List of Japanese characters in the international Generation I and II games

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In the international releases of the Generation I and II games, many glitches contain Japanese characters called kana, with the notable example of ゥ, the small form of the katakana character ウ. The localizations of these older games were not supposed to contain any kana at all but some characters were left behind within the internal data.

The following are the only kana known to be programmed into the games.

Generation I

Pokémon Blue's title screen tile set at address 0x8800.

Pokémon Yellow's overworld tile set at address 0x8800.

Pokémon Yellow's in-battle tile set at address 0x8000.

Pokémon Yellow's title screen tile set at address 0x8800.

Red and Blue

The katakana characters are contained in the title screen and in-battle tile sets while the hiragana characters are contained specifically in the overworld tile set.

Title screen tile set

Overworld tile set

In-battle tile set

Yellow

Both hiragana and katakana characters are contained in the title screen tile set, while the overworld tile set contains only hiragana and in-battle tile set contains only katakana.

Title screen tile set

Overworld tile set

In-battle tile set

Generation II

The international releases of the Generation II games contain only hiragana in all relevant tile sets.

Gold and Silver

Pokémon Gold's title screen tile set at address 0x8800.

Pokémon Gold's in-battle tile set at address 0x8800.

Title screen tile set

Overworld tile set

In-battle tile set

Crystal

Pokémon Crystal's title screen tile set at address 0x8800.

Title screen tile set

Overworld tile set

In-battle tile set

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