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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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[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Note for the IR, a Flipper Zero works too and the pokemon silver mystery gift files are already in the Flipper-IRDB (here's the data if anyone wants the IR file)

Filetype: IR signals file
Version: 1
#
# Mystery Gift for Pokemon Silver captured from Game Boy Color 
#
name: PkmnSlvrMystGftLink
type: raw
frequency: 38000
duty_cycle: 0.330000
data: 241 551 340

Also you can use it to trade in any pokemon with a separate board using the GPIO with a link cable and app, which can be handy if you don't have two consoles but do have a flipper or friend with one.

There's also a rom that, if you have two GBC and a flash cart, you can use to manipulate mystery gifts and choose what you want, and a way to do it with a rPi. https://projectpokemon.org/home/forums/topic/43930-mystery-gift-reverse-engineering-of-ir-protocol/