Pokemon Soothing Silver

“Pokemon Soothing Silver” is a Completed NDS Rom Hack made by DracAndre. Experience a fresh, challenging adventure with regional forms, custom shinies, enhanced difficulty, and exciting new features.

Pokemon Soothing Silver Completed NDS ROM Hack

• Creator: DracAndre
• Base ROM: Soul Silver
• Language: English
• Latest Version: v1.4.5
• Last Updated On: November 17, 2025
• Status: Completed

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Description

Pokemon Soothing Silver is a ROM hack of Pokemon Soul Silver that enhances the original experience with new features and improvements. It introduces regional forms, custom shiny Pokemon, and various Quality of Life updates like reusable TMs and early EXP Share. The game also ramps up the difficulty with stronger trainers and Pokemon, making for a more challenging and engaging adventure.

With enhanced Pokemon viability, revamped moves, and new encounters, Pokemon Soothing Silver offers a fresh take on the classic Soul Silver formula while preserving the nostalgic feel. Whether you’re a veteran or new to the game, this hack provides an exciting and polished experience with plenty of surprises along the way.

Story

For the past two years, an unusual phenomenon has been occurring across Johto: Pokemon species have mysteriously started disappearing, only for regional variants of those species to emerge in their place. The appearance of these regional forms has left the people of Johto in a state of confusion and concern. How are these changes affecting the balance between humans and Pokemon? And what greater consequences could this strange occurrence have on the future of the region?

Features

• Regional Pokemon Forms: Some Pokemon have new forms! These include Electrode, Marowak, Exeggutor, Growlithe, Geodude, Sandshrew and More.
• Custom Shinies: 65 new shiny forms, plus a higher shiny rate (1/2048) to make shiny hunting more fun!
• Quality of Life (QOL) Updates:
  • Reusable TMs
  • Move reminders at every Pokemon Center
  • Early EXP Share
  • Grinding Trainer in the old GTS
• New Rival: Gold/Kris can now be battled as a second rival!
• Increased Difficulty: Boss trainers have stronger teams with better moves. Wild Pokemon and trainers have higher levels, starting from the 4th gym. A challenge tougher than vanilla SoulSilver but easier than StormSilver.
• More Pokemon Early On: Gen 1 & 2 Pokemon (except legendaries) are available before the League. Gen 3 & 4 Pokemon unlock after the League.
• Variety in Encounters:
  • Less repetition of Pokemon across routes.
  • New Pokemon, like Elekid, show up early.
  • Gym Leader Morty now has a full ghost squad: Misdreavus, Gengar, Mismagius, and Alolan Marowak.
• Enhanced Pokemon Viability:
  • Pokemon get new moves, abilities, and typings.
  • For example, Yanmega is Dragon-Bug type and Beedrill learns Megahorn at higher levels.
• Improved Moves:
  • Some moves are reworked for better battle use.
  • HMs are now better, like Flash becoming an Electric-type move with priority.
• Easier Evolution: No more impossible evolutions!
• Type Effectiveness Changes:
  • Ice-type is now immune to Ice and resists Water/Ground moves.
• New Events: Find super bosses and legendary Pokemon!
• And more surprises!

Change Log

Version 1.4.5

Bug fixes

• Removed an unused NPC from Route 40 and Viridian City that was causing crashes on
  certain platforms

DeadSkullzJr:

• Made adjustments to the ROM image.

Version 1.4.4

General Changes

• Buffed the power of Razor Wind to 100 bp.
• Removed the cut tree on Route 14 that was blocking off the lucky punch item.
• Magcargo now learns Energy ball via TM.
• Phanpy and Donphan now learn Dig through TM.
• Tropius now learns Razor Wind through level-up.
• Ariados now learns Cross Poison by level-up.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that prevented the activation of the Rock Tunnel Oak’s aide event. If this bug happened to you, please go to the update compatibility in Goldenrod and select 1.4.3.
• Cresselia no longer freezes the game.
• B1f in Mt Mortar froze the game on some emulators, no more.
• Fixed an oversight with the Celadon Kris/ Gold battle.
• Celadon and Saffron city move relearners now work as intended.
• Fixed numerous typos and text formatting errors.

