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

 

[Scarlet]

lanturn is my life

why couldn't this be the real thing

 

[Chary]

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

 

[emigre]

Don't know about the rest of you but I'm loving these leaks for the early Pokémon games.

 

[VinsCool]

Yoooo that's neat! Just as we thought we had everything from the beta ROMs, a while ago.

I've heard of this a few days ago, so having even more informations makes me pretty happy.

Couldn't have started playing Crystal Clear at a better time, having a serious nostalgia trip today.

 

[Deleted User]

Oh my God, there's more?!
I'm so happy there's so much more to see from the original Satoshi Tajiri games
I was hoping for this to leak so bad! I'm dying

Is it permitted to send links to this on DMs?
If so, someone please link me to it, I looked couldn't but I couldn't even find the blue/yellow source code leak

 

[DarkCoffe64]

Welp, so either these are legit and this is pretty cools, or its one big jape and in a few days I'll see "Pokemon leak was fake" here as another headline, eh

 

[PRAGMA]

Woah this is insane, thank you for letting us know

This does seem to be legit, actual code does exist here, I'm not sure if it is compilable yet though.

 

[Mythical]

Oh my God, there's more?!
I'm so happy there's so much more to see from the original Satoshi Tajiri games
I was hoping for this to leak so bad! I'm dying

Is it permitted to send links to this on DMs?
If so, someone please link me to it, I looked couldn't but I couldn't even find the blue/yellow source code leak

No it is against the rules to link to stuff in any form or fashion on this site. Really hyped for these leaks though, I love seeing how things work on the inside

 

[Feroz El Mejor]

This never ends, there's a lot to see yet.

 

[JuanMena]

This seems fishy... but I'm going to download the build anyways.

 

[x65943]

Well that is a pleasant surprise!

Still holding out hope we get Red/Green beta with Gorochu sprite one day

 

[Brigand]

Wooper is such a meme.

 

[RivenMain]

@Brigand =w=

 

[Supercool330]

Welp, so either these are legit and this is pretty cools, or its one big jape and in a few days I'll see "Pokemon leak was fake" here as another headline, eh

It is incredibly unlikely that this is fake. Faking that much source code would be extremely difficult. This is sort of like the moon landing; as incredible as it may seem, this would a lot harder to fake than to actually obtain. Some of the sprites and pokedex entries might be fake, but the inclusion of the previously unreleased source would strongly suggest that the rest of the leak is also real.

 

[slaphappygamer]

4chan strikes again! Lol. Maybe I’ll finally try Pokemon.

 

[Green0scar]

GameFreak sure knows how to clean up sprites

 

[DarkCoffe64]

It is incredibly unlikely that this is fake. Faking that much source code would be extremely difficult. This is sort of like the moon landing; as incredible as it may seem, this would a lot harder to fake than to actually obtain. Some of the sprites and pokedex entries might be fake, but the inclusion of the previously unreleased source would strongly suggest that the rest of the leak is also real.

Eh, just saying, some had went a long way to make some big pranks, a lot of smash-related stuff comes to mind...

 

[Edgarska]

Eh, just saying, some had went a long way to make some big pranks, a lot of smash-related stuff comes to mind...

The amount of work that goes into faking screenshots and videos is not really comparable to faking the source code for an entire game.

It could still be fake, I haven't really looked into it myself to say it isn't, but they're just not the same.

 

[SAIYAN48]

TCRF is going to have a filed day! And I'll have fun reading the changes.