Own Pokemon Gold or Silver? Read this.

[Twisted Sanity]

For those that use VBA (*High Fives*), there's a text file you can create that will allow clock based events to occur, namely in Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire.

I'll try and fish out the details, but it's really cool if you can get it to work.

[digitel_anime_fan_20]

So what exactly is this VBA...thing?

[Asthaloth]

Not to promote VBA or anything, but atleast you can still save with it's personal clientside feature. 'Tis a shame, I use it myself now.

And highly illegal.

*shamelessly uses VBA too*

Not for my Pokemon games anyway, I got the glitch (IE: Internal battery biting it) fixed an age ago.

[Light]

So what exactly is this VBA...thing?

Visual Boy Advance. It's a system of GBA on the computer if I am not mistaken.

[Jacob]

i suddenly feel very good about coming here on a whim. will check out my Pokemon game, and see if there is some way to safe them...or at least trade them to another, as i've given up on it for awhile. i would hate to have them die.

[JellySoup]

Not to promote VBA or anything, but atleast you can still save with it's personal clientside feature. 'Tis a shame, I use it myself now.

And highly illegal.

Well, VBA itself isn't illegal. It's the ROM that's the problem.

[Jacob]

Not to promote VBA or anything, but atleast you can still save with it's personal clientside feature. 'Tis a shame, I use it myself now.

And highly illegal.

Well, VBA itself isn't illegal. It's the ROM that's the problem.

I don't think the VBA would be much helpful in terms of Pokemon and other trading games. That's part of the appeal with Pokeman: being able to link up with other players and share of your pokemon. is the VBA capable of that, with it being on the computer and all?

[Blake]

Not to promote VBA or anything, but atleast you can still save with it's personal clientside feature. 'Tis a shame, I use it myself now.

And highly illegal.

Well, VBA itself isn't illegal. It's the ROM that's the problem.

I don't think the VBA would be much helpful in terms of Pokemon and other trading games. That's part of the appeal with Pokeman: being able to link up with other players and share of your pokemon. is the VBA capable of that, with it being on the computer and all?

With other VBA clients on the computer or hooked up with LAN, yes, but I think they yse Ad-Hoc for internet.

[Jacob]

Not to promote VBA or anything, but atleast you can still save with it's personal clientside feature. 'Tis a shame, I use it myself now.

And highly illegal.

Well, VBA itself isn't illegal. It's the ROM that's the problem.

I don't think the VBA would be much helpful in terms of Pokemon and other trading games. That's part of the appeal with Pokeman: being able to link up with other players and share of your pokemon. is the VBA capable of that, with it being on the computer and all?

With other VBA clients on the computer or hooked up with LAN, yes, but I think they yse Ad-Hoc for internet.

Wow...the coders sure know what they are doing it seems. i'm glad to see they can do such work. Next would be to make a complete pokedex game save on a computer and transfer it to the gameboy itself. or maybethat has already been done? *shrugs* look forward to see what they will come up with next.

[Blake]

Not to promote VBA or anything, but atleast you can still save with it's personal clientside feature. 'Tis a shame, I use it myself now.

And highly illegal.

Well, VBA itself isn't illegal. It's the ROM that's the problem.

I don't think the VBA would be much helpful in terms of Pokemon and other trading games. That's part of the appeal with Pokeman: being able to link up with other players and share of your pokemon. is the VBA capable of that, with it being on the computer and all?

With other VBA clients on the computer or hooked up with LAN, yes, but I think they yse Ad-Hoc for internet.

Wow...the coders sure know what they are doing it seems. i'm glad to see they can do such work. Next would be to make a complete pokedex game save on a computer and transfer it to the gameboy itself. or maybethat has already been done? *shrugs* look forward to see what they will come up with next.

You can also but flash cartriges, empty gameboy packets, for about $80 and store 32 games on it. Just download them and port them from your computer to the cartridge via usb. I wonder if it's illegal to do it that way...

[The police! Run!]

Using an emulator is illegal? never heard so much crap in my life. Guess what? Nintendo doesn't sell Pokemon gold or silver anymore, so they don't give a smurf if you emulate a game they aren't selling anymore.

[Runevalkyrie]

http://www.nintendo.com/corp/faqs/legal.html

People Making Nintendo Emulators and Nintendo ROMs are Helping Publishers by Making Old Games Available that are No Longer Being Sold by the Copyright Owner. This Does Not Hurt Anyone and Allows Gamers to Play Old Favorites. What's the Problem?

The problem is that it's illegal. Copyrights and trademarks of games are corporate assets. If these vintage titles are available far and wide, it undermines the value of this intellectual property and adversely affects the right owner. In addition, the assumption that the games involved are vintage or nostalgia games is incorrect. Nintendo is famous for bringing back to life its popular characters for its newer systems, for example, Mario and Donkey Kong have enjoyed their adventures on all Nintendo platforms, going from coin-op machines to our latest hardware platforms. As a copyright owner, and creator of such famous characters, only Nintendo has the right to benefit from such valuable assets.

[Blake]

http://www.nintendo.com/corp/faqs/legal.html

People Making Nintendo Emulators and Nintendo ROMs are Helping Publishers by Making Old Games Available that are No Longer Being Sold by the Copyright Owner. This Does Not Hurt Anyone and Allows Gamers to Play Old Favorites. What's the Problem?

The problem is that it's illegal. Copyrights and trademarks of games are corporate assets. If these vintage titles are available far and wide, it undermines the value of this intellectual property and adversely affects the right owner. In addition, the assumption that the games involved are vintage or nostalgia games is incorrect. Nintendo is famous for bringing back to life its popular characters for its newer systems, for example, Mario and Donkey Kong have enjoyed their adventures on all Nintendo platforms, going from coin-op machines to our latest hardware platforms. As a copyright owner, and creator of such famous characters, only Nintendo has the right to benefit from such valuable assets.

It is, however, oegal to download it if you bought the game cart.

But back on topic, R/S/E does this too.

[GIR]

Does this occur with the red/blue/yellow games, because for me, all three of them still have the save file, and I used the heck out of those games.

My Red version died a couple years ago...

[Divine]

I tried my Blue a few days ago, it still works...