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ToriSora April 26th, 2012 6:54 PM

Did you ever play the original green?
 
So I jsut found my old school Green version from back in the day. I was just curious if anyone else played this one. I know it is only in japanese but curious.

Sydian April 26th, 2012 8:08 PM

Never have. :( I want to though!! I love old games and I love Green sprites. They're so ugly they're fabulous. Plus I'm OCD about my main game collection and without Green, I feel really incomplete.

Jorgomli April 27th, 2012 5:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sydian (Post 7150488)
Never have. . . Plus I'm OCD about my main game collection and without Green, I feel really incomplete.

Same here! I haven't been buying any games lately (saving for a new gaming PC).

I have most of the main gen games, in English. I have Gold in Japanese, and I plan on getting one of each copy all the main series games in each English/Japanese, possibly moving on to European versions afterwards.

mikey April 29th, 2012 10:04 AM

I have! My cousin had green. I wish I had it. I think he gave it away D:

Sephirothxx April 30th, 2012 10:52 AM

I've only ever played the ROM version, and I think its awesome that you actually have the cartridge. But something that would also be super cool, is if an American actually owned a rare copy of the Japanese Blue Version.

Mr Cat Dog May 1st, 2012 4:42 AM

I believe I played a ROM of the original Green that was stuffed in a fake cartridge that I bought on holiday in Spain. It definitely had a Yellow ROM (which I played before buying the real thing a few months later) but I'm pretty sure it had a Green one as well. Suffice to say, I can't really remember anything of it, unfortunately.

vaporeon7 May 1st, 2012 8:20 AM

I've only played a ROM of Pokémon Green before. I did it for a Venusaur solo challenge and I finished it in a school day. It was really confusing with all the translations and character limitations.

voltianqueen May 1st, 2012 10:18 PM

I once played a weirdly-translated rom of it, but I stopped in Viridian Forest :|

I did see a Green cartridge for sale at an anime convention a few weeks ago. I would've bought it, but it was $30, so..

Yoshikko May 6th, 2012 9:51 AM

Nope never. Tbh I didn't even know Green existed until I was like..10. But I love all the Green sprites and I'd love to play it.

Treviso May 8th, 2012 7:09 AM

Now that the controversy with Sydian has been cleared :D :

If you want to try out Pokémon Green in English, just go here: http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/876/

Note: This is a patch for a ROM of Pokémon Red, it's the same link I posted before.
You have to apply the .ips file contained in the zip to a clean Pokémon Red ROM, which you have to get somewhere else. To do so use "Lunar IPS" for example.

Bloodless May 9th, 2012 1:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Treviso (Post 7166726)
Now that the controversy with Sydian has been cleared :D :

If you want to try out Pokémon Green in English, just go here:

Note: This is a patch for a ROM of Pokémon Red, it's the same link I posted before.
You have to apply the .ips file contained in the zip to a clean Pokémon Red ROM, which you have to get somewhere else. To do so use "Lunar IPS" for example.

Been playing this, was gonna try and message the creator to see if I could get the ips. posted here, for what seems like such a simple a lot of work clearly went into this :)

.:CoralSoda:. May 14th, 2012 4:05 PM

I just played a japanese rom and I beat it awhile back. Nothing to special about it, other than the sprites.

Treecko May 15th, 2012 1:20 PM

I haven't yet. Someday I plan to even if I won't actually understand the Japanese.

PKMNTRNCha0tic May 16th, 2012 11:38 AM

I did but I stopped because I do not know japanese nor I plan to learn soon.

Kurui May 17th, 2012 12:17 PM

Green was my first ever Pokemon game. There are many memories in it. XD I never knew that there was a 'new green' and 'old school green'. I only knew of the first Japanese one until now.

Freako May 20th, 2012 2:14 AM

I don't see why I'd play a majorly text based game I can't even read.

Obix May 28th, 2012 12:35 PM

I didnt even know they made an actual green i was like 8 when they came out and all i remember was yellow red and blue

DanTheBib May 28th, 2012 12:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Freako (Post 7183031)
I don't see why I'd play a majorly text based game I can't even read.

