but not one where the actual roster of Pokemon is significantly different.
![pokemon gold and silver beta sneasel pokemon gold and silver beta sneasel](https://bogleech.com/pokemon/allpokes/protosneasel.png)
Sure, a Beta build means that there's a whole lot of things that would be changed in the final game, and we've had Beta builds before. Nintendo is also insanely protective of never really showing any Beta versions of Pokemon before they're ready for release, with the closest we've ever seen being random doodles of what's to become Generation I Pokemon, a bunch of 'early' test runs of Chikorita, Torchic or "Latiken", but otherwise we've never actually quite seen what goes on behind the design team, beyond vague details from the game designers about how so-and-so amount of Pokemon designs were rejected before they settled with the final set.īut on May 2018, someone found a ROM of this elusive demo of Gold & Silver, and fansites began to obsessively pour and data-mine the incomplete game. but thanks to the relative obscurity of the convention, only vague word-of-mouth rumours persisted. Now Gold & Silver was released in 1997, in a period where the internet was not as obsessive in documenting every facet of a geek hobby, but even then it was well known that there were some significant differences between the Beta version seen there.
![pokemon gold and silver beta sneasel pokemon gold and silver beta sneasel](https://img.game-news24.com/2021/10/Arceus-Leaks-Hisuian-Voltorb-Electrode-and-Sneasel-are-two-of-the-Pokemon-legends.jpeg)
A while back earlier in 2018, someone managed to turn up the Beta version of Pokemon Gold & Silver, which was the pre-release version of the Generation 2 Pokemon games that was shown during a convention called Spaceworld.