generation backwards compatability. help?

[Spiderz]

hello, i am spider and i am new to the forum.

i used to play pokemon gold on gameboy colour as a young boy, my best friend had blue, red etc. i also remember there being a silver.

i remember pokemon such as mew and mewtwo being swappable via system link.

10 years later, we have things like the 3DS and i still think pokemon is adorable. after 10 minutes on ebay, i noticed there are even more and more games on the gameboy advanced, a generation i skipped. i see rebuilds such as firered and leafgreen, i would love to understand all this.

i realise the franchise is huge, i would love to play the latest pokemon games, but i would miss all the classic pokemon. i would first like to go back and revist the old games, my question is, how far does the franchises backwards compatibility go?

i would love to give pokemon my all for awhile ^_^ i would love to know which handhelds and games, hardware etc i'd need to obtain all the prior generation pokemon applicable to backwards compatibility and pass them onto the new age game, it seems there are many avenues of connectivity with all the handhelds and i find myself lost.

i would be willing to obtain multiple devices and hardware, i have a large budget.

any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

 

[Oryx]

You can transfer from Generation 3 (Ruby, Sapphire Emerald) all the way up to the new games. There's a wall before that, Generations 1 and 2 can't be transferred up to 3 or higher.

 

[jespoke]

https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pokemon_games
There you can see all the official Pokemon games. There is a hole between 2. and 3. generation, where you can't trade, because the data storage was overhauled to a far more effective (And less glitchy) system. After that all the cross generation connectivity is one way: Sending the Pokemon to the newer game without anything in return.

Descriptions: (With the DS games, you can get all pokemon, so you don't have to invest in Game Boy Advance if you don't specifically want the Red/Blue remakes):

Pokemon Heart Gold or Soul Silver: If you want all the classic Pokemon, they're all in this game. This is a remake of your old gold though.

Pokemon Platinum: A newer, enchanted version of Diamond/ Pearl, with far more Pokemon available before the league. Has some classic Pokemon too, many of them with have gotten new evolutions since then.

Pokemon Black and White: The newest games with the best graphics and a lot of new Pokemon, but you cant get any classics before the postgame (Equal of Kanto in Gold). It can only transfer from the other two, not send anything back.

 

[Sydian]

Get a DS Lite, all Pokemon GBA games (make sure they're not fake), all Pokemon DS games, and you've got it. Please ask in a Q&A thread next time...that's how we run it here.

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