Image: The Pokémon CompanyĪs indicated by the directional arrows in the chart, some games allow for deposits and withdrawals of pokémon, while others only support one-way transfers. The boxes are color-coded to indicate which games work with Bank (orange) and Transporter (black).
To see exactly how to get your pokémon into the Bank, take a deep breath, then look at this not-at-all-confusing flow chart made by The Pokémon Company.
Depending on the game from which you’re trying to transfer pocket monsters, you might also need to download Poké Transporter, which is accessible from within the Bank app on 3DS.Īs for why certain games require a separate app, it likely comes down to newer games being built with the ability to interface directly with Pokémon Bank, while the others need the Poké Transporter to handle the data transfer for them. Your first step should be to open the eShop app and download Pokémon Bank. You’ll first need to route your collection through Pokémon Bank, an older cloud-based service. If you have a pokédex stored on games made for the Nintendo DS or 3DS systems, you can’t jump straight to uploading on Pokémon Home. Image: Nintendo / Game Freak Upload your 3DS / DS collection to Pokémon Bank There are several steps involved, and while they are actually simple, there are a lot of crossed wires to untangle along the way. We’ll start with the more involved process of migrating from older 3DS and DS games to Home. Given that Pokémon games span so many years and various console platforms, getting all of your pokémon into Pokémon Home involves more steps the longer your journey dates back - less if you’ve only gotten started with the recent Pokémon titles on the Switch. Better yet, it allows you to form a unified pokédex, pulling in the pokémon you’ve caught in previous games so you can deploy them in, say, Pokémon Sword or Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! ( Pokémon Go support is still in development for the Home app.) One of its most alluring features is that it allows you to keep your pokédex handy wherever you might be - for a fee.
Yellow to Pokémon Omega Ruby, Pokémon Alpha Sapphire, Pokémon X, or Pokémon Y via Pokémon Bank.Pokémon Home is a new cloud-based storage service available as an app for Android and iOS phones and tablets, as well as the Nintendo Switch. Note that Pokémon cannot be moved directly from Pokémon Gold, Pokémon Silver, Pokémon Red, Pokémon Blue,
To certain limitations, it is recommended that you install Pokémon Red, Pokémon Blue, Pokémon Yellow, Pokémon Gold, and Pokémon Silver on the same Nintendo 3DS system as Pokémon Bank. Pokémon Silver, Pokémon Red, Pokémon Blue, and Pokémon Yellow to Pokémon Ultra Sun, Pokémon Ultra Moon, Pokémon Sun, and Pokémon Moon. You can use your existing Pokémon Bank account
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