The screen went black. The ROM unmounted itself from the emulator. The file size on your hard drive shrank from 32 MB to 0 KB.
By the fourth gym, the game stopped pretending. The music was a single, sustained note of static. The gym leader was a black rectangle with the word “[NULL]” floating above it. It sent out a Pokémon named “MissingNo.’s Ghost.” Its type was “???”. Its ability was “Cascade.” It used “TM41” as an attack. pre randomized pokemon rom
You were the randomization.