List of text errors in the Pokémon games: Difference between revisions
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#One of several unused dialogue strings, suggesting [[unused Shadow Pokémon|additional Shadow Pokémon]] misspells "MAGCARGO" as "MAGKARGO".
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A number of spelling mistakes, grammar errors, or translation errors exist in within the Pokémon games. Normally when the game is being developed or translated such errors should be fixed, or changed to suit the punctuality of the new translated game (such errors are often referred to as 'Engrish' if they are badly translated Japanese games), however possibly due to the large size and complexity of Pokémon games a lot of these grammar errors are overseen or missed.
On rarer occassions, if a feature has been altered or removed in the translated game the developers may have forgotten to change it. Perhaps the most well known example is the 'Evolving Raichu' glitch where a man states that his Raichu 'went and evolved' which is impossible to achieve in normal gameplay. In fact, this phenomenum occured because in the original Japanese Pokémon Blue the player would trade the man a Kadabra instead of a Raichu, which would indeed evolve.
Spelling mistakes
In Generation III
Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire
- In the US/NTSC releases of Pokémon Ruby; Mawile's Pokédex entry erroneously refers to it as "Mawhile" instead of "Mawile". This was ammended in the later European/PAL versions.
Pokémon Colosseum
Unused dialogue strings
- One of several unused dialogue strings, suggesting additional Shadow Pokémon misspells "MAGCARGO" as "MAGKARGO".
Pokémon Team Turbo
- Rayquaza is often mispelled as Rayquayza, for unknown reasons although it is sometimes speculated that this is because the developers, ValuSoft (a division of THQ) are not associated with the Pokémon Company. The game is licensed by Nintendo, although it was released as a third-party game for the PC rather than a main part of the video game series.
In Generation IV
Pokémon Heartgold and Soulsilver
- If the player directly speaks to Professor Oak in Pallet Town after recieving 484 Pokémon he will give the words "Meeting you is something l will cherish all my life long!" In this case it seems that the letter I has been mistaken for an l.
- Also when speaking to Professor Oak in Pallet Town or via the phone with a complete National Pokédex he will give the words "Your having completed the National Pokédex far exceeded my expectations", in this case it is presumable that the word "Your" should have been replaced with the word "You".
Grammar errors
In Generation I
Pokémon Red and Blue
- In pre-release versions of Pokémon Red and Blue, when the player encountered a trainer an additional "The" would be used in the phrase "(Trainer) wants to fight!". For example, in these versions the game might display the words "The YOUNGSTER wants to fight!" However, if the player was to encounter a trainer whose class is just a name such as "Brock" the game would instead give the words "The BROCK wants to fight!" A picture of a player encountering Brock with these words still remains within the instruction booklets of both games. Before this, screenshots were released by Nintendo of the player encountering Blue, where the game would display the words "The BLUE wants to fight!"
In Generation III
Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire
- A picknicker in Route 111 south of the Winstrate Family household gives the words "This road here... You have quite a ways to travel." This was not fixed in Pokémon Emerald.
- The script used for when the player uses a recovery item such as a Potion gives the words "recovered by (X) points" where X is any integer, this script is always used even if the item only restored the Pokémon health by 1 HP. In this case the game would give the words "(Pokémon) recovered by 1 points". In Pokémon Emerald, the problem was fixed by using the phrase "recovered by (X) point(s)" instead.
Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen
- For unknown reasons, if a Pokémon with Keen Eye is paralysed by Static the game will display dialogue suggesting that the user's Pokémon was paralysed by Keen Eye.
- In older versions of Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen a glitch, sometimes referred to as the Pokédex Species Glitch causes the species names of Pokémon in the Pokédex to be restricted to one word, for example "Tiny Bird" Pokémon would be shortened as "Tiny Pokémon". This happens because in Version 1.0 the game takes a space in the species name as the end name byte.
In Generation IV
Pokémon Diamond and Pearl
Unused dialogue strings
The unused phrase "You managed to come out here? That takes focus! For someone like you, this might be perfect." associated with the inaccessible fourth floor of the Jubilife Condominiums building uses two spaces between the words 'this' and 'might'
Pokémon Platinum
- Only in Pokémon Platinum, when the player defeats one particular Black Belt "Eddie" in Victory Road he will give the words "Done in" with more than one space, whilst this is a rather minor grammar error it can also cause the spacing syntax glitch or the "Black Belt gibberish glitch".
Translation errors
In Generation I
Pokémon Red and Blue
Evolving Raichu
Main article: Evolving Raichu
If the player trades a man a Raichu for an Electrode he will state that "The RAICHU you traded to me went and evolved!" However, Raichu can never evolve in normal gameplay. This error happens because the game was directly translated from the Japanese Pokémon Blue, where the player would have to send the man a Kadabra instead (which can evolve by trade).
TM49 localization oversight
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Within European, non-English versions of Pokémon Red and Blue, if the player gives the girl at the Celadon Department Store Rooftop Square a Lemonade, when the girl rewards the player with a TM49 she will explain that TM49 contains Tri Attack; although the actual translated text will still abbreviate a Technical Machine as a "TM". In other languages, Technical Machines are usually abbreviated in different ways. For example, in the French version, Technical Machines are officially abbreviated as CTs, rather than TMs.