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

V1.0.3

• Fixed shiny Dragonite using the old shiny color in the surf sprite.
• Fix a sequence skip where player would never unlock the side safari zone areas if they did not visit the safari zone before elite four. Saves with this issue are automatically repaired to correct state with this update.
• Fixed a possible softlock in the Goldenrod Underground switches room if the player saved inside the shutter walls. Old saves stuck in this are automatically freed.
• Malamar learns Skill Swap via level up.

V1.0.2

• Replaced TM64 Explosion with Draining Kiss, TM77 Psych Up with Dig, TM87 Swagger with Giga Drain, and TM88 Sleep Talk with Water Pulse. Explosion, Swagger and Sleep Talk remain available as tutor moves.
• Added Helping Hand, Bullet Seed, Rock Blast, Fire Fang, Ice Fang, Thunder Fang, and all four Terrain setting moves to the tutor move list.
• Due to the Slowpoke Well incident, Slowpoke lines can now learn Shed Tail via level up.
• Smoothed out the final rival battle levels in Mt. Silver if player wants to go there straight after E4 instead of doing gym leader rematches first.
• Blackjack bets are now in increments of 100 instead of 10.
• Exp. Share now defaults to ON after being received.
• Reduced the amount of first-strike innates on several legendaries.
• Draco Meteor is exclusive to Dragon’s Den Shrine tutoring instead of being in the universal list.
• Gen 4 Adamant Orb/Lustrous Glove/Griseous Core now transform Dialga/Palkia/Giratina (was previously locked to the newer gen 9 items with similar names…)
• Fixed the first party slot follower Pokémon not being restored until going through a warp after healing.
• Fixed a possible sequence break with the legendary events.
• Re-ordered Battle Cafe rewards list for repeat purchasing consumables.
• Fix Tether ability’s message when copying stats.
• Experimental bugfixes:
  • Maybe fixed the black ability box bug that could happen rarely.
  • Maybe fixed the rival/kimono girl/silver music overriding map music after their events.
  • Maybe fixed an extremely rare chance of getting stuck in a black screen after a warp if all planets aligned in the sky. (I cannot reproduce this bug so it’s just a guess)

V1.0.1

• Added several Champions regulation M-B learnset additions such as Wave Crash Swampert and Earth Power Sceptile.
• Removed the requirement of beating Leaf in postgame to unlock the last level 85 level cap.
• Volcarona learns Giga Drain via level up.
• Zubat line learns Wing Attack via level up.
• Torterra learns Shell Smash via level up.
• Increased Safari Ball catch rate multiplier to 500. (For reference, Beast Balls have a modifier of 410 against Ultra Beasts in mainline games).
• Roamers now respawn after a Title Defense round.
• Tile collision fixes.