Yes, Pokémon FireRed & LeafGreen Are Getting Home Support

I'm just wondering if Mew and Deoxys are available. Can anyone confirm?

EDIT: Ho-Oh + Lugia, not Mew, my bad. (Thanks @Lizuka !) Hearing now that they are indeed available! A speedrunner has beaten the game and confirmed it.

From the image, it looks like you won't be able to put Pokemon into FRLG from other games?
If that's the case, then they'd better release Ruby Sapphire Emerald too, because the national dex will be impossible to complete otherwise

@Robot99 Mew was only an Emerald thing, but there is also Lugia and Ho-Oh.

Either way I'm hoping, but we'll see, doesn't seem like anyone's gotten that far yet. We do at least know the ROM is edited because I've seen folks saying they added name censorship that wasn't there previously.

How is it that they NEVER have Home support ready for a new game release? Is it intentional because they don't want you to import your old Pokémon into your playthrough? Or are they just that reliably incompetent?

@LastFootnote I think it is intentional? If it were available at release, what would be there to stop people from just transferring high level Pokemon in to breeze through the game?

@TheExile285 Well traditionally they had the badge system. If you didn't have x badges, then traded (or imported) Pokémon of level ƒx or higher wouldn't obey you in battle.

Could be worth it for the Home Challenges. There's ones to deposit 'Mons from FRLF specifically. And even if you have all the IRL accessories, this could be a lot easier.

@LastFootnote exactly that. Although this instance is different because you can't add Pokémon from home to leaf/green, so not too sure why it wouldn't be released at the same time

@LastFootnote Honestly, the fact a level 100 pokémon would be able to tank anything and down anything with a single move until the 8th badge would make the chance of disobedience nothing more than a minor annoyance.

I'm not trying to trash the people that are happy for this. I'm glad you get to enjoy this feature. But if this is the reason we can't have the old titles on NSO, then screw Home. I don't care about it personally. And what other series does this with your RPG characters?

@EarthboundBenjy yeah, very disappointing that HOME is going to be a one way transfer. Really wanted to complete this game’s national dex with my fiancée

Not that I expected anything different, but I'm glad Pokemon Home support is confirmed nonetheless. Kinda stinks it's a one-way street though.

One way transfer? Or can you still transfer back to LG/FR to complete the dex via Home?

@Pillowpants It's one way like the Virtual Console games on 3DS.

What is the emulation like? Can you apply filters? Smaller screen?

Can someone familiar with the Pokémon universe educate me on why you would only be able to transfer in one direction (I see above comment on high levels, but does this mean it may become dual direction later?), and why would you do a transfer to begin with if you then lose your Pokémon in Fire red or Leaf green? I think I’m missing something here 🙈

“ But transferring your 'mons will be a one-way deal, with anything you trade from FireRed / LeafGreen won't be able to come back.”

Won’t be able to come back is what sounds like I’d be losing them in the game.

@Protion9 There aren't any options or settings menus or anything. The only adjustments made for playing it on the Switch are that X and Y can be used in place of Start and Select making it feel a bit more like the DS games, they don't even have the ability to use ZL and ZR in place of L and R.

@LastFootnote It's obviously intentional, they want you to experience the game intended first. Would make dex completion etc too easy too

That's probably why all tranfers Gen 3 to 4, 4 to 5 were all post game too

@somnambulance Not online you can’t. You’d need someone beside you with a Switch and a copy of the game.

Well this is just useless. Not being able to transfer from Home means no way to complete the Pokédex if a single player.

Glad it’s confirmed. It was the difference between buying or not for me. Now I wonder what icon the Pokemon will get. That awesome little Gameboy icon for the 3DS VC games made me recatch a big bunch of my living dex.