Problem with pokemon trading and BGB

[LaughyTaffy]

Whenever I trade using BGB the pokemons' names and stats get all scrambled with gibberish. What's wrong?

[smcd]

Welcome to EmuTalk, & thanks for posting in an appropriate spot :)

What version of BGB are you using? Are you trading between two different games? What game(s)? What is your OS? Are you trading locally or across a LAN or the internet?

[LaughyTaffy]

I'm using 1.12. Yes I'm trading between different games, I open BGB once and again and load the games separately. The games are the original red and yellow versions. My OS is Windows. I'm trading locally.

[smcd]

I'm not too familiar with it myself but these pieces of information should be helpful to track down the problem. Are the games of the same language/region? Do the trades work fine other than the information on them being scrambled?

[LaughyTaffy]

They're both in English and I got both of them from the same site (I own the original cartridges BTW but I don't have my gameboy anymore). Trading works fine, I actually managed to make one successful trade without it messing up.

I should probably mention that I used the Mew glitch (it allows you to get Mew without a gameshark) maybe that could have some effect?

[smcd]

That very well might be a cause of the symptoms - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Red_and_Blue

and
http://pages.prodigy.net/maryjorhodes/codespok.htm


The funniest part of catching Missingno is trading it into the YELLOW VERSION! I HAVE TRIED IT! First of all, the Yellow version is a glitch-free game, so I thought it would be interesting to trade a glitch into a glitch-free game. Know what happens? Missingno's name turns into a bunch of gibberish!


It might not be the actual cause, but seems like a possible candidate, and the gameshark codes have been known to corrupt your pokedex and other things (but you didn't use one so doesn't really apply here).

Here's a youtube video showing a glitched up pokemon in red. Is this similar to your problem?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFaLW2I88Qo

[LaughyTaffy]

It kind of looks like that. Here are some pics:

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg99/TomAss450/bgb00001.jpg
http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg99/TomAss450/bgb00002.jpg
http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg99/TomAss450/bgb00003.jpg

[smcd]

Hmm not sure. I don't have extensive pokemon experience but with all this information collected maybe someone else can chip in :)