To be honest this is exactly how the Pokémon Gold/Silver Spaceworld ROMs were leaked too.
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New Gen 1 Pokemon prototype materials have surfaced
- Thread starter The Shadow Knight
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Man it's really cool to see this kind of stuff pop up. Lots of interesting things to pick apart here.
SpaceWorld was a bit different - the whole ROM was leaked, for one, and whoever leaked it didn't stick around to answer any questions. Without the actual ROM this is a lot less verifiable.
Right?
Gen 1 designs still suck ass
Some of these prototype Pokemon were actually way better than what we got.
It's a shame that due to limitations they had to make the Pokemon so simple (and an even bigger shame that people seem to think that gen 1 had the best designs because they were simple)
I'll never understand the "Anything past gen 1 is an overdesigned mess" mentality when outside of legendaries this usually is not the case and the Pokemon have very clever, well thought out designs that they are now able to better depict due to not being limited by technology
Uh, nope. Someone dumped the actual Spaceworld ROM and put it online. Someone who knew what it was came across it and was able to verify it as real. IIRC it was quite a process.
I don't necessarily think Helix Chamber aren't being genuine with this one, but the source material is very sketchy without any possible way to verify it such as ROM dump.
Backstory sounds super weird. Maybe one day there'll be some more information if it's real. Doesn't sound like there's anyway to verify anything in this case. Shame we didn't get the rom like the gen 2 prototype
Kangaskhan was originally a Marowak evo, Blastoise was originall a separate Pokemon line with its own pre evo, Wartortle's fluffy tail now makes sense because there was going to originally be an even fluffier evolution, and there is a middle evolution for the Psyduck line. Holy shit. Gamefreak originally just cut some Pokemon out or slapped together originally unrelated Pokemon, and eventually spun drastic evolutions as a design philosophy, the crazy bastards actually pulled it off. Likely the same thing with the Kangaskhan line, Caterpie and Venemoth shenanigans, and probably more. Again, Holy Shit
Isn't the "someone" you are talking about mostly the same people that got hands on these assets?
There was a stream of a romhack with these assets inserted back into it beforehand. It was intentionally supposed to be presented as coy and was just a special surprise for a charity marathon. People either loved it or hated it or really hated it.
The assets were verified by HelixChamber when the person was able to identify something nobody else had ever seen back during the summer (Kotora's back sprite). We would not run this story if we weren't sure. As was mentioned on Twitter everyone has the right to be skeptical, and if you feel more comfortable waiting for this to be verified by some future Game Freak interview or shot of an old design document like Omega a few months ago, so be it. However, we are positive this is real.
Pokemon's simple and effective designs are a huge part of the series success, why they're so adored and why designs like Pikachu transcended age and gender to become the most successful characters in all of media. Its not a shame, its the entire reason Pokemon is what it is. Latter generations also have a lot of popular Pokemon that are comprised of very simple shapes and colours.
I mean, we did. Might just be the back of its head, its cheek-spikes, and something on its back, but we have seen Gorochu now.
I think he means the face, we don't know how that looks, colors or if the belly is different from Raichu.
Delving into the article now, lots of stuff make more sense now. Super cool to see Blaine's original design, his official art never looked like his sprite in the game. Also the earth badge resembling a feather, Giovanni was originally a flying type trainer! So cool.
I don't think we'd ever see what colors it was supposed to have, unless someone managed to find late development concept art of it or something
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I'm kind of suspicious of the source here. The collector is either trying to inflate the value of the prototype (which is shitty and a whole separate discussion) or something about the materials he provided is fishy. I'd like to see the ROM dumped.
The fact Gen 2's ROM's lost pre-evolutions are here too make it a bit odd. I'll admit I don't know why they considered pre-evolutions for some of those 'Mons.
I, for one, believe these are absolutely adorable.
They are, but IIRC those are sprites from the Spaceworld ROM. I haven't read the whole article yet, but is it passing these off as Gen 1 prototype sprites? Because Gen 1's art is a bit... rougher, or in Yellow's case they're recreating Sugimori Art. These couldn't be from any earlier than Gen 2's prototype.
It's garbage data from a glitch mistakenly trying to read non Pokemon data as a Pokemon. That's it. Nothing else.
Anyone trying to claim otherwise is an immediate debunk of everything they are saying, IMO.
So Blastoise was never meant to be Squirtle's final evolution, that makes so much sense and I am gutted that they did that as Totartle looks so cool.
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It's literally confirmed officially that the missing no data is Pokemon that weren't fully programmed and or removed from the game all together. Not sure what got you thinking otherwise.
Funny thing is we had that one as a bird at first. In a future article we'll be going over our findings with the move data, but for now let's just say that line learned several moves in the vicinity of kicking moves and we figured out that it was a literal fighting fish.