How to catch Mew legally in Pokemon Blue/Red 

I caught him illegally and now I am serving life in prison.

Here I am 34 years old, grey hair in my beard and I finally caught Mew!!!! Thanks for the help worked first try!

"What are you in for?" "Murder. And you?" "I illegally caught a mew in Pokémon red"

Why 500 people disliked this video is beyond me. It's concise and informative.

Man im 24 years old... Im thinking seriously about playing red only to catch mew.. Its like my 12 years old dream comming true with a delay of 12 years

Hardest part of this is capturing an Abra!

How to catch it illegally: do the same in a stolen gameboy

Thanks for the tutorial! Been 19 years, but finally caught #151 thanks to this video!

If only I caught this back in 1997, I'd be a fcking legend now.

I restarted my entire game for this. Worth it!

It will never cease to amaze me how that by sheer coincidence of addresses and whatnot just so happening to line up when performing this incredibly specific set of actions, Game Freak basically left a built-in "Catch Any Pokemon" code in the game by total fucking accident. If that isn't the coolest programming blunder of all time, then what is?

If you already fought the slowpoke guy, you can fight the first swimmer in Mysty's gym. While fighting either of the trainers, if you *growl* at their last pokemon *6 times* , the mew will be level 1. Check the stats of it and see the amount of exp needed for it to level up. Gain less than the exp needed, then BAM. Level 100 Mew before the 2nd Gym.

legally? well thank god, i wouldn't want to be arrested over pokemon or anything.

I had a Mew that kept popping up in my hall of fame after doing the masingo glitch on Pokemon Blue so i knew he must have existed within the game. It has bugged me for around 18 years wondering how to catch it. Now i can die in peace. Thank you

Here from 2021 . Can confirm it works !! Dream has came true capturing a Mew . Thanks for making it happen . Took a few tries to get it perfectly but it was done !!

After 25 years my childhood dream has finally come true! Thank you for the information and everyone else who pitched in to make it happen! Especially Shigeki Morimoto!

So sad it has nothing to do with that truck in the secret area before the cruise. I spent hours of my youth attempting to get Mew. Sigh, what great memories from years ago...

Why couldn't you tell me this like 10 years ago

A helpful tip; hold start when moving down into the space where you are spotted. It took me a few attempts to move down and press start simultaneously before getting spotted and going into combat.

I’m finally gonna try to catch all 151 Pokémon on my original Blue copy. I didn’t know up until now you could catch Mew this early

I got Mew back in 1999 legally on my cartridge. Nintendo came to my local mall and you had to give them your cartdridge and they would give you mew and a pokemon TCG, only for the first 50 people or something like that, it was amazing.

Dude. Heal that Wartortle. #EndPokemonAbuse

I’m 29 and there was always a rumor that you could catch him around the SS Anne via glitch or something, but I could never do it. Seeing this is like a dream come true. The nostalgia is taking over I must play again!

Just imagine knowing this trick when you were 9-14 years old. You could have bribed kids at your school and caught a mew for them without letting them know the trick in exchange for Pokémon cards! 😈

it feels like Tommy Wiseau is talking to me about Pokemon

I can confirm this also works on the newly released VC version of Red/Blue.

Omg I just caught Mew almost 18 years later. Thank u 😭😭

Thanks! It even works on the Pokémon red virtual console for the 3DS. I was a little skeptical in seeing it work, but it did!

For those that can't get the timing right with the pause menu you need to get up above him and you want to make sure that you press Start AFTER pressing down, not during. It helps if you use the same finger because if you press start too early it won't count it. Also, if using an Advance or newer Game Boy you it really helps to change the resolution to the original.

Thank you! Took a while to get an abra, but catching the Mew was so satisfying. Other methods I've seen have been really complicated and unhelpful

Can't believe it still works. Thank you! Btw is there a way to find the codes of each pokemon? To avoid hunting for hours in order to find the rare ones.

Concise, descriptive and to the point. Great video!

just done it, amazing, i've been trying to catch mew since 1999!

'We're gonna get Mew legally' 'Ok we need Abra to glitch the game'

You can also battle the first trainer at the gym, his Shelder has the same special stat for Mew. I actually literally just tested to see if you can still catch Mew after blacking out by losing to the Shelder and you can! So technically you can get an infinite amount of Mew since when you black out you can fight the trainer again.

This 100000% works! I did less than 5 mins ago! Incredible! 2 decades later I have my mew. Thank u for this vid. 💓 the only difference I found is when I went back over the nugget bridge after starting the glitch. Instead of the menu popping up, a text boxed popped up and said ' oh, stomped under foot' and the mew battle began. The method works perfectly.. only hard part was catching an abra......

so i went to an official nintendo event at the mall and waited in line for nothing?! well, at least they gave me a certificate for mew when they added him into my cartridge. all you young people dont understand the struggle...

