Building upon the Space World GS demo that was leaked a while back, and a source code leak of Pokemon Blue, is a brand new discovery, involving the second-generation Pokemon games once more. Supposedly, multiple early builds of Pokemon Gold/Silver are out and about on the internet, courtesy of an anonymous 4chan user. Despite the dubious source, the alleged leak contains data for beta designs of the gen 2 Pokedex, complete with unfinished beta designs of many Pokemon featured throughout the early Gold/Silver versions, along with the source code for Pokemon Crystal. The file is 784.2 MiB.

There is a veritable treasure trove of information to dig through, including the wildly different concept sprites for some of the Johto Pokemon, a GameBoy emulator created for testing purposes by Nintendo themselves, debug builds, and much more.

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The builds themselves cannot be shared here, though they are floating around on the internet.

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Source: beta build screencaps

 

[Rabbid4240]

oh so when this happens to tf2 nobody cares ;_;

 

[RandomUser]

That is neat. This somehow reminded me of this thread
@x65943 Is the project still ongoing or is it canceled?

 

[raxadian]

I cannot believe one of the Beta Pokemon basically looked like a potato with eyes.

 

[NotMyTempo]

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I love how MewTwo looks like he's trying his best to fit inside the bounds of the art box lol. It's like HE KNOWS!

 

[osaka35]

This is incredibly exciting. Can't wait to see the homebrew that comes from this. I would love to play through a hybrid game.

 

[Pipistrele]

oh so when this happens to tf2 nobody cares ;_;

I mean, TF2 is kind of a dead game by this point =)

 

[call me Ken or Accel]

That yellow Tsuchinoko thingy supposed to be Dunsparce???
......... thank god we got the final version instead of that derp-o 2000

 

[samcambolt270]

Woah! I didn't know there was a woogle pokemon!

 

[Brigand]

Oh my gosh the potato thing is meant to be Wobbuffet!

 

[frecklebars]

is that pokemon no. 222 a supposed evolution of ditto? i could never imagine how those work. can anyone tell me whats with the 10 in its name?

Celebi's face is everyone's reaction to the leak being posted.

never in 1000 years i couldve figured out that was actually celebi LMAO

 

[Janschi]

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lanturn is my life

why couldn't this be the real thing

It looks kinda like a Lanturn with down syndrome, but I live for this version of Lanturn, it's cute af.

Celebi's face is everyone's reaction to the leak being posted.

I didnt even realize that it was Celebi until I read your comment

 

[Brigand]

is that pokemon no. 222 a supposed evolution of ditto? i could never imagine how those work. can anyone tell me whats with the 10 in its name?


never in 1000 years i couldve figured out that was actually celebi LMAO

That Pokemon is in Corsola's Pokedex spot, but my best guess would be a Slugma prototype. The "みてい[number]", which can also be seen on Celebi, is likely a placeholder for a Pokemon whose name has not yet been determined, as "mitei" denotes something that is not yet decided.

 

[Deleted User]

Gotta say I love that evee sprite
and i love no.202 even more

 

[Maq47]

Is this is /v/, /vg/, /vp/, or /vr/? At least give me that much.

Edit: Found it in /vp/.

 

[Ishzark]

Shuckle looks dope af, why did they change it? :c

 

[gamesquest1]

Celebi's face is everyone's reaction to the leak being posted.

im going more with the Mantine face

 

[RupeeClock]

A lot of these look like placeholder designs, as in they represent the design concept that's still in production, or doesn't yet have a proper sprite in place.

Others look like they put a release candidate design in place to see if it felt right, and ultimately decided against it and went for another design that better fit their world building idea.

That early Larvitar sprite is still funny though.

 

[Stash23]

Dr. Lava's gonna have a field day with this!
This is fantastic!

 

[FAST6191]

This is incredibly exciting. Can't wait to see the homebrew that comes from this. I would love to play through a hybrid game.

There has been a nice commented disassembly for various pokemon games for quite a while now, certainly one you could assemble, and dozens of tools that allow the users of said tools to make extensive changes to the games.

Results of that? I assume you already don't pay attention to pokemon hacks and wait for people to pick out any quality and shout that far and wide.

 

[HaloEffect17]

Best. Pokemon. Ever.

I want this version of Wobbuffet in Smash...