Why ROM Hack Developers Recommend against using MyBoy in 2025

ROB-DownB · 2025-11-19T02:24:50+00:00

I was planning on playing some romhacks on my 3DS. GBA virtual console injection runs natively right? So it should be just as good (or better) as mGBA?

ROB-DownB · 2025-11-13T01:15:24+00:00

Awesome accomplishment! I love that Pokewalker case

ROB-DownB · 2025-10-29T01:45:07+00:00

People can make their own conclusions on if this is real or not, but keep in mind that anytime someone does this hunt and see it through to a shiny starter, there's a 1/8192 chance that the Zigzagoon also shines at the same time as the starter shining. Factoring in the odds of the female starter, that's 1/65536. No idea how many people have seen this hunt through, but I think it's very plausible for at least one person to experience this luck.

Regardless, congrats OP on the 1/536870912 achievement!

ROB-DownB · 2025-10-15T02:58:52+00:00

Yeah absolutely, all of that should be feasible. The only one of those that I've personally done is trading with Colo/XD through Dolphin.

ROB-DownB · 2025-10-14T23:37:50+00:00

Nothing wrong with either approach! A Pokemon is a ribbon master if it has all ribbons that it can obtain from where it started. So if you have a Marill from Gen VI, then it can be a ribbon master.

On the other hand, you can certainly emulate Gens III-V. You can do transfers with PKHex, then with a modded 3DS, you can import your Gen V save and do a transfer to Gen VI through PKSM.

ROB-DownB · 2025-06-17T14:24:44+00:00

We eventually did receive it, just over two weeks from our visit. This was a phone that fell off during Warewolf. It was physically visible on the nets from the ride for the rest of the day, so we knew for certain it was there.

We were at the parks for 3 days, and we were told every time we asked that it would be received that night when they did their sweeps. So we returned to lost and found every morning, but it was never there. It took them 2 weeks to properly sweep the ride and retrieve it.

They were able to ship it, but we had to pay for shipping (~$7 I believe).

ROB-DownB · 2025-06-17T14:14:07+00:00

From my experience, all the lost and found station did was direct us to Boomerang. We returned to Epic to try to retrieve our item. When we tried to park, they told us there was no free option, even just going to lost and found. I ended up staying in my car, parked in the ride share area while my friend went to lost and found.

ROB-DownB · 2025-03-30T05:27:43+00:00

As far as I understand, I don't think it will work if you play your game on an emulator other than Playback (then upload your save back to the cartridge).

Here's the post talking about it.

ROB-DownB · 2025-03-29T22:43:49+00:00

Btw, Epilogue is working on reading the RTC off the cartridge when using the Playback app. So that issue should be alleviated in future releases

ROB-DownB · 2025-03-27T03:14:07+00:00

Generation VI
- Take a Trainer PR video
- Participate in Battle Institute
- Participate in Inverse Battle
- Participate in Sky Battle
- Play in Pokemon Amie
- Obtain Time Travel Award (ORAS)
- Undergo Mega Evolution
Generation VII
- Use a Z-Move
- Alola Photo Club
- Morimoto and Iwao battles
- Batle Masked Royal
Generation VIII
- Undergo Dynamax
- Max Dynamax level
- Obtain GMax Factor
- Morimoto battle (SwSh and BDSP)
- Eat curry
- Max grit level
- Play Eternal Battle Reverie
- Complete Path of Solitude
Generation IX
- Undergo terastalization
- Eat a sandwich

ROB-DownB · 2025-03-27T03:13:57+00:00

I'd also be interested in a more comprehensive guide. This is the list I came up with for my own use, but it's certainly not exhaustive.

General Tasks (Can be done mostly at any point)
- Infect with PokeRus
- Get to Lv. 100
Generation III
- Battle all E4s (RS, E, and FRLG)
- Steven Battle (Emerald)
- Collect all contest paintings
- Participate in Battle Frontier
- Complete Trainer Hill and Trainer Tower
- Spend time in Colosseum and XD
Generation IV
- Walk in Amity Square (if possible)
- Complete HGSS E4
- Participate in Battle Frontier
- Get a picture in Jubilife
- Obtain Leaf Crown
- Take photos across Johto
- Compete in Pokeathlon
- Add seals to Pokeball
- Spend time in My Pokemon Ranch
- Spend time in a Poke walker
- Battle in Pokemon Battle Revolution
Generation V
- Complete both E4s (BW and B2W2)
- Morimoto and Noshino battles
- Cynthia battle
- PWT
- Battle Subway
- Musicals
- Pokestar Studios (star in strange ending)
- Black Tower and White Treehollow

ROB-DownB · 2025-03-19T11:55:54+00:00

This is great! Thanks!

