• Ever thought it'd be cool to have your art, writing, or challenge runs featured on PokéCommunity? Click here for info - we'd love to spotlight your work!
  • It's time to vote for your favorite Pokémon Battle Revolution protagonist in our new weekly protagonist poll! Click here to cast your vote and let us know which PBR protagonist you like most.
  • Welcome to PokéCommunity! Register now and join one of the best fan communities on the 'net to talk Pokémon and more! We are not affiliated with The Pokémon Company or Nintendo.

1st Gen How to play pokemon R/B/Y VC 3DS online?

  • 20
    Posts
    9
    Years
    • Seen May 15, 2017
    Well , I know very well that these games support only Local Play right?

    When the VC games got released on February , I was so hyped that I just bought a copy of pokemon Yellow from nintendo eshop (you know , nostalgia and things , I am currently 26).

    But soon realised , I cannot battle or trade with random people over the internet , this absolutely ruined my day and for a good reason which I can explain:

    Back in the days , I was 12 when I was playing Pokemon Yellow in my Game Boy Color and it was easy to find other kids in parks , playgrounds and other places , just to challenge them to battle or assist each other on filling the Pokedex. Just owning a game link those days , would considered so cool!

    But today , come on , we have the Internet. And what is worst, as an adult , it is IMPOSSIBLE to go to playgrounds searching for kids (not only abnormal or immature behaviour if you ask me , but you can easily considered as a pedo or sth worse) , or find people near you who also own 3DS and one of the games too. Because , accept the truth , we are the minority, most of people at their 15-30 will play mainstream online games on their PC or consoles or social media like Facebook.

    So, is there any way to hack or emulate the Local Play feature in order to achieve this?

    I even thought about a scenario of transfering the save of the game to an emulator , then you can "catch them all this way" by either hacking with gameshark/gamegenie codes or trading with another opened-window emulator, running another pokemon gen I game (more legit) and then just re-transfer the save back to the 3DS , but I find this abnormal since it is required for you to hack your 3DS in some way , I would prefer trading over with random people in the internet , or with my 3DS friends over the internet.

    And I know that some people here will bash me because these games are not supposed to be played with online feature like this , and that would ruin this etc..but come on!
     
    I think it would have been great if they had added this feature too, honestly. Sadly it is local only and I haven't seen a way to alter or hack that restriction.
     
    I think the main thing is part technological issues and part gameplay concerns as to why online isn't in the game.

    It'd be a lot more time and effort to make an online service and test it works with online latency than developing a local link-cable emulation. (Also, the English Game Boy games can't link with the Japanese versions without severe glitches - it's a small thing but breaks the global compatibility idea that Pokemon has been pushing since adding online play.)

    Also, the games are very glitchy and broken. Anyone can fairly easily put a glitch Pokemon into their party that causes glitches and crashes on opponent's system and with enough work you can cheat your way into having a super-strong Pokemon that's over level 100.
     
    Last edited:
    Back
    Top