Possible Reasons Why Cheats Don’t Work as Expected and How To Fix ThemNote: This article applies to Pokemon GBA games but can also be used to other related games on Game Boy Advance. You forgot to enter and activate the master codeSolution: Some cheats need to have master code enabled before the main cheat, be sure to activate them. More information you can find.
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For Pokemon Emerald Version on the Game Boy Advance, a GameFAQs message board topic titled 'Gameshark Codes For VBA Here' - Page 4.
The Cheat Isn’t Compatible with your Pokemon Game VersionSolution: Double check your game title. You Have 1.1 ROM VersionSolution: Look for the V1.0 ROMs as this version supports most of the cheats. Doing a simple Google search, you can easily find downloadable ROMS, but most of these ROMs have version 1.1.
Unfortunately, most cheats will not work for this version.Update: I recently discovered this wherein a member gives a link file for v1.0 FireRed rom, have a look at it before the file gets deleted. Your Emulator Does Not Support GameShark Code, Action Replay or CodeBreakerSolution: Use such as My Boy for Android users, Visual Boy Advance for Windows, GBA4iOS for iOS users, and Bluestacks or Nox App Player for Mac users. You entered the cheat code in a wrong formatSolution: Some emulator such as open emu requires “+” to be entered to separate a line of code. Read FAQ’s, Instructions, and Help articles regarding your emulator. You Have the Free version of EmulatorSolution: The popular GBA emulator for Android – My Boy, offers a paid and free version of the app. The free version works perfectly, but if you use cheats, you may need to pay for the premium version.
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But if paying for the app is not an option at this moment, the simple trick of works well in many cases. Too Many Enabled CheatsYour ROM will get confused when too many cheat codes are activated at once, and this could result in various bugs, glitches, random crashing, and game freezing.Solution: Disable unused cheats and activate only the cheat you need. You Have Chosen the Wrong Cheat TypeThis problem is prevalent to emulators that don’t have “auto cheat type” detection feature and chances are, you have chosen the wrong cheat type.
The quick solution for this is knowing the appropriate type for your cheat; it could be GameShark, Action Replay or Code Breaker. Question Mark Sprite on Encountered or Caught Pokemon?A common issue with two possible reasons; First, more likely that you entered the wrong Pokemon encounter code. Second, the Pokemon code and sprite don’t exist in the game. This issue happens a lot when playing ROM hacks.
Double check if the code or the Pokemon exist in the game. Glitchy Name for Captured PokemonThis bug usually happens when using the shiny Pokemon cheat and the possible reason why it occurs is that cheating is not fully supported in Pokemon GBA games. But there is an effective fix for this problem that has been tested for many players.Solution: To fix glitchy Pokemon name, all you have to do is disable the shiny cheat just before capturing a Pokemon.
ConclusionIt’s frustrating when you can’t activate a cheat, and there are plenty of reasons why this thing is happening. Hopefully, the solution and information above give you the insights to finally solve your problem.Just in case the solution above doesn’t work, feel free to drop your comments below, and I will do my best to help you as humanely as possible. I’m having trouble and I’m considering whether it’s a version thing?So in my case, it’s Fire Red.
The “Get all 3 starters” CodeBreaker (not GameShark) which should be 83000F9C 0000 (those are zeros, all of them).Now I’ve read guides, faqs, watched videos and it just won’t work. My Boy (free version) on Android. Thing is, the very SAME ROM on my Visual Boy in PC can work the code like a charm.So I’m thinking that the problem is not the code nor the ROM, but the emulator. And yet, many people claim it works in their My Boy (and the YT videos seem to testify to that, unless they’re somehow fake).Ideas? Hey,I’m playing Fire Red (squirrel version) and using VBA as my emulator.I’m wondering if there is any possible fix or way around the weird name issue that results due to using the Shiny Code? I dont really want to nickname them, and I have tried to disable the cheat when asked if I want to nickname them but the code either doesnt work at all or the pokemon still ends up with a weird name.Also I’m trying to get a male starter and the shiny code has given me just females with a rash nature,I dont want a female, the code listed for the gender modifier is not working.Always FemaleEB34F751 A96B854D78DA95DF 44018CB4Always MaleEB34F751 A96B854D141BB87C 83D7018F. Im using my boy paid version on android im playing pokemon fire red from emu websitethe unlimited masteball code and rare candies code both work fine but i cant get the any wild pokemon codes to work ever I put the master code000014D1 000A1003DAE6 0007now this is where i might be doing something wrong so after i put the code i i save it as master code i turn it on then i try to put the Bulbasaur code in 83007CEE 0001save that as bulbadaur then activate it but it doesnt work am i supposed to add it to the master code cheat all in 1 or what.
Hello,I had downloaded gba4ios and pokemon emerald a few years ago, and the cheats worked fine. But then I deleted it and decided to come back to it and the cheats where you choose a wild pokemon to appear when you walk through grass doesn’t work. It just crashes when a pokemon finds me. I have been using ign’s cheatcodes on the “wild pokemon modifier second part” I recall the first part did nothing a couple years back and it still does nothing now, but now the second part is causing me to crash.
Any suggestions?Thanks. I’ve checked all of this. I’m using OpenEmu from the link given here.
I’m also using the same FireRed that’s linked here too. I’ve precisely used the exact mastercode for finding pokemon:000014D1 000A+1003dae6 0007+83007CEE YYYYIt’s worked once from my first save but I couldn’t battery save that version. Now that I’m trying to start again. The code no longer works even when its been on the exact same version.If you provide any help that would be great because this has been really frustrating, given that it has worked with me before but no longer does now.
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