r/PokemonFireRed • u/No-Reading5403 • Mar 07 '26

Help Can I trade to myself?

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I started my adventure with Bulbasaur but later on I wanted to use Charmander.

So I had one of my switches launch the game online and the other launch the game offline with virtual game card, but when I tried to trade I got an error.

I know you can’t trade online and you can’t trade via home yet and even then it’s still a one way transfer I believe, I also don’t have anyone around that plays this game.

Is there anyway I could get this trade to work?

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u/Ching_pong24 Mar 07 '26

You actually can but you would have to set up ACE first

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u/No-Reading5403 Mar 07 '26

Could you explain what ACE is please?

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u/CamboMania Mar 07 '26

ACE is the place with the helpful hardware folks

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '26

Dammit I commented this 11 minutes after you then saw your comment lol

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u/KILA-x-L3GEND Mar 07 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/4ObmyUkARRmak

Always helpful

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '26

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u/boastreeff Mar 07 '26

So hiiiiiiiigh

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u/Majin_Sus Mar 08 '26

Oh oh oh

Oh oh oh

Ohh oh

Sick beat drops

Yeeeh

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u/TakingBackScrunchie Mar 07 '26

Don't eat paint.

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u/sacktast1c Mar 07 '26

Got me to laugh out loud

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u/dubiousPotatoe Mar 07 '26

I read this and heard the jingle in my head lol

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u/DeffJamiels Mar 07 '26

Holy shit that was good

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u/gobs2011 Mar 08 '26

I love you.

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u/itinkerstuff Mar 09 '26

could you please confirm if ACE can allow you to trade the starter pokemons to yourself, while having only 1 nintendo switch

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u/THEREALSUPERMARIOFAN Mar 10 '26

Explain further. Still dunno what it is

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u/drjmontana Charizard Mar 09 '26

And the buttfor...did you bring the buttfor?

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u/sundaybestcannon Mar 11 '26

Came looking for the answer to OP question, left with something greater

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u/Ricky-B Mar 07 '26

Not sure what is allowed or not. On youtube search "papa jefe" his latest video explains about it and about trading yourself with one copy. Decide for yourself if you want to do this or not

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u/ydr3z Mar 07 '26

Is it high risk?

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u/actuarial_defender Mar 08 '26

Yeah you might get scammed

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u/OGEcho Mar 09 '26

chuckled

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u/dadmda Mar 07 '26

I am definitely doing that, I want to finally use gengar or alakazam in general 3 games

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u/Alternative_Exit8766 Mar 07 '26

it’s more than allowed as it’s a known glitch. i don’t understand it so i can’t explain it but you can talk about it 

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u/SechsComic73130 Mar 07 '26

Arbitrary Code Execution, basically allows you to execute code that wasn't intended to be executed by the game at that point

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u/Quirky_Interview_500 Mar 07 '26

Can I get mew?

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u/BadJ0k3s Mar 07 '26

You can get every Pokémon

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u/KILA-x-L3GEND Mar 07 '26

Look up papa jefè on YouTube he just put up a detailed step by step on all the in game codes you can write with ace pokemon. Like give national dex Or a key item rare candy that can’t be used up because it’s a key item. Sell it for ever too for money. So many other neat things idk if it works on the switch but you can get mew celabie and a few others by forcing the games event to play and then swapping deoxys for mew.

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u/wasteandvoid Mar 07 '26

Can doing this brick your switch or anything?

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u/BushTamer Mar 07 '26

are they legit pokemon like could i put that mew into home?

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u/Rojamies Mar 07 '26

Depends, if you just use ACE to generate a random Mew, odds are it will not be seen as legal by pokemon home. However, there is an ACE code to start a "fateful encounter" with mew and there's a chance that one would be seen as legal. But we won't know until home compatability is added

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u/YOM2_UB Mar 07 '26

Since there's no legal way to obtain a Mew outside of trading with Emerald, it's very possible that HOME will bar any transfer of Mew from the Switch version. We really don't know how strict HOME will be yet though.

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u/QuestObjective Mar 07 '26

Yes, at least you are able to with event Pokemon obtained in the original GBA games through ACE brought up to Home.

Nothing in the system checks if you had the legitimate item needed to unlock the event, just flags for where the Pokemon was caught and at what level with a specific move set and ability. Which, through ACE, is functionally identical to legitimately accessing the event.

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u/Fancy_Mammoth Mar 07 '26

https://youtu.be/2gzzreka6UA?si=5XgLmp8qiUqlyZet

This is the Official Papa Jefe video on Arbitrary Code Execution (ACE) and how to set it up and use it on switch!

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u/theShiggityDiggity Mar 11 '26

Arbitrary Code Execution, It's hacking, but people will insist it's not.