The Great Pokémon Quest update

     So, I'm currently in a mad scramble to beat the elite four in Pokémon Black 2, as that is currently the lynch pin in my process of updating all the way from the Gameboy Advance games all the way up to the Switch.  I've honestly been playing almost nonstop since Wednesday, and my wife has been a little upset, leading me to put playing on hold for Mother's Day, and just take a break.  Consequently, I'm feeling a lot of stiffness and soreness in my left thumb, which I did attribute to the gardening I spent some time on while i waited for my 3DS to charge, but again, my wife pointed out that this was a side effect of playing too long.

     All this mad gaming marathon happened because I had no idea where I was at in my original Black 2 save, and I hadn't picked up the game in probably six years.  Fun fact I learned when doing this, though, is that Game Freak put in safeguards against overwriting you game save in Black and White 2, so the game would let you start a new game from the menu, but you couldn't save it to the cartridge unless you had done a manual wipe of the last save.  It gave me instructions on how to do a manual wipe, but I had to lose four hours of gameplay just to do it.

     I also played around seven hours of FireRed, as well, to capture a single Zapdos, (Let's Go Eevee hasn't arrived yet, so I'm seeing if i can get Zapdos transferred before it arrives).  He was the only legendary bird of Kanto I didn't have already on a GBA title, or Diamond where I've been storing the bulk of my old collection.  I must have traded him at some point, because all of the old saves had him in their pokédexes, Zapdos just wasn't saved in any of their boxes.