User:PokeFan/Pokemon DP Prototypes Rewrite

This page or section details content from the July 2020 Nintendo Leak. Check the July 2020 Nintendo Leak category for more pages also sourced from this material.

This article is a work in progress. ...Well, all the articles here are, in a way. But this one moreso, and the article may contain incomplete information and editor's notes. Notes: This is a complete rewrite of an existing article lol.

On July 24, 2020, the complete source code for Pokémon Diamond and Pearl was leaked. The data corresponding to the version control system it used - CVS - was intact, to such an extent that a large number of file versions from commits from March 2006 onward are now available to us.

While no builds were present within the repository, a number of builds can be compiled from a handful of the commits. As such, the true extent to the revision history of the game cannot be captured by a small selection of builds, but they still provide key snapshots of development that can provide useful insights.

As we have the full history of the files which go into the build - perhaps most notably the Pokémon sprites in "pokegra.narc" and the SDAT files holding the game's soundtrack - the specific histories of those files are also documented here. The subpage for each build will specify which version of each of these files are used in the build process.

The English, Korean, and European debug ROMs were also compiled, along with a debug English demo ROM. They are otherwise completely the same as retail, so they are remain undocumented.

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Builds

Alpha Builds Builds from 17 February 2006, 3 March 2006 and 10 March 2006

Pre-Beta Builds Builds from 24 March 2006, 31 March 2006 and 5 April 2006

Beta 1-3 Builds Builds from 31 May 2006, 7 June 2006 and 14 June 2006

Beta 4-6 Builds Builds from 21 June 2006, 28 June 2006 and 7 July 2006