I did it. I Caught the uncatchable Hooked Dragonite (Pokemon Blue) @GlitchmonRBY

GlitchmonRBY Of course, got to link the founder:

youtu.be/xtBlJAw0A14

decided to write this description since I was bored.

-For context, I use a Pokemon Blue save file on Sameboy with an iPhone. No Memory Editing, Cheats, or Ace were used, but you do need Item Underflow.-

I was actually dealing with a lot of burnout before this. So I was randomly clicking buttons, hoping i could find something to post for the week. I was willing to go with anything at this point, I was struggling to find something new.

Saw the Rocket grunt next to the poster. i never did that whole thing because I just Pokedolled the Marowak, I haven’t tried many glitches on their actual battle yet, so I decided to give it a try.

Anyways I talked to them, and did the battle. Decided to use the 9F item in battle for the heck of it because what harm would it do? 9F warks as a partial battle escape for wild battles, but for trainer battles, it just resets trainer battles, after all.

This brought in the grunts second defeated dialogue before the battle reset. You know the one where they say they’re gonna tell the boss.

Since that dialogue never turns off the controls, (i assume thats what it is) the controls lock up when the battle resets and you cant do the fight; you’re just stuck on “Grunt wants to fight” or whatever it says.

I was just going to post this as a discovery, but, it was kinda like a “No shit thats what happens” discovery. And I didn’t REALLY want that.

Instead, I wanted to see if I could get around it. so I reset the fight, got into the battle again, and with some trial and error, i ended up using my good ol friend, MapScriptPointer from item underflow, to see if it did anything.

I kept swapping items and using 9F after there one at a time till I got a nothing script, (idk how it works but instead of a crash it just turns scripts off.) I think. Its VERY common. Don’t remember what Items i swapped, but i had to do swaps because you cant toss in battle. It was maybe like 8 items i tested each. (Kept getting dumb RST 38h so thank god for my Rewind button lmao) Eventually I swapped the item, used 9F and got a nothing script. Then, the battle reset, and the grunt was unlocked; you could battle them. This, gave me my idea, “What if that works on the hooked dragonite”?

I was kinda sceptical on it at first, so i did the whole hooked dragonite setup, then after finding the amount I need to toss to nothing the pointer, (it was -4 tosses from the original amount of Guard Spec there) I talked to them. The walk started, (well, its more like a stare I guess) and, instead of doing its End script, where they say “Heres the museum, you need a ticket to get in but its worth it” and the battle starts, that Ticket part was skipped entirely, and the battle started with the Dragonite.

And, the Hooked dragonite was unlocked. I did it. This was something I wanted to do for a very long time; find a glitch to catch the Hooked Dragonite, but I just assumed now it was impossible without Cheats or Ace before this. But, here I am, battling the thing.

Its a typical glitch safari battle, like the Hooked Metapod. i already knew this from a Cheat code I used to just change the controls a while back.

(But, then i forgot it does the same thing as a hooked Metapod, and forces you to repetively click your 1st item in your bag, so I reset everything and put a masterball there, did it again,)

THEN I caught it in the masterball.

After that, I know how to fix the not opening menu you get after the battle and all the visual corruption it caused; you just save and reset with the PC, and boom. We have caught the hooked dragonite.

Then i actually recorded it doing all those steps.

Basically wMapscriptpointer just skips the entire script itself when changed to a nothing value. So it never does the control change.

-I was the one who ended up adding myself to the Hooked Dragonite Page on glitch city wiki about it (WITH PERMISSION, I got the go from TimoVM) So I added that I caught it, then I added how. I must’ve done a good job, its still up today, lmao.

updated 1 month ago

I did it. I Caught the uncatchable Hooked Dragonite (Pokemon Blue)

GlitchmonRBY 2026-07-28 | Of course, got to link the founder:

youtu.be/xtBlJAw0A14

decided to write this description since I was bored.

-For context, I use a Pokemon Blue save file on Sameboy with an iPhone. No Memory Editing, Cheats, or Ace were used, but you do need Item Underflow.-

I was actually dealing with a lot of burnout before this. So I was randomly clicking buttons, hoping i could find something to post for the week. I was willing to go with anything at this point, I was struggling to find something new.

Saw the Rocket grunt next to the poster. i never did that whole thing because I just Pokedolled the Marowak, I haven’t tried many glitches on their actual battle yet, so I decided to give it a try.

Anyways I talked to them, and did the battle. Decided to use the 9F item in battle for the heck of it because what harm would it do? 9F warks as a partial battle escape for wild battles, but for trainer battles, it just resets trainer battles, after all.

This brought in the grunts second defeated dialogue before the battle reset. You know the one where they say they’re gonna tell the boss.

Since that dialogue never turns off the controls, (i assume thats what it is) the controls lock up when the battle resets and you cant do the fight; you’re just stuck on “Grunt wants to fight” or whatever it says.

I was just going to post this as a discovery, but, it was kinda like a “No shit thats what happens” discovery. And I didn’t REALLY want that.

Instead, I wanted to see if I could get around it. so I reset the fight, got into the battle again, and with some trial and error, i ended up using my good ol friend, MapScriptPointer from item underflow, to see if it did anything.

I kept swapping items and using 9F after there one at a time till I got a nothing script, (idk how it works but instead of a crash it just turns scripts off.) I think. Its VERY common. Don’t remember what Items i swapped, but i had to do swaps because you cant toss in battle. It was maybe like 8 items i tested each. (Kept getting dumb RST 38h so thank god for my Rewind button lmao) Eventually I swapped the item, used 9F and got a nothing script. Then, the battle reset, and the grunt was unlocked; you could battle them. This, gave me my idea, “What if that works on the hooked dragonite”?

I was kinda sceptical on it at first, so i did the whole hooked dragonite setup, then after finding the amount I need to toss to nothing the pointer, (it was -4 tosses from the original amount of Guard Spec there) I talked to them. The walk started, (well, its more like a stare I guess) and, instead of doing its End script, where they say “Heres the museum, you need a ticket to get in but its worth it” and the battle starts, that Ticket part was skipped entirely, and the battle started with the Dragonite.

And, the Hooked dragonite was unlocked. I did it. This was something I wanted to do for a very long time; find a glitch to catch the Hooked Dragonite, but I just assumed now it was impossible without Cheats or Ace before this. But, here I am, battling the thing.

Its a typical glitch safari battle, like the Hooked Metapod. i already knew this from a Cheat code I used to just change the controls a while back.

(But, then i forgot it does the same thing as a hooked Metapod, and forces you to repetively click your 1st item in your bag, so I reset everything and put a masterball there, did it again,)

THEN I caught it in the masterball.

After that, I know how to fix the not opening menu you get after the battle and all the visual corruption it caused; you just save and reset with the PC, and boom. We have caught the hooked dragonite.

Then i actually recorded it doing all those steps.

Basically wMapscriptpointer just skips the entire script itself when changed to a nothing value. So it never does the control change.

-I was the one who ended up adding myself to the Hooked Dragonite Page on glitch city wiki about it (WITH PERMISSION, I got the go from TimoVM) So I added that I caught it, then I added how. I must’ve done a good job, its still up today, lmao.