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Anonymous Sat 05 Oct 2013 15:42:31 No.14254932 View View Reply Original Report

Would it be possible to create an adapter that let's you trade gen 1 and 2 pokemon to gen 3?
I know little about software development, but in theory it seems possible.
I'd love building that thing so everyone can get their old teams up to generation 6.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 05 Oct 2013 16:14:00 No.14255744 Report

Quoted By: >>14255777 >>14255790 >>14257710

No because data structures.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 05 Oct 2013 16:15:30 No.14255777 Report

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>>14255744

This. The only way to do it would be to use cheats to replicate the exact stats of whatever Pokemon you want to "trade up"

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 05 Oct 2013 16:16:00 No.14255790 Report

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>>14255744
this

Gen 1/2 pokemon are quite different from other pokemon from newer gens. It's not a hardware problem.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 05 Oct 2013 16:17:48 No.14255847 Report

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Name one non-pokemon GBC game that works with a non-pokemon GBA game. There are none, they weren't made to be compatible with each other

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 05 Oct 2013 16:32:18 No.14256194 Report

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Yeah it's possible, but because of how much the data structure changed between gens II and III a whole lot of the data needs to be pulled out of thin air. This would create problems as either some stats would be completely random resulting in identical gen II mons being completely different after transfer, or stats would be seeded from the same variables resulting in zero variation between some stat for the same mons.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 05 Oct 2013 17:18:38 No.14257547 Report

Quoted By: >>14257820 >>14257854

Speaking of data structures between gens, how's sending Pokemon from gens 4/5 to 6 gonna work? Since there's a new type, won't that impact stuff like IVs and Hidden Power? How will it affect the stats of the mon being sent over?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 05 Oct 2013 17:23:34 No.14257710 Report

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>>14255744
what if they wrote a converter that adjust the data where necessary and adds in the missing info

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 05 Oct 2013 17:24:28 No.14257742 Report

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EV's and IV's were completely different in Gens 1 and 2.

Nearly all of the internal game mechanics were overhauled starting in Gen 3, the older games just aren't compatible.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 05 Oct 2013 17:25:54 No.14257788 Report

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>>14254932
You cannot translate the _exact_ same Pokémon, as stat calculation changed dramatically. Transfer upwards would always cause data loss. If you're fine with that, it's trivial from a software perspective.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 05 Oct 2013 17:27:04 No.14257820 Report

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>>14257547
The only thing is that previous Hidden Powers may be retyped, but other than that adding a new type wouldn't really change anything.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 05 Oct 2013 17:28:08 No.14257854 Report

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>>14257547
Types really don't matter for IVs and aren't even saved within the Pokémon's data structure (the game just knows which species has which type). About Hidden Power, no one has a fucking clue. I really hope they just get rid of the way Hidden Power used to work completely.

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