>>28579689Transferring in gen 1 and 2 was literally just trading. You had to make sure to bring only 100% gen 1 compatible Pokémon with you and trade one at a time via link cable, meaning it took a lot of time and trade fodder. Sure, you could buy an n64 and a full priced game and transfer your Pokémon that way much easier, faster, and simpler, but that functionality isn't built into the base games. Gen 4 is probably the gen that came closest to getting it right. Put the GBA games in the GBA slot, and transfer them in. It's dumb they made you recapture them, and absolutely retarded that you were limited 6 'mons per day, but it was simple compared to gen 5's transfer, and only required one console. Transferring into gen 6 and 7 via Pokémon bank is probably about as simple as using Pokémon stadium, but you don't need a seperate console and game to do it. At 5 bucks a year, it'd take 14 years of membership to match the MSRP of 69.99 for Pokémon Stadium 2 back in the day, and you don't need to keep the subscription going if you just plan to mass transfer inbetween gens and not use the cloud storage.