After almost 30 years, I can finally get a mew in pokemon red and blue.

If i would have known this as a child i would have been the king at school haha

Got my very first Mew in 2024, on a real GBC and game, with the help of this tutorial! Thanks!!!

This really works!! It was hard to time hitting the start menu before the trainer sees you! Took almost 20 tries but I got it!! Thanks man

Shame on whoever said Mew was on that cruise ship 🚢 I spent a lot of time trying to look at a place where Mew wasn’t even at 😨

This is amazing. Damn. I wish i could take this knowledge back to 2nd grade. I would have been royalty!

Daaaaaamn !!! I grew up playing blue version, almost 20 years ago and just now I'm seeing how to catch mew Thanks for the vid homie 👏👌👍

For those who doesn't know, Mew was SECRETLY added in Red and Blue by a programmer named Shigeki Morimoto as #151. It was never intended to appear but a few people encounter Mew when accidentally performing some glitches. Pretty cool stuff.

This is THE LEGAL way if you do THE ILLEGAL way Officer Jenny will get ya!

Imagine being the one kid that actually figured this out back in the day. The steps for this are so cryptic and nonsensical it makes Mew under the truck believable.

Corrected title: "How to catch Mew using a glitch."

I would have shit myself if i had known this as a child in 95.

Stop! You violated the Law! Pay the court a fine or serve your sentance.

imagine knowing this back in school days, you would be the king of the schoolyard

The flow of the commentary along with the music, magnificent.

I really hope they don't remove this when they port these games to the 3DS next year.

If you growl the slowpoke 6 times the mew's level will be 1 (7-6) instead of 7 and you can do underflow for It to be level 100

It’s amazing that we kids knew this in the late 90s early 2000s without the internet.

Yo, I know you may not believe me, but I actually encountered Mew by COMPLETE accident in Rock Tunnel when I was eight years old. I was near the end of Rock Tunnel when it happened, and had nothing but very high level Pokémon with me so I was unable to catch it. I now will use this method to catch Mew as I have always wanted to. Thank you for this video!

I remember years and years ago, when I was playing Pokemon Red on my old Game Boy, I was exploring some cavern area (the name of which eludes me) and I entered a battle as I approached a ladder. Mew appeared and my pre-teen self freaked. out. I threw a Master Ball, hoped to God my PokeDex or whatever wasn't full, and caught it. My parents had no idea what it meant to me.

Hell yes just caught Mew using this. Some more specific instructions concerning finding and catching Abra before hand would have been nice. Took me bloody hours! You need to have a levelled up (17) Butterfree with sleep powder to catch one. Then the only place I could find Abra was in the little patch of grass early on route 25 (right before the kid with slow poke).

"in order to get Mew, YOU GOTTA KILL A SLOWPOKE" *drags cigarette menacingly*

Just copped an authentic Pokémon red version. Can’t wait to get Mew! Very good video my friend

Fired up my old GB just for this. So worth it, dream come true!

If u beat those trainers u still can do this glitch. Make sure u have a pokemon with the special stat at 21. Its the ditto glitch. Ull have to start it the exact same way but instead of battling that trainer just find another. But I think they have to spot u and walk to u still. So find another that does that. After u beat them go to the area that has dittos. Let ditto copy ur pokemon. Itll copy the stat/ which the slowpoke he is talking about has. Then beat the ditto. Then make sure u dont battle anything else then continue. If ur start button doesnt work. Let the menu wont pop up. Then u can simple go to ur pc and activate it and it shud work again. There are more things u can can or even battle. Like prof oak. Check it out. Its pretty cool. I caught everything in my yellow version all 151

This NPC casually chillin' one foot in the water at the top left corner @ 2:31

If I had a time machine I would go back to 1998 and show this to myself. I would be a legend among my classmates.

Holy shit... this totally worked . I fucking caught Mew... I haven’t played Pokémon in years and I’m turning 30 in a couple days. I told myself I had to catch Mew by the time I was 30 when I was a kid as a joke but I actually did it. Crushed through it in 2 nights with open emu and the fast forward button.

Apparently, legally and glitch are two different things.

0:13 I wouldn't call a method using a glitch legal.

I literally found this video after I’ve passed that part…😅. Anyone here in April 2021?

Wow thats really cool. Could you explain how you found the way to catch mew? It seems that strange and random, i can't imagine *.*

damn I was like 8 when I played this game, always wondered how...just googled it 28 years later....i gotta do this!

In my childhood i´ve heard so many theories, rumors and storys about how to catch mew in the old red/blue editions, and tried them all but i never was able to encounter mew. Thank you very much for this video, so atleast I know now it was possible to catch mew back then. Too bad that now I don´t care anymore that much.

