I recently did the opposite, I sold my Emerald and Blue for a decent price, which helped fund my second hand new 3DS. I don’t really care for the cartridges as long as I can play the games, and I feel no guilt for playing roms for games that are no longer being produced :).
I do like seeing large collections of other people, but I don’t have the same satisfaction from that compared to what it would cost. (I say quite hypocritically, as I have a larger than rational LEGO collection including tonnes of Bionicle sets that I will never let go for any price)
comically_cluttered@beehaw.org 5 weeks ago
If you ever want Emerald with some quality of live improvements (e.g. HMs not being necessary to actually teach; you can use them in the overworld as long as anyone in your party can learn whichever move), I’d highly suggest the Emerald Seaglass ROM hack.
I’m mainly bringing it up because the art is absolutely gorgeous. So if you ever want to dive into Emerald again, give it a shot.
You can play it on a variety of GBA emulators, so it’s pretty simple to get running. A few good Android ones, I believe there’s one called Delta on iOS, and there are several for most desktop OSes (included Linux).
ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 4 weeks ago
Thanks for sharing this! That looks very unique
Zoop@beehaw.org 5 weeks ago
Oooh, this sounds neat! I’m not who you were replying to, but I wanted to thank you for mentioning the Emerald Sea glass ROM hack! I hadn’t yet heard of it and I’m looking forward to checking it out.