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, Pokemon 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. 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 recommend for you.
With the growing popularity of DS rom hacking, here we have collected all good Pokemon DS Rom hack games that you can play on your computer or mobile phones.
Pokemon Nintendo DS ROM Hacks List
| Hack Name | ROM Base | Download |
|---|---|---|
| Pokemon Light Platinum DS | HeartGold | Download here |
| Pokemon Heart Red | HeartGold | Download link or here |
| Pokemon Moon Black 2 | Black 2 | Download link |
| 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 |
| Pokemon Moon Black 2 | Pokemon Black 2 | 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.
The application called xdelta is commonly used to patch NDS rom hacks. When applying a patch, you need two files, the original ROM file, and rom hack patch file.
Phil says
January 13, 2019 at 9:28 AMIs these games already completed or in development?
PokemonCoders says
January 14, 2019 at 5:32 AMMost of these are still under development or abandoned.
Vaibhav Kumar says
January 11, 2019 at 9:03 PMcan you bring a game of pokemon x and pokemon y on nintendo ds emulator with graphics of pokemon black 2
please!
kismet says
December 23, 2018 at 9:13 AMhi, which among these has gen6 pokemon? and which ones have fakemon?
Zexel says
December 5, 2018 at 9:28 AMWhat emulator works best here? I have DesMuMe, but that seems to be incooperable.
PokemonCoders says
December 5, 2018 at 11:36 AMDeSmuME 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 says
November 13, 2018 at 4:31 AMThe 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 says
November 22, 2018 at 11:45 PMSince 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 says
December 24, 2018 at 12:16 PMIt 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 says
July 26, 2018 at 9:33 PMAwesome!! Is there any of this list that you recommend playing most?
PokemonCoders says
July 26, 2018 at 9:52 PMI recommend playing Pokemon Light Platinum DS and Moon Black 2.
mael santos says
July 17, 2018 at 10:57 AMcould 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 says
July 17, 2018 at 7:01 PMHello Mael, sorry but I don’t make rom hacks, I just post in my website what I found interesting 🙂