As the Pokémon on his team are high leveled, it was supposed to be fought after defeating the Elite Four, but this event trigger, as well as all other referene to this battle (except to the 'Prof. Oak got the one yours is most effective against). His team consisted of a Tauros, and Exeggcutor, an Arcanine, a Gyarados and the final evolution of the player's non effective Pokémon (your rival got the one that is most effective against yours, so poor Porf. The most important element from the beta version that survived to the final release was that you could battle Professor Oak. The most important ones are the unused 'Bird' Pokémon type (that supposedly was replaced by the 'Flying' type but did make it to the final game in Missingno/'M's first type) and the also unused 'Chief' trainer class (when unlocked with a Gameshark code, its sprite is that of a 'Scientists' trainer). For example, the central drawing could be Lavander Town's tower, while on the right side drawings of various Pokémon (most notably Ghastly and an earless Laprass) and an undisclosed location can be seen (maybe Celadon City, but the fountain was added only on the remakes).Īs mentioned before, we know about the Beta version of the game thanks to the elements that weren't removed on the final release. The rest of the page looks like concept art for both locations and monsters. On the second column there are the overworld screens, which look just like the final games overworld traveling. The last screen seems to be the stats screen of the monsters, which looks just like the release version one. Menues for the battles seem the same, with the HP and name of the monster on the boxes above them, while the option menu being in the lower part of the screen (as it ended up in the final release).

Instead of a 'first person view' of your Pokémon from behind, while the rival's pokémon would be seen from the front, it seems that battles would be seen from the side, using most probably the front-view sprites from the Pokédex. The left side of the image provides us a view of how the game would have been. (Until now, most of the information on the betas of the different generation has been harvested from the released games, and then hacking the program to see unused items, best evidenced in the second generation games). This is the most us westerners will have for the beta project of the original Pokémon games.

And that moment was in June 2006, when Ken Sugimori (the graphic designer of the games, the one that makes all the official art and who singlehandedly created most of the first 251 monsters) released through Pokemon France an image from his sketchbook, that was made when Pokémon Red/Green were just being designed.

I've been a Pokémon fan since the first generation, and I've also been interested in Beta versions of software, so naturally both subjects had to join sometime.

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