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How to Trade Pokemon on the VBA

Virtual Boy Advance (VBA), despite the name, is not a Virtual Boy emulator, but a Game Boy Advance emulator, released in 2002. It has all of the features of the Game Boy Advance and more, is able to upscale emulated games, save at any point at will and also, to link systems, whether on the same computer or over a network. This feature can be used to trade Pokemon between games in the same series, provided players have played up to a point where that feature unlocks in both games.

Instructions

- 1
  Open VBA, then click "Options" and "Link." Uncheck "Log," and then click the radio button for "One Computer." Click "OK" and close VBA.
- 2
  Open two instances of VBA, then go to "Options" and uncheck "Pause when inactive window" to avoid desync problems. Click on "Options" and select "Default Joypad." Make the default joypads "Joypad 1" in the first emulator and "Joypad 2" in the second. The buttons for separate joypads should already be configured.
- 3
  Click "File" on the first emulator, and then select the Pokemon game you want to load, "Pokemon Silver," for example. Do the same on the second emulator but select the other game in the series, "Pokemon Gold" in this case. On the title screen, select "Trade" and swap Pokemon freely between the two emulator instances.

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