I have never noticed this but about Aerodactyl's FR/LG fossil sprite.
Posted by: Torchickens
Date: 2010-02-18 05:40:12
Compare: [img]http://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/7/7f/Spr_3r_142.png[/img] (R/S sprite)
With this:[img]http://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/6/6a/Spr_3f_142_f.png[/img] (FR/LG fossil sprite)
This is the normal Aerodactyl sprite on FR/LG: [img]http://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/e/ea/Spr_3f_142.png[/img]
Nintendo perhaps forgot to make an exact fossil sprite for that pose, the closest is its Pokémon Red (JP)/ Green sprite, but even that isn't the same as it has no tail and its jaws are in a slightly different position.: [img]http://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/2/2b/Spr_1g_142_f.png[/img]
I would guess that this backs up some of the theories that the newer Pokémon games were made from the previous games; possibly as a template. This is probably not the case with D/P and R/S/E because they feature entirely different engines; however I would support the idea that perhaps when making Pokémon FR/LG Nintendo just editted Pokémon R/S.
There was even once a glitch in earlier versions of Pokémon Firered/Leafgreen where for example when viewing Spearow's Pokédex entry it would display "Tiny Pokémon" instead of "Tiny bird Pokémon", which was probably based on technical limitations in the older Pokémon games as Ruby and Sapphire would instead call it the "Tinybird" Pokémon with no spaces.