Mew in RBY

[javyj79]

I'm curious to know if anyone around here has obtained Mew via the truck in the SS Anne. I've heard rumors that you can't obtain him there, but this makes no sense to me, because thats where i obtained him. I vividly remember leaving a trainer on the SS Anne that i could lose to after beating Gary/Blue and getting cut so the SS Anne would not leave. I proceeded to play the game like normal Then caught the 150 (which was a requirement for making the Mew appear). Went to the truck, and got my Mew. I've been watching video on youtube and apparantly it doesn't exist yet that is how i obtained him. Can anyone explain or comment on this and validate that i wasn't hallucinating when i was a child.

[ZapDraws]

From what I heard, you can't do that. RBY DO have a glitch that allows you to catch a Mew.

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Mew_glitch

Tested it a few years back, and it actually worked.

[Cobraroll]

Originally Posted by Fat javyj79

I'm curious to know if anyone around here has obtained Mew via the truck in the SS Anne. I've heard rumors that you can't obtain him there, but this makes no sense to me, because thats where i obtained him.

Can't be. People have picked that game apart and analyzed every bit of code in it. There is no Mew by the truck. The truck is an easter egg, but that's all there is.

Originally Posted by Fat javyj79

I vividly remember leaving a trainer on the SS Anne that i could lose to after beating Gary/Blue and getting cut so the SS Anne would not leave.

This would be correct, though.

Originally Posted by Fat javyj79

I proceeded to play the game like normal Then caught the 150 (which was a requirement for making the Mew appear). Went to the truck, and got my Mew. I've been watching video on youtube and apparantly it doesn't exist yet that is how i obtained him. Can anyone explain or comment on this and validate that i wasn't hallucinating when i was a child.

The Truck is the source of one of the most persistent rumours in all of gaming history. Exactly how the rumour is told varies, but the stories usually agree that you have to move the truck somehow (this is impossible) and Mew is underneath it (it isn't). Variations of the story (I remember a fair few of them myself) includes catching all 150, beating the Elite Four 20 times in one day, levelling a Caterpie to level 100 using no Rare Candies, performing the MissingNO. glitch, defeating/catching the Ghost in Lavender Tower without using the Silph. Scope, and talking to Brock 1000 times until he gives you "Super Cut" so you can move the truck.

None of those stories are true, though. Either, you were playing a hacked version of the game, where the creator had added Mew to the truck as an easter egg, or you remember wrongly. To say it again, there is nothing special about the truck except from it being there.

In FR/LG, GameFreak gave you a cookie for finding the truck, though. A Lava Cookie lay on the ground next to it. A trainer in one of the later games says "There is nothing underneath a truck... except maybe a Muk?" as a reference to the rumour.

[Taylor]

Yes, the truck is an absolute myth and has no relation to Mew whatsoever.

In Yellow, you capture Mew using the "trainer fly" technique, which is a glitch in the game where you hold the start menu as you're about to fight a trainer, then Teleport just before he can walk up to you (the exclamation mark still appears). The trainer battle is still pending but you're no longer in the area after teleporting to the last Pokemon Centre, which disables your start menu and you must then battle a trainer whose special stat corresponds to the Pokemon you wish to obtain.

This glitch is performed using two trainers north of Cerulean and you catch Mew around that area too.

[Son_of_Shadoo]

Originally Posted by Fat Taylor

Yes, the truck is an absolute myth and has no relation to Mew whatsoever.

In Yellow, you capture Mew using the "trainer fly" technique, which is a glitch in the game where you hold the start menu as you're about to fight a trainer, then Teleport just before he can walk up to you (the exclamation mark still appears). The trainer battle is still pending but you're no longer in the area after teleporting to the last Pokemon Centre, which disables your start menu and you must then battle a trainer whose special stat corresponds to the Pokemon you wish to obtain.

This glitch is performed using two trainers north of Cerulean and you catch Mew around that area too.

I believe it also works with a trainer on Route 7, who is facing the entrance to the Underground Path.

[Jellicent*]

Gonna have to lean towards:

Originally Posted by Fat javyj79

hallucinating when i was a child.

Next time, please use the SQSA for simple questions~