Alternative titles for Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire reportedly discovered

[Diamond 97]

Alternative Titles For Pokémon Ruby And Sapphire Reportedly Discovered

No, not Pokémon: Too Much Water

www.nintendolife.com

Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire launched over two decades ago on the Game Boy Advance, but according to a couple of Pokémon fans, the third-gen titles may have been called something completely different during development.

As highlighted by farore.gba and wobb on social media (thanks, VGC), after looking through data files for the games, they stumbled across the Japanese titles '藍バージョン' and '朱バージョン' which, when translated, read as 'Indigo Version' and 'Crimson Version' (we should note here that the direct translation of the latter title through Google yields a different result for us - 朱 translates to 'Vermillion').

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The actual titles sound much better than the original planned ones.

Still, this is an interesting discovery.

 

[giradialkia]

I dunno, I think it's cool that they could've been named colours. They ended up doing it with Black and White/Scarlet and Violet anyway (and through the latter's DLC we've technically had Pokemon Teal and Pokemon Indigo now too).

More colour titles! All day every day!

 

[Nah]

Kinda wonder why they ended up changing the names in the end. Can see why they thought up Crimson and Indigo first since the previous 2 generations were colors (though gen 2 is simultaneously precious metals). Ruby/Sapphire is still fine to me though.

 

[Corveone]

Gen 3 was originally supposed to be a soft-reboot, a fresh new start in a distant region without Pokémon from past games. So they wanted to somewhat reflect that in the titles going back to basic colors, basically Red/Blue but with a different name (although the first two Gen 1 games released in Japan were actually Red & Green).

They changed their minds though (probably thought it was too early for that) and put the soft-reboot idea on hold until Black & White, which wasn't too well received so I guess they won't attempt it again. Scarlet/Violet is basically Red/Blue all over again, although only in name format.