Recomp / Games / Nintendo DS
pokeheartgold
Decompilation of Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver for the DS, maintained by pret.
Matching decomp Human-led wipFacts
- Original
- Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver (2009)
- Platform
- Nintendo DS
- Method
- Matching decomp
- Provenance
- Human-led · Started 2021 by a known volunteer team, predating AI coding agents (repository history) what this means
- Status
- wip
- Licence
- none
- Team
- pret
- Started
- 2021-06
- Runs on
- Nintendo DS
- Needs the original
- Yes: you supply your own legally obtained copy
How to get it legally
This project ships code only. Build or download it from the official repository, then supply data from a copy of Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver you own. Recomp never links to ROMs, discs or game data.
This project was decompiled by pret. Facts last checked 2026-10-13.
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