What are all the examples of times you can permanently softlock yourself in a Pokemon game?

I’m curious

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Certain glitches do not cause the game to completely freeze, but rather make it so that no buttons have any effect despite the game continuing to function in other ways. Examples of this include the music still being played, sprites still being animated, and NPCs continuing to move. During such a “softlock,” all inputs fail to work and the player must reset the game.

In Generation I

Another division by 0 glitch is caused while battling another Pokémon. If the attacker’s Attack or Special stat is higher than 255 and the defender’s Defense or Special stat, respectively, is lower than 4, or if the defender’s current Defense or Special stat is 512 or 513 and the defender has used Reflect or Light Screen. Also if its current Defense or Special stat is 514 or higher when Reflect or Light Screen, respectively, is up, it will be treated as if it was much lower due to a roll-over glitch.

The Pokémon Yellow glitch Pokémon 4(h4? (hex:ED) uses the glitch hex:FF experience group with a division of 0 in its current experience equation so it is affected by the glitch.[3][4]

The Pewter Gym skip glitch allows the player to bypass the person blocking the path out of Pewter City prior to defeating Brock and then talk to him from the right side, an action the developers did not anticipate. As the path the person walks is dependent on the side the player talks to him from, the game attempts to look up a path based on the player’s coordinates. Specifically, the game looks in the memory and tries find the coordinates (y=16, x=36 or hex:10 24) at an address ending in 2, 6, A or E. It then executes a path based on a two byte pointer following the coordinates, but the game may seemingly never find the coordinates at an applicable address and soft lock.

The glitch Pokémon 9 will softlock while being sent out by the player.

In Generation IVPerforming the tweaking glitch can sometimes trigger a softlock or a game freeze.When accessing the Void through either tweaking or the Surf glitch, if executed improperly it is possible to become trapped and unable to escape.

This also occurs when reloading the map over areas with water if the player hasn’t obtained Surf and/or Fly.

In Generation VIMain article: Lumiose City save glitchWhen saving in the North and South Boulevards of Lumiose City, the game may become unresponsive when it is reloaded. Some textures will not load properly and it is impossible to move or use the touchscreen even though the background music still plays normally. This is fixed in version 1.1.

These are all the examples I could find onBulbapedia.