Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team
Also known as: Pokemon Fushigi no Danjon Aka no Kyuujotai / Ao no Kyuujotai (JP), Pokemon Bulgasaui Dungeon Parang Gujodae (KR) (Blue Rescue Team) Developer: Chunsoft Publishers: The Pokémon Company (JP), Nintendo (INT) Platforms: Game Boy Advance (Red Rescue Team), Nintendo DS (Blue Rescue Team) Released in JP: November 17, 2005 Released in US: September 18, 2006 Released in EU: November 10, 2006 Released in AU: September 28, 2006 Released in KR: August 30, 2007 (Blue Rescue Team), August 8, 2024 (Red Rescue Team, Nintendo Switch Online) This game has unused animations. This game has unused areas. This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused items. This game has unused abilities. This game has unused music. This game has unused sounds. This game has unused text. This game has debugging material. This game has regional differences. This game has revisional differences. This game has a prototype article This game has a prerelease article This game has a notes page This game has a Data Crystal page

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Now you, too, can live out your secret desires to be a Pokémon! Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team are the first two releases of the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon sub-series, released respectively for Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS.

Only Blue Rescue Team was ever released in South Korea, as Daiwon distributed the Game Boy Advance there; as a result, there are no first-party Korean games for Game Boy Advance at all.

To do: These: Check the Korean version of Blue Rescue Team for any dual-slot features or leftovers, since they would be unused as a result of the one-sided release. There is a lot of development-related text, which slightly differs from Red Rescue Team to Blue Rescue Team. There are many unused special characters for the dialogue font. List and rip them. There are also Japanese characters still present in the US and EUR version; rip them and explain why their colors are glitched if forced to appear in non-Japanese versions. Search for all unused sounds in this Zip archive. Check out the Korean PC demo Gold Rescue Team, which has an unused Japanese title. Not only that, there are some screenshots of it running. Could these games have assets leftover from Dragon Quest Characters: Torneko's Great Adventure 3 Advance, as they use a very similar game engine to that game?

Sub-Pages

Prototype Info

Prerelease Info

Notes

Debug Room Hidden area reserved for game testing.

Unused Dungeons 12 unused dungeons within the game's code.

Unused Graphics Loads of unused graphics in the mystery dungeon.

Unused Animations A bunch of animation leftovers.

Unused Moves 58 unused and semi-unused moves.

Debug Menu

There is a Debug Menu that can be accessed by patching byte 0xE5B08 (Red Rescue Team) or 0xB7184 (Blue Rescue Team) to 0x10. This can be done by using the following cheat code:

Red Rescue Team (GameShark)	Blue Rescue Team
E5199391 437FC95F 5483DD13 B5A5B62A	Not applicable

For Blue Rescue Team, the ROM patch must be done manually with a file editor, since there aren't any Nintendo DS cheat devices that support this feature.

As a result, this will replace the "Delete Save Data" option; also note that after opening the main menu, the cursor will point to it by default rather than to the "Continue" option.

The first five options make the menu disappear and the game freeze, except for the music. The "Storage" option makes the game freeze without the menu disappearing. The "h-open" option will return you to the main menu.

However these features do work in a leaked Japanese Debug-Enabled build, in which is documented here.

Provisional Map

Besides the Debug Room, there is another unused area accessible via these cheat codes:

Red Rescue Team (GameShark)	Blue Rescue Team (Action Replay)
820C0AB4 0007	0210FAF0 00000007

After activating the code, walk though any warp point in the overworld to access this area.

Despite the "Makuhita Dojo" area label shown in the overworld menu, this room seems more like a house than a dojo: it has a bed, a fireplace, and many flowerpots. The Japanese label "仮マップ" on the lower part of the map means "provisional map". Also, it is possible to walk on the table, but not on the stairs present on the right.

There are two Pokémon NPCs in this room: a Noctowl and a Gulpin, respectively. When talked to, they will both give a red "Unregistered dialog script" line. If the room is accessed before saving Magnemite, these NPCs will be absent.

The background music is the same as the one used for Makuhita Dojo mazes. Leaving the room (after disabling the cheat code) will send the player to in front of the Makuhita Dojo entrance.

