Poke Transporter GB is a homebrew app for the GBA that serves to bridge the gap between the old and new games, providing a way to pull Pokemon from the Game Boy and Game Boy Color titles into the third generation. This is done using a custom Multiboot GBA ROM that genuinely could be mistaken for official software for just how professional and polished the final version actually is. With the ROM loaded on one system, you insert the GBA game you want the Pokemon to travel to. On another system, you put the Pokemon you want to transport into your current box, and talk to the Cable Club attendant to initialise a trade. It’s here where the magic really happens, with work behind the scenes happening to remove the Pokemon entirely from their original games. That’s not where it ends though, with a custom event being injected into your GBA cartridge to redeem these Pokemon. You can see the full process in action below:

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Pokemon transferred in this way are modified in order to be legal in future games, though there are some quirks that mean they won’t be considered legal until they arrive in a certain generation. You can find a table detailing this here. For those interested in how it works, the creator also put together a video discussing the development process and exactly what's happening behind the curtain.

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The application has had beta releases since December of last year, and got its 1.0.0 release just last week. If you’re interested in trying it for yourself, you can find the GitHub repo linked below.

Poke Transporter GB GitHub

 

[raxadian]

I wonder if this can take Pokemon from Crystal Clear?

 

[ars25]

I wonder if this can take Pokemon from Crystal Clear?

Should as long as it doesn’t drastically change the box or Pokémon data structures

 

[ViDeOmAnCiNi]

MissingNo in Scarlet/Violet for the win! LOL!!

 

[SecureBoot]

People liked this comment before so I'll echo my sentiment here.

As a card carrying Pokemon hater, this is awesome!

Unlike with sonic though, this actually makes me want to play the games

 

[Deleted member 702243]

Sorry to be "that" guy, but Pokémon data differs a lot from gen 1-2 to gen 3 and above. All this program is doing is making up data according to the kind of Pokémon you're giving it. If you have a perfect gen 2 Pokémon it will never be as perfect as it was there, because that would mean getting the full 255 EVs in every stat, something impossible in later generations. It's still a nice tool though.

for sure. but the people who would want unofficial ways to transfer probably dont really care about legality or perfection anyway

 

[mister_smang_n_watch]

badass

 

[NaNoX]

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Poke Transporter GB is a homebrew app for the GBA that serves to bridge the gap between the old and new games, providing a way to pull Pokemon from the Game Boy and Game Boy Color titles into the third generation. This is done using a custom Multiboot GBA ROM that genuinely could be mistaken for official software for just how professional and polished the final version actually is. With the ROM loaded on one system, you insert the GBA game you want the Pokemon to travel to. On another system, you put the Pokemon you want to transport into your current box, and talk to the Cable Club attendant to initialise a trade. It’s here where the magic really happens, with work behind the scenes happening to remove the Pokemon entirely from their original games. That’s not where it ends though, with a custom event being injected into your GBA cartridge to redeem these Pokemon. You can see the full process in action below:

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Pokemon transferred in this way are modified in order to be legal in future games, though there are some quirks that mean they won’t be considered legal until they arrive in a certain generation. You can find a table detailing this here. For those interested in how it works, the creator also put together a video discussing the development process and exactly what's happening behind the curtain.

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The application has had beta releases since December of last year, and got its 1.0.0 release just last week. If you’re interested in trying it for yourself, you can find the GitHub repo linked below.

Poke Transporter GB GitHub

 

[THYPLEX]

Just a heads up. Don’t use the 1.0.0 release with Pokemon gold

There’s a major bug that will just straight delete your save data currently

Just to be sure :
Only Gold or all the second generation games?

 

[raxadian]

Should as long as it doesn’t drastically change the box or Pokémon data structures

Crystal Clear has a "Transform your Pokemon to be legal" NPC.

 

[DexterYeen]

this looks really cool! i might convince my aunt to dig her old pokemon games out to transfer them onto modern games! I think she would enjoy that. (heck maybe ill do that too)

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Just to be sure :
Only Gold or all the second generation games?

probz every 1.0 version

 

[anindividual]

Neat. Time to dig out those old games again and hope the batteries haven’t dried since they were last addressed.

 

[DexterYeen]

Neat. Time to dig out those old games again and hope the batteries haven’t dried since they were last addressed.

haha yeah, (though, isn't the battery dying out just removing the ability of saving, right so it should be possible to just transfer pokemon over and it shouldn't be a problem)

 

[Kwyjor]

haha yeah, (though, isn't the battery dying out just removing the ability of saving, right so it should be possible to just transfer pokemon over and it shouldn't be a problem)

When the battery dies, so does the save file.

I was surprised to find that the batteries in most of my old GB games have actually held up pretty well over the decades; apparently repeatedly saving is what drains them. But Gold and Silver, with the built-in RTC, are major exceptions.

 

[DexterYeen]

When the battery dies, so does the save file.

I was surprised to find that the batteries in most of my old GB games have actually held up pretty well over the decades; apparently repeatedly saving is what drains them. But Gold and Silver, with the built-in RTC, are major exceptions.

oh, hats weird I was able to access my save data on silver when my battery died, just couldnt save but I guess it probably wasn't all the way dead

 

[raxadian]

Neat. Time to dig out those old games again and hope the batteries haven’t dried since they were last addressed.

Unfortunately unless you switched the batteries, they are already dead and so are the save files, is been over two decades.

 

[Pokemonfan6498]

it seems it does not work with mgba

 

[ZeroT21]

As with all these hacks, always back up your save data

 

[Shape]

My racist 1990's Pikachu is going to just LOVE the political and social landscape of the mid-2020's!

 

[anindividual]

Unfortunately unless you switched the batteries, they are already dead and so are the save files, is been over two decades.

Oh I did replace them some time back . Alas, not fast enough to save my Red though.

 

[switch2superplus77]

Fans again doing a better job than the IP owners...