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r2524 (February 1 2009) r2609 (February 17 2009)The first build to feature sequenced music.

February 27

This is a sub-page of Proto:Pokémon Black and White.

To do: Find more screenshots featuring the build and the final to compare. Test crashes and download play test on real hardware. Add images.

February 27, 2009	Final (JPN)

• Background of title screen consists of flat colors instead of a checkerboard pattern.
• Early Japanese logo; lacks the white background of the final version.
• No Reshiram on the bottom screen.
• Debug functions on the bottom left corner of the upper screen.
• No "Developed by GAMEFREAK inc." text.
• "Push Start Button" is on the bottom screen instead of the top, along with the same instructions in Japanese, and is written in a taller and thinner font.
  • Interestingly, in the Japanese text, there appears to be a missing character - a question mark in the place of お in the word おして (which means “push”).

Main Menu#

Press Start for the main menu.

New Game#

Starting a new game will show a white screen, with "Firestarter - The Prodigy" playing in the background and a very early C-Gear.

Mystery Gift#

Boots an early Mystery Gift menu.

Wi-Fi Settings#

Opens Wi-Fi settings.

Email Settings#

Starts the game normally, which results in a crash.

New Game#

Starting a new game will show a white screen, with "Firestarter - The Prodigy" playing in the background and a very early C-Gear.

Pressing Start will put you in a Pokémon battle.

If you the battle ends, you'll be put back to the white screen with the early C-Gear, with Platinum's protagonist sprite visible for a second before dissapearing.

In-game Menu 1#

Pressing Select will open a menu with these options:

Camera Operation#

Will open a textbox on the top right with debug camera positions that you can change. Doesn't appear to change anything in the game, as nothing is rendered.

Scale Switch#

Crashes the game.

Scale Adjustment#

Does nothing.

Map Scrolling#

Loads other maps.

Some maps can crash the game, like GSSAMPLE.

Seasonal Jump#

Opens another textbox with 4 options: MAPSPRING, MAPSUMMER, MAPAUTUMN, MAPWINTER.

Picking any of these is presumably meant to change the season, but instead they do nothing.

Camera Sample#

Opens a textbox with the following 4 options:

Picking any of these does nothing.

Test#

Does nothing.

Start Communication#

Opens a textbox with 3 options (and plenty of space for more):

Pressing Start communication will ask for confirmation.

Pressing Yes will start wireless communication and add a communication icon on the C-Gear.

Pressing Start entry will ask for confirmation.

Pressing Yes will start wireless communication and add a communication icon on the C-Gear.

Pressing End Communication does nothing, but will cancel the communication if there's one active.

Infrared#

Opens a selection on the bottom screen.

Pressing Battle or Exchange will open the following selection:

Pressing either Two-Player Battle or Four-Player Battle will change the screen to an early infrared communication screen. Go back can also be pressed, and it'll bring you to the same screen.

In-game Menu 2#

Pressing X will open a menu with these options:

Pokédex#

Will show a textbox with the text "図?を選?しました" (Selected Pokédex ?) (two missing characters)

Pokémon#

Opens a very early Pokémon menu with 4 options (Pokémon):

Pressing A on any of them will take you back.

Bag#

Will show a textbox with the text "バッグを選?しました" (Selected the bag) (1 missing character)

Myself#

Opens an early HGSS trainer card.

The playtime is 0:00 regardless of the time, stats are all 0, your trainer ID is 00000, and the trainer name you picked is visible there.

Report#

Shows the text "ポケモンレポートに書きこんでいます" (Writing in the Pokémon report) before crashing the game.

This saves the game, and your save file is visible the next time you go to the main menu.

Settings#

The screen fades to black as if transitioning to the settings menu, then crashes.

Close#

Closes the menu.

Title Debug Menu#

Press Select at the title screen. At the bottom of the top screen, the ROM build date (February 27 2009 03:08:45) and current RTC time is shown.

The options in the debug menu are as follows:

NOTE: Pressing L + R + Select + Start once you've pressed any of these will return you to the title screen.

Start Debugging#

Starts the game normally. Shows Platinum's protagonist sprite before dissapearing.

