Can You Trade With Pokémon ROM Hack Games? 

One thing I wanted to add about transferring Pokémon that would have invalid 'met locations': There's a chance it would never end up getting detected, since after the transfer happens, it's new info would be "Caught in FireRed, Met in the Pal Park" meaning it would never get detected as being in a weird area, like Mudkip originating from Pallet Town. I simply don't know for sure right now!

I’ve set up trading between Emerald and the rom hack Inclement Emerald several times and got interesting results. Whenever it was anything past gen 3 it displayed as a weird question mark glitch mon that crashed the game upon looking at the summary screen. The actual gen 3 Pokemon are completely switched around because the index numbers were changed in the rom hack too, so you have stuff like Zangoose on vanilla Emerald appearing as Latias in Inclement Emerald. And some very early gen 4 Pokemon turn into stable gen 3 Pokemon on the other game as well. It is actually possible to trade a Pokemon from Inclement to the main game as long as they don’t know moves past gen 3, since those just crash the game upon their names being loaded.

I remember convincing my parents to get my a physical copy of Pokemon Quartz 16 years ago and trading over anything I could from Emerald and Fire Red to see what they turned into. It was super fun until the cartridge decided to just wipe the save and I lost 3 games worth of mons 🙃

To my knowledge ROM hacks where they’re majorly changed, or in Pokémon unbounds case using CRFU, should not be able to trade and would give a bad egg if you were to even successfully trade. for that mudkip if you traded up to gen 4, it would assign it’s met location 0x37 which is Pal Park and disregard the original met location

Afaik , Pokemon Crystal Clear was specifically made so it has trading support. I've even heard it can work with stadium 2?

Some romhacks are compatible, some aren't

That SP has seen some things! xD

I traded a Firegg from a physical ROM hack cart of Pokemon Quarts. The Firegg became a Torchic, but her stats seem to be identical.

Dude is risking a trade with a low battery lol.

Something interesting is that many ROM hacks do disable any multiplayer features by removing the multiplayer section of the Pokémon Centers Which is a shame cause Liquid Crystal would be REAL useful to complete the national dex since you have access to the Johto Pokémon which are by far the hardest ones to obtain in the third gen as the sevii islands are quite late in the game in FR/LG and doesn't even have ALL of them, and R/S/E barely has sum few Johto Pokémon here and there like some wild Scarmory in the north part of the map, while Liquid Crystal could make possible all including the legendaries (don't know about mythicals tho)

I remember the rom hack of rse that my cousin used to have. It's called Frigo Returns. If you talk to a specific Pokémon Center npc, you'll get Frigo out of nowhere. And if you rock smash the rocks north of Mauville, you'll get Dryaz instead of Geodude. Those two had total different sprites, too. Now who are Frigo and Dryaz? Well he traded them to me in my Italian copy of Ruby. (I'm Southeast Asian but one of my aunts who works in italy gave me that game). Going back to those two. Frigo is Articuno and Dryaz is Kangaskhan.

In the few rom hacks I’ve played I’ve only found trading compatibility with these 1. Emerald Kaizo 2. Emerald Crest* only Kanto/Johto Pokémon 3. Orange Islands 4. Shiny Gold

I’ve had no issue trading from Ultra Violet to Sapphire/Leaf Green 🤷🏻‍♂️

if you have a cartridge ripper you can use pkHex to trade between the cartridges with compatible pokemon

I actually just beat unbound the other day. Best rom hacks I've played in a long time.

Hold up, Legends Arceus for the GAMEBOY?? I’m gonna need a video on that good sir

Can you try doing trade between emulators it will help a lot of us (both mobile and pc)

It has a lot to do with the index values of the Pokemon and moves. For instance, Gen 1 glitch Pokemon traded to Gen 2 games would become whatever Pokemon the index value equalled. I think that would still be the case between deep rom hacks and original, but perhaps in reverse. After all, index values no longer match.

I've been waiting for someone to do a video on this for a long time

Dude this has been on my mind for so long

I’ve actually been wondering this for a while, but for the life of me can’t find my old link cable. Thanks for answering the burning question!

There could be the possibility of trading with rom hacks using something like a gameshark cartridge. The trading rooms are probably still in the game, but without the warp. maybe one could use a gameshark to change one warp location into multiplayer floor.

Damn, a cartridge for Unbound. How the hell does it work on your SP?

I was surprised when I tried this myself. My authentic copy of Emerald was able to trade with my fake copy of Sapphire.