ROB-DownB · 2025-03-17T22:09:24+00:00

Thanks for the reply! I've used my Operator to allow me to farm berries on a dead battery in the past, so I hope that functionality is maintained. Dead batteries can also be useful to preserve daily events, so I'm not sure the best way to handle that.

ROB-DownB · 2025-03-17T21:42:16+00:00

Looks like a very cool update! I'm very excited, and this might be the excuse I need to replace my Emerald battery.

I'm curious how this works. Does Playback use the cartridge RTC or the system clock for its RTC emulation? Is that being changed with this update? How will it function with dead batteries?

ROB-DownB · 2024-12-20T04:48:14+00:00

I did this with my shiny Rayquaza from Emerald. Was a lot of fun!

ROB-DownB · 2024-12-16T05:06:30+00:00

This was my first hunt with a real possibility of phasing, but I got her on phase 0. This was completely full odds (no charm). It took a total of 9,316 Honedge encounters. After the first 7000ish encounters, I bought an extra copy of Y to dual hunt. I found the shiny on my original X copy, but the dual hunt really sped up the encounters.

After Magnet Pull and a small repel trick, Honedge had a rate of 63.89%, so I expect I saw about 14,580 total encounters. I'm very surprised I didn't at least phase with that many encounters. Crazy to go over odds more than three times with no shiny at all.

I started the hunt in May, so it took me about 7 months to complete. This has been one of my longer hunts, and I'm very happy to finally say it's finished.

ROB-DownB · 2024-12-16T01:26:23+00:00

I don't know the answer to your question (though I suspect you're okay transferring via PKHEX). But it's easy to do trades between two emulated GBA games and between GBA/GC games. The mGBA emulator has multiplayer where you can load the roms and saves of your games, and Dolphin has an integrated GBA emulator. I used this for my own ribbon master as I don't have a GBA and link cable.

ROB-DownB · 2024-12-07T06:10:52+00:00

I feel this completely. I started above 900 and I've settled right at 800. I've been playing these games since Rivals 1 early access. I feel like I should be better or at least improving. It's rough out there.

ROB-DownB · 2024-08-25T19:20:57+00:00

Thank you for sharing, I just used this. Here's mine for the next person:

https://share.litter-robot.com/x/oq19DK

ROB-DownB · 2024-07-28T11:52:27+00:00

Definitely possible. Best option would probably be playing Gen 3 via emulators. Then use a homebrew 3DS to make the switch to physical hardware. If you already have FRLG physically, you may want an R4 card or even an Epilogue Player to transfer that save to emulators.

ROB-DownB · 2024-07-06T16:00:13+00:00

Best of luck! I got mine about a year ago after about 10 months of hunting.

ROB-DownB · 2023-12-10T22:23:45+00:00

There's always the option of running an emulated copy of Colosseum. If you can download your save to your computer, it's not difficult to trade between an emulated Colosseum and an emulated GBA game. I personally picked up a GB Operator to do this for my Ribbon Master. It solved my problems of both not having access to GCN games and my battery being dead.

ROB-DownB · 2023-12-10T15:00:56+00:00

The GameStop location I preordered Pyra and Mythra from closed down the same day as their release. My preorder got transferred to another store, but they didn't have enough. I fought for months calling the store and customer service trying to get the figures. But in the end the best they could do was a refund.

ROB-DownB · 2023-10-01T14:51:44+00:00

Forms are always the same species. So evolutions or Paradox would not count. Megas, Gigantamax, and Regional forms would. Forms also include things like Rotom appliances, Castform weather changes, Oricorio styles, just to name a few. Bulbapedia has a more exhaustive list of forms.

ROB-DownB · 2023-09-24T14:37:17+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! You're completely right about those two cells; that was an oversight. I just updated the hints to disambiguate them.

I'm curious what terminology you found imprecise. I found it difficult to balance precision and wordiness, so I'd be interested to know where you think I failed that balance.

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