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Pokémon HeartGold Version for Nintendo DS
Pokémon HeartGold Version for Nintendo DS takes you to Johto, where Professor Elm entrusts you with your first Pokémon. From New Bark Town, you travel through villages, forests and caves to catch wild Pokémon and build your own team. In turn-based battles, you choose moves according to type, power and the risk of a counterattack. The Gym Leaders provide the first major tests on your way to the Pokémon League. Meanwhile, Team Rocket reappears, and the region needs more than just sporting victories.
The Pokémon at the front of your party visibly follows you and can react to its surroundings along the way. The Touch Screen provides quick access to your Bag, team and Pokédex. The Pokégear lets you check the map and use the phone and radio. After entering the Hall of Fame, you can travel on to Kanto and challenge other Gym Leaders there. You do not need a Pokéwalker for the main adventure; this optional pedometer accessory is not included with this loose cartridge.
Locally, you can trade Pokémon or have a battle with another player. You each need your own DS system and your own cartridge of HeartGold, SoulSilver, Platinum, Diamond or Pearl; not every additional feature works between all versions. The original internet features using Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection have ended. You save your adventure using the save option in the game menu.
Region and language
Our Nintendo DS games are European editions, unless stated otherwise. This product contains a loose cartridge for the European market. A box is only included if explicitly stated in the product details. We note any different region in the product details. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
With Pokémon HeartGold Version for Nintendo DS, you receive a loose cartridge. A box and manual are not included unless we explicitly state otherwise in the product details. This is the standard way we supply this copy.
The history of Pokémon HeartGold Version
Game Freak developed Pokémon HeartGold Version as a new version of Pokémon Gold, alongside its companion release SoulSilver. The DS games appeared in Japan in 2009; Nintendo released them in Europe on 26 March 2010. Johto thus returned on a handheld two hardware generations ahead of the Game Boy Color. Director Shigeki Morimoto had already worked as a programmer on the original Pokémon Red and Green and now led this return to an earlier region.
The team wanted to preserve memories of Gold and Silver while letting players who had joined the series later discover a new adventure. Game Freak therefore used more than just the old setting as its foundation, also incorporating developments from Diamond, Pearl and Platinum. The two screens changed how menus and collection displays were controlled. Having a Pokémon walk alongside outside its ball also made the bond between Trainer and teammate visible while exploring, not just during battles.
The original retail package included a Pokéwalker. This pedometer built on Nintendo's experience with activity meters and connected to the game cartridge through infrared. Walking could thus provide experience points, items and new encounters outside the DS adventure. HeartGold combined that physical expansion with the established trading tradition and the internet connection of its time. Nintendo ended Wi-Fi Connection on 20 May 2014; local wireless communication and the single-player adventure are separate from that discontinued service.
Similar games for Nintendo DS
Pokémon SoulSilver Version for Nintendo DS follows the same journey through Johto and Kanto, with the same turn-based battles and a Pokémon following behind you. Differences include which species you find along the way and how often they appear. Ho-Oh occupies a different position in HeartGold's progression from Lugia in SoulSilver. You are therefore choosing between two closely related adventures, not between a short story and a long one.
Pokémon Platinum Version on Nintendo DS uses the same foundations of catching, training and choosing moves in turns, but takes place in Sinnoh. Giratina plays a central role there in the Distortion World, where paths and gravity change unexpectedly. HeartGold instead takes you back to Johto and later Kanto. Platinum places its own story emphasis on Team Galactic; HeartGold follows Team Rocket's regrouping and lets your teammate constantly walk alongside outside its ball.
Pokémon Diamond Version for Nintendo DS also starts with choosing a partner and collecting badges. However, you explore Sinnoh with Turtwig, Chimchar or Piplup as your possible starter, while HeartGold begins with the Johto generation. Diamond introduced many of the DS features that HeartGold built upon, including selecting moves on the Touch Screen. The region, storyline and visible Pokémon behind the Trainer then give HeartGold a different day-to-day journey.
Pokémon Black Version on Nintendo DS moves the series to Unova, with a new group of Pokémon and Team Plasma as the enemy. Changing seasons alter its landscape and certain encounters. HeartGold focuses on returning to two familiar regions and on familiar species from earlier generations. Both call for a team with different move types, but Black introduces you to a different Pokémon world during its main story.
Pokémon Ranger: Shadows of Almia for Nintendo DS uses familiar Pokémon in a very different kind of adventure. You draw loops around a creature with the stylus to enlist its temporary help with missions and obstacles. HeartGold lets you train a lasting team and give commands in turn-based battles. The similarity lies in making use of different abilities; in Ranger, the execution revolves around drawing movements and providing help in Almia.
