Prerelease:Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team

This page details pre-release information and/or media for Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team.

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Development Timeline

Before Development

• Tsunekazu Ishihara, who would go on to be president of The Pokémon Company, develops a working relationship with Chunsoft through the making of Tetris 2 + BomBliss.
• Ishihara plays Torneko no Daibouken: Fushigi no Dungeon, and ends up impressed by its "depth and quality".

2004

• October 10 - IGN reports on a rumor about a Chunsoft game for the DS called Fushigi no Dungeon: Pokemon World Pikachu no Daibouken (Mysterious Dungeon: Pokémon World - Pikachu's Great Adventure).

2005

• August - CoroCoro reveals the duo of games.
• August 21 - Prerelease screenshots are out by this point.
• September 1 - The Japanese release date for both games is revealed by Nintendo. More details about them follow throughout the month.
• October 7 - Build date of the Japanese versions.
• November 17 - Pokemon Fushigi no Danjon Aka no Kyuujotai / Ao no Kyuujotai are released for Game Boy Advance and DS respectively in Japan. The DS version also releases in Taiwan.
• November 24 - Build date of the bugfixed reissue of Ao no Kyuujotai and the leaked debug ROM.
• November 28 - Nintendo publicly acknowledges the Slot 2 save deletion bug in Ao no Kyuujotai.
• December 8 - The bugfixed Ao no Kyuujotai begins shipping.

2006

• April 28 - Build date of the North American/Australian version of Red Rescue Team.
• May 9 - The English versions of the games are revealed at E3 2006.
• May 23 - Build date of the leaked Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team kiosk demos.
• May 29 - Build date of the North American kiosk demo of Red Rescue Team, as well as the North American/Australian version of Blue Rescue Team.
• September 13 - Build date of the European versions.
• September 18 - Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team are released for Game Boy Advance and DS respectively in North America.
• September 28 - Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team are released for Game Boy Advance and DS respectively in Australia.
• November 10 - Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team are released for Game Boy Advance and DS respectively in Europe.

2007

• May 17 - Build date of Parang Gujodae.
• June 25 - Build date of Gold Rescue Team.
• August 11 - Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gold Rescue Team -Challenge the Gold Rank!- is released for Windows in South Korea.
• August 30 - Pokemon Bulgasaui Dungeon Parang Gujodae is released for DS in South Korea.

Korean PC Demo

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Title screen of the demo.

Download Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gold Rescue Team (Executable File) File: Pokemon Mystery Dungeon- Gold Rescue Team (Executable File).zip (1.91 MB) (info)

A demo called Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gold Rescue Team - Challenge the Gold Rank! was released only in South Korea on August 11, 2007. Unfortunately, the game required an online connection to be played and the servers have long since been shut down, resulting in this demo being considered lost media. Only one file from the demo currently remains.

(Source: Bulbapedia)

Differences

Demo-exclusive ending message.

• Runs in a higher resolution of 480×320.
• Uses a single screen much like Red Rescue Team.
• Unlike the previous demo version, this time you can play through the game until you meet Xatu at Great Canyon.

Menus

Gold Rescue Team	Final

It lacks the Wonder Mail option in the main menu screen.

Oddities

• Despite the game's controls being changed for a keyboard, the dungeon controls menu still has the DS controls from Blue Rescue Team.

(Source: mysterydungeonwiki.com)