New information was found about Saturo Iwata’s contribution to Pokémon Go (89 articles)” href=”https://www.videogameschronicle.com/games/pokemon/pokemon-go/”>Pokémon Gold and Silver.
It has long been believed that Satura Iwata helped Game Freak (273 articles)” href=”https://www.videogameschronicle.com/companies/game-freak/”>Game Freak fit the Kanto region as well as the Johto region into a single GameBoy cartridge with Pokémon Gold and Silver, but a new investigation shows that’s not the case.
A new video from DidYouKnowGaming shows that data from Pokémon Gold and Silver actually indicates that Iwata’s performance is related to game speed.
According to the investigation, Iwata repurposed code from Earthbound for Pokémon Gold and Silver, making the game run faster than before Iwata’s involvement.
As shown in the video, the improvements are very small, with Iwata’s code saving just fractions of a second in some cases. This can be seen when encountering wild Pokémon video games (647 articles)” href=”https://www.videogameschronicle.com/games/pokemon/”>Pokémon.
It has been rumored for years that Iwata managed to reduce the game size of Pokémon Gold and Silver, allowing for more content to be included in the games, but DidYouKnowGaming actually reveals that Iwata’s code made the games take up more space on GameBoy cartridges.
Several Nintendo (4005 articles)” href=”https://www.videogameschronicle.com/platforms/nintendo/”>Nintendo luminaries are responsible for many contributions to the Pokémon franchise. For example, it was Shigeru Miyamoto (176 articles)” href=” https://www.videogameschronicle.com/people/shigeru-miyamoto/”>Shigeru Miyamoto, who suggested that Game Freak split the original Pokemon title into two games, each containing an exclusive version of Pokemon, to encourage trading with the other versions. It has since become a staple of the franchise.
