Yeah, there's no point in making a separate game entry for the other "version" when almost all of the sprites and gameplay are identical between the two.

oh yea I forgot this was 2 games in one Thanks!

The sprites in the top row are used in gold version, while the ones in the bottom row are used in silver version.

oh! and what are the second row of sprites for? Attacking, I presume.

ah that makes sense. thanks!

The first palette is the pokemon's normal color, the second palette is the shiny variant, and the grayscale palette is used when you're playing the game on an original Game Boy.

I have never played Pokemon, so sorry if I sound like an idiot, but what is each pallet for?

@IAmAlsoOnRoblox, they used to be on here, they were removed as to not get into legal trouble with Nintendo. If you really need them asap, check The Cutting Room Floor's sub-subpage on the Pokemon from the GS 1997 Spaceworld prototype.

where is the space world 1997 pokemon sprites then?

@IAmAlsoOnRoblox It's part of the gigaleak, they won't be on the site.

wheres the spaceworld 1997 pokemon

Flareon's Silver sprite looks like it's cross eyed.

one of the greatest game of the series.

Gosh, it feel so weird seeing Unown W's original shape.

I was today years old when I found out that Voltorb's sprite from Gold seems to be lifted from Blue, and tweak to match the new style

@CaptainGame17: That's the way it's always been, there's only a maximum of four colours used for Game Boy sprites -- background, color 1 (usually light gray), color 2 (usually dark gray) and black.

Uhh, the background color is the same as the white on some pokemon

Oh, I see.

@Serious Spriter: I'd assumed the palette thing due to the "animations for when they're encountered in the wild", since that's the only thing that's different for it in Gold/Silver.

FFFFFFFFFFFricc. I was right about only the crystal sprites having extra animations but everything else was wrong. I don't remember saying anything about the palette though. Now if you don't mind me, I'll go continuing my day as normal except I'll uncontrollable every now and then think of "I'm stupid for getting that easy fact wrong" which happens quite easily. Don't worry, I don't have some sorta depression it's just that sometimes when I get an "easy" thing wrong or I lose to an "easy" thing I feel stupid and that one self-hatred thought hangs around in the back of my head for a week at most.