Microsoft Teams Up With ChevronWP7 For Home Brew Development

Pokemon Bank Shutting Down on February 26, 2027

DeadSkullzJr · 2026-08-13T19:04:44+00:00

Source(s): https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/61543/~/pokémon-bank-service-update https://www.pokemon.com/us/news/pokemon-firered-version-and-pokemon-leafgreen-version-link-with-pokemon-home-this-october https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2026/08/pokemon-bank-is-shutting-down-in-february-2027 https://nintendoeverything.com/pokemon-bank-is-shutting-down-announcement-released/ https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/pokemon-bank-will-shut-down-in-february-2027-with-players-advised-to-transfer-data-to-pokemon-home/ As the title implies, Pokemon Bank, and by extension, Poke Transporter by collateral, will effectively be useless after February 26, 2027. Many sources aren't going into deep details of what this means for the games themselves, so I've created a list of details myself. What this means: (Legitimately speaking.) 1. Generations 1-7 on any platform outside the Nintendo Switch (2) environment(s) are unable to migrate to Pokemon Home, then into generation 8+. 2. National Pokedex access for Pokemon Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun, and Ultra Moon will be inaccessible, since that feature was part of Pokemon Bank. 3. You won't be able to migrate Pokemon from generation 5 into 6, then from generation 6 into 7. By extension, you won't be able to migrate Pokemon from generations 1-2 into generation 6-7. 4. You will lose any and all Pokemon stored in the service, if you leave them in Pokemon Bank after February 26, 2027. Poke Transporter acts as a "Box 101" for Pokemon Bank. It's theoretically possible to still transfer into Poke Transporter, but because Pokemon Bank will be offline, that "box" essentially becomes inaccessible. Which is why I stated that by collateral, Poke Transporter is also impacted. What still works: 1. You can still migrate from generation 3 into 4, then from generation 4 into 5. However generations 1-2 will be locked out again on these older platforms (the Nintendo 3DS family specifically, since that was the first platform that allowed you to carry the first two generations into later generations). 2. The national pokedex was not coded into Pokemon Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun, and Ultra Moon, instead that feature was offset into Pokemon Bank. However, you can still have all 809 Pokemon in the game, despite lacking the national pokedex feature. Where to go from here: Your only methods now are through unofficial approaches. Save editing software like PKHeX allows you to migrate Pokemon on the spot, in real time, from one generation save file to another. The process is 100% offline (minus having to download the software online of course), meaning you have 100% control over your own save data locally on your computer. You can carry this data foward into generation 8+ as well. The added bonus, it's free, unlike Pokemon Bank at one point (before it was made free, it used to cost $4.99 yearly), and Pokemon Home currently (one month = $2.99, three months = $4.99, and 12 months = $15.99 as of current). PKSM is an alternative solution that achieves many of the same goals, within the confines of a homebrewed Nintendo 3DS family system. For those wondering, NO, this won't render your migrated Pokemon illegal (unless the Pokemon are blatantly cheated in impossible ways, but even then, they would already be flagged as illegal right out the gate anyways). At least, this is true if you migrate Pokémon up to the seventh generation. Eighth generation onwards requires Pokémon Home, and the problem with that is, each Pokémon that goes through Home basically becomes ear tagged by the service with a unique tracker identifier. Currently there aren't any ways to properly generate this value so they pass the service checks. This may change in the future, however for now, if you really want your Pokémon in the eighth generation, you'll have to compromise and skip using Pokémon Home, via save editing your generation 8+ save data directly. Side note, sorry if I appended the wrong prefix.

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Joe88 said:
GundamXXX said:

Joe88 said:

they are not homebrew makers anymore
they are just paid developers now

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Whats in a name? Aslong as they do the same who cares?
They now have a chance to make a living doing something they love

Would you ratehr have them sazy "No Microsoft, I dont want to conform to standards and actually earn money, Id rather do this shit for free"

referral to my last post

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they wont be able to do the same thing anymore thats the point

homebrew had no limits
made in your home for free just because you wanted too, helping out the scene
now they are shackled down, have a ton of limits imposed on them, and get paid for it so ms can seem like the good guy

Says who?

I know enough people who were DIY kind of people (programmers to painters to architects etc) who got hired by a big company or were invested in for alot of money and all that was said was "Look... heres some money, go create some stuff and send me the bill. Idc what you do and if its illegal just dont tell me"

Look, all im saying is wait for their side of the story before we all go jump on the hatebandwagon.
If MS puts their thumb down on them they might even tell em to fuck off

Just because you are hired by a big company doesnt mean you cant do what you want. I mean sure there will be some rules like "If you make something the Microsoft logo has to be on it" but thats it.
And if they make something MS doesnt like they can still give it to someone else and let them release it

Microsoft Teams Up With ChevronWP7 For Home Brew Development

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