Pokemon Soulgold ROM

Pokemon Soulgold is based on an unofficial expansion port of Heart and Soul (This is not affiliated with the official Heart and Soul 2.0 version in any way)

Features

• Play through the traditional Pokémon adventure in the main game and experience learning multiple abilities in the postgame.
• Various battle tempo improvements, such as combining stat up/drop messages into one, and playing them while the stat animation happens.
• Main game and postgame battle facilities with Pokémon from all generations! Factory accessible after Gym 3!
• Hidden Grottos, which contain rare items and Pokémon, resetting daily
• Boss Pokemon, some legendary fights have multiple health bars and are more powerful, but you are guaranteed to catch them with any ball once defeated
• Achievement system with over 100 trophies to chase, including milestone rewards!
• 9 starters to choose from with new Mega Evolutions for starters that are missing them (Typhlosion, Meowscarada, Primarina)
• Fresh new tileset for the entirety of Johto
• Title Defense system: No longer will you face only the same champion at the end of E4.
• All mega evolutions are available; megastones have been turned into type-generic stones.
• Rocket Arcade, where you win money instead of BP
• Multiple legendaries to find in the main game and postgame!
• Fishing for items, including IV-raising feathers!
• Many HGSS features, such as Cameron the Cameraman, Buena’s password, Pokégear, and Rock Smashing for fossils, make their return!
• Unique battle frame color for shiny Pokémon
• Music resumes from where it left off after battles instead of starting over
• Multiple pages of options to customize your playthrough style
• Various quality of life features and gameplay feel improvements

Changelog

V1.2

• Added follower sprites for most starter mega forms (M-Primarina and M-Meowscarada will be commissioned at a later date), huge thanks to Rafael Sanna for creating the sprites!
• Added Fast HM animation and Battle Music options.
• Adjusted Elite Four rematch and title defense parties.
• Pokecenters now have night music.
• Added dark mode custom party menu.
• Seperated Poison and Toxic icons.
• Shiny parents in the Day Care boost shiny odds of eggs.
• Paradox “legendaries” now respawn after title defense. They are not required for dex completion either.
• Roamers cannot flee while asleep, but they will flee when they wake up.
• Peat Block and Black Augurite are now sold at Indigo Plateau.
• Battle Pyramid adjustments:
  • Added Full Heal to starting bag.
  • Larger flash range, and more visibility gained from each beaten trainer.
  • Beaten trainers now always give direction towards the teleporter.
  • Each floor is guaranteed to spawn a recovery item.
  • Single status curing items have been replaced by Lum Berries.
  • Reduced encounter rate inside pyramid and adjusted flee chance from the wild encounters.
  • Adjusted wild encounters at higher tier runs.
• Adjusted initial rental mon generation for Factory.
• Increased Audino base exp.
• Replaced TM75 Swords Dance with Agility, since SD is already a tutor move.
• Kabutops gets Stone Axe and Aqua Cutter, Sceptile gets Sacred Sword, Ambipom gets Karate Chop and Power-Up Punch, Pawmot gets Drain Punch. Pidgeot gets Focus Blast.
• Updated innates for Pidgeot, Arbok, Wigglytuff, Poliwrath, Farfetch’d, Mr. Mime, Sudowoodo, Jumpluff, Delibird, Rotom-Mow, Uxie, Regigigas, Phione, H-Samurott, H-Braviary, Appletun, Cyclizar, Tatsugiri, Roaring Moon, and Iron Leaves.
• Dark Void accuracy increased to 75%.
• Drum Beating now counts as a sound move.
• Maneuverability counts for 60 BP moves.
• Ported some bugfixes from expansion.

V1.1.4

• Some new innates: Resonance and Tempo (Meloetta), Controlled Burn (Flareon), Crossfire (Iron Moth), Hot Tag (Incineroar), Bull Rush (Paldean Tauros Blaze, Talonflame) and Mind Float (Chimecho).
• Updated innates for Charizard, Noctowl, Cinccino, Cyclizar, Ho-Oh, Mega Steelix, Galarian Articuno, Yanma, Blaziken, Cradily, Runegrigus, Corviknight, Flapple, Armarouge, Ceruledge, and Gouging Fire.
• Added options to disable night-lighting in overworld and battle.
• Added option to completely disable innates at all levels from right-side bookshelf in Elm’s lab.
• Baoba calls to unlock Safari Zone expansions are now slightly earlier (Before Ice Cave and After exiting Tohjo Falls to right side)
• Cursola can be found in Rinto Village waters.
• Small fixes.
• Plantation does not trigger from False Swipe.
• Darmanitan Zen Mode innates swapped.

V1.1.3

• Added recent Champions move changes and official abilities for Mega Golisopod and Baxcalibur.
• Added a new option to pause menu “Docs”, which opens a QR code that can be scanned to load the docs website. It will also notify you if there’s an update on the hackdex when opening the docs through this.
• OHKO moves have been reworked into 150 pow/90% acc moves that require recharging.
• Smoothed out the difficulty of Chuck, Jasmine and Pryce on Normal difficulty.
• Added a one time warning before entering Team Rocket hideout if player has not beaten Jasmine and Chuck.
• Adjusted innates for Ariados, Annihilape, Onix, Gyarados, Bayleef, Roselia, Roserade, Cacnea, Cacturne, Metagross, Shellos, Gastrodon and Golisopod.
• Added a TV to Rocket Arcade to check your winstreaks.
• Improved dark mode bag font readability.
• Armarouge and Ceruledge now learn their signature move at the same level (56).
• Fixed fiery wrath exceeding GBA’s limits with its animation in double battles.
• Fixed an issue with player and follower shadows after flying to route with shade weather.
• Corrected trainer-see music for various trainers.
• Small fixes.