Unused Portraits

Since Meowth, Psyduck, Machop, Cubone, Eevee, and Skitty cannot be selected as the partner, certain portraits have been left unused and cannot be displayed normally without the use of partner modifier codes.

They would later become selectable as the partner in the remake, Rescue Team DX.

Meowth

Psyduck

Machop

Cubone

Eevee

Skitty

Skarmory

This is a placeholder portrait found in Skarmory's data. The Japanese text is Skarmory's Japanese name, エアームド Eamudo, but the "a" is spelled with the kanji 阿 for some reason. A letter "B" is lower down in the graphic.

In addition, there is a duplicate of Rayquaza's portrait in the files, stored separately from the used one.

Unused Pokémon

The graphics and dialogue assigned to these Pokémon are used for various game mechanics, but they can't be fought or recruited by any means; thus, all their data goes unused.

They can be used as the main character by using the cheat codes below, in which the "????" corresponds to the relative Pokémon ID code.

Red Rescue Team (GameShark)	Blue Rescue Team (Action Replay)
820048D0 00FF 82030698 ????	021136E4 000000FF 021136A8 0000????

Note that this code should be enabled before finishing the personality test. This will force the game to select Charmander as the main character, and then to change it into the desired Pokémon before the first cutscene.

Code	Name	Category	Palette	Size	Type	Walkable Tiles	Friend Area	Ability	Shadow Size	Base Exp.	Recruit Chance
0000	??????????	Eruption Pokémon	0x00	1	Normal	Ground	None	Overgrown	Large	100	-999
01A4	Munchlax	Big Voice Pokémon	0x0C	1	Psychic	Ground	None	Pressure	Medium	100	0
01A5	Decoy	Slacker Pokémon	0x03	1	Steel	Ground	None	Pressure	Medium	1	0
01A6	Statue	Coal Pokémon	0x05	1	Water	Ground	None	Drizzle	Small	14	7
01A7	Rayquaza	Sky High Pokémon	0x03	4	Dragon, Flying	Ground, Magma, Water, Sky	Stratos Lookout	Air Lock	Large	230	0

These are their stats for each level:

Munchlax
Level	HP	Att.	Sp.A	Def.	Sp.D	Exp.
1	7	1	1	1	1	0
2	8	1	1	1	1	62
3	10	1	1	1	1	70
4	12	1	1	1	1	78
5	12	1	1	1	1	88
6	13	1	1	1	1	188
7	13	1	1	1	1	288
8	14	1	1	1	1	388
9	14	1	1	1	2	488
10	15	1	2	1	2	588
11	15	1	2	2	2	688
12	16	1	2	2	3	788
13	16	2	3	2	3	888
14	17	2	3	3	3	988
15	17	3	3	3	4	1088
16	18	3	4	3	4	1188
17	18	4	4	4	4	1288
18	19	4	4	4	5	1388
19	19	5	5	4	5	1488
20	20	5	5	5	5	1588
21	20	6	5	5	6	1688
22	21	6	6	5	6	1788
23	21	7	6	6	6	1888
24	22	7	6	6	7	1988
25	22	8	7	6	7	2088
26	23	8	7	7	7	2188
27	23	9	7	7	8	2288
28	24	9	8	7	8	2388
29	24	10	8	8	8	2488
30	25	10	8	8	9	2588
31	25	11	9	8	9	2688
32	26	11	9	9	9	2788
33	26	12	9	9	10	2888
34	27	12	10	9	10	2988
35	27	13	10	10	10	3088
36	28	13	10	10	11	3188
37	28	14	11	10	11	3288
38	29	14	11	11	11	3388
39	29	15	11	11	12	3488
40	30	15	12	11	12	3588
41	30	16	12	12	12	3688
42	31	16	12	12	13	3788
43	31	17	13	12	13	3888
44	32	17	13	13	13	3988
45	32	18	13	13	14	4088
46	33	18	14	13	14	4188
47	33	19	14	14	14	4768
48	34	19	14	14	15	5348
49	34	20	15	14	15	6248
50	35	20	15	15	15	7148
51	35	21	15	15	16	8288
52	36	21	16	15	16	9428
53	36	22	16	16	16	10728
54	37	22	16	16	17	12028
55	37	23	17	16	17	13528
56	38	23	17	17	17	15028
57	38	24	17	17	18	16528
58	39	24	18	17	18	18028
59	39	25	18	18	18	19528
60	40	25	19	18	18	21028
61	41	25	20	18	18	22728
62	42	25	21	18	18	24528
63	43	25	22	18	18	26328
64	44	25	23	18	18	28128
65	45	25	24	18	18	29928
66	46	25	25	18	18	31728
67	47	25	26	18	18	33528
68	48	25	27	18	18	35528
69	49	25	28	18	18	37528
70	50	26	28	18	18	39528
71	51	27	28	18	18	41528
72	52	28	28	18	18	43528
73	53	29	28	18	18	45528
74	54	30	28	18	18	47528
75	55	31	28	18	18	49528
76	56	32	28	18	18	51528
77	57	33	28	18	18	53528
78	58	34	28	18	18	55528
79	59	35	28	18	18	57528
80	60	35	29	18	18	59528
81	61	35	30	18	18	61528
82	62	35	31	18	18	63528
83	63	35	32	18	18	65528
84	64	35	33	18	18	67528
85	65	35	34	18	18	69528
86	66	35	35	18	18	72028
87	67	35	36	18	18	74528
88	68	35	37	18	18	77028
89	69	35	38	18	18	79728
90	70	36	39	18	18	82728
91	71	37	40	18	18	85728
92	72	38	41	18	18	88728
93	73	39	42	18	18	91728
94	74	40	43	18	18	94728
95	75	41	44	18	18	97728
96	76	42	45	18	18	100728
97	77	43	46	18	18	103728
98	78	44	47	18	18	106728
99	79	45	48	18	18	109728
100	80	46	49	18	18	114728

