Pokemon rom hacking has truly gone extra miles these days. Although most rom hacks are on the Game Boy Advance, more and more rom hackers are taking a new step by creating amazing Pokemon DS Rom Hacks.
As compared to Pokemon rom hacks created for Game Boy Advance or Game Boy Color, Nintendo DS games are incredibly spectacular with its futuristic features and decent looking design making it more appealing to users to play either on a desktop or mobile devices.
Even though DS emulators are widely available on desktop and mobile, Pokemon DS games are way more difficult and challenging to modify just the same with Nintendo 3ds and Nintendo switch games. This explains why there are only a few of these Pokemon Nintendo DS ROM hacks are available.
How to Play Pokemon Nintendo DS ROM Hacks
If you have experienced playing Pokemon GBA ROM hacks there’s almost nothing has changed, but only the emulator as well as the method for patching the rom hack to your Pokemon DS base game. For Windows users, we recommend using DeSmuME, for Mac OS users you may use OpenEmu, for iOS there’s iNDS, and lastly for Android users, DraStic DS Emulator is what we highly recommend for you.
With the growing popularity of DS rom hacking, we have collected all good Pokemon DS Rom hack games that you can play on your computer or mobile phones.
Note: No need for a wi-fi connection to play any of these games.
Pokemon Nintendo DS ROM Hacks List
| Hack Name | ROM Base | Download |
|---|---|---|
| Pokemon Moon Black 2 | Pokemon Black 2 | Download link |
| Pokemon Light Platinum DS | HeartGold | Download here |
| Pokemon Heart Red | HeartGold | Click here or here |
| Pokemon Blaze Black | Pokémon Volt White | Black | White | Download link |
| Pokemon Blaze Black 2 | Pokémon Volt White 2 | Black | White | Download link or here |
| Pokemon Sacred Gold & Storm Silver | HeartGold | SoulSilver | Download link |
| Pokemon Omega Paradox | White | Download link |
| Pokemon Hoenn White | White | Download link |
| Pokemon Diamond Sun and Moon | Diamond | Download link |
| Pokemon SunGold & MoonSilver | HeartGold | SoulSilver | Download link |
| Pokemon DarkDiamond | Diamond | Download link |
| Pokemon Perfect Heart & Perfect Soul | HeartGold | SoulSilver | Download link |
| Pokemon Perfect Platinum | Pokemon Platinum | Download link |
| Pokémon MindCrystal | SoulSilver | Download link |
| Pokemon Renegade Platinum | Pokémon Platinum Version | Download now |
| Pokemon Bloody Platinum | Pokemon Platinum | Download link |
Patching DS ROM Hacks
Patching a Pokemon Nintendo DS rom hack is relatively straightforward. Usually, the game author attaches a readme instructions file with the rom hack patch file and instructions on how to play the game. You can also find tutorials on Youtube on how to patch a DS rom hack.
Note: You can’t patch a DS rom hack on Mobile devices, you need a computer to achieve the patching process.
The application called Xdelta is commonly used for patching NDS rom hacks. When patching DS rom hacks, you need three kinds of files; the original Pokemon DS ROM file, rom hack patch file and lastly a rom patcher app.
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Goldfire345
You actually can patch ds Roms on mobile at least on Android with an app called rom patcher
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xperia64.rompatcher
PokemonCoders
This app has potential, I haven’t tried using it yet I see a quite good amount of positive reviews. I’m gonna look into this android app.
##Mega--
Where is Pokemon mind crystal in this?
PokemonCoders
Just added Pokemon MindCrystal in the link, thanks for the letting us know about this game.
Anonymous
Pokemon sword and shield
Carlos
Moon Silver and Sun Gold are based on StormSilver and SacredGold respectively, which have some interesting adds to the base story and some changes in type matchups. In average, very Good Hacks. I don’t like what they did to Sceptile in Sp. Atk tough…
Phil
Is these games already completed or in development?
PokemonCoders
Most of these are still under development or abandoned.
Vaibhav Kumar
can you bring a game of pokemon x and pokemon y on nintendo ds emulator with graphics of pokemon black 2
please!
kismet
hi, which among these has gen6 pokemon? and which ones have fakemon?
Zexel
What emulator works best here? I have DesMuMe, but that seems to be incooperable.
PokemonCoders
DeSmuME works best for DS rom hacks, in what case incooperable? We have created an article for the list of Best DS Emulators for PC that you might wanna check if you’re looking for an alternative to DesMuMe.
Ash
The light platinum NDS version doesn’t show up in my Drastic, and I paid for the full version….. yet I can find the file on MyBoy emulator? What gives?
Jayzed
Since you are using android, you need to use a files app like the native file explorer or ES to move the rom’s file location, basically just cutting and pasting it into your Drastic folder.
Anonymous
It should show up no matter what directory or location the rom hack is, or maybe that’s just because im using a different phone or drastic ds version… or something like that.
Tyler
Awesome!! Is there any of this list that you recommend playing most?
PokemonCoders
I recommend playing Pokemon Light Platinum DS and Moon Black 2.
mael santos
could you please make a gen 4 type pokemon emerald?
i kinda miss playing pokemon emerald.
and i havent played omega ruby or saphire..
thank you,
p.s.
i had played all your games and they’re really good.
PokemonCoders
Hello Mael, sorry but I don’t make rom hacks, I just post in my website what I found interesting 🙂