My First Pokémon Difficulty Rom Hack! (Pokémon Twilight Gold)
Hello! I am so excited to finally be able to post about this. For the past 2 and a half years or so on and off I have been developing this game. Using the incredible HG-Engine and learning from the experts of the engine on how to work everything, I have taken base Pokémon Heartgold and made it into a very difficult rom hack. Thanks to the power of HG-Engine this game has ALOT of stuff added. Features will be listed below! Ever since I played Radical Red and Inclement Emerald and Emerald Kaizo I was hooked on the thought of these difficulty hacks as I love a good challenge. As of right now there are a few things still missing from the game I'd still like to complete. Those are editing some more Pokémon level up movesets, making the move reminder availble earlier and getting the Rotom form changing machines working in a spot in Johto and also changing the title screen art to say Twilight Gold. Otherwise this hack is fully completable up to the end of the Pokémon League. Kanto has not been touched yet but will for sure be done at some point down the line! I am also still putting out patches/updates out all the time for random bugs and things I didnt find well play testing. This has been a true passion project of mine and something I have put hundreds of hours into easily. There are so many cool fights and fights that will make you wanna rip your hair out sometimes lol. But there are also so many cool Pokémon Changes that I'm sure people will like and find interesting. Everything about this game has been fully documented, Pokémon types and stat changes, wild encounters, Poke marts, A trainer document and a few more documents. If your like me and can't get enough of the hard difficulty hacks cause it tickles your brain the right way you will enjoy this for sure. Below I have some pictures of some random fights as well as a link to the discord server where you can get the patch to download for the game. I love watching people play the game in voice chat so if you are bored and get in vc and play it there is a high chance I will meet you! I'm always looking for (respectful and kind) feedback and love to hear new ideas. Thank you for your time I hope you have a wonderful day and I hope to see you there! (PS if your just also a big nerd for Pokémon or rom hacks or rom hacking in general you will fit right in!) (=
-All Pokémon available from gens 1-9 other then most legendarys, mythicals, and ultra beasts (For now, they will be available in Kanto)
-Fairy type added ofc
-All Gym leaders have a team of 6 and all trainers in the game up to the Pokémon League have been edited and upgraded
-Easily accessible evolution items and other competitive items and EV training abilities in the game
-Lots of evolutions have been changed to make them easier to obtain or changed there level when they evolve to be lower (Removed Friendship Evolutions completely)
-A TON of cool Pokemon changes and type changes (To name a few) Charizard Fire/Dragon, Blastoise Water/Steel, Rapidash Fire/Fairy, Meganium Grass/Fairy, Feraligatr Water/Dragon, Bellossom Grass/Fire, Grumpig Psychic/Poison, Flygon Bug/Dragon, Banette Ghost/Normal, Zebstrika Electric/Normal. There is alot more but if you are interested you can always check the Type Changes document that is posted in the discord server.
-Mega Evolutions are in the game as well and can be obtained right before the 4th gym. (No megas from ZA tho sorry)
-Little side note this is NOT a game I would recommend nuzlocking. Do I think it's possible. Yes! But the early game would be brutal and there is a few end game fights that are pretty ridiculous. This is meant to be a Radical red style just with no story changes and just pure focus on the difficulty not really nuzlocking capabilities. (I still think it would be super cool to be seen done but I think the early game would definitely need to be nerfed and a few other things)
-All the trainers on the 2 routes before Victory road are all teams made by 1 friend each per trainer. (I didn't feel like I needed to move them into Victory Road as I'm okay with the rival fight being the only fight in there)
-Hard level caps are to be added! They are just giving me a royal pain in the butt to put them in and get them working lol. But there is a document with the level caps that will be in place so I would highly recommend following that as a guide when playing to get the more intended experience
-Rare Candys are purchasable at Poke Marts for a dollar each as I strongly believe grinding is giga cringe (First Poke mart to have them is The Cherrygrove City Poke Mart once you get poke balls
-Another thing I feel is required to mention is it is not perfect. It is absolutely possible you encounter some bugs well playing. My recommendation is just to always save often and you will be okay! And as I stated earlier I am still very actively pushing out bug fixes all the time to make the game better and more stable!
-Shiny odds have been increased to 1/2048
Thank you very much for your time! I hope you enjoy and I hope you have a wonderful day!
DISCORD LINK: https://discord.gg/r4uzSBc8cd
If your not interested in joining the server or just don't use discord here is the google drive link that has the patch file as well as all the documentation! (But I'd def prefer you join the discord as I love seeing people play the game lol) (=
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1RCtKNaii3U_TK9c9GSjEwuQVTAs6GBWt?usp=sharing