Summary
- A newly discovered Pokemon TCG Pocket glitch can affect cards during pack openings, resulting in misaligned card visuals reminiscent of the MissingNo glitch from Pokemon Red and Blue.
- The glitch impacts card visuals temporarily during the pack opening sequence and doesn’t affect the cards in collections.
A strange “MissingNo” glitch in Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket caused a player’s newly acquired pack to experience what seems to be a digital misprint. The glitch doesn’t permanently affect the Pokemon TCG Pocket player’s cards, but it has seemingly slipped under the radar from any recent bug fixes or game updates.
After its launch on October 30, 2024, Pokemon TCG Pocket became one of the most popular mobile games of the year with over 10 million downloads in just two days. The game’s rapid post-launch momentum carried on with monthly updates and new events in Pokemon TCG Pocket to keep players invested in opening new packs and building their decks. A trading feature was also implemented in Pokemon TCG Pocket, and despite the issues at the feature’s launch, many gamers were still coming back for more thanks to the well-received features and gameplay. While opening new packs, players can potentially run into an issue that may be confusing or alarming for some.
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Reddit user mole_man1992 recently shared screenshots of a strange glitch they encountered with a newly opened pack in Pokemon TCG Pocket. Mole_man1992 called this glitched pack a “MissingNo,” which is a reference to one of the most famous glitches of all time from the original Pokemon Red and Blue games. Each card in the glitched pack experienced strange graphical errors, including misaligned artwork of the Pokemon and visual anomalies reminiscent of GPU artifacting. The glitch affected the player’s Poochyena and Manaphy cards, and one of the Pokemon TCG Pocket cards is unrecognizable due to graphical errors, which was jokingly labeled as a digital misprint by some fans in the Reddit thread.
Pokemon TCG Pocket Player Experiences a Strange Digital Misprint Glitch
- The digital misprint glitch affects the visuals of the cards, similarly to Pokemon Red and Blue’s classic MissingNo glitch.
- The glitch only happens during pack openings and doesn’t affect the cards in collections.
Fortunately, this glitch only appears to affect the cards during the pack opening sequence. Mole_man1992 notes that the cards went back to normal as soon as they were sent into the collection, so the glitch is visual in nature only, unlike the MissingNo glitch. In the Pokemon Red and Blue games, the MissingNo glitch is capable of corrupting save data and ruining a player’s playthrough.
Pokemon TCG Pocket players don’t need to worry about the glitch, and it’s likely that the developers are preparing a fix for the issue for a future update. New updates are expected to be released later this month, if recent Pokemon TCG Pocket leaks turn out to be accurate. One of the leaks detailed a potential upcoming distribution event featuring rare cards. Three packs from the Genetic Apex expansion will supposedly be given away with Pikachu, Charizard, and Mewtwo, respectively. This event is rumored to begin on February 27 and last until April 30.
