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More info?)
If you have two GBA's and a link cable. At you are at the stage in
Firered that allows you to link to Ruby/sapphire/Emerald (The netwpork
machine has to be fixed) You can swap the Deoxys for another Pokemon in
Emerald.
ilDOc
John Salerno wrote:
> ildocteur wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> An emulator is a program that allows you to play GameBoy Advance games
>> on your PC. The best is VisualBoy Advance that can be downloaded at
>> http://vba.ngemu.com/
>>
>> The advantage of that is that the game saves are stored in normal
>> files on your PC, so you can have multible save version of the same
>> game. The disadvantage is that he emulator does not support linking to
>> your "real" GBA, so you cannot get you captured Deoxy from the
>> emulator into your real game unless you have flash cart.
>>
>> A flash cart i bascally an empty programmable gba game. You connect it
>> to your pc either be a special peice of hardware or through your GBA
>> and you can then read/write games and gamesaves from the cart to and
>> from the PC. The games are played on the GBA console like normal
>> commercial games. A cart can be bought from around $100 to $200
>> depending on the feature and how many games the can hold at once.
>>
>> The disadvantage of both is that you have to somehow obtain the games
>> in in binary form. Normally the flash carts comes with software that
>> will aloow you to read the games (and the game save) of an original
>> cart, but in case of the emulator you need to visit some of the more
>> dodgey places on the net to download the so called ROM that is
>> typically between 3 and 12 megabytes in zipped format.
>>
>> Please email me if you want to persue any of these options and we can
>> discuss further. replace the text "theportalwithy" with the name of a
>> major internet portal/searchengine.
>>
>>
>> ilDOC
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>> John Salerno wrote:
>>
>>> ildocteur wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi John,
>>>>
>>>> It did not work at the habour in Vermillion the guy only offered to
>>>> take me to the traditional islands.
>>>>
>>>> I found in another faq that you have to go to Celio in island one
>>>> and exchange you tri-pass for a rainbow pass. And that seems only to
>>>> be possible if you have the nationalpokedex.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If you have a flash card or a GBA emulator I can e-mail you a
>>>> gamesave that has the aurora ticket. That way you don't have to hate
>>>> me.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hmm, finding a straight-forward answer is harder than I thought.
>>> Probably because getting the ticket is so rare, most people just
>>> cheat for it. Anyway, if it *is* necessary to have the tri-pass to
>>> get to Birth Island, then yes you must defeat the Elite Four first,
>>> because you have to complete the crystal machine (or whatever it's
>>> called).
>>>
>>> I'm not sure how flashcards or emulators work, but I'm very willing
>>> to do research and buy one if you don't mind sending me the ticket!
>
>
> Thanks for the info. Quick question: is there any way to get the Deoxys
> to my Emerald gamepak, or will it just have to be on the flash cart?