Pokémon Diamond & Pearl (Mar 17, 2006 prototype)

Pokémon Diamond & Pearl (Mar 17, 2006 prototype)
Build date Mar 17, 2006 Build name marge-20060329 Dump status Released Released by Anonymous File release date July 24, 2020 Origin Compiled from source code Lot 2018 Nintendo data breach Game Pokémon Diamond & Pearl System Nintendo DS Genre Role-playing Final build JP Aug 16, 2006 US Mar 15, 2007 UK May 10, 2007 EU Jun 4, 2007 KR Dec 18, 2007 Release date JP Sep 28, 2006 US Apr 22, 2007 AU Jun 21, 2007 EU Jul 27, 2007 KR Feb 14, 2008

A prototype of Pokémon Diamond & Pearl, dated March 17, 2006. This prototype was compiled from a source code commit dated March 27, 2006.

Notes

While this prototype refers to a single point of development, several different builds are associated with this development snapshot, due to the game being split into both Diamond and Pearl versions.

Note that these builds were not pre-compiled and were instead manually built from compilable milestones in the source code repository. These builds represent early builds of the Japanese version of the game and were compiled with debug mode enabled. Oddly, despite this build being able to be compiled as separate "Diamond" and "Pearl" versions, both game names will appear on the title screen, with the name that appears seemingly being random upon each start-up.

The .gmm and .imd files are used to date these builds, as they appear more representative of the actual changes between respective builds than the commit dates. That is to say, the data that is included within each commit appears to be quite a bit earlier than the commits themselves, and so dates baked into the files themselves are used instead. Note that these are not technically build dates, as the files were not pre-compiled and were instead manually built from compilable milestones in the source code repository. The commit dates that these builds were compiled from - as well as the commit dates on some of the most important and notable files within the code - have been included for the sake of completeness.

Note that the MD5 hashes listed here are obviously dependent on how the builds were compiled, and are instead representative of what is perhaps the most common compiled version of each of these files currently in the wild.

GMM / IMD File Dates	Mar 17, 2006
Commit Date	Mar 27, 2006
pokegra.narc Commit Date	Mar 26, 2006
pokeicon.narc Commit Date	Mar 26, 2006
sound_data.sdat Commit Date	Mar 23, 2006
MD5 (Diamond)	6cd9f5eddbc72494116b772623819d89
MD5 (Pearl)	b518d31a957f5cdb258bf664890adc97

Origin

Stolen via intrusion into Nintendo's corporate intranet on or around March 13, 2018. Please do not link to this build; it is a first party Nintendo prototype which was obtained via illegitimate means.