Pokémon HeartGold Generations

Gohan's Tips
3 days ago
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Author: spearmintz.

PROGRESS: 05 AUG, 2025 Project Version 1.0 (Completed)

After the positive reception to my first hack, Contemporary Emerald, I wanted to finally release the other hack I've been making, where I've been trying my hands at using the HeartGold upgrade, hg-engine. Much of the community still feels that Gen 4 hacking is miles behind Gen 3, but I wanted to make this hack to showcase some of the features in a tangible and playable way, hopefully leading others to try making some of their own Gen 4 hacks. I introduce, HeartGold Generations, a project featuring Gens 1-9 Pokemon, modern mechanics like nature changing, and other QoL features.

🛑Features:

➡️835 Pokémon from over 400 families, across all 9 generations are available ➡️All Trade-Evolutions and Cross-Generation Evolutions are available

➡️Free Rare Candies to raise weaker wild pokemon

➡️Buyable Nature Mints and Ability Capsules

➡️Free Heart Scales after 7 Gyms for relearning moves

➡️Level-Cap in place to prevent overleveling

➡️Fully functional Mega Evolution

➡️Level curve adjusted slightly to make Gym leaders more relevant

➡️Gym Leaders have slightly altered teams to promote more Johto Pokémon use

➡️Amount of Pokémon and general difficulty/moveset power are identical (Falkner's Pidgey to Hoothoot for example)

➡️Some generic late-game trainers have had their levels boosted to be less irrelevant

➡️Three versions of the hack for those who prefer different features