Help with moving Pokémon from browser Pokémon yellow to new 3ds xl

HELP

So firstly I’m very new to this and tried looking up my question online but gave up after 2 hours of getting more and more confused, so bear with me.

I just bought a new 3ds xl on eBay and am waiting for it to arrive. I plan on playing all of the ds and 3ds Pokémon games. As I wait for it to arrive I started to play (on my pc) Pokemon yellow for the gameboy on Vimms lair (playing the game in browser and downloading SAV files and STATE files). I did this because I had downloaded PKHex and found that I was able to transfer the Pokémon from my downloaded saves to PKHex and then (I assumed) from there transfer them to a Pokémon game on my new 3ds xl once it arrives and I mod it.
However I read somewhere that I might be incorrect about the ability to transfer said saves. So that leads to my 2 questions.

  1. will I be able to use the browser save of Pokémon yellow that I put through PKHex to transfer my Pokémon to my new 3ds xl once it arrives?

  2. if I am able to do that will the pokemon I transferred be “clones” or the actual pokemon, (not totally sure the difference, but i would like it to be the originals)

Apologies for the somewhat confusing post, let me know if it needs clarifying.
Cheers

Posted Aug 27, 2026, 1:03 PM UTC

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