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[[File:Memory Link menu.png|frame|The Memory Link menu]]

'''Memory Link''' (Japanese: '''おもいでリンク''' ''Memory Link'') is a feature in [[Pokémon Black and White Versions 2|Pokémon Black 2 and White 2]]. Memory Link allows players to sync either of the original {{2v2|Black|White}} games with Black 2 and White 2 via [[Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection]] or [[Nintendo DS|DS Wireless Communications]]. With this feature, the player can access new game features and interactions in Black 2 and White 2. The player will need to progress their Pokémon Black or White game to specific points in the main story in order to unlock certain flashbacks via the Memory Link.

Certain [[Non-player character|NPCs]] will reflect on the past when spoken to after Memory Link has been activated. These memories will explain some of the events that happen in the two-year gap that led to the current Unova. Here is a list of the NPCs' flashbacks that occur within the game via Memory Link, how to unlock them and their locations:

* Location: Inside the [[Striaton City]] [[Striaton Gym|restaurant]]

[[File:Taking it to the Next Level flashback.png|thumb|Taking it to The Next Level flashback]]

* Memory: [[Elesa]] talks to [[Skyla]] about her image.

:''Skyla: Oh, Elesa...

* Memory: Two Team Plasma Grunts are shown talking about N. When they leave, N appears.

*Location: Upstairs in the Pokémon Musical (or downstairs, in case the player immediately chooses to receive the [[Prop Case]] from the linked player)

*Unlocked by: Participating in Pokémon Musical in Black and White and having entered the [[Entralink]] at least once.

*Memory: The Pokémon Musical owner will talk to himself about whether Hilbert/Hilda dropped the Prop Case on purpose or by accident.

The player may receive the [[Prop]]s for the [[Pokémon Musical]] that were previously owned by the player. The owner will claim that they have dropped it accidentally and will give the player the props.

Items can be brought over to the player's [[Pokémon Dream World|Dream World]] home from the player's Dream World home from Black and White if the player assists [[Loblolly]] picking items for creation which end up in the Dream World in Black and White.

When Memory Link is used, the player can battle [[Bianca]] and [[Cheren]], who have their old [[Party|team]] from Pokémon Black and White, depending on who the player's [[first partner Pokémon]] was in Pokémon Black or White. The player must have defeated [[N]] and [[Ghetsis]] in the Pokémon Black or White game in order to have these one-time battles.

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* The flashback さらば あいすべき スター ''Farewell, Beloved Star'' was mistranslated as ''Farewell, Beloved Sister'' in English releases.

* Near the end of the flashback ''Taking it to The Next Level'', Elesa says, "You bet! And don't call me Shirley." This is a possible [[List of references to popular culture in Pokémon|reference]] to a line in the movie ''{{wp|Airplane!}}''

* All flashbacks use {{2v2|Black|White}}'s ''[[Pokémon Black & Pokémon White: Super Music Collection|An Unwavering Heart]]'' as background music.

* When Iris says "These memories have been engraved in each Pokémon's heart!" in A New Light, this could be a reference to the sign on [[Southern Island]] in the [[Hoenn]] region that reads "Those whose memories fade seek to carve them in their hearts..." seeing as there's a [[List of cross-generational references|reference]] to the {{DL|Sinnoh myths|Sinnoh Myth}} earlier in the flashback.