Unfortunately the game acts as if the Link Cable is used even when choosing Wireless Adapter in the settings. Too bad, besides that No$gba still has the most stable link emulation.
@Liger0 However I got it to work on an old version of VBA-M https://projectpokemon.org/home/applications/core/interface/file/attachment.php?id=37343
Open 1 instance of the emulator and configure your settings.
Most important:
- disable "Pause when inactive"
- set and enable the GBA BIOS file
- choose link type "Wireless Adapter - Single Computer"
- set link timeout to 500 and check "Auto-start link"
Close VBA again to make sure the settings are saved correctly.
Then open 2 instances of VBA and open your games. By the way the save file of the second instance needs a "-2" appended to its name, e.g. "Emerald-2.sav".
I tried it a few times with this setup and it worked each time!
Edit: It actually also works on the latest nightly https://win.vba-m.com/nightly/ if you use local mode for linking.
CrossOver-19 and above work on Catalina without workarounds needed.
Unofficial Wineskin & WineCX19.0.1-1 requests workarounds for Catalina 10.15.0 > 10.15.3 you must disabled SIP, for Catalina 10.15.4 and above SIP can remain enabled and pass a nvram boot-arg once
There isn’t a way to put them into eggs without hacking, but there are a few you can obtain at egg equivalent levels.
Lugia Dream Radar with no badges
Ho-Oh Dream Radar with no badges
Regigigas Pokémon Platinum
Dialga Dream Radar with no badges
Dialga HGSS Arceus event
Palkia Dream Radar with no badges
Palkia HGSS Arceus event
Giratina Dream Radar with no badges
Giratina HGSS Arceus event
Manaphy egg from Pokémon Ranger games
Thunderus Dream Radar with no badges
Tornadus Dream Radar with no badges
Landorus Dream Radar with no badges
The Eon Ticket in Emerald is a special case
Besides that there are two different kinds of event distributions: Mystery Gift, which has wondercards and didn't exist in RS, and Mystery Event which already existed in RS but didn't have wondercards.
In both cases there's a script downloaded into the save file. It's just that the Mystery Gifts are always bound to the postman in the Pokemon Center while the Mystery Events could be bound to any NPC, not only Norman.
This is just speculation, but I think the place/location for the icon on wonder cards can't handle item icons, only Pokémon icons.
Sure, they could just put a Mew there, but since they were distributing an item, they went with the question mark icon.
(which is a placeholder icon used by unused Pokémon entries).
There's a video from the original distribution http://www.filb.de/content/games/gba/emerald/videos/alte-karte/empfang.flv
Originally linked on https://www.pokewiki.de/Alte_Karte but got removed for some reason.
Hey, this worked, thanks! The BIOS file wasn't even needed. It was extremely fast at first try.
Hopefully this version will also work on dolphin's box connection, as with others the pokemon box screens doesn't show the nintendo logo and doesn't do anything after the gba bios animation
However, are we sure the old sea map wondercard is legit? The missing item sprite makes me wonder about it...
I'm playing on a retail a retail copy, I guess I am going on the honor system I agree by going into the save files makes it less legit, but I think its safer than sending retail copies. I think you'd have to go by the honor system because if you transfer a pokemon to a retail copy there is no way to tell if its legit or not (unless it is found in a location or level it cannot be found in)