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In the Pokémon games, '''glitch dialog''' or ''glitch dialogue'' refers to a combination of text, and/or sounds which may be displayed in a text box in such a way that these were never been intended to be seen or heard by the player. Glitch dialog is not to be confused with any type of legitimate [[error message|error code]] such as "[[error message#Messages for when the player's save file has been destroyed|The save file is corrupted.]]" because those error codes were implemented into the game by the developers to prevent a [[game freeze]] and often to prevent a string of glitch dialog. However, error codes such as [[Zero Error|0 ERROR]] could be considered to be a form of glitch dialog because in bytes where the game manages what [[error message]] to display unprogrammed information or information which corresponds to another byte may exist.
Many [[Glitch Pokémon]] have glitch text in their name with the exception of those which use [[placeholder]] names such as "[[Missingno.|MISSINGNO.]]" and [[??????????]].
Glitch text results when a name or block of text uses characters with bad [[identifiers]]. Identifiers, which are similar to character codes in computer text encoding, are used to identify various kinds of data. Each type of data gets 255 identifiers. Often, many identifiers go unused and are filled with junk data. Glitch text results when such identifiers are used as text. Glitch text is to text what MISSINGNO. is to Pokémon.▼
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