{"id":1803526,"date":"2026-03-03T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1803526"},"modified":"2026-03-03T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T08:00:00","slug":"for-better-or-worse-pokemon-firered-and-leafgreens-switch-ports-arent-exactly-as-we-remember-them-but-is-that-a-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1803526","title":{"rendered":"For better or worse, Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen&#8217;s Switch ports aren&#8217;t exactly as we remember them &#8211; but is that a problem?"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"article \" data-ads=\"true\" data-article-type=\"features\" data-article-group=\"feature\" data-paywalled=\"false\" data-premium=\"false\" data-sponsored=\"false\" data-type=\"article\">\n<header class=\"article_header\" data-component=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n<nav class=\"nav_breadcrumbs\" data-component=\"nav-breadcrumbs\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\">\n<ul class=\"nav-links\">\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Home<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/features\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Features<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/pokemon-leafgreen-firered\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Pok\u00e9mon FireRed and LeafGreen<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/nav><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_details\" id=\"main-content\">\n<h1 class=\"title\">For better or worse, Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen&#8217;s Switch ports aren&#8217;t exactly as we remember them &#8211; but is that a problem?<\/h1>\n<p class=\"strapline\">Any port in a storm.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_asset\">\n<figure class=\"headline_image_wrapper\">\n<p>        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"headline_image\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/brock-hard.jpg?width=690&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;dpr=3&amp;auto=webp\" alt='Brock in FireRed saying \"My Pokemon are all rock hard\"' loading=\"eager\" data-uri=\"brock-hard.jpg\" data-lightbox width=\"690\" height=\"388\"><figcaption>\n          <span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>Eurogamer<\/cite><\/span><br \/>\n        <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"metadata\">\n<div class=\"avatar\">\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dom Peppiatt avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/pxl_20220402_110941365.portrait_V04meYj.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1044\" height=\"1130\"><\/p>\n<p>  <img alt=\"Dom Peppiatt avatar\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-uri=\"pxl_20220402_110941365.portrait_V04meYj.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1044\" height=\"1130\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<div class=\"byline\">\n                  <span class=\"article_type\" data-slug=\"features\"><br \/>\n                    Feature<br \/>\n                  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"by\">by<\/span> <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/authors\/dom-peppiatt\">Dom Peppiatt<\/a><\/span>                    <span class=\"job_title\"><br \/>\n                      Deputy Editorial Director<br \/>\n                    <\/span>\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"published_at\">\nPublished on <time datetime=\"2026-03-03T11:00:00+00:00\">March 3, 2026<\/time>              <\/div>\n<div class=\"comments\">\n      <a class=\"comments__link comments-bubble\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/for-better-or-worse-pokemon-firered-and-leafgreens-switch-ports-arent-exactly-as-we-remember-them-but-is-that-a-problem?view=comments\" rel=\"nofollow\"><br \/>\n          2 comments<br \/>\n      <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mypop-header-wrapper\">\n<p><button class=\"mypop-button button wide\" data-state=\"follow\" data-type=\"tag\" data-uuid=\"b14cee41-e7cc-41ab-aa2b-3f8fb2bc688f\" data-name=\"Poku00e9mon FireRed and LeafGreen\" data-follow-text=\"Follow Poku00e9mon FireRed and LeafGreen\" data-unfollow-text=\"Following Poku00e9mon FireRed and LeafGreen\" data-aria-follow-text=\"Follow Poku00e9mon FireRed and LeafGreen\" data-aria-unfollow-text=\"Following Poku00e9mon FireRed and LeafGreen\" data-popup=\"true\" data-force-login=\"true\" aria-label=\"Follow Pok\u00e9mon FireRed and LeafGreen\" title=\"Follow Pok\u00e9mon FireRed and LeafGreen\"><br \/>\n  Follow Pok\u00e9mon FireRed and LeafGreen<br \/>\n<\/button>          <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<div class=\"desktop_mpu\">\n<div class=\"mpu1 lazyload\" data-dfp-id=\"eurogamer_net\/mobile_web_display\/article\" data-dfp-sizes=\"300x250\" data-dfp-targeting=\"site=eurogamer.net,pos=1,gto=false,position=desktop-article-mpu,gnpos=1\" data-dfp-collapse=\"false\" data-dfp-above-the-fold=\"true\" data-dfp-refresh-direct=\"true\" data-prebid-config=\"MPU_1\" id=\"desktop_mpu_1\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Over