Four years after its release, Pokémon Scarlet and Purple still hasn’t said his last word. For April 2026, The Pokémon Company is offering players a new free download via the Mystery Gift menu, while relaunching a 7-star Teracrystal raid dedicated to Emboar. Enough to give a real good reason to bring out your cartridge on Nintendo Switch, without spending a cent more.
Launched at the end of 2022 as the first episode of the ninth generation, the duo laid the foundations for the Paldea region, the Pokémon Paradox and the Teracrystal phenomenon, despite a much-discussed technical launch. While the season ranked 41, the last, has just started on April 1, 2026 and Pokémon Winds and Waves (Gen 10) is expected for 2027, these gifts are a reminder that the game remains actively supported. Here’s what to download immediately so you don’t miss anything.
Pokémon Scarlet and Purple: what is this free download to collect in April 2026?
The biggest free download at the moment is the Mythical Pêcha Bay distributed via the Internet in Pokémon Scarlet and Purple. This special fruit, accessible without a code, arrives directly from the Mystery Gift menu and serves as a key to trigger the epilogue of the paid DLC The buried treasure of Zone Zero. For completionists, it is therefore a must. At the same time, several cosmetic codes remain active in April 2026 to customize your Rotom and your outfit, such as NE0R0T0MC0VER for the Neo Kitakami shell, SB00KC0VER and VB00KC0VER for the Scarlet or Violet shells, or even STRACKSU1T and VTRACKSU1T for exclusive tracksuits.
How to activate the Mystery Gift and benefit from the 7-star Emboar Electric raid?
Everything goes through Poké Portal. From the game, open the menu with X, select Poké Portal then Mystery Gift. Then choose “Receive via Internet” so that the mythical Pêcha Bay appears automatically, or “Via a code or password” to enter the codes listed above. Take the opportunity to select “Check Poké Portal news”: this free update downloads event raids, including the 7-star Tera Raid Emboar. The latter brings back a Pokémon normally absent from Paldea, the Mega Fire Pig Emboar, with an Electric Tera-Type and the highly sought-after Mightiest Mark. As a bonus, the fight brings Exp Candies, treasures to resell and Electric Tera-Shards, useful for changing the Tera type of your own monsters.
How long will these bonuses remain available before Pokémon Winds and Waves?
The 7-star Emboar Électrik raid is clearly dated: in France, it is playable from Friday April 10, 2026 at 2 a.m. to Friday April 17 at 1:59 a.m., the game following the international server clock. All you need is an internet connection and, for multiplayer, a Nintendo Switch Online subscription, but capturing Emboar itself remains free. The mythical Pêcha Bay and the cosmetic codes do not yet have an official end date, but be careful: all previous distributions, such as ELEMENTST0NES or P4LD3AP1CN1C, stopped abruptly after a few weeks. If you want to loop The buried treasure of Zone Zero before the arrival of Pokémon Winds and Wavesit’s better to claim everything now.