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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[swabbo]

Wow that's pretty fuckin' awesome

 

[Deleted User]

That's pretty cool, wonder what differences are there between this Demo copy and the final build.

 

[Kioku]

What's this sgb format? Super Gameboy?

 

[APartOfMe]

This is really cool! But we're still hoping for the sunshine spaceworld demo...

 

[nolimits59]

Kinda awesome to think that we can touch this before Iwata work his magic on and compress the whole game to more than half its size.

 

[Deleted-394630]

Neat, want to see a screenshot of the unused Pokemon though.

 

[BvanBart]

Twitter is offline?!

 

[nolimits59]

Twitter is offline?!

add .com after twitter

 

[mituzora]

This is really cool, especially for video game preservation. I love seeing beta ROM leaks and stuff like that.

 

[migles]

What's this sgb format? Super Gameboy?

yes, super gameboy it is just a .gb but with the extension .sgb to note that is super gameboy enhanced and the emulators usually launch it under that mode

btw, are there pics of what the cart looks like and stuff?

 

[Deleted User]

Nice find!

 

[Darksabre72]

nice can't wait to try

 

[SimonMKWii]

This is really cool! But we're still hoping for the sunshine spaceworld demo...

Boooooo! Gimme the Mario 128 tech demo.

 

[migles]

huu, how do i make the rom run?
i don't understand the readme stuff
"To get the ROM to run, set $0147 to 0x10, and $014D to 0xC7"

 

[pandavova]

huu, how do i make the rom run?
i don't understand the readme stuff
"To get the ROM to run, set $0147 to 0x10, and $014D to 0xC7"

You need to use a hex editor, something like HxD.

 

[Undi]

huu, how do i make the rom run?
i don't understand the readme stuff
"To get the ROM to run, set $0147 to 0x10, and $014D to 0xC7"

Use HxD
Open your rom
Go to search/find/idk, find "Go to address"
Type 0147 and modify whatever is here to "10"
Do it again with 014D and replace with "C7"
It should work, I don't have the time to do it now, but that's how it work in romhacking.

 

[VinsCool]

That's epic stuff for TCRF.
Been seeing information all over twitter, it's incredible how much stuff the beta had left out, and sometimes reused in later games.

 

[pustal]

So I heard we have a download section again....

 

[Kallus]

When I first got into betas, always wanted this to surface.
I'll be datamining this, and will post any relevant updates to what I find.
Thank you anonymous leaker.