Possible Pokémon lost media (iQUE gba)

[6Kyojin4]

Hello lost media forums, I would like your help in a minor investigation of mine into cancelled iQUE(nintendo china) game releases.

When investagting I came across this chinese article called "GBA中文游戏全集" in te article is a image of what appears to be a Simpl. Chinese logo for Pokemon Emerald saying 宠物小精灵: 绿宝石

The text accompanying the image says the release was cancelled due to censorship issues, but so far I have found very little info on this cancelled release or where this image came from.

Can you help me verify whether this is real or a hoax?

EDIT: I found an additional article with the same image in a bigger resolution. Under the image it had the caption 当年的国行PM，可惜未过审 [The version back then, did not pass inspection (by cultural bureau)].

 

[abcboy]

This is fake--one of the big giveaways is that they were no longer using 宠物小精灵 in Mainland China at that point in time. By 2004-2005, they were already using 神奇宝贝 in Mainland China. There were also some leaks regarding a Pokémon MMO from the Nintendo/iQue leaks few years back, but nothing regarding something like this.

 

[6Kyojin4]

I think I may have found the origin of this image originainating froma now-defuncted GBA discussion forum can ChinaGBA. But the image think is dead an archived. An d the website forum itself is not archived very well so I don't think the original post where the image came from is either, but I dont' know yet.

• bbs.newwise.com/thread-73284-1-1.html
• https://web.archive.org/web/20040726000144/http://www3.emu-zone.org/shownews.aspx?id=6247