The Kanto starters still use the backsprite from Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire. The Pokédex also shared the same design as the one in Pokémon Red and Blue. The Poké Dude character who gives tutorials to the player via the Teachy TV key item has had his hairstyle revamped in the final version, with visible sideburns added.Ī screenshot of the character reading a sign in Oak's lab reveals a few changes: As seen in the Fame Checker screenshot, Oak was originally supposed to have grey hair instead of brown.

The document image uses the test message テストです……… (This is a test). Oak's pose changed slightly in the final game, with brown hair instead of grey, and different coloured clothes. Interestingly, in the documents screenshots, the names suggested for the player belong to Blue and the names suggested for the rival belong to Red. Also, the final game does not give any suggestions for the player's name, unlike Pokémon Red and Blue. Notably, the rival's sprite looks much closer to the original games's appearance.

Screenshots featuring early sprites for the male playable character and the rival. The gradient in the background is also smaller. A couple of the hiragana letters were readjusted, most notably with the 'て' (te) character. Several screenshots were included in development documents used to help translate the games showing an earlier stage of development. This article has just been started and needs the article basics added.