I’ve never transferred Pokemon between gens and I’ve never used Pokemon Home, but it seems wild to me to be so invested into such a fickle storage system. Thoughts and prayers for the guy affected
Is there no way to backup your saves before attempting the transfer? Like just copy the save file?
That really hurts. I lost so many save files back then from cartridges where battery dies (or cart was sold) and from memory card corruption or other problems on the Playstation. Even today I lost save files because of HD problems (Steam games without Cloud Save or Emulator saves which I did not backup).
But nothing compares to a save file with thousand of hours and 20 years of managing it. Man, reading this I feel so sorry and sad for this person. Thanks Nintendo. That happens if you don’t let people access save files directly and let them backup at least offline.
Problem is that they would still need to have some kind of authentication to avoid offline backups becoming clone factories. I used to give away Mews and Celebis by trading them and then restoring my cart’s SRAM with a portable backup device.
Good point, I certainty didn’t think of this issue.
This is sad. Happened to me years ago when I bricked my Wii and lost the mons in Ranch, but that was my own fault; it doesn’t seem like this person did anything wrong.
Things like this is why I’m working on local backups of my mons, but still things like this annoy me.
Turns out the problem loading the link was on my end.
I wonder if they could mod the OG switch, backup the nand, then run software to find files without inodes on the backup. One of these should be the save file, right? It’d be a lot of work but possible.
TIL you can transfer pokemons between generation…
Does Pokemon have microtransactions now? If so, I wouldn’t be surprised if they deliberately made the transfer mechanism buggy so some kid loses all their Pokemon and their parents are forced to buy them back to get them to stop crying.
It wouldn’t work that way. Individual Pokemon are made up of many stat values that make them much more unique than gacha characters and skins. My Espeon from Gale of Darkness can’t be replaced with another Espeon.
