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Monday, August 25, 2025

Phillip Island

Power Stance#youtube.com

Bring back the power stance. Collingwood need to bring this energy in two weeks time.

Friday, August 22, 2025

Silksong Release#youtube.com

We did it! September 4th. Huge news in the gaming industry.

Heat#netflix.com

Watched Heat for the first time last night. What a phenomenal movie it is. Amazing acting and filmography. A masterpiece.

It makes me want to check out all of Michael Mann's work as a director.

Thursday, August 21, 2025

Silksong Reveal#teamcherry.com.au

Join us in 48 hours for a special announcement about Hollow Knight: Silksong!

We might finally see more of the game and get an actual release date. A shadow drop would be crazy but I'm here for that.

Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Trading Pokemon In An Emulator

Completing a Pokedex in a Pokemon game is something I've never done.

In recent weeks I've been playing through Pokemon Ruby and I think I'm at a point now where completing the Pokedex might actually be possible.

I've been playing via by favourite emulator OpenEmu and as usual the emulation experience has been great. But OpenEmu lacks one feature that's critical for completing a Pokedex; trading.

Without trading you:

Luckily another emulator mGBA has a multiplayer window feature which opens up the possibility of "single player" emulator trades.

To do this I needed to:

  • Download and open the mGBA app
  • Have a .gba and .sav file for 2 different Pokemon games, for me it was Ruby and Sapphire
  • Make sure you're at least past the first gym in both games, this opens up trading
  • Open up the first .gba file in the emulator (Pokemon Ruby for me), then go File > New multiplayer window to open up a second window, in this second window open up the second .gba file (Pokemon Sapphire for me)
  • You will likely need to go File > Save games > Load temporary save game and select your .sav file to actually access the save state in the multiplayer window
  • In both games go to the trading location in the Pokemon Center
  • Thanks to emulator magic the 2 different games are able to connect and you'll be taken into the trading room where you can trade Pokemon
  • Once you're done just save to create a new .sav file