Download Pre-Patched Pokemon Garbage Gold Deluxe NDS ROM Hack
- Creator: sauceyaTTa
- Version: 1.0.2
- Hack of: HeartGold
- Released: August 29, 2025
- Language: English
- Status: Completed
Pokemon Garbage Gold Deluxe is an NDS ROM Hack by sauceyaTTa based on Pokemon Heart Gold in English. And it is now available to download. It was last updated on August 29, 2025.
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Description
Garbage Gold is a HeartGold trashlocke hack built around using only “trashmons”, Pokémon with a base stat total under 425 (with a few exceptions). Many Pokémon either don’t evolve or evolve much later than usual, forcing creative strategies and unconventional team-building. Despite the restrictions, a a variety of Pokémon are available from Gen 1 to 9 including regional forms, making each run unpredictable and replayable.
Your starters? Let’s just say they’re… not great.
Features
- Completely custom battle AI and trainers
- Gauntlets: multi-battle challenges with no healing, weather effects, Trick Room, and item limits
- 420+ custom level-up learnsets, modern moves, and new items (like Eviolite)
- Entirely new overworld using BW2 tiles, with the massive Kanto Wasteland and many new areas
- Brand new post-war Johto storyline, new characters, dialogue, and lore (Shiny Sickness, item drought, etc.)
- Team up with Grovyle and Celebi from PMD: Explorers of Sky
- 25+ custom music tracks, including Mystery Dungeon arrangements
- Pokédex with Pokémon up through Gen 9, including regional forms
- Quality-of-life updates: infinite Rare Candies, Repels, removable HMs, instant text, running shoes from the start
- Extra encounters, wild double battles, level caps for gyms, and nuzlocke-friendly design
- Fully documented trainers, encounters, gauntlets, and movesets
Switch-in AI
The below flowchart shows the AI’s decision-making process when choosing which Pokémon to switch into during battle. Each available party member is evaluated based on factors like whether it can deal damage, outspeed the opponent, survive a hit, or score a knockout. Special cases like Ditto, Wobbuffet, and Wynaut are also considered. Each option is assigned a switch priority score, and the Pokémon with the highest score is selected, ensuring the AI makes smarter, more strategic choices rather than switching at random.

Recommended Emulators
DeSmuMe & MelonDS
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sauceyaTTa
Oh great, level caps…..
What’s the point of playing a game that’s supposed to be challenging if you can just overlevel your team?
Nah bro your totally wrong about it sauceyatta said that the game includes pokemon to gen 1 to 9 generation it means it will include all 1025 pokemons.
didn’t see that many pokemon in the docs so left it at garbage gold’s number. I’ve replaced the number part with pokemon from gen 1-9 for now.
it’s a selection of around 420 mons from gens 1 to 9. the premise of garbage gold is you’re only allowed to use “garbage mons”, so not everything is available whether that be from omission entirely or they’re removed the ability to evolve into it (i.e. you cannot evolve charmeleon to charizard)
What is bro yappin about
who?