Pokémon Channel

Pokémon Channel is the spiritual successor/sequel to Hey You, Pikachu!, featuring similar gameplay mechanics, but with pointing and clicking instead of voice commands. Notable features include a Pokémon mini emulator, an exclusive anime titled "Pichu Bros. in Party Panic", and lots of TV watching.

Debug Stuff
pch/scripts has the scripts for how channels work, but there's also a lot of debug stuff. All of them can only be controlled with the fourth controller. To access them, replace opening_demo.pkc with any of them.

pikaviewer.pkc
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Unsurprisingly, a Pikachu viewer. You can test his facial animations and sounds.

mdlviewer.pkc
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You guessed it, a model viewer. You can view every Pokémon in the game in the hallway of Smeargle's Art Study.

mdlviewer2.pkc
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Practically the same as mdlviewer.pkc, but in front of a black background and you can rotate and move them freely. There's also a few models that aren't seen in the other one. Pressing Z brings up a really stretched texture.

itemviewer.pkc
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Lets you view every item in the game. Pressing Z makes them bobble up and down. One of them crashes the game.

talk_posviewer.pkc
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A rather silly test of...positional talking, I guess. It has a Pokémon talking behind a table. You can move them and make them "talk" by pressing Z. You can also change the camera angle and flip them to the other side of the table.

test_adjust_hirou.pkc
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This is...weird. It takes place in your house with no furniture, with Pikachu standing in the middle. Pressing A makes him try to pick up something. Pressing X and then A makes him pick up a harmonica. He will endlessly walk in place. That's really all it is.

tv_gallery_main_txtdebug.pkc
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A text debug for Smeargle's Art Study. Pressing A changes the text.

measure.pkc
Some sort of Nice Card test. You can change the angle the Pokemon are facing, but that's really it.

sndviewer.pkc


A sound test. You can listen to every voice clip, sound effect, and song in the game.

farmcounttest.pkc


A test of counting Mareep in Mareep Farm. It says gibberish and the counter goes up.

tv_fortune_main_txtdebug2.pkc
A text debug for the Chancey's Fortune Cookie channel. The controls are right on the screen.

tv_farm_merip_counter_txtdebug.pkc
A number debug for the Mareep Farm channel, with the controls once again on-screen. It goes up to ten thousand.

tv_skel
It's just the text "Do you have what it takes to count every Pokemon?" cut off, making it kind of ominous.

PAL Debug Stuff
Oddly enough, the PAL version seems to have more debug stuff than the NTSC version.

cappika.pkc
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An automatic animation viewer for Pikachu. It does not start until you press X. It will go through all of Pikachu's animations from front to back.

puake.pkc
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A very bizarre test of some sort that takes place in an unfinished version of your backyard. Pikachu is there running around. Pressing R throws apples. Throwing apples at Pikachu makes him grow. If he reaches a certain size, another Pikachu will appear. The cycle repeats.

superpikaviewer.pkc


Whoa, now we're dealing with SUPER pika viewer! Unfortunately, it's not nearly as SUPER as you'd expect. Pressing A makes him fall asleep, then wake up, then fall back asleep. That's really it.

Unused Title Screen
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An unused title screen that takes place in Cobalt Coast. There is no cursor.

Unused Cutscene
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A strange cutscene with Pikachu, Treeko, Torchic, Pichu and Togepi. Pichu walks in place for a long time.

Unused Graphics
With all the debug menus and model viewers, mainly itemviewer.pkc, there are several unused items present.

Early Nice Card


An early version of the Nice Cards. The back has the kanji symbol (仮) meaning "Temporary".

Hey You Pikachu Poster


A Japanese poster for Hey You, Pikachu!

Discs


There are discs for all of the channels (including two slightly different versions of Slowpoke's Weather Forecast for some reason). They're all in Japanese, while the only one that's been translated is Pichu Bros. Part 5, which is the only channel that requires collecting a disc.

This could mean that you originally had to find a disc for each channel. In fact, there are models of fragments of each Pichu Bros. disc, meaning that each part required finding all the parts. In the PAL version, all the discs have been replaced with Pichu Bros Part 5.

Computer
A model of a computer. While it can't be seen, there's actually a picture on the monitor, and the wallpaper is an image from Hey You, Pikachu!

"Miss" Stick


A popsicle stick that translates to "miss". It was most likely for some sort of minigame, and this came up if you lose.

Inflatable Pokémon Toys
There are a lot of unused inflatable Pokémon pool toys.

Unused Music
With sndviewer.pkc, there is one song titled SND_TITLE that doesn't seem to be used anywhere. Early title screen music, maybe?

All the songs from Hey You, Pikachu! are present and labeled SND_GENKI_(01-26).

Jirachi
The PAL version has the Jirachi event that was on the NTSC Bonus Disc that players got when pre-ordering Pokémon Colosseum. Europe didn't get the chance to get this Bonus Disc, and with it the ability to obtain Celebi (Japan) or Jirachi (US) along with a fix to the Berry Glitch. In this respect, Jirachi was more accessible because the game didn't need to be pre-ordered, and all that needed to be done was unlock the full "Pichu Bros. in Party Panic".

This event is still only for Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, though.

Cry Changes
Like Hey You, Pikachu!, most of the Pokémon voices were changed to match the English dub of the anime.