[firefax]

Why Emerald -- is classic already done?

If anyone has emulator suggestions, I recently attempted a playthrough and found that midway through my copy of red, the game was corrupted? Oddest thing -- hadn't reading the point where you do the "Missingno trick" near cinnebar.

Anyways, I suspect the save got corrupted somehow but it made me swear off emulation and try a physical copy. (Which had the battery I replaced fail... it's been a comedy of errors).

[jeremyloy_wt]

Emerald is well regarded as the best of Generation 3, which is the final of the traditional 2D games and can trade with Fire Red/Leaf Green (remakes of the classic)

So you have available all of the original Pokémon

[firefax]

Ah good point. I was looking into buying a used copy of Fire Red / Leaf Green and they were surprisingly expensive.

I have a copy of red, but even with a new battery the save function keeps failing. I suspect I didn't seat the battery well and I need to solder it, but I am not trained in that and reluctant to have my first project involve an expensive retro cart.

[tripplyons]

I chose Pokemon Emerald because it is my favorite of the games that have been disassembled!

[firefax]

has RBY been disassembled, out of curiosity?

[patrickcorrigan]

Try https://afterplay.io it’s cross platform, saves every 20 seconds and keeps your last 50 saves which you can recover from if anything goes wrong

[firefax]

Thanks, this looks akin to what I'm looking for. Maybe a few features I don't need but looks interesting.

[giancarlostoro]

Maybe the internal battery died. I honestly recommend you look at GBC style handhelds or if you like the GBA style, Anbernic made one that looks insanely close to a GBA.

There also a craze of DS style emulators popping up. They all give you comfort knowing that your saves will be fine forever if you back them up, even if the device dies.

[firefax]

Yeah to be clear, I replaced the internal battery. I don't know if the issue is that it isn't seated properly, it was working for a spell. But I can't solder and don't want my first project to be a 1st gen copy of Pokemon.

Anyways, I just want a "known good" emulator for the game boy. It could be a GBA emulator since that's backwards compatible, but I just want something simple to play Pokémon.

To be clear I was weirded out because an emulated copy glitched out, not the physical one. Physical one just had a battery issue.

[giancarlostoro]

mGBA is not bad, runs on any OS. There's also one for Mac, but I forget the name.

[firefax]

thank you for the suggestion. i value open source over MacOS compatibility, I can spin up a VM if needed.