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Goldenrod City Department Store was intended to sell held items - Page 1

Goldenrod City Department Store was intended to sell held items

Posted by: Torchickens
Date: 2019-02-07 19:16:03
I found this on the Pokémon Gold disassembly when searching for "unused".

The second floor of the Goldenrod City Department Store includes these two unused texts:

GoldenrodDeptStore2FUnusedText1:
; unused
text "We intend to sell"
line "items for #MON"
cont "to hold."

para "This is a free"
line "gift. Have a #-"
cont "MON hold it."
done

GoldenrodDeptStore2FUnusedText2:
; unused
text "Giving #MON"
line "items to hold dur-"
cont "ing battle could "
cont "tip the scales in"
cont "your favor."
done

I'm currently trying to find a way of displaying text with arbitrary code execution. The below codes work, but the last page of the message unfortunately gets cut off. Does anyone know of a better code?

ld a,57
ld hl,5c10
call 3404
ret

ld a,57
ld hl,5c67
call 3404
ret

Edit: Turns out these also appear in Crystal, and the second text was even changed slightly!

We intend to sell
items for POKéMON
to hold.

This is a free
gift. Have a POKé
MON hold it.


By giving POKéMON
items to hold, I

bet trainers will
develop new battle
techniques.

Re: Goldenrod City Department Store was intended to sell held items

Posted by: Mefista
Date: 2019-02-08 15:59:03
Ooh,interesting! Maybe it was for those status-preventing held items?

Re: Goldenrod City Department Store was intended to sell held items

Posted by: Parzival
Date: 2019-02-08 16:04:21

Ooh,interesting! Maybe it was for those status-preventing held items?
That'd be my guess.