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[divinit3a]

forehead kiss :)

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[vito303]

Sitting here thinking about how pokemon bank better be on the switch. I dont even care how tedious it would be to transfer. Nobody knows suffering until they've transferred 3 games worth of pokemon to diamond and pearl... if i can live through that hell everyone else can deal with a less convenient transfer to switch.

If ya'll never had to deal with it, ill try my best to unrepress my experiences.

If i remember you could only transfer 6 pokemon a day. Then, you had to go through this mini game to catch them in a controlled zone. It might not seem awful but the 24 hours didnt switch at midnight, it was a literal if you did it at 8pm the next open window to do it again was at 8pm the next day. So if you wanted to transfer pokemon from r/s/e or lf/fr, any small change in your schedual fucked you up, making you wait another day because of how your personal 24 hour timer landed.

The restraint on 6 pokemon was equally as hellish. You had to go through the hassle of getting rid of any learned HMs and the process was slow to transfer. Not to mention it was only possible after you beat the game. Which is why i was so pissed when sun and moon made me wait so bank was updated. Unreasonable of me sure but damn i had flashbacks. Also dont forget, GBA carts jetted out of DS', like GBC carts did out of SP's. If you bumped that fucker itd spazz out and tell you to try again later. I cant remember if it made you wait 24 hrs.

When you went to transfer these 6 pokemon, logically youd think they'd go into your boxes, afterall, the PC system literally has remained the same for 14 years! Nope. They made you play this mini game, the pal park. They had small biomes, where you could see a pokemon might reside. Your job was to take pokemon that knew surf and shit, and track your pokemon down in the pal park. It wasnt huge, but it was big enough and varied jist enough, that your one legendary might take 10 minutes to find because nintendo figured it belonged in a biome you didnt expect. I might have given up if they hadnt made the pal park balls basically masterballs.

Luckily, I THINK ,you could transfer items with the pokemon, which helped berry people, but i could be wrong. It didn't matter much anyways since pokemon bank killed item carryovers. Cant have us loyalists bring an enigma berry or some shit with us, god forbid.

After the whole process, for me anyways, I was so so tired. I never again transferred from gba to ds, meaning i also never replayed my carts. I didnt want to deal with the pain i experienced from transfering 100s of pokemon over months of working around the clock and mistakes. I feel like drom d/p/p to b/w/b2/w2was still tedious, but easier with time and a less awful mini game. Maybe its less shitty experince made me not remember as much.

All i ask is nintendo keeps its promise and pokemon bank ends up being a simple update and its a true cloud service. Worst case tho, i guess another pal park would do, somehow... while i really... really hope not...