the weekend, the fog around Nintendo&#8217;s unexpected (and, in some ways, controversial) rerelease of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/pokemon-leafgreen-firered\">Pok\u00e9mon FireRed\/LeafGreen <\/a>has lifted, and it&#8217;s all left me feeling rather peculiar. When Nintendo first announced these ports, released via the Nintendo eShop where they retail <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/nintendo-is-releasing-pokemon-firered-and-leafgreen-on-switch-consoles-but-youll-have-to-buy-them-as-they-are-skipping-nintendo-switch-online\">for \u00a316.99 <em>each<\/em><\/a>, there was a lot of community outcry. Previously, we&#8217;d seen Game Boy Advance titles added to the Nintendo Classics catalogue, accessible via a paid Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack membership. A bit cheeky, fine, but for those that wanted to partake in some retro goodness, it&#8217;s always been an indulgent bonus.<\/p>\n<p>With Pok\u00e9mon FireRed\/LeafGreen, we&#8217;re being asked to shell out nearly \u00a335 for the package. <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.nintendo.com\/GB\/en\/membership\">That&#8217;s a full year&#8217;s subscription<\/a> to an individual Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack Individual membership, for anyone keeping count. From the off, then, large parts of the Pok\u00e9mon community were pitched against these ports &#8211; and it&#8217;s a shame. This initiative marks a rare moment of Nintendo reaching into days of Pok\u00e9mon past to make older experiences relevant again on new hardware. The last time we saw this in earnest was with the launch of Crystal on the 3DS in 2018 (at a similar price point, I might add).<\/p>\n<p>As someone that has been a follower of Pok\u00e9mon since Gen 1 &#8211; with Gen 2 being a firm favourite &#8211; I am happy to be able to play the games properly, without having to emulate. Getting the GBA versions of Red and Green on Switch is something of a dream come true, I thought to myself this weekend, as I sat on the sofa playing it on my nice big HD TV. Playing an older Pok\u00e9mon game like this would have blown my teenage self&#8217;s tiny mind. I am thankful that Game Freak, The Pok\u00e9mon Company and Nintendo have worked whatever magic to make this happen.<\/p>\n<p>However, there are caveats. This isn&#8217;t a straight-up port. For the child-minded amongst us, you can&#8217;t name your rival (or yourself) names like &#8220;Ass&#8221;, &#8220;Asshole&#8221; or &#8220;Dick&#8221;, with the game <em>not even acknowleding your input <\/em>and just moving onto the next screen, using one of the game&#8217;s default names used instead. It&#8217;s a rudimentary profanity filter, as it stands: you can get around it with Welsh swear words, or by using &#8220;azz&#8221; instead of &#8220;ass&#8221; and so on. Still, though, it&#8217;s an edit of the original game &#8211; for better or worse &#8211; and a cursory look at social media will tell you that it&#8217;s going down like a bag of cold Poliwags.<\/p>\n<figure data-count=\"2\" role=\"group\">\n<figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A Jigglypuff called 'Dickhead' in the game name screen\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/20260302143750-01KJQFCQYPVBZCD5DS3REGNTPZ.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7777777777777777\" width=\"1280\"><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"A Jigglypuff called 'Dickhead' in the game name screen\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-lightbox data-uri=\"20260302143750-01KJQFCQYPVBZCD5DS3REGNTPZ.jpg\" height=\"720\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7777777777777777\" width=\"1280\"><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A Jigglypuff called 'JIGGLYPUFF' in the game name screen\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/20260302143751-01KJQFCN2A93KB1JHY6PK7V6JC.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7777777777777777\" width=\"1280\"><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"A Jigglypuff called 'JIGGLYPUFF' in the game name screen\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-lightbox data-uri=\"20260302143751-01KJQFCN2A93KB1JHY6PK7V6JC.jpg\" height=\"720\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7777777777777777\" width=\"1280\"><\/p>\n<\/figure><figcaption>Before, and after (yes, I do name my Pokemon after historical figures\/folk heroes). | <span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>Eurogamer<\/cite><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There&#8217;s method to the madness, of course. I&#8217;m assuming the profanity filter has been added because you&#8217;ll be able to transfer Pok\u00e9mon to Home (which can then be used to migrate them to newer games, with features like Wonder Trade, and so on) and Nintendo doesn&#8217;t want a situation where parents get angry because their child did a trade and the Pok\u00e9mon is a Hypno called &#8220;Dicknose&#8221; and the original Trainer is called &#8220;BastardMan&#8221; or something. It&#8217;s different from the original games, but Nintendo has always been family-first. We can take the hit, surely?