Red/Yellow/Blue

[loganstar1]

Shoutout to the Nintendo 3DS eShop! Congratulations on emulating Pokemon Blue/Red/Yellow last week, but I think we need 2 more Pokemon games that needs to be emulated into the eShop. I believe we all know this, Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire. Comment below what you think!

 

[Pandaxclone2]

Pokemon Gold, Silver and Crystal are more likely to happen. GBA VC games are not currently possible on the 3DS, or at least in a way that Nintendo wishes to see fit. (Perhaps on the N3DS though, but still unlikely.)

See, even though there are the ambassador games include 10 GBA games, those aren't actually VC titles. VC titles emulate the game and can use save states and pause when the system is closed, whereas the GBA titles are run using a simulated ARM7 processor. The 3DS' ARM11 dual core is capable of simulating this via down-clocking, but that means the core has to drop some things it's doing, (Basically it runs some background stuff like wireless, friends list and a few more things.)

So what happens is that the system is just for the time being pouring it's resources into playing those GBA games. While that's neat, it doesn't carry with it the save restore feature, a digital manual and the ability to pause when the 3DS is closed. Put on top of which, Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire would most definitely need to be using the link cable features which is another feature. (Admittedly then the save restore feature would be gone as Game Freak wouldn't want people cloning Pokemon via trades.)

Wii U is unlikely to work as well since then the system can't utilise the link cable feature very well. Our best bet is to hope that perhaps such GBA VC games are possible on the N3DS, but personally I believe that even then, Gen II would have more of a chance coming first than Ruby and Sapphire, and may even be around already by the time GBA VC for the N3DS is a thing.

 

[loganstar1]

Pokemon Gold, Silver and Crystal are more likely to happen. GBA VC games are not currently possible on the 3DS, or at least in a way that Nintendo wishes to see fit. (Perhaps on the N3DS though, but still unlikely.)

See, even though there are the ambassador games include 10 GBA games, those aren't actually VC titles. VC titles emulate the game and can use save states and pause when the system is closed, whereas the GBA titles are run using a simulated ARM7 processor. The 3DS' ARM11 dual core is capable of simulating this via down-clocking, but that means the core has to drop some things it's doing, (Basically it runs some background stuff like wireless, friends list and a few more things.)

So what happens is that the system is just for the time being pouring it's resources into playing those GBA games. While that's neat, it doesn't carry with it the save restore feature, a digital manual and the ability to pause when the 3DS is closed. Put on top of which, Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire would most definitely need to be using the link cable features which is another feature. (Admittedly then the save restore feature would be gone as Game Freak wouldn't want people cloning Pokemon via trades.)

Wii U is unlikely to work as well since then the system can't utilise the link cable feature very well. Our best bet is to hope that perhaps such GBA VC games are possible on the N3DS, but personally I believe that even then, Gen II would have more of a chance coming first than Ruby and Sapphire, and may even be around already by the time GBA VC for the N3DS is a thing.

Thanks for the post! I didn't know there was a link cable until now! But now you got me interested on looking up GBA on the 3ds!