Master Kit CD, Early Card Database, Wallpapers, and more "Presents"

I recently was able to pick up the Master Kit CD


Read more on bulbapedia

Surprisingly, I haven’t found many details about the CD itself other than what is mentioned on bulbapedia

a CD-ROM which includes an extensive card list covering all expansion sets from Expansion Pack to Mirage Forest.

Anywho, one usb CD drive purchase later and I now have some more details to share about what is all on the CD!

Home Screen

Upon loading the CD an app launches and the Home Screen has two options: How to Play or Card & Deckbuilder. Some light music plays in the background.

How to Play

The How to Play part takes you menu with a few different options. You can learn the rules, look up cards, participate in a first battle, look at your unlocked presents, or visit the link corner with a list of online urls.

Unlocks

One neat thing is that when you go through the tutorial you unlock “Presents”!

First Present

The first present unlocked are a pair of wallpapers.

Here are the wallpapers:

This art is also used for the pack & booster box art from Flight of Legends (拡張パック「伝説の飛翔」)

Second Present

The second present is a little app that changes a few things about your computer:

  • Changes your mouse pointer to a Pikachu Sprite
  • Changes some folder icons on your computer
  • And it modifies your wallpaper

Pikachu_Mouse_Pointer

Icons_-_Pokémon_Master_Kit

Third Present

The third present is a little clock app that you can swap out the clockfaces with different Pokémon. You can also set an alarm.

Clock_App_-_Pokémon_Master_Kit

Clockfaces_-_Pokémon_Master_Kit

Card database

Last but not least included on the CD is a card database app. You can browse the collection of cards, mark off which cards are in your collection, make half or full 60 card decks, export and import decks, as well as check if a deck is legal.

When you hover over a card, its preview shows up on the right.

Deck Creator

I hope you liked the more in depth overview of what is all on the CD. The wallpapers are incredible and its awesome to see such old art in high resolution. I’ve added more images over on pidgi.net. I’ve also been able to extract all the card assets which I will share in the future (though they are pretty low res unfortunately).

Know of any other old Japanese products that have CDs? Let me know! I’d like to collect them and share the findings with the community.

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Really awesome work, thank you for the extensive documentation!

I like to see the classic sets, which did not have set numbers, organized in an “official” sequence. This might be the closest we’ll get to an official sanctioned sequencing. Pretty neat!

Took me a while to try to read the underlying database files. Couldn’t figure it out so ended up copying down the data manually. Will slowly add all the sets here over time.

Pocketmonster Card Game > Base Expansion

ポケットモンスターカードゲーム > 第1弾

No Card (EN) Card (JP) Rarity
1 Bulbasaur フシギダネ
2 Ivysaur フシギソウ
3 Venusaur フシギバナ
4 Caterpie キャタピー
5 Metapod トランセル
6 Weedle ビードル
7 Kakuna コクーン
8 Beedrill スピアー
9 Nidoran♂ ニドラン♂
10 Nidorino ニドリーノ
11 Nidoking ニドキング
12 Koffing ドガース
13 Tangela モンジャラ
14 Charmander ヒトカゲ
15 Charmeleon リザード
16 Charizard リザードン
17 Vulpix ロコン
18 Ninetales キュウコン
19 Growlithe ガーディ
20 Arcanine ウィンディ
21 Ponyta ポニータ
22 Magmar ブーバー
23 Squirtle ゼニガメ
24 Wartortle カメール
25 Blastoise カメックス
26 Poliwag ニョロモ
27 Polywhirl ニョロゾ
28 Polywrath ニョロボン
29 Seel パウワウ
30 Dewgong ジュゴン
31 Staryu ヒトデマン
32 Starmie スターミー
33 Magikarp コイキング
34 Gyarados ギャラドス
35 Pikachu ピカチュウ
36 Raichu ライチュウ
37 Magnemite コイル
38 Magneton レアコイル
39 Voltorb ビリリダマ
40 Electrode マルマイン
41 Electrabuzz エレブー
42 Zapdos サンダー
43 Abra ケーシィ
44 Kadabra ユンゲラー
45 Alakazam フーディン
46 Gastly ゴース
47 Haunter ゴースト
48 Drowzee スリープ
49 Jynx ルージュラ
50 Mewtwo ミュウツー
51 Sandshrew サンド
52 Diglett ディグダ
53 Dugtiro ダグトリオ
54 Machop ワンリキー
55 Machoke ゴーリキー
56 Machamp カイリキー
57 Onix イワーク
58 Hitmonchan エビワラー
59 Pidgey ポッポ
60 Pidgeotto ピジョン
61 Ratatta コラッタ
62 Raticate ラッタ
63 Clefairy ピッピ
64 Farfetch’d カモネギ
65 Doduo ドードー
66 Chancey ラッキー
67 Porygon ポリゴン
68 Dratini ミニリュウ
69 Dragonair ハクリュウ
70 Professor Oak オーキドはかせ
71 Imposter Processor Oak にせオーキドはかせ
72 Bill マサキ
73 Lass ミニスカート
74 Pokemon Trader ポケモン交換おじさん
75 Pokemon Breeder ポケモン育て屋さん
76 Clefairy Doll ピッピ人形
77 Energy Retrieval エネルギー回収
78 Emergy Removal エネルギー・リムーブ
79 Super Energy Removal 超エネルギーリムーブ
80 Switch ポケモンいれかえ
81 Pokemon Center ポケモンセンター
82 Scoop Up ポケモン回収
83 Computer Search パソコン通信
84 Pokedex ポケモン図鑑HANDY505
85 PlusPower プラスパワー
86 Defender ディフェンダー
87 Item Finder ダウジングマシーン
88 Gust of Wind 突風
89 Devolution Spray 退化スプレー
90 Revive 元気のかけら
91 Super Potion いいきずぐすり
92 Potion きずぐすり
93 Full Heal なんでもなおし
94 Maintenance メンテナンス
95 Pokemon Flute ポケモンの笛
96 Double Colorless Energy 無色2個エネルギー
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I dont feel so bad for losing the auction I assume you won this from because I definitely wouldnt have gone this far on deciphering the details. Thanks for this.

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haha happy to share what I found! Don’t think we were looking at the same one. I just picked up an empty box with the CD a while back.