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At the same time, we want to keep our Pokémons both in original hardware with cartridges and in a digital format, so we can reuse them when we want, publish them in open format, etc. We also want to keep saved files with the completed Pokédex. We will do the same with our favourite / used Pokémons, so in addition to the transfer of the Pokémon from the living Pokédex, we will be collecting and transfering Pokémons from our gameplay and from other people gameplays.
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We also skip the rules imposed on Pokémon transfer between generation if possible, in order to start a new run with all of our favorite Pokémon / Pokédex already loaded in the save.
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We also skip the rules imposed on Pokémon transfer between generation if possible, in order to start a new run with all of our favorite Pokémon / Pokédex already loaded in the save, taking advanatge of the superior transfer mechanisms between gens when using Pokehex.
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Another condition is that for completing the Pokédex we will not be taking the Pokémon that we possibly have in each generation, instead we will replaying the game. We will only use old saves to retrieve our favourite / combat Pokémon.
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## Stages
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We divide the process in stages, where sach stage corresponds more or less to a generation.
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We divide the process in stages, where sach stage corresponds more or less to either a generation or the transference from a previous generation to the next.
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### eShop classical games from 1st and 2nd gen
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The first game that we played was Pokémon Gold (me) and Pokémon Blue (my cousin). These were the first and second generation Pokémon games that had no connection with the main story line until 7th gen, when they could be transfered to Pokébank in the 3DS when Nintendo released these games as eShop apps, that could be used in Pokébank.
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The first game that we played was Pokémon Gold (me) and Pokémon Blue (my cousin) from eShop in 3DS. These were the first and second generation Pokémon games that had no connection with the main story line until 7th gen, when they could be transfered to Pokébank in the 3DS when Nintendo released these games as eShop apps, that could be used in Pokébank.
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We did not do a living Pokédex not completed the Pokédex at 100%, since there were some Pokémons that were impossible to catch if we did not have other titles, such as Pokémon Red or Pokémon Crystal.
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This step can not be done with original hardware & original firmware because the eShop is closed and the ROM can not be downloaded to be played. Same happens with the app of Pokébank to transfer the Pokémons to an upper gen.
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To transfer the Pokémon you need original hardware with custom firmware, so that you can download eShop and Pokébank from other sources. You also need a Pokémon Home account to save the Pokémons.
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To transfer the Pokémon from this stage to Pokémon Home you need original hardware with custom firmware, so that you can download eShop and Pokébank from other sources. You also need a Pokémon Home account to save the Pokémons.
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You can play the game in the original hardware from the downloaded ROM or you can play the game in an emulator using the original GB & GBC roms. If you use the eShop ROM in original hardware you only need to follow the steps to transfer the Pokémon in the previous paragraph. If you instead use an emulator, you will need to extract the save file from your emulator, extract the Pokémon, extract the save file from the eShop rom (it needs to exist but it can be recently created) and inject the Pokémon into the eShop savefile. After that, you can continue the process as if you did not use the emulator.
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You can play the game in the original hardware from the downloaded ROM or you can play the game in an emulator using the original GB & GBC roms. If you use the eShop ROM in original hardware you only need to follow the steps to transfer the Pokémon in the previous paragraph. If you instead use an emulator, you will need to extract the save file from your emulator, extract the Pokémon, extract the save file from the eShop ROM (it needs to exist but it can be recently created) and inject the Pokémon into the eShop savefile. After that, you can continue the process as if you did not use the emulator since your Pokémon will be on the save of the eShop ROMs, meaning that now they can be exported into Pokémon Home through Pokémon Bank.
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### Third generation
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Since this generation was the first to
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Since this generation was separated from 1st and 2nd gen (you could to transfer from 1st and 2nd to 3rd gen) we needed to start from scratch our Pokédex in this gen.
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In pokémon Fire Red we gathered the living Pokédex and in Emerald we gathered our combat / favourite Pokémon.
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We could play either in emulators or original hardware with custom firmware, since this gives us as much control as the emulator for the save file (extraction and injection).
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To ease up the process we played in VirtualBoy emulator in Android phones, allowing to emulate a cable link via bluetooth and do Pokémon exchanges.
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###### Challenges
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The challenges of this stage were:
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- Entei, Raikou and Suicine: Which meant completing until the end 3 different runs of Fire Red or Leaf Green, and capturing them, knowing that they were errands (even though we saved our master ball for this). Forcefully you need to do three runs because the election of the initial Pokémon determines which of the three will appear.
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- Celebi: Which needed an injection of the event in a USA save file or obtaining it from another save.
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- Jirachi: Which needed the transference from Pokémon Chanel or obtaining it from another save.
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- Mew: Event injection in Emerald
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- Ho-Oh / Lugia: Even injection in any 3rd gen game.
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- Deoxys: Injection in Emerald.
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- Feebas & Milotic: Getting feebas is very difficult, specially the right Feebas and evolving it into Milotic it is too as you need to do PokéCubes.
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- Cyndaquil, Chikorita & Totodile: We needed to complete the regional Pokédex in Emerald in three different runs, but in this case we can do the trick of saving before choosing one of the three Pokémons, and then choosing one, transfering it, and restoring the save file to a previous version and do the same with the other 2, without needing to rerun Emerald again.
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- Zangoose: Rubi exclusive, which is the only reason to play Rubi.
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- Lunatone: Saphire exclusive, which is the only reason to play saphire.
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# Tranfer 3rd gen to 4th gen
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In the hardware of the original Nintendo DS, it was possible to insert a GBA Pokémon game with a NDS pokémon game and there was a mechanism to transfer from the first to the least. The problems is that if you do not have your saves in phisical cartridges and an original Nintendo DS you can't do it. But what we can do is emulate a NDS with DeSmuME and virtually insert a GBA Pokémon game with our save files and run the NDS game to transfer the Pokémon. All 4th gen games have this capabilility, but it is limited to tranfer only 6 Pokémon per day, which is not acceptable. Only HeartGold and SoulSilver do not have this limitation, but the problem is that these Pokémon games were difficult to work in an original 3DS hardware with custom firmware.
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Due to this limitation, we finally end up using Pokehex directly to extract all Pokémon from the saves of 3rd gen, and then load them into our recently created 4th gen save, in Pokémon Platinum and HeartGold. This was very fast and easier, much more that it would have been using the built-in transfer features, as you need to complete a minigame for each 6 Pokémon that you want to transfer.
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With this we had
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