A Pokemon fan has built their own adapter that allows an original Game Boy Advance to trade Pokemon directly with a Nintendo Switch 2.
More than two decades separate the two consoles, but Drewworks, who shared their creation on X, has managed to get the original GBA hardware communicating with Nintendo’s latest system, successfully demonstrating a trade between the two.
Drewworks shared footage of the homemade “GBA-to-Switch trade adapter” working on September 3, showing an original Game Boy Advance connected to a Switch 2 through a prototype circuit.
“Trading Pokemon between an original GBA and a Switch 2,” he wrote on X. “My GBA-to-Switch trade adapter is working!”
The video then shows the two systems successfully communicating and completing a Pokemon trade, effectively bridging hardware generations released more than 20 years apart.
Officially, the two consoles can’t interact in the same way, with fans of the series needing to use a 3DS with GBA backwards compatibility, or the former’s Pokemon Bank app, to transfer Pokemon between generations.
Game Freak confirmed in August that Bank is to be shutdown in February 2027.
Trading Pokémon between an original GBA and a Switch 2 😎😲My GBA-to-Switch trade adapter is working!Still plenty of work ahead, but seeing a real GBA communicate and trade with the Switch is pretty incredible.#Pokemon #GBA #Switch2 pic.twitter.com/W09ELMBCM3
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