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'''Missing Number''' (Japanese: '''けつばん''' ''Ketsuban'', lit. "Missing Number"), referred to by Nintendo of America as '''MissingNo.''', and appearing in-game as '''MISSINGNO.''' refers to a group of glitch Pokémon that act as fillers for vacant slots.
Most of the data pertaining to MissingNo. is clearly glitched and unintentional (and there is no error prevention, unlike for example the placeholder sprite loaded in place for the Generation III glitch Pokémon [[??????????]]) and in itself MissingNo. is not a legitimate Pokémon, but [[Partially unused and glitched|curiously some data]] like nine of the MissingNo. cries are leftover development remnants. During the development of Pokémon Red, Green and Blue, the index numbers of many of the MissingNo. were instead occupied by [https://tcrf.net/
The index numbers for "MissingNo." entries appear in between valid Pokémon
While technically there can be 256 indexed species (2^8 entries in one byte), the other glitch Pokémon only exist after Victreebel (190) with names not programmed into the game but extrapolated from unrelated data beyond [https://github.com/pret/pokered/blob/2954013da1f10e11db4ec96f9586b7c01706ae1a/data/pokemon/names.asm MonsterNames] encoded as if they were Pokémon names. ([[GlitchDex/RB:000|'M (00)]]/[[GlitchDex/Y:000|3TRAINERPOKé₽ (00)]] can be interpreted as both the index 256 or index 0 Pokémon).
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