The Nintendo Change ports of Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen have formally been out for only a few hours, which can as properly be a couple of months so far as dataminers are involved. Up to now two hours alone, the web has been doing its finest to speedrun the entire secrets and techniques hidden inside the ROMs for FireRed and LeafGreen.
That features the saddening information that profanity is now banned when naming your in-game character/rival and, in accordance to one player who has by some means already made it to the tip of the sport, the inclusion of the Aurora Ticket and Mystic Ticket limited-time distribution gadgets. You possibly can shiny-hunt Deoxys, however you possibly can not name your arch-nemesis ASSCLOWN. Nintendo giveth, and Nintendo taketh away.
Nonetheless, essentially the most fascinating revelation, in keeping with a dataminer by the title of Yakumono/LuigiBlood, is that the emulator used besides Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen reportedly helps ROMs for Pokémon Sapphire, Ruby, and Emerald as properly. That will trace at attainable plans for Nintendo to convey extra traditional Pokémon video games from the collection’ GBA days to the Change and Change 2 libraries.
Based on a dataminer, the Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen releases from right this moment internally additionally are compatible for Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald, that means these may very well be coming sooner or later. pic.twitter.com/MvdB0sJS7N
— Centro LEAKS (@CentroLeaks) February 27, 2026
In a post on Bluesky, LuigiBlood said that they’d uncovered a couple of fascinating tidbits in regards to the new GBA Change ports, together with that the emulator in query is Sloop, the identical emulator Nintendo makes use of for the Sport Boy Advance video games featured within the Nintendo Classics library, and that the ROMs have been “closely modified and rebuilt.”
In fact, that’s small potatoes in comparison with their largest reported discovery. “The one different info I’ll put out is that the emulator explicitly acknowledges ROMs of Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald alongside FireRed and LeafGreen. I discovered this alongside the initialization code that’s associated to enabling emulator hacks for particular video games.”
If that is certainly appropriate, does this imply that ports of the third-gen Pokémon video games is perhaps coming to the Nintendo Change eShop within the close to future? In a follow-up reply, LuigiBlood was fast to state that we shouldn’t be getting forward of ourselves on that entrance. “What we see is a snapshot of present code in the intervening time it was constructed. It’s not an oracle. Perhaps it means RSE is subsequent, possibly it’s by no means really occurring. It simply means they’d intentions at one level and nothing else.”
