In the past few hours, an anonymous user on 4chan posted screenshots of a presumed beta version of Pokemon Gold. Said leak displayed screenshots of unused Pokemon, and a beta titlescreen.

At approximately 3am EST, said leaker releases the ROM into the wild, and a team reveals that they were working on translating and bug fixing the aforementioned ROM. Coinciding with the leak, user Sanqui on Twitter releases a WIP spreadsheet containing all the data researched and documented by the team thus far:

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[gumbyx84]

I know everyone had been digging through the code, but had anyone played the demo? I've been plaplay it a bit and while it's not much different than the final games, outs cool to see the original sprites of some pokemon come up. Trying not to check out the sprites as not to sign the surprise of strong them in-game. Besides the starters, I've seen proto/beta Giraferig and Hoppip and I gotta say it was a trip to see them pop up.

Anyone know if it's possible to leave the demo area? Also does anyone know if other pokemon show up in the demo area besides Pidgy, Rattata, Girafarig, and Hoppip? In the 10 or so minutes I've played that's all I've cone across.

 

[BlueFox gui]

I know everyone had been digging through the code, but had anyone played the demo? I've been plaplay it a bit and while it's not much different than the final games, outs cool to see the original sprites of some pokemon come up. Trying not to check out the sprites as not to sign the surprise of strong them in-game. Besides the starters, I've seen proto/beta Giraferig and Hoppip and I gotta say it was a trip to see them pop up.

Anyone know if it's possible to leave the demo area? Also does anyone know if other pokemon show up in the demo area besides Pidgy, Rattata, Girafarig, and Hoppip? In the 10 or so minutes I've played that's all I've cone across.

yes people already played, and there are people working in an english translation

 

[8BitWonder]

For those of you patching the rom to run, and also enabling the new game stuff:
Instead of writing 0x7B 0xA2 at $014E, write 0x7B 0xD0 at $014E to fix the invalid checksum error.

 

[DeslotlCL]

For those of you patching the rom to run, and also enabling the new game stuff:
Instead of writing 0x7B 0xA2 to $014E, write 0x7B 0xD0 at $014E to fix the invalid checksum error.

There is already a fixed rom to download ina pretty obvious site, if you know what to search.

I know everyone had been digging through the code, but had anyone played the demo? I've been plaplay it a bit and while it's not much different than the final games, outs cool to see the original sprites of some pokemon come up. Trying not to check out the sprites as not to sign the surprise of strong them in-game. Besides the starters, I've seen proto/beta Giraferig and Hoppip and I gotta say it was a trip to see them pop up.

Anyone know if it's possible to leave the demo area? Also does anyone know if other pokemon show up in the demo area besides Pidgy, Rattata, Girafarig, and Hoppip? In the 10 or so minutes I've played that's all I've cone across.

Pretty sure you can leave the demo are but by using cheats. I recall watching a stream this morning with this guy walking through walls.

 

[pustal]

Bad idea.

This is a game that was not meant to be released to the public and is owned/trademarked by Nintendo.

It's called a joke... GBATemp used to be a roms site and had a download section for roms.

 

[Ziko]

Can confirm that this won't run on Gameyob at all. I even changed from .sgb to .gbc and it still white screens on me. I guess I won't be able to enjoy this.

 

[Deleted User]

Can confirm that this won't run on Gameyob at all. I even changed from .sgb to .gbc and it still white screens on me. I guess I won't be able to enjoy this.

Do you have a android phone? Just use ppsspp with masterboy

 

[KazoWAR]

i used vba and it boots without any edits.

 

[Kioku]

Changed the offsets and got it working on my Note through MyBoy... Interesting, to say the least.

 

[trigao]

usb gb smart card here.... runs normally

 

[Jordy19]

This is sweet, I've always been curious about the non-public pokemon stuff.

 

[KiiWii]

Boooooo! Gimme the Mario 128 tech demo.

Wasnt there remnants in pikmin or something random?

 

[DarthDub]

Makes me wonder if someone got a hand on the Zelda 64/Ocarina of Time Space World demo from that same year..

 

[Sakitoshi]

for the curious, there is a new thread in /v/ with the prototype silver rom.
so go grab it while is hot.

 

[DarthDub]

for the curious, there is a new thread in /v/ with the prototype silver rom.
so go grab it while is hot.

TCRF is having a field day with this!

 

[gumbyx84]

Can confirm that this won't run on Gameyob at all. I even changed from .sgb to .gbc and it still white screens on me. I guess I won't be able to enjoy this.

Have you changed the offsets mentioned at the link in the OP?

for the curious, there is a new thread in /v/ with the prototype silver rom.
so go grab it while is hot.

I assume /v/ is a subreddit? Can I get a link? I'm not a Reddit user

 

[RattletraPM]

I assume /v/ is a subreddit? Can I get a link? I'm not a Reddit user

Nope, it's a 4chan board.
I found the Silver prototype on /vg/ tho, go to the catalog and search for "silver". The thread was pretty close to get pruned, so you might want to go there ASAP.

 

[gumbyx84]

Nope, it's a 4chan board.
I found the Silver prototype on /vg/ tho, go to the catalog and search for "silver". The thread was pretty close to get pruned, so you might want to go there ASAP.

Got it. You sure it's safe?

 

[VinsCool]

Some of the beta pokémon sprites look really nice.

I honestly hope someone will make redrawn artworks of these.

 

[gumbyx84]

Some of the beta pokémon sprites look really nice.

I honestly hope someone will make redrawn artworks of these.

I'm hoping someone extracts them and makes a patch to put them in the Gen 2 games