But all the computers are connected via a network. Like I don’t have to go all the way back to Pallet Town from Lavendar Town to retrive the Weedle I tossed in there.
That’s right. Pay no attention to the duplication glitch that occurs if you disconnect your Gameboys after trading one way.
It’s definitely not restoring your totally unique and definitely not artificially reconstructed friend from a read only snapshot due to a glitch in Bill’s transfer code.
Correct, because the PCs in the Pokemon centers can communicate with Bill’s PC where your mons are stored. Said communication likely happens over the internet, and since this is 1996 we’re talking about, it’s very possibly not encrypted.
The lack of encryption is exactly why Porygon Z exists. A bad transfer along with a dubious disk and sure enough, your Porygon 2 gets a virus. And that’s not even 1996, but Gen IV.
But all the computers are connected via a network. Like I don’t have to go all the way back to Pallet Town from Lavendar Town to retrive the Weedle I tossed in there.
I somehow never thought about that. How does that work? Do they use a giant network of pneumatic tubes?
They get turned into red light when going into pokeball. They get stored as red light. No need for tubes to store ball.
Since the masterball exists that must mean you keep the masterball on you always and just pull the pokemon out with any connected PC.
Yeah. The Pokemon don’t get digitised and stored in a buffer, their ID transferred to Bill’s disks.
Bill just has an old PC case filled with occupied Pokeballs and a Chansey labelling them, ready to tube some back.
That’s right. Pay no attention to the duplication glitch that occurs if you disconnect your Gameboys after trading one way.
It’s definitely not restoring your totally unique and definitely not artificially reconstructed friend from a read only snapshot due to a glitch in Bill’s transfer code.
See, this is how we end up collapsing the universe…
Pidgey + rfc 1149
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers
“The internet isn’t some big truck you can dump everything onto! It’s a series of pneumatic tubes!”
Correct, because the PCs in the Pokemon centers can communicate with Bill’s PC where your mons are stored. Said communication likely happens over the internet, and since this is 1996 we’re talking about, it’s very possibly not encrypted.
The lack of encryption is exactly why Porygon Z exists. A bad transfer along with a dubious disk and sure enough, your Porygon 2 gets a virus. And that’s not even 1996, but Gen IV.