>>56456266>and distracts from the fact that GF coded their games so bad Gen3 cant connect back to the first two gens, despite connectivity being a major selling point of the games in the first placetbf to Game Freak this was a hardware issue, not a software issue, GB/GBC -> GBA can't interface with each other (and before somebody says it you use a GB/C link cable in a GBA running a GB/C game for a reason. The GBA literally has a GBC CPU inside it when running legacy games).
Theoretically they could have put out some proprietary hardware that acts as a sort of translator and allows for one-way sending from 2 -> 3, some bloke did that back in 2021, but I really doubt it would have been economically viable for Game Freak to do such a thing, especially considering Gen 3 was the low point of the franchise revenue-wise. Not to mention a $100 device probably would've been lambasted by the press as a blatant cash grab
