>>58063294Hardware limitations, if they could do transfer between GB and GBA, they absolutely would've. But it would've cost more than it was worth, especially because it was shaping up to require a dedicated peripheral or something of the sorts.
Hoenn was also supposed to be a soft-reboot for Pokemon, rather than being yet another Kanto follow-up, hence why most of the icons like Charizard were MIA and Pikachu was treated as a midgame luxury rather than an earlygame goodie.
