Pokemon Tarnished Gold ROM

Pokemon Tarnished Gold is a GBC ROM Hack by Raz based on Pokemon Gold. It was last updated on June 14, 2023.

Description

This challenge ROM hack is a modification of the vanilla Pokémon Gold and Silver where instead of gaining experience points from battle, Pokémon will *lose* experience and levels.

Can you make it to the Elite Four as your Pokémon get weaker every battle? Are you willing to challenge Red on Mt.Silver?

Features

• Pokémon lose EXP whenever they participate in battle.
• This includes if they have fainted. A fainted Pokémon is considered part of the active battle set to lose experience points after defeating an opponent Pokémon.
• When a Pokémon’s experience points reach the lower threshold of their current level, they will level down.
• A sad “fanfare” will play indicating the loss of a level during battle.
• Leveling down reduces stats of your Pokémon. If your current HP happens to be higher than the new max HP for your lowered level, it will remain unchanged until the Pokémon has enough damage inflicted on it, or is healed at a Pokémon center.
• Leveling down is limited to `Level 2` similar to how the vanilla games limit you to `Level 100`.
• Pokémon do not learn moves from leveling down.
• Pokémon do not evolve (or de-evolve) from leveling down.
• EXP boosting items or conditions now contribute to experience loss instead of gain.
• RareCandy lowers a Pokémon’s level by 1. (Nice Try)
• The DayCare couple is now absolutely terrible at their job, causing Pokémon to lose experience per step instead of gaining it. (Go visit them to see how they feel about this!)
• Pokémon stats screen now shows experience points remaining to next lowered level.
• Toggle Background Music in the `OPTIONS` screen by using the `MUSIC` option.
• Version is displayed on ‘New Game/Continue’ screen