Pokemon Legends Arceus -01001f5010dfa800--v1966... Today
A strange hexadecimal string has been making rounds in datamining circles: 01001F5010DFA800--v1966...
However, I can write an article that creatively interprets this as a found in Pokémon Legends: Arceus — tying it to the game’s lore about space-time distortions. Pokémon Legends: Arceus – Decoding the “01001F5010DFA800--v1966...” Anomaly By: Rift Analyst April 17, 2026
One compelling theory: a developer leftover string referencing . Titor claimed to be from 2036, and some fans have drawn parallels to Ingo’s amnesiac appearance in Hisui — a man displaced in time. The 01001F5010DFA800 ID, if shifted by one hex digit, becomes 01001F5010DFA801 — which is unused space, possibly reserved for a DLC that never released. Conclusion: Glitch, Hoax, or Ghost Data? Most likely, 01001F5010DFA800--v1966... is a corrupted autosave string generated by a modded Switch trying to force a version mismatch. But given Legends: Arceus ’s themes — rifts, fractured timelines, and Arceus as the Alpha Pokémon — it’s fun to imagine this as a real “void entry” from a parallel Hisui build that never was. Pokemon Legends Arceus -01001F5010DFA800--v1966...
Until someone recreates the exact conditions to trigger it in vanilla hardware, the string remains a curious fossil in the game’s digital sediment — waiting for another distortion to pull it back into our reality. Have you encountered this string in your own save data? Share your findings on the r/PokemonLegendsArceus megathread.
At first glance, it looks like a truncated Nintendo Switch title ID (the 01001F5010DFA800 part) followed by a version marker ( v1966 ) and an ellipsis suggesting cut-off data. But no official patch notes for Pokémon Legends: Arceus ever mention version 1966. So what is this? Every Switch game has a unique 16-character hexadecimal ID. For Pokémon Legends: Arceus , the base ID is 01001F5010DFA800 . That matches the first part of our string perfectly. The --v1966... suffix, however, is unofficial. A strange hexadecimal string has been making rounds
But a small community believes it points to unused content — perhaps a beta version of the “Sinjoh Ruins” event, which would have linked Legends: Arceus to HGSS’s 2009 lore (1966 appears nowhere in Pokémon’s real-world history… unless you count the fictional 1966 Porygon prototype rumor). Version numbers for Legends: Arceus range from 1.0.0 to 1.1.1. There is no v1966. However, 1966 in Unix time converts to a date in 1970 — irrelevant. But in binary? 1966 = 0x7AE. Still nothing obvious.
It looks like the string you provided ( 01001F5010DFA800--v1966... ) resembles a rather than a standard game title. Titor claimed to be from 2036, and some
Dataminers have noted that editing certain memory addresses in emulators or modded consoles can produce corrupted save headers that append strange version numbers — often a mix of build timestamps or RAM leftovers. The number 1966 stands out: it predates the Switch by decades, but interestingly, 1966 is the year the original Time Tunnel TV series aired — an odd coincidence for a game about space-time rifts. Some players claim that entering this exact string as a DNS code or a mystery gift password in early v1.0.2 of the game triggered a crash referencing “DISTORTION_TOO_OLD”. Others say it’s just a checksum error from hex-editing Hisuian forms into the game.
That’s a brilliant tip and the example video.. Never considered doing this for some reason — makes so much sense though.
So often content is provided with pseudo HTML often created by MS Word.. nice to have a way to remove the same spammy tags it always generates.
Good tip on the multiple search and replace, but in a case like this, it’s kinda overkill… instead of replacing
<p>and</p>you could also just replace</?p>.You could even expand that to get all
ptags, even with attributes, using</?p[^>]*>.Simples :-)
Cool! Regex to the rescue.
My main use-case has about 15 find-replaces for all kinds of various stuff, so it might be a little outside the scope of a single regex.
Yeah, I could totally see a command like
remove cruftdoing a bunch of these little replaces. RegEx could absolutely do it, but it would get a bit unwieldy.</?(p|blockquote|span)[^>]*>What sublime theme are you using Chris? Its so clean and simple!
I’m curious about that too!
Looks like he’s using the same one I am: Material Theme
https://github.com/equinusocio/material-theme
Thanks Joe!
Question, in your code, I understand the need for ‘find’, ‘replace’ and ‘case’. What does greedy do? Is that a designation to do all?
What is the theme used in the first image (package install) and last image (run new command)?
There is a small error in your JSON code example.
A closing bracket at the end of the code is missing.
There is a cool plugin for Sublime Text https://github.com/titoBouzout/Tag that can strip tags or attributes from file. Saved me a lot of time on multiple occasions. Can’t recommend it enough. Especially if you don’t want to mess with regular expressions.