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This allowed you to capture Pokemon you could then transfer including many of the previous legendary Pokemon but also was the only way to catch Landorus, Thundorus, and Tornadus in their Therian form for the first time. You had Pokemon Dream Radar which was a 3DS AR game that had you physically move around trying to find Pokemon and capture them in AR. There were also other spin-off games that allowed transfers but these were also bizarre. For example, if you wanted to transfer Generation 4 to 5 you’d have to play a minigame in which stored the Pokemon in a file that could be accessed by Generation 5 for a one-way transfer. A lot of things were done very differently in this time as Nintendo was experimenting with a LOT of different data transfer ideas. Generation 5 (Black, White, Black 2, White 2) This was all done wirelessly.įrom there you can also transfer them to Generation 5 which you can read about on the next page. For example, you could get a Mew from Pokemon Ranch on the Wii or a Manaphy from an event in Pokemon Ranger. There was also a slew of games that you could transfer from on other consoles like Pokemon Battle Revolution. For example, if you’re playing Pokemon Diamond and plug FireRed in the bottom, you could head over to the Pal Park and transfer them over from the older games. A slot for DS games at the top as well as a slot at the bottom for Game Boy Advance games.īecause of this, if you had a Generation 4 game AND a Generation 3 game in at the same time, you could transfer from 3 to 4.

In addition to it being the first system with two screens, the DS was special because it also had two game slots. This was the first generation on the Nintendo DS. You can also transfer them into games from… Generation 4 (Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, HeartGold, SoulSilver) In addition, if you preordered Colosseum as I did, you got the Pokemon Colosseum Bonus Disc which gave you the rare chance to get Jirachi and transfer it to your Game Boy Advance game.

Not only could these games trade with each other, but also if you had Pokemon Colosseum you could use a Game Boy Advance to Gamecube link cable to transfer Pokemon from one to the other. This is the generation from which my aforementioned Jirachi was from. Generation 3 is as far back as you can really go with legit Pokemon. Generation 3 (Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, FireRed, Leafgreen)Īlright here’s where things get pretty tricky and awesome. So, do it if you want but oh my god it’s so boring. But be warned, while it’s cool to have older Pokemon, trading it from these games doesn’t mean too much and, honestly, the early games were an absolute SLOG. Now, I will say that the 3DS made downloadable versions of these games that you could then transfer to Pokemon Bank and then to Pokemon Home. It was pretty revolutionary at the time but, sadly, Generation 2 couldn’t link with Generation 3 so that lineage sort of died there. Generation 1 and 2 could trade with each other on Game Boy via a link cable. The first two generation of games are fairly alone if you have the originals.