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As most of you know, Zog over at Smogon confirmed that there were indeed 190 Pokemon originally. But some were cut. The question is, which ones? I don't think Ho-oh is one of them, as I don't think the translation on there is wrong. I also don't think that the link on Bulbapedia is necessarily true. Just because they fill the index numbers with Missingno. for gen. 2 does not mean they are all the missing ones. (Though Gen. 1 internal IDs are stored this way). The reason they filled in the missing numbers with gen 2 Pokemon is so that they didn't have to use 2 bytes for internal IDs; #FF+#1 would be #100, a 2 byte integer and would waste space so they filled the Missingno. spots. Some of the missing 39 may have went on the gen 2/3, onward, while some may have never been released/changed in progress.
We may never know until someone asks Miyamoto himself. But, I do see some key clues, from a designer's point of view. In G/S/C and their gen IV remakes, we see some fixed, exclusive Pokemon in Kanto, such as: Swinub, Slugma, Houndour, Murkrow, Sneasel and Larvitar. Some more, too. But these are always in Kanto in all remakes of Kanto.
Thoughts? What do you all think may be the missing 39 from some other clues?
We may never know until someone asks Miyamoto himself. But, I do see some key clues, from a designer's point of view. In G/S/C and their gen IV remakes, we see some fixed, exclusive Pokemon in Kanto, such as: Swinub, Slugma, Houndour, Murkrow, Sneasel and Larvitar. Some more, too. But these are always in Kanto in all remakes of Kanto.
Thoughts? What do you all think may be the missing 39 from some other clues?
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