Teru-sama

Teru-sama (Japanese:  Kabichū) is a group of dummy items that serve as fillers for the internal item list in. There are 29 variations of Teru-sama in Gold and Silver and 25 in Crystal.

Teru-sama can be sold for 19,660 at Poké Marts. The buy price of 39,321 is 0x9999 in hexadecimal or 9999 in (BCD), the latter being the format used by  for storing money data. The Generation II games instead use plain binary integers for money instead of BCD; however, the buy Teru-sama price uses the old format, suggesting that they were added early in the development of Gold and Silver.

Acquisition

 * See List of items by index number (Generation II) for the Teru-sama item IDs.

By performing the Celebi Egg glitch with a move ID value equal to that of an item ID, the player can obtain a Teru-sama.

Effects of specific Teru-sama
Teru-sama IDs 0x46, 0x73, 0x74, and 0x81 are items in Crystal and. They are respectively the Clear Bell, GS Ball, Blue Card, and Egg Ticket. Save for 0x81, these Teru-sama were renamed in Korean Gold and Silver to match the names of the corresponding items in Crystal.

Teru-sama IDs 0x06 and 0x38 are respectively the Town Map and Poké Flute from Red, Green, Blue, and Yellow and they can be enabled by hacking in the "USE" option. The Town Map is faulty and causes bugs; the Poké Flute still works, although the audio only plays if used on a ing outside of. The Poké Flute also does not affect the sleeping in Vermilion City.

Name origin
Teru-sama, as the English and European name of the item, may be a reference to Teruki Murakawa, a member of the staff of Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal.

The Japanese name Kabichū is meaningless but it combines kabi  from , potentially in reference to programmer Kōji Nishino, and chū  from , , or.

Its Korean name is just the question mark "".