Pokémon fans just cracked the code on custom Mystery Gifts for the Switch ports of FireRed and LeafGreen, and MercuryEnigma is the crew making it happen over plain old local wireless. No modded hardware required — they’re emulating the connection with a computer WiFi chip to drop fan-made Celebi and other event Pokémon straight into unmodded copies. The group already pulled off a Level 50 event Celebi in their demo video, proving the method works on the real Switch 2 hardware.

This hack sidesteps the whole “Pokémon can’t go back to FRLG” problem once Home support drops in October. Players grinding the Kanto Dex for that free Celebi reward can now skip the wait and cook up whatever missing event mons they want right now. Reddit’s blowing up with the r/PokemonFireRed thread, and X clips from MercuryEnigma and hype accounts like Light_88_ are racking up thousands of views in hours.

It’s still early days and a full public guide isn’t out yet, but the fact that it’s already delivering Celebi on vanilla hardware means the community is about to go wild with custom events, items, and whatever else they can script. Classic Nintendo limitation meets 2026 homebrew ingenuity — the Kanto remakes just got a whole new layer of chaos.