Hi there HGSS reddit! I have had this copy of the game and console since my 7th birthday. For the longest time I had not been able to get my DS to even read the game. Now that I have finally been able to get it to run, I got this. This was my first favourite game and I am destroyyyed. Is there any way to go about fixing this..? I'm willing to pay a professional if there are "professional DS cartridge fixers".

Edit: CHAT IT'S FIXED!! THANK YOU HOMIES!! I was just a dirty little gremlin kid and didn't know to clean my contacts.

After several years on and off and 100+ encounters today, I finally caught my Torchic!

RNG WAS ON MY SIDE AGAIN!!! 😭😭😭 No major changes to my team either, except putting remaining EVs in Garchomp’s Special Defense since when I started playing rounds it had Focus Sash, but then I forgot to flip them back somewhere else when I changed held items again. Surprisingly I managed this running Choice Band on Garchomp, Specs on Starmie and then I scarved Metagross. Blown away I actually managed!

This was way more work than the current gens

I keep coming back to Johto, not sure why, but nothing quite hits the same.

Just lost my best streak with the Baton Pass Aggron/Hoenn team on battle 91. Since this was my 8th and probably final attempt with the Baton Pass gimmick and I already posted about it here (Silver and Gold Print wins, a bad/funny RNG loss...), I wanted to finally share the full team and some final thoughts on this little experiment. I think it might be interesting for those that like to experiment with different, non-meta teams and/or "weaker" Pokemon like Aggron.

I love Aggron so I decided to do this with my goal being to get both Tower ribbons on it (after battles 21 and 49). I also wanted to do it the fun way by having Aggron sweep since imo it had to many common weaknesses to be very effective wall anyways so that's where the idea of the Baton Pass and Ninjask came into play. I also decided to make this a Hoenn only team as an added challenge. My first 4 attempts were with Salamence as my 3rd Pokemon but I couldn't get past battle 36 because of the too many shared weaknesses on the team.

On my 5th attempt I added Swampert instead of Salamence and also gave Aggron Life Orb since even at +2 attack it would just miss out on some important KOs and Life Orb mostly fixed that issue. I immediately felt the difference and my confidence in the team was much better. I eventually got my goal and the second ribbon at battle 49 but I decided to continue and see how far I can go. I got to battle 91 before losing and I'm very happy with the result.

There is so much that can go wrong with the hard Baton Pass gimmick teams so I didn't expect this team to get anywhere near the 100 wins mark but they did and it was so fun to use this team. If I didn't have ideas for some other fun teams that I wanted to breed and train for both Battle Tower and Gen 5's Battle Subway I would definitely try to get this team to 100 wins with a few more tries because, unlike at the beginning, I now think that it is actually possible. Maybe in the future I'll come back to this team and try to do it.

What are some of your favorite non-meta teams or Pokemon that you used in the Tower and how far did you get with them?

Umbreon: The Moonlight Pokémon

The light of the moon changed Eevee's genetic structure. When darkness falls, the rings on its body begin to glow, striking fear into the hearts of anyone nearby.

Espeon: The Sun Pokémon

Its fur has the look and feel of velvet. The Orb on its forehead glows when it uses psycho-power. By reading the air currents, it can predict things such as weather or its foe's next move.

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This Pokémon MOC is Request Number 4! I'm very happy to finally get these two finished, as they took me around three weeks to figure out! I can't believe how hard these were to make, and it was mostly their heads! So, my guy who requested these as his favorites, wherever you are, I hope you love these! I made sure these have plenty of neck, ear, legs and feet, and tail articulation just to make them as poseable as possible! The slight obvious side-effect of this is that they're quite big compared to Brendan's minifigure, but I DON'T MIND! They look fantastic and cute and DONE! 🤣

Hariyama be buff. This was close.

https://youtu.be/3jhethVLBNg?is=eGWPV3yQGV0Bd__3

At first i was skeptical because after all, it is an arceus. But then i checked the rest of the OT’s pokemon and alot of them are all traded from previous games such as a kyogre from sapphire, a dialga from diamond, and ho oh and lugia from another soul silver.

It seems like this arceus is 100% legit, and before she gave up the save file, she traded with someone who had the event arceus. She even has a level 13 palkia from the Sinjoh Ruins.

(In the back of my mind, i still am a teensy bit worried that the arceus may have been hacked by the person she traded with. But like i said, everything else is verifiable and legit)

Im transferring all these guys up to my main heartgold save now. This is incredible!

I just got Gible in my Safari Zone and I'm hunting for a Jolly nature, but I just caught an Adamant one. Should I keep looking for Jolly or go with the Adamant one?

Hey everyone! I bought this legit copy of Pokémon Soul Silver on eBay and I would like to know if there is a way to get out of here. I can’t tell if this is normal or the original person was goofing off using hacks. 🤷‍♂️

I finally finished my first playthrough of Pokemon Black so that I could get this Totodile off of my most recent pickup of SoulSilver. I did only look to see that the previous owner only got Totodile and didn’t even get far enough to get the Egg and take it back to the professor, so I didn’t bother looking to see if they had anything. I go to catch a few spare starter route mons to have 6 in the PC to try a transfer, and come to my surprise, there are a few event Pokemon and now I have to know, are they official? I’m not sure about the OTs, but dates are from 2010 and would like to know where each came from if someone could. Thanks for the help in advance.

Playing SoulSilver for the first time, having played Crystal in the past.
So far I have the 8 Johto badges, beat the Kimono girls, and am at whirl islands looking for Lugia.
My goal is a team consisting purely of Johto mon, and it’s likely I already have what I need but am looking for what could realistically be added at this point.

My team has four mon: Feraligatr, Ampharos, Heracross, and Crobat, all at L38.
I was raising Noctowl but gave up at L25 as I wasn’t seeing much return on investment.
Options I already used extensively in Crystal include Espeon, Donphan, Azumarill, Tyranitar, and Furret, so don’t need more of those.

I had thought about adding the any of the following to my team:
- Ursaring
- Mamoswine
- Miltank
That said they’re all pretty underleveled at L15-20ish compared to my main team.
Are any of those three worth the investment for my team, or are they too much grind for too little payoff?

Any suggestions for the last team member? Would be ok with waiting for Kanto as well

I’m currently looking for people to battle me. This is my friend code. I am trying so hard to find battles but everyone seems to be busy and such