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DP box, often called the Generation IV Missingno. due to its appearance, is a glitch Pokémon in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl.

It will appear in a player's party if they attempt to enter a double battle with two fainted Pokémon, an egg, and a healthy Pokémon in that order in their party. It does not work using a Vs Seeker to enter the double battle. When sent out, it will have Bulbasaur's cry and will sparkle as if it were a shiny Pokémon. It has no attacks, and will not appear if the party is looked at in battle. It is also obtainable in the wild by using a Japanese Action Replay.

It can also be encountered by using the "walk anywhere" code activated and having a partner so as to encounter wild Pokémon in double battles. This will cause the player to be duplicated if a wild Pokémon is encountered when walking on water and the duplicate, which has a glitched-up name, to send out a DP box.

It has no official name (as there is no data, its name appears as simply blank space), so it is simply called "DP box" by fans due to its appearance as a simple white rectangle with two black lines running vertically across it. This blocky appearance also causes many fans to harken back to the appearance of Missingno. in Pokémon Red and Blue.

It only appears in the wild in the Japanese version, due to many of the glitches being removed as the games were translated for the American audience.

Interestingly, when using the Infamous walk through anything code and going into a wild double battle, invisible shiny Bulbasaur will be one of the two wild Pokémon. As a copy of the player still appears, sending out the DPbox, this could assume that they are somehow related.

Trivia

• In the American version of the game, DPbox appears in Victory Road when the player walks over water with Marley.
• DPbox has been found to display a long line of lowercase d's that overlap three times as its name, before the player's Pokémon is sent out.
• When DPbox is encountered, neither the player's Pokémon nor the normal wild Pokémon actually use their programmed cries. In fact DPbox, both normal Pokémon, and invisible shiny Bulbasaur use Bulbasaur's cry in battle.
• DPbox's HP counter disappears after each Pokémon's animation sequence ends.
• The speed at which DPbox attacks depends directly on the speed of the player's Pokémon.

External links

YouTube video of its appearance in battle

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This glitch Pokémon article is part of Project GlitchDex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on glitches in the Pokémon games.