Pokémon (Not-So) Griefing Thread - Scarlet and Violet Released with 10 Million Copies in First 3 Days in Buggy States

[ToroidalBoat]

Dragon-types technically never left

I liked it better when Dragon types were with Colorless. I like Fairy being separate though.

they were added to the TCG in back in 2012

That long already?!

First time this happen to me. Such a kino battle

how'd that happen and what happened?

 

[30+GameOvers]

Here is the original Giratina in full 3D on the Platinum beta title screen, similar to Dialga and Palkia for Diamond/Pearl

The used model in the final is of the new form

The scratchpad for Gen 3 brings about even more revelations for not just the process of creating the individual sprites, but also for alternative designs of the Pokemon that made it to the final build of the game.
First, the boring stuff. Some overall observation that can be deduced from the existing sprites:
*The transparency color was probably white for Pokemon originally
*The canvas for sprites used a smaller 56x56 size compared to the final 64x64
*Many older Pokemon use either the Gen 1 official art or Gold/Silver sprites for reference
*Gen 2 Pokemon were either done first or had least amount of revisions
*Animations originally looked more like they did in Crystal compared to the final release

Now for the interesting stuff, the alternative designs for Gen 3 Pokemon. Some of them also show more interactive original animations, probably aimed for the Emerald release.

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Way too much to talk about here. I am more surprised that they even went as far as to try to actually recreate the extremely edgy art that was posted around the start of the leak. If you're into spriting, there is a whole bunch more technical details on the TCRF page as well, including leaked beta palettes

Some high quality concept art I found, either it's new or I didn't see it posted yet


Misc XY stuff:
*Mega Jynx was confirmed to be in the game files, as some of you may already know. The cry was leaked even before the Terraleak, altho many thought it was a hoax. Sadly, this form never got any artwork, models or a mega stone, showing how it would be scrapped rather early. It would have had Magic Guard and a massively increased SpA/SpD as well as minor increase to Defense and Speed
*Xerneas was originally a Dark Type and had Pressure Ability, before it got a Fairy makeover
*All three stages of Aegislash would originally have Stance Change Ability
*Sylveon had Synchronize instead of Cute Charm

There is Gen 1 leaks as well, covering every single corner of Pokemon history at this point.
Not much, just some early Yellow sprites...for now

https://tcrf.net/Development:Pok%C3%A9mon_Yellow

Of note is that a cropped sprite for Magby, a Gen 2 Pokemon, present within the scratchpad for some reason. Gold/Silver and Yellow were being made at the same time so this wouldn't be out of place, but nobody knows what purpose that would serve in Yellow. Maybe bringing some baby Pokemon into the game to promote Gen 2 was planned?

 

[Jex]

Finished playing through the first gameboy color pokemon tcg game, I had the game as a kid and felt like revisiting it. It was lots of fun but pretty short. I’ll probably give the second tcg game a replay next, I vividly remember last playing it while the Destiny/Jontron ordeal was going on.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

The used model in the final is of the new form

As a side note, I actually prefer the Origin form over it's altered form. The former just always looked badass to me, especially the way its sprite moved in gen5

 

[30+GameOvers]

More stuff I found lurking around:

PLA

It should be noted that there is an unused cell in the final game that is the player's room, before they get isekai'ed. Here is how I think the intro would work:
*Professor Oak greets you, like in Gen 1 and 2, and you get to create your character
*Once you pick your gender/look, the screen zooms out to show your character
*They look at their smartphone, it shows something it wasn't supposed to
*Your TV sucks you in
*Game starts proper
They must have created the room the cutscene would take place in, but ran out of time to finish creating the actual cutscene

ORAS concept art


How Gamefreak rates their employees internally


XY stuff, note that Southern Kalos has been confirmed earlier on in the week

That last one is beta Dexio, whose design seems to have been recycled for Ace Trainers

Nothing new, but the original intro for Black and White has an unused Pokemon that I am sure no sprites exist for in any build. This is all we have


Not sure what this is, some sort of internal guide for artists?

 

[Coldsteel the Hedgehog]

As an artist, that internat guide document is absolutely fascinating. I've always had a pet hobby in trying to dissect style guides for various series. Seeing notes on how to Pokemon-ify fucking Da Vinci is both completely surreal and absolutely incredible.

 

[Archeops]

Oh god if they force me to get SP I am going to hate it. I hope they only care about the Region. Mat Plat dex is 3 off.

Yeah, this seems like the way they'll be doing these kinds of giveaways in the future since HOME can tell if a Pokémon came from the right game or not (with the reverse not being true to some extent, I used past games to fill all of my Switch games' Pokédexes).

This is a longshot, but does anyone know how to get a bad egg out of Home?
It was previously the AZ Floette... And it's on Box 1, so it's there whenever I use it. And I can't move it.

You can't, Bad Eggs in HOME are stuck by design (they only show up if a deposited Pokémon fails to pass HOME's hack checks) and Nintendo won't remove them from your account.

I liked it better when Dragon types were with Colorless. I like Fairy being separate though.

I honestly didn't, Colorless Dragon was either weak to other Colorless-types (leading to funny bits where a Normal-type could KO them) or lacked a weakness making them slightly unbalanced. Fairy being seperate was fun for a while but by late SM-era it had worn out its welcome and had become pain to work with.

That long already?!

Yep, Dragon-types were first introduced to the series in Dragons Exalted internationally and, in Japan, via the Dragon Selection/Dragon Vault mini-set.