Come on, it's not like you need to be able to read Green to play it nowadays, you're bound to know the story.

Yeah I've got Green, it's fun because it's so terrible! It's quite endearing, and some of the sprites are just shocking...

Bika May 28th, 2012 3:06 PM

Only the rom, with the terrible translation. Recently I started playing the Japanese one.

The Fallen May 28th, 2012 3:48 PM

I was interested in playing it. However, I never truly pursued finding any means of being able to play it. Yellow was amazing enough to not really care enough to try out the Japanese's third installment.

Zucriy May 29th, 2012 4:33 PM

Green is good to own for pride and bragging rights only. Alot of the pokemon you can find in the international blue/red versions have to be unlocked through trading in green, such as Jinx. There's slight alterations in 2 maps, but that's a localization issue, not a difference in color as well as a few extra glitches.

bewbs May 29th, 2012 11:23 PM

I think I'm happy with my pokemon yellow. Although I've never played pokemon green.

Tru Eagle June 1st, 2012 2:42 PM

Yes. Confusing but awesome all at once.

hinkage June 1st, 2012 4:08 PM

I used the ROM to do the Dokokashira Door glitch, but I wish I had the real thing. \nerd

GameAce 92 June 13th, 2012 3:31 AM

I played maybe up to Pewter City, and just couldn't do it anymore. The sprites were horrendous to me, and everything was so poorly translated..it may have just been the version I downloaded. I'm gonna try out the above linked LIPS version.

Brendonwii June 13th, 2012 4:44 AM

Yes, I bought it on eBay about 8 years ago. (Wow, that long ago).
It's pretty much the same game with different sprites and Pokemon.
However, I glitched it by trading to an Australian version after getting to 6th gym. Haven't touch it since then. \:

RainHF June 14th, 2012 11:50 AM

I recently bought a copy of green, replaced the battery and now I am ready to catch em all.

Xebelleon June 14th, 2012 11:56 AM

No.

Have seen game carts labelled as Pokemon Green and found it strange that the cartridge was similar to the blacks of GB Color titles.

XDragonRiderX June 17th, 2012 2:39 PM

Bought a boxed version, still waiting for a battery because the one in the Green is dead.
I also have a fake Green, but it won't load for some reason.

blue June 17th, 2012 3:12 PM

Yes, I've played it on somebody's Gameboy Colour years ago but I don't personally own it. Plus it's the only mainstream game I don't own.

bluebandit216 July 4th, 2012 9:49 AM

No I haven't but I always wanted to lol. There was a rather funny hack made called engrish green. It was a literal translation of the script from green into english. Needless to say it was very bad.

ZetaZaku July 19th, 2012 1:25 PM

I have only played the "English" ROM long time ago. My English was weak back then so I didn't have any problems with the bad translation. Maybe I'll replay it one of these days. I hope that the translation is so bad it's funny and not just bad.

Ravenfreak July 19th, 2012 9:36 PM

Yes I have actually. Well a ROM of it but meh. xP I've also played the poorly translated ROM as well. xD I was supposed to get a copy of the game, along with every other first gen game in Japanese, but the guy on Ebay never shipped them off... >.>

death_note July 20th, 2012 9:35 PM

nope, I only have Red and Yellow

Algo Fonix July 24th, 2012 1:04 AM

I've played more of Green than any other Gen 1 game. I'm at Victory Road now. Been there for over a year. Should probably pick it back up sometime.

VinceLevi July 24th, 2012 8:37 AM

I have! For the Ultimate Solo challenge actually. It was frustrating to be unable to read. Overall, it was just like Red and Blue, although I encountered a lot more glitches than I think I should have. Plus I couldn't get Missingno to appear. *shrugs*

chella182 July 24th, 2012 9:30 AM

I don't think I could get into it if I couldn't read stuff D: I know the story and stuff, but y'know, I'd still like to be able to read. And when a Pokémon wanted to learn a new move and stuff I wouldn't know which move it was without the aid of Bulbapedia or something... so I don't think I'll ever play it.

