>>56882721It's doable with care. Put in a new battery, do what
>>56883096 I just said here to fix RTC issues (happens to fix the berry glitch in most cases) and play on something sturdier like an Analogue Pocket (don't use states) and you can have a pretty good legit experience.
List of hardware I have to make GenIII more tolerable. A lot of this is easy to get, some of it is stupid hard and not worth it.
1 (or more) Analogue Pockets. For playing and link stuff. I have about 4 for my group's Foursword and Crystal Chronicles get togethers
1 Epilogue GB Operater. Kind of a GB/GBC/GBA slot for your PC. You can play directly on PC or just back up your saves for peace of mind. Or more. I'm not your mom. Has an emulator built in but YMMV cause I've had it desync the RTC before.
1 DS lite + Acekard2i with GBA_RTCRead. nds-savegame-manager might be useful too if you don't have the Epilogue.
The rest of this stuff isn't necessary but it's fun for all the extended Pokemon nonsense you can do in GenIII
Gamecube + GBA-GCN cables. You have to remove this metal bit to make it work with the Analogue Pocket but it interfaces like a dream. NO compatibility issues. That means you get access to Colo and XD, Pokemon BOX (practically required for living dex), Jirachi Bonus disk, and Celebi disk, if you have access to JP Colo and either an AR or Japanese hardware.
Another Gameboy. You can do link stuff with multiple Pockets, but they don't have the right form factor for the eReader. There's lots of neat eReader stuff to collect, more than I can type here.
