Glitch songs are continuous sounds produced byglitch Pokémon, glitch text strings orgame freezes. Glitch songs may either take on a melodic tune or a chaotic one. They are commonly found in the place of a glitch Pokémon'scry. Certain glitch songs may result in a game freeze, while others may force the player to shut off the game because they never end.

Occurrence

A glitch song can be triggered by:

• Aglitch Pokémon's cry:h POKé's cry is constantly changing and may cause the game to play long strings of sounds.
• Viewing the sprites of certain glitch Pokémon:♀ .'s sprite corrupts several sound-related memory areas, often causing an infinite glitch song to play, sometimes incorporating one of the channels ofSilph Co. music, other times that used inPokémon battle, and other times other random data.
• Game crashes: InPokémon Green, walking out of bounds inPallet Town may cause a glitch song to play.
• Parts of glitch dialogue: Pokédex entries of certain glitch Pokémon such ash POKé orゥ .4 play long strings of sound effects and eventually may cause an infinite loop.

Variants

Melodic

These glitch songs are composed primarily of pieces of actual sound files, seeming to be actual songs themselves.

The cry of♀ . is a notable example of this.

Chaotic

Chaotic glitch songs are composed of garbage data, or data not meant to be a sound file yet used as a sound file, making random noises. If this is used for theglitch Pokémon's cry, it can play nonstop for up to a half hour, so try not to hear those glitch Pokémon cries.

One example of a glitch song can be that of a glitch warp, notably to the invalid map IDFF, which is commonly used as a wildcard to indicate unused connections and is never meant to be accessed conventionally. Entering such a map produces a chaotic glitch song as follows:

Another notable chaotic song example isMissingNo.'s cry inPokémon Yellow:

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This article is part ofProject GlitchDex, aBulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on glitches in the Pokémon games.

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