{"id":406067,"date":"2026-01-14T06:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T06:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/406067\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T06:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T06:04:07","slug":"pokemon-brilliant-diamond-and-shining-pearl-finally-fixed-on-nintendo-switch-2-plus-other-switch-1-backwards-compatibility-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/406067\/","title":{"rendered":"Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl finally fixed on Nintendo Switch 2, plus other Switch 1 backwards compatibility updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pokemon-Brilliant-Diamond-Shining-Pearl-fixed-Switch-2.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img width=\"656\" height=\"369\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Pokemon-Brilliant-Diamond-Shining-Pearl-fixed-Switch-2-656x369.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-image size-post-image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It took a bit of time, but Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Pokemon Shining Pearl have finally been fixed on Nintendo Switch 2 when playing the games via backwards compatibility. The Nintendo eShop pages confirm that everything is good to go.<\/p>\n<p>We previously heard that <a href=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/switch-2-update-broke-pokemon-brilliant-diamond-shining-pearl\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">both titles were causing crashing issues<\/a>. It wasn\u2019t something happening every time, but it was a problem that was fairly widespread within the Pokemon community.<\/p>\n<p>According to Nintendo, previously identified issues affecting Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl have been resolved with an update. That should refer to system firmware version 21.2.0, which was made available on both Nintendo Switch 2 and Switch yesterday. You can read more about that update <a href=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/nintendo-switch-2-and-switch-update-21-2-0-out-now-patch-notes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Another game has also been fixed with the update \u2013 Cats on Duty. This is also now in working order following the latest firmware drop.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, Nintendo has identified an issue with Kirby\u2019s Return to Dream Land Deluxe. While the game functions on Nintendo Switch 2, players may experience audio problems in some areas.<\/p>\n<p>News about other backwards compatibility fixes\u00a0can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/nintendo-switch-2-backwards-compatibility-fixes-july-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/nintendo-switch-2-backwards-compatibility-fixes-august-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/nintendo-switch-2-backwards-compatibility-fixes-september-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/nintendo-switch-1-2-backwards-compatibility-fixes-october-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/nintendo-switch-backwards-compatibility-fixes-november-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/nintendo-goes-live-with-more-switch-1-backwards-compatibility-fixes-for-switch-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/nintendo-switch-2-gets-a-few-more-switch-1-backwards-compatibility-status-updates-including-chrono-cross-fix\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/nintendo-fixes-resident-evil-4-miitopia-and-more-on-switch-2-full-list-of-backwards-compatibility-updates\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It took a bit of time, but Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Pokemon Shining Pearl have finally been fixed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[48675,195579,195580,74,1867],"class_list":{"0":"post-406067","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-game-freak","9":"tag-pokemon-brilliant-diamond","10":"tag-pokemon-shining-pearl","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-top"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}