#teraleak

[weirdmageddon]

this is the biggest pokemon leak weve ever seen. holy fuck.

a gamefreak employee got phished in a dev portal. i feel really really bad for them. but at the same time so much of this is amazing. i love cut content. i love seeing the process of making stuff. so i have mixed feelings, but i’m going to set that aside.

ive been here for multiple beta leaks since the spaceworld gold demo in 2018 and the diamond and pearl beta leak somewhere after that. this is by far the most intensive leak of beta pokemon stuff ive seen.

source code and beta builds for gens 3, 4, 5, and later 6 and 7. it is MASSIVE.

there is so fucking much and you can see coverage here

edit: if you dont have twitter (elon is a shitbag i dont blame you) you can go on r/PokeLeaks

this document from junichi masuda made in 2005 is the highlight for me, the symbol used in the hgss arceus event. it seems the legendaries are like a greek pantheon of deities

but we got more

internal development and discussion. universe creation lore, character profiles (e.g. skyla is a sexy latina pilot inspired by jennifer lopez and isabella fontana), never before seen designs, seen-before designs (latiken had a fucking sprite!), concept art, gen 3 had some darker looking discarded dev art. WHAT IS THIS IT RULES

here are compiled beta sprites from gens 3, 4, 5

[adobe-outdesign]

high-key obsessed with this XY museum concept art that shows a guy just casually holding a Mew

even better is the in-game blurb that goes with the painting, which is both great worldbuilding and also very funny:

A Man and Mew: They say a man of power at the time forced the artist to add the Mythical Pokémon Mew to spread the word of how great he was.

[vincenzonova]

I know he's a raccoon but this beta sprite really has me thinking about a really dumb Pomeranian

[meow--wows]

BECOME AS GODS

[xeeble]

beta zigzagoon i love youuuuuu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[vixivulpixel]

I get Game Freak doesn't want to show scrapped/non-finalized Pokemon designs because it'll inevitably come with people asking why said designs were scrapped or changed but. I feel like a couple decades is more than enough time to show off stuff like concept artwork.

You could easily sell dev and art books for each generation individually.

[blue-jester]

THEY ROBBED US

[snailfen]

typhlosion fans reading the leaked pkmn mythos doc, realizing that their fave is going to become an unfortunate punchline in the pokemon community that absolutely no one will let go of for the rest of eternity because no one can seperate unused mythos from canon or understand mythos as mythos

[stringbeanbones]

fuck this post look at this swag monkly instead

[diefakehomura]

My stupid contribution to the Pokémon gigaleak memes

[kcdoos]

mudkip and beta not-mudkip

[mayamodez]

bring this little funny bunny pokemon guy back

[lesbian-guzma]

[shiny-miltank]

Woah, fire and water bunnies real??

(Well one is.)

[puyogum]

Beta Lotad

I figured I'd make models of some of the beta Pokémon from the teraleak since there are a lot of cute ones. First is beta Lotad! 🪷

[saturday-byte]

So the pokemon leaks huh