Aryan143
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So, I tried to make a ROM asking questions but I cant see it so I guess I am doing something wrong.
Anyways, I do not hack ROMs but being a Pokeman fan since a child (only anime, never had a Nitendo console and have only played FireRed, Emerald, Black and White series and PMD on emulators the last 2 years)
So, recently, after reading a creepy pasta I found out that you guys hack Roms and have been browsing this forums for the last 2 days.
Ok, so, is there any ROM HACK that lets you start with any Pokemon you want or is 3 the magic number that must be used in every Pokemon game? (seems like it)
Also, do you guys need to patch game ROMs or do it for legal reasons?
And finally, I read some stickies and saw that you must have
1) The game ROM
2) The hack (patch)
3) An emulatour
4) A patcher
So, which emulators should I use? Is there a specific one that works better or anyone will work? And one final question. Does 1 patcher work for everything or do I have to donwload different ones? (I read something about .ISU and .ASU that need different programs to patch)
Well I haven't seen any rom hack which allows you to choose any starter. But 3 is not a magic number. People can make it upto any limit which can allow you to choose any pokemon but it will require a lot of space from the rom and it will take a lot of scripting.
We patch roms only because distribution of roms is Illegal. And some people have slower connections so they intend to download patches instead of roms because patches are smaller in size.
For emulators of GBA, VisualBoyAdvance is the best. Almost 95% of people use it or VBA-M to play GBA games.
A patcher works for its supported types of patches. So LIPS only works for IPS patches and A-Patch only works for APS patches.