Rayshin July 25th, 2012 1:09 AM

I did, on a cartridge imported from Japan since 2004. Bad news though, it broke when my baby brother spilled his milk on it. Frustrating to read though, with the Japanese characters and such.

Palkia July 25th, 2012 1:55 AM

Why would I play green when there is a English version of it? In fact, I don't have any kanto games in my possession, although I used to have a copy of one of them several years ago.

I'm hunting down for a copy of a old gen 1 game!

Dartht33bagger July 25th, 2012 8:32 PM

I own it. I bought it off Ebay about 4 years ago now (wow I can't believe it's been that long). I only got to the 4th gym before I quit because playing in Japanese became too difficult.

DaleH771 August 4th, 2012 3:19 AM

Did anyone look up "Lavender Town Syndrome"? Apparently the high pitch notes and stuff from the Lavender Town music from the original Japanse version of Green caused hearing problems and swelling of the brain of young children, causing potential deaths. They apparently changed the music for UK and other releases of the colour games.

hinkage August 5th, 2012 7:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DaleH771 (Post 7285793)
Did anyone look up "Lavender Town Syndrome"? Apparently the high pitch notes and stuff from the Lavender Town music from the original Japanse version of Green caused hearing problems and swelling of the brain of young children, causing potential deaths. They apparently changed the music for UK and other releases of the colour games.


That's an old rumor/creepypasta and not true.

ScaryDodge August 8th, 2012 5:18 AM

one cousin of my friend have a original japanese green xD

rubin August 8th, 2012 7:23 AM

Yep, bought in on eBay 1,5 year ago. Thunderbolt animation still gives me nightmares xD

shadexpwn August 16th, 2012 2:31 PM

I never got a chance to play it, but was confused as when I was going to buy it it was in pure Japanese. I wanted to try and play Bulbasaur for the first time so I just restarted blue version to save some hassle of trying to find a real green version.

bewbs August 17th, 2012 11:16 AM

I bought Pokemon green and been playing it recently. I like it, I actually find it more of a challenge compared to the english counterparts because I don't know the Japanese language, I'm trying to figure out which moves are which. I actually like some of the green sprites more than some of the blue/red/yellow. They're not the best but they're fabulous.

Honest August 18th, 2012 11:07 AM

Nope, never. Not sure if I'd want to, either, given it's only in Japanese, which I can't read. D=

Elzar August 19th, 2012 4:48 PM

I have played it but only more recently and not when it was new. I purchased a copy of it on amazon for $30 back in February, not sure if i over paid lol. Anyway it was quite easy to play even being in another language, when you have played the american equivalents dozens of times its hard not to know whats going on lol. I have to say i really loved the slight differences like pokemon location in the wild and the different floor plan in the Unknown Dungeon. Also not sure if anyone has tried but if you haven't dont... do not try to trade between the Japanese cartridge and the american ones, it will corrupt your save files... lesson learned!

After completing the game i was pleased enough to the point where i also purchased a copy or Japanese Yellow but sadly i haven't played that one very far and its collecting dust on the game shelf. I do intend to get it off eventually though and play it one time through at least.

Bourne-mouth August 19th, 2012 11:55 PM

Nope, I never did. I can't see myself playing a game with a language I can't comprehend.

I might as well try the patched version, but I'm a little irked by the graphics...

Ammako August 31st, 2012 10:47 PM

Yeah, I own a copy.
Got to the fourth gym, got the badge, then I decided to restart because I wanted to play Green with Bulbasaur, Blue with Squirtle and Red with Charmander.
Never got around to actually doing it, so it's sitting there, not collecting dust since I take good care of it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sephirothxx (Post 7155929)
I've only ever played the ROM version, and I think its awesome that you actually have the cartridge. But something that would also be super cool, is if an American actually owned a rare copy of the Japanese Blue Version.

Eh, Japanese Blue really isn't rare.

Quote:

Originally Posted by voltianqueen (Post 7158125)
I did see a Green cartridge for sale at an anime convention a few weeks ago. I would've bought it, but it was $30, so..

