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

V1.0.6.3

• Innates can now be freely enabled or disabled in all Battle Facilities similar to Battle Cafe, meaning Classic is the standard pool and Chaos is purely for allowing legendaries.
• Adjusted several facility sets.
• Sinistea and Poltchageist can now use either of their evolution items to choose the final evolution.
• Updated shiny palette for Scyther, Scizor, Flutter Mane, Armarouge, Ceruledge, Serperior and Mewtwo.
• L=A mode disables quick swap in custom party menu.
• Forms are seperated into their own species in Dexnav (as in Indeedee F and M no longer clamp into one entry for searching).
• Fixed rare softlock in custom party screen if player had 5 pokémon and specific held item.
• Some other bug fixes.
• Fixed intimidate repeatedly triggering against Mega Heracross.

V1.0.6

• Goldenrod Underground herb shop sells IV-reducing herbs.
• Added new ability: Acidic (Poison is super effective against Steel) and distributed it to several Pokémon.
• Added follower sprites for the following ZA Megas: Clefable, Dragonite, Hawlucha, Raichu X, Y and Starmie. Others will still default to base form follower sprites until there are publicly available sprites for them.
• Summary screen now displays friendship instead of the unused ribbon field. The button prompts for EV and IV pages are now clearer that they do not refer to current page.
• Adjusted innates for Gen 8 starter mega forms.
• Raichu and A-Raichu learn Zap Cannon at level 60.
• Victory Road gate guard now guides player to correct place if they button mashed past the dialogue after gym 8.
• Added Floria NPC from HGSS to give hints on how to proceed past Sudowoodo.
• Added some flashback dialogue to Whirl Islands/Tin Tower if the player attempts to go there too early.
• Added Ability patch item ball to Snowtop B1F and one hidden Ability Patch to Union Cave B2F.
• Dexnav no longer generates duplicates of same move in rare cases.
• Small bugfixes.
• Added Tailwind and several other gen 7 tutor moves to the pool.
• Swapped some innates.
• New shiny colors for Armarouge, Ceruledge, Serperior and Mewtwo (X and Y megas included).

V1.0.5

• VS Seeker has been added; it allows resetting outside route trainers after walking enough steps. It is awarded in place of the old Radio key item after answering the Quiz in Goldenrod. Old saves can exchange their old Radio for the VS Seeker by talking to the receptionist on the first floor.
• Ported the Radio visuals from HnS 2.0 to Pokégear to replace Jukebox. Buena’s Password show functionality has been moved here.
• The emulator inaccuracy screen can be bypassed on Delta by pressing Start, but you aknowledge that you are playing on inaccurate emulator by doing so.
• Increased Trainer battles exp yield to 1.1x.
• Added Mud Shot and Earth Power to Typhlosion’s movepool.
• Added several biting moves to Ursaluna.
• Added Bisharp and Snorlax to Nameless Cavern in Kitakami Border.
• Oricorio Sensu can be found in Lake of Rage Hidden Grotto.
• Added weather-extending Rocks and Exp. Candy XL to Battle Tower exchange.
• Title Defense round number is now displayed in Hall Of Fame Screen.
• Fixed several small bugs such as Genesect Shiny palette, Mirror Herb egg move transfer, Urushifu form breeding, Kurt script during celebi event, Fairy Lock crashing in doubles etc.
• Fixed typos.
• Bumped Gen 1 legendary bird catch rates 3->6.
• Added Moonblast to Togekiss learnset.
• Added more moves to Meganium.
• Fixed Azumarill missing Belly Drum and Aqua jet from egg move list.
• Tried to fix a very rare party swapping glitch.