Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver beta

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During the planning and development stages of Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, several things were originally going to be a part of the games. Some of them were dropped or changed, but several of these dropped concepts of the beta version can still be found within the game's programming.

Prototype sprites

Before the game was released, there are pictures from CoroCoro Magazine that showed Silver's, Pikachu's and Pichu's beta sprites. These were changed later on. There is also a beta back sprite of Gold. His hair is slightly different and there is a symbol on his hat.

There is also a beta screenshot of the Slowpoke Well without Lance's sprite, which instead shows a Team Rocket grunt standing where Lance is in the final version.

• SilverHGSS beta.png

  Silver's beta sprite

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  Beta back sprite of Gold

• Goldvssilver.png

  Beta battle screen, showing Gold and Silver's aforementioned sprites

• Slowpokewell.png

  Beta Slowpoke Well

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  Pikachu's beta sprite

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  Shiny Pichu's beta sprite

Prototype items

• The Photo Album was going to be a key item, but the feature was included in the PC instead.

Beta versions of Pokémon games

Generation I Red and Green • Yellow Generation II Gold and Silver (Spaceworld '97 demo) • Crystal Generation III Ruby and Sapphire • FireRed and LeafGreen • Emerald • Colosseum • XD Generation IV Diamond and Pearl • Platinum • HeartGold and SoulSilver Generation V Black and White • Black 2 and White 2 Generation VI X and Y • Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire Generation VII Sun and Moon • Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon Generation VIII Sword and Shield Unreleased Pokémon Picross

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