Good thing you didn't buy it, $30 for Green is a rip-off.

Quote:

Originally Posted by rosehudson (Post 7168572)
Been playing this, was gonna try and message the creator to see if I could get the ips. posted here, for what seems like such a simple a lot of work clearly went into this :)

http://hax.iimarck.us/topic/729/ ;)
Gotta click on version number to download patches on Romhacking.net btw.

Arcoz September 4th, 2012 4:39 PM

Yes and No, I've got it somewhere. It's played about half way through but that was when I was like 9 and I didn't know you could get it in English! So I gave it up and played Red..

YOLTMayne September 10th, 2012 1:35 AM

I personally love the sprites in Green. I have both Green and Yellow version in Japanese, but Green definitely has to be my favorite. The Japanese is a little annoying since I don't read Japanese, but anything is better than that god awful translation.

o Pikachu o September 10th, 2012 3:55 PM

I had the cartridge before. But it was bootleg :( I've downloaded the English version of the ROM and I quit playing it because the sprites were ugly and the English was horrible...

AresTheAwesome September 11th, 2012 9:41 AM

I played it but turned volume down at lavendar town, you know, since the music supposedly can kill you.

EDIT: This is my first post in ages, but I'm back now that the fire of pokemon in my heart has been re lit by my recent playing of pokemon Blue.

TNTrice2012 September 22nd, 2012 8:48 PM

o my god!!! IT DOES EXIST! I AM JELLY

megamasher3 September 30th, 2012 9:27 PM

I bought the cart from Ebay back in March, got all the way to Fuschia before school bogged me down (I had to keep track of the items in my pack with my iphone lol). Just picked it back up two days ago and finished it last night :P Its funny, despite how often the sprites are panned, a good number of the sprites are actually better/closer to their art than their Blue compatriots, lol....though many aren't XD

SoraTheTruth September 30th, 2012 9:30 PM

Nope but I could always download for my gbc emulator for android

υ Shivam October 1st, 2012 9:56 AM

I played it.
But it was kinda boring because i can't understand japanese :P

The Grubby Pup October 1st, 2012 6:11 PM

There's a Pokemon Green...and peoples played it before?!?! ERRR...That makes me green with envy.

Naaah, I've actually heard of this game, but...I never played it before.

Are there Oceans in Space? October 2nd, 2012 11:39 AM

I didn't actually learn of this game's existence until like a couple years ago, and by that time, I didn't really ever feel the need to backtrack.

EonNeo October 2nd, 2012 2:09 PM

Don't forget that Japanese Red Version was similar to Green Version, so why do peolple always just say "Green Version"?

Ben. October 2nd, 2012 2:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EonNeo (Post 7360223)
Don't forget that Japanese Red Version was similar to Green Version, so why do peolple always just say "Green Version"?

Because Red could easily be confused with the Red paired with Blue rather than the one with green.

EonNeo October 2nd, 2012 2:15 PM

Not false.

But a lot of peole forget it.

93Aiwass October 16th, 2012 4:30 PM

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

I played the ROM version, but no - not on the GBC.

Love is the Law, Love under Will.

morrison November 1st, 2012 12:42 PM

I played both (green and red) I found them on a flea market of the japanese school not too far from where I live so I bought them :) I actually think some sprites were better than the later sprites :lol:

LividZephyr November 1st, 2012 4:51 PM

I never even knew of its existence until I started joining Pokemon communities online... back in 2006.

So no, I haven't. It's too old and too Japanese for me. I have had a hard time going back to RBY ever since FR/LG came out. It's just hard on my eyes...

Totodilesteel99 November 1st, 2012 10:44 PM

I have the actually cartridge
It was my older brothers, but i kept keeping on untill he gave it to me.
Can't read japanese though... Lol...
I can just tell what the words say, because I've played Kanto games repeatedly.

