Re: Pokemon Creepypasta IJeanLuc, I didn't know that there was actually factual basis behind the Lavender Town creepypastas. I'd be fascinated to know any more info you've got on it, since according to you there was a change in the theme music from a biurnal(sp?) tone to a normal one.
I can't wait to show my friend the supposed killer Lavender Town theme that that guy made with the Unown and ghosts in the soundwaves, he'll totally shit bricks xD
Sure thing, I'll tell you all I know. When Red and Green were originally released, they contained a version of Lavender Town with an additional... 2 or 3 seconds of alternating high pitched screeching. Others say there is also an extra track or two of high pitched noises in the background of the original, but I can't personally notice any difference in the rest of the song. The very nature of binaural is to make alternating tones that stimulate brainwaves, usually for relaxation's sake, so the very notion of them having an adverse effect is pretty creepy. Opinions and speculation vary on whether the whole original song featured binaural beats, detectable by brainwaves only and too high for the ears to process, or just that specific, very audible portion... and I really can't say for sure.
The rumors say that it gave children headaches, nausea, and, in some versions, suicide. Of course, the suicides are only mentioned in creepypasta, but the other two seem rather likely. Even among the people I've forced to let listen to it, some seem to have adverse effects, others don't. Supposedly this inconsistency is due to children's ability to hear higher pitches louder (scientifically, this much is correct) but I don't know if there's anything to it in this case or not. The one aspect of the rumors that makes sense is that it apparently only affected children with headphones- which would have to be the case, since the GameBoy speakers were in mono, making binaural effects impossible. It becomes stereo in headphones, of course. The odd thing is why a three second portion of a song featuring ghastly screeching in alternating ears would be created, but only Masuda knows that.
Keep in mind, most of the above is me repeating widely known speculation. The technicalities are all correct- there was a three second screeching part of the song in the original, and headphones are required for GB stereo- but I cannot find any official source or news site, even on the Japanese side of the web, explaining why the song was actually changed. I know it WAS changed, and was kept changed in American releases, but the rest is a mystery.
EDIT: Would YouTube actually have the original music for Lavender Town? I mean, it was late 1990s and since they were recalled how many of them have the original music to be posted on the Internet?
First of all, I REALLY don't think they were recalled. If they were, there is no official record of such a thing happening anywhere. Rumors of such a recall only seem to appear on English forums discussing the creepypasta for dramatic effect (ooooh cursed music in a game so it was recalled BUT I HAVE IT ANYWAY OOOOOH!!!!1!!!1), and while it's certainly possible there I haven't been able to find any word on it. Japanese Wikipedia even talks about the music being changed, but there is no word on a recall. If it happened, it was hidden pretty well.
The original version DOES exist on YouTube, but the weird version with all the Unowns and Missingno is nothing but fake. Aside from the fact the dude's friend wouldn't have known what Masuda would have added in, that song doesn't go crazy until around the 8:50 mark, odd since the original song is about two minutes on a loop. If you mean this, it is indeed the original. I have the ROMs of version 1.0 and 1.1. In 1.0, it is EXACTLY the same as it is in the video. Version 1.1 seems largely unchanged except for a few slight changes in the empty/junk space of the graphical data and the song being the same as it is in Pokemon Blue and our Pokemon Red, Blue and Yellow.
That's all we know. The song was changed, and it was originally a lot freakier. Listening to the link above with headphones, you can see how it could give a headache over a long course of time, but the same can be said for any obnoxious screeching... and who knows, maybe the real effects were milder or worse. Although every story explaining "why" has suffered from either a lack of any sourcing at all or being a crappy creepypasta with technically impossible things such as .swf and .png files in a GameBoy game (even though I don't think .swf even existed then, GameBoy programming uses "Advance" script and has absolutely no 'computer' file types at all) or the sudden undocumented murder of everyone who worked on Red and Green despite them still working on further incarnations of the series... we really don't know WHAT happened, and that makes it even more mysterious. There had to have been a good reason to make entirely different ROMs with no change but a 3 second clip of demonic noises being removed shortly after the games were released, and since the clip was removed in Blue, English versions, Yellow AND the remakes (well, they didn't add a similar part to the remix, I should say)... they had a reason. SOMETHING happened that made them silently (recall and?) rerelease the game before its originally run was over to make a tiny, seemingly unimportant change... and we still don't know what it is. And if you ask me, that's the creepiest pasta of all.
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