Yesterday’s Nintendo Direct edition was packed with all sorts of highlights (here is an overview). One of these highlights made retro fans’ hearts beat faster: some Nintendo 64 Classics are coming to Nintendo Switch both this year and next in the format of the Nintendo Switch Online service (we inform). For example, next year you can pokemon stadium Y Pokémon Stadium 2 calculate.
A feature of the Nintendo 64 titles at the time was, among other things, the connection to the first, but also the second generation of Pokémon. For example, you could use the Transfer Pak to transfer Pokémon Blue Version to the Nintendo 64 Pokémon Stadium 2 cartridge and see your once-pixelated Pokémon in fancy 3D.
A similar recent feature of the Nintendo family of systems is the Pokemon START, which also allows you to store Pokemon, but also trade them back and forth in editions. That gave some Pokemon fans hope that Pokemon Stadiums 1 and 2 make use of this feature too, yes. joe merrickPokémon Fan Site Webmaster Serebiito worry Twitter out of disappointment According to him, it is the simple reason that Game Boy titles are not available on Nintendo Switch. He adds:
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So Pokémon Stadium 1 and 2 are not in NSO with other Pokémon games [Nintendo Switch Online] supported, and from my reports, people are upset about it. Let me explain why this is so and it can’t be easily fixed. In a nutshell: Game Boy games are not on Nintendo Switch.
Many argue that you can only play 3DS Virtual Console games, but that’s not really feasible. [Pokémon] Stadium reads and accesses saved data through the Transfer Pak and has frequent connections to it. Of [Nintendo] 3DS can’t do that with Nintendo Switch. You need a constant connection.
theoretically can you set up a system? and take care of save data, but that would be a lot of work and probably won’t show up on time, as these games probably won’t be released until AFTER the Nintendo 3DS eShop closes for new software downloads in March.
The next argument is Pokémon HOME. Many have suggested that HOME now stores different structures and that it would be possible, but that would require converting each Pokemon again to accommodate the Gen 1 and Gen 2 Pokemon format. Last time it took days.
In addition, (Pokémon HOME) must interact with the NSO save file, which contains more and more games. I’m not entirely sure how the connection between Pokémon Stadium and Pokémon HOME would work, since the HOME servers are not from Nintendo. That would require a lot of reworking.
If the Game Boy ever makes it to NSO and Pokemon titles are added, they may find a way around this and access the save data, but until then, that’s it. literally impossible.
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Did you expect or want to use the Pokémon transfer feature of Pokémon stages 1 and 2?
Reference: NintendoLife, Twitter (@JoeMerrick)
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