Gold, Silver, and Crystal Home
Gold, Silver, and Crystal were originally released between 1999 and 2001 for the Game Boy Color. The original cartridges are able to trade and battle with each other, and with the Game Boy games Red, Green, Blue, and Yellow, using the Game Boy Link Cable. They are also able to communicate with the Nintendo 64 game Pokémon Stadium 2 using the Nintendo 64 Transfer Pak.
The games were released again in 2017 and 2018, as digital downloads on the Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console. These versions of the games are also able to trade and battle with each other, as well as the 3DS rereleases of Red, Green, Blue, and Yellow, but are unable to communicate with Pokémon Stadium 2. The 3DS versions of the games are able to send Pokémon (one-way) to the 3DS application Pokémon Bank, from which they can be transferred to the 3DS games Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun, Ultra Moon, and (one-way) the Nintendo Switch/Switch 2 application Pokémon HOME.
The 3DS rerelease of Crystal is particularly notable in that it provides players access to the GS Ball item, allowing players to get Celebi, a Pokémon that is not available in the original cartridge releases without access to long-defunct event distributions.
Gold, Silver, and Crystal have a total of 251 obtainable Pokémon, although some require trading with Red, Green, Blue, or Yellow to obtain.
Subpages
- Johto Locations: A list of all areas in the Johto region, with their encounter tables, items, and Trainers.
- Kanto Locations: A list of all areas in the Kanto region, with their encounter tables, items, and Trainers.
- Pokédex Pages: A collection of pages dedicated to Pokédex completion.
- All Pokémon and their locations: A table containing all available Pokémon and their locations.
- All Pokémon and their games: A table containing all available Pokémon and the games they can be caught in, including Red, Green, Blue, and Yellow.
- Battle Tower: The Battle Tower page here contains a listing of all possible enemy Pokémon.
- Time events: A list of all events tied to a specific time of day or day of the week.
- Move locations: The locations of all TMs, HMs, and Move Tutors.
- Evolutionary item locations: Lists of all obtainable evolutionary items and their locations.
- Poké Ball locations: A list of all Poké Ball locations. This also includes a list of the locations of all Apricorns.
- Hidden item locations: A list of all hidden items and their locations.
- Berry locations: A list of all Berries and their locations.
- Stat booster locations: A list of all stat-boosting items, as well as Rare Candies, and their locations.
- Utility reference: A list of all places where a utility item (an HM, Headbutt, Rock Smash, the Bicycle, the Squirtbottle, or the Pokégear radio) is required to access something.
- Held item locations: Lists of all obtainable held items, excluding Berries, and their locations.
- Trainer held items: A list of all items held by enemy Trainers' Pokémon that can be stolen.
- Wild held items: A list of all Pokémon that can hold items when encountered in the wild, and their items.
- Minimum levels (version 1): A page with lists of the lowest levels you can find Pokémon in Gold, Silver, and Crystal alone.
- Minimum levels (version 2): A page with lists of the lowest levels at which you can have any Pokémon in Gold, Silver, and Crystal, taking into account Pokémon that can be obtained at lower levels by trading with Red, Green, Blue, Yellow, or either Pokémon Stadium game.
- Maximum levels: A page with lists of the maximum level you can find Pokémon in Gold, Silver, and Crystal alone, for Pokémon obtained in the wild, through purchase, or via gift.
Off-site resources
Please contact me if a source has a broken link, if a better version of the source exists, or if you know of a source you want to add.
- IV Calculator, on PycoSites.
- Stat Calculator, on PycoSites.
- Damage Calculator, pre-loaded with all Trainers' Pokémon.
- Shiny Breeding Guide, on Blue Moon Falls.
- Stat Training Guide and Breeding Guide, on Smogon.
- Stat EXP Tracker, on Blue Moon Falls.
- Games and Hardware Guide, on Blue Moon Falls.
- GS Ball Celebi Guide, on Blue Moon Falls.
- Mystery Gift Guide and Calculator, on Blue Moon Falls.
- Transfer Guide for trading Virtual Console Pokémon to Pokémon Bank, on Smogon.
- Living Dex Guide & Tracker, for completing a living dex, on Lyra made a website.
- Capture Mechanics, on The Cave of Dragonflies.
- Catch Rate Calculator, on The Cave of Dragonflies.
- Locations, for an alternate view, on The Cave of Dragonflies.
- Crystal Battle Tower discussion thread, on Smogon.
- Bug-Catching Contest scoring info, on Bulbapedia. Avoid Cooltrainer Nick.
- Headbutt tool, for identifying which trees can house Pokémon from the "rare" groups of Headbutt Pokémon, on TShadowKnight's site.
- Roaming Pokémon mechanics, on Bulbapedia.
- Odd Egg mechanics, on Bulbapedia.
- Daily events, on Bulbapedia.
- Partial list of legal and illegal moves and abilities for Pokémon traded from the Virtual Console to Pokémon Bank, on Smogon.
- Nature guide, for manipulating which nature a Virtual Console Pokémon will have when traded to Pokémon Bank, on Smogon.
- Gen 2 base stats, on Bulbapedia.
- Pokémon movepools, on Bulbapedia.
- Daylight Saving Time Exploit, for increasing the frequency of phone calls, on the Glitch City Wiki.
- Celebi egg glitch, on Bulbapedia.
- Save Converter, on Blue Moon Falls.
- Time change password generator, on Blue Moon Falls.
- Trade simulator, on Blue Moon Falls.
- PCNY event distributor, on Blue Moon Falls.
Credits & sources
- ShinxHijinx, for making scaled-down versions of the Home models, the table colors used, and general layout ideas.
- Inundata Sheets Index by SadisticMystic, which was the source for Crystal Battle Tower movesets.
- Pret disassembly, for encounter tables for Gold and Silver.
- Pret disassembly, for encounter tables for Crystal.
- Bulbapedia, for item and Trainer information for Gold, Silver, and Crystal. I am working on independently verifying all of the information myself as well.