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From a programming standpoint, I have no idea why such a concept would be thrown out. All it would take would be one extra boolean variable, 2 extra sets of sprites (one for the girl and the other for the girl on a bike), and 2 battle sprites (her back view and her as the opponent). It's nothing the game wouldn't have been able to handle, seeing as there's so much extra stuff in Pokémon Yellow Version that obviously takes up more space than a playable female character would. The only reason to not include something like that would be due to complete laziness in not wanting to draw an extra few sprites. [[User:Dannyjenn|Dannyjenn]] 20:53, 16 March 2012 (UTC) | From a programming standpoint, I have no idea why such a concept would be thrown out. All it would take would be one extra boolean variable, 2 extra sets of sprites (one for the girl and the other for the girl on a bike), and 2 battle sprites (her back view and her as the opponent). It's nothing the game wouldn't have been able to handle, seeing as there's so much extra stuff in Pokémon Yellow Version that obviously takes up more space than a playable female character would. The only reason to not include something like that would be due to complete laziness in not wanting to draw an extra few sprites. [[User:Dannyjenn|Dannyjenn]] 20:53, 16 March 2012 (UTC) | ||
:If it was that easy we probably would have gotten the girl female player in GS rather than in Crystal, since Kris would likely have been designed by then. It's true that the girl in that artwork might not have been meant to be a female PC, but since she's shown with the male PC and rival, I'm not sure what else she could have been. Why have art with two important characters and some random other person? That piece of art isn't the only one with her in it, either- there's a comic somewhere around here with those three characters. Not sure what happened to it, though. [[User:Yamiidenryuu|Yamiidenryuu]] 22:18, 16 March 2012 (UTC) | :If it was that easy we probably would have gotten the girl female player in GS rather than in Crystal, since Kris would likely have been designed by then. It's true that the girl in that artwork might not have been meant to be a female PC, but since she's shown with the male PC and rival, I'm not sure what else she could have been. Why have art with two important characters and some random other person? That piece of art isn't the only one with her in it, either- there's a comic somewhere around here with those three characters. Not sure what happened to it, though. [[User:Yamiidenryuu|Yamiidenryuu]] 22:18, 16 March 2012 (UTC) | ||
::She didn't have to be another playable character though... perhaps she was intended to be a second rival (like how it is in Black / White). And it's always possible that she may not have been important at all... unimportant characters have been used in the anime before. For example, there were two other trainers from Pallet that served no purpose other than to take the other starter Pokémon, ensuring that Ash started off with Pikachu. Also, in the introduction there's some Lass included who isn't important, even though all the other people shown are main characters. | |||
::And I think that programming her ''would'' be "that easy"... which is kind of my point. I think that the reason that the girl isn't available in Red / Green / Blue / Yellow / Gold / Silver is because they didn't even come up with the idea until Crystal, which I think makes a lot more sense than saying that it was because it was too hard to progam (which I know it wasn't), that there wasn't enough space on the cartidge (which I know that there was), or just that the developers were to lazy to do so (which is unlikely). [[User:Dannyjenn|Dannyjenn]] 00:39, 17 March 2012 (UTC) | |||