Latest News and Game Info | Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl (BDSP)｜Game8 (2024)

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Latest News and Game Info | Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl (BDSP)｜Game8? ›

Pokemon HOME is now finally compatible with Pokemon BDSP with the Pokemon HOME 2.0 Update. With it, comes the ability to transfer Pokemon from Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl to and from Pokemon HOME, Legends: Arceus, and Sword and Shield.

Pokemon HOME is now finally compatible with Pokemon BDSP with the Pokemon HOME 2.0 Update. With it, comes the ability to transfer Pokemon from Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl to and from Pokemon HOME, Legends: Arceus, and Sword and Shield.

The games are part of the eighth generation of the Pokémon video game series and were developed by ILCA and published by Nintendo and The Pokémon Company for the Nintendo Switch. The games were released on 19 November 2021. They were announced as part of the 25th anniversary event, alongside Pokémon Legends: Arceus.

Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl are pretty faithful remakes of the original Diamond and Pearl, but they still include a number of new features, mechanics, quality of life improvements, and changes over the original.

New features. The Underground has been replaced with the expanded Grand Underground. Pal Park has been replaced with Ramanas Park. At Ramanas Park, Mysterious Shards S and Mysterious Shards L (found in the Grand Underground) can be traded for slates, which can then be used to encounter various Legendary Pokémon.

The March 2022 update was actually the last update BDSP ever received. It did get events for Manaphy, Darkrai, and Shaymin, but they've all long expired by now and almost certainly won't receive re-runs. Overall, BDSP didn't add a ton of new content via updates.

For this reason, if a Pokémon is moved via Pokémon HOME to a game where it cannot learn its current move set, then its move set will be replaced with moves that it is able to learn in the target software. Your Pokémon's move set is saved for each game that you have linked to Pokémon HOME.

Released on November 19, 2021, Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl sold than six million physical launch units and had reached 14.92 million global unit sales as of September 2022. The titles are a Nintendo Switch remake of the 2006 Nintendo DS role-playing video games Pokémon Diamond and Pearl.

The Pokémon Company has announced Pokémon Legends: Z-A for the Nintendo Switch, a sequel to the wildly popular Pokémon Legends Arceus released in 2022.

The main differences of both are the exclusive Pokemon you can find and play with. Some of the exclusive monsters on Brilliant Diamond are Ekans, Arbok, Butterfree. While for Shining Pearl are Magmar, Vulpix, and Moltres, and more. Whichever one you want.

Where is Barry after you become champion? ›

After becoming the Sinnoh League Champion, the player can find him training at Stark Mountain during the week, and at the Fight Area on weekends, ready to battle.

Hidden Moves

Are small trees blocking your way? The hidden move Cut can chop them down! Some cliffs are too steep to climb on foot. The hidden move Rock Climb lets you scale them!

According to Serebii.net, Arceus can be Shiny! That's all! Arceus is available in Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl indefinitely, but other Legendary Pokemon aren't.

The Underground from Diamond and Pearl has also been reworked into the Grand Underground. You'll still be able to excavate the walls for items like fossils, build a secret base and play alongside other players in the Grand Underground, but there's a new feature for you to enjoy - the Pokémon Hideaways.

How to Get the National Pokedex in Pokemon BDSP. There are two seemingly simple steps to unlock the National Dex: See (not catch!) the first 150 Pokemon in the Sinnoh Dex. Head to Professor Rowan's Lab in Sandgem Town.

Pokemon HOME became compatible with Pokemon BDSP after the Pokemon HOME 2.0 Update. Pokemon from BDSP can be transferred freely between HOME, Legends: Arceus, and Sword and Shield, with some caveats and limitations. Only Pokemon available natively in BDSP can be transferred to them.

UPDATE: Arrives tomorrow. UPDATE 17/5/22: Pokémon Home's big 2.0 update will arrive in the early hours of tomorrow morning - 18th May at 1am, UK time.

Since Pokémon Sword & Shield, not every Pokémon is available in every game anymore. Pokémon Home acts as a hub where trainers can keep all their Pokémon. Those Pokémon that are unable to be transferred will be labeled with a red circle on the screen.

As long as players have Pokemon HOME on their Switch, they can transfer Pokemon back and forth between BDSP with ease. To do so, players should make sure that any Pokemon they want to transfer to Brilliant Diamond or Shining Pearl are in the Basic Box of Pokemon HOME.