Olli November 2nd, 2012 11:06 AM

Nope, Green was never released here, and I've never bothered getting a Japanese game, simply because I've never been as dedicated a fan of Pokemon as some are. I don't think I'd really want it anyways though, since it appears to be quite buggy compared to the other two, and it's essentially the same, so I wouldn't really gain anything out of it, other than adding it to the collection of my currently one remaining Pokemon game ;(

RockManFan November 19th, 2012 3:30 PM

What exactly are the differences in green? Just different sprites or are there gameplay changes?

SamuJake November 19th, 2012 5:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RockManFan (Post 7416270)
What exactly are the differences in green? Just different sprites or are there gameplay changes?

http://www.gamehiker.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pokémon:_Red,_Green_and_Blue_Versions#Version_Differences

Brendino November 19th, 2012 10:03 PM

Aside from about 10 minutes worth of playing on a badly-translated ROM, I never played Pokemon Green. And as far as I can recall, there weren't too many differences between the originals and the English Red/Blue besides some different sprites, bug fixes and other minor changes, so I didn't bother trying to play through the whole thing.

Hikamaru November 19th, 2012 11:22 PM

Nope, I never did as it wasn't released where I am.

In fact, I never played any Gen 1 games for that matter.

Pinta77 November 20th, 2012 7:38 AM

I never played green version. I havent even played red or blue.

MrAPT1 November 20th, 2012 10:29 PM

Yeah, I own a Green Version. Never really did much with it though. It's fun to play on my super gameboy or Jap pokemon stadiums, since I can see all the weird sprites in color.

~*!*~Tatsujin Gosuto~*!*~ November 21st, 2012 8:28 AM

No I never played the original actual copy of it, but I have played it on an emulator. I know how bad the graphics are, so I don't want to say to myself that I actually want to play it on a GBA or GBC.


:t354:TG

Chaos Rush November 27th, 2012 6:13 PM

I own both the Japanese Green and Japanese Red versions.

I have Green because my family used to live in Japan, but we moved to the US in 2001 (not worth mentioning as much, but my brother owns a Japanese Silver version that no longer saves, along with a Japanese version of that Pokemon Pinball game with the rumble thingy).

I have Red because I won it on eBay several months ago. It came with the box, instruction manual (containing REALLY OLD artwork that looks awesome - did you guys know that the sprites in the Japanese Red/Green versions that everyone thinks looks horrible are actually based off of the VERY FIRST Sugimori art of these Pokemon? They're different from the slightly newer Sugimori art that they started using in 1998 with the Japanese Blue version and the English Red/Blue releases), and most importantly, it came with a huge poster of artwork depicting the entire Kanto region, labeled with it's Japanese names and all. It's pretty awesome.

Dying Light December 1st, 2012 5:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Fallen (Post 7194851)
I was interested in playing it. However, I never truly pursued finding any means of being able to play it. Yellow was amazing enough to not really care enough to try out the Japanese's third installment.

Pretty much the same here. I didn't care enough to try Green after Yellow came out. Besides, Yellow was really cool all by itself. In my opinion, Yellow could have been the only Pokémon game released at the time and I'd be content.

xxReshiramxx December 3rd, 2012 8:28 AM

No I've never played the original Green Version before but I would like to have a copy for my collection even if I don't play it.

Pizzey December 5th, 2012 10:21 AM

I'm playing the ROM right now, but I've been looking at getting a cartridge with my after-Christmas money.

It's fun to see how well I know the game without being able to read it :D

Pinkie-Dawn December 17th, 2012 9:05 AM

Nope, I never had, aside from its remake. I was too young to know that the original Green version existed.

Seki December 20th, 2012 6:06 PM

No, I didn't played the Original Green, not even on Emulators.

Dreg December 21st, 2012 1:22 PM

Someone mentioned about Green, when I was 10. I thought it was some sort of hoax, so I didn't think that the game existed. I should play it and see how it looks.

Gideon Jeremiah December 21st, 2012 2:36 PM

Green was one of the first ones I actually played on my own.

To be entirely honest, I only knew what to do because of my Yellow copy, haha!

