>>45288280Yes. The files are named by number and go somewhere into the 400s. If the figure of 300 designed Pokémon for Gen 1 given by Satoshi Tajiri is accurate, then they probably picked up where they left off designing Pokémon for Gen 1 when planning Gen 2
>>45292961It's now been proven that the Blue front sprites were originally meant for Gold and Silver when it began development in 1996. They ended up putting the sprites into Blue version instead and started drawing up new sprites for Kanto mons when Gen 2 started getting delayed a lot.