HP left with only two attacks: "Leer" and "Flash". I don't know why they named him "HURRY", but at the time, I just disregarded it. The most eerie thing was that, despite my volume being at max, none of the Pokemon he had said their usual cries. Just pure silence.
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Having enough of the team, I closed it. I was parked at what appears to be a room inside my house. However, for some reason, there were no NPCs around. There was no music at all, and there was no exit or ladder, or least I thought there wasn't.
I walked around for a few minutes but can't seem to find a way out. This was certainly not a room I've seen in the house before. I've tried checking my items for an Escape Rope, but the bag was completely empty.
Finally, I've managed to find stairs. The screen turned black and the music finally started playing.
I immediately realize that it wasn't a loading transition, but rather I was in a dark room and would need Flash. Mewfie ("..." from earlier, and I will call her Mewfie from now on) was just walking in a midst of black.
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I recall that Tepig has Flash, so I turned off my Pokegear and made Tepig use Flash. I didn't see any message saying "HURRY has used Flash!" or anything like that. The room just became lit just like that, and I soon regretted it. The room was a chilling blood-red with a linear gray path heading south. The stairs I used to go up/down was not there at all.
I had no choice but to head south. The screen became darker every 20 steps I made, until I finally made it to the end, which appears to be a sign. I read the sign, which said "TURN BACK NOW".
Suddenly, I was asked to answer YES/NO, but there was no question asked. I chose YES as I do not know what it was asking, and the screen went black again, making a "ladder climbed" sound. The odd music stopped, and in a few seconds was replaced with the not-as-creepy Poke Flute radio music.
I was in another dark room, but I held my breath and used Flash again. Suddenly, it said that "HURRY has fainted!" which was odd since I recall that there was no status conditions like Poison on Tepig, and I clearly wasn't in a battle. I checked my Pokemon quickly and suddenly he's no longer in my party. In fact, after a bit of investigating, none of my Pokemon before were there, but instead were all replaced with Level 10 Unown. I did the same thing as before and spelled out the Unown. My then team of Unown spelled "HEDIED".
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Either way, after that creepy change, the room was lit to reveal myself in a very small room that appears to be only four squares big. The walls of that room were gray bricks, as if I was inside something that was hollowed out. Outside that room appears to be a bunch of graves similar to the ones in Pokemon Red/Blue's Lavendar Town. I've walked around that small room and pressed A but nothing happened.
I've already concluded at this point that this was clearly a hacked game and some ******** ****** sold it to Gamestop to troll whoever buys it. However, my curiosity kept me going. I checked the trainer profile of "..." again only to find out that the sprite of Mewfie was missing her arms. She also seems to appear less happy, but rather seems more sad and empty in a way that I do not know how to describe. For some reason, it also now said that she has 24 badges, which was clearly impossible given that there was only one region.
After a few minutes of aimless wondering, my character suddenly spun and did the Escape Rope spinning animation. Instead of flying up though, my character spun downwards slowly, as if sinking.
After that screen, the music stopped. After finally landing, the overworld sprite of Mewfie is coloured differently now. Instead of the usual red colour she dons, she appears completely white now, including her skin. It's as if she came straight from the colorless Game Boy games placed into a colored background of the Gameboy Color. The only exception to this is that her eyes are red now, which reminded me of Mother 3's hidden boss, if you know about it. I checked her profile, and now, while now is as white as his overworld sprite, she lost her legs and has what appears to be bloody tears from her eyes. It also says she now has 32 badges, which now starts to disturb me as this change of number seems to represent something important.
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I also checked my Pokemon, which this time contains 5 Unowns and a Level 100 Celebi without a nickname. The Unown are this time Leveled 15 and spelled out "DYING". I checked the Celebi's profile. It was a shiny Celebi, except there's only half of the sprite. One leg, one arm, one eye. It only has one attack: "Perish Song".
The area I was in itself was the house, everything in the room is apparently shaded red now. I walked north for what felt like forever. Eventually, I finally encountered some generic men and women NPC. They were all lined up to the side just facing the wall. They were also white, and nothing happens when I try to speak to them. I kept on going north until eventually the wall, with a transparent N in that spot. I went up to N and without even pressing A, I was suddenly engaged and finally in a battle.
The music starts again, which it sounds like the Unown Radio music again, but played in reverse. Mewfie's battle backsprite matches her front one with the bloody eyes, white skin, and lack of arms, while N's sprite was the same as before in B/W except transparent/colorless. The text simply said "wants to battle!" as if he has no name, and both of us only have one Pokemon each, which is weird as I swear I had six with the Unowns. My shiny Celebi came out, conveniently with half-a-sprite for the back sprite also. The "Shiny" noise and animation was different, as the sounds it made sound like multiple "Screech" attacks used consecutively. N sent out a seemingly normal male Sigilyph, except he is at an extreme Level 255 and his sprite seems sad and has tears in his eyes.
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Rather than the usual "FIGHT/ITEM/PKMN/RUN" menu, I was only given the option to use the Attacks. Since Celebi only has one (Perish Song), I chose it. Naturally, since Sigilyph was Level 255 and is generally fast, he went first.
