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Oh, I could definitely see that. That makes a lot of sense actually. Or that, haha. The glowy LED lights most likely would make it look like a disco ball

I wonder what they would have *done* conceptually with a Future Bouffalant. What typing would it have had? What would its afro have looked like as a robot? (Just a metal sphere?) Also, it's a shame we likely will still not know what Okakingu and Okagyarados would have looked like. I have been...

Hmm, interesting. As we know, some of the dev names were never updated (i.e. Iron Bundle, Roaring Moon, Iron Valiant, Toedscool line. Iirc the treasure legendaries are also the same), but it seems like some of them did. In fact, only the dev notes are different in this diff, which means the dev...

I started to document BW level-up movesets I think it is cute that the starters used to have the Pledge moves as level-up moves Also it is interesting that they used to have Headbutt instead of Tackle. This was before Tackle got buffed in revision 22868.

I stumbled across a Sun & Moon move design document while looking for another SM document. From a quick glance, it seems that Strength Sap and Pollen Puff used to be Fairy-type 668 ちからをすいとる Strength Sap 妖精 Fairy 676 かふんだんご Pollen Puff 妖精 Fairy Pollen Puff being Fairy-type could have had some...

I did think of that too, but I didn't add it to my post. Looking more at the early learnsets, there are a few more instances of legendary signature moves being distributed. For example, Genesect, Kyurem, Reshiram, Victini and Zekrom all learn Sacred Fire. However, it is clearly a placeholder...

Slowly going through the BW learnsets. So far this is the most curious detail I've seen, Alomomola and Klink line having Crush Grip, Regigigas signature move I can see why, since Crush Grip is nearly the same as Wring Out, only being Special rather than Physical. While Crush Grip is a signature...

Even if they wanted it to have only 50 HP, they could have done something like 50/125/100/125/100/100, or 50/125/75/125/75/150 if they still wanted Normal and Attack formes to have matching speed. I think part of the problem is that the formes weren't fully designed when the Normal forme was...

Huh. I wonder what BW pokémon they would have put in there. Trubbish is the only one that springs to mind atm. That's so fascinating. If I had to guess a Johto pokémon that was cut from the Hoenn dex, Misdreavus wouldn't have been it. I think it is a bit of a shame that Misdreavus was cut in...

I don't see if anyone shared the filepath to the document so ┐(ﾟ～ﾟ)┌

Looking at the Platinum SVN scratchpads, I find it interesting that Victreebel was used as a reference for Carnivine. I suppose that makes sense, since both are based on carnivorous plants. But I also find it interesting that some parts of Victreebel's design (and to a lesser extent...

I assume it was implemented, but retooled in a later revision. Alolan Scyther also evolving into regular Scizor is so  weird, so it is strange they were apparently settled on that already. If anything, Scyther is the perfect candidate to get the inverse Farfetch'd/Corsola treatment; getting a...

Professor Laventon has an oni mask as well, but with one horn. I assume they are placeholder/test facial textures, but it is interesting that they have different number of horns.

It would have been fitting for Heatmor, but it seems like the two never overlapped. Beta Heatmor was added in early January of 2010, while Melt was scrapped in late November 2009. They may have co-existed before being put in the repo, but I can't tell. Melt on your own pokémon is quite...

I've been digging through the move data for BW, and here are all the gen V move changes I could find: After You and Quash used to have priority, which seems wacky. After You definitely seems like it had to change because otherwise it could be used on an ally to bypass protect. In the final rom...

I mean.. it could have been worse ig I'm not sure what they were going with the eyes, feels like a strange design departure from regular Jynx

This made me think of how they copypasted base stats of old pokémon to use as a basis for the Unova pokémon. Most of them are straightforward, like copying a line of the same type or similar vibe, while some of them are ..not. Guess what gen v pokémon had Tauros as its basis?

This list has all the name changes during BW's development. The earliest names are a mix of WIP names and codenames. I don't know if there is a full list of the actual codenames like the asset indexes in later gens. If there is, I haven't heard about it/found it yet. And yes, the other Swords...

Perhaps not very surprising, but Victini wasn't always before Snivy in the Unova dex order. Sometime in April 2010, they changed the order of the Unova pokémon, so that "Victi" (Victini's wip name) was first. Interestingly, data for two Kyurem forms were added during development, but eventually...

I have thought for the longest time "What on earth made them theme their metal spider pre-evolution after a dumbbell?", so seeing Beldum being a  literal dumbbell early on was hilarious. Still no idea why it has a dumbbell theme though.