ESP32 board
Joins the Switch's wireless. ESP32-S3, C6, C3 or the original ESP32.
The Switch's wireless is encrypted with keys from the console. Four of them go from this file to the board over USB. Nothing is uploaded.
Details
- Chip
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- Firmware
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- Console
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- Signal from the Switch
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More options
Installing again keeps the stored keys. Erasing everything does not.
GB-Link adapter
Plugs into the Game Boy Advance in place of a Wireless Adapter.
- Put the adapter in update mode
- Let the browser use it: click the button and pick RP2 Boot
- Write the firmware
- Reconnect
Details
- Firmware
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- Wireless adapter mode
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- Connected over
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More options
Install a .uf2 of your own:
By hand: hold BOOTSEL while plugging the adapter in, then copy the firmware file onto the RPI-RP2 drive that appears.
Play
Connect the two boards with three wires, or let this page carry the link.
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Standalone
Three wires between the boards, powered from anything. This page is not needed while you play.
Connect the board in step 1 to see which of its pins go to the adapter's GP8 and GP9.
| ESP32 board | GB-Link adapter |
|---|---|
| GP8 | |
| GP9 | |
| GND | GND |
Through this computer
Both boards on USB, this page in between. Keep the tab in view while you play.
Connect both boards first.
- To the adapter
- 0 frames
- From the adapter
- 0 KB
- Board restarts followed
- 0
On the consoles
- Switch: upstairs in a Pokémon Center, Direct Corner, Trade Center or Colosseum, become the leader.
- Game Boy Advance: pick the same thing and join the group. The Switch shows up after a few seconds.
- After you leave the room, the board restarts and is ready again about ten seconds later.
Trade
Trade with the Switch from this page. The board from step 1 is all it takes.
The pool picks the Pokémon you get, and what the Switch gives goes into the pool for the next person. See what is in it at pokemon.gblink.io/pool.
Your own party as .pk3 files, kept in this browser. What the Switch sends takes the place of what you gave.
The Switch
The pool
Once you are both at the trade table, click a Pokémon to offer it. ↓ saves one as a .pk3 file, ↑ replaces it; dropping a file on a slot does the same.
The pool's Pokémon shows up here once you are both at the trade table. Accept trade offers it, before or after you pick yours on the Switch. Cancel trade declines it. For a different one, leave the table and sit down again.
Kept here
The pool did not confirm these trades, so what the Switch gave is kept here. ↓ saves one as a .pk3 file.
On the Switch
- Upstairs in a Pokémon Center, Direct Corner, Trade Center, become the leader.
- Press Connect here, then accept the join on the Switch.
- Sit down at the trade table.
- CANCEL at the table takes you back to the room; sit down again for another trade. Leaving the room ends the visit.
More options
Keep the tab in view while you trade: a hidden tab runs too slowly for the game.
A Pokémon that arrives takes the slot of the one that left. Offer it again to trade it straight back.