NDS ROM Pokémon HeartGold 2023-07-03

Pokémon HeartGold Version and Pokémon SoulSilver Version are remakes of the 1999 Game Boy Color role-playing video games Pokémon Gold and Silver. They were developed by Game Freak, published by The Pokémon Company and Nintendo for the Nintendo DS and released in Japan on September 12, 2009, and later in other regions during March 2010. The games are part of the fourth generation of the Pokémon video game series and include features from Pokémon Crystal.

In these games, you become a Pokémon trainer in the Johto and Kanto regions and aim to become the best trainer by raising and cataloging Pokémon and defeating other trainers. The game director, Shigeki Morimoto, aimed to make the game feel new to those who had recently been introduced to the series while still respecting the feelings of those who had played the previous games. Critics have given the games positive reviews, and as of March 2014, the games' combined sales have reached 12. 2 million, making them the eighth best-selling DS video games of all time.

In the game, you encounter a member of Team Rocket in Slowpoke Well and can choose one of the game's three starter Pokémon, including Totodile, which follows you. Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver are role-playing video games with adventure elements, and their basic mechanics are similar to their predecessors. You play from a third-person overhead perspective and navigate through a field map, battle screen, and menu. You begin with one Pokémon and can capture more using Poké Balls.

When you encounter a wild Pokémon or are challenged by a trainer to a battle, the screen switches to a turn-based battle screen where the Pokémon fight. During battle, you may use a move, use an item, switch the active Pokémon, or flee. Pokémon have hit points (HP), which is displayed during battles. When a Pokémon's HP is reduced to zero, it faints and cannot battle unless taken to a Pokémon Center or healed or revived with a Pokémon skill or an item. If your Pokémon defeats the opposing Pokémon, it receives experience points. After accumulating enough experience points, it will level up, and most Pokémon evolve into a new species of Pokémon when they reach a certain level.

HeartGold and SoulSilver include new features, such as the Pokéwalker, which allows the first Pokémon in your party to follow you in the overworld, and a pedometer that allows you to transfer Pokémon from the game into the device and walk around with them, earning "watts" in the process. Another new minigame called the Pokéathlon uses the Nintendo DS touchscreen and allows Pokémon to compete in events such as hurdling. The games also include the GB Sounds, which changes the background music to the original chiptune music from Pokémon Gold and Silver.

In addition, HeartGold and SoulSilver can access the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection to trade, battle, and interact with other players of these games, as well as players of Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum. After completing a special Wi-Fi mission download on Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs, the player can send a Deoxys to HeartGold and SoulSilver.

In the game, you become a young Pokémon trainer who lives in a small town referred to as New Bark Town. At the beginning of the game, you choose either a Chikorita, Cyndaquil, or Totodile as your starter Pokémon from Professor Elm. After performing a delivery for the professor and obtaining a Pokédex from Professor Oak, he decides to let you keep the Pokémon and start you on a journey.