I have a Game Boy Advance SP and Pokemon Red GEN 1, and I'm curious if it is possible for me to trade a Pokemon from Red to the Virtual Console release of Pokemon Gold on the 3DS
Can you trade from Pokemon Red on GBA to Pokemon gold on virtual console
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Best Answer
You can't trade from a cartridge to a 3DS console.
But there is a process to go around this, you need a homebrew 3DS (Custom Firmware) and if you have any tool to extract the save file from your cartridge.
The process would have to go somewhat like this:
That would be a way to do it, is a lengthy process, but worth it if you really want to do it.