I still have my physical cartridge, but without the box.
And I continue on my search at pawn-shops & flea markets to find one in the original box!

rikdegraaff December 28th, 2012 11:36 PM

Never had...
But I still want to buy it :D

It is a freaking good game (on an Emulator, though)

Sassy Milkshake December 29th, 2012 8:41 PM

I've never even seen a Green cartridge before. Or the box art haha.

SaniOKh December 31st, 2012 7:22 AM

I haven't played the Japanese Green and I don't want to, since it's basically a glitchier version of the international Blue.

I do understand the appeal, it just doesn't appeal to me.

Pharetra December 31st, 2012 11:48 AM

I played Green not too long ago. It is actually pretty funny to see how terrible the sprites look in my opinion. I think it's a nice change from RBY.

sab December 31st, 2012 1:37 PM

I've played it on an emulator before, but I've never actually had the game. It's kinda depressing when you look at just how bad some of the sprites were.

~CreamyChoco~ January 1st, 2013 4:35 AM

i only played it once my cousin had an original green and it was nice but i could not get the words and texts in it xD

Correspondence January 1st, 2013 5:31 AM

I remember playing Green in an Emulator but i didn't really get to far in it because it was in Japanese and i got frustrated not understanding a single word of it.

pikakitten January 2nd, 2013 12:37 PM

No I don't understand Japanese so I didn't play it, though I do want to.

Schwan January 2nd, 2013 12:53 PM

I imagine that it's a good game, but I have never played it though.

Imperator161 January 12th, 2013 3:09 PM

No, I've never played any of the Japanese Pokemon games. I didn't know anyone from Japan (who had the game, could get me the copy, could translate, etc.) when the Japanese Red and Green came out, didn't know how to order games from Japan, and didn't know Japanese, so there wasn't much incentive. I've seen videos and screenshots of Green since then, and have read a fair amount about it, but I've never played it myself. I did have an RBY guide that included pictures of some of the Green sprites for some reason, though.

Captain Gizmo January 12th, 2013 6:43 PM

Nope. I don't even think I ever saw the game cartridge in real life neither lol. And I don't even understand japanese too :C

IllusDark8 January 12th, 2013 9:19 PM

Yes, I did.
My Japanese friend sent his to where I was along with his Gameboy for a while.

Pringlesman January 14th, 2013 12:08 PM

I ocassionaly look at the ebay and consider purchasing a copy of Green for completionist sakes. But then I would feel obligated to start purchasing all the japanese versions also.

dragonfly_dust January 25th, 2013 4:34 PM

I found my copy with the Japanese kids I babysat. They told me I could have it. BEST KIDS EVER~!

Gyardosamped January 26th, 2013 7:52 AM

I've never played Green, nor have I ever seen the cartridge/boxart IRL. It'd be interesting to play, although it is probably the exact same game as the English Red/Blue. The only Japanese Pokemon games I've come to play was Platinum, which was interesting, to say the least, because I don't understand the language. @[email protected]

El Diabeetus January 29th, 2013 11:36 AM

I have a physical copy of Green in Japanese. It's nothing special, it's literally like Blue in English other than some graphic differences. In Japanese Blue is the 'different' game. Blue in Japan was like Crystal, Emerald or Platinum in the later generations. Yellow (Pikachu is its title in Japanese, no Yellow to be found there) Yellow also was color enhanced compared to its Japanese counterpart. In the Japanese version the overworld was Yellow based as was Red being red based, Blue being blue based and Green being well, green based. Basically what happened when the games first came to America was, they took the sprites and translated script from the Japanese Blue. Not sure why they didn't just release Red and Green, then Blue, then Yellow here. As kids we would've been happy with 4 Kanto games over 3. There seems to be mystery surrounding Green; but, it's not anything special. It's more or less what we got with Blue.

Basically what Chaos Rush was saying too.

Fernando Torres February 23rd, 2013 7:30 PM

Yes. In fact pokemon green was my first video game ever. Surprisingly my copy is the 2nd copy ever created. When I was a kid I tried playing it, but could understand anything so I went and bought red. Then 10 years later in 2006 I played it for the first time technically.


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