soullinked.io

Getting started

From an invite code to your first run, in a few minutes, with nothing to install.

Before you start

  • A current desktop browser, and a keyboard or a gamepad.
  • Your own copy of the run’s game, Pokémon Emerald (USA/Europe) or Pokémon FireRed (USA), dumped from a cartridge you own. Soullinked never provides game files.
  • An invite code. Soullinked is invite-only during the closed alpha: ask for one in our Discord.

1. Create your account

Choose Get started, then pick a username, a password and a color, and enter your invite code.

You sign in with that username and password from any browser. Your username is also the name friends see on boards, until you change how it shows in your settings.

2. Start a run

  • Play solo starts a run for one, right away.
  • Host a run creates a lobby with a five-character code to share. You choose the rule settings before launch.
  • Join takes a friend’s code and puts you in their lobby.

When everyone is ready, the host launches the run.

3. Play

Choose Play on the run’s page. The first time, pick your file of the run’s game: Soullinked checks it and keeps it in your browser, on your computer, so it is never uploaded. If the file isn’t a clean copy, or isn’t the game the run plays, it tells you what’s wrong.

Soullinked then builds your game (randomized, if the run is) and starts it in the page. From there, the rules take over. Your game saves as you play, and switching to another tab pauses it.