Something about this particular line of horribly broken text kinda gave me a chill. At one point I managed to defeat a Rattata who wanted to join my party. I was still encountering weak Pokemon trapped in glitches, but now when defeated their bodies glitched out as well instead of fading away. Even the nasty washed out colours of the dungeon were replaced by the same shade of grey. I managed to get Crybaby to level 6 before the entire dungeon suddenly changed. The dungeon itself was getting more and more glitched as I continued too, meaning more Pokemon became ensnared in glitchy tiles and made helpless to Crybaby's assault. All the way down I encountered trapped Pokemon who I farmed for more EXP. I decided to nickname the Cubone 'Crybaby' because of this, and I quickly realized that no matter how many floors I was going down, Crybaby never seemed to reach the bottom. When it leveled up, instead of the usual happy things like "I feel braver now!" or "I feel more confident!" he would say "Mommy" and his stats would barely increase. Enemies were constantly getting stuck in the walls and didn't react when I attacked then at all, only making distorted cries when defeated. I should mention something else, combat in this game was considerably easier than in the original Red Rescue Team. Naturally, being the cheap prick I am, I snuck up on them and took them out for EXP, the walls holding them in place while I pretty much mutilated them. The dungeon was as badly broken as the rest of the game, pieces of spritework and walls were littering the place, and the enemy pokemon were clipping into the pieces of wall and map all over. The game skipped past the choosing of my partner, and apparently the entire intro altogether, and threw me into a dungeon. Normally I'd try to be a Treecko or something, but Cubone was alright considering I couldn't understand the questions in the first place. "A S37FISH PERSON LIKE YOU I5 A CUB0N3" the broken text managed to announce. I chose boy (duh) and wondered what kind of Pokemon I'd get from the mess of questions I just answered. There were only two choices, and the respective symbols were in the text. I just answered the questions at random until I eventually reached the "Are you a boy or a girl" type question. Even the answers looked like they were written in some poor man's leetspeak. Letters were replaced with different characters and numbers. The text in the quiz section was badly glitched. I choose a new game and started with the quiz. All the colours were a dull grey and any colours that weren't grey were badly washed out and bland. This thing was already promising enough with the weird label, but now the unintelligible mess of a title screen made it even better.įrom what I could see, it was the Standard Red Rescue Team game, but the colours of the screen were off, probably because the previous owner didn't take care of it at all. My hopes were high and getting higher as a badly glitched title screen popped up for me. I bought the crappy cartridge and returned home, grabbing my DS and shoving it into the slot. I've always been interested in things like 'Creepy Black' and 'Lost Silver', so I honestly thought that perhaps this could be some creepy unknown Pokemon game with a ghost in it or something. The cartridge itself intrigued me though, it was a regular GBA cartridge aside from the paper label and some minor scratches. Now, the first thing going through my mind is why the hell a pawn shop would pay any amount of money for a shit looking cartridge, but then again pawn shops would probably buy organs if they could get their hands on them. I'm not normally one to get emotional over games, but a recent incident has got me thinking that perhaps I should try.Ī while back while searching through pawn shops for some interesting looking bootlegs or pirated games, I came across a rather funny looking cartridge simply labeled "POKEMON MYSTERY DUNGEON". Haunted Gaming - Pokemon Red Rescue Team Hack