Eventually, Mew appeared in the first Pokemon movie along side Mewtwo, and the pink cat-like Pokemon was no longer a rumor. It seemed to the world that the only legitimate ways of obtaining Mew were the through the Game Shark cheat device, and special Nintendo events. Then, back in 2003, someone discovered Morimoto's glitch. To prove it, there was a screenshot of a player encountering a wild Mew in a generation one game on Wikipedia. The article didn't give any specific information about the Mew glitch,or how to activate it, so I did some more digging. Eventually, I found details about three different Mew glitches and how to activate them.
The third glitch I found out about would allow the player to unlock Mew, but it also caused several anomalous Pokemon like Missingno to appear. These anomalies were known to cause problems to the saved game file, so I ignored the third glitch. I read the details of the first two glitches about two or three times. Then I turned off my computer, got up, and paced around the room for about half an hour, and thought about getting out one of my old generation one games and trying one of the glitches. Then, for some reason, I went back to playing my generation three games. Perhaps I thought the glitches wouldn't work. After all, these were Wikipedia related pages that had this information. And Wikipedia has been proven to be unreliable in the past.
Then, on the night of Tuesday, June 23rd, I had grown tired of the generation three games. The next morning, as I walked to my ceramics class, I started to compare each generation of the Pokemon game. That morning, it seemed like it would be the day I would put away the Pokemon games until perhaps the next summer. But as I struggled with making a cup on the pottery wheel, I got the strange idea of getting out one of my first generation games. On the ride home that afternoon, I decided than and there to try to activate the Mew glitch.
As soon as I got home, I rushed down to my room and started to look for my old games, which I quickly found. I wasn't sure if the Mew glitches were in the Yellow version, so I decided not to use that one. My Blue version had unfortunately been left out to gather dust, so I wasn't sure at the time if it still worked. In the end, I used my old Red version. I put the game cartridge into my Gameboy Advance and turned it on. The game worked. After I chose my favorite starter Pokemon, Charmander, I saved the game, turned off, took a five minute break, and turned the game back on. The cartridge passed the second test, it could still record saved data.
The next thing I needed to do if I wanted to get passed the second gym leader was to capture a Pikachu. After all, a fire-type like Charmander wouldn't do too well in a gym full of water Pokemon. I confess, Pikachu isn't really one of my favorite Pokemon. I do find it cute though, but than who doesn't? It probably took me twenty to thirty minutes to find a Pikachu in the Viridian Forest, but in the end I caught one. After I defeated the first two gym leaders, which I confess was a little difficult, I decided to try the first version of the Mew glitch. I originally planed to try the second Mew glitch, but I had a hunch that I could pull off the first one.
I won't bore you with the details of how the Mew glitch is activated. If you really want to know, click here. I will say here that the glitch involves using a half a second delay to escape from being challenged to a battle by a specific trainer in the game by using one of their Pokemon to either fly or teleport away. After that, the player needs to battle and defeat another specific trainer, and only that trainer. After that, the player needs to begin walking back to a specific location at which point the menu screen pops up for no reason. Once the B button is pressed to get rid of the menu screen, a wild Mew appears at level seven.
