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## Non-Core Game Glitch Discussion

### Can someone give me a technical explanation - Page 1

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#### Can someone give me a technical explanation

Posted by: greentyphlosion
Date: 2020-02-25 11:43:58
…of why, when trading between a GBA game and one of the Gamecube titles, the player on the GBA game has to be in a Pokemon Center?
I'm curious as to why this is the case, especially since inter-generational communication for later games (Pal Park, Poketransfer, My Pokemon Ranch) doesn't follow this rule. Is it a hardware limitation?

#### Re: Can someone give me a technical explanation

Posted by: Torchickens
Date: 2020-02-25 12:34:19

> …of why, when trading between a GBA game and one of the Gamecube titles, the player on the GBA game has to be in a Pokemon Center?
> I'm curious as to why this is the case, especially since inter-generational communication for later games (Pal Park, Poketransfer, My Pokemon Ranch) doesn't follow this rule. Is it a hardware limitation?

Wondering if it may have been because hypothetically you could trade while facing a challenge like one of the Elite Four members, allowing you to cheat (e.g. all your Pokémon are fainted, you trade the fainted ones back to Colosseum/XD to heal them, then trade them back while you're still facing the Elite Four). In X/Y you could actually do something like this with random online battles (to heal your team) if I remember rightly, and Game Freak may have addressed this in a later generation.
Another idea is that it could prevent a potential 'game over', but don't have any context for this latter idea except that there are Pokémon games that say something like "(X) was worried about you./came back. Did it miss you?" if you try to release all your Pokémon with a HM (very sorry, my memory sucks nowadays).

#### Re: Can someone give me a technical explanation

Posted by: greentyphlosion
Date: 2020-02-26 02:52:40
Yeah, you can do this as early as BW with infrared trading during the E4. That's a good point about a potential game over, I hadn't considered that. For that matter, I wonder if the Pokemon League counts as a Center… have to try that at some point.

#### Re: Can someone give me a technical explanation

Posted by: Torchickens
Date: 2020-02-26 04:28:56

> Yeah, you can do this as early as BW with infrared trading during the E4. That's a good point about a potential game over, I hadn't considered that. For that matter, I wonder if the Pokemon League counts as a Center… have to try that at some point.

Ooh I see. OK have fun experimenting. ^^
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