Shut up! SHUT UP! SHUT UUUUUP!!! :matt-jokerfied:
Just get a fucking rom!!! Go to Google and you can have the game on your hard drive in 5 minutes! Chances are your "incredibly rare" cult classic is playable with a high degree of accuracy. Even if you dislike emulation, you can just burn a disc, put the game on internal storage or use an Evercart depending on the system.
We don't have to pretend we need to hunt down decades-old pieces plastic to access old video games. What's that? Kuon for PS2 is really rare and expensive? Well I'm going to go download it right now to spite your collector brainworms... AND IT WILL BE 100% FREE OF CHARGE
Nah, you can do it all with community-made software and hacked hardware.
(It's actually really easy to hack your 3DS anyone can do it)
Unfortunately that guide kind of proves my point. That guide covers all the generations present on the 3DS, 1-7.
You can't transfer those pokemon into the gen 8/Switch era of games with those instructions. Your only option without pokemon bank is to pkhex in pokemon on a hacked switch, basically recreate your gen 1-7 pokemon and put them into a switch save file.
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'For the foreseeable future'? So like... another year after the 3DS eshop closes in March 2023 at most? lol
Pokemon Bank will keep working after the eshop shuts down, as long as you download it before then.
Yes the servers will still be running after the eshop goes down, but not indefinitely. Once the servers do go down, it won't be able to reach Pokemon Home, and that link between the DS and 3DS generations and the Switch will be gone.
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PKHeX and PKSM support gen 8, you'd just need a hacked Switch to get to the save file.