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Pok\u00e9mon FireRed and LeafGreen are coming to Nintendo Switch next week to celebrate the series 30th anniversary. And while The Pok\u00e9mon Company and Nintendo have already answered a number of questions about the releases that probably shouldn’t have been necessary to ask to begin with, there’s one question we still don’t know the answer to: Will these games be compatible with Pok\u00e9mon Home?<\/p>\n
For the non-Pok\u00e9nerds out there, Pok\u00e9mon Home is a cloud-based, paid subscription service that allows users to store Pok\u00e9mon from various games, as well as move them between certain compatible games. The service has been directly compatible with every new Pok\u00e9mon game on the Nintendo Switch, as well as Pok\u00e9mon GO, and it also works with Pok\u00e9mon Bank, a similar program that existed on the 3DS. The explanations and rules are a bit convoluted, but essentially, it’s only through Bank and Home that Pok\u00e9mon from older games such as Red\/Blue\/Yellow and Gold\/Silver\/Crystal (in their Virtual Console on Nintendo 3DS incarnations) can be brought forward to modern games.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\nAs a result, with some finagling, Pok\u00e9mon fans can essentially bring a beloved monster from any mainline Pok\u00e9mon game they’ve ever played (except the original Game Boy cartridges for Red\/Blue\/Yellow and Gold\/Silver\/Crystal) to Pokemon Home and, if it’s compatible, transfer it for use into a modern game and continue their adventures. It’s been a cool way for collectors to track their Pok\u00e9Dexes, and for long-time fans to keep beloved monsters from their childhoods by their side as adults.<\/p>\n
The original FireRed and LeafGreen are compatible with Home in this way too, though the process is, as suggested above, a bit complicated. In order to get Pokemon OUT of FireRed and LeafGreen into Home, you first have to use the Pal Park feature to transfer them to Diamond, Pearl, or Platinum using a Nintendo DS system. Then, you have to use the Poke Transfer Lab (which requires two Nintendo DS systems) to move them from that game to Pok\u00e9mon Black, White, Black 2, or White 2. From there, you can move them into Pok\u00e9mon Bank on a Nintendo 3DS, and then from Bank they can be transferred to Home. It’s convoluted, but it’s possible.<\/p>\n
If Pok\u00e9mon FireRed\/LeafGreen on Nintendo Switch are compatible with Home directly, players can skip all that and bring monsters directly from those games into Home without having to own three different DS systems and multiple old game cartridges. However, players are concerned that this may not be the case. Earlier today, when the eShop page went live for FireRed and LeafGreen, it initially included the line, “Support for Pok\u00e9mon HOME is coming soon. You’ll be able to bring the Pok\u00e9mon you catch and train to the place where all Pok\u00e9mon gather-support for Pok\u00e9mon HOME is coming to Pok\u00e9mon FireRed\/LeafGreen Version!\u201d However, fans noticed that line was almost immediately removed, leaving the compatibility up in the air.<\/p>\n
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The lack of compatibility would be irritating enough if it was just a matter of convenience, but it’s actually possible that Home not being available could cause issues with the gameplay itself. FireRed and LeafGreen are remakes of the original Pokemon games Red and Green. Players are thus able to complete the “Kanto” Pok\u00e9Dex just by playing them and trading a few monsters back and forth with a friend who has the other version of the game. Though online<\/em> features are apparently not available in these Switch ports (even though they were in the 3DS ports of Red\/Blue\/Yellow and Gold\/Silver\/Crystal!), local<\/em> trading is, so that’s not the problem.<\/p>\nWhat is<\/em> the problem is the National Dex. In FireRed\/LeafGreen, the “National Dex” was, at the time, the “full” Pokedex, containing all 151 original Pokemon as well as all new Pokemon added in the second generation (Gold\/Silver\/Crystal) and third (Ruby\/Sapphire\/Emerald). The National Dex unlocks in FireRed\/LeafGreen’s post-game, and with it comes the ability to catch many of these Pok\u00e9mon in the wild in-game. However, not every Pok\u00e9mon is available. The Johto and Hoenn starter Pok\u00e9mon, legendaries like Mew, Celebi, and Jirachi, and dozens of others were only obtainable back in the day by trading from Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, Colosseum, or XD. And none of those games are currently available on Nintendo Switch in a way that would be locally compatible for trade with FireRed\/LeafGreen.<\/p>\nWhich means that, upon release, FireRed\/LeafGreen will not be completeable, at least not in the 100% sense, because the National Dex will be impossible to fill out. While that probably won’t bother most casual players, it’s a pretty notable oversight, especially given that the releases of other classic games on Virtual Console on 3DS seemed so well thought-out.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\nNow, it’s entirely possible this is a lot of hullabaloo over nothing. Maybe the games are <\/em>compatible with Home and Nintendo was just cleaning up language on the eShop page a bit. Maybe Home compatibility is coming in a few weeks or months, and Nintendo didn’t want to set expectations too early. Maybe we’re about to get an announcement of Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald on Nintendo Switch Online next week, and they’ll be compatible locally. Maybe Colosseum and XD are coming to Switch Online (Nintendo has already teased them!), though these two games alone wouldn’t canvas all the missing Pokemon. Maybe there’s some other explanation! But it’s weird that given Nintendo’s extensive FAQ, they didn’t address this glaring issue specifically. IGN reached out to both Nintendo and The Pok\u00e9mon Company today to try and find out what the deal was. The Pokemon Company declined to comment, and we didn’t hear back from Nintendo in time for publication.<\/p>\nEven if neither company Koffings up an answer soon, we’ll know more next week when the games actually launch and as the dust settles from Pok\u00e9mon Day and all its announcements. Regardless, the rollout of FireRed and LeafGreen on Switch has been real weird<\/em>, especially in light of past efforts to preserve classic Pok\u00e9mon games. Only Nintendo and The Pok\u00e9mon Company knows why they don’t just dump all these things on Switch Online and make the people happy.<\/p>\nRebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. Got a story tip? Send it to rvalentine@ign.com.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\nRead Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon FireRed and LeafGreen are coming to Nintendo Switch next week to celebrate the series 30th anniversary. And while The Pok\u00e9mon Company and Nintendo have…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[4184,1251,2924,16261,469,2497,16262,2245,4304,2879,1437,1131],"class_list":["post-30549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-compatible","tag-fans","tag-finish","tag-firered","tag-home","tag-impossible","tag-leafgreen","tag-making","tag-pokedex","tag-pokemon","tag-wont","tag-worried","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}