Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Versions: Difference between revisions

|release_date_kr=February 14, 2008<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080411010711/https://www.nintendo.co.kr/DS/soft/PokemonDP/main.php Nintendo of Korea] <small>(archived)</small></ref>

When the game begins, the {{player}} watches a [[television|newscast]] about a sighting of a [[red Gyarados]] in [[Johto]]'s [[Lake of Rage]]. The player then heads to their best friend {{ga|Barry}}'s house and heads to [[Lake Verity]] with him to search for [[Legendary Pokémon]]. When they arrive, they notice [[Professor Rowan]] and his assistant ({{ga|Lucas}} or {{ga|Dawn}}, depending on the player's [[gender]]) discussing the professor's work and his search for something in the lake. The pair notice the player and hurry off, leaving behind a briefcase. As Barry approaches the briefcase, two wild {{p|Starly}} attack. The player and Barry open the briefcase, which contains [[Starter Pokémon|three Pokémon]] they must choose from to fight off the attacking Pokémon. Barry, who later becomes the rival, takes the Pokémon that has a type advantage over the player's choice. After the battle, the professor's assistant will briefly appear and comment that the Pokémon have been used before exiting with the briefcase. The player and Barry return to [[Twinleaf Town]]. Back in Twinleaf Town the player's [[Johanna|mother]] gives them a pair of [[Running Shoes]] before the player leaves for [[Sandgem Town]]. When the player meets Professor Rowan in Sandgem Town, the professor gives the player the Pokémon chosen at the lake and a [[Pokédex]].

The day-night system first appearing in [[Generation II]] returns, with the same three [[time]] periods, but better transitioning between them. A new multifunction device called the [[Pokétch]], short for Pokémon Watch, is also introduced. The regional {{pkmn|Professor}}'s name is [[Professor Rowan]], after [[wp:Rowan|a tree]] like the others, and he allows the player and their rival to keep the [[starter Pokémon]] they used against attacking wild Pokémon at the beginning of the game.

Though it was reported initially that the games would feature {{t|Dark}}/{{t|Psychic}}/{{t|Fighting}} starters, this is not the case. The games retain the starters in the type trio of previous generations, {{t|Grass}}/{{t|Fire}}/{{t|Water}}, this time being {{p|Turtwig}}, {{p|Chimchar}}, and {{p|Piplup}}, respectively.

On December 23, 2021 (in Japan) and February 2, 2022 (in North America/international territories), the videogame soundtrack was freely released by [[The Pokémon Company]] (TPC) as the ''Pokémon DP Sound Library'', made available in the form of a video compilation on [[YouTube]] ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDg0T0hsJkc English video]; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wF7P_UcETw Japanese video]) and as a dedicated sound-library website resource (for the purposes of listening and "personal video or music creation" – [https://soundlibrary.pokemon.co.jp/en English page]; [https://soundlibrary.pokemon.co.jp/ Japanese page]). The website section includes options for listening to songs via online streaming, creation of online playlists, and digital acquisition (via downloadable {{wp|WAV}}-format audio files). For digital downloading, songs are obtainable either individually, or as part of two bundled sets; the categorization of each set of tracks is based on the original physical-album release's disc division.

 

The soundtrack for the videogames [[Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl]] contains musical remixes/rearrangements of the music from Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Versions. Additionally, the original musical arrangements and certain sound-effects (like Pokémon cries) from Pokémon Diamond and Pearl are also accessible for listening by the player in Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, via the [[DS Sounds]] [[Key Item]]. Furthermore, the soundtrack of the videogame [[Pokémon Legends: Arceus]] makes melodic references to a number of songs from the soundtrack of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl.

Pokémon Diamond and Pearl were announced on October 7, 2004 during the [[Nintendo DS]] Launch Press Conference alongside many other games to be released at some point<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20041010114859/http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ds/list/index.html List of Nintendo DS titles to be released (その他の発売予定タイトル)], </ref>, and, while speculated to release on 2005{{fact}}, it was confirmed in an interview on Coro Coro's August 2005 issue (released on July 2005)<ref>[https://i.imgur.com/duiHxVf.jpg Image of the Coro Coro extract featuring the interview]</ref> that it would get a 2006 launch. A release date was later announced a year after the Coro Coro interview through press media<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20060822222122/http://www.dengekionline.com/data/news/2006/7/15/5a5d3108040643c9753bb2bb1d5b9835.html Dengeki Online news post of the release date confirmation (archived)]</ref>.

** The [[rival]]'s [[starter Pokémon]] is not at level 5 during the first rival battle.

** All three starter Pokémon gain a second type through evolution and are utilized in the storyline.

** No [[Item#Fake_items|fake item]] battles involving {{p|Electrode}} or any Pokémon are included.