Name: Pokemon Gauntlet Gold
Remade by: buggford
Based on: Pokemon Gold
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Pokemon Gauntlet Gold is a GBC ROM Hack and based on Pokemon Gold by buggford. It is vanilla Pokemon Gold, but with difficulty upped by forcing long trainer gauntlets with limited access to healing items. It’s complete in English. You can play Pokemon Gold 97 Reforged if you want to find more good GBC ROM Hack.
How hard can you make a vanilla Pokemon game? Trashlockes are usually the answer to that question, keeping vanilla enemies unchanged while forcing the player to use low-tier encounters.
But what if you want to raise difficulty without changing trainers OR wild Pokemon availability? Gauntlet Gold is an experiment with that idea. It is vanilla Pokemon Gold, but with difficulty upped by forcing long trainer gauntlets with limited access to healing items.
Every route, cave and gym will trap you in until you have cleared every trainer. You can no longer buy potions from marts; what you find on the ground is all you get for healing within gauntlets. Even Indigo Plateau will not sell healing items, so you will want to manage your resources carefully to be able to beat the Elite Four.
Basically, this game is inspired by the resource-management strategies of the ironmon challenge, as well as the gauntlet system used in Garbage Green. Although Gauntlet Gold is easier by design, as it doesn’t also impose a trashlocke. It makes for a fun and fast-paced challenge run.
This game has been designed with level caps in mind. Rare candies are available in every Mart to eliminate grinding, but you will want to be careful to manage your EXP and avoid over-leveling gym leaders.
Level caps
Falkner – 9
Bugsy – 16
Whitney – 20
Morty – 25
Chuck – 30
Pryce – 31
Jasmine – 35
Clair – 40
Elite Four – enter at 47
Kanto gym leaders – 58 (easiest to use Blue’s level cap for all of them)
Red – 77
Changes to note
Gym leaders and other bosses now have a line of vision. They will see you and battle you like other trainers do.
Trade evolutions and friendship evolutions are now level-up evos. Most evolve at level 40, except for Togetic at level 20 and Blissey at level 58. Umbreon and Espeon evolve via Moon Stone and Sun Stone respectively.
Overworld poison damage has been removed.
Escape methods (Escape Rope, Dig, Teleport, etc.) have been disabled.
You can’t fly out of certain routes. You cannot fly out of Blackthorn City, but you CAN fly out of Blackthorn PokeCenter (it will make sense when you get there).
Olivine’s new gym features automatic sandstorm conditions.
Your mother now buys you status-healing berries when she saves your money, to account for the removal of berry trees. Don’t worry, she’ll still buy dolls for your room!
Any farmable source of healing items is removed, and usually replaced with Slowpoketails. Wild Pokemon can no longer hold berries.
The field effects of Milk Drink and Softboiled have been removed.
TMs usually available in Goldenrod Department Store are now only purchasable at the Indigo Plateau mart. The gifted Return and Frustration TMs are replaced with Roar.
Stat EXP (the gen 2 equivalent of EVs) is removed completely.
A word of warning for when Team Rocket take over Radio Tower
Do not fly into Goldenrod City without healing. Once you are there, you are trapped and cannot change your team until the Rocket event is over.
Info on the Kanto postgame
As a bit of a climax for the game, all of Kanto is a gauntlet. There are no PokeCenters in the entire region. Once you board the S.S. Aqua, there is no going back to Johto until you have collected all 16 badges.
You no longer need to have the Radio Card to progress in Kanto. Instead of waking up Snorlax, you can reach Pewter City by entering Mount Moon from Cerulean. The Radio Card is still recommended, however, as the Diglett’s Cave path allows you to skip the Mount Moon Rival battle.
Why Pokemon Gold?
Most gen 2 hacks use Crystal as a base, and with good reason. But this means that the sprites from Gold and Silver rarely get seen, so I wanted to give them some love.
Also, Gold and Silver place some extra limitations on the player to add some difficulty to the game. For example, you cannot access most evolution stones until you reach Kanto.
This game is a GBC ROM Hack! It’s Complete in English! It can be update in the future.
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Gameplay:
Documentations:
Pokemon Gauntlet Gold Cheat Codes
Pokemon Gauntlet Gold Trainer Documentation
Download:
Pokemon Gauntlet Gold 17March (Complete)