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January 30

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January 30, 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#

Attempting to start a new game will crash, after you type your trainer's name.

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.

Title Debug Menu#

Press Select at the title screen. At the bottom of the top screen, the ROM build date (January 30 2009 22:22:30) 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. This skips the trainer naming, so the game crashes.

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.

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.

Controls are:

A - Play

B - Stop

X - Go back to the title screen

Y - Go back to track 1000

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.

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#

This needs some investigation. Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page. Specifically: Check if this is an infrared communication test.

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

This appears to be a wireless communication test, but it does not work.

The game hangs.

Attempting to go back to the title screen with L + R + Select + Start will crash 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.

• かんじモードきりかえ

Switches the text with kanji instead of hiragana and viceversa.

• 通信バトル

Behaves like the Katsumi Ohno option. 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.

• 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).

• BlendMagic どうさテスト

Plays an animation on the bottom screen.

• 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#

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

Keita Kagawa#

Attempts to start the game normally, which crashes.

Nobuhiko Araisumi#

Opens an early version of HGSS's trainer card.

Pressing B will return you to the title screen normally.

DownloadPlay Sample#

This needs some investigation. Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page. Specifically: Test this on real hardware. Test on this build.

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.)

If a guest DS downloads the image, it'll fail to boot and it'll be stuck on the Nintendo logo. (Emulator)