Pokémon Diamond and Pearl

Pokémon Pearl
Developer: Game Freak Publisher: Nintendo Platform: Nintendo DS This game has unused areas. This game has unused items. This game has a prototype article This game has a bugs page

Pokémon Diamond and Pearl were the first Pokemon games in the 4th generation.

Unused Items

Various items have been discovered by hackers in the coding of Diamond and Pearl. These items can be obtained using Action Replay and other cheating products, but cannot be used. They are:

• S.S. Ticket, which allows entry for the luxury liner S.S. Anne (a possible reference to Red and Green or FireRed and LeafGreen).
• Contest Pass, which would allow entry into Contests. However, Super Contests allow entry without a pass.
• Magma Stone, which would be a mystical item that could be used in Stark Mountain. Although it hasn't any known purpose, it is possible it would have something to do with the Heatran event.
• Red Chain, which is a creation by the lake guardians that would be used to awaken Dialga or Palkia. Cyrus actually himself uses the item in-game, and it's possible that the Team Galactic event at Spear Pillar was initially to be activated by the player.
• Rule Book, which was a book that would be used as a guide when using the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. It's possible that this was removed since these guidelines were contained in the games' instruction book.
• Seal Bag, which held up to ten Seals, but was replaced with the Seal Case.
• Loot Sack, which was meant to hold treasures from the Underground. It was replaced with a unique menu for the Underground.

Prototype Maps

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A prototype map of Spear Pillar has been found. It is like the normal game's Spear Pillar, but the entrance to Mt. Coronet is not present.

A few prototype maps were shown in pre-release screenshots. The first two are of Jubilife City, seen at right. These images show the Pokémon Center and the Pokémon Mart in different spots than the final game. Another image was of Route 219, seen at left, that reveals a beta look for water, sand, and rocks. The last is of Route 203, also seen at left, showing early Trainers.

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  Route 219 pre-release screenshot

• Jubilifebeta.jpg

  Jubilife City pre-release screenshot

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  Second Jubilife City pre-release shot

• Beta203.jpg

  Early screenshot of Route 203

Hall of Origin and Azure Flute

In Pokémon Platinum, as well as this game, an event item exists known as the Azure Flute, which was never distributed. Were it to be hacked into your Bag, the Azure Flute would, used at Spear Pillar, cause the player to warp to another map, the otherwise unused Hall of Origin above Spear Pillar. Atop a glass staircase, on a platform high in the sky, you encounter a level 80 Arceus. It seems this event was the originally planned method of Arceus distribution, but for reasons unknown never happened.

Interestingly, it seems that an Azure Flute distribution wasn't ruled out as late as the releases of Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver; those games have a mechanism to allow a Hall of Origin-caught Arceus to return the player to the Sinjoh Ruins and get another one of the trio of Dialga/Palkia/Giratina.