Yo Nick, welcome to the forum okay! Good to meet you! Your username is pretty simple but also really interesting and clever haha.
Yeahh.. it's hard to play the generation 4 and 5 games on an emulator, I had a lot of trouble with it too. ): I just play my games on the actual systems nowadays since there's less worry of the save file being lost or the game crashing and such. I remember playing Platinum on an emulator years ago and crashing as I tried to use the PC.. ended up losing my entire file and was sent back to the first town. That pretty much solidified my idea that physical copies are > roms, haha. Definitely don't want to experience that again. v O v Do you have any of the physical copies?
But wow, you're really active, that's wonderful! I just joined the gym recently and it's been pretty great so far. Track is a great sport especially; probably one of my favorites since I enjoy running. Since you're pretty diverse as far as interests go I'm sure you'll find plenty of things to get involved in here, so it's wonderful that you've made a few posts already. Wish I could help you out with hacks but I'm not that experienced with them anymore since I don't browse the Emulation section as much as I used to. ;_; But there'll definitely be someone around there who can give you some suggestions/help out!
Hope you enjoy your stay here and see you around! Remember to read the rules!