{"id":136266,"date":"2026-02-27T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-198078"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:15:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T16:15:00","slug":"yes-pokemon-firered-leafgreen-are-getting-home-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/02\/27\/yes-pokemon-firered-leafgreen-are-getting-home-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, Pok\u00e9mon FireRed &amp; LeafGreen Are Getting Home Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/beccd0bc18c32\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/beccd0bc18c32\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<figure class=\"youtube\" data-videoid=\"ORuy4zZkJ9I\" data-start=\"0\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ORuy4zZkJ9I?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1\">\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/pokemon_firered_and_leafgreen\">Pok\u00e9mon FireRed &amp; LeafGreen<\/a> is out now on the Switch eShop, and for those of you worried about whether you&#8217;ll be able to transfer your team to other games, fear not, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/pokemon_home\">Pok\u00e9mon HOME<\/a> support has been confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Compatibility with the storage app will be arriving at a later date, But transferring your &#8216;mons will be a one-way deal, with anything you trade from FireRed \/ LeafGreen won&#8217;t be able to come back.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, transferring to Home will allow you to send the &#8216;mons to other Switch and Switch 2 games such <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_scarlet_and_violet\">Scarlet &amp; Violet<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/pokemon-legends-z-a-nintendo-switch-2-edition\">Legends: Z-A<\/a> (coming soon) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_champions\">Champions<\/a> (though the latter is just a &#8220;link&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>The details are all laid out in the visual below:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"4e6ff679596e8\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Pok\u00e9mon FireRed &amp; LeafGreen with HOME\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4e6ff679596e8\/pokemon-firered-and-leafgreen-with-home.large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4e6ff679596e8\/pokemon-firered-and-leafgreen-with-home.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Pok\u00e9mon FireRed &amp; LeafGreen with HOME\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Image: The Pok\u00e9mon Company<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We all thought Home would be coming to FireRed &amp; LeafGreen initially, as the details were initially included on the eShop pages for all versions of the game last Friday. But shortly after the games were announced, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2026\/02\/we-thought-it-would-be-fun-nintendo-explains-why-pokemon-firered-and-leafgreen-arent-on-switch-online\">the description was changed to removed mention of Home<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Well, this cleared things up a bit, didn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><em>Are you picking up FireRed or LeafGreen today? Happy to hear that Home compatibility is coming? Let us know in the comments!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/switch-eshop\/related-articles:197860,197768,197473 @ 1772352766 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] Pok\u00e9mon FireRed &amp; LeafGreen is out now on the Switch eShop, and for those of you worried about whether you&#8217;ll be able to transfer your team to other games, fear not, as Pok\u00e9mon HOME support has been confirmed. Compatibility with the storage app will be arriving at a later date, But transferring your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}