Is there a reason why Smeargle's shiny and normal palettes swapped in between gen 2 and gen 3?

For example, in GSC, Smeargle’s shiny form had a green tail, just like a normal one does now. Its normal form had a red tail, like the shiny form does today.

Any ideas why Gamefreak did that?

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As far as I know, there is no exact answer to this but, there are some possible reasons.

It’s an error (1): When GF made Smeargle’s color pallet for G/S/C, they could’ve accidentally switched the shiny and normal form of Smeargle, but changed it back to what was supposed to be the original Smeargle in R/S

It’s an error (2): GF could have accidently switched the normal and shiny forms in R/S. Because R/S had better graphics than G/S/C they may have kept it that way because they thought it wouldn’t be noticed that much.

GF didn’t like the colorization of Smeargle: GF could’ve changed it because they didn’t like the colorization of Smeargle.

Bad graphics: R/S hasMUCHbetter graphics than G/S/C, it may just be hard to tell what color Smeargle is in it’s G/S/C sprites.

Remember, these are just some reasons why GFmighthave changed it.EDIT:There are a few Pokemon that have also had their sprites changed:I Gold/Silver Spinarak was purple but it was changed in Crystal (When it was shiny it was pinkish)Croconaw & Feraligatr goes from to teal to a light blue.Chikorita’s body goes from yellow to greenCleffa & Igglybuff goes fromreallypink to more skin colored.These are not all of the Pokemon that have changed but they are a few of them!

Hope I helped!