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Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire

Game Boy Advance · 2026

Gen 3 arrives with its clock still ticking: the cartridge real-time clock is modeled right in the GBARecomp runtime.

Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire carry Gen 3 into the GBARecomp lineup, currently at v0.0.3 (2026-07-17), the release that added a pre-boot launcher.

What works today

The games run through the recompiled runtime, launched via the pre-boot launcher added in the current release.

Enhancements

The cartridge's real-time clock is modeled by the GBARecomp runtime rather than left unimplemented.

Known limitations

The README warns of flash save and RTC quirks in this early release.

No game data is distributed; the project builds from your own legally dumped ROM and GBA BIOS.

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