I had a Pokemon Brown bootleg cartridge, it was able to be used on Pokemon Stadium on the N64. GB Tower didn't work but I could use all my pokemon in battles and use the lab to move Pokemon and items about. The version of Brown I had on cartright was an older version, so it only had the original 151 pokemon. I suspect if I had the newer version of Brown it wouldn't work at all. Might be an idea for another video for you to try out.

I have a bulbasaur that knows recognised electric moves as it was traded to my pearl from chaos black in which the fakémon was grass electric type.

Any CFRU hacks can trade and battle each other. I only know and have traded 4 CFRU hacks; Unbound, RadRed, TLFR, and Saiph 2. Some doesn't goes smooth but they did connect (i.e. you can enter the link room but the chance of successful trade or battle are depends)

At least between rom hacks, i can say that I was able to trade between Radical Red and Unbound, likely due to both using the CFRU+DPE (Complete FireRed Upgrade and Dynamic Pokémon Expansion). From what I remember there are specific Pokémon that can't be transferred, but for the most part the versions I was using were compatible.

Wtf, that's awesome! Please tell me where you got the Legends Arceus cartridge!!

The mudkip will still be legal, I was able to transfer 3 shiny kyurems from the same save file through pokebank

Man what tf happened to your sp lol Also i got a fake heart gold few months back, curious if it'll work with a pokewalker but i'm scared to buy a pokewalker if it doesn't work

cool video man

I did this with Pokemon karosu a couple of months ago, it wouldn't let me trade between emerald because you can't get the ruby and sapphire in the game. but you can trade with another copy of fire red, thats how i evolved my gangar in my playthrough. but, i was wondering what would happen if i tried to trade my galade from karosu into vanilla fire red.

Thank you it because I have think it can trade a rom hack to a real copy

This 100% comes down to whether the rom hack kept the original serial protocol in their game, and whether or not the mons read as valid data to the legit cartridge. Its not a complex problem to solve, and you could add this functionality to nearly any game. A talented programmer could ever allow ds games to trade with gbc games.

I was trying to ask someone if a Fake Pokémon Black can trade with an Authentic Copy of Black 2. But no one makes a video about it.

You can trade between radical red and unbound. Might be possible to then trade from Radical Red to Fire Red.

So i want to get a bit more technical. So i have been trading pokemon from my fake soul silver copy to my real heart gold and platinum saves for a while. Will pokemon from the fake copy be seen as legit if i kept them in the heart gold game or, would it mess some things up? I'm mainly asking because i really miss my team from the fake copy and i want to see them again.

Can you try using a fake emerald copy with the emerald transfer on heartgold

I was able to trade between Pokémon renegade platinum rom on a modded 3ds and an authentic copy of platinum. I’m sure that the same legality issues are present for Pokémon that aren’t naturally found in platinum.

i need all those dam rock that are really different

also some Pokémon wont trade over. for example when I played orange islands I tried trading Crstal Onix and it wont trade for me

Lovin the informational content my man 💪🏻

when I tried this myself. I found out some games work and some don't they have to have trade center still there.

just curious can Pokémon go from unbound to dppt through the pal park

Hmm, here I was planning on trying my Pokemon Vega and my Pokemon LeafGreen or Sapphire...

My question has always been, if you play a hacked version of a mainline game with maxed items, send all the items you need to EV train your pokmon, would it be considered legit?

Thank you 🎉

I bought a fake ruby on ebay and can't get it to trade with my genuine emerald. Really unfortunate

No i tried with fire red and unbound on my emulator and got a bad egg

I've always wondered if you could try it with Mewthree X.

Sadly, trying to trade from Unbound only gives the main game bad eggs, I've tested it

Where do you even get something like that Unbound cart? Ive been tempted to play through it on tue GBA

I used to on my old android. The emulator let you connect the games by Bluetooth

TRADE BETWEEN TWO ROM HACKS

test if you can access the Rom hack pokeboxes when transfering to a DS game like Diamond and Pearl

Fuuuck i forgot about my ass version, i played that as a kid instead of firered lmao. It was originally called gta version iirc, but yeah apart from the bike being replaced by a car nothing has changed.

Wtf I have that same blanket

You Cant Trade a RH to Pal Park in D/P/PL/HG/SS i have 1 RH Cartrage and it Erased the Save Data of the RH Cartrage when i Tried Its Chaos Black BTW

Try trading with even more rom hacks

Using PKSM seems to be the best way to transfer pokemon from a rom hack to a real game

Hey kev

how does leaf green have a sprite for mudkip?

Reminder home detect illegal pokemon

Thank you being so kind help me and these people to better understand you God amen

I know the drayano ds hacks do

Ultra voilet is just fire red so yes i didnt even watch