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FireRed hack: POKEMON: Dark Rising

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  • Seen Apr 12, 2013
Hi guys, have really been enjoying the hack so far. One question though - I was bluetoothed the DarkRising.gba file and play the game on an android emulator. How would i got about updating it to the latest version?
 

Septentrion

Evilutionary biologist
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11
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  • Age 34
  • Seen Aug 13, 2023
I can't progress in the game. I've gotten to were I'm supposed to go to Millenium City but I can't get there at all. Syndey just says, "just that a stroll or something." The walkthrough says she is suppose to escort me to the city.

I have everything up on Youtube(last walkthrough link in OP).
 
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  • Seen Sep 15, 2016
Hack looks really great BUT...The difficulty. I left water cave, where pokemon have levels 15-19, and suddenly I need to beat a pokemaniac with 2 lvl 30 mons. Is that normal? I mean, if if it wasn't for munna and it's dream eater I would never have done that. Also, what's a good spot to grind? Seems like I won't be able to progres without that.
 
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I can't progress in the game. I've gotten to were I'm supposed to go to Millenium City but I can't get there at all. Syndey just says, "just that a stroll or something." The walkthrough says she is suppose to escort me to the city.

I have everything up on Youtube(last walkthrough link in OP).
Are you using my walk through or from the Youtube? Maybe I could help you after this question


Hack looks really great BUT...The difficulty. I left water cave, where pokemon have levels 15-19, and suddenly I need to beat a pokemaniac with 2 lvl 30 mons. Is that normal? I mean, if if it wasn't for munna and it's dream eater I would never have done that. Also, what's a good spot to grind? Seems like I won't be able to progres without that.
The game is running Normal for you. The level of difficulty you are facing is also alright. Anyways it is very common that a trainer has tougher pokes than those wild ones
 
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11
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  • Seen Sep 15, 2016
I came to sewers, to battle MAX. And guess what? His pokemon are level 40. This hack doesn't make sense. I'm not gonna grind for an hour before any harder trainer just to defeat him.
 

Aryan143

The Fennekin Fan!
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11
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I came to sewers, to battle MAX. And guess what? His pokemon are level 40. This hack doesn't make sense. I'm not gonna grind for an hour before any harder trainer just to defeat him.

You can battle him at a later time because it's an optional battle.
 
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I can't progress in the game. I've gotten to were I'm supposed to go to Millenium City but I can't get there at all. Syndey just says, "just that a stroll or something." The walkthrough says she is suppose to escort me to the city.

I have everything up on Youtube(last walkthrough link in OP).
OK I see what you did. Hmmm now lets see here. If you are wondering how to go there than you have to do some events first and then after them the scientist guy on Huntik Route will let you go through the cave he was previously was blocking. Through that cave you will reach trident waters. Surf south from there and you will reach Millenium city
 

Septentrion

Evilutionary biologist
63
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  • Seen Aug 13, 2023
OK I see what you did. Hmmm now lets see here. If you are wondering how to go there than you have to do some events first and then after them the scientist guy on Huntik Route will let you go through the cave he was previously was blocking. Through that cave you will reach trident waters. Surf south from there and you will reach Millenium city

I have to "do some events"?
 

lowkey1202

Unofficial Game Tester
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14
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  • Age 11
  • Seen Nov 20, 2023
idk if anyone else had this bug i went to use teleport on my pokemon and it sent me to a area i never been kinda sucked becuase i didnt save for awhile
 

Satoshi Ookami

Memento Mori
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15
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I came to sewers, to battle MAX. And guess what? His pokemon are level 40. This hack doesn't make sense. I'm not gonna grind for an hour before any harder trainer just to defeat him.
You WILL have to grind sooner or later anyways... take it as an opportunity to do it ;)

idk if anyone else had this bug i went to use teleport on my pokemon and it sent me to a area i never been kinda sucked becuase i didnt save for awhile
Teleport almost always bugs in hacks as creators don't really care about it...
It's normal that you get stuck unfortunately...
 
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11
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  • Seen Oct 21, 2013
Hey I was finally able to download to play and a couple things are going wrong when within first few minutes. After I got the shoes and walked outside the emulator shut off. I don't know why it did that and also, i'm aware on a PC you save with shift+Fnumbers but I don't think I can do that on a Mac. Could someone please help, I've been dying to play this game since I heard about it.
 

Crimnor

» imperishable
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15
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  • Age 31
  • Seen Oct 31, 2020
Hey I was finally able to download to play and a couple things are going wrong when within first few minutes. After I got the shoes and walked outside the emulator shut off. I don't know why it did that and also, i'm aware on a PC you save with shift+Fnumbers but I don't think I can do that on a Mac. Could someone please help, I've been dying to play this game since I heard about it.
You forgot to give us the most important information we would need in order to help you - what emulator do you use and which version?
 

Crimnor

» imperishable
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Boycott Advance, said it was last modified Sep 27, 2008
I recommend you to try Visual Boy Advance (at least version 1.7.6) instead - pretty solid emulator that works great on my Macbook Air.

coolrom.com/emulators/mac/10/Visual_Boy_Advance.php
 
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  • Seen Oct 21, 2013
I recommend you to try Visual Boy Advance (at least version 1.7.6) instead - pretty solid emulator that works great on my Macbook Air.

coolrom.com/emulators/mac/10/Visual_Boy_Advance.php

I havn't quite gotten to the part where it would crash but I'm trying to figure out how to resize it the arrows are not showing up for me, neither is the green plus button.

NEVERMIND Found the settings. Thank you so much Majesticz

I havn't quite gotten to the part where it would crash but I'm trying to figure out how to resize it the arrows are not showing up for me, neither is the green plus button.

NEVERMIND Found the settings. Thank you so much Majesticz

Nevermind again, when I went to play it fullscreen that emulator exits out each time. I'll still play it but having it so small is a bit annoying.
 
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Crimnor

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I havn't quite gotten to the part where it would crash but I'm trying to figure out how to resize it the arrows are not showing up for me, neither is the green plus button.
Well sorry, all I know is that Boycott Advance was developed to run homebrew software or something. Therefore, it does not support all titles available which also includes FireRed. I'm pretty sure the latest version of Visual Boy Advance will do just fine for every hack you can find around these forums.
 
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11
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  • Seen Oct 21, 2013
I think I broke the emulator on my computer. I set up the preferences to put it on fullscreen because the box to play the game was so small. But everytime I go to open the game or the firered game the emulator automatically shuts off and gives me an error message. And even deleting it and re-downloading it doesn't work. First time messing with this sort of thing. This time it is with the Visual Boy Advance
 
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