<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>But, hang on. There&#8217;s more. I&#8217;m not the sort of boring puritan that is dead against <em>any<\/em> change being made to a port we&#8217;re buying in this manner. The original game still exists, and there are still\u2026 certain ways to play it\u2026 if I look hard enough online. If I want to call Green &#8220;Twatbag&#8221;, the world is my Cloyster on an Android, for example. But the other little changes Nintendo has made, now, they&#8217;re interesting.<\/p>\n<p>So far, I&#8217;ve encountered one major fix compared to the base game that I think is extraordinary: the &#8220;Roaming Roar bug&#8221; has been eradicated. Over the weekend, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OmegaJarrodX\/status\/2028140192381743570\">a user on Twitter<\/a> reported that the Roaming Roar bug that caused some pretty high-value losses the original games had been fixed. To explain simply; if roaming legendaries Raikou\/Entei used Roar afer appearing via random encounter then they would permanently despawn from the game. Forever. This has, seemingly, been fixed in the Nintendo Switch version of the games.<\/p>\n<p>This hasn&#8217;t been marketed, or &#8211; at the time of writing &#8211; confirmed by Nintendo. But it makes a big difference: it means someone, somewhere, has dipped into the code to tweak a line or two that has been infamous in Pok\u00e9mon communities for decades. The fact that the legendary beasts&#8217; IV values (read: hidden stats) are still completely borked is amusing, though &#8211; assumedly that was a tougher problem to address.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/20260302143748-01KJQFCTPXWAYM7JC5RVZ96RWT.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7777777777777777\" width=\"1280\"><\/p>\n<p><img alt data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-lightbox data-uri=\"20260302143748-01KJQFCTPXWAYM7JC5RVZ96RWT.jpg\" height=\"720\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7777777777777777\" width=\"1280\"><figcaption>&#8230;and yet Brock is allowed to say this.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the non-European version of the games (sorry, pals), the infamous &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/wikis\/pokemon-firered-leafgreen-version\/How_to_Get_Money_Fast_(Nugget_Bridge_Glitch)\">Nugget Bridge Gltich<\/a>&#8216; is still alive and kicking. Bear in mind you need an NA or JP version of the game in order for this to work &#8211; even on Switch! But seeing Nintendo fix &#8216;bad&#8217; bugs whilst leaving fun ones like this in the game\u2026 it&#8217;s an interesting tactic. And it helps remind us all of the fun we had in these games when we first played them years ago.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"2\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Finally, there&#8217;s the inclusion of &#8220;Event Tickets&#8221; in the game; special items that were previously tied to region-only events that allowed you to encounter Ho-Oh, Lugia and Deoxys. These items will magically appear in your inventory once you complete the Elite Four (read: enter the end-game), so you never have to travel to Japan during a specific week, for example, just to be able to nab a Deoxys. Better yet, these &#8216;mon aren&#8217;t &#8216;shiny locked&#8217;, meaning those with incredible patience and a lot of spare time can try forcing them to spawn as shinies, if desired &#8211; something that was unavailable in the original games. Niche, maybe, but if Pok\u00e9mon fans are anything, they&#8217;re a dedicated bunch.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still a bit sour on the fact that Nintendo issued these games at \u00a316.99 each. Maybe if it was for <em>both<\/em>, I&#8217;d be able to swallow the hit a bit easier. And I am torn about the inclusion of the profanity filter, too. But the games have also fixed a famous bug, they will allow me to migrate my &#8216;mon to Pok\u00e9mon Home, and they let me &#8211; for a fleeting moment &#8211; recapture some of that magic that made my childhood just a bit more bearable.<\/p>\n<p>I pray &#8211; <em>pray <\/em>&#8211; that we get Pok\u00e9mon HeartGold\/SoulSilver next. They are my favourite Pok\u00e9mon games, if not some of my favourite games of all time. And if someone said to me &#8220;OK, you get them, but with a profanity filter, and some bug fixes&#8221; would I bemoan that? Or would I embrace an even better version of a game I love with some slight changes in them? Probably the latter to be honest, because after all, if I have an issue with anything Game Freak\/Nintendo does, I can just go back and play the originals.