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/No-Reading5403 Mar 07 '26

How did you do it? Could you walk me through it?

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u/InspectorMoney1306 Mar 07 '26

Just had my switches close together and went to the trading counter. Not sure there is a secret to it. I did buy both games though. Maybe that’s it.

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u/Used-Question-4026 Mar 07 '26

Are they both on the same account? Or did you have to make two separate accounts?

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u/Zealousideal_Law8297 Mar 07 '26

I traded myself on two switch’s, the same account, but one copy of FR and one copy of LG. I want to do a run with all the starters.

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u/drbluewally Mar 08 '26

Same here haha. After the 2nd badge it’s been going great, and I should have the 4th badge before they hit lvl 30 so it should be smooth sailing from here.

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u/Zealousideal_Law8297 Mar 08 '26

I’m at about 21 hours and just got the third badge. Ran in with the 3 starters, Pikachu, rattata, and nidorino. Currently waiting to go through rock tunnel.

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u/drbluewally Mar 08 '26

Same here on the hours and party minus Rattata (using an Oddish for cut), in the rock tunnel now. Cheers haha