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Pokémon Gold and Silver/Unused Maps
This is a sub-page of Pokémon Gold and Silver.
Gold and Silver (and Crystal) have several early maps, but only a few can be considered complete.
Prototype Maps With Event Data
Ecruteak Pharmacy
Description
This is one of three complete unused maps in Gold, Silver, and Crystal (the other two being the rather incomplete Safari Zone and its gate). Rather than delete the map completely, the programmers moved the warp tile to the upper‐left corner of Olivine City.
There are two events in this map: a Rhydon and a woman. The Rhydon is mistakenly assigned the two-frame Rhydon menu sprite rather than the four-directional overworld sprite used elsewhere, so it flickers between itself and a Clefairy when moving.
Dialogue
Notice how the woman claims the pharmacy is located in Ecruteak City. In the final release of the game, the pharmacy is located in Cianwood City.
| Language | Woman's Dialogue | Rhydon's Dialogue |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese |
あたしの ポケモンが びょうきに なったときは エンジュの クスリやさんに クスリを つくって もらったの |
サイドン『ぐごーおお！ |
| Korean |
내 포켓몬이 병이 났을 때는 인주시티의 약국에서 약을 조제해서 받았단다 |
코뿌리『쿠오오！ |
| English |
When my POKéMON got sick, the PHARMACIST in ECRUTEAK made some medicine for me. |
RHYDON: Gugooh! |
| German |
Als mein POKéMON krank war, hat der APOTHEKER in TEAK CITY eine Medizin zubereitet. |
RIZEROS: Gugooh! |
| French |
Lorsque mes POKé- MON sont malades, le PHARMACIEN de ROSALIA me fait des médicaments. |
RHINOFEROS: Feros! |
| Spanish |
Cuando mis POKéMON enfermaron, el FARMACÉUTICO de CIUDAD IRIS me dio una medicina. |
RHYDON: ¡Rhydo! |
| Italian |
Quando s'ammalò il mio POKéMON il FARMACISTA di AMARANTOPOLI mi fece una medicina. |
RHYDON: Riii, Riii |
Access
This map can be accessed with the wall-disabling and warp-tile behavior GameShark codes:
Wall-Disabling Codes:
| Gold/Silver (Japan) | Gold/Silver (West) | Gold/Silver (South Korea) | Crystal (Japan) | Crystal (West) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
010097CE |
0100A3CE |
010078CE |
01003ED1 |
0100FAC2 |
Warp Tile Behaviour Codes:
These codes make warp tiles behave like hole tiles, allowing the player to warp even without a door.
| Gold/Silver (Japan) | Gold/Silver (West) | Gold/Silver (South Korea) | Crystal (Japan) | Crystal (West) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
0160FED1 |
01600BD2 |
0160C0D2 |
0160D7D4 |
0160E4D4 |
Safari Zone
The Safari Zone was originally intended to reappear in Gold and Silver. All that remains of it is a single unfinished map and its associated gate, which is empty.
The warp to the gate still exists. This can be done by writing 0x3A at ROM address 2A:660E in all language versions of Gold, Silver, and Crystal, or by using the Game Genie code 3A6-0E9-19F.
The map has no exit, meaning anyone who saves inside is doomed forever. There are no events and no wild Pokémon in the tall grass and on the water surface, but Krabby, Kingler, Staryu, and Corsola can be found by fishing. Instead of a warp to the gate, there are some unused blocks, water fountains that use the water palette and hence its palette animation, and some blocks that have been deleted; they display tile 0xFF, which is normally reserved for sprite and text graphics, as can be seen when pausing the game.
Like in Red, Green, Blue, and Yellow, the map uses Evolution as its music theme.
Prototype Maps Without Event Data
Access
These prototype maps don't have entries in the global map table, and no events for these maps have been found. For an explanation of the naming scheme of the map image files, see the notes on map and tileset naming scheme on the article's Note page. For a detailed look at the early tileset for cities, see the Early Tileset section of this article.
The addresses below apply to the Japan 1.0 and 1.1 versions of the game, as well the English and German versions.
| Address | Area |
|---|---|
| 2A:4546 | Player's House |
| 2A:4940 | Sprout Tower (1) |
| 2A:4A4E | Sprout Tower (5) |
| 2A:4B5C | Sprout Tower (9) |
| 2A:4C34 | Blackthorn City |
| 2A:5659 | Violet City |
| 2A:5A37 | Ilex Forest |
| 2A:5B9F | Sprout Tower (2) |
| 2A:5D07 | Goldenrod City |
| 2A:5F7D | Sprout Tower (6) |
| 2A:5FD7 | Pokémon Center - Main House |
| 2A:680D | Cianwood City |
| 2A:688B | Teak City |
| 2A:69F3 | Cherrygrove City |
| 2A:6C0F | Sprout Tower (3) |
| 2A:6F93 | Sprout Tower (7) |
| 2A:71AF | Mahogany Town |
| 2A:76C3 | Azalea Town |
| 2A:7993 | Olivine City |
| 2A:7AFB | New Bark Town |
| 2B:40B4 | Sprout Tower (8) |
| 2B:4180 | Lake of Rage |
| 2B:42FC | Pewter Museum of Science - 1F |
| 2B:4324 | Pewter Museum of Science - 2F |
| 2B:4360 | Cinnabar Island PokéMon Lab - Hallway |
| 2B:4384 | Cinnabar Island PokéMon Lab - Room 1 |
| 2B:4394 | Cinnabar Island PokéMon Lab - Room 2 |
| 2B:43A4 | Cinnabar Island PokéMon Lab - Room 3 |
| 2B:44C8 | House |
| 2B:455F | Cave |
| 2B:4A01 | Pokémon Center - Trade Station |
| 2B:4B3F | Ruins of Alph - Unsolved Puzzle Room |
| 2B:4C43 | Sprout Tower - Cut-out |
| 2B:4C9D | Sprout Tower - Cut-out |
| 2B:4CF7 | Sprout Tower - Cut-out |
| 2B:5F76 | Elevator |
| 2B:63C7 | Cave Test Map |
| 2B:744D | Rocket Hideout (1) |
| 2B:755B | Rocket Hideout (2) |
| 2B:7669 | Empty House |
| 2B:7777 | Rocket Hideout (3) |
| 2B:7A2A | Route 23 (Early Version) |
| 2B:7CA3 | (?) |
| 37:4000 | Cave |
| 37:4700 | S.S. Aqua's Interior - Cut-out |
| 37:4CE2 | House |
| 37:4D0E | Celadon Mansion |
Ruins of Alph - Unsolved Puzzle Room
This map is completely unused. It may have beenused by a programmer to get the coordinates for the blocks that are set via script in the used rooms that have the solved riddle as default map layout.
