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Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen listings appear on the Nintendo eShop, will release later this month

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Just as insiders had heavily teased, the rumors of a release of Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen onto the Nintendo Switch 2 have finally been confirmed. Quietly appearing on the Nintendo eShop were separate listings for both Pokemon FireRed and Pokemon LeafGreen, originally released for the Game Boy Advance. Support for Pokemon Home will be included in this digital re-release as well. Both games will launch on February 27, 2026. Each game will be priced at $19.99.

Celebrate 30 years of Pokémon™ with this Nintendo Switch™ version* of the Pokémon FireRed Version game originally released on the Game Boy™ Advance system! Explore the Kanto region, discover wild Pokémon around every corner, and aim to complete your Pokédex as you battle your way to success. Earn badges as you develop winning strategies to use against each experienced Gym Leader, and uncover amazing secrets in your quest to be the best Trainer.

This digital exclusive contains the Sevii islands, where even more Pokémon await. You can also visit the Pokémon Wireless Club to trade, battle, and chat with other players via local wireless**!

Support for Pokémon HOME is coming soon

You’ll be able to bring the Pokémon you catch and train to the place where all Pokémon gather—support for Pokémon HOME is coming to Pokémon FireRed Version!
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Fire Red is probably one of my most played games of all time, but with all the QoL romhacks and improvements that fans have made over the years, it's kind of hard to go back to the originals? So this doesn't feel as exciting as it could be. Hilarious how it just accidentally went live on the eShop though, what a blunder.
 
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£20 for a 20 year old game with no online or extras or sail the high seas for free, hmmmm tough choice
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I guess the feature they're banking on is Pokemon Home support, which makes it somewhat surprising they don't have it supported out of the gate. I can understand it for the new games since you want to give people some time with all the new stuff before throwing the rest at them, but here it's just a bit odd.
 
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the G.O.A.T

this is my first pokemon ever, I still remember when I was a kid I tried to throw a bunch of pokeball in a trainer battle, don’t know how to catch a new pokemon, and trying to use my charmander to defeat starmie which doesn’t end well
 
So these are coming directly to the eShop rather than to their NSO GBA app?
That would make them the first "Virtual Console" titles, right?
Super Mario Galaxy 1 & 2 don't count imho as they are remasters and got a new main menu and stuff.

Anyways:
1. I'm not paying 20 bucks for such old games (lol).
2. I'm not playing the vanilla games when there's a thousand better romhacks, even vanilla enhancements (if you're not looking into the likes of Unbound, Radical Red and such).

So no, thanks, Nintendo.
PKMN Home support for those fanboys of yours is nice though I guess. :D
 
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This isn't about practicality, it's about paying for memories.:rofl:

EDIT: It seems there’s no Chinese version, I won’t buy it.
 

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Just as insiders had heavily teased, the rumors of a release of Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen onto the Nintendo Switch 2 have finally been confirmed. Quietly appearing on the Nintendo eShop were separate listings for both Pokemon FireRed and Pokemon LeafGreen, originally released for the Game Boy Advance. Support for Pokemon Home will be included in this digital re-release as well. Both games will launch on February 27, 2026. Each game will be priced at $19.99.



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That come to Switch 1, not just Switch 2 only.
 
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I don't like the price, I have the miyoo mini, 3DS, 2DS, moded Switch and so on to play this.

But I'll probably get it anyway because of family going to play it too on there.
 
The price is a bit high in my opinion, however I’m glad of two things:

1. The OG Switch is supported - this means you should be able to import your OG GBA saves on a hacked Switch and send them over to the Switch 2.

2. It's not locked behind an online sub.

In the event Pokebank / Poke Transporter stop working, its good these games will be accessible another way.
 
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Shame they aren't doing a physical release.

20 bucks is a bit steep for basically just a rom with an emulator combined. Would have been nice if they gave it free to NSO+ subscribers.

I'll most likely still get it, or just replay my originals, but it's a cheap cash grab. I hope at least they'll include the events, or do them on a later date.
 
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Honestly the most exciting aspect of this release is that it'll likely be possible to rip the save file from my actual cartridge and inject it into the switch version to upload my Gen 3 pokemon to home... I wonder if Nintendo seeing me upload an original Jirachi from Pokemon Colosseum's bonus disk via the Nintendo Switch version of Leaf Green is enough to warrant a ban? Guess I'll see.
 
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Honestly the most exciting aspect of this release is that it'll likely be possible to rip the save file from my actual cartridge and inject it into the switch version to upload my Gen 3 pokemon to home... I wonder if Nintendo seeing me upload an original Jirachi from Pokemon Colosseum's bonus disk via the Nintendo Switch version of Leaf Green is enough to warrant a ban? Guess I'll see.
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That was already possible with a modded 3DS.
 
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