Pokemon Gauntlet Gold ROM

Pokemon Gauntlet Gold is a GBC ROM Hack by buggford of Pokemon Gold in English. It was last updated on March 16, 2024.

Description

How hard can you make a vanilla Pokemon game? Trashlockes are usually the answer to that question, keeping vanilla enemies unchanged while forcing the player to use low-tier encounters.

But what if you want to raise difficulty without changing trainers OR wild Pokemon availability? Gauntlet Gold is an experiment with that idea. It is vanilla Pokemon Gold, but with difficulty upped by forcing long trainer gauntlets with limited access to healing items.

Every route, cave and gym will trap you in until you have cleared every trainer. You can no longer buy potions from marts; what you find on the ground is all you get for healing within gauntlets. Even Indigo Plateau will not sell healing items, so you will want to manage your resources carefully to be able to beat the Elite Four.

Basically, this game is inspired by the resource-management strategies of the ironmon challenge, as well as the gauntlet system used in Garbage Green. Although Gauntlet Gold is easier by design, as it doesn’t also impose a trashlocke. It makes for a fun and fast-paced challenge run.

This game has been designed with level caps in mind. Rare candies are available in every Mart to eliminate grinding, but you will want to be careful to manage your EXP and avoid over-leveling gym leaders.

Features

• Gym leaders and other bosses now have a line of vision. They will see you and battle you like other trainers do.

• Trade evolutions and friendship evolutions are now level-up evos. Most evolve at level 40, except for Togetic at level 20 and Blissey at level 58. Umbreon and Espeon evolve via Moon Stone and Sun Stone respectively.

• Overworld poison damage has been removed.

• Escape methods (Escape Rope, Dig, Teleport, etc.) have been disabled.

• You can’t fly out of certain routes. You cannot fly out of Blackthorn City, but you CAN fly out of Blackthorn PokeCenter (it will make sense when you get there).

• Olivine’s new gym features automatic sandstorm conditions.

• Your mother now buys you status-healing berries when she saves your money, to account for the removal of berry trees. Don’t worry, she’ll still buy dolls for your room!

• Any farmable source of healing items is removed, and usually replaced with Slowpoketails. Wild Pokemon can no longer hold berries.

• The field effects of Milk Drink and Softboiled have been removed.

• TMs usually available in Goldenrod Department Store are now only purchasable at the Indigo Plateau mart. The gifted Return and Frustration TMs are replaced with Roar.

• Stat EXP (the gen 2 equivalent of EVs) is removed completely.