{"id":63770,"date":"2018-11-21T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/11\/attention_all_pokemon_lets_go_poke_ball_plus_owners_for_the_love_of_god_dont_ever_delete_your_save"},"modified":"2018-11-21T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T11:00:00","slug":"attention-all-pokemon-lets-go-poke-ball-plus-owners-for-the-love-of-god-dont-ever-delete-your-save","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/11\/21\/attention-all-pokemon-lets-go-poke-ball-plus-owners-for-the-love-of-god-dont-ever-delete-your-save\/","title":{"rendered":"Attention All Pok\u00e9mon Let&#8217;s Go Pok\u00e9 Ball Plus Owners: For The Love Of God, Don&#8217;t Ever Delete Your Save"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0d14efbc8e0ea\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0d14efbc8e0ea\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Poke Ball Plus\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0d14efbc8e0ea\/poke-ball-plus.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0d14efbc8e0ea\/poke-ball-plus.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Poke Ball Plus\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>As we&#8217;ve already covered, the only way to get the legendary Pok\u00e9mon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/11\/guide_how_to_unlock_mew_in_pokemon_lets_go_on_nintendo_switch\">Mew<\/a> in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_lets_go_pikachu_and_lets_go_eevee\">Pok\u00e9mon: Let\u2019s Go<\/a><\/strong> is to buy the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/11\/hardware_review_poke_ball_plus_-_the_most_imperfect_perfect_accessory_you_could_imagine\">Pok\u00e9 Ball Plus device<\/a> (brand new, we should add) and transfer the &#8216;mon contained within.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s important to remember that this is very much a one-time deal; once Mew has been transferred from that particular Pok\u00e9 Ball Plus, it can never, <em>ever<\/em> be accessed again.<\/p>\n<p>In case you needed proof of this, <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/nintendosoup.com\/if-you-delete-your-pokemon-lets-go-save-file-your-poke-ball-plus-mew-will-be-deleted-forever\/\">Nintendo Soup<\/a> has reported that one user, who was unhappy with the transferred Mew&#8217;s stats, decided to delete their save file in the expectation that they&#8217;d be able to transfer Mew a second time and perhaps get better stats.<\/p>\n<p>As you might expect, they were less than happy when they realised the Mew inside the Pok\u00e9 Ball Plus had gone for good.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/en-americas-support.nintendo.com\/app\/answers\/detail\/a_id\/42680\/~\/unable-to-transfer-mew-from-pok%C3%A9-ball-plus-%28pok%C3%A9mon%3A-let%E2%80%99s-go%2C-pikachu%21-%2F?fbclid=IwAR2i1mHVoIvlJe1ftnSGaqq3sx7r1VdhxWbNdgIbM6r_aD4YB2SWSqH83tU\">Nintendo<\/a> says on the topic:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Mew can only be transferred ONE TIME, into one copy of Pok\u00e9mon: Let\u2019s Go, Pikachu! or Pok\u00e9mon: Let\u2019s Go, Eevee!.<\/p>\n<p>Once it has been transferred to a game, it will no longer be available on the Pok\u00e9 Ball Plus to transfer again to a different game.<\/p>\n<p>Deleting a save file with Mew in it will also delete Mew. If you have deleted a game with Mew, you will not be able to get Mew a second time on a new game from the same Pok\u00e9 Ball Plus.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The only solution, should you do this, is to buy a second Pok\u00e9 Ball Plus. <em>Gulp<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we&#8217;ve already covered, the only way to get the legendary Pok\u00e9mon Mew in Pok\u00e9mon: Let\u2019s Go is to buy the Pok\u00e9 Ball Plus device (brand new, we should add) and transfer the &#8216;mon contained within. It&#8217;s important to remember that this is very much a one-time deal; once Mew has been transferred from that [&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-63770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63770","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=63770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}