We knew that the late Nintendo president Satoru Iwata worked on the brilliant Pokémon Gold and Pokémon Silver games, but what we didn’t know until today was the extent of his involvement in the game. In a new episode of Did You Know Gaming?, it has been revealed that Mr. Iwata helped produce code for the game to speed up loading times, which helped save a fraction of a second at the start of battles, making the game feel more immersive. The algorithm that was written was a tweaked version of what was used in EarthBound and other games from HAL Laboratory. It is also worth noting that Game Freak were able to use a one-megabyte Game Boy cartridge, whereas previous Game Boy games were produced on cartridges half that size, allowing the team to bring the Kanto region to life.
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