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<div class=\"desktop_mpu\">\n<div class=\"mpu1 lazyload\" data-dfp-id=\"eurogamer_net\/mobile_web_display\/article\" data-dfp-sizes=\"300x250\" data-dfp-targeting=\"site=eurogamer.net,pos=1,gto=false,position=desktop-article-mpu,gnpos=1\" data-dfp-collapse=\"false\" data-dfp-above-the-fold=\"true\" data-dfp-refresh-direct=\"true\" data-prebid-config=\"MPU_1\" id=\"desktop_mpu_1\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Over the weekend, the fog around Nintendo&#8217;s unexpected (and, in some ways, controversial) rerelease of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/pokemon-leafgreen-firered\">Pok\u00e9mon FireRed\/LeafGreen <\/a>has lifted, and it&#8217;s all left me feeling rather peculiar. When Nintendo first announced these ports, released via the Nintendo eShop where they retail <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/nintendo-is-releasing-pokemon-firered-and-leafgreen-on-switch-consoles-but-youll-have-to-buy-them-as-they-are-skipping-nintendo-switch-online\">for \u00a316.99 <em>each<\/em><\/a>, there was a lot of community outcry. Previously, we&#8217;d seen Game Boy Advance titles added to the Nintendo Classics catalogue, accessible via a paid Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack membership. A bit cheeky, fine, but for those that wanted to partake in some retro goodness, it&#8217;s always been an indulgent bonus.<\/p>\n<p>With Pok\u00e9mon FireRed\/LeafGreen, we&#8217;re being asked to shell out nearly \u00a335 for the package. <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.nintendo.com\/GB\/en\/membership\">That&#8217;s a full year&#8217;s subscription<\/a> to an individual Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack Individual membership, for anyone keeping count. From the off, then, large parts of the Pok\u00e9mon community were pitched against these ports &#8211; and it&#8217;s a shame. This initiative marks a rare moment of Nintendo reaching into days of Pok\u00e9mon past to make older experiences relevant again on new hardware. The last time we saw this in earnest was with the launch of Crystal on the 3DS in 2018 (at a similar price point, I might add).<\/p>\n<p>As someone that has been a follower of Pok\u00e9mon since Gen 1 &#8211; with Gen 2 being a firm favourite &#8211; I am happy to be able to play the games properly, without having to emulate. Getting the GBA versions of Red and Green on Switch is something of a dream come true, I thought to myself this weekend, as I sat on the sofa playing it on my nice big HD TV. Playing an older Pok\u00e9mon game like this would have blown my teenage self&#8217;s tiny mind. I am thankful that Game Freak, The Pok\u00e9mon Company and Nintendo have worked whatever magic to make this happen.<\/p>\n<p>However, there are caveats. This isn&#8217;t a straight-up port. For the child-minded amongst us, you can&#8217;t name your rival (or yourself) names like &#8220;Ass&#8221;, &#8220;Asshole&#8221; or &#8220;Dick&#8221;, with the game <em>not even acknowleding your input <\/em>and just moving onto the next screen, using one of the game&#8217;s default names used instead. It&#8217;s a rudimentary profanity filter, as it stands: you can get around it with Welsh swear words, or by using &#8220;azz&#8221; instead of &#8220;ass&#8221; and so on. Still, though, it&#8217;s an edit of the original game &#8211; for better or worse &#8211; and a cursory look at social media will tell you that it&#8217;s going down like a bag of cold Poliwags.<\/p>\n<figure data-count=\"2\" role=\"group\">\n<figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A Jigglypuff called 'Dickhead' in the game name screen\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/20260302143750-01KJQFCQYPVBZCD5DS3REGNTPZ.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7777777777777777\" width=\"1280\"><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"A Jigglypuff called 'Dickhead' in the game name screen\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-lightbox data-uri=\"20260302143750-01KJQFCQYPVBZCD5DS3REGNTPZ.jpg\" height=\"720\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7777777777777777\" width=\"1280\"><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A Jigglypuff called 'JIGGLYPUFF' in the game name screen\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/20260302143751-01KJQFCN2A93KB1JHY6PK7V6JC.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7777777777777777\" width=\"1280\"><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"A Jigglypuff called 'JIGGLYPUFF' in the game name screen\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-lightbox data-uri=\"20260302143751-01KJQFCN2A93KB1JHY6PK7V6JC.jpg\" height=\"720\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7777777777777777\" width=\"1280\"><\/p>\n<\/figure><figcaption>Before, and after (yes, I do name my Pokemon after historical figures\/folk heroes). | <span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>Eurogamer<\/cite><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There&#8217;s method to the madness, of course. I&#8217;m assuming the profanity filter has been added because you&#8217;ll be able to transfer Pok\u00e9mon to Home (which can then be used to migrate them to newer games, with features like Wonder Trade, and so on) and Nintendo doesn&#8217;t want a situation where parents get angry because their child did a trade and the Pok\u00e9mon is a Hypno called &#8220;Dicknose&#8221; and the original Trainer is called &#8220;BastardMan&#8221; or something. It&#8217;s different from the original games, but Nintendo has always been family-first. We can take the hit, surely?