PSA: Pokémon FireRed & LeafGreen Switch Version Gives You The Mystic Ticket And Aurora Ticket

So bizarre that they can do this and make them partially Home Compatible, but couldn't add a Language Select.

I CAN FINALLY GET DEOXYS!!! Its the only Pokémon missing in regards to the Hoenn Pokémon I have on Home.

I unfortunately defeated the one in AlphaSapphire before I could catch it.

Okay, this is what I wanted to hear. Lugia, Ho-Oh, Deoxys, Celebi, and Jirachi were the event Pokémon that I needed to get; I already got Mew on the GBA version, but forgot that I had it and ended up deleting my save file a decade ago. Now that we have confirmation that at least a few of them will be available, it gives me hope that the other ones will be made available at some point as well. With this news coming to light, I will most definitely be purchasing them!

I just hope that it will be possible to have more than one save file, though. That way, I can have all of the different starter Pokémon. Or better yet, be able to trade with myself across the different versions (although if I had to venture a guess, I would probably have to have one version on my OLED Switch and another version on my Switch 2 in order to make that possible).

@shoeses Or let us play these games on NSO.

@AstroTheGamosian I thought Ho-Oh and Lugia were Gen2 Pokémon. Aren't FR/LG Gen1?

@AussieMcBucket They are Gen 2, but you can’t actually get them in the Gen 3 games while most of the others are technically available (I think Lugia & Ho-Oh are in Colosseum/XD, too?), but Lugia / Ho-Oh had an event item in FR/LG that allowed you to catch one of them.

Bully for them, it’s a nice bone to throw in - but one-way Home still means you can’t complete the baseline Pokédex in these, nevermind the national dex. All of those event Pokémon can be gotten via other means from recent games as well.

$10? Good. $15? Probably would have been fine. But $20 apiece for a still-neutered re-release where basically everything in it can be gotten elsewhere and the game itself still can’t be completed properly? Sorry but no reason not to just emulate when I want my nostalgia itch for LG; in fact, on an emulator I could actually complete the Pokédex, making the comparison even more damning.

I gave the Lets Go games a break on the Home limits because they still put a ton of effort into all the little details, from giving Eevee viable coverage to the full world revamp, cutscenes, Pokemon riding, and other little details - and bringing in Pokémon from Go helped to fill in version gaps, avoiding this issue. Not having any way to transfer Pokémon missing from the dex into these games just stands out too glaringly for me to drop the cash here.

I know others will enjoy the games, and that’s entirely fine, as I realize I’m being very specific and somewhat pedantic on this point - I’m only solely speaking for my own viewpoint here. But a Pokémon game re-release that will be permalocked from actually completing something you could do in the original release? I can’t go for that.

@AussieMcBucket FRLG are Generation 3. They are remakes of RGB (which was Gen 1), made in the RSE engine.

@ArthurFan1998 I'm pretty sure you can re-challenge and catch it after completing the "Delta Episode" if you weren't able to during it. In fact, I think the games - at least Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire, at any rate - allow you to challenge it - and most other legendaries - as many times as needed until you finally catch them. I believe the only requirement is that you need to beat the Elite Four each time in order to get them to respawn.

How are people already this far in the game 🤷‍♂️

@TitanSix Okay, so this opens them up for players to bring them into Home, I guess?

@skolvuk So remakes of Gen1 does not make them Gen1? What are Ruby and Sapphire considered then? Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald = RSE?

This is nice, but adding the censor crap that has plagued all the newer games is a bunch of ****ing horsecrap.

@AstroTheGamosian For what it's worth you can get Mew and Jirachi in BDSP.

@HandHeld3fectAce Wish I had known that before I started a whole new game and transported my Pokémon from my original run to Poké Bank, later Pokémon Home.

@AussieMcBucket Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald are Gen 3

@TitanSix Yes, you can get Ho-Oh in Colosseum by purifying all Shadow Pokémon and clearing Mt. Battle in Battle Mode using a team from Colosseum (transfers from GBA versions are ok as long as the registered team is from Colosseum).

While for Lugia, you have to purify the Shadow Lugia from XD.

@AussieMcBucket The Main Game is only Kanto Pokemon like the original Gen 1 games - but there's a National Dex and new post-game that wasn't in RBY in FRLG.

@shoeses the event tickets are just items. You don't have to revise the game to add them. And the games already had trade function. So they just needed a translation layer on the base game.

Since they weren't made originally with language options in mind the code base is not set up to swap out text with a toggle and adding that isn't as simple as you make it seem.

No they can't just put the language in and make it work. The game needs to be set up so all the text in the game isn't baked into the code but instead pulled from th language file or something to that effect (there are probably other ways to do it). That would require a lot more work if not already set up with that in mind.

@AussieMcBucket FR/LG - R/S/E - Col/XD make up gen 3. Fire Red and Leaf Green are remakes of gen 1's story, but bought up to date. This means it includes the National Dex, and every Pokemon available at that time are in the games code.

There is new post-game content added where you go to new islands that have non-Kanto Pokemon on them. With the Tickets you get 2 extra islands, giving access to gen 2 legendaries and Deoxys. These Pokemon fill in the gaps of what is unavailable in the other gen 3 games.

@Nanoline52 I don't know what you mean by not being able to complete the Pokedex. You can trade between FireRed and LeafGreen to complete the dex.

@kevinm360 Yeah but only if you have somebody with the opposite version in the same room as you right?

@zaneplay64 if you have more than one Switch model (such as Lite and Docked, or Switch 1 and Switch 2), you can trade between the games yourself.

This is how single players used to do it (or by using two emulator windows, I guess)

Other people in the comments have already mentioned it but yeah it seems like it's just impossible to complete the National Dex in this version of the game, so having access to the event Pokemon doesn't really hit as hard.
Are they going to port over Ruby / Sapphire / Emerald and make them compatible?
And is Gale of Darkness going to be able to connect with these games on NSO? Is Coliseum even on there for that matter?

Kinda baffling but I guess not that surprising from bare minimum Nintendo.