Reminder: The 3DS Pokémon Bank & Transporter Services Are Still Online

Good to know. Pokémon Bank is probably using external servers and networking so the 3DS online shutdowns are… not very effective.

I might delete my account after that one.

Finally, something not related to Palworld!!

Considering the big deal they made about Bank being free to use after the eshop closed, this was the right thing to do. Not sure how long it’ll last, though.

I really should shiny hunt Celebi in Crystal and transfer it over while it's still possible

They really should in some Switch game or other make Deoxys, Celebi, Furfrou, and the Alolan forms catchable so that at least nothing is necessarily trapped on the 3DS forever in the future.

No clue why on earth they didn't make the biomes in Indigo Disk count as the different regions. So dumb being able to freely catch Alolan Geodude and yet Alolan Raichu is still transfer-only.

@Lizuka : You can get Alolan Raichu in Let's Go and Sword/Shield, so, it's not the case that it's only obtainable via the Sun/Moon games.

But I wish they would make n Deoxys event so that we can complete the BD/SP Dex without having to transfer from 3DS/GO. There was also a shiny Celebi event to promote the last film, but I missed out on that, unfortunately (as well as the two Zarude variants... ).

It's also quite frustrating that Mew has repeatedly been made available across the various Switch games while other mythicals have been completely ignored.

@Sisilly_G At least all of the gen 4 events, Jirachi, Keldeo, and Meloetta have all been given repeatable methods. That is a big step forward, just wish they'd similarly preserve those for Deoxys and Celebi while also preferably doing it for the rest of them as well.

@Lizuka : I'm really glad that they've made some of the mythicals more readily obtainable without a time-limited event.

While I've downloaded all of the Mystery Gift events for BD/SP, Legends Arceus also gives latecomers a second chance to complete their Dex.

Deoxys was made available by default in OR/AS, and Celebi in the 3DS VC version of Crystal, but it's annoying that there's currently no way of obtaining them within any of the Switch games.

And the newsletter events are the absolute worst as it's almost always too late by the time I find out about them.

While I'm glad Pokemon Bank and Poke Transporter are both up for the foreseeable future, the cynic in me can't help but think "...we encourage players to transfer their Pokémon to Pokémon HOME at their earliest convenience." is them trying to bag more money.

I'll do that mass transfer at some point, but not until we get an official end date.

Nintendo should not make past pokemon games useless.

Honestly it ticked me off the day they announced bank was online instead of a standalone app using my own 3DS's memory as I knew I couldn't rely on it. I knew the "link" between Gen 5 & 6 was temporary for the first time, as are all "links" between generations. Just release another Pokemon Box, it really doesn't take that much data to store, needing to host servers for this is such a waste.

Pretty great that Poké Transporter is still working. Shame that you had to have a Pokémon Bank paid subscription years ago in order to download it.

You know Pokémon Bank was FREE to download? These thoughts keep me up at night.

I'm actually just about to finish Ultra Sun and transfer my living dex to Home this week.

I am glad the service will still be online for a while, as I am almost done completing the pokedex for X and Omega Ruby (6 Pokemon) as also getting Zeraora through wonder trade for 100% Pokemon Bank pokedex to be registered and later moved to Home. Still its sad the internet services for the 3DS is gonna end soon.

How will pokemon from older generations be transfered?

It'd be nice to use the Pokemon Bank, but I never downloaded it on my 3DS.