DeadSkullzJr

• Made adjustments to the ROM image.

Version 1.4.3

Misc Changes

• You can now click R on the Pokémon summary screen to view IVs, if clicked again EVs are displayed, once more and normal stats are displayed again
• After using a rare candy you are no longer kicked back to the bag
• Reimplemented the Update compatibility man. This character will make your savefile from old versions pre 1.4, compatible with the current version. However the results might not be perfect and I’d still highly recommend playing 1.4 from the beginning to experience the whole reworked story.

Pokémon Changes

• Added Entei and Raikous new custom shinies
• Elekid, Electabuzz, Electivire, Magnemite, Magneton, Magnezone and Jolteon now learn Volt Switch through TM
• Cyndaquil, Quilava and Thyphlosion now learn flash through ™
• Machoke and Machamp now learn Drain Punch through TM

Move Changes

• Drill peck now has a higher chance to be a critical hit

Bug Fixes

• Evaluating your dex no longer freezes the game 
• Initiating external communications (like the union room) no longer freezes the  game
• The Battle Frontier no longer freezes the game!
• Kimono Girl Moozen no longer freezes the game
• The Ecruteak City and Mahogany town trades no longer disable each other
• Fixed a glitch where using shards to speed up Kurts ball crafting made the player receive no balls
• Pichu now has the correct custom shiny palettes in battle
• Fixed a visual glitch on shiny Meowth and Dialgas backsprites
• Shiny Shadow Lugia and Shiny blaziken now use the correct overworld shiny sprite
• Slaking was mistakenly named Sklaking in some cases
• Fixed a smashable rock which had no interaction in Burnt Tower
• Corrected some typos and reworded parts of the secret lore entries in Rocket Hideout
• The Assembly Plaza rare item seller would sometimes tell players he was selling Protectors while he was actually selling Electirizers

Version 1.4.2

Misc Changes

• Added a bug fix npc in Assembly Plaza specifically to reactivate the Charmander Route 36 event for those who encountered it in 1.4.0

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a glitch that caused held items to not work when playing on TwilightMenu

Version 1.4 – The Shadow Update is finally here!

The main highlights of this update are the additions and modifications to Pokemon Soulsilver’s story. The goal was not to overwrite the original story, but instead enhance it. I hope you enjoy! This update has been in the works for nearly 2 years 🤯

But the story isn’t the only thing that’s changed…

• Shadow Lugia!
• Overhaul the Team Rocket plotline
• Overhaul Kris/ Gold’s character and plotline
• Overhaul the ‘Suicune’ plotline
• General story additions
• New music brought over from Pokemon Platinum and more
• The 2nd wave of Oak’s Aide quests
• More characters
• Brand new overworld events and battles
• More custom shinies
• More regional forms and, other forms
• More Pokemon rebalances/ changes including types, learnsets and abilities
• New Pokemon moves
• Updated sprites
• Updated Titlescreen
• Many many QOL features including;
  • The gen 5 reusable repel feature
  • Updated Pokédex habitats
  • Certain moves can be used as HMs (e.g. Night Slash instead of Cut)
  • Instant HMs
  • Overhauled the Appricorn system
  • Held evo items can now be used instead
  • Better item availability
  • Better trainer variety
  • Better encounter variety
  • Better grinding (Don’t watch too much TV!)
  • Nickname traded Pokemon
  • Improved rewards
• General improved clarity
• Many bug fixes
• And a lot more

What is Max Shiny Rate Version?

Max Shiny Rate Version sets the shiny rate to 1/256! (max shiny odds)

Game Related Stuff

Download Pokemon Soothing Silver

Note: The Max Shiny Rate version is included in the game files along with the normal version; you just need to extract the file to find both versions separately.

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