Legend said if you went to the SS Anne and used Strength to move a truck sprite that appeared nowhere else in the game, a Mew would appear. If someone on the playground had a Mew, they really only had a GameShark. You could not acquire a Mew except by taking your Game Boy to a special event (or to Toys R Us that one time). It was a psychic type, which was overpowered in the first gen. Mew, the 151st Pokemon, could learn every move in the game. In the first generation of Pokemon games, there is a spectacularly rare Pokemon. The payoff? This is an arbitrary-code-execution virus for Pokemon, and maybe the most amazing Game Boy hack of all time. Of course, most Hackaday readers were twelve at least once, but we’re just going to do this anyway. Before we dig into this, I need to spend a paragraph or two conveying the knowledge of a twelve-year-old in 1996.
