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EPISODE 4: HUNT FOR GREEN BETA!
Okay, so we know this following:
>Spaceworld is real, this has no effect on the legitimacy of it
>The ROM in the stream was not real, it was a (quite obvious) reconstruction using a mixture of (supposedly) real and fake assets
>The people running the stream and asking for donations are not the same people as Helixchamber or Team Spaceworld
>This may not matter as it was still their choice to release the ROM in this form, but it's still something to keep in mind
>Furthermore HC and Spaceworld were open about it being a hack during the stream
>The streamers themselves were apparently still quite coy about it being fake ("oh yeah it's totally real ;)")
>The assets were received by Spaceworld / HC last summer by a collector who does not wish to share the prototype ROM they own
>Upon being asked for a specific Pokemon number they responded with the sprite of Kotora - at the time HC had recently discovered, using an old video of a Game Freak interview, that Kotora was meant to fill this pokedex slot but they had not yet published their article about it
>Therefore there is a good chance the assets given to HC are real, as it is unlikely that HC / Spaceworld would tarnish their reputation by faking the entire thing
>However, the front sprites seen in the ROM hack are all fan made to make the ROM hack more complete
>The information was kept for this long so it could be compiled concisely and released in a way which avoided much of the confusion and misinformation that comes with these releases
>Naturally, choosing to mix the sprites in with a ROM hack with custom art is antithetical to this attempt at avoiding confusion
Okay, so we know this following:
>Spaceworld is real, this has no effect on the legitimacy of it
>The ROM in the stream was not real, it was a (quite obvious) reconstruction using a mixture of (supposedly) real and fake assets
>The people running the stream and asking for donations are not the same people as Helixchamber or Team Spaceworld
>This may not matter as it was still their choice to release the ROM in this form, but it's still something to keep in mind
>Furthermore HC and Spaceworld were open about it being a hack during the stream
>The streamers themselves were apparently still quite coy about it being fake ("oh yeah it's totally real ;)")
>The assets were received by Spaceworld / HC last summer by a collector who does not wish to share the prototype ROM they own
>Upon being asked for a specific Pokemon number they responded with the sprite of Kotora - at the time HC had recently discovered, using an old video of a Game Freak interview, that Kotora was meant to fill this pokedex slot but they had not yet published their article about it
>Therefore there is a good chance the assets given to HC are real, as it is unlikely that HC / Spaceworld would tarnish their reputation by faking the entire thing
>However, the front sprites seen in the ROM hack are all fan made to make the ROM hack more complete
>The information was kept for this long so it could be compiled concisely and released in a way which avoided much of the confusion and misinformation that comes with these releases
>Naturally, choosing to mix the sprites in with a ROM hack with custom art is antithetical to this attempt at avoiding confusion
