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A Quick Diversion: "Catch Mew in Pokémon Red/Blue/Yellow"... did you ever think you'd hear that phrase again?
The Actual News:
No, this isn't another lame hoax gotten from an obscure Pokémon website just posted to generate hits, nor is it another Nick15 Hoax. You can actually catch Mew in Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow... and, yes, without Gameshark.
Click here, for a graphic guide to catching Mew, by WhiteCat. Thanks to Steve Wolf, who pointed this link out to me!
There's also a full tutorial at GameFAQs by TheScythe. To my understanding, WhiteCat and TheScythe expanded on each other's ideas until they came up with this. The first tutorial is much more simplified; the second is much more in-depth, with many more Pokémon that can be caught using this same glitch.
It was submitted on May 4th of 2003, and I'm suprised that I haven't heard about it until now--but Pokémon News seems to travel slow lately.
Here's a small excerpt from the guide created by TheScythe:
This is the REAL Mew glitch, the truck and the 150 Pokémon code do not work, at least not for the US version.
For many years now, Game Freak and the gang, and created many great Pokémon Gameboy games. Their first being Red, Blue, then shortly after, Yellow. After a while, they created Gold and Silver, with Crystal soon to follow. Lastly, they have created Ruby and Sapphire, the newest Pokémon game. Still, after all of these games, and all of these years, nobody has discovered a way to obtain Mew, without Gameshark, or going to a Nintendo promotion to get them from free. Until, now.
Recently, a glitch to obtain Mew, was found. Many very low-traffic sites which are widely unknown had obtained this strange way to get Mew. How it was discovered? Nobody knows at the time, being as that it is such an obscure glitch.
My theory is that a worker at Game Freak, who has some part in creating or fixing this game, at tweaked it, so this strange glitch could be possible. Along with that theory, I think that worker, or someone who knew, put it on a random low-traffic site, after a few years, seeing how it would spread. Well, it spread all right. Right to GameFAQs, after I found it. The glitch not only works for Mew, it also works for everything else.
I bring you, the Mew Glitch.
Closing thoughts? Just... wow.
I was one of the many that was dedicated to finding Mew back in the days when Red and Blue were first released. The search for Mew faded after a while, but it's nice to have some closure to know that you actually can get him in Red/Blue--even if it is a glitch.
Good times. ^-^
-Steve
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