Decoy
Level	HP	Att.	Sp.A	Def.	Sp.D	Exp.
1	10	1	1	1	1	0
2	11	1	1	1	1	62
3	13	1	1	1	1	70
4	15	1	1	1	1	78
5	15	1	1	1	1	88
6	16	1	1	1	1	188
7	16	1	1	1	1	288
8	17	1	1	1	1	388
9	17	1	1	1	2	488
10	18	1	2	1	2	588
11	18	1	2	2	2	688
12	19	1	2	2	3	788
13	19	2	3	2	3	888
14	20	2	3	3	3	988
15	20	3	3	3	4	1088
16	21	3	4	3	4	1188
17	21	4	4	4	4	1288
18	22	4	4	4	5	1388
19	22	5	5	4	5	1488
20	23	5	5	5	5	1588
21	23	6	5	5	6	1688
22	24	6	6	5	6	1788
23	24	7	6	6	6	1888
24	25	7	6	6	7	1988
25	25	8	7	6	7	2088
26	26	8	7	7	7	2188
27	26	9	7	7	8	2288
28	27	9	8	7	8	2388
29	27	10	8	8	8	2488
30	28	10	8	8	9	2588
31	28	11	9	8	9	2688
32	29	11	9	9	9	2788
33	29	12	9	9	10	2888
34	30	12	10	9	10	2988
35	30	13	10	10	10	3088
36	31	13	10	10	11	3188
37	31	14	11	10	11	3288
38	32	14	11	11	11	3388
39	32	15	11	11	12	3488
40	33	15	12	11	12	3588
41	33	16	12	12	12	3688
42	34	16	12	12	13	3788
43	34	17	13	12	13	3888
44	35	17	13	13	13	3988
45	35	18	13	13	14	4088
46	36	18	14	13	14	4188
47	36	19	14	14	14	4768
48	37	19	14	14	15	5348
49	37	20	15	14	15	6248
50	38	20	15	15	15	7148
51	38	21	15	15	16	8288
52	39	21	16	15	16	9428
53	39	22	16	16	16	10728
54	40	22	16	16	17	12028
55	40	23	17	16	17	13528
56	41	23	17	17	17	15028
57	41	24	17	17	18	16528
58	42	24	18	17	18	18028
59	42	25	18	18	18	19528
60	43	25	19	18	18	21028
61	44	25	20	18	18	22728
62	45	25	21	18	18	24528
63	46	25	22	18	18	26328
64	47	25	23	18	18	28128
65	48	25	24	18	18	29928
66	49	25	25	18	18	31728
67	50	25	26	18	18	33528
68	51	25	27	18	18	35528
69	52	25	28	18	18	37528
70	53	26	28	18	18	39528
71	54	27	28	18	18	41528
72	55	28	28	18	18	43528
73	56	29	28	18	18	45528
74	57	30	28	18	18	47528
75	58	31	28	18	18	49528
76	59	32	28	18	18	51528
77	60	33	28	18	18	53528
78	61	34	28	18	18	55528
79	62	35	28	18	18	57528
80	63	35	29	18	18	59528
81	64	35	30	18	18	61528
82	65	35	31	18	18	63528
83	66	35	32	18	18	65528
84	67	35	33	18	18	67528
85	68	35	34	18	18	69528
86	69	35	35	18	18	72028
87	70	35	36	18	18	74528
88	71	35	37	18	18	77028
89	72	35	38	18	18	79728
90	73	36	39	18	18	82728
91	74	37	40	18	18	85728
92	75	38	41	18	18	88728
93	76	39	42	18	18	91728
94	77	40	43	18	18	94728
95	78	41	44	18	18	97728
96	79	42	45	18	18	100728
97	80	43	46	18	18	103728
98	81	44	47	18	18	106728
99	82	45	48	18	18	109728
100	83	46	49	18	18	114728