<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>But, hang on. There&#8217;s more. I&#8217;m not the sort of boring puritan that is dead against <em>any<\/em> change being made to a port we&#8217;re buying in this manner. The original game still exists, and there are still\u2026 certain ways to play it\u2026 if I look hard enough online. If I want to call Green &#8220;Twatbag&#8221;, the world is my Cloyster on an Android, for example. But the other little changes Nintendo has made, now, they&#8217;re interesting.<\/p>\n<p>So far, I&#8217;ve encountered one major fix compared to the base game that I think is extraordinary: the &#8220;Roaming Roar bug&#8221; has been eradicated. Over the weekend, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OmegaJarrodX\/status\/2028140192381743570\">a user on Twitter<\/a> reported that the Roaming Roar bug that caused some pretty high-value losses the original games had been fixed. To explain simply; if roaming legendaries Raikou\/Entei used Roar afer appearing via random encounter then they would permanently despawn from the game. Forever. This has, seemingly, been fixed in the Nintendo Switch version of the games.<\/p>\n<p>This hasn&#8217;t been marketed, or &#8211; at the time of writing &#8211; confirmed by Nintendo. But it makes a big difference: it means someone, somewhere, has dipped into the code to tweak a line or two that has been infamous in Pok\u00e9mon communities for decades. The fact that the legendary beasts&#8217; IV values (read: hidden stats) are still completely borked is amusing, though &#8211; assumedly that was a tougher problem to address.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/20260302143748-01KJQFCTPXWAYM7JC5RVZ96RWT.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7777777777777777\" width=\"1280\"><\/p>\n<p><img alt data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-lightbox data-uri=\"20260302143748-01KJQFCTPXWAYM7JC5RVZ96RWT.jpg\" height=\"720\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7777777777777777\" width=\"1280\"><figcaption>&#8230;and yet Brock is allowed to say this.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the non-European version of the games (sorry, pals), the infamous &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/wikis\/pokemon-firered-leafgreen-version\/How_to_Get_Money_Fast_(Nugget_Bridge_Glitch)\">Nugget Bridge Gltich<\/a>&#8216; is still alive and kicking. Bear in mind you need an NA or JP version of the game in order for this to work &#8211; even on Switch! But seeing Nintendo fix &#8216;bad&#8217; bugs whilst leaving fun ones like this in the game\u2026 it&#8217;s an interesting tactic. And it helps remind us all of the fun we had in these games when we first played them years ago.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"2\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Finally, there&#8217;s the inclusion of &#8220;Event Tickets&#8221; in the game; special items that were previously tied to region-only events that allowed you to encounter Ho-Oh, Lugia and Deoxys. These items will magically appear in your inventory once you complete the Elite Four (read: enter the end-game), so you never have to travel to Japan during a specific week, for example, just to be able to nab a Deoxys. Better yet, these &#8216;mon aren&#8217;t &#8216;shiny locked&#8217;, meaning those with incredible patience and a lot of spare time can try forcing them to spawn as shinies, if desired &#8211; something that was unavailable in the original games. Niche, maybe, but if Pok\u00e9mon fans are anything, they&#8217;re a dedicated bunch.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still a bit sour on the fact that Nintendo issued these games at \u00a316.99 each. Maybe if it was for <em>both<\/em>, I&#8217;d be able to swallow the hit a bit easier. And I am torn about the inclusion of the profanity filter, too. But the games have also fixed a famous bug, they will allow me to migrate my &#8216;mon to Pok\u00e9mon Home, and they let me &#8211; for a fleeting moment &#8211; recapture some of that magic that made my childhood just a bit more bearable.<\/p>\n<p>I pray &#8211; <em>pray <\/em>&#8211; that we get Pok\u00e9mon HeartGold\/SoulSilver next. They are my favourite Pok\u00e9mon games, if not some of my favourite games of all time. And if someone said to me &#8220;OK, you get them, but with a profanity filter, and some bug fixes&#8221; would I bemoan that? Or would I embrace an even better version of a game I love with some slight changes in them? Probably the latter to be honest, because after all, if I have an issue with anything Game Freak\/Nintendo does, I can just go back and play the originals.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home Features Pok\u00e9mon FireRed and LeafGreen For better or worse, Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen&#8217;s Switch ports aren&#8217;t exactly as we remember them &#8211; but is that a problem? Any port in a storm. 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