

Unlike the previous Nintendo DS installments, Black and White support the more-secure-than-WEP WPA encryption, as well as the revised WPA2 encryption, when playing online this requires a DSi, DSi XL, or 3DS, however, as the original DS and DS Lite do not have hardware support for WPA. In this installment, Game Freak shakes up a number of series traditions: the player characters are older, the resident Professor (Juniper) is a woman, Pokémon Centers and Pokémon Marts have been merged into one building, there are no Generation I-IV Pokémon in the regional Pokédex, TMs can be used an infinite amount of times, there's no Game Corner or Safari Zone present, and the new Unova region isn't based on a region of Japan but on New York City (and a little New Jersey as well, with the sequels adding more New Jersey). The games were released on Septemin Japan Main Europe Main the U.S. Pokémon Black and White are the first half of the fifth generation of Pokémon, made for the Nintendo DS.