Statue
Level	HP	Att.	Sp.A	Def.	Sp.D	Exp.
1-100	180	180	180	3	6	0

Rayquaza (clone)
Level	HP	Att.	Sp.A	Def.	Sp.D	Exp.
1-100	80	20	20	17	17	0

(Pokémon Data Structure: Data Crystal)

Below are explanations about their use by the game:

• ??????????: This seems to be a placeholder or early test. Trying to make it appear by using any kind of method makes the game crash due to multiple invalid data fields. It also has unique unused dungeon ally dialogue.
• Munchlax: Part of its animations are used for two side-story events, which occur randomly after the main story is finished. Its dungeon dialogue is used for Pokémon escorted in missions.
• Decoy: Its graphics are used for the Decoy status aliment, and its dungeon dialogue is used for Gengar escorted during the relative side-story missions.
• Statue: It has a single sprite image which is used for the Kangaskan Statue, which allows you to save the game before entering a dungeon during story events. In dungeons, it appears completely black due to a glitch.
• Rayquaza : A clone of Rayquaza, whose animations are used for main-story cutscenes.

"??????????" Dialogue

Usual	1/2 HP or less	1/4 HP or less	Level Up
Something...	This is getting tough...	I can’t go on...	I leveled up. I’m happy!

Unused Items

These can be found in the Kangaskhan Storage after activating the respective cheat code (except for the "Nothing" item):

Red Rescue Team (GameShark)	Blue Rescue Team (Action Replay)
420389FA 0001 000000EF 0002	A213C112 000003E7 D5000000 000003E7 C0000000 000000EE D7000000 0213BF36 D2000000 00000000

