I went to an import game shop today and picked up a Japanese copy of Pokemon Stadium 2 for N64 for cheap. I was wondering, if I got a transfer pack, if I could transfer my Pokemon from my US copy of Pokemon Silver.
I know, I mean't Stadium Gold and SilverJapan's Stadium 2 is our Stadium 1, so it would only use RBY carts.
In that case, I'm not sure.I know, I mean't Stadium Gold and Silver
My PAL copy of of Silver works with the NTSC version of Pokemon Stadium 2 I'm running on my Everdrive so I don't believe Stadium is region-locked.
Ah, that's actually really interesting. Thanks for that!IIRC: The English PAL copy = the same as the NTSC version of the carts. So the NTSC Pokémon Stadiums should accept the English carts (perhaps even the other languages), but Japanese <-> English is a complete different story,thinking it contains different characters, other bugfixes compared to the JPN versions etc. Essentially it's code might be too different to work/recognise on the JPN Stadiums.
Ah, that's actually really interesting. Thanks for that!
Probably not, as the Japanese carts doesn't have English characters in the data (tried trading between Japanese and English RBY carts, doesn't work out as the English games don't have Japanese characters and Japanese games don't have the English characters). I don't have a copy of Stadium GS (JPN) to try it, but from my past experiences, I think it won't work. If you want to try it, make sure it's a worthless save file on it, or that you somehow back up the save file.
The real problem is different (but it's true too that gen 1/2/3 use different proprietary character sets between each single language):
Trading GB to GB on gen 1/2 just means blindly sending a Pokemon's data to the other console and vice versa, it doesn't account for Japanese names being 5 characters long and export ones being 10 for Pokemon and 7 for trainers, the result is serious corruption especially on the Japanese version in the case of a trade