Yes! It works all the way through the Professor's Intro and the player can move around in the overworld!
But it still isn't as smooth sailing as in the 'XD Darkness Beyond Time' Demo.
Despite filling up version 9 with all the Audio and Graphic files of version 8...
1) You can't bring up the Start Menu by pressing S. When you do, it throws up:
Although the 'Key Items' menu (by pressing A) appears, but it does not display any of the Key Items as it did in version 8.
2) If you try to enter into a trainer battle, the opponent pokemon appears ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE BATTLE SCREEN!
This is where the player's Pokemon is supposed to be!
And when the player sends out his/her pokemon IN THE SAME PLACE as where the opponent is standing, the game crashes with this error:
Somehow, in another trainer battle, this message box appeared when the opponent trainer sent out their Pokemon:
This affects wild battles as well:
3) Entering a Pokemart and trying to buy items brings up the 'buy and sell' menu, but trying to access the Item List to buy items gives this error:
4) Accessing a PC in the Pokecenter and selecting 'Someone's PC' gives an error that prevents the player from accessing box storage:
P.S. I can't check out HM Moves like Fly, Surf and, Cut because the Start Menu cannot be accessed. But I fear about those ones as well...:(
...And the possible in-battle glitches carried over from version 8.;-;