Ruby or Firered?

Ok, I'm just getting into hacking after a long time of preparations, but I don't which rom to hack. Both are excellent in their own ways, but I just can't decide. Which would you recommend me to use? Which of these two is better for you?

Use Random.com if you can't decide :3

Both have good stuff and bad stuff.

Hybrid Trainer said:

Why not Leaf Green or Saphire?
Or if your wanting a challenge what about Emerald?

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Seconded.

Neither is intrinsically "better". They both have their pros and cons. You can hack the graphics in one to look pretty much exactly like the other so in the end it really comes down to what features you want. HackMew put together a very useful list of the differences between Fire Red, Ruby, and Emerald in this post.

I think Ruby is better (for me) because it has many options. FR/LG and S/E are also good in their own ways.
But, I as a hacker prefer to hack Ruby.

Fr, most things are geared towards fr. So you can get more help and find more tutorials.

Oh look, it's this thread again.

Well anyways, Both of them are good there's no clear choice.

I like emerald best, but I'm too lazy to switch from ruby to it.

Honestly, I've found Ruby is easier to work with, there are more bits of information on ruby, than I've seen for FireRed, but then again, I suppose it's more for preference. I wanted to use Ruby because I played through the game, I never really got a copy of FireRed or LeafGreen for my gameboy, so i didnt really want to use it.

I like Ruby but that's just cause I played it so much.

I know there's something I'm missing but why would anybody choose Ruby over Emerald? They're the same game with more features and a Frontier. Is Emerald harder to script in or glitchy or something? Ive never had a problem with it

"Oh, but I heard from somewhere or someone that I don't know that someone else said to them to tell others that Emerald is unstable."

Yeah, that's the reason.

Overdrive64 said:

I know there's something I'm missing but why would anybody choose Ruby over Emerald? They're the same game with more features and a Frontier. Is Emerald harder to script in or glitchy or something? Ive never had a problem with it

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Ninja Caterpie said:

"Oh, but I heard from somewhere or someone that I don't know that someone else said to them to tell others that Emerald is unstable."

Yeah, that's the reason.

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Um, yes. More specifically, Emerald lacks support from various tools, hence the rise of un-knowledged (new word k) hackers proclaiming that Emerald is unstable/glitchy, when in reality it's not. Emerald is exactly the same to script in as R/S (and most of FR/LG; small things like color codes are different, but eh). There's nothing wrong with Emerald.

Emerald is the way. Don't believe the hype.

Hybrid Trainer said:

Why not Leaf Green or Saphire?
Or if your wanting a challenge what about Emerald?

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Because, they're the same as their counterparts. If they're being hacked, it makes no difference that Fire Red and Ruby are chosen more often. Anyway, most tools with support for Sapphire and LeafGreen sometimes use the offsets for Ruby and FireRed instead of their own offsets, (or... Something). Which makes it so that little things could go awry in LeafGreen, that wouldn't in FireRed.

Also, Emerald is the way to go. It's got practically everything to work with that Fire Red has- as .com said, ignore the hype. Emerald is absolutely fine, it's what I'm hacking.

Fire red has a better (more beautiful) layout to start with, and many world maps, which augments the potential drastically.

I think it depends on what you want to use whether it be music, overworlds, or other such stuff.

I preffer using Firered because of how it seemed hard to find guides for things i wanted to do with Ruby