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[yvannairie]

Went for a two-hour research binge into Nintendo emulation on mobile devices because I got frustrated at people saying "just buy the mobile ports, that's the easiest way", ignoring that having money can be one kind of an accessibility barrier and that most computer stuff is easy to do if you've got someone who can walk you through it step by step. Which I can.

I also wanna take that one shitpost about Safety Absols and draw an Absol with appropriate safety gear. That hardhat is not even secure. Where's their reflective vest.

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[sexytronians]

Oh! Is there emulation out there for Pokémon gold/Silver? I have the gameboy colour and gold cartridge, but it’s an arse to keep replacing the internal battery to get the day/night function to work.

Or like heartgold/soulsilver because I’d love to play those again. :0

Emulation sounds so cool but I don’t really understand it XP

[yvannairie]

Oh yeah, and emulator is basically just a piece of software pretending to be the console. Older consoles up to the PS1 generation have been pretty thoroughly emulated, if you have a decent computer you can run GBA/NDS emulator pretty easy. Even my old computer could do it. I've also been looking into mobile emulators, but haven't yet had a chance to try out them -- if you're on Android, you might wanna look up an EmuBox tutorial on YT, they explain it better than I do :D

I actually have the SoulSilver ROM, I can drop a link to my EMU bundle on OD. It's as simple as unpacking the thing, running the emulator exe and opening the ROM image. I recall it running kinda bad on NoCash, my preferred emulator, but I don't remember it crashing or anything like that.

[sexytronians]

Sadly my PC is out of commission until I can replace everything but the graphics card. Which might take a while as I’m trying to get a house with my boyfriend. But as soon as I can sort that I will definitely take you up on this because I’d love to be able to play some of those games again. :D

[contrarianarchon]

But how are they supposed to appear suddenly and ominously if they can't be stealthy

[yvannairie]

By playing the cat game :)

[elendraug]

Is that how everybody's able to play translation patches for something like a DS, or do I need to mod the hardware? I've been testing out PCSX2 for stuff I own but haven't made any Nintendo attempts since they seem to be so fraught.

I've still got my cartridges for my old Pokémon games (1st and 2nd gen) but I'm sure the battery died a long time ago, RIP

[yvannairie]

Yeah, usually fan translations release in the form of hacked ROMs, and emulators are generally the most hassle-free way of playing them. Depending on the console, you might need to add a mod circuit to it or have a flash card/software unlock cartridge/disc to be able to run stuff that's been burned into disc or is running from a flash drive. I've been meaning to invest in a flash card for my 3DS for, like, literally years now, I wanna replace the battery and homebrew that one so bad so I can use it as a dictaphone and an art tool.

Honestly, Nintendo's hardware is some of the best-emulated because their archival is notoriously godawful to the point where there's even been suspicions that Nintendo has used emulated/hacked games as devtools while creating their own Virtual Console releases. I recommend the r/Emulation wiki as a starting point :D

[elendraug]

Thank you!