How do you trade from emerald to platinum?

Answer 1

YES! A POKEMON QUESTION!!!!

Sorry. First of all, it's called migrating, not trading. For Pearl, Diamond, and Platinum, you have to complete the game first. Then you have to surf to Pal Park if you haven't done so already. Pal Park is located on an island below Sandgem City. Go down to the beach and surf down and to the right. That's the shortest path unless you want to battle some trainers first, in which case go the long way around.

Once the game is complete and you've made your way to Pal Park, save the game and turn the power off. Insert the Emerald game cartridge in the SP game slot at the bottom of the DS. Turn the DS back on and access Platinum's main title screen. On the list, underneath the Wi-Fi connection option, you should see an option that says "Migrate from Pokemon Emerald." Click on it, and it should bring you to a screen of all your Emerald boxes.

It should be noted that you can't access your party Pokemon on the migrating screen, so if the ones you want to migrate are in your party, you might want to go back to your Emerald game and fix that.

Also, in case you didn't know:

--you can have the migrating Pokemon carry items, although you don't have to

--you must migrate six Pokemon at a time--no more, no less. (and that gets really annoying really fast)

--any Pokemon that knows an HM connot be migrated

--if you're still desperate to migrate that Pokemon with the HM, you can get rid of the HM in Lilycove city--there's a guy in the house next to the department store who will delete moves

--eggs cannot be migrated

--you can only migrate 6 Pokemon every 24 hours. yeah, that's only one session a day.

--and it will show you this warning on the screen before you reach the boxes, but I'll tell you now anyway. YOU CANNOT TRADE BACK FROM PLATINUM TO EMERALD! it is not possible! it cannot be done! so if you were planning to return these Pokemon after you were done with them, you may have to find another solution. (Cloning is a good solution!)

--once you have migrated them, you have to participate in the catching shows. That's what Pal Park is there for. Enter the building, grab a Pokemon from your box that knows surf--if you have a migrated water type, you're going to want to be able to find it--and talk to the guy standing at the counter.

Catching shows are not that hard--if you're trying to get a good score, than you might want to be aware of your migrated Pokemon's natural environments, and head straight there. It'll go a lot faster.

Once the Catching Show is over, you'll find out if you beat the high score (if you beat it, you get a berry or something like that...whatever). Place your new Pokemon all in boxes, and when you look there they should be sitting in the last PC box you accessed.