Wailord is absolutely humongous to follow you, am I right? Just wondering how could they put that in?
Steelix is the second biggest Pokemon in the game.
...
...Now think for a moment...
I doubt they would do that. They wouldn't make such a drastic change to that place.
-->
Okay, sure, Stark Mountain was already technically a Volcano, but no way in hell did it look like one...
Anyway, Mt. Mortar can easily just get a bit smokey and red (though probably not with lava- Think the fiery path from R/S/E) in the back of the cave, with no real problems.
The old games have much poorer graphics than we do now. They could just pretend they couldn't add that much detail.
And having Slugma in what, at the time, appeared to be a cold, dark, cave... Would just be unfitting. All caves used to be like that.
They have much more detail now. They can make a place seem like a dry land... Or an ancient ruin... Or something of the such much easier.
You can't surf from Cianwood downwards as I remember there were tiles that stopper you travelling there.
...They just move the border slightly down, so there is a thin sea route left from the southern end of Cianwood?
Yeah, what's your point?
In theory all those Pokemon like Togekiss have always existed.
It's just that Nintendo hasn't created them for us until now.
Well, TECHINCHALLY, some Pokemon weren't, like the man-made Porygon-Z.
...But that's besdies the point. ;D
If a butterfly hadn't been discovered to exist in the United States, but a caterpillar was, would a caterpillar be unable to go through metamorphisis and change into a butterfly? No.
If the specific caterpillar was unable to go through the metamorphosis unless it was in a special climate found only the middle east, where it has never been introduced yet at the moment, than yes. It would not.
So I just want to ask this while we are on the topic of hacked Pokemon. I know some people back in the third generation said if you hacked the item to get to a Pokemon, that Pokemon should be considered a hack. The third generation is over. Should it really matter if lets say I hack the Aurora Ticket or Mystic Ticket in my FRLG? Or the Eon ticket in my RS? I mean, who cares? If I trade it to D/P/Pt/HG/SS, it really doesn't make much of a difference, if I got it through a legit ticket or a hacked ticket. The Pokemon came from the game, it itself wasn't hacked... The only situation I can think of that it would even matter would be hacking the Old Sea Map in Emerald, since that item was never released in the US.
By game standards, the Pokemon is legit. (By which I mean it wouldn't turn into a Bad Egg or something on PBR.) However, by human record... If you never hacked your game, you would never have owned that Pokemon. Which therefore, makes it, still hacked. By the communities' eyes, at least.
They'll probably keep it the same. It'll ruin the nostalgia if they change it.
...And GameFreak cares?
We still expecting Famitsu scans, or... ?
They'll pop of eventually. People aren't as hyped about them though since they will more likely than not, contain no new information.
So there's no reason to have this super-duper widespread leak or anything. We'll probably get scans sooner or later, upon release.
But there's really no need now for some sort of leak. Nobody's that interested.