Item name	Sprite	In-game description	Function
Nothing		No information available.	An item placeholder used for Pokémon in friend areas.
Ring D		Ring D	Unknown.
Ring E		Ring E	Unknown.
Ring F		Ring F	Unknown.
Alert Specs		A hold item that prevents the Pokémon from having its held item snatched away or swatted down.	Just as the in-game description says. Note that this is pretty useless since its effect applies on the item itself, which doesn't have any other effect.
Excavate		Teaches the move Excavate. It digs through the wall the user is facing.	No Pokémon can learn it, so the only way to access its move is by hacking (see the Unused Moves sub-page).
Spin Slash		Teaches the move Spin Slash. It inflicts damage on all foes surrounding the user.	Same as above.
Observer Orb		Changes the status of the target to Paused, making it incapable of action.	Just as the in-game description says.
Possess Orb		A leader's hold item that enables the leader to possess a friend and survive. It only works for the team leader.	It makes an adjacent ally faint in place of the leader, which completely heals them.
Reviver Orb		A hold item that revives the Pokémon if it faints. It does not work if the holder faints from an explosion.	Just as the in-game description says.
Toss Orb		Enables the Pokémon to throw items.	It makes the user perform the item-throw animation.
Beatup Orb		Synthesis item	Same effect as the Beat Up move.
G Machine 6		Synthesis item	Same function as the Link Box item.
G Machine 7		Synthesis item	Same function as the Link Box item.
G Machine 8		Synthesis item	Same function as the Link Box item.
Weavile Fig		Weavile event item.	This item name appears in the descriptions for missions which offer the Weavile Statue as a reward. However, the player never obtains it in their inventory, since the statue is displayed outside the base instead. This item also functions as the Link Box item.
Switch Box		A curious box that enables the user to switch the rescue team's leader. Only official team members may become the team leader.	Just as the in-game description says. However, it doesn't work until the main story is finished.
Mime Jr. Fig		Mime Jr. event item.	Same as the Weavile Fig.

Unused Music

There are two unused tracks in the games. It is unknown where they would have gone, but judging by the file names they were at one point intended for a cutscene and training menu of some sort. The word "zukkoke" is Japanese for "foolish" or "stupid."

Red Rescue Team: EVENT_ZUKKOKE
Blue Rescue Team: SND_BGM_M_EVENT_ZUKKOKE

Red Rescue Team: SYS_TRAINING
Blue Rescue Team: SND_BGM_M_SYS_TRAINING

Unused Sound Effects

An alternative sound effect for evolution goes unused:

Red Rescue Team: EVOLUTION_02
Blue Rescue Team: SND_ME_M_EVOLUTION_02

A track consisting of four consecutive sound effects, of which only the third is used. Judging by the file name ("orugoru" is Japanese for "music box"), this could have been intended for the Music Box item. In the actual game, the Music Box never makes any sounds and disappears from the inventory if the player attempts to use it.

Red Rescue Team: EFF_ORUGORU
Blue Rescue Team: SND_ME_M_EFF_ORUGORU

Redundant Sound Effects

There are two sound tracks consisting of almost identical data, used when leveling up:

Red Rescue Team: LEVELUP (used), FANFARE (unused)
Blue Rescue Team: SND_ME_M_LEVELUP (used), SND_ME_M_FANFARE (unused)

There is another couple of sound tracks, which in this case consist in the very same data, used when receiving a mission reward:

Red Rescue Team: REWARD (used), NEWS (unused)
Blue Rescue Team: SND_ME_M_REWARD (used), SND_ME_M_NEWS (unused)

Silent Tracks

There are two tracks which make no sound when played, which are labeled internally as DUMMY and SAVE_01 in Red Rescue Team and as SND_BGM_M_DUMMY and SND_BGM_M_SAVE_01 in Blue Rescue Team.

Unused Pokémon Settings

Various unused settings for Pokémon data.

(Pokémon Data Structure: Data Crystal)

Unused Pokémon Sizes

The Pokémon Size value is actually indicating the amount of video memory necessary for its relative overworld graphics. Valid values can go from 1 to 6, but only Pokémon with sizes of 1, 2, and 4 are present in the game.

Unused Walkable Tiles Setting

Many Pokémon are set in the game's code to be able to walk on specific dungeon floor tiles; however, there are no Pokémon set to be able to walk on both magma and water but not on sky tiles.

Default Speed

In the main Pokémon data, there is a value that sets the default movement speed modifier, but no Pokémon have a set value different from the regular speed. Also note that the value can go from -2147483648 to 2147483647, which is quite overly long considering that the actual range of valid speed values is only six.

"None" Pokémon Type

Many Pokémon have no second type, but if the data for a Pokémon is set as such for the first type, it will be displayed as having "None" as type.

"None" Friend Area

Only some unused Pokémon have "None" set as their friend area. These can still be recruited, but the game will always ask the player to release all of them after leaving the dungeon, saying that the friend area is full.

"-------" Pokémon Ability

As with the "None" Pokémon type, this is displayed only if set as the first ability. Also, this ability has no description text.

