Pokemon Heart & Soul (Gameboy Advance GBA)
Pokemon Heart & Soul (Gameboy Advance GBA)
Introduction
Pokemon Heart & Soul is a modern reimagining of Johto built on the Modern Emerald decomp. It blends elements of Pokémon Gold, Silver, Crystal, and HeartGold/SoulSilver into a fully completed, faithful-yet-fresh experience. Featuring Gen 3 mechanics, modern quality-of-life updates, and extensive playtesting, Heart & Soul delivers the definitive Johto adventure on GBA.
Features
- Generation 1-3 Pokémon, plus their later gen evolutions (excluding the Regis and Jirachi)
- Full Johto story and Kanto postgame from HGSS, including the Kimono Girls and Eusine
- Following Pokémon
- Overworld background Pokémon allow you to easily see the notable encounters on each route
- Real Time Clock is Static
- Dynamic overworld palettes
- HGSS Music
- Highly varied trainer teams and encounters, based on Crystal Legacy
- HMs do not need to be taught to a Pokémon in order for it to be used
- Apricons replaced with berries, Kurt will use them to make unique Pokéballs
- Timekeeping does not track days of the week, Everything is progression based
- 16 Gym leader rematches
- Two Safari Zones
- Unique surfing Pokémon sprites
- Customizable shiny rate
- Physical/special split is toggleable
- Fairy type is toggleable
- AutoRun and FastSurf are toggleable
- Quick run from wild battles using button combination
- Ball prompts for quick catching
- … and much more!
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This has been one of my favourite Pokémon games to play on the Gameboy Advance, so seeing that it runs on the cartridge made me so happy I can experience this. I enjoy playing rom hacks on the original hardware. And it’s funny to hear ds music coming from a gba speaker.
One of the 3 games received (seaglass) had a dead battery.
Hi Thom,
None of the Pokemon GBA ROM hacks use a battery for saving. They use flash save, so there is no need to worry about a dead battery. The save progress will work without a need for a battery. Please keep in mind that none of the ROM hacks have an RTC. That is by design because using a RTC enabled PCB would more than triple the cost for the customer. That's not an option we want to offer due to the high costs.
It looks great and plays well. The cheats and modes are great. The issues i have is its near impossible to find and/or catch certain pokemon. There are no guides as to where things are and its a mix of original gold and silver and heartgold and soulsilver. So maps, caves and such are a mix of all 4. Also gen 3 pokemon didnt need to be in the game at all. Overall its fairly good. But could be better.
The game is good so far but what surprised me most is the quality of the physical cart, it feels like it will last unlike other repros I have bought in the past from ebay that I have to handle with care lest they break.
The shipping was in incredibly fast. This is my 3rd order from these guys! 10/10 recommend!