This is the last kind of video I expected to find from you. I thought you had only done DnD videos since the beginning

Downloaded Pokemon Red to try this out, totally works. I wanted to push it further and see what other pokemon you can get.. If you trigger the glitch and fight the trainer AFTER the one in this video, you come across a Lapras. If you do the next trainer, the miner (or hiker maybe) on the bottom, you come across a Gengar! I'm gonna keep capturing these awesome Pokemon :D

This is definitely the correct method the most important part is to make sure that the trainer you fight before catching mew walks over to you!

I showed this to a group of my friends in fifth grade and they were so shocked. I felt like a badass

How to catch Mew legally!! "right so we're gonna glitch the game"

I've just got Pokemon red after over 15 years since I last played. I wish I knew this then! Thanks :D

I was playing red last night and was like why is the mew glitch not working... turns out I was doing everything backwards

As a child i remmeber a kid let me play his blue version during recess. He was att his point of the game with a level 11 blastoise. It blew my mind wide open. To this day i have no clue how he did it. Im 99% certain he had no idea how he got it either. Since we were like 7 and 8 hears old. All that to say what an interesting game this is with bugs like these and codes like these.

This shit legit worked bro! Thank you so much! 25 yrs later and true nostalgia kicking in.

How the hell do ppl figure this out! Lol

Heres a great way to get mew and in fact to also break the game a little bit. You pretty much do the same thing you did except instead of defeating a slowpoke if you fight the first trainer in misty's gym who has a shelder, the shelder has the required special attack to summon mew during the glitch. And as an added bonus if you growl at the shelder 6 times it sets what level the pokemon will appear as. for each growl itll reduce the level of the pokemon. So by growling 6 times itll set the mew as level 1. Since 1st gen does not normally register pokemon as level 1, when you catch the mew and then this is critical! DO NOT get the exact amount of experience it would take to level up, instead get just enough experience to where it would not level up and the game will automatically boost your mew to level 100.

I bought an Xploder for Mew. Was the hero of the school for contributing Mews to all kids.

>2011 Man, hard to believe this is the same guy who now does DnD lore videos.

i guess i meant without having to use gamesharks or cheats :)

This also works by battling the first trainer in the Cerulean Gym instead of the youngster.

Legal in the sense that it can be done without any save editor's or cheat devices? Yes. Legal in the sense that it's a real pokemon that can be verifably obtained through vanilla means that won't raise any red flags to say Pokemon Transporter? No.

Besides how cool this is I also think its super-cool to see what random attacks he gets since you get him at such a low level.

a word of advice... if you change/die during the slowpoke battle your game frezzes

Thanks to this video, I’ve finally achieved my childhood dream of catching Mew lol

With captions on everytime he said mew the captions read it as "meal", so I laughed when he said to "enjoy your meal" lol

Pro tips... You can use an escape rope instead of teleporting with abra If you blackout vs the slowpoke you can repeat the glitch and get two mews or more If you use growl 6 times against the slowpoke the mew you encounter will be lvl 1 but immediately level up to lvl 100 as soon as it gains any xp

Damnat I wish I figured this out, back in '98. I had all 151 Pokemon except Mew, tried like 6 hacks that people had brought up on the internet back then. But none of them ever worked. Ended up grabbing him with my Game Genie. I'm glad this hack was leaked. Pretty cool.

Rooster Teeth Off Topic Podcast brought me here.

2023 just picked up my Pokémon red and starting playing again and this cheat still works!

Wow, that’s crazy, just got my analogue pocket and started over my blue version. And this actually worked, it got me thinking, can this be done later in the game. You can avoid the youngster who has slowpoke and still meet Bill and you can avoid the guy in the grass who you need to initiate the glitch. Catching Abra, was a pain.

After you teleport the first time, go into the gym and battle the first trainer there on the right. Kill his first pokemon and on his shellder (his second pokemon) use growl 6 times. This is important. After you knock out his pokemon (after using growl six times) you can heal your pokemon and go encounter Mew. It will be level 1. This is amazing because the game isnt made to have level 1's in it. So after you catch it, look at its stats and see its experience needed to level up. Go into a battle with mew in the first slot then withdraw him for someone else and MAKE SURE you get less exp than Mew needs to level up. This will make him level 100 automatically BUT ONLY IF YOU GIVE HIM LESS EXP THAN HE NEEDS.

"Am gonna show you guys how to catch Mew legally" "All you need is Abra for his teleportation, and, to glitch the game." Now I'm no lawyer, but if by "legally" he is referring to teleportation and glitching then by all means, I am going to legally acquire all the drugs on this planet!

I like this guy's definition of the word 'legally'.

Very interesting, if this is the only way to get new in the game, what was Nintendo’s play with it originally? How were you supposed to catch it?