Munchlax's Evolution

Munchlax can evolve to Snorlax at level 40, but this cannot be triggered in-game, because Munchlax is unobtainable.

Diglett and Dugtrio Shadow

Diglett and Dugtrio are specially programmed to not display their shadow, which are still actually set to be, respectively, medium and large.

Unused Dungeon Data

Removed Pokémon

Several floors have data for Pokémon with zero chance to appear. This was done by setting their probability value to 0. Most of these seem to be leftovers from when presets were copy-pasted for some floors.

Dungeon	Floors	Pokémon	Level
Stormy Sea	B1F-B8F	Tentacruel	Lv. 33
Stormy Sea	B1F-B9F	Omastar	Lv. 35
Stormy Sea	B1F-B5F	Pelipper	Lv. 23
Stormy Sea	B9F-B14F	Dewgong	Lv. 35
Stormy Sea	B9F-B17F	Armaldo	Lv. 28
Stormy Sea	B11F-B14F	Slowbro	Lv. 27
Stormy Sea	B15F-B24F	Sealeo	Lv. 22
Stormy Sea	B15F-B24F	Walrein	Lv. 28
Stormy Sea	B34F-B39F	Walrein	Lv. 28
Stormy Sea	B35F-B39F	Sharpedo	Lv. 35
Meteor Cave	B20F	Deoxys (Attack)	Lv. 35
Meteor Cave	B20F	Deoxys (Defense)	Lv. 35
Meteor Cave	B20F	Deoxys (Speed)	Lv. 35
Buried Relic	B15F	Geodude	Lv. 27
Buried Relic	B15F	Ditto	Lv. 25
Buried Relic	B15F	Noctowl	Lv. 30
Buried Relic	B15F	Porygon2	Lv. 20
Buried Relic	B15F	Aron	Lv. 35
Buried Relic	B15F	Gulpin	Lv. 20
Buried Relic	B15F	Regice	Lv. 23
Buried Relic	B15F	Registeel	Lv. 25
Buried Relic	B25F	Hypno	Lv. 33
Buried Relic	B25F	Ditto	Lv. 25
Buried Relic	B25F	Hitmontop	Lv. 22
Buried Relic	B25F	Regirock	Lv. 18
Buried Relic	B25F	Registeel	Lv. 25
Buried Relic	B35F	Sandshrew	Lv. 30
Buried Relic	B35F	Shedinja	Lv. 5
Buried Relic	B35F	Regirock	Lv. 18
Buried Relic	B35F	Regice	Lv. 23
Northern Range	25F	Seviper	Lv. 25
Desert Region	1F-6F	Sandslash	Lv. 35
Desert Region	1F-11F	Vibrava	Lv. 30
Desert Region	12F-20F	Claydol	Lv. 26
Southern Cavern	B1F-B7F	Dugtrio	Lv. 30
Southern Cavern	B37F-B45F	Tyranitar	Lv. 50
Fiery Field	1F-4F	Ninetales	Lv. 50
Fiery Field	1F-4F	Camerupt	Lv. 37
Fiery Field	5F-8F	Charmeleon	Lv. 30
Fiery Field	26F-30F	Charizard	Lv. 55
Fiery Field	30F	Charmeleon	Lv. 30
Fiery Field	30F	Combusken	Lv. 26
Northwind Field	27F-30F	Feraligatr	Lv. 60
Northwind Field	30F	Croconaw	Lv. 28
Northwind Field	30F	Politoed	Lv. 28
Northwind Field	30F	Absol	Lv. 45
Lightning Field	1F-5F	Magneton	Lv. 28
Lightning Field	1F-5F	Flaaffy	Lv. 30
Lightning Field	1F-5F	Ampharos	Lv. 33
Lightning Field	6F-7F	Raichu	Lv. 25
Lightning Field	6F-7F	Magneton	Lv. 28
Lightning Field	7F	Ampharos	Lv. 33
Lightning Field	8F-9F	Raichu	Lv. 25
Lightning Field	8F-9F	Ampharos	Lv. 33
Lightning Field	10F	Raichu	Lv. 25
Lightning Field	10F-B13F	Ampharos	Lv. 33
Lightning Field	15F-22F	Electabuzz	Lv. 12
Lightning Field	30F	Raichu	Lv. 25
Lightning Field	30F	Manectric	Lv. 35
Lightning Field	30F	Tropius	Lv. 35
Wondrous Sea	B1F-B12F	Regirock	Lv. 5
Wondrous Sea	B1F-B12F	Regice	Lv. 17
Wondrous Sea	B1F-B12F	Registeel	Lv. 20
Dojo Registration	B1F-B69F	Abra	Lv. 16
Purity Forest	99F	Parasect	Lv. 30
Purity Forest	99F	Weezing	Lv. 20
Purity Forest	99F	Claydol	Lv. 26
Purity Forest	99F	Salamence	Lv. 26
Purity Forest	99F	Metagross	Lv. 28

