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Has anyone seen this Silver bootleg?

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Back in 2004, when I was starting to get into the Pokémon mainline games, my parents got me two Game Boy games. The first one was a Spanish Pokémon Blue, which was as far as I know original, the other was a very peculiar Silver bootleg I still remember to this day. Here's what I know:

  • It was made after Red/Blue got released since Gen I attacks and Pokémon were well translated, well, as far as the character limit allowed them (for example, Pidgey was PIDGE and Pidgeotto was PDGTO).
  • Johto Pokémon kept their Japanese names, again, based on the character limits (eg: Totodile was WANI, Cyndaquil was HINO, etc).
  • The battle message when you used an attack was "[Pokémon] [move] study". Ex: ANOO TEA study.
  • Trainer names were mangled as far as I know since I don't recall seeing anyone's name in the game.
  • The translators struggled with the word "Route" since I recall seeing the word spelled as "room", "roam", "road", etc.
  • The cartridge if I recall correctly only said "Game" on top.
  • Might be the same game seen here.
Does somebody know where I can get more info on it?
 
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