Thread: Did you use the Wireless Adapter?

For some reason, my copies of FR/LG never came with the Wireless Adapter. I learned how to deal with not being able to take advantage of the wireless features that way.

The Wireless Adapter was a bigger deal in Japan, where there were more Mystery Gift events. More importantly, the real-life Pokémon Centers scattered over the country amplified the adapter's signal, making them popular hubs for essentially random battles and trades. Lastly, there was a service called "Joyspot" in Pokémon Centers and various retail stores, where players would battle special NPCs in the Union Room and then be ranked according to their overall score.

Last but not least, it would appear from unused text in FRLG and Emerald that Game Freak had many more plans for Mystery Gift, which ended up not being used. The Altering Cave was one such feature, but there were also the battle rooms (in Seven Island and Sootopolis City) meant for trainer data downloaded via Mystery Gift. Also of note is that players were apparently supposed to receive items upon Mystery Gift communication, much like in the Generation II feature with the same name.

I had FireRed and my brother had LeafGreen, so we used it quite a bit.

wait wait wait. it CAME with FR/LG? me and my cousin got both version(me FR her LG) and NEITHER CAME WITH ONE!

OOC:not mad at u ppl, mad at nintendo.

EDIT:oops, dont have to put ooc

Originally Posted by Landog22

wait wait wait. it CAME with FR/LG? me and my cousin got both version(me FR her LG) and NEITHER CAME WITH ONE!

As said earlier in the thread, Wireless Adapters did not come with the player's choice editions of the games. Did you buy those?

I did, but not until years after Fr/Lg were released. A Zellers I was in one day about a year and a half ago was selling the wireless adapters for $9.99, so I picked one up. I already had one that'd been sitting around for years that I got with FireRed, so I started using them every once in a while when I was too lazy to drag out the link cable. Pity Ruby wasn't able to make use of it as well, but I can use it for trading between FireRed and Emerald... and those are my favourites from Gen III, anyway.

It was a good idea, to be sure. I kinda wish it'd be integrated into the GBA from day 1... no doubt there's a prototype GBA still in someone's desk somewhere which includes the feature, just as there's apparently a GBA with a parallax barrier autostereoscopic LCD floating around.

i think i used it once to trade from my FR to my LG to get all the starters. other then that i never touched it again

Nope, never used it.

No, when I got FireRed it didn't have the wireless adapter anymore.

I never understood why it wasn't compatible with every other GBA game.

I had two of the things (not a clue where they went, I still have FR/LG but not the adapters) but never used them as it was easy enough to just keep using a cable.

I used it all the time.

no on i knew played, so no.

nope, never did

I wish there was a poll-answer for those who don't have one.. :')

No, never used one cause I don't have one.