4th Gen The Pokedex of Gen 2.

[Yazel King of the Klang]

Could the design of the HG/SS Pokédex be based of a Gameboy SP?​

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[Yazel King of the Klang]

Just search it on Google images and you will find what I'm talking about

 

[Hikamaru]

You know, you're not alone here because a lot of the Pokedexes are based on Nintendo gaming handhelds, most of them based on what the current system was at the time the game came out such as the original Hoenn Dex being a Gameboy Advance, the Sinnoh Dex being a Nintendo DS, and so on.

However there are some that don't really resemble the handhelds, such as the Unova and Kalos Dexes, the former of which looks much closer in design to an iPod.

 

[BettyNewbie]

You know, you're not alone here because a lot of the Pokedexes are based on Nintendo gaming handhelds, most of them based on what the current system was at the time the game came out such as the original Hoenn Dex being a Gameboy Advance, the Sinnoh Dex being a Nintendo DS, and so on.

The original Hoenn dex looked nothing like a GBA:

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Now, the remake version, on the other hand:

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And, the PokéNav Plus from ORAS strongly resembles a GBA SP:

And, much more so than HGSS' Pokédex, which looks more like a DS, IMO:

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Interestingly, the original Pokédex from GSC strongly resembled an old school Gameboy: