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Through a series of events that I vaguely understand, the source code to Pokemon Blue & Yellow was recently leaked onto the internet by someone who had access to the materials hacked from Nintendo's servers, which were the source of previous leaks such as the Gold & Silver Spaceworld ROM and the Gen 1 beta sprites. While there don't appear to be too many especially exciting discoveries to be found here, there are a few interesting things: most notably, the header of the Pokemon Yellow source code refers to the game as "Pocket Monsters Pink and Yellow", with additional references to a scrapped Pink version in other places as well.
Yellow also appears to have a "comprehensive set of audio files of the Pokemon from the Japanese anime in the sound folder", which would suggest that Pikachu was not always going to be the only one with speech samples replacing the standard electronic cry. Here is an example of Diguda's cry, better known as Diglett to English speakers (warning to headphone users, ya might wanna turn the sound down):
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/202859782779043840/698694883929620580/DIGUDA.wav
The quality sounds extremely bad, which lines up with comments from Masuda that getting even PIkachu's speech to sound acceptable was a big challenge.
I find these discoveries very fascinating, as they paint a picture of a very different future for the series had they panned out. Pink Version likely would have used Clefairy (the original intended mascot instead of Pikachu) or Jigglypuff (who became a breakout star thanks to the anime) as the starter Pokemon and would have surely been aimed at a female audience, which could have set the stage for future boy/girl oriented versions, and anime voice samples on the humble Game Boy could have started a trend of fully voice-acted cries in every game going forward instead of merely Pikachu and Eevee like we have now.
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