@Felthry Probably something glitchy from gen1, maybe gen2?
@BatElite the well-known ZZAZZ glitch from gen 1 would overwrite large portions of memory with the value 153. This happens to be the identifier for bulbasaur, the move explosion, and the letter Z in the game.
@Felthry Gen 1 seems magical in terms of the code.
@BatElite it probably is
@Felthry 🎶Blood magic is still magic!🎶
(That's not an actual song, but I feel like it should be.)
@BatElite it's thought that the index numbers are just the order in which they were programmed into the game, which is corroborated by the knowledge that rhydon was the first pokemon to be designed (its index number is 1)