This happened to me too after i went in the gym when i battle janice the first time but i saved my game at the moment i went in and were able to use the guide but he used the hero ow with diferrent pallete...and i could go out anymore so i had to go and let janice beat my squirtle...the second time i beat her the same happened after the first trainer battle too....Contrary to what a few other people have said, the game isn't crashing for me at all in Sinister Woods. It hasn't even happened once so I guess I'm lucky! One thing is certain though: The glitch is definitely not Combee, at least not on my copy since I was able to encounter one normally. For reference, the emulator I'm using is Visual Boy Advance GX for the Wii. By the way, I did find one minor bug that might be worth mentioning. After I beat Janice the first time, I looked at my trainer card and exited. I was able to control the gym guide! Everything went back to normal and I went back to using the player character after exiting the door.
I'm playing on the Bad Side (Team Earth). I just finished talking to the Shaman, where do I go from there?
This happened to me too after i went in the gym when i battle janice the first time but i saved my game at the moment i went in and were able to use the guide but he used the hero ow with diferrent pallete...and i could go out anymore so i had to go and let janice beat my squirtle...the second time i beat her the same happened after the first trainer battle too....
Contrary to what a few other people have said, the game isn't crashing for me at all in Sinister Woods. It hasn't even happened once so I guess I'm lucky! One thing is certain though: The glitch is definitely not Combee, at least not on my copy since I was able to encounter one normally. For reference, the emulator I'm using is Visual Boy Advance GX for the Wii. By the way, I did find one minor bug that might be worth mentioning. After I beat Janice the first time, I looked at my trainer card and exited. I was able to control the gym guide! Everything went back to normal and I went back to using the player character after exiting the door.
Hey, Jagold. Been a while :D
I'm glad to see this isn't dead, or rather back from the dead!
But I've encountered a couple of problems:
1. I patched my old game because when I tried patching on a clean Ruby game, the graphics became all glitchy...
1B. Which drags the following issue that the game gets stuck in Sinister Woods - I fought a Caterpie and a Foongus for that matter, but the third encounter by the bug catcher froze my game.
It has probably been already reported before but I hope you can work around it!
Take care, bro :)
EDIT:
After further gameplay, it appears that the glitched Pokemon is Combee... An unavoidable Lass in Sinister Woods sent one out at me and the game crashed once again. :/
I guess I can't progress as of now... Oh well...