Pokémon Puzzle Challenge

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Title Screen

Pokémon Puzzle Challenge

Also known as: Pokémon de Panepon (JP)
Developer: Intelligent Systems
Publisher: Nintendo
Platform: Game Boy Color
Released in JP: September 21, 2000
Released in US: December 4, 2000
Released in EU: June 15, 2001
Released in AU: June 15, 2001

GraphicsIcon.png This game has unused graphics.
MusicIcon.png This game has unused music.

Question: What do you get when you combine Pokémon and Tetris Attack? Answer: One of Nintendo's attempts at increasing the marketability of a game by rebranding it.

Hmmm...
To do:
This game has a lot of compressed graphics. Find a way to decompress them and look for more leftovers. Also, find the internal IDs for the music tracks.

Contents

Panel de Pon Leftovers

Mugshots of various Panel de Pon characters.

Zoomed out mugshots, some additional English text and less engrish. Interestingly, the "You" and "Opponent" labels are translated here, perhaps implying an English release of this game was planned with PdP characters fully intact, as opposed to its SNES version.

Even more mugshots.

For those who don't know, Pokémon Puzzle Challenge is pretty much the same thing as Tetris Attack, which in turn is the international rebranding of the Japanese game Panel de Pon. Characters from the latter game can be found in the ROM, suggesting that this game was originally meant to be a Panel de Pon game, but got rebranded partway through. (In case you're wondering, yes, this game was a Pokémon game in Japan as well.) Some of the mugshots in the middle image are even loaded into VRAM on the puzzle level select screen. All but three of them are then replaced with Professor Oak's head.

In addition to the mugshots above, there are many blocks of compressed graphics still left over from Panel de Pon, including the title screen, which reveals that the game was supposed to be called Panel de Pon GB before the Pokémon rebranding.

0x7D615: The Nintendo logo screen, reminiscent of the SNES version.

Assembled mockup of the Nintendo Logo screen, part 1.

Part two of the Nintendo logo. - it appears these were animated.

Mockup of the Nintendo Logo screen (3).

0x9E3A5: The title screen.

0x9F2B4: The title screen's Push Start message

0x3E5E4: Graphics for the suspend save screen

0x3E8FE: More graphics for the suspend save screen

Assembled mockup of the suspend screen graphics (some tiles are missing).

(All offsets are for the Japanese version.)

Unused Music

There are three unused music tracks in the game's data.

GBS #1

Pkmnpuzz-gbs01.ogg

GBS #4

Pkmnpuzz-gbs04.ogg

GBS #26

Pkmnpuzz-gbs26.ogg
The Pokémon series
Generation IRed, Green, & Blue • Yellow
Hey You, Pikachu! • Trading Card Game • Pinball
Snap • Stadium (Japan, International)
Generation IIGold & Silver • Crystal
Card GB2 • Puzzle Challenge • Pinball Mini
Generation IIIRuby & Sapphire (German Ruby Debug Version) • FireRed & LeafGreen • Emerald
Mystery Dungeon (Red Rescue Team, Blue Rescue Team)
Colosseum • Channel  • Trozei!
Generation IVDiamond & Pearl • Platinum • HeartGold & SoulSilver • Battle Revolution
Mystery Dungeon (Explorers of Darkness & Time, Explorers of Sky)
PokéPark Wii: Pikachu's Adventure
Generation VBlack & White • Black 2 & White 2
Learn with Pokémon: Typing Adventure • Conquest
The Puzzle League series
SNESTetris Attack
Game Boy (Color)Tetris Attack • Pokémon Puzzle Challenge
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