Trading glitch could lead to cloning?

So I was trying to trade a Wartortle for a friend's Heracross. After a while of Internet being stupid, we finally managed to get into the menu, we started the trade and Internet got stupid again, crashing our games with the "Communication Error, hold down Power to turn off the console".

When when loaded our saves, it turned out I kept the Wartortle, but his Heracross got "overwritten" by my Wartortle, more or less creating a clone.

We tried again with other Pokémon, purposefully disabling wireless communications during the trades, but nothing exciting happened.

One more experiment? We tried turning off the power during the trade, but no results either.

So. Since this could lead to some kind of cloning, how about some of you experiment a bit more on that?

To anyone willing to experiment more on this, good luck!

Very interesting indeed. I guess this confirms it works over Wi Fi and not just local.

Interested to see where this leads.

I'm the other part of this glitch, I received the Wartortle and my Heracross was lost to oblivion xD

Things that happened during the trade:

1.- I sent the invite.
2.- Right after the Wartortle pops out of the pokeball, the error message appears
3.- My pokemon was originally in a Box, not in the party
4.- Several attempts to trade were made, but because of poor internet connection none of them was successful. The one we're reporting is the only one where we actually managed to SEE the trading animation, the other attempts didn't get past selection.

Very interesting. Why did it overwrite his Heracross and not you Wartortle? Surely with Wi-Fi it would change them at the same time.

Did you try disabling wireless about a second before you originally received the message? This could all be down to some very accurate timing.

Hmm, you guys must have had it happen to you differently. I had the exact same thing happen to me (one of the DSes actually crashed) and even saw my aerodactyl get received, but when I turned it back on/exited trade both 'mons were in their original games.

reminds me back in gen 1 when you'd switch both gameboys off at a specific time

ah memories

About that, we got the error message around the same time, though he told me the message popped up around the time the pokemon switch sides and then the one you're recieving goes down to the bottom screen.

This sort of glitch/bug has a strong resemblance with the cloning Link Cable glitch back in the day of Red, Green and Blue.

Kinda leads me to think it was on purpose... with all the in-game refferences to 1st gen.

Shut up why do you want a cloning glitch to ruin trading?

toatsycoatsy posted...

reminds me back in gen 1 when you'd switch both gameboys off at a specific time

ah memories

That's exactly what this is.

You know how it says dont turn off the power? Yeah, doing that would freak the game out.