Map Coordinates

There are 20 unused coordinates for the world map locations. Below is a graphic comparing the full screen of used ones and a mockup of the unused ones:

Used Coordinates	Unused Coordinates

The unused entries are, approximately from left to right and from top to bottom:

• Fantasy Strait (183, 9)
• D61 (217, 8)
• D51 (250, 8)
• Sky Tower Summit (352, 12)
• Boss 4 (443, 6)
• D54 (474, 6)
• D50 (472, 25)
• Mt. Freeze Peak (427, 62)
• Mt. Freeze Peak (436, 69)
• Frosty Grotto (422, 101)
• Mt. Blaze Peak (389, 109)
• Mt. Thunder Peak (299, 142)
• Magma Cavern Pit (446, 163)
• Dojo Registration (187, 190)
• Wondrous Sea (336, 253)
• Autopilot (11, 307)
• Snow Path (206, 314)
• Rock Path (225, 314)
• Boss 3 (246, 315)
• Boss 9 (441, 310)

There are three types of unused coordinates:

Unused Data

Unused Damage Types

There are two text strings indicating unused damage types: debug damage and fainted from a debug attack.

Unused Move Ranges

To do: Analyze the game's code to document their precise function.

Two unused moves have a unique Range: なにもの？ (Who?) has "None" (00), and Spin Slash has "Foe at side" (09), which seems to be the same as Cut's "Foes within 1-tile range" (02).

Unused Tactics

Name	Description
All for one	The Pokémon will try to avoid being alone. It will try to stay with the team.
Group safety	The Pokémon will try to avoid being alone. It will try to stay with friends of the same species.
unused	None.

These tactic names and descriptions are found in the ROM along with the used ones. The behaviors in the descriptions are not implemented; a Pokémon with any of these tactics will behave as if their tactic is "Let's go together".

Unused Text Placeholders

"Unregistered dialog script" Dialogue

This is found in the Debug Room.

Japan version	International
かいわスクリプトみとうろく	Unregistered dialog script

This red text line is displayed in the textbox when talking to an overworld Pokémon which has no dialog script set. It can be found in the unused overworld areas.

"invalidity" String

Effect of cheat code below. Note that this works even if there is no game saved.

Japan version	International
むこう	invalidity

This red word is displayed in place of undefined string variables in textboxes. The following cheat code forces the game to show it in the main menu:

Red Rescue Team (GameShark)	Blue Rescue Team
D4A8D728 9CCAB80C 5ECB57AF CA29737F A3B8FC60 432D52C4 2713B05D 566003E0	Not applicable

This code will change the "Adventure Log" text menu in "$m0", which is a text macro for pointing a string variable. Note that there aren't equivalent cheat codes applicable for Blue Rescue Team, for which this change can only be done by editing the ROM file.

"undefine" String

To do: Find a way to trigger it.

Japan version	International
みていぎ	undefine

This red word is present in the ROM after the "invalidity" one. It's probably a placeholder for undefined string variables.

"ななし" Friend Area Name

Used as a name placeholder. Means "Nameless".

Unused Code

AI Targeting Items

There is unused code that allows AI-controlled Pokémon to head towards nearby items on the ground. The code is hidden behind a check for the Pokémon being the party leader; as the leader cannot be controlled by the AI, this code is never reached. The code is mostly functional, though the AI gets stuck on the item if the toolbox is full or if the Pokémon is a wild Pokémon that is already holding an item.

