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Pokémon Bank 1.4 update released, adds Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon support

Version 1.4 of Pokémon Bank adds support for latest games and is bundled with the latest Poké Transporter for compatibility with Gold and Silver.

By , November 19, 2017, 10:01 PM

An update to Pokémon Bank has been released (link is Japanese), adding support for the latest Pokémon games, Pokémon Ultra Sun and Pokémon Ultra Moon. Poké Transporter has also been updated, finally adding support for the Virtual Console editions of Pokémon Gold and Pokémon Silver.

Scan the following eShop QR code to download Pokémon Bank.

You should be prompted to update Pokémon Bank and Poké Transporter through your 3DS — otherwise, you may manually update Pokémon Bank via the eShop QR code above.

Transferring from the Virtual Console editions of your Generation 1 or 2 games? You might be interested in learning how Poké Transporter recalculates your Pokémon’s stats.

The new update notably appears to include support for Pokémon Crystal:

Here’s hoping Pokémon Crystal comes to the eShop soon!

Thanks to Castform and Achromatic for the tip!

“Jake”, known as Hiroshi Sotomura on The PokéCommunity, is a contributing writer and one of the founders of PokéCommunity Daily. Being introduced to Pokémon after watching “The Water Flowers of Cerulean City”, Jake sought out to obtain the just-released copy of Pokémon Yellow, and became an avid fan of the games and the TV show. For whatever reason, he owns several consoles just to play different copies of the games.