"Sigilyph used CURSE!", lowering his Speed and increasing his other Stats. I'm not even sure if Sigilyph could even use Curse.
"CELEBI used PERISH SONG!" In three turns, both Pokemon get KO'd - not like I have a choice.
At this point, it didn't even go back to the Fight menu, as the battle just continued without me. Also note that there was no animations at all for some reason.
"Sigilyph used FLAIL!", which didn't do much damage despite his Level and boost as his health was maxed.
"CELEBI used PERISH SONG!" Nothing happens as it was already used.
"Sigilyph used FRUSTRATION!", which did a * of damage, knocking Celebi down to less than 10 HP.
"CELEBI used PAIN SPLIT!", which surprised me as Celebi didn't even have that attack in the first place. Now Celebi and Sigilyph have about 150 HP.
"Sigilyph used MEAN LOOK!" Not like that did anything given I only have one Pokemon, but now I'm certain that Sigilyph can't learn that.
"CELEBI used PERISH SONG!", yet another pointless Perish Song was used.
As expected, due to the effects of Perish Song, my Celebi fainted. Except in the text, it said "CELEBI has died!" and instead of the ordinary drop off the screen animation, the Celebi backsprite just vanished. For some reason, the Sigilyph was still up even with Perish Song and it didn't count as my lost. Sigilyph used one more different attack beyond the 5 attack limit:
"Sigilyph used DESTINY BOND!"
Afterwards, it said "uinesssgilyph has died!", with a slow fade-out animation. Apparently, I was the winner, as the transparent N sprite showed up and said ".........."
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At that point, I freaked out, as transparent N's head suddenly vanished, leaving nothing but his transparent body. The battle then ended at that point and faded out along with the music.
I'm back in the overworld, with another change to the Mewfie sprite - she's now as transparent as N's overworld sprite. I quickly checked Mewfie's profile, where this time the only thing remains of her is her head, with a transparent skin. The head was zoomed in a bit, showing a black void in her eyes. It now stated that she now has 40 badges. I then backed out and checked my Pokemon. They were all Level 20 Unown, which when spelled out, read "NOMORE".
I was at what I now know is next to the end. There was apparently no music playing, but for some reason I still felt like something was there that could be heard. I was back in my room in whatever Town. Maybe finally I get to play this game properly, but who am I kidding. I knew that ****** ***** must have done something. I "walked" around my room to interact with things, as I'm a bit afraid to go down the stairs to see what was awaiting down there. Note I said "walked", as just like those ghosts you see in Diamond/Pearl, Mewfie was not moving her transparent limbs at all as she walked. Instead, she just floated around as the background moves with her.
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As expected, the radio, computer, and TV did not work, so I had no choice but to go down the stairs. I ended up in the same lower level room of my house. Everything appears normal, except mom isn't home. After failing to interact with anything in this room, I decided to go outside. To my surprised, that door leading outside at the south didn't work, and instead I just walk straight through it to a void. I continued moving south to see what the **** was going on. My house vanishes as I head south into the void. It was creepy as when I entered the void, the outline on Mewfie's transparent sprite turned white to contrast with the pitch black. Eventually, I reached a white area and Mewfie's sprite turned black and transparent again. I continued south without thinking of stopping at all.
After a long trek south, I finally encountered something. It was Mewfie's regular sprite. I talked to it. She said "Good bye forever ...." (notably with a space inbetween the forever and ....), and vanished. As that happened, it said "??? used NIGHTMARE" which at that point, I would not deny would be impossible to do. Mewfie did another Escape Rope animation spinning slowly downwards like before.
I'm now back into that small hollowed-out room surrounded by graves earlier. Or at least I say I was back there, as there's no sprite anymore. I tried to walk around but nothing moved - not even wall bumping noise. I checked my trainer profile with absolutely no Mewfie sprite left. It said I have 0 badges and all the faces of the Unova Gym Leaders on the next page of the profile were replaced with skulls.
I checked my Pokemon, which were all Level 25 Unown. As expected, it spelled out a phrase that I dared to read. "IMDEAD"
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As soon as I went back to the overworld, the room I supposedly was in was then covered with the same blocks as the walls. I then figured out what exactly that room was when the final text was said: "R.I.P. ..."
That room was a big grave, surrounded by other grave. Mewfie has already been dead. She died presumably a few years after she defeated N.
She was a young trainer who, despite her efforts in collecting so many badges and attempts at becoming a Pokemon master, was still unable to avoid the inevitable fate of death, and her efforts were eventually forgotten by the next generation. Her beloved Pokemon she worked so hard to raise have perished with her without a trace. This fate happened to her predecessor Dawn, and Mewfie has joined her.
I was unable to escape from that text no matter what I pressed. I tried resetting the game, and the same thing happened, at which I then finally decided to give up on that horrible nightmare.
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brettman98 wrote:
I thought veggie posted this a few weeks ago?
ah did
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