![]() ![]() On James Turner tweeted some images from the just-published manga " A Man Who Made Pokémon: Satoshi Tajiri" that showed some early Pokémon designs. Who's Helix Chamber? What data did they have? This was also leaked on 4chan as pack_4m4lZ6j.zip on April 11, 2020. Some TSW members also privately shared other data: Gen 2 debug ROMs and related metadata. POKEMON NEO Y CIA 4CHAN ARCHIVEAll of this (except some pictures with personal information) was leaked on 4chan as pack.zip on Mathe reaction prompted TSW to archive their Discord logs. POKEMON NEO Y CIA 4CHAN MANUALSome more data was shared in the TSW Discord by _ and Ganix: Blue and Yellow debug ROMs, a patch for a Crystal debug ROM ( CRYSTAL_DEBUG.ips), original Crystal symbols ( CRYSTAL_BY_NUM.SYM, analyzed to create symmaps.png), and screenshots of more (debug Gold and Silver ROMs, a prototype Pearl ROM, an internal Game Boy manual with hardware details). Many of the people who got the ROMs, including Ganix, formed Team Spaceworld as a private group to study the ROMs and ultimately release them with a translation and documentation. On wack0, as "_", publicly posted the Space World '97 demo ROMs of a prototype Gen 2, but in a link that expired after 20 downloads. Who's Team Spaceworld? What data did they have? It was not publicly known right away that this hack was the source of various leaked content, but some people closer to him knew and did not want more to leak too much or too quickly, to avoid further legal consequences to him or themselves. He was arrested and sentenced by March 2019 to 15 months in prison (suspended) and five years of probation. He shared different pieces of the material with people he knew from "scene" groups and research communities like Video Game Preservation Collective (VGPC) and Glitch City Labs (GCL), but did not reveal how he had acquired them. In March 2018, Zammis Clark (aka wack0, Riley, Raylee, slipstream, RoL/Ring of Lightning, Stackout, or _) hacked into Nintendo's internal network (having previously breached Vtech and Microsoft) and acquired gigabytes (if not terabytes) of material, much of it related to Pokémon. Gen 3 and 4 also had some revised and unused Pokémon, although Game Freak may have refined their process by then, so designs wouldn't have much implemented without being finalized. Gen 2 also had "several hundred" designs (reusing some from the Gen 1 rejects) before settling on 100 more. There were over 190 initial designs, of which 151 became the Gen 1 Pokémon. Probably the most popular early designs are for the actual Pokémon creatures aka drafts, prototypes, scrapped or "beta" designs. Some Capumon material has been known for years before the "gigaleaks" even got started. Game Freak has kept many of their early design documents from that period, and occasionally we've seen glimpses of them in interviews or official publications. " Capsule Monsters", or Capumon, was the original name for Satoshi Tajiri's game idea that became Pokémon. Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee! - Proto.Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire - Prerelease.Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen - Prerelease.Kakeru - Memories of the dawn of Pokémon sites on the Internet (Japanese). ![]()
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