Why won't my Pokewalker connect to the game it's from?

Question

Yeah, ive looked and none of the answers here helped me so far.

Im trying to restart my SoulSilver so I can soft reset shiny hunt the starters. But, the thing is, my shiny staraptor is in my pokewalker and it won't connect ;0; it's from this save as I rarely delete my saves and for HGSS I'm always sure to make sure the names on my files are different so I know which pokewalker came from which game. My SS and Pokewalker are paired. Why cant I get my Pokemon back?

Im trying this on the New! 2dsxl, not sure if this accounts to anything

Answer 1

Oh my God I feel so dumb.

So, what happened is, the New! 2DSLX actually has this dumb cover on the cartridge slot, so I had to remove it for the connection to work.

The shell of the ds was in the way, basically.

I got my mon back :3

answered 6 minutes ago by タイ ™️

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Gets 5,000 upvotes for that answer

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galaxy brian

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Youre so funny Y

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yes ikr im a comedic genius

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Im also upvoting because sourcing this post as your source made me laugh

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i mean you didnt specify what the source had to be

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Well played.

Answer 2

Oh my God I feel so dumb.

So, what happened is, the New! 2DSLX actually has this dumb cover on the cartridge slot, so I had to remove it for the connection to work.

The shell of the ds was in the way, basically.

I got my mon back :3

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Theres literally no point to me answering this though because no one will get points so if anyone wants to steal and repost my answer for ba feel free, just like, add a source or something