Panel de Pon GB Restoration / 2024-06-02 Build (7-8-24)

What could have been.

The result of this is incomplete. It does, at least, show off what happens at the end of Hard mode in this iteration of the game until closer to the end where it's not quite all there. It does at least show Kain prior to the version that eventually came out in the Gamecube collection (again, JP exclusive), the two extra fights and it is far less glitchy than the version that came before it years ago. Still, this is a little ways to go from being a finished product...unless Professor Oak is canon in Lip's world and I'm all for that, if true.

The short story is this was the original, intended version of the game but Nintendo had other plans, like the version of Panel de Pon before it. Instead, we got Pokemon Puzzle Challenge. A good enough alternative but lost lore all the same. The entirety of this franchise, in general, seems to suffer from this quite a bit and I'm not entirely certain why but, in hindsight, I suppose they just didn't foresee the franchise, as is, as marketable.

Plays through a run of Hard mode, 1cc. Apologies for the ding at around 6:55. I thought I shut off all forms of communication to the machine this was being recorded on live but evidently I didn't. Nearly considered a redo of the video but I think this will suffice for now. I hope to see a completion of this one day.