Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen

Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen
Developer: Game Freak Publisher: Nintendo Platform: Game Boy Advance Released in JP: January 28, 2004 Released in US: September 9, 2004 Released in EU: October 1, 2004 Released in AU: September 23, 2004 This game has unused areas. This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused items. This game has regional differences. This game has revisional differences. This game has a prototype article This game has a prerelease article

Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen are remakes of the first two Pokémon games, Red and Green. Aside from the graphics and interface being upgraded to that of Ruby and Sapphire, the games received many new elements, most notably the optional Sevii Islands.

Unused Maps

Houses

There are two unused houses, one each on Routes 19 and 23. The former is where the Pikachu's Beach minigame was in Yellow, so it is possible that they wanted to remake it as well.

Sevii Islands 8, 9, 22-24

Sevii Isle 8.

Sevii Isle 9.

Other than the seven Sevii Islands, there are also Sevii Islands 6, 7, 8, 9, 22, 23, 24 within the code. 8 and 9 look very incomplete, while 22-24 have no maps and only the name template remains. Maps do exist for 6 and 7, but they're blank.

Additional Maps

Several other maps, some of which are corrupted leftovers from Ruby and Sapphire, also exist in the game's coding. Some of these maps seem to be early versions of other maps in FireRed and LeafGreen, too garbled to identify, or just duplicates.

To do: Get the maps from Bulbapedia's FR/LG prototype article.

Ruby and Sapphire Leftovers

Key Items

Since key items cannot be transferred with a Pokemon, they're unused and most have no effect in FireRed/LeafGreen. The Mach Bike and Acro Bike do work, but both act like the normal Bicycle. HM08 (Dive) also works and can be taught to Pokemon, but unlike normal HMs the move can be deleted freely.

Trainer Sprites

A lot: Archie and Team Aqua, Maxie and Team Magma, Beauties, Cyclists, Hex Maniacs, Gym Leaders, the Elite Four and Champion, etc. While you can battle them in-game through hacking, their Pokemon data is gone, so they don't have any Pokemon to battle with.

Weather Effects

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Rain

File:PKMN FRLG Sandstorm.png

Sandstorm.

File:PKMN FRLG RainingThunderstorm.png

Thunderstorm.

Several weather effects are leftovers from Ruby/Sapphire:

• Rainy weather
• Rain with thunderstorm
• Heavy rain with thunderstorm
• Sunny weather with clouds in water
• Three snowflakes (unused)
• Steady snowing (unused)
• Sandstorm
• Mist from top-right corner
• Dense bright mist
• Underground flashes
• Underwater mist

To do: Get the gif animations from the Bulbapedia article to replace these crappy images that came from a crappy ROM Hack.

Unused Overworld Sprites

These Pokemon overworld sprites are never used in-game.

Sprite	Pokemon
	Celebi
	Deoxys Attack form
	Deoxys Defense form
	Raikou
	Suicune
	Mew
	Entei

Altering Cave

Altering Cave appears in both FireRed and LeafGreen and in Emerald. Normally, only Zubat can be found in this cave, however there are other wild Pokémon that can be found if Mystery Gift is used at an official Nintendo "Wonder Spot". Despite this, no such event has been held in any country. The Pokémon that were supposed to be found were Mareep, Aipom, Pineco, Shuckle, Teddiursa, Houndour, Stantler, and Smeargle. The plan was probably scrapped because these Pokémon could be obtained by trading with Pokémon Colosseum, Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness, and/or found in Emerald's extended area of the Safari Zone (except Smeargle which is found in Artisan Cave instead).

