Cloning glitches

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Pokémon Cloning is a glitch that occurs when a player is able to make an exact clone of a Pokémon. The most common way for it to be done, ONLY in the Gold and Silver versions, is the following:

  1. Save in front of a PC.
  2. Deposit the Pokémon you want to clone.
  3. Switch boxes to a box that is empty.
  4. When it says "do you want to overwrite saved data?" say yes. However, while the capitalized word "SAVING" is on the screen, shut the game off. If you're timing is off, you could erase your saved data. However, as long as you turn off the game at around the time "SAV" is on the screen, the game will be fine.
  5. Turn your game back on, and there should be the original Pokémon in your party, and a copy of it in your box. If you made the Pokémon hold an item, that item will also be cloned.

Warning: Do not do the above glitch in the red/blue/yellow. Doing this glitch in the Red/Blue/Yellow versions will 20% of the time give you a cloned Pokémon, and 80% of the time erase your saved game by "corrupting" it.

Another method of cloning Pokémon is to pull out the trade link cable in the middle of a trade, but it is unreliable and can sometimes erase the Pokémon you want to clone altogether.