Excessive doll arrangement glitch

Miscellaneous glitches of Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen and Pokémon Emerald

Exclusive to Ruby and Sapphire:
256x item selling price glitch | Amazing Trainers | Berry glitch | Draining hitpoints animation glitch | Evolution animation glitch | Sticky Hold glitch | Mossdeep City Skitty glitch | Truck glitch | Nightmare glitch | Mossdeep City Skitty glitch
Acro Bike instability glitches (Japanese only) | Dark red selector glitch (International only) | Excessive doll arrangement glitch (Japanese only) | Mail and Trick glitches (Japanese only) | Surf on land (Japanese only)

Exclusive to FireRed and LeafGreen:
Celadon City origin glitch | Pokédex species glitch | Roaming Pokémon Roar glitch

Exclusive to Emerald:
Battle Pike poison knockout glitch | Black curtains glitch | Mart worker glitch | Mover Vigoroth cry glitch (Japanese only)

In various or all entries:
Azurill gender glitch | Boss HP recruit glitch (Mystery Dungeon) | Decamark-specific glitches | Dewford Gym footprint glitch | Evolution move-learning glitch | Focus Punch glitch | Roaming Pokémon IV glitch | Sky Pillar glitch | Thunderbolt glitch | VBlank RNG interrupt glitch

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Appearance of a 'glitch decoration'

Please note that this glitch only exists in the Japanese versions of the game, or is otherwise a glitch from a Pokémon game which was only released in Japan.

The excessive doll arrangement glitch is a glitch in the Japanese versions of Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire.

This glitch allows for the player to view apparent glitch decorations in a Secret Base, but not place them. However, the descriptions of certain glitch decorations can severely affect the memory.

Steps

1) Get 40 small dolls of the same kind.

2) Place 16 of them in your room.

3) Next, go to your Secret Base and place a Heavy Desk, then a Ragged Desk, and a Pretty Desk.

4) Use the desks to place 5 or more dolls.

5) Exit the list with B and bring it up again. The blue Poké Balls that indicate you've placed a doll in your house may disappear, and the name of the top item may become corrupted to something like "に　もどします！" or "て　す！す！ドール". Additionally, the text next to えらんで may become something like グ?2/?5ソ.

It will have the description of and function like the old doll.

6) Try tossing items below the slot that has a glitched item name and you can create more glitch item names, this time with non doll descriptions.

Scrolling beyond Cancel can glitch out the game and cause it to freeze.

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Attribution

• Semijii (蝉爺): discovery
• ChickasaurusGL (article text, further research)