archer9234 on 22 March 2016
Gen 2. It added the major missing functions to the original games. Box information, catch information, clock, & day night cycle. Having both areas in one game, completed the package. All the future games added stuff, sure. But it never was that big of a deal. Gen 3 I personally hated. Since it orphaned the gen 1-2 games from the series. Yeah, the digital copies fixed that. But I want my original carts to work, too. I'd totally buy an amiibo GB cart reader.
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