Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver beta: Difference between revisions

During the planning and development stages of Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, CoroCoro magazine released some information about the upcoming games, including game sprites and locations. Everything in the article was found in the final games with a few modifications and clean ups.

Prototype sprites

Before the games were released, there were pictures from CoroCoro magazine that showed Silver's, Chikorita's, Pikachu's and Pikachu-colored Pichu's beta sprites. These were changed later on. There is also a beta back sprite of Ethan. His hair is slightly different and there is a symbol on his hat.

Beta screenshots also exist, one of the Slowpoke Well that instead shows a Team Rocket Grunt standing where Proton is in the final version, as was the case in the original games, and another of the Mystri Stage in Sinjoh Ruins that shows the three circles being identical instead of three different colors in the final version.

Also, Cyndaquil's sprite in the intro is different from its front sprite in the main games.

• SilverHGSS beta.png

  Silver's beta sprite

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  Beta back sprite of Ethan

• Goldvssilver.png

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

• Slowpokewell.png

  Beta Slowpoke Well, minus Proton

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  Chikorita's beta sprite (leaf coloring is darker)

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  Pikachu's beta sprite

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  Pikachu-colored Pichu's beta sprite

• Cynthiaarceus.jpg

  Beta version Mystri Stage, a platform in Sinjoh Ruins used for summoning one of the Sinnoh game mascots.

Prototype items

• The Photo Album was going to be a key item, but the feature was included in the PC instead.
• Data, including a sprite, exists for the Slowpoketail. It can be obtained through hacking but has no function.

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