first of all you will need:
vba
lips patcher
the hack you want to play
the rom base
eg. you want to play pokemon shiny gold so the rom base would be pokemon firered so you will need to download firered
steps(once you have everything you can start) :
1. extract the to roms (if theyre already extracted there is no need to extract the to roms 2.open the lips patcher then click apply patch so open the shiny gold rom then open the firered rom and after that it will say that the rom was sussesfully patched so now you can play pokemon shiny gold rom happy to help