Weirdness: Pokémon Fan Finds a Way to Trade First Generation Pocket Monsters With Himself

Or...you know....get another Gameboy.

@AVahne Don't be silly! We have to be extra creative and spend MORE effort doing this than take the easy route

Wow, how obsolete and unnecessary.

Meh.

It is better that guy who managed to migrate gen 2 pokemons to gen 3.

Hey thanks for the useless article. You got my click

There's also a way to complete the pokedex without trading of other games involved, just do the mew glitch in the right place to get an specific pokemon.

There's another way to do this without getting another Game Boy - buy another N64 controller + Transfer Pack, and own a copy of Stadium 1 and/or 2. I suggest buying both since they are equally awesome, without seemingly being copies of each other.

Or just use a Game Genie/GameShark and code the one you want.

@DarthNocturnal We do what we must because we can

Omg, I did almost the same about 3 years ago I allowed trading with yourself and injecting a new attack on the received Pokémon.
Roughly the same time as I wrote a Game Boy Printer library for Arduino. It's fun material.

I didn't think it was possible to transfer Gen 1 and 2 Pokemon to Gen 3 and beyond. Huh, that's interesting.

Gen 1 is the best and rest suck bad but my god Mon read a book! Just get a second gameboy Mon! Oh ya!

@Geonjaha @Yorumi @Tsurii897 @AVahne

I don't get why people are so against this. Have you really never done anything just to see if you can?

Also, an arduino costs like 5 bucks on ebay. It's an entirely open source project, so you aren't forced to buy a genuine Arduino made in Italy to do this. Some people already own them, like myself. I've got 3 of them already because some people enjoy making things themselves.

@Todd102030
Whoever said I was against it?
Good for him being able to do this. If he thinks it was cool to do and wanted to share it then good for him. Not everyone finds value in the same thing, so no point in scolding people who don't care for it.

Good on him for being clever about it, but the video shows he already had two Game Boys (a Color and an Advance), and both versions of the game. So unless he just happens to not have a link cable, this endeavor, at least to me, seems completely pointless.

This guy sure took the Kennedy speech on the Moon way too seriously: "... do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard". I traded my 1st and 2nd gen Pokémon 15 years ago by myself to get the pokedex'es complete using many combinations: two GBAs, a GBA and a GB, a GB and a GBP, an N64 and transfer paks, and so on. If you are into retro these days, you are likely to have at least a GBA and a GC with GB Player or even a cheaper combination. A cable should be around 2 dollars at least. So, why to do this convoluted procedure? "Just because it is hard".
This guy might not have friends but has a lot of time in his hands.
@TeeJay: That's exactly how I feel about this (see below).

Um...cool? ...I guess...?

Whatever he wants to do I guess, though there are easier ways to accomplish this.

@Samuel-Flutter
It's still not possible to transfer gen 1/2 to 3. This guy just thought up a complicated and unnecessary way to trade among gen 1 games. :/

@SaGa_K Oh. Whoops. That's what I thought the article was about. Didn't have time to watch the video. Thanks for that clarification.

just because it's old doesn't mean the games arent fun anymore !!!! I replayed pokemon red 2 months ago. If u just wanna play some pokemon or just see how it all started they still hold up pretty good. I mean the only difference is the graphics and the amount of Pokemon. And neither one of those things bother me.

@Tsurii897
They're no more "obsolete" than Super Mario Land, Kirby's Dreamland, or any other game from that period. The notion that only "genwunners" can enjoy the older games is just silly.

That being said, most of the time I go back to them now a days, its to build up a team for the Stadium games.

All the folks on here saying 'whats the point' and 'why bother working with outdated tech' are foreign to me. It's like asking what is the point of playing your Super Nintendo when you have a Wii U, or maybe more accurately why are you throwing carefully written code from a game genie into your copy of F-Zero just to see if it changed anything. As a Nintendo fan I believe more than any other (Sony/M$/Sega) fanboys the importance of 'lateral thinking with withered technology'.

If anything, articles such as these should instead be praised for carrying on that way of thinking.

Not impressed. I recently traded between Red and Blue using a GameCube and a Super Famicom. Get on my level.

I did a tutorial about getting Gen 1 games into the 3DS games a while back. Nobody took notice but it is possible to get them there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snPCrKPB5K8

I wonder if he does other things with himself too.

@Tsurii897 Atmosphere. Each Pokemon generation has a different feel to it. Let people do what people do.

@mjc0961 through a combination of backing up your saves and programs on your computer, you can do it easily. Once they are in your Gen 3 game it's very straight forward. It is also not possible to trade with yourself but the video on this article shows how to do it. Before you call someone a troll, make sure you know what you are talking about.

I Remember me and my brother used to clone pokemon on the gameboy games. Was a sacrificial technique with 1 of the pokemon being lost in cyberspace but it was still kool. 2 zapdos, 2 Mewtwo with an army of lost Ratatas

@Trikeboy
Copy-pasting your Pokemon's stats through Pokesave and creating hacked replicas doesn't count dude, and that's the only way to actually "transfer" anything pre-gen 3. I don't think anybody here is interested in your snake oil.

Getting original and/or working(if its original that it will probably work) cable for gameboy is difficult this days.
Getting fake cable is easy but this will not start working pretty soon.

Wow it took 2 decades for someone to find out an even more unnecessary way to trade Pokemon

Oh wow, I did the same with 2 GameBoys. >_<

@DontPlayDumb Nintendo brand or generic do work. The first time I did a real transfer I converted a generic dual GC/GBA to GBA into a GB/GBC cable. It is even possible to add a switch to make a GBA to GBA into a dual mode transfer cable.
So, for you, not getting the original cable is a good excuse for that contraption? I hope not, because if you have a PS3 and you lose those Sony "original" USB cables for your controllers, you'll have to use one of those boards to charge them.