Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen's newest update gives players a free rare Pokemon, but also comes with bad news. The GBA games were released earlier this year as Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 ports with updated graphics, but retaining all of the original functionalities in terms of how to trade, how to complete the Pokedex, and so on. There were some improvements or fixes made to old issues found in Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen, such as the Roar bug affecting roaming Legendaries in the post-game, but most of the content was left the same.
This means that, in order to complete the National Pokedex in Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen, players would need access to the full collection of Gen 3 games on Nintendo Switch and Switch 2. In fact, trading is possible only locally with wireless connection in the ports, meaning that this excludes the actual GBA versions from trading with Switch versions, and one theoretically needs two consoles to trade critters on their own. With no Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire on Nintendo Switch, the National Pokedex is a pipe dream, and even more so with a new update.
In a surprising twist, fans can now play Pokemon on PC...
