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The preferred definition of '''glitch''' on [[Glitch City Laboratories]] when used as noun may refer to something happening or appearing in a program when it was not the developer's intention for it to work that way, be accessed that way, or be in the program itself.
The effects of glitches vary, from simple graphical glitches, [[freeze|game freezes]], or sequence breaking, to [[glitch Pokémon|strange Pokémon]], [[glitch move|attacks]], or [[glitch item|items]] that were never intended to appear in the game. Glitches may be harmful or harmless to a player's [[save file]].
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To glitch, the verb, is a common slang term in the Pokémon glitch community that simply means to change something in a game to what it should not normally be. This usually happens after a glitch is done, creating the term.▼
==As an adjective==▼
When used as an adjective, "glitch" indicates some in-game object that can only be acquired/triggered using a glitch. Examples include [[glitch Pokémon]], [[glitch move]]s, [[glitch item]]s, [[glitch encounter system]]s, etc. Sometimes a glitch object (especially a glitch Pokémon) would be simply referred to as a "glitch"; however, as of now, this usage of the noun "glitch" is discouraged.
The form '''glitched''' or '''glitchy''' may also be an adjective describing the state of a game after a glitching, or of a specific Pokémon or item affected by said glitching. A common example is a "glitched Hall of Fame" in [[bp:Pokémon Red and Blue|Red/Blue versions]], created after an encounter with [[Missingno.]], or a "glitched Kangaskhan" created through evolving the glitch Pokémon [[GlitchDex/RB:000|'M (00)]].▼
==Natural glitches, non-natural glitches, and glitch techniques==
Some glitches are considered "[[natural glitch]]es" because they can be performed from an unglitched game state, without having to make use of another glitch. If a glitch consists of multiple steps, the entire procedure is usually only considered a natural glitch if none of the intermediate steps apparently breaks the game. Natural glitches are always notable, because they indicate the existence of [[programming logic error]]s in the game.
The opposite of natural glitches are glitches that only happen under an already glitched game state. Strictly speaking, the behaviors under a glitched game state are all undefined, with none more "unintended" than the others. However, some of them are still notable, because they reflect unintuitive ways of the game dealing with unexpected data. For example, the [[Double Blue glitch]], which is possible only with [[Pewter Gym skip glitch|a sequence break]], provides some interesting insight into the two scripted rival fights on Route 22.
Regardless of logical intuitiveness, some procedures are notable because they are useful, i.e. give the player an in-game advantage. Such a procedure is known as a "[[glitch technique]]", or a "trick". An example is the [[Celadon looping map trick]], which allows the player to get almost any normal or glitch item from an [[expanded item pack]]. However, glitch techniques and glitches are not mutually exclusive. For example, the [[dry underflow]] trick is useful to setup the expanded item pack, but also shows an interesting quirk in the code that handles combining two item stacks.
==Controversy==
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There may also be controversy whether certain sequence breaks in video games count as glitches, or the access of placeholder data like [[??????????]].
▲To glitch, the verb, is a common slang term in the Pokémon glitch community that simply means to change something in a game to what it should not normally be. This usually happens after a glitch is done, creating the term.
▲==As an adjective==
▲The form '''glitched''' or '''glitchy''' may also be an adjective describing the state of a game after a glitching, or of a specific Pokémon or item affected by said glitching. A common example is a "glitched Hall of Fame" in [[bp:Pokémon Red and Blue|Red/Blue versions]], created after an encounter with [[Missingno.]], or a "glitched Kangaskhan" created through evolving the glitch Pokémon [[GlitchDex/RB:000|'M (00)]].
==See also==
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