Hello, I have been a long time lurker on these forums but this is the first hack I have tried to play, but it has only ended in failure, am I doing everything right?
Trying to play it on Windows 10 with the VGBA emulator and I downloaded Lunar IPS. I tried putting the ROM in a folder with the patch, after which I patched the ROM using Lunar IPS and it said "patched successfully". Try to load the ROM and it instantly crashes. I backed up and checked the ROM to make sure it works, to which it does. I then tried another method I found, renaming the IPS file to exactly what the ROM file is. Tried that and I had a bit more luck. I get to the "if you paid for this hack ..." screen and the screen goes into the intro where Gengar is fighting Nidorino (not sure if Cyan changed the intro or not...), but regardless, after about 10s into the intro, it goes back to that white intro screen with the "if you paid for this hack ...". If I try to get past the intro by pressing any button, it takes me back to the intro screen.
So I have tried patching with Lunar IPS and tried renaming the patch and keeping it in the same folder as the ROM, both failed. I repeated this with three different ROMS from different locations and I get the same results every single time. I tried downloading VBA but I can't even load any of the ROMS, patched or not with that emulator
Am I doing something wrong? If someone can help me I would be very grateful, I would be lying if I said if the constant failures weren't getting under my skin