Guides for the Pokémon games Nintendo never made
Legendary locations, Pokédex checklists, Hard mode gym teams, and help picking which ROM hack to play next. Every guide is written after finishing the game.
Pokémon SoulGold
Johto, expanded. 702 Pokémon, every Mega, boss legendaries.
Pokémon Unbound
A new region, five difficulty modes, a full Battle Frontier.
Best ROM hacks
Rankings and comparisons for picking your next game.
Latest guides
Browse all guides SoulGold Guide SoulGold Battle Tower, Rocket Arcade, Battle Café and Pyramid: how each works Where the SoulGold Battle Tower, Rocket Arcade, Battle Café and Vajra Pyramid are, what each pays, what to buy, plus Title Defense and gym rematches. v1.2.1, updated October 25, 2026 SoulGold FAQ Best emulator for SoulGold: mGBA, Delta, iPhone and the inaccurate emulator screen Use mGBA for SoulGold. What the inaccurate emulator screen means, playing on Delta, iPhone and Android, fixing crashes, and moving your save to a new version. v1.2.1, updated October 25, 2026 SoulGold Guide SoulGold EV training, EXP farming and money farming EV train with vitamins and power items, farm EXP with the Exp. Share, Candy Jar and Kitakami's Audino trainer, and farm money with Pickup, Yanma and the Arcade. v1.2.1, updated October 25, 2026 SoulGold Guide SoulGold evolution guide: trade evolutions, Linking Cord and tricky evolutions How SoulGold evolution works, with the Linking Cord for trade evolutions, the three location evolutions, and how to get Annihilape, Hydrapple and Gholdengo. v1.2.1, updated October 25, 2026 SoulGold Reference SoulGold evolution stones and items: where to get every one Where to get every evolution stone and evolution item in SoulGold, from the Linking Cord on Route 38 to the Indigo Plateau mart, and what each one evolves. v1.2.1, updated October 25, 2026 SoulGold Reference HM locations in SoulGold: where to get Surf, Fly, Strength, Waterfall, Rock Climb and Dive Where every HM is in SoulGold, Cut through Dive, and how HMs work here: no move slot, just the HM and the badge. Fly straight from the Pokégear map. v1.2.1, updated October 25, 2026
How these guides are made
SoulGold and Unbound guides come from finished playthroughs, checked against each game's official documentation, and every page names the patch it was checked against. Games we have not finished appear only in rankings and comparisons, and those pages say so. We link to creators' official pages and never to game files.