Pokemon Bank, the 3DS service that allows users to store Pokemon in online cloud storage, will end service on February 26, 2027, The Pokemon Company announced. Pokemon HOME, the more recent Pokemon…
  • TAG@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    I found the relevant Nintendo press release: https://www.pokemon.com/us/news/pokemon-firered-version-and-pokemon-leafgreen-version-link-with-pokemon-home-this-october

    I am curious what they mean by Fire Red and Leaf Green getting Pokemon Home integration. I don’t own either game (yet) but I was under the impression that both games could already send Pokemon to Home, but that it was a one way journey. Once a Pokemon was sent to Home, there was no way to get it back to Fire or Leaf.

    The news post says that

    Once a Pokémon from Pokémon FireRed Version or Pokémon LeafGreen Version is brought to another game in the Pokémon series, they will be unable to return to Pokémon FireRed Version or Pokémon LeafGreen Version. Pokémon from other games in the Pokémon series will be unable to visit Pokémon FireRed Version or Pokémon LeafGreen Version.

    So does that imply that I will now be able to move Pokemon from Leaf to Home and back to Leaf? Will I be able to use Home online trades to get Fire/Leaf Pokemon and them bring them into my game?

    If that is true, it would resolve my biggest gripe with the Switch version and put the game at the top of my shopping list.

  • Lemmayng@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    4 days ago

    How the fuck is this supposed to work when a good majority of the National Dex is locked behind lost events like the Altering Cave?

    Is that why RSE is rumoured to be coming to Switch later this year? Because this “”“”“gift”“”“” Celebi would be impossible to obtain otherwise?

  • FiniteBanjo@feddit.onlineEnglish
    81·
    4 days ago

    Wasn’t there a recent controversy where Ninendo deleted somebody’s 20 year Pokemon Scarlet save data while migrating between Switch and Switch 2?

    • MimicJar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      3 days ago

      So that’s a different problem, but yes.

      This is a clear shutdown of an existing service.

      That was a transfer gone wrong. It went especially wrong because the transfer doesn’t have a guarantee of data. Pokemon games have a weird obsession with data possibly being duplicate. Heaven forbid someone have duplicates of Pokemon.

    • TAG@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      20 year old Pokemon Scarlet save? That game is only a couple years old.

      Do you mean that the save file included mons that the player had been moving from game to game for 20 years?

      Not that that is an excuse. Nintendo should have expected some amount of migrations to fail and either have the migration retry and/or restore the save on the original system.

        • TAG@lemmy.worldEnglish
          01·
          3 days ago

          You can still have reliable migration without the user the ability to open a save on more than one system. For example:

          1. Tell the Nintendo servers that you want to migrate a game.
          2. Copy the game save into the migration app save then delete the game save.
          3. Migration app sends the game save to the destination system.
          4. The destination system checks that the save is fully downloaded and free of corruption. It tells the Nintendo servers that it is ready to finish the migration.
          5. Both the source and destination systems watch the Nintendo servers for the next step. Once it gives them permission to complete the migration, the source system can permanently delete the game save while the destination system copies the game save from migration app storage into game storage.
          6. If the destination system fails, the Nintendo server can abort the migration and give the source system permission to put the save files back. When the destination system recovers, it will be told by the Nintendo servers that the migration was aborted and to delete any save data it got.

          If global banks can transfer millions of dollars from account to account without money being created or destroyed, Nintendo can make sure that only one system is allowed to open up a game save.

          • FiniteBanjo@feddit.onlineEnglish
            1·
            2 days ago

            “Can”

            indeed. But they have already proven they’re

            "Incompetent ",

            so everyone should make manual backups and not trust Nintendo servers for storage.

            Also, money does occasionally get accidentally deleted in banks, but since there is multiple ledger systems of recording who is owed exactly what the problem is lessened to just a failed transaction or loss of loan records, a major example is Bank of America’s bungled Mortgages last year.