early_riserIn Pokemon Red and Blue, you're storing your pokemon in Bill's PC, not Bill's highly available georedundant cloud. One brown out and all your critters are gone.
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 But all the computers are connected via a network. Like I don’t have to go all the way back to Pallet Town from Lavendar Town to retrive the Weedle I tossed in there.
katkitI somehow never thought about that. How does that work? Do they use a giant network of pneumatic tubes?
“The internet isn’t some big truck you can dump everything onto! It’s a series of pneumatic tubes!”
Pidgey + rfc 1149
Yeah. The Pokemon don’t get digitised and stored in a buffer, their ID transferred to Bill’s disks.
Bill just has an old PC case filled with occupied Pokeballs and a Chansey labelling them, ready to tube some back.
That’s right. Pay no attention to the duplication glitch that occurs if you disconnect your Gameboys after trading one way.
It’s definitely not restoring your totally unique and definitely not artificially reconstructed friend from a read only snapshot due to a glitch in Bill’s transfer code.