Pokémon Black Version (NDS, Autumn 2009 Beta)

[@stardmg]

Wow, Unova used to be infested with rats just like the *real* New York! Good thing they got that taken care of!

[@bigshaq5360]

it's funny how the american region has the only: garbage pokemon mass of waste pokemon sewer area they knew what they were doing. not only that, but they said that the krookodile line represents thugs. and the scraggy one obviously also does (as well as something regarding thiefs i remember) Then there's various others hilarious and profound references/metaphors about america

[@Christoph8]

But instead they went with invasive Basculin who act like rival gangs.

[@kirbyofthestarsfan]

This might sound redundant but a glimpse into these betas really makes it evident how our favorite games released in one specific year we associate em with were in development for far longer than that, BW in the yeae 2009 just sounds so cursed

[@DeloofTegOrb]

SO TRUE. BW in 2009 sounds so forbidden... Though the game looks really good still

[@glitchymess]

Yeah, I think that's understandable. 2009 is weird, but have you considered 2008? The earliest revisions of the game are from the tail end of '08, though they are the literal definition of "prototype".

[@chimaeraarts]

​@@glitchymessyeah its like when they nearing the end progress for diamond and pearl, some of the team are now thinking of black and white doing some neat stuff that was out of the scope for Diamond and Pearl.

[@しんじ-l5q1u]

😂🎉？

[@DoctorAlright]

Drums only playing while you move is such a genius move

[@VixstraLarge]

I believe that's how it works for the final version as well

[@DoctorAlright]

@@VixstraLarge it is, I have white and didn’t even know that until I saw this video and looked it up

[@pocketskiekka]

I'm so glad I can read japanese and I can understand some parts. The dialogue and the personality of some characters are so different

[@nyathea]

Can you give me some examples

[@hansmoleman2666]

Yeah, it was wild when that guy called the gym leader a filthy ape and sent her back to the cotton farm 💀 ☠️ 💀 ☠️ 💀 ☠️ 💀 ☠️ 💀

[@Christoph8]

The camera angles in battle were insane!

[@Deko207]

Wow, it's 2 hours. I'm glad to your playing to upload this.

[@Sire_Mystes]

37:29 この不気味なBGMからあんな神BGMになったの感激すぎる笑

[@Hijiri_MIRACHION]

32:24 - Isn't that early Nacrene Museum map literally in the final game, textures and all? It's interesting seeing it in it's original context. 37:23 - I imagine the devs made the initial mistake because they drive on the left in Japan and initially seemed to make the traffic with Japanese roads in mind, rather than American ones.

[@glitchymess]

Yeah, pretty much. I think the unused map is slightly different with the plinth layout, though. Only reason I can imagine such an old duplicate would exist is perhaps they were planning to switch which version of the map is loaded after Plasma ransack the place for the Dragon Skull? Just speculation, though.

[@pocketskiekka]

2 HOURS? Thanks for your hard work!!

[@dreamfulman7796]

The crow is back! Thank you for sharing this video. I was wondering how that beta played.

[@charizaro2]

I really enjoyed your analysis of the Pearl build a few years ago, glad to see you’re doing this one now too :)

[@glitchymess]

And more soon enough!

[@kenyi3155]

5th Gen it's just too good, greatest thing ever

[@nyathea]

Ive played the super early bw betas from early 2009 where the only town was Accumula town and you're playing as lucas instead of early hilbert like in this build.

[@glitchymess]

Yes, yes, don't worry. I have those too! The video on them should be up in the coming days.

[@bayl2329]

This is a great documentation. Hope you'll do the other early builds also.

[@glitchymess]

Thanks! Working on that at the moment. There's just a lot to go through so I'll probably end up looking at a bunch at once in the next video.

[@qua.thequa]

Because of a boundary break video I think that rock (1:02:58) would've been where the gym is

[@KalypsoLemon]

If i remember correctly it was a windmill of sorts there in the final game Also yes if i recall correctly the rocks are the object of the buildings that aren't loaded since the player didn't go through a loading zone

[@KalypsoLemon]

Oh wait i just noticed that is supposed to be opelucid Im stupid

[@zel___]

WE'RE SO BACK

[@Mitzi-chan224]

wow, Unova looks very different in this build. :o (Music mostly stayed the same though, cool. :3)

[@70memories]

Lol Lucas Fighting Lucas in a gymn, idk why but seems so hilarious, also felt like a pokemon world glitch in the Matrix that ceases the existence of your world once you defeat yourself in a parallel... And yea, as i expected, the game actually kicked ya and u got to refresh 23:00

[@DawnLong-s3k]

I wish they had kept the Vs. Wild Pokémon music in the final game

[@Reizor_]

YEAHH IV'E BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!

[@10smears]

32:40 am I tripping or did you choose hiragana mode at the start? cause if so, it's strange that the museum guide's speech is in kanji

[@heart_locket2]

the crow has resurfaced

[@softboilucas9918]

How did you get this to work it won’t pop up on my 2ds’s twilight menu++ or on my delta emulator

[@glitchymess]

The menus? Title Screen debug is with Select, while in-game is R + X.

[@softboilucas9918]

⁠@@glitchymessThanks! I was asking about the rom running but I got it running on retroarch, I was about to ask that too lol

[@glitchymess]

@@softboilucas9918 Ah, I see. I assume those don't look for .srl files, so renaming them to .nds should work all the same.

[@TapporWasTaken]

Awesome, was looking forward to this! Will you be doing videos on the betas for the other games as well?

[@ryanlimhh]

One for x and y would be great!

[@glitchymess]

Sure, that'll likely happen too. Next up will probably be looking at that super early Black build since that's pretty interesting but a lot (and I mean a lot) smaller. The 3DS ones might be hit or miss since the older builds seem to be a little unstable and there are a few other issues where I'm not sure if it's emulation quirks or something else. I'll see what I can do, though.

[@ryanlimhh]

@@glitchymess thank you so much 🙏🏻🔥

[@urfavgohst]

where can i find a download for this

[@CazAttack4Ever]

Anyone have the rom for it?

[@davidpayneii289]

What steps did you go through to compile it?

[@weegeeweeg]

🎉🎉🎉

[@Dekkaidou]

1:35:00 もこう

[@unknown-sc8rh]

1:17:31懐かしすぎるww

[@NoobSIayer69]

Where to download

[@F_8-Jakkal]

初期のミネズミかなり不細工過ぎる