If I trade a Pokemon from a corrupt game (ruined by capturing MissingNo), will that Pokemon break my other games?

Feb. 4, 2014

I captured MissingNo in Pokemon Blue and now if I play for over 1 hour or attempt to start a new game it crashes, this hour window gives me time to trade to my other Gen1/2 games that are not broken. I have a variety of high level Pokemon on there and would like to do it but would really not like to break another cartridge… So yeah, anyone done it before/anyone got any ideas?

Pleaselog inorregisterto add a comment.

No, it won’t damage those games.

Contrary to popular beleif, Missingno does not crash your game is save file. The only thing it permanately damages are you Hall of Fame entries, which you can play the game without. So the crashing issue is unrelated to Missingno and must’ve been caused by something else.

So you can trade those Pokemon to your other games without worrying about the effect Missingno has on them, because outside of glitching the Hall of Fame, Missingno is harmless.