Pokemon 2 Gold & Silver Space World '97 Demo ROM Dumped!

[Mavrick]

Not Let's Go! related I just saw that someone has dumped the ROM from the Spaceworld '97 demo of Pokemon Gold! The full ROM is available to download and play for the first time in 21 years. They also pulled the sprites from the data and my god there are some insane sprites in there!

There are pre evolutions of Pokemon that never ended up getting any such as Meowth and Growlith and there's designs for Pokemon that weren't even in the game, some were included in later generations such as the early design for what looks like Politoed, others were designs that were totally scrapped in favour of new ones such as the Legendary Dogs. There's even an alternate Shelder/Cloyster evolution that looks like Slowkings tail after Cloyster attaches.

It's really interesting insight to what they originally had planned for the game that was supposed to come out that year, of course now we know it was delayed and ultimately altered in to the game that was released in 2000.



Other diferences:

Type Matchups
Poison does 0.5x damage to Steel-types rather than being completely ineffective.
Move Differences
Bite is Normal-type.
Scary Face lowers Defense instead of Speed.
Belly Drum does not inflict any damage on the user.
ボーンラッシュ Bone Rush was originally named ホネホネロック Bonebone Rock, using ほね instead of the katakana ボーン to refer to Cubone and Marowak's bone clubs.
Oddities
Poison-types can get poisoned, which does not happen in Generation I or II altogether.

There were some moves deleted that would later appear in Gen III through VI.

It's still early days so there's hopefully more hidden gems in the ROM to be found.