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If the game is reset after step 1 has finished but before step 3 starts, then the contents of the active box is updated, but the party (a part of the main game data) is not, resulting in Pokémon cloning.
Although the save file is protected by a 16-bit checksum and a backup copy, they only apply to the main game data, so this glitch is not prevented. Furthermore, this means that even if step 3 has started, as long as the game hasn't finished writing the main save file, the main save file would likely be detected as corrupt and the backup would be used instead, resulting in successful cloning anyway. On the Crystal version, the timing window to get good clones is about
Interrupting step 1 by resetting may result in the [[bad clone glitch]], which is much harder to execute due to a smaller timing window.
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