Help :D

[ecstasy]

I'm gonna buy either HeartGold or SoulSilver but I haven't played Pokemon for YEARS so I have no idea what the difference between them are. I've seen threads about trading as well so if someone could explain how that works that'd be helpful, and the Pokewalker, what does that do? So yeah, those questions and how are the two games different?
+rep xox

[Feep]

Trading
Ok I havn't traded as of yet, because nobody I know is sad enough to buy pokemon. But trading from DS to another DS you just have to be close to somebody. When your trading over Wi-Fi you have to have their friend code I think.

Differences
There arn't any differences in the game play it's pretty much the same, but there are a list of pokemon you can't get on both games.

Heres a list of pokemon you can't catch in heart gold:
Vulpix
Ninetales
Meowth
Persian
Ledyba
Ledian
Delibird
Skarmory
Teddiursa
Ursaring
Mawile
Gulpin
Swalot
Groudon

And the poke'walker works like a Pedometer it counts how many steps you make and the pokemon walks the same. Getting into battles, finding things, as it walks. I havn't used it as of yet, but will probably use it when I next play football.

I hope I helped

[ecstasy]

very helpful, cheers +rep

[Stefy09]

you get things called watts when you use the pokewalker and can use the watts to find pokemon or items (it's on the menu, I think 10 watts if you wanna find a pokemon and 3 watts for an item)

[Stitch]

Version exclusive Pokemon:
http://serebii.net/heartgoldsoulsilver/exclusives.shtml

On HeartGold you can catch Ho-Oh earlier in the game than in SoulSilver (at level 45) but you have to wait until you get to Pewter City in Kanto (After beating the Elite Four) to catch Lugia (at level 70).
On SoulSilver you can catch Lugia earlier in the game than HeartGold (at level 45) but you have to wait until you get to Pewter City in Kanto (After beating the Elite Four) to catch Ho-Oh (at level 70).

You can find a load more information at http://serebii.net/heartgoldsoulsilver/ (Links down the right side of the page for different topics about the games)

[ecstasy]

thanks. repped you both