Caves
There's not much to say about these empty caves. One is probably a quick test map to see if there's enough room in the tileset and/or block data to build an actual cave.
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The layout of this cave seems to resemble English letters.
Pokémon Lab
The maps of the Pokémon Lab on Cinnabar Island were found completely intact in Gold, Silver, and Crystal.
| RGBY | GSC |
|---|---|
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Cities
 | To do: Describe the differences for images whose variations aren't indicated. |
Found within the data are earlier maps for each of the game's cities.
First, we have an earlier version of New Bark Town.
An earlier version of Cherrygrove City.
An earlier version of Violet City.
An earlier version of Azalea Town. Notice how it is on the seaside edge of the map.
An earlier version of Ilex Forest or Mt. Silver. Notice how it used to be entered from below instead of via a gate. The cave entrance suggests it might be an early Mt. Silver.
An earlier version of Goldenrod City. Notice that it has a gate on the ocean side next to the radio tower, which might imply a ferry port.
An earlier version of Ecruteak City. There was supposed to be a midway stop between Goldenrod City and Saffron City.
An earlier version of Olivine City.
An earlier version of Cianwood City.
An earlier version of Mahogany Town.
An earlier version of Lake of Rage. It was a city earlier in development, which is probably the reason why it can be flown to in the final version.
An earlier version of Blackthorn City.
Cut-Outs
Most of the maps were cut out from sheets of several maps. In some cases, the last row of the map wasn't assigned to be a part of the in-game room, but since most of the unseen tiles are border blocks anyway, there is no visual difference.
- 2B:4C43 - Sprout Tower cut-out
- 2B:4C9D - Sprout Tower cut-out
- 2B:4CF7 - Sprout Tower cut-out
- 37:4700 - S.S. Aqua's interior cut-out
Miscellaneous
An unstyled and slightly different version of the player's room.
A bigger version of the elevator.
A big empty room. While this is the only tileset that fits the map data, it seems somewhat wrong.
Alternative version of Route 23.
A house designed before the tileset was altered.
A Silph Co. redesign? Maybe.
| To do: At least it looks like that house. Confirm it. |
The house in Celadon City where Chief is mentioned also exists in these games.
| Red/Green/Blue/Yellow | Gold/Silver/Crystal |
|---|---|
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Pokémon Center
It appears that the original design for Pokémon Centers in this installment of Pokémon was to have the trading room separated from the main Pokémon Center building. It's possible that only certain cities would have trade stations, making for a more natural disabling of the trading capabilities at the start of the game.
The regular Pokémon Center, without an upper floor.
The special trade station building. Only one trading chamber was planned.
Rocket Hideout
Either the Team Rocket hideout in Mahogany Town was supposed to be somewhat different or there was another hideout planned for Goldenrod City.
First floor
Second floor
Basement
Sprout Tower
The Sprout Tower used to be much bigger than its current form. Floor number 4 is missing from the unused maps.
Entrance on Floor 1 Notice the different statues as well as there being no entrance carpet.
Floor 2
Floor 3
Floor 5
Floor 6
Floor 7
Floor 8
Floor 9
Pewter Museum of Science
Evidence left in the ROM points to tileset 0x09 from Red, Green, Blue, and Yellow not only getting a palette but also being used at one point during development. While no block data remains, the actual map data is still there and fits the Pewter Museum of Science perfectly. Without further ado, this is what they would have looked like in Gold, Silver, and Crystal, using the individual blocks and tileset graphics of the original games with the associated colors from Gold and Silver:
Pewter Museum of Science 1F
Pewter Museum of Science 2F
Undumped Map
The following map could not be dumped simply because no tileset fit it. Even though unused tile palette assignment data matching tileset 0x09 from Red, Green, Blue, and Yellow have been found inside Gold, Silver, and Crystal, the former games' tileset 0x09's block data as well as the matched-up data from above, do not fit this map either.
2B:7CA3 - ??
The tileset and/or blockdata this map uses was probably merged with some other tileset's or altered beyond recognition. This map is likely 5×4 blocks. The general layout is as follows:
| 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 |
| 16 | 28 | 16 | 16 | 16 |
| 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 |
| 16 | 16 | 1A | 02 | 02 |
All values are hexadecimal. 0x02 seem to be plants, 0x15 is a row of bookshelves or a plain wall, 0x16 is floor, 0x1A is an entrance carpet, and 0x28 might be just about anything, maybe a table or a chair.
