Hello, I understand that this is my first post, I just have an issue I need help with. I am completely new to this whole emulator thing, and I understand almost nothing about it. I own a Mac(Aluminum unibody 10.5.6) and just downloaded Visual Boy Advance(1.7.4) for Mac to my computer. While messing with it, I learned that Rom's are the games. I set out to find a pokemon game since that's all I really want to play on it. For some reason, when I go to open the rom, it says: I tried Silver as well. After I click it, it asks me to choose an application to open it with, but I don't know what to pick since Visual Boy Advance is grayed out.
Jun 19, 2014 - I'mm playing Pok?mon Fire Red Omega (Hack), and I'm on the SS Anne, and I wanna save the game before I lose it but it won't let me save. To begin, open the VisualBoyAdvance emulator. In this video, there is an icon for the emulator on the desktop. You may have the program saved in another.
I noticed that there's usually issues with pokemon games while I was browsing the forums, but this looks to me like it's just my stupidity Heh. Some help would really be appreciated. If there's anyone willing to walk me through the process, I'll be on MSN messenger and AIM messenger. My handles are in my profile.
Click to expand.Wow, what a quick response. Hmm, I really want to play silver/ crystal, but let's tackle this one step at a time. New questions Thanks for the advice. I figured everything was being done right since files usually extract themselves when I double click them.
(That may also explain my torrent problem I've been having ) I downloaded The Unarchiver 1.6.1 from the apple website. It unarchived my file, and when I opened VBA and selected it, it launched successfully! So, when it launched and went to the start menu, I realized I didn't know what my start button was. I had to close the rom to change my button settings. When I closed the rom, this screen popped up: I have no clue what happened there. Was it trying to save my game? I can only guess since I don't know how to save rom games yet.
Next, I attempted to configure my rom settings. I figured that out, but when I closed that window, another pop up came up.: Any kind of help is appreciated. Wow, what a quick response.
Hmm, I really want to play silver/ crystal, but let's tackle this one step at a time. New questions Thanks for the advice. I figured everything was being done right since files usually extract themselves when I double click them. (That may also explain my torrent problem I've been having ) I downloaded The Unarchiver 1.6.1 from the apple website. It unarchived my file, and when I opened VBA and selected it, it launched successfully! So, when it launched and went to the start menu, I realized I didn't know what my start button was.
I had to close the rom to change my button settings. When I closed the rom, this screen popped up: I have no clue what happened there. Was it trying to save my game? I can only guess since I don't know how to save rom games yet. Next, I attempted to configure my rom settings. I figured that out, but when I closed that window, another pop up came up.: Any kind of help is appreciated. Click to expand.I have never personally used vba, but most emulators have an auto save feature to save your game when you exit.
I would try looking looking for an option to save your game or save freeze state manually, so that when you open it up next the game will continue where it left off. In sixtyforce my N64 emulator for my mac saving the game is called saving the 'freeze state'. Also the second screen shot means that vba crashed (which programs sometimes do) and it is just informing you. If you have a lot of problems with it crashing I would look for an alternative GBA emulator. I have never personally used vba, but most emulators have an auto save feature to save your game when you exit. I would try looking looking for an option to save your game or save freeze state manually, so that when you open it up next the game will continue where it left off. In sixtyforce my N64 emulator for my mac saving the game is called saving the 'freeze state'.
Also the second screen shot means that vba crashed (which programs sometimes do) and it is just informing you. If you have a lot of problems with it crashing I would look for an alternative GBA emulator. I've been having great difficulty getting VBA to even play.gbc files (read: it doesn't).gb and.gba files run fine, though. I'm beginning to wonder if loading up the GBA BIOS (gbasys.bin) might help with stability and performance. As it is, Ruby crashed my early '07 MB with the craptacular GMA950 due to overheating. Oddly enough, even though GS wouldn't even play yesterday, it's starting right up today. Update: Disable Gameboy Border.
I have isolated it as the culprit. If you plan on playing any games with time-based events like Pokemon GS/C or RSE/FR&LG, turn on 'Use Real Time Clock'. Otherwise it will report that the internal battery has run dry and that time-based events will not occur. Also, VBA supports normal gamesaves, as you would save if you were playing an actual Gameboy.
Freeze/Defrost Game State also works for me now. Don't know why. I've been having great difficulty getting VBA to even play.gbc files (read: it doesn't).gb and.gba files run fine, though. I'm beginning to wonder if loading up the GBA BIOS (gbasys.bin) might help with stability and performance. As it is, Ruby crashed my early '07 MB with the craptacular GMA950 due to overheating.
Oddly enough, even though GS wouldn't even play yesterday, it's starting right up today. Update: Disable Gameboy Border.
I have isolated it as the culprit. If you plan on playing any games with time-based events like Pokemon GS/C or RSE/FR&LG, turn on 'Use Real Time Clock'. Otherwise it will report that the internal battery has run dry and that time-based events will not occur. Also, VBA supports normal gamesaves, as you would save if you were playing an actual Gameboy. Freeze/Defrost Game State also works for me now.
Don't know why. Click to expand.Yeah, I went back to VBA actually after testing the other two. Thanks for the info on the time clock. I was disappointed that it 'went dry', lol. I've also figured a lot more about folder placement.
I Haven't had many errors since and The Unarchiver is solving many problems left and right. I just got my MacBook a few weeks ago, and it's my first. The only new question I have is about language. I finally found a website that had a bunch of working pokemon Roms.
The crystal I downloaded claimed to be english, but everything has been in Japanese now that I have it working.:/ I thought I saw it somewhere on this or another forum that the language can be affected for some reason, but I forget.
Here's what I did as a Mac user, and it worked the first time. I removed all of the previous emulators and roms, just wiped it clean. Re-downloaded 7zip and the VBA emulator from CoolRom.com 3. Downloaded Pokemon Emerald ROM 4. Now, As a Mac user, you should have a white drive labeled 'Visual Boy Advance' on your desktop. If it's not there, search for it. Right click, or control click that drive.
Then click 'duplicate'. It should duplicate it in the form of a folder right onto the desktop. Find your Visual Boy Advance file, and your pokemon file. For me, I dragged them from the Finder where they saved, onto the desktop. Then, drag them INTO the duplicate folder you just made of the drive. At that point, you can go into the folder.
You should be able to click 'visual boy advance' and see subfolders called 'battery saves, Save states, screenshots, etc.' Drag the Pokemon Emerald (or any other pokemon) into the 'Save States' folder. That's it, leave it there and don't touch anything else. Re-open your emulator.
To SAVE, press F1. To LOAD what you just saved, press SHIFT+F1. This worked perfectly for me the first time. I hope it works for you!. Tell us some more. Upload in Progress.
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