The item-targeting behavior can be enabled by hacking the code to removing the leader check, and can be seen at 41:23 in the video.

Warp Seed AI Usage

The AI normally does not use Warp Seeds, but there are unused checks within the AI code for using them. If Warp Seeds were usable, the AI would eat them if under 20 HP, or throw them at an ally who is under 20 HP.

Enemy Evolution

To do: Find a way to enable this behavior and get a screenshot/video of it.

There is a dungeon flag allowing eligible enemies to evolve once a party member faints (assuming the player has no Reviver Seeds). This code is still fully-functional, but goes unused since the flag is not actually enabled on any dungeons.

(Source: https://github.com/pret/pmd-red/blob/cfe77992955aec88fb7834d00c24cacdf762fefd/include/dungeon.h#L17)

Build Dates

The following ASCII strings are found in the specified versions at the specified addresses.

Red Rescue Team

Japan 0xB6D10	pkd ver 1.0 [Oct 7 2005] 21:59:14	US/Australia 0xB69BC	PKDi ver 1.0 [Apr 28 2006] 16:37:54
US Kiosk Demo 0xB5EE8	PKDi ver 1.0 [May 29 2006] 14:11:36	Europe 0xBCEF8	PKDi ver 1.0 [Sep 13 2006] 14:17:17

Blue Rescue Team

Japan v1.0 0x8FE84	pkd ver 1.0 [Oct 7 2005] 21:56:50	Japan v1.1 0x8FE9A	pkd ver 1.0 [Nov 24 2005] 15:05:08
US/Australia 0x8A94C	PKDi ver 1.0 [May 29 2006] 17:05:20	Europe 0x5B936	PxKDi ��1.0� [Sep 13 2006] 1 4:13:31
South Korea 0x89400	PKDi ver 1.0 [May 17 2007] 19:16:08

Notes:

• The Japan v1.1 string claims to be another v1.0.
• The Europe string seems to be damaged.

Regional Differences

Red Rescue Team Title Screen

Japan

US/Australia

Europe (English)

Europe (German)

Europe (French)

Europe (Spanish)

Europe (Italian)

• The logo in the Japanese version has a different style compared to the other versions.
• As in several other games, "PUSH START" in the Japanese version is changed to "PRESS START" in the English language versions.
• The subtitle in the European version has a different and smaller font than the US and Australian ones.
• The logo is slightly redone in the European version to make the trademark sign more noticeable and make it easier to change it for the different languages available.
• The sky in the US and Australian versions is actually the same as from Blue Rescue Team:

Red Rescue Team (US/Australia)	Blue Rescue Team (all versions)

Also note that the lower part of the sea has a unique graphic that is normally unseen.

Blue Rescue Team Title Screen

Japan

South Korea

US/Australia

Europe (English)

Europe (German)

Europe (French)

Europe (Spanish)

Europe (Italian)

The differences are the same as for Red Rescue Team, except for these facts:

• The logo in the Korean version, which was released only as Blue Rescue Team, is the only one with a similar style to the Japanese one.
• All the title screens have the same background.

Recruited Pokémon List

Japan/Korea	International

The list of recruited Pokémon shows the relative species in brackets in the Japanese and Korean versions only.

Friend Area Overworld Map

Friend Areas in the game are sorted in regions that can be traversed on this alternate overworld map; in the Japanese version only there is the word エリア (area) after the name of each region; additionally, for the hero's team base, there is the word きち (base) after the team's name. A similar thing happens in the Korean version.

Revisional Differences

Early Japanese copies of Blue Rescue Team had a nasty glitch that could potentially wipe the save data from any inserted Game Boy Advance game that wasn't Red Rescue Team. Obviously, this was fixed for later revisions and was completely absent from the international release.

Console Differences

The DS version of the game Blue Rescue Team has received some changes to get it working on the DS Hardware, such as these.

• Loading times are much faster.
• The music sounds different.
• The Top Screen is only used for certain things such as the game map and the Pokémon information while in a dungeon.
• If the DS has Red Rescue Team in its GBA slot, it will unlock functions for that game.