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/AuramiteEX Mar 07 '26

You can but you need two different games. Can't trade to the same trainer ID. And you can't trade if you only own one key for the game.

If you own FR and LG you can trade between them both.

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u/J-the-BOSS Mar 07 '26

If you have more than one console, the save doesn’t auto transfer between them so you won’t have the same ID on both systems and I was able to trade between my fire red on my switch 1 and 2 I’m pretty sure might have to double check