Prerelease:Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team

This page details pre-release information and/or media for Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team.

Development Timeline

Before Development

• Tsunekazu Ishihara, who would go on to be president of The Pokémon Company, develops a working relationship with Chunsoft through the making of Tetris 2 + BomBliss.
• Ishihara plays Torneko no Daibouken: Fushigi no Dungeon, and ends up impressed by its "depth and quality".

2004

• October 10 - IGN reports on a rumor about a Chunsoft game for the DS called Fushigi no Dungeon: Pokemon World Pikachu no Daibouken (Mysterious Dungeon: Pokémon World - Pikachu's Great Adventure).

2005

• August - CoroCoro reveals the duo of games.
• August 21 - Prerelease screenshots are out by this point.
• September 1 - The Japanese release date for both games is revealed by Nintendo. More details about them follow throughout the month.
• October 7 - Build date of the Japanese versions.
• October 19 - Build date of the leaked Japanese Blue Rescue Team kiosk demo.
• November 17 - Pokemon Fushigi no Dungeon Aka no Kyuujotai / Ao no Kyuujotai are released for Game Boy Advance and DS respectively in Japan. The DS version also releases in Taiwan.
• November 24 - Build date of the bugfixed reissue of Ao no Kyuujotai and the leaked debug ROM.
• November 28 - Nintendo publicly acknowledges the Slot 2 save deletion bug in Ao no Kyuujotai.
• December 8 - The bugfixed Ao no Kyuujotai begins shipping.

2006

• April 28 - Build date of the North American/Australian version of Red Rescue Team.
• May 9 - The English versions of the games are revealed at E3 2006.
• May 23 - Build date of the leaked prototypes of the Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team kiosk demos.
• May 29 - Build date of the North American kiosk demo of Red Rescue Team, as well as the North American/Australian version of Blue Rescue Team.
• September 13 - Build date of the European versions.
• September 18 - Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team are released for Game Boy Advance and DS respectively in North America.
• September 28 - Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team are released for Game Boy Advance and DS respectively in Australia.
• November 10 - Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team are released for Game Boy Advance and DS respectively in Europe.

2007

• May 17 - Build date of Parang Gujodae.
• June 25 - Build date of Gold Rescue Team.
• August 11 - Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gold Rescue Team -Challenge the Gold Rank!- is released for Windows in South Korea.
• August 30 - Pokemon Bulgasaui Dungeon Parang Gujodae is released for DS in South Korea.

Placeholder Portraits Found in Explorers

The second pair of games in the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series, Explorers of Time and Darkness, were built on Rescue Team as a base and inherited nearly all of its portraits, a large portion of which remain unused in Explorers. Curiously, this includes a few placeholder portraits that appear to have been created during the development of Rescue Team, but are not found within the data of the original games.

All of the placeholders correspond to story characters from Rescue Team and are numbered, with the exception of Moltres; its single placeholder portrait has been duplicated three times. Most of them have broken palettes and are positioned slightly differently compared to their default portraits.

Korean PC Demo

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Title screen of the demo.

Download Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gold Rescue Team (Executable File) File: Pokemon Mystery Dungeon- Gold Rescue Team (Executable File).zip (1.91 MB) (info)

A demo called Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gold Rescue Team - Challenge the Gold Rank! was released only in South Korea on August 11, 2007. Unfortunately, the demo is considered lost media as the official download was removed between April-May 2008. Only one file from the demo currently remains, along with a number of screenshots and a silent video of the demo in action.

(Source: Bulbapedia)

Differences

Demo-exclusive ending message.

• The demo runs in a higher resolution of 480×320, a doubling of Red Rescue Team's resolution.
• Compared to Korean Blue Rescue Team, the game only uses a single screen, has a smaller camera size, and uses a thin border width for the hero's name input screen. All of these details match Red Rescue Team instead, which was never released in South Korea.
• Unlike the kiosk demos in the rest of the world, this PC demo allowed the player to go as far as meeting Xatu at the Great Canyon.
• The desktop icon of the demo is the Squirtle icon shared with Blue Rescue Team.
• Two applications were used. One is the demo, and the other (the linked executable file) is a frame that displays the rescue forum and tips, which are no longer functional.
• The demo was a whopping ~450-480MB download, with most of the file size coming from audio compressed in an unknown format.

Menus

Gold Rescue Team	Final

The PC demo lacks the Wonder Mail option in the top menu. As previously mentioned, the framing matches Red Rescue Team instead.

Oddities

• Despite the game's controls being changed for a keyboard, the dungeon controls menu still has the DS controls from Blue Rescue Team.

(Source: mysterydungeonwiki.com)