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

V1.2.1

• Added follower sprites for Mega Meowscarada, Mega Primarina and Let’s Go Eevee. Credits to Rafael Sanna for these!
• You can now highlight Pokémon on your boxes by several simple parameters like types by pressing the PC Box number and choosing “Search Pokémon by…”
• Ported Battle Status Info screen from expansion. Press SELECT in battle to access it, note that enemy ability is hidden until postgame.
• Hidden Grotto Pokémon can show as shiny in the overworld when you enter the grotto. You can still shiny reset them normally by save stating or soft resetting a non-shiny one, this is just a bonus.
• Added surfing sprites for various regional forms such as Clodsire. Credits to HnS 2.0!
• Battle Facility RNG advances by waiting, reason it did not originally was because of Emerald allowing recording the battles which required the RNG to always stay the same.
• Wallclocks now highlight the current time of the day in the text.
• Added some Gen 8 egg moves to egg tutor.
• Dexnav chain no longer resets when switching maps to let you go back to heal.
• Swapped frames 1-3 to new ones, old ones were moved to slots 21-23. (I recommend trying the new frame 3, it’s quite cool. Credits to Luuma)
• You can increment/decrement Blackjack bettings in sets of 500 with L/R.
• Playtime display limit on savefile raised to 9999 hours.
• Some dark mode adjustments.
• Docs now have Frontier Sets tab with effective speed estimated.

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.