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{{researchneeded|Verify the reset timings.}}
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Ideally, you should have used the in-game Clear Save Data feature (Select+up+b) at least once since owning your copy of the game. This will zero out all of the SRAM data, which is needed to create a bad clone.
In order to get a bad clone you should deposit more Pokémon than you have ever deposited in a box (and at least 5 or so), then change boxes and reset the game at the following exact timing:▼
▲In order to get a bad clone you should deposit more Pokémon than you have ever deposited in a box (Ideally 15-18, and
* Shortly after the Yes/No box disappears (Gold/Silver)
* After SAVING... DON'T TURN OFF THE POWER. is fully printed (Crystal)
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* Immediately after pressing A on "Yes" (Gold/Silver)
* After the second "F" in "SAVING ... DON'T TURN OF'''F''' THE POWER." (Crystal)
These timings may vary depending on how many Pokémon are in the box. If the Pokémon was not cloned, the reset was too early, and the player can deposit another Pokémon and try again. If the Pokémon was cloned successfully ("good" clone), the reset was too late, and the player should release the clone, save the game, and then deposit a Pokémon and try again.
Getting a bad clone can normally be '''very''' difficult without Pokémon Stadium 2, but Pokémon Stadium 2's Game Boy Tower makes it a lot easier if you reset the game after the "Saving..." message appears at one of the aforementioned moments.
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A "real" bad clone is an [[unstable hybrid Pokémon|unstable hybrid]] between the cloned Pokémon and a ????? (hex 00). It is sometimes referred to as a glitched version of the original Pokémon; for example, a "glitched Sneasel".
The bad clone will usually have a nickname with a large amount of [[glitch text]] in Pokémon Crystal. It usually is female and level 0 in the PC, but will become level 1 after you withdraw it. It usually has no moves, but sometimes may have glitched moves, and on rare occasions cannot be withdrawn from the PC {{clarify}}.
In Pokémon Gold and Silver, the bad clone's name should appear blank. In Pokémon Crystal, the high amount of glitch text may be problematic, and could cause a crash. This is because in Gold and Silver, Null characters simply cause the function PlaceString to exit, whereas in Crystal, for some reason a change was made to PlaceString in which a question mark is printed to the screen upon reading a null char, and the function will continue to read characters. To avoid crashing from this, you can use a potion to open the Pokémon menu (without actually using the potion) to put a 0x50 terminator farther into wStringBuffer1, which should make the bad clone's name safe to view in the box.
==Explanation==
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