Teru-sama
Teru-sama (Japanese: カビチュウ Kabichū) is a filler for the internal item list in the Generation II games. It can be obtained by using glitches.
Teru-sama can be sold for $19,660 at Poké Marts. The buy price of $39,321 is 0x9999 in hexadecimal or 9999 in binary-coded decimal (BCD), the latter being the format used by the Generation I games for storing money data. The Generation II games instead use plain binary integers for money instead of BCD; however, the buy Teru-sama price uses the old format, suggesting that they were added early in the development of Pokémon Gold and Silver.[1]
Acquisition
By performing the Celebi Egg glitch with a move's index number that matches the index number of the item, the player can obtain a Teru-sama. There are 29 variations of it in Pokémon Gold and Silver and 25 in Pokémon Crystal, with three of them having unique effects in all games (when forced to have a "USE" option).
List of Teru-sama by index number
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The following Teru-sama become exclusive Pokémon Crystal key items when traded from Pokémon Gold and Silver. When viewed in Pokémon Stadium 2, they show up as the exclusive item from Pokémon Crystal, even if the games connected to the Transfer Pak are Pokémon Gold and Silver.
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In the Korean versions of Pokémon Gold and Silver, these Teru-sama (except for the Egg Ticket) were renamed to match Pokémon Crystal but they are otherwise unchanged.
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In all the Generation II games, Teru-sama with index numbers 0x06 and 0x38 actually have an effect after being modified to include the "USE" option onto them, which reveals that they are actually leftover items from the Generation I games. Teru-sama 0xBE can also be used but it triggers an invalid pointer, indicating that it was likely never intended to support the function.
- Teru-sama 0x06 works as a faulty version of the old Town Map.
- Teru-sama 0x38 is the Poké Flute and works exactly the same; however, the audio only plays if used on a sleeping Pokémon outside of battle. It also does not affect the sleeping Snorlax in Vermilion City.
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Gallery
The Teru-sama in the Bag
The Teru-sama in the Bag (Japanese versions)
The Teru-sama in the Bag (Korean versions)
Teru-sama 0x46, 0x73, and 0x74 (Korean Gold and Silver)
Name origin
Teru-sama, as the Western name, may be a reference to Teruki Murakawa, a member from the staff of Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal listed as a programmer under "US Version Staff" in the English versions and in the staff of the European versions. He is also mentioned as being part of "Korean Coordination" in the staff of the Korean versions.
The Japanese name Kabichū (カビチュウ) is meaningless but it combines kabi (カビ) from Kabigon (カビゴン) and chū (チュウ) from Pichu, Pikachu, or Raichu.[2]
Its Korean name is just the fullwidth question mark "？".
In other languages
| Language | Name |
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| Japanese | カビチュウ Kabichū |
| Korean | ？ |
| German | Teru-sama |
| Spanish (European) | Teru-sama |
| French (European) | Teru-sama |
| Italian | Teru-sama |
See also
References
- ↑ Pokémon Gold and Silver - The Cutting Room Floor
- ↑ カビチュウ - ポケモンWiki 「おそらくカビゴンのカビとピカチュウのチュウを合わせて開発者の遊び心で造られた言葉と考えられる。」
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