There is also a glitch, in the USA Explorers of Sky games.
Having a nickname with 10 symbols has been reported to crash
the game on any attempt at evolving. Your named Bulbasaur
"Mr. Saurus", for example, has 8 letters, a punctuation, and
a space, which is 10 symbols, and would crash the game at
any attempts at evolving this Bulbasaur. And you can't fix
the nickname before evolving, sorry.
Worse, there are Pokemon whose forms are 10 letters in
length. Thus, if you're in a habit of not naming things,
then watch out for the following:
#004 Charmander #005 Charmeleon
#039 Jigglypuff #069 Bellsprout
#070 Weepinbell #125 Electabuzz
#200 Misdreavus #449 Hippopotas
If you don't name these Pokemon, there's a good chance you
won't be able to evolve them to their next form, because
their default names are 10 letters long.
This only exists in some USA versions of Sky. All copies
from Japan and Europe do not have this glitch. This freeze
did not exist for Time and Darkness versions. Again, if you
live in the USA, and have Explorers of Sky, there's a fair
chance you have this evil glitch.
It's easy enough to tell if you have a glitched game. Go
find a Caterpie or Weedle in Apple Woods, give it a 10
letter name, then evolve it as soon as possible. If it
freezes, limit your names to 9 symbols if you plan to evolve
your Pokemon someday.
... Of course, you can't tell until after you can evolve
things, where you must see the credits and finally beat
Mystifying Forest before you can know your game is glitched.
