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predictions of doom
05-17-2009, 01:27 PM
Is it possible to transfer from Crystal to Sapphire?
I Googled it and got a pile of unintelligible chat speak about a time machine, but no actual instructions on how to do it...
I'm assuming that you need two GBAs, and a link cable...
cowmoo83
05-17-2009, 01:28 PM
Nope, it's impossible.
Death By Bronzong
05-17-2009, 01:39 PM
Impossible
Pikadude609
05-17-2009, 01:54 PM
As cowmoo and dbb say its impossible. The time machine was trading from gold/silver/crystal to red/blue/yellow.
predictions of doom
05-17-2009, 02:23 PM
Ah well. I shouldn't have gotten my hopes up, I guess.
Pikadude609
05-17-2009, 03:15 PM
Keep up good hopes though as when HeartGold and SoulSilver are out you can transfer the jhoto pokemon from there to d/p/p. Now everyone who has the game will have atleast one shiny in there whole time playing pokemon!
Jhamin
05-18-2009, 01:42 AM
You can pretty much seperate all pokemon games into two groups.

Group 1: Red, Blue, Yellow, Silver, Gold, Crystal. All N64 Pokemon Games.

Group 2: Sapphire, Ruby, Emerald, LeafGreen, FireRed, Diamond, Pearl, Platinum. All Gamecube & Wii Pokemon Games.

Games in Group 1 can exchange Pokemon between them. (with a few restrictions.)
Games in Group 2 can exchange Pokemon between them. (with a few restrictions.)

There is *NO* crossover between the groups. None. Zero. Zilch. Nada.

One of the few things we do know about HeartGold & SoulSilver is that they will be 4th Gen games when they are released, putting them solidly into group 2. So sadly, even when you own a copy of SoulSilver, while it can trade to Platinum, it will not be able to connect to an old copy of regular silver.
slammer951
05-19-2009, 01:39 PM
I accidentley did a double post can someone please remove this

IS it possible that they could make HeartGold and SoulSilver compatible with both groups :p
cowmoo83
05-19-2009, 02:53 PM
I accidentley did a double post can someone please remove this

IS it possible that they could make HeartGold and SoulSilver compatible with both groups :p

most likely not. This would require a different style of trading cord and it would be too complicated to switch all the IVs to group 2 style.
Jhamin
05-19-2009, 06:16 PM
IS it possible that they could make HeartGold and SoulSilver compatible with both groups :p

Really unlikely. For a few reasons.

- The way stats are created changed from Gen II to Gen III. IVs, EVs, & natures work differently. You would have to re-create the pokemon, not just transfer them.
- Nintendo Stopped selling Silver/Gold/Crystal five years ago. That is an eternity in video game time. Why go to a lot of trouble to be backward compatable with something that old, expecially when Diamond/Pearl/Platinum aren't compatable & people didn't really care?
- Most Silver/Gold carts had batteries that stopped working after 7 years. As we are now 10 years out from their release date, most people's save games have stopped working. Why do all the extra work of getting them to transfer if only a lucky few will get any benefit out of it.
- We have already seen a set of remakes: LeafGreen & FireRed. They didn't let you transfer from the old games.

Don't get me wrong, I have an old copy of Crystal that still works, and I'd love to get some of my old team off of it, but I really don't think that is ever going to happen. :(
Gunshin
05-27-2009, 09:46 PM
IS it possible that they could make HeartGold and SoulSilver compatible with both groups :p

Actually, it is infact impossible, since GBC games can't be played on the DS, So therefore, HG an SS will never trade between both groups =D Also, I think it's really to late to bother with creating a GBA game that is compatible with silver and ect, also silver/gold/ect don't have it in their code so you would need a recoded version to be able to connect to another game.

So I guess, it is impossible.