Build Dates

FireRed JP Version 1.0 - Location 1CDE34	2003 12 29 23:17
LeafGreen JP Version 1.0 - Location 1CDE10	2003 12 29 23:17
FireRed JP Version 1.1 - Location 1C9704	2004 03 01 16:45
LeafGreen JP Version 1.1 - Unknown Location	2004 03 01 16:45
FireRed US Version 1.0 - Location 1E9F14	2004 04 26 11:20
LeafGreen US Version 1.0 - Location 1E9EF0	2004 04 26 11:20
FireRed US Version 1.1 - Location 1E9F84	2004 07 20 09:30
LeafGreen US Version 1.1 - Location 1E9F60	2004 07 20 09:30
FireRed ES - Location 1E575C	2004 07 20 15:50
LeafGreen ES - Location 1E5738	2004 07 20 15:50
FireRed FR - Location 1E43FC	2004 07 21 13:50
LeafGreen FR - Location 1E43D8	2004 07 21 13:50
FireRed DE - Location 1E9EC0	2004 07 26 17:40
LeafGreen DE - Location 1E9E9C	2004 07 26 17:40
FireRed IT - Location 1E3094	2004 07 26 17:40
LeafGreen IT - Location 1E3070	2004 07 26 17:40

Build Information

To do: There's more source paths, and more interesting text.

Near the Build Date information there is a plain-text string showing the build path and a few build variables. The Japanese 1.0 revisions use relative paths instead of the full paths, both the English revisions (1.0, 1.1) have this line in full, and the Japanese 1.1 revisions no longer have this information.

• JP FR 1.0 - Location 1CDE8A , JP LG 1.0 - Location 1CDE66

../gflib/malloc.c
 0
 p != NULL
 pos->magic_number == MALLOC_SYSTEM_ID
 pos->flag == TRUE
 pos->next->magic_number == MALLOC_SYSTEM_ID
 pos->prev->magic_number == MALLOC_SYSTEM_ID

• US FR 1.0 - Location 1E9F68 , US LG 1.0 - Location 1E9F44 , US FR 1.1 - Location 1E9FD8 , US LG 1.1 - Location 1E9FB4

C:/WORK/POKeFRLG/src/pm_lgfr_ose/source/gflib/malloc.c
 0
 p != NULL
 pos->magic_number == MALLOC_SYSTEM_ID
 pos->flag == TRUE
 pos->next->magic_number == MALLOC_SYSTEM_ID
 pos->prev->magic_number == MALLOC_SYSTEM_ID

Revisional Differences

Version 1.0 of the American release does not show "PRESENTS" on the Game Freak logo screen, although the tile graphics are present in the ROM. This was likely due to a bug introduced during the localization process, as the original Japanese versions do display this.

US Version 1.0	US Version 1.1

In version 1.0, species names in the Pokédex only display the first word due to a bug. For example, Pidgey's species name is listed as "Tiny" rather than "Tiny Bird".

Regional Differences

Title Screen

Other than the logo graphics being altered (resulting in Charizard/Venusaur being moved down), the Japanese versions have "PUSH START BUTTON" at the top while the American ones use "PRESS START" in the lower-middle-left side. Oddly, the Japanese versions do not have a space in Game Freak's name; this was corrected for the American release.

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Name Entry Screen

The Japanese versions' name entry screen allows for five-character names with Hiragana, Katakana, and English tables. The American versions allow for seven-character names with uppercase, lowercase, and symbol tables.

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Bedroom

The player's bedroom has a Famicom in the Japanese version, but a front-loader NES in the American one.

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Battles

The Japanese versions use a font for the "Lv." text and numbers which are very similar to those of the original Red and Green. The American versions change these to the same font as everything else and moves the "Lv." to the right edge of the box due to the longer English words.

The "♂" and "♀" symbols were also changed slightly.

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Text Colors

The Japanese versions use black text when talking to people, minus the "Save" screen which uses red or blue depending on your gender. The American versions use the red and blue text when talking to women and men, respectively.

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SHOP MART

The stores use "SHOP" in the Japanese versions and "MART" elsewhere.

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Trainer Tower

In the Japanese version, Trainer Tower was used to fight trainers downloaded from Pokémon Battle e FireRed & LeafGreen cards. These cards were not released outside of Japan, and as a result the e-Reader compatibility was stripped from the US and European versions, and Trainer Tower became an area similar to the Battle Tower in Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, with the majority of the trainers from the e-Cards integrated into the game itself.

Seven Island House

Ever wondered what that door in the house on Seven Island that had boxes over it was used for? Well in the Japanese version, the old woman hosted battles with trainers after players used Mystery Gift. Sadly, this was not carried over to the International versions.

To do: Take screenshots of this.