Kou Dai Yao Guai - Bai Jin Ban (口袋妖怪 - 白金版, or Pokémon: Platinum Edition), also known as Pokémon Platinum, is a Pokémon-based platformer for the Game Boy Color developed and published by Sintax in the year 2004.
Overview[]
Pokémon Platinum is a fairly standard platformer where you can choose to play as either Psyduck, Pichu, Abra, or Flareon, though they don't differ in gameplay. The game has a total of five levels and a boss stage in which the player fights an Electabuzz. On each stage a different melody is playing, which are all rather short and constantly repeating. Each stage also uses a different tile set for the environment and the enemy Pokémon, only one of which appears per stage. The player merely needs to reach the exit point in each level to progress through the game, allowing for completion of the entire game in less than 10 minutes. Scattered about the stages are also power-ups that regenerate some of the player's health that can be lost on contact with the enemy Poémon.
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Trivia[]
- The Pokémon sprites are pulled from Pokémon Gold and Silver and Pokémon Crystal for Game Boy Color, and Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen for Game Boy Advance.
- It would be 5 years before the actual Pokemon Platinum was released for the Nintendo DS.
- Original copies of this game are copy protected with Sintax's in-house mapper, preventing raw dumps from being able to run on unauthorized cartridges or emulators. Both a raw dump and a cracked version of the dump are known to exist, with the former only working in select emulators that emulate Sintax's copy protection (i.e., hhugboy) and the latter working in most Game Boy emulators.