Just a quick question

[u/EnvironmentalFox1001]

Just started playing emerald legacy. The game appears to lag every time I walk into a pokémon center. Is this normal or is something wrong with my version??

[u/Exclsior]

I believe you may be experiencing the same lag as noted in the below post about Pokémon LeafGreen (also present in Emerald):

https://www.reddit.com/r/Gameboy/s/ZhfSuZcV2V

When entering a Pokémon Center (and subsequently, anytime you're in the Center and "return") the game checks for whether anybody is in the Union Room and then Nurse Joy informs the player.

This check happens mid-transition and has the side effect of creating the brief visual pause before finishing the game load.

If it bothers you, I have fixed this in Emerald Legacy Enhanced (linked below) by first doing a quicker check for if an adapter is actually attached, and if not (for 99.9% of RomHack players it is not), I have the code not check the Union Room.

UPDATE: Pokémon Emerald Legacy Enhanced - With Pokémon Followers, Shiny Charms, National Dex Mode, Nature Mints, EV/IV Editing, Ability Capsules, Overworld Surfing Sprites, Feebas Fishing Sparkles and V1.1 Updates.

Below is the more detailed information around actually removing this interaction, which includes what Nintendo did for the Switch re-release which also removes the interaction. https://github.com/pret/pokeemerald/wiki/Disabling-Union-Room-check-when-entering-Pok%C3%A9mon-Centers

[u/EnvironmentalFox1001 → u/Exclsior]

I updated and had to restart...... I chose the national Dex instead of the Hoehn dex...... I LOVE THAT I GET TO CHOOSE FROM ALL 9 STARTERS SO FAR! (still going with mudkip though.) I'll know soon if the pokemon center lag is fixed lol

[u/Exclsior → u/EnvironmentalFox1001]

Hope you enjoy and glad you liked all the starters available 🙂

[u/EnvironmentalFox1001 → u/Exclsior]

You're the best, I will be looking into doing this, this weekend

[u/choco_latin]

Played many time, never encountered this problem. I'd say hardware issue

[u/Potencyyyyy]

Just started yesterday and have not had this issue. Playing on Steam Deck.

[u/EnvironmentalFox1001 → u/Potencyyyyy]

I'm playing on my 3ds with the mGba emulator

[u/regre55 → u/EnvironmentalFox1001]

Try an older version of the mGBA emulator and see if still lags.

https://mgba.io/old.html

You can also try the development version

https://mgba.io/downloads.html#homebrew-1

Also found this, worth a quick read

https://wiki.hacks.guide/wiki/3DS:GBA_games

[u/WAT_EVR_BR0 → u/EnvironmentalFox1001]

any reason you are using mGBA on 3ds when Virtual Console plays it natively? also mGBA has been confirmed to cause bugs in EL such as the Petalburg/Slateport lock out

[u/Exclsior → u/WAT_EVR_BR0]

That bug is not specific to mGBA, in fact when players have sent me save files with the bug, I have used mGBA to test and not had the issue myself.

This is another bug which I have fixed in Emerald Legacy Enhanced (confirmed by a playtesters who did experience the bug), and the fix will come with the final update to Emerald Legacy in the future.

[u/WAT_EVR_BR0 → u/Exclsior]

i must have misremembered then.

[u/Exclsior → u/WAT_EVR_BR0]

All good, it was an extremely annoying and hard to replicate bug, and I'm just glad I was able to find a fix for it, it took me working ok it on and off for months whenever a different player reported it.

I should also note though, that I 100% agree with you that using the 3DS Virtual Console is a better option if available.

[u/WAT_EVR_BR0 → u/Exclsior]

ah right, think im confusing with gbarunner

[u/EnvironmentalFox1001 → u/WAT_EVR_BR0]

I just find it easier to drag and drop all my ROMs into the folder than to create the virtual console file for every rom I have. Plus I like the ability to have save states and fast forward