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Question about playing all the mainline Pokemon games on original hardware. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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I got my old game boys and have been playing pokemon gold on the gameboy color. I also have red and blue.

But, I want to play through the rest of them on original hardware up until the switch. I plan to use flash carts or some kind of mods to play the games as they are quite expensive.

Please let me know if there are any flaws in my plan.

Gameboy Advance SP (I like this as it’s backlit and will let me play my other gameboy games)

  • Pokemon Emerald

New 3dsxl/2dsxl

  • the rest of the games I’d like to play them all using flash carts or software mods. Since these games are not as old I’ll buy the original if they are under $100

Is it as simple as picking up these two consoles to play all the pre-switch pokemon games? Is there a better non-emulation option?

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[–] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks. I kind of want the option to buy the original carts later and thought the gba would be better since it plays gameboy games.

Then the 3ds should handle all the ds stuff.

I figured this way I could get maximum compatibility and have the option of buying original game carts down the line.

[–] the16bitgamer@programming.dev 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Then you’ll definitely want an DS or DS Lite and the R4 since you can backup your cart and make your own ROM with it.

The GBxCart is also another good value backup tool.

3DS and DS games are best backed up on a modded 3DS

[–] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 24 minutes ago

I’m not sure if you will know the answer to this, but in my region 2ds, 3ds xl are at least $200 but the original 3ds is just like $90.

Is there something about the original that makes it so much cheaper? I only plan to use it for pokemon. I have a steamdeck for everything else. It’s just the dual screens are kind of important for those titles.