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[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Makes sense; IDK how the game logic works, but Magikarp is probably what the game defaults to if there's no other Pokémon in the lookup table that indicate what can spawn in the particular area you're in. Since statues are not meant to be fished in, it would make sense for that table to be empty/non-existent.

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[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

The old rod can only catch magikarps. That why he only fished magikarps.

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[–] AzuranAurora@piefed.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

In gen 1 if you loaded an invalid Pokemon you'd get a glitch Pokemon made from garbage code the game reads from where it shouldn't, or MISSINGNO. depending on its Pokedex number. Gen 1 is held together with chewing gum and prayers, and there's very little in the way of error handling. Later games would handle this by defaulting to a giant black and white question mark called ????? that would usually crash the game if you battled with it and could normally only be found using a GameShark.

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