In order to use this ROM, you need to download an emulator for Nintendo DS. Not every emulator uses the same kind of save files, I notice some of them are different depending on the emulator. The ROM download of Pokémon SoulSilver Version is available for DS, but remember that the ROM is only a part of it. and so on, Gen II trading to Gen III Emerald and so on.
So I am going to start with LeafGreen (Gpsp) and when I am done I would like to trade my LeafGreen Pokemon to HeartGold or SoulSilver (once I decide on a DS Flashcard) (But I will obviously use my Mac and Emulators to conduct the trade and import the saves) and start playing the remakes of Gen II (HGSS) and so on. I found out the hard way after defeating the 3rd gym member in Pokemon Crystal (Gen II) for Gameboy (on Gambatte) that there is no "REAL" way to transfer your legit pokemon to Generation III (due to the IV and EV stats changing, which I do not understand yet). To be honest, I have only recently begun replaying pokemon (using retroarch on my n3ds). It seems like I am pretty much good to go from here on out with this subject.Īs well as all other pkmn trainers out there that want to keep their teams and trade them over.
There are some that just dont work, so I just use an old junk laptop I have for those I use winebottler for most of my exe files.
MERGED -Īlmost all of these programs are windows programs btw, definately look into getting wine, or windows xp running in a virtual machine on your mac. Im on mobile and so I cant give you all the links you might need, but they will be super easy to find if you use google. This is because pokemon data is stored in a different manner to make up for abilities, and the special stat split and a whole host of other things (thats the short answer) you could attempt to recreate the pokemon using a pokesav for the generation you want, but you will have to make up/guestimate iv and ev values. I will also mention that it will be completely impossible to move pokemon from gen1 or 2 to any higher generation. I dont know much about it, but if its an exe, you can use wine or vmware to run it on osx. And then transfer them legitimately to gen 6. However, if you have access to a physical gen 5 game, you can inject your emulator sav file into the physical cart using a variety of methods. This is because pokemon are stored differently from before and there is no easy way to transfer them over with that method. You will not be able to move pokemon from gen 5 to gen 6 using an emulator. (There are different pokesav programes for each game). And just import it into the sav of the gen 5 game using pokesav.
Once the pokemon is in gen 4, it should be easy to extract the pkm file from the gen 4 sav file using pokesav. The following method may also work to move from gen 3 to gen 4, but im pretty sure gen3 pkm files arent directly compatable with higher generations. Long answer: See daxtsu's answer above about using your emulator to link games. Short answer: As long as youre working with generation 3, 4 or 5, its possible.