Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gold Rescue Team -Challenge the Gold Rank!- (partially found South Korean promotional demo of Nintendo DS game; 2007)
Title screen of the demo.
Status: Partially Found
Before Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team was released in South Korea, the Korean Pokémon Mystery Dungeon site offered a downloadable PC demo version of the game called Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gold Rescue Team -Challenge the Gold Rank!- (Korean: 포켓몬 불가사의 던전 황금 구조대 -너도 골드랭크에 도전하자!-).
It is based on Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team, a Nintendo DS game, but is played in a single window with a native resolution of 240x160, much like Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team, which is for the Game Boy Advance. However, the window is doubled in size to 480x320. It has a build date of PKDi ver 1.0 [Jun 25 2007] 22:53:37,[1] more than one month after the Korean version of Blue Rescue Team's build date of PKDi ver 1.0 [May 17 2007] 19:16:08.
The game has been unavailable since the Korean Pokémon Mystery Dungeon site was taken offline and doesn't seem to have been shared by anyone since.
Availability
A few gameplay screenshots of the demo can be found online, in some Korean blogs. However no gameplay of the demo has been released online at all, and there is no archive or download link to the demo.[2]
On February 12, 2024, an anonymous user of the DCinside Nintendo Gallery found a launcher for the demo version named "run.exe" uploaded to Daum Café 고명진.[3] Opening that file will result in an error message saying that a file required to run the game is missing. This file was uploaded to the site on February 21, 2024, by The Cutting Room Floor user Sawalk.[4]
See Also
Online Content
- Chuggaaconroy (found early Pokémon Platinum videos from YouTuber; 2008)
- Pokémate (lost inaccessible "Pokémon" Japanese mobile phone app; 2006)
- PokéPark: Asari Taikai DS (lost "Pokémon" Nintendo DS Download Play game; 2005)
- Pokémon Crystal Version (lost Japan-only Mobile Adapter GB content for Game Boy Color role-playing game; 2001-2002)
- Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team (partially found official website content of Nintendo DS/Game Boy Advance games; 2006)
- Pokémon 2000 Adventure Game (partially found browser-based online game; 2000)
- Pokémon.com (lost online games from website; pre 2010-2011)
- Twitch Plays Pokémon (partially found footage of Let's Play channel; 2014)
Video Games
- Pokémon Gold and Silver Versions (found early SpaceWorld '97 demo build of Game Boy Color role-playing games; 1997)
- Pokémon PC Master (partially found Japanese educational PC game; 2006)
- Pokémon Picross (found build of cancelled Game Boy Color puzzle game; 1999)
- Pokémon Pink Version (lost build of cancelled Game Boy role-playing game; existence unconfirmed; late 1990s)
- Pokémon Stars Version (lost enhanced Nintendo Switch port of "Pokémon Sun and Moon" Nintendo 3DS role-playing games; existence unconfirmed; 2017)
- Pikachu: DS Tech Demo (lost "Pokémon" Nintendo DS tech demo; 2004)
- PokéROM (found "Pokémon" edutainment series; 2000)
External Links
- The Bulbapedia article on Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gold Rescue Team -Challenge the Gold Rank!.
- An article on The Cutting Room Floor Wiki page on Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team.