Continue#

The game hangs. (If you don't have a save file) You can press L + R + Select + Start to go back to the title screen.

Continues the game normally if you do have a save file.

Continue (Communication)#

Starts communication, and looks for another DS.

If a DS is found, only the second DS will load into the game, while the other DS will stay in the title screen debug menu.

Select a name and start#

Opens another menu with a bunch of Japanese names. Pressing any of them will start the game with what you chose as the trainer name, but the game crashes.

RTC adjustment#

Opens another menu with options like "Decrease months, Increase days, Decrease days..." and a "back" (もどる) option.

Save Corruption#

Opens a menu on the bottom screen with 32 options.

Sound test#

Opens a sound test. It has been changed since the last build.

All the controls are now in the touchscreen, except Select, which switches the screens.

You can play BGM, sound effects, and pokémon cries.

Dress up#

Boots an early dress up interface. It's part of the Pokémon Musical from the final game.

Tetsuya Watanabe#

Spawns the player in one of two 3D maps, with NPCs walking around. The player can walk anywhere, through walls. NPCs also do this, and they walk randomly.

There's only one map, and more NPCs spawn in comparison to the November 28, 2008 build.

There's background music now, which can be interacted with using the sound test.

The controls are the following:

Sosuke Tamada#

Opens an early settings menu.

Hisashi Sogabe#

When pressing this option, Giratina's 3D model for Platinum's title screen is visible for a split second.

Boots a Pokémon battle test. There's no background music, and an early animation of the move Fire Blast is used.

The battle can be interacted with using the controls:

Katsumi Ohno#

Opens a menu with several options regarding wireless and WIFI tests.

• WIFI Club

Opens an early wifi connection screen, which uses the same background as Diamond and Pearl's screen.

Pressing back will hang the game and you can't go back to the menu with the button combination.

• Layout Editor

Crashes the game.

• Wireless test

Crashes the game.

• Error test

Crashes the game.

Masao Taya#

Opens a menu on the top screen, with both screens having a white background. The options are:

• あたらしいバトルシステム

Boots a very early Pokémon battle test. It's been improved since the November 28, 2008 build.

If you lose or win the battle, you'll go back to the menu automatically.

• 通信バトル

Adds the debug numbers (if they were not yet present) and a communication icon on the top right of the top screen.

The game will hang while looking for another DS in wireless communication. Once it is found, they will automatically connect and begin a communication battle.

• マルチバトル親 and マルチバトル子

Behaves the same as communication battle, except it now specifies whether the console is the child or the parent.

• かんじモードきりかえ

Switches the text with kanji instead of hiragana and viceversa.

• つうしんしながらかんじテスト

Performs a communication test. A text is shown on the top of the screen which reads "つうしんしながらかんじテスト" (please wait a moment).

• スタンドアロンかんじテスト

Shows text when the A button is pressed. Here's some of the text:

Aボタンをおすとメッセージおくりです - Press the A button to send a message.

ポケモンのテキストがうまれかわります! - The Pokémon text will be reborn!

やせいのピカチュウがとびだした!! - A wild Pikachu has appeared!!

かがくのちからってすげー! - The power of science is amazing!

このほかにも・・・ - Besides this...

Sample1#

Crashes the game.

Yoshinori Matsuda#

To do: Document all the options in this menu.

Opens a menu on the bottom screen with several test options.

Keita Kagawa#

Starts the game normally, with no notable differences.

Nobuhiko Araisumi#

Opens an early version of trainer greeting, used in the trainer card.

Setting the phrase will return you to the title screen.

DownloadPlay Sample#

Starts a download play distribution.

On the top screen, there's a textbox with text that reads "通信相手を探しています" (Searching for a communication partner.)

When a guest DS starts downloading the image, the host DS's top screen textbox will show "子機が見つかりました。ROMを送信しています。" (The child device has been found. Sending ROM.)

If a guest DS downloads the image, it'll boot and show the text "データの種類を選んでください。" (Please select the type of data.)

Pressing Y will do "DP" and X will to "PT"

Pressing Y or X will show this message on the guest DS and hang the game. "データの読み?みに失敗しました。" (Failed to read the data) (missing character)