GBA Datamine Fuels Hope and Worry for Pokémon Ports
A new datamine points to Pokémon Home links for the FireRed and LeafGreen remakes, and the leaker behind it says the news might not be kind to hopes for Ruby and Sapphire.
You know the particular thrill of a datamine dropping on a quiet Sunday: someone has gone spelunking through code nobody was supposed to see, and suddenly your group chat is alive again. That is exactly what happened this week, and it has the Pokémon crowd equal parts delighted and nervous.
According to the channel HDvee, a fresh datamine has turned up signs of Pokémon Home connectivity tied to FireRed and LeafGreen, the beloved Game Boy Advance remakes of the original Kanto games. That alone is the kind of small, specific delight this beat lives for: the idea of pulling your old Charizard out of a fifteen year old cartridge and walking it into the modern Pokémon ecosystem.
What the leak actually claims
HDvee frames the find as evidence that Nintendo and Game Freak have been quietly wiring up a path for FireRed and LeafGreen to talk to Pokémon Home. Nothing here has been confirmed by Nintendo or Game Freak, and no outlet beyond HDvee has independently verified the claim, so treat it as a report rather than a done deal.
The same video is where the mood shifts. HDvee says the same digging turned up what the channel describes as potential bad news for Ruby and Sapphire, the generation three originals that fans have spent months hoping would get their own Switch treatment following the official clip that reignited those rumors, as covered in Official Pokémon Clip Reignites Ruby and Sapphire Switch Rumors. HDvee does not spell out the specifics of what makes it bad news, only that it exists, so this is a claim to file under unconfirmed rather than settled.
Why this matters to you
- A Home link for FireRed and LeafGreen would let you bring decades-old teams into the current generation without starting over.
- It would also mean Nintendo is still actively supporting Game Boy Advance era saves, which is rarer than it should be.
- The flip side, per HDvee, is that attention and resources spent on FireRed and LeafGreen connectivity could be read as a sign Ruby and Sapphire are further down the list than fans hoped.
None of this has been confirmed by Nintendo, and HDvee's reporting is the only account of these specific findings right now. Hope quietly, but do not spend money on it yet.