How to Trade Pokémon using VisualBoyAdvance Emulator 2023

Updated tutorial 2023
Once again I saw that there aren't a lot of new or updated tutorials for this emulator
Hope this helps

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[himself]

My experience with this on the Virtualboy M 2.1.6 is that when you create and join the server, it allocates one device as "player 1" and the one that joined as "player 2". Once you trade and then save on each game while the connection is still active it will NOT replace your previous save-file when saved like normal. It creates new saves for "player 1" and "2".

If you want to continue from the save after the trade took place when you reload Virtualboy you must look in the folder where the saves are stored - alongside the ROM file, look for the "SAV File" with "-1" or "-2" at the end depending on who was player 1 or 2 and that will be the save from after the trade took place. Look for the save with the most recent date changed and that will likely be the one. Remove the old save that does not have a "-1" or "-2" at the end and then remove the dash and number from the updated save. Then Virtualboy will load and save onto this file like normal, future times its loaded. Alternatively be cheeky and use the save from before you traded and keep your rare traded 'mons on both games.... hope this helps someone.

[josegmustangs]

If you run into the “sorry unable to connect restart etc” issue it’s because you need to toggle off the “speed hack” button.
Then after if you get a communication error when entering the room what you need to do is toggle on -input -allow keyboard background input, on one of the screens and use the other screen at the same time. The emulator doesn’t like it when you switch between them! I recommend lining the Pokemon up you want to trade in your respective parties before hand!

Took me like two hours to get that figured out but we did it folks!

[daddywaddy]

This new generation are some straight tech wizards 😅 thanks buddy I finally get to play fire red with Alakazam and Gengar

[femaledestroyer]

man i almost cried when i got both blaziken and sceptile in one game thank you so much king. I subscribed for good!!!

[jefferrrsonx]

wow kid, you did a great job here. i don't even know how to make a video recording myself and on the computer and you got it down real good. you gonna do great in life! lol pokemon ftw!

[Gristblo]

Nice, you saved my life man 😭 I was scouring through the old videos for help and my VBA wasn’t even up to date aswell. Great video man!

[pumpkiiin]

It's all working until the lady said, "Sorry, we have a link error... Please reset and try again."

[dansquared___]

Very helpful video! Well done! This helped us trade Gravelers in Pokemon Emerald to evolve them for a Soul Link Nuzlocke we are working on! Thank you!!

[AndreasAn]

I was a little sceptical listening to a kids voice. But, this tutorial was superb. With this tutorial the link connection worked without a problem.
Keep on your good work!

[jamesgilboy]

Dude, this finally worked after several tries using other methods. Thank you so much.

[ImGrimFPS]

Thanks so much! I played these games religiously as a kid and wanted to see how to get my Alakazam on the emulator :D

[jimbo]

For those who had problems like me (on firered/leafgreen) where it would say that the Pokémon trading centre is “currently under maintenance”, it could be because you haven’t obtained 2 Pokémon and the Pokédex yet, which are required to be able to trade. I was trying to give myself all 3 starters so I rushed straight to the centre, and because of that it wouldn’t let me trade. Caught a couple random Pokémon and claimed the Pokédex by talking to the shopkeeper and delivering the package to professor oak and now it works fine.

[yourfinalhiringagency]

Only thing could have made it better is if you’d of turned down the game music, great job kid. I’ve watched about 6 others made by adults and none of their methods worked but you went into much better usage of the softwares tools so fingers crossed this method will work. Thank you!

[ericroos]

Yo. Thanks a bunch :) Really really helpful.

[nxmxix]

I will hold this video close to my heart, always. Thanks to this I managed to evolve my Kadabra into Alakazam and my Graveler into Golem. Thank you so much!

[alexanderelderhorst]

Never knew you could do this. I'm checking for ds emulators so I can do it with those gens too but wow.

[cdered]

i tried on gen 2 between silver and crystal and it does not work it says friend is not waiting help

[TigerGhost]

Thank you so much. You're a legend !!

[bullseyelp]

hello i just want to give some insight: first of all if you started a playthrough in singleplayer your save will look like this: [insert rom name].sav. if you started in multiplayer it will look like this: [insert rom name]-[wich player you are from 1 - 4].sav. Example: with a rom called "pokemon ruby" it looks like this in singleplayer: pokemon ruby.sav but if you started it in multiplayer with player one it looks like this: pokemon ruby-1.sav. this is important because you can start local multiplayer with wireless adapter instead of cable if you want to play the berry crush minigame too. so if you want to do all that change the settings to emulation -> link -> type -> wireless adapter and emulation-> link -> local mode. Afterwards make sure your first file is called something like pokemon ruby-1.sav and your file on player two is called something like pokemon saphire-2.sav so vba can load them correctly. hope that helped the 2 people that actually want to play that button masher game :D. Have a great one

[blubglugblub-izgn]

I tried this, it didn't work then I lost my save for both games thanks alot genius