Fun fact about those two sets: They both share a non-Rule Box Rayquaza that was perfect for breaking Rayquaza-EX/Eelektrik's bad matchup with Safeguard Pokémon and some mirrors. The only downside is that, due to Dragon Vault releasing in October, there was a two-month period in the International scene where the only version of the card that could be used was the Secret Rare print and that caused the price to reach the triple digits until then.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

or lacked a weakness making them slightly unbalanced

I like that. Makes them tougher like Dragon type pocketmons tend to be in the core vidya.

Speaking of weak to Colorless, a fan card of Urayne* seen on the Uranium wiki is weak to Colorless, reflecting how the Nuclear types are weak to all but Nuclear in Uranium.

* (the legendary "box art" Nuclear type pocketmon in the Uranium fangame)

There is the new Nuclear type, which IIRC is weak to all but Nuclear (resists), and Nuclear is super effective on all but Nuclear and Steel (which resist). So in other words, it looks like the new Nuclear type is sorta like that new Shadow type from Colosseum and XD.

 

[Slur.EXE]

Haven't seen any of this on tcrf yet. I will not join the trannycord.
BW in-dev starter sprites



Zorark and Zoura

Beta Purloin and Liepard robbed

Ice Bears

Deer, only one season.

Electric rat no.5

Bugs

Cut-mon

Spoiler: beyta

Spoiler: Early Trainer Sprites

 

[AnotherPleb]

With how much power creep the TCG has gotten, is there a chance where they'll do the equivalent of a "stat squish", where the stats are reduced to the older card levels? Or will the power creep keep going to the point that we'll see 1000 HP cards?

Power creep is the name of the game unless they do a format reset entirely.

 

[Registration]

I liked it better when Dragon types were with Colorless. I like Fairy being separate though.


That long already?!


how'd that happen and what happened?

Fishing while surfing inside the dragon den.
I was afraid of a crash so I ran away.

(Later ir crashed anyway and I had to do the S S anne again.

Before the E4 first run, I caught a Gabige and trained it to level 60 in the victory cave to complete the team.

Yeah Bronzong is shit qnd since this hack doesn't add much new moves qnd there isn't unlimited uses tms, the movepool fucking sucks dick for almost all pokémon except kingler and garchomp

 

[AnotherPleb]

Yeah Bronzong is shit qnd since this hack doesn't add much new moves qnd there isn't unlimited uses tms,

I will always hate how they only had unlimited use TMs for 3 generations.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

Yeah, this seems like the way they'll be doing these kinds of giveaways in the future since HOME can tell if a Pokémon came from the right game or not

‘Dear can i have this Pokemon game for Christmas? The games implemented a thing where I have to get them from specific games, not just Regions. So my version of Diamond from 20 years ago does not work.’
‘Well that’s stupid’
- a future conversation I am likely to have

 

[Squawking Macaw]

There is Gen 1 leaks as well, covering every single corner of Pokemon history at this point.

So hopefully they can still leak Gorochu's front sprite.

Not sure what this is, some sort of internal guide for artists?

Presented without comment.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

Yeah just transfered some Sinnoh dex mons from Plat that show in Home as caught in Sinnoh. They do not count to the newly added Sinnoh Dex.

Well, at least people won’t run out of Christmas Gifts.

 

[30+GameOvers]

Haven't seen any of this on tcrf yet. I will not join the trannycord.
BW in-dev starter sprites

That cut snailmon was apparently supposed to be yet another rival for shelmet/karrablast rivalry

We got some big breaking leaks here:
In the Unite/Masters folder, there is a ton of concept art of characters from mainline games, probably for reference. There is also a ton of never before seen assets for XY, including concept art for the Power Plant and confirmation of Z edition and details about it(for example, there would have been a Mega Squirtle and Bulbasaur, likely placeholders for Mega Blastoise Y and Mega Venusaur Y)


Translated character bios

That untranslated one is the reference for Diantha btw

Concept art for mobile games, including scrapped features?


Kalos Power Plant and other setpieces for XY, note the locations that never made it into the game


Locations from Gen 5 games. Looks like PokeStar studios was originally called PokeWood

I have no clue what the cube is for, but it was found in the same general folder

 

[Celebrate Nite]

Cut-mon

That cut pokemon looks so awesome, idk why they decided not to use it.

To this day I hate ORAS May's design. She looks WAY too fucking skinny like she's going through an anorexic phase or something.

 

[30+GameOvers]

We've got big leaks from not just XY, Masters/Unite and BW2, but also unreleased games: The upcoming Splatoon clone and the unreleased "Pokemon Rodeo"

More character concept art found in the mobile game folder:

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If you're wondering, it is confirmed that the female characters are more popular than the male ones, at least according to the gacha game statistics. This is why there is more art/costumes for them.

XY Concept Art:

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BW2 Concept Art:

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Pokemon Rodeo(cancelled project):

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I have no clue why they used Gladion's music, but his signature Silvally was one of the planned Pokemon for the project

Misc stuff:


Pokken:

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Note the use of fanart for some of these references

Splatoon project:

Centro, the dumb nigger that he is, offers the worst possible take as usual

I thought he had bugs shoved down his anus by Masuda after all the DMCAs? Disappointing

 

[Registration]

I will always hate how they only had unlimited use TMs for 3 generations.

4 gens actually. It is such a dumb decision, even more when they already had reusable tms in form of HMs.

But wow, I thought leaks were going slow down but I guess not. This rodeo idea reminds me of Ranger

 

[Shaneequa]

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