Lets start with the one I am still playing right now, and that is Pokemon Ash Gray. For the rest of this article I’m going to highlight two of the best user made ROM’s on the net
ROM hacks, are ROMs that have been changed and reprogrammed to have a new story, or new Pokemon added into the game that weren’t originally there. What if someone out there was making Pokemon games with new stories in them? Or putting Pokemon from every generation on to the one game card? If that idea excites you then you’re in luck! There are a lot of people who thought the same thing and they have done something about it. They have very little story other than: beat bad guys, do the league and gyms and find the legendaries. So lets say that like me, you have played most of the Pokemon games and you know how they work by now. These are played on emulators of the console that they were originally intended for, so in this case DS or GBA. The video game ROM stores the information that normally resides within the system’s read only memory, hence the term ROM’s. ROMs, or to be more specific game ROMs, are generally copies of older games which were designed either for cabinet arcades or for older consoles and handhelds. You know that I will always have a game of Pokemon running on something, be it on my DS, my phone or PC via a ROM. If you have ever listened to the Glitch free Game Podcast. Love it or hate it it’s still one of the best selling game series in the world. the only reason I can see people using Pokesav is because it's more user friendly.Īlso one last thing, Metropolis is not perfect, if you have a Max EV pokemon (which you could get in Gens 1 & 2) it will try to make it as evenly spread out as possible in other words, 85 EVs in every stat.Paul tells us about his little Pokemon secret. Pokesav requires a different version for each game and does not have a Black 2 and White 2 version. Pikasav and Metropolis you seem to already be familiar with, and you also seem to have found a similar GBA Save editor, but as for Pokesav or Pokegen, I recommend Pokegen because it is compatible with all the Gen 4 and Gen 5 games. sa1 file from VBA Link to Migrate your Gen 3 Pokemon over to Gen 4.Īs for editor's, I use: Pikasav (GBC Pokesav), Metropolis, Pokemon Encyclopedia (GBA Pokesav), and Pokegen (NDS Pokesav). VBA Link can trade between RSEFRLG without any problems, and it can even play the older games, but cannot trade between them.ĭeSmuME can play (but not trade between) DPPtHGSSBWB2W2, and it can use the. sav files are completely compatible with VBA Link, which cannot trade between those versions (just rename the.
TGB Dual can trade between RGBYGSC without any problems, and. Emulators I use: TGB Dual, VBA Link, and DeSmuME.