>>56719063Azuril is pretty spot on. The other piece of evidence is Torchic's foot. You can actually see more of the leg in thread anon's game. Here's the scratchpad for reference (
https://tcrf.net/Development:Pok%C3%A9mon_Ruby_and_Sapphire/Unspecified_Date_Pok%C3%A9mon_Scratchpads#Generation_3). A lot of sprites are cut off in the final, but here we can see that they drew the whole body for a lot of small pokemon, torchic included.
Thread anon's game was dated September 9, 2002 (a little over a month before japanese launch), which means his copy was getting finalized for revisions or alternations. Without the rom we can't definitively say that this was what game freak were doing 6 weeks before launch, but some of the changes noted feel weird to fake like the torchic body.
There's also a groudon sprite in that thread with wide open eyes like the scratchpad, unlike final which is more dull, but otherwise those were the changes noticed.
