The suspicious red-haired character from New Bark Town will come up and challenge you to your first trainer battle. The ability to decorate the player's room, a feature introduced in the original Gold and Silver, is absent. In addition to asking for a specific Pokémon, it was also possible to set certain demands on this Pokémon, namely its Gender and a specific Level range. The clock reset interface from the original Pokémon Gold and Silver was removed, as was the case with Pokémon Crystal.

This pedometer accessory was bundled with the games, and features different ways to interact with them. Poison/Flying-type Zubat is a pretty weak Pokemon on its own, but it's final evolution is rather useful, so you might want one. Many Pokémon have acquired the ability to learn new moves and expand and improve their movesets; for example, Togepi can now learn Extrasensory through breeding. This is the opposite of the international releases of Gold, which swapped Phanpy and Donphan for Teddiursa and Ursaring as exclusive Pokemon. Similar to Pokémon Crystal, the legendary beasts can be caught from the moment the player sees them fleeing in the Burned Tower, with the exception of Suicune who can only be encountered in battle at Route 25, instead of at the Bell Tower.After players of the Generation V games have completed the main game, they are able to access the Poké Transfer building on Route 15. May have some underlining and highlighting of text and some writing in the margins, but there are no missing pages or anything else that would compromise the readability or legibility of the text.

Similar to the event Shaymin and Regigigas in Platinum, two in-game events are unlocked through the use of event-exclusive Pokémon. When the player flies to another town, the music does not change until the player is done with the flying instead of while the player is flying. After clearing all of the Team Rocket members and defeating the Team Rocket executives, effectively disbanding them, the player receives either a Rainbow Wing to encounter Ho-Oh or a Silver Wing to encounter Lugia, in HeartGold and SoulSilver, respectively. The five Kimono Girls from the Dance Theater in Ecruteak City now have a significant role in the game.

These are the first games in which major characters offer their Pokémon for trade with the player, with Gym Leaders Brock, Lt. The Seafoam Islands main cave (which was unavailable in Generation II) uses the same theme as the Ice Path.

HeartGold and SoulSilver, as well as Gold and Silver, have Gym Leader or Elite Four specialists for every type that existed at the time except the Ground type. Whichever character you don't choose will become a recurring non-playable character, much like in Ruby/Sapphire/Emerlad and Diamond/Pearl/Platinum.

When you're ready, go to the road that the old man pointed out; he'll run up, give you the Map expansion card for your PokeGear, and then you can leave. The games were also released in Japan almost exactly one year after the Japanese release of Pokémon Platinum, and exactly eleven years after Pokémon Yellow, the first game to feature walking Pokémon. This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees. They play the Poké Flute Station on their radio which awakens and angers the Pokémon, a giant Snorlax.