Updated my overview: Transfer Pokémon from 2002 to 2024
Updated my overview: Transfer Pokémon from 2002 to 2024
by CengizMan
31 Comments
CengizMan
After almost four years… I updated my Pokémon Transfer visualization and incorporated the feedback that I have received from everyone!
· Updated the layout
· I have added the new Pokémon games
· I have added the the non-transfer capabilities for Pokémon Stadium Pokémon Stadium 2 and Pokémon Battle Revolution
Bear in mind that this graphic entails the transfer process for the PAL region of Pokémon games.
Hope you will enjoy this! Let’s all hope Pokémon Bank stays online for a long, long time. Hoping to complete that Ribbon challenge someday!
Imgur link here: [https://imgur.com/a/tPk8I8n](https://imgur.com/a/tPk8I8n)
KonoPez
Probably the cleanest this labyrinth can possibly be made lol, well done. I’ll be very sad if Bank goes offline and breaks this chain forever:(
Aezorion
Bro as a casual fan, that is a fucking terrible mess
Not your layout, the layout is nice
TheVagabondWinsAgain
I own all the games. Never once transferred a MON. Way too complex and slow. I just build up a new team and Dex each time.
Bosse_blackfrisk1
I have tried it. It works!
InvestigatorUnfair
The fact that all it takes is one app shutting down to block off EVERYTHING before the Switch came out is depressing
All this climbing, all this running around a maze… And then Bank closes its door on your Venusaur
fukuoka_gumbo
Y tho
patosai3211
Ok when you start a transfer process can we splice in the Rube Goldberg machine music that you heard on looney tunes back in the day?
Kayratorvi
It doesn’t really make sense to separate Bank by compatible with SMUSUM and not. It really should be compatible with XYORAS and not because that’s how it actually works. They’re compatible with all 3DS mainline games up until you transfer them to gen 7 even once and then they can’t go backwards to gen 6. Your arrows could stay exactly the same otherwise.
mykelephant
Is it possible to trade pokemon between two red/blue/yellow games, between red/blue/yellow and gold/silver/crystal and between two gold/silver/crystal games with two gameboy advances/sps or can they only be traded with the original gameboy and gameboy colour respectively?
placeface
Still hoping Nintendo releases some universal multi-peripheral that can directly connect Gen 3-7 to a Switch and just allow compatibility of a 3DS connecting to a Switch.
Naltrex
The used to be awesome, when you could have pokemon with rare moves imported from prior games. Gen 9 overwrites them now when you bring them forward.
RIP Articuno with Heal Bell.
amlonelyhooman
You have pokeball + compatible with swsh, didn’t even realise this was a thing, thank you for your hard work
eddietwang
Flowchart I never knew I needed.
Dicethrower
This feels like the xkcd meme about standards.
Boomshockalocka007
So whats the most unique/rare pokemon you can trade from 2002 to 2024?
PikaPerfect
i have my team from when i played pokemon firered for the first time in 2006 or so in pokemon shield at the moment, it was a nightmare to get them there, but the convolution of it all kind of adds to how special they are lol
also this isn’t actually all that horrible of a process after you can put everything in poke transporter, prior to that it is AWFUL having to do it 6 pokemon at a time. i had to have had at least 100 pokemon between my gen 3 and 4 games, and after bringing them all to gen 5, i never want to play that fucking catching minigame ever again
blueblurz94
Yeah I remember this process restarting in the Game Boy Advance era 2 decades ago. It’s kinda amazing you could still have your starter from Ruby/Sapphire in the latest Switch titles.
brokenlampPMW2
I know some people give it a lot of crap but seriously, Home is really really great and was desperately needed.
PM_ME_GARFIELD_NUDES
I don’t know why this is so surprising to some people. It’s honestly impressive that you can transfer pokemon from gen1 at all. They didn’t need to do this for every generation, but they did. I can’t think of any other games with similar transfer/trade systems, let alone any that are this extensive.
NES_Classical_Music
Man, FUCK Game Freak for making this more and more complicated than it ever needed to be, all the while picking our pockets at every step.
politirob
Is there any possible way to get my GB Pokémon red Pokémon’s onto modern Babk?
Dreyfus2006
Do we know what will happen to Bank in April? Will it still function after the 3DS online services shut down?
The_Coolest_Sock
Im so glad Ive traded up every important mon I ever caught from Fire Red to the Bank.
Trainer_NoName
Did they not realize this was such a garbage way to do all this lmao
jboneforpres
Is it possible to still log into bank and get Pokémon out? I have t been able to find it in any of the e-shops.
MagnusBrickson
I am to recall a special award or something if you brought an OG Gen 3 pokemon forward to the ORAS remakes.
Also I had no idea you can import from Go to the mainline games.
McJumpington
Typically you play as a different trainer each game right? So by trading the same Pokémon across multiple games you’re basically telling that Pokémon that it’s a piece of crap and will never have a trainer that wants to keep it.
fvig2001
So besides the emotional attachment, what did people gain from transferring from GB games to the current that cannot be gained in more modern titles?
Common_Condition4859
This has helped me see what pokemon games I’m missing and what generations I missed. Gen 5 completed skipped me by, that’s weird.
