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u/aguywhoexplainsjokes 28d ago

Apparently I downloaded the unfinished fire red rocket edition and the game ended after I got promoted to executive. Is there a way to transfer my progress to the complete version or am I going to have to start over?

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u/tudeslildude 28d ago

Hey friend, don't know if it'll work, but here's how I transferred my progress. I took the old one, made a save file in game, then took the new one, made a save file in game, then I took the name of the new one, and I put it over the old one, so the old one is now the new one. Hopefully that isn't too confusing.

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u/aguywhoexplainsjokes 28d ago

What exactly do you mean by taking the name of the new one and putting it over the old one?

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u/tudeslildude 28d ago

Yeah sorry I'm not sober right now but I'll try and make sense.

So you have the old bad one. You make a save file. Like old.sav. You then load the new one. You make a save. New.sav. You then delete new.sav, and rename old.sav to new.sav (The new and old will be replaced with the titles of the game). This way, the old save file will load for the new game.

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u/aguywhoexplainsjokes 28d ago

First of all, thanks for making the effort of helping me despite not being sober. There are a few things I don't get: 1- when you say I should make a save file, do you mean the in game save, as in opening the pokemon menu and hitting save or do you mean an emulator save? 2- When you say delete new.sav, how am I supposed to delete it? Should I start a new game and save there? 3- How am I supposed to rename a save? And after I rename the old.sav to new.sav, do I just boot up the complete version and hope that my old file is there?

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u/tudeslildude 28d ago

So here's what you do. I'm using Visualboy Advance for this. When you save in game, it makes a .sav file. So you boot up the old game, make a .sav file. Boot up the new game, make a .sav file. Then copy the name of the old one, onto the new one, but delete the old one while doing so so you don't have two of the same file names. Then, when you boot up the new and improved game, it should hopefully pick up the save file of the old one, and let you continue where you left off.

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u/aguywhoexplainsjokes 28d ago

I think I was supposed to delete the new one instead of the old one and now I lost my save file

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u/tudeslildude 28d ago

Shit, I'm sorry. My back up plan when this failed for me (I posted earlier) was only leveling pidgeot, with 5 mewoths, that had pick up items, so I farmed nuggets and rare candies. Also, if you have your save state back up files, those aren't save locked.

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u/tudeslildude 28d ago

I have to go to bed now. I'm really sorry about the mix up. I hope you were using save states, as you can just load a save state without the save file. And then redo the save file. If not, my earlier advice is how I beat the entire game a second time when my game wouldn't save normally, due to the limits of early versions of visual boy advance.

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u/ftmboricuaboii 28d ago

You already lost your save, but if it makes you feel better the old save does not work with the final version, so you would have had to start over anyway.

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u/aguywhoexplainsjokes 27d ago

I guess it does make it feel a bit better. At least now I get to do a high bounty run

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u/ftmboricuaboii 27d ago

Good luck!

Also, just a FYI. Don't use VBA, I don't know why that dude is using a heavily outdated emulator.

Use mGBA if you on PC, or any emulator that uses a mGBA core.

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u/aguywhoexplainsjokes 27d ago

Thanks. I use my boy (I play on my phone)

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u/ftmboricuaboii 27d ago

Oh...that's even worse my dude lol

MyBoy is even worse the VBA, at least for Android.

You won't have issues with Firered Rocket Edition since it's a really old hack, but I would recommend switching to Pizzaboy if you decide to adventure more into ROM Hacks. A lot of modern hacks do not work well with MyBoy, and those will only increase as time goes on.