1636: Pokemon Fire Red Squirrels

A 36.4% encounter rate for a Pokemon that does not exist in any official guide: .

So… is the squirrel real? But somewhere deep inside a French debug build of Fire Red , a programmer once typed the word “Squirrel” into a fire-themed test environment. 1636 Pokemon Fire Red Squirrels

The number "1636" is equally important to the history of this file. In the world of GBA (Game Boy Advance) archiving, ROMs are often cataloged by number. The GoodTools suite, a set of auditing tools created by Cowering to catalog and rename ROMs, assigned specific numbers to games. The number "1636" is equally important to the

Buckle up. This is the story of the most bizarre encounter ever hidden (or not so hidden) in a GBA cartridge. Buckle up

Doing so does not crash the game. Instead, it forces the game to pull encounter data from memory slot . And what does that slot contain?