PunctualGuy
Can anyone tell me why exactly they replaced Pokemon Bank with Pokemon Home? I remember when it came out, they were like, “you’ll be able to keep your Pokemon here forever,” and then a few years later they went, “actually, nevermind, use this instead.”
As a software dev myself, I’m guessing there’s something intrinsic about Bank that made it incompatible with what they wanted to do with the series moving forward (maybe making it work with smartphone apps like Pokemon Go?), but that’s just me speculating.
31 Comments
After almost four years… I updated my Pokémon Transfer visualization and incorporated the feedback that I have received from everyone!
· Updated the layout
· I have added the new Pokémon games
· I have added the the non-transfer capabilities for Pokémon Stadium Pokémon Stadium 2 and Pokémon Battle Revolution
Bear in mind that this graphic entails the transfer process for the PAL region of Pokémon games.
Hope you will enjoy this! Let’s all hope Pokémon Bank stays online for a long, long time. Hoping to complete that Ribbon challenge someday!
Imgur link here: [https://imgur.com/a/tPk8I8n](https://imgur.com/a/tPk8I8n)
Probably the cleanest this labyrinth can possibly be made lol, well done. I’ll be very sad if Bank goes offline and breaks this chain forever:(
Bro as a casual fan, that is a fucking terrible mess
Not your layout, the layout is nice
I own all the games. Never once transferred a MON. Way too complex and slow. I just build up a new team and Dex each time.
I have tried it. It works!
The fact that all it takes is one app shutting down to block off EVERYTHING before the Switch came out is depressing
All this climbing, all this running around a maze… And then Bank closes its door on your Venusaur
Y tho
Ok when you start a transfer process can we splice in the Rube Goldberg machine music that you heard on looney tunes back in the day?
It doesn’t really make sense to separate Bank by compatible with SMUSUM and not. It really should be compatible with XYORAS and not because that’s how it actually works. They’re compatible with all 3DS mainline games up until you transfer them to gen 7 even once and then they can’t go backwards to gen 6. Your arrows could stay exactly the same otherwise.
Is it possible to trade pokemon between two red/blue/yellow games, between red/blue/yellow and gold/silver/crystal and between two gold/silver/crystal games with two gameboy advances/sps or can they only be traded with the original gameboy and gameboy colour respectively?
Still hoping Nintendo releases some universal multi-peripheral that can directly connect Gen 3-7 to a Switch and just allow compatibility of a 3DS connecting to a Switch.
The used to be awesome, when you could have pokemon with rare moves imported from prior games. Gen 9 overwrites them now when you bring them forward.
RIP Articuno with Heal Bell.
You have pokeball + compatible with swsh, didn’t even realise this was a thing, thank you for your hard work
Flowchart I never knew I needed.
This feels like the xkcd meme about standards.
So whats the most unique/rare pokemon you can trade from 2002 to 2024?
i have my team from when i played pokemon firered for the first time in 2006 or so in pokemon shield at the moment, it was a nightmare to get them there, but the convolution of it all kind of adds to how special they are lol
also this isn’t actually all that horrible of a process after you can put everything in poke transporter, prior to that it is AWFUL having to do it 6 pokemon at a time. i had to have had at least 100 pokemon between my gen 3 and 4 games, and after bringing them all to gen 5, i never want to play that fucking catching minigame ever again
Yeah I remember this process restarting in the Game Boy Advance era 2 decades ago. It’s kinda amazing you could still have your starter from Ruby/Sapphire in the latest Switch titles.
I know some people give it a lot of crap but seriously, Home is really really great and was desperately needed.
I don’t know why this is so surprising to some people. It’s honestly impressive that you can transfer pokemon from gen1 at all. They didn’t need to do this for every generation, but they did. I can’t think of any other games with similar transfer/trade systems, let alone any that are this extensive.
Man, FUCK Game Freak for making this more and more complicated than it ever needed to be, all the while picking our pockets at every step.
Is there any possible way to get my GB Pokémon red Pokémon’s onto modern Babk?
Do we know what will happen to Bank in April? Will it still function after the 3DS online services shut down?
Im so glad Ive traded up every important mon I ever caught from Fire Red to the Bank.
Did they not realize this was such a garbage way to do all this lmao
Is it possible to still log into bank and get Pokémon out? I have t been able to find it in any of the e-shops.
I am to recall a special award or something if you brought an OG Gen 3 pokemon forward to the ORAS remakes.
Also I had no idea you can import from Go to the mainline games.
Typically you play as a different trainer each game right? So by trading the same Pokémon across multiple games you’re basically telling that Pokémon that it’s a piece of crap and will never have a trainer that wants to keep it.
So besides the emotional attachment, what did people gain from transferring from GB games to the current that cannot be gained in more modern titles?
This has helped me see what pokemon games I’m missing and what generations I missed. Gen 5 completed skipped me by, that’s weird.
Can anyone tell me why exactly they replaced Pokemon Bank with Pokemon Home? I remember when it came out, they were like, “you’ll be able to keep your Pokemon here forever,” and then a few years later they went, “actually, nevermind, use this instead.”
As a software dev myself, I’m guessing there’s something intrinsic about Bank that made it incompatible with what they wanted to do with the series moving forward (maybe making it work with smartphone apps like Pokemon Go?), but that’s just me speculating.