Pocket Monster Gold Version (Spaceworld 1997)

Ran by Shining-Kommo-O, this is a blog all about the beta for Gold and Silver from Spaceworld 1997, uncovered on May 31st 2018! Other beta pokemon news will be brought up as well! Profile picture credits goes to Radi0activeS0da (permission was given by the artist to use the drawing) — Beta Pokemon Names (used in tagging system) — Download and play Pokemon Spaceworld 1997 HERE

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Lookback on this blog, and some talks about the Spaceworld ‘99 build I didn’t talk about back in 2020

I know I’ve been absent since 2019. My apologies! Will I ever get back to this fully? Who knows, but if I stumble on stuff, or feel like filling up the queue, I just might.

We’ve had this beta on our hands for 4 years now. How time flies eh? And we’ve had several other beta Pokémon news. In fact, we had a beta, in 2020 I’d say? Spaceworld ‘99 beta of Gold and Silver, with sprites in the style of the final game but with some Pokémons having totally different designs.

The most interesting sprites imo came from the Silver build

Pokémons like Furret, Ariados and Pichu weren’t there quite yet.

Some other Pokémons like Natu and Xatu kept a bit of that old Gen 1 look, with heavy uses of white.

Some pokémons HAD their final designs, but had totally different sprites with different poses that were scrapped.

Beta Silver -> Final Silver

If this interests you, TCRF is your friend <3

EDIT: Ack the link is gone D: You can find this at TCRF under the Prototypes section and spaceworld 99… Sorry, tumblr mobile HATES TCRF.

All in all, I hope you’ve been well. <3

See ya

[oldwebsurfing]

Pokémon Gold and Silver (“Pokémon 2″) beta Screenshots. Possibly from Space World ‘97. Found at fantasyanime.com/pokemon4

[legendaryplushy-deactivated2019]

A fearfull gorochu for yall

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Pt 2 of the pokemon beta cuties!

[asgwie]

^_^

[jadeazora]

So, going by the pose and the fact he has bombs in his Gym, I wonder if Blaine partially was split into Surge later. (Also he had his design changed to that of the prototype Scientist, which is pretty neat, despite him having hair in the Red and Blue headshots.)

[j-ellyfish]

Baroonda, aka MissingNo.81 ♥ This was probably scrapped in favor of Jigglypuff, but it clearly became an inspiration for Drifloon later on (Tajiri’s manga also reveals that someone in the staff suggested it should have ‘fuwa’ in its name and you know whose Japanese name contains the word ‘fuwa’? Yup, Drifloon!). I gave it a flowers pattern because, while the established, yet fanmade reconstruction of its sprite omitted it, the original picture we have of Baroonda shows some undefined spots on its body and it would make sense for them to actually be flowers considering there’s a girl in the final games that mentions a ‘pink Pokémon with a floral pattern’. This means that Baroonda probably gave inspiration not only for Drifloon, but partially for Munna too.

[j-ellyfish]

I made up a design for MissingNo.80 as well ♥ And I thought it’d be cooler if the coloring style resembled a bit Sugimori’s in gen1, so I devamped No.79′s artwork too ^^ (this is the one I made some days ago)  Original backsprites from the beta files:

[mossworm]

beta mantine / rayleep

[jadeazora]

A bit late, but there’s some more rejected Pokemon designs, this time from Red and Green. Special mention to the thing with the teeth under proto-Lapras.

[shenanimation]

It’s beta Pokemon time again.

[quesadillawizard]

Two heads are better than none!

[thebeardedsewist]

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[j-ellyfish]

My interpretation of MissingNo. 79 from its back sprite. 

This beta Pokémon was apparently based on a flying fish/betta fish mixed with some more bird-like appearance. It was probably meant to be a Water/Fighting Pokémon, featuring both fins and feet. 

[fishsplash]

Gorochu

[hollowsart]

Holy crud y’all, actual art!!

Two of my favorites of the beta red & green Pokemon that were scrapped!

I want these bad bois back.. My guess is the Scaribou is Steel/Dark and the Stacktus is probably just Grass or Grass and something else? hmmm..

Nevertheless I absolutely love these two and want them on my Beta team!

[mangotiger-draws]

did someone order more fat tigers

bonus: they’re so round they cant dogpile they just roll off each other