This is a sub-page of Proto:Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver/2008.

To do:
Check if any of the pages mentioned here were already in an earlier build

October 11, 2008 (r10840)

Title Screen#

The year on the title screen and the startup screen has been changed from 2007 to 2009.

May 9-October 10, 2008 Title Screen	October 11, 2008 Title Screen	Final Title Screen

Startup Screen#

The year on the title screen and the startup screen has been changed from 2007 to 2009. However, the border from Pokémon Diamond and Pearl remains in the game, and the golden GameFreak logo remains.

up to October 10, 2008	October 11, 2008	October 11, 2008 (GameFreak Logo)	Final	Final (GameFreak Logo)

October 14, 15, and 16, 2008 (r10885, r11001, and r11086)

These builds update the touch screen menu and fix some of the bugs left over from the Platinum merge.

Touch Screen Menu#

The touch screen menu now more closely resembles the final version, albeit it is a very rough draft in these builds.

October 14, 2008 (r10885)	October 15, 2008 (r11001)	October 16, 2008 (r11086)	October 17, 2008 (r11201)	Final

Other

The male trainer's back sprite is no longer Lucas.
The evolution/catching fanfare was set to the final version on October 15.
The evolution/trade theme, however, is still the Diamond and Pearl version.
The gym badge fanfare was also updated to the final version.

October 17, 2008 (r11201)

Touch Screen Menu#

To do:

Describe how you get certain icons at a different time than in the final release
Show comparisons between August 29, 2008 and final release

The touch screen menu resembles the final version more closely, although with different icons.

National Park#

National Park now has NPC's and items implemented, but still no wild encounters.

Other#

The debug save file now starts the player in Goldenrod City instead of Ecruteak City, and has all 8 Johto gym badges acquired.
Talking to Rudy, who trades the player an Onix for a Bellsprout, crashes the game in this build.

October 27, 2008 (r11516)

National Park#

The final National Park theme is now implemented. In builds from September 30 to October 24, 2008, the National Park theme was a direct port of the original Gold and Silver version.

October 31, 2008 (r11815, Milestone 21)

To do:

A lot more info
Comparison images
Music (for example, the legendary dogs, and the fact that Lugia and Ho-Oh's theme appears to be some sort of New Bark Town thing [see if this is true in any earlier builds])
Show gameplay

Evolution Screen#

To do:

See if any of the previous builds kept flipping the screen, since this seems to happen a bit. Also, check the egg catching screen (to test this, there's a rare candy on the right side of Violet City when you surf, and you can get the egg from the Pokémon Center)
Comparison images

The evolution screen is flipped from the previous build again, and is now the same as the January 31, 2008 build. The egg hatching screen appears to be the same as previous builds, however.