The simplest method on emulator is to just use save states to check if the game decides you can win or not on that roll, then trying to time a 777, based on this guide. This is probably the most intuitive method.
The simplest method I've read is simply saving frequently and soft resetting if you wipe out. It takes time, but if you quit and save the game every time you're up by 500 coins it's a fairly reliable way to build up to the amount you need.
So I actually went through the same thing a while back. Unless I'm severely misremembering (I'm wishing I had written down my experiences, sorry!), what usually happened is just missing a spot during my checks. Like they can spawn in multiple points in there, so its easy to just overlook one of the spawn points. Especially if they're on a side path or behind a rock.
Just within Gen 2, using the daycare resets your EXP to the next level if you don't reach the next level so you can grind infinitely without getting out of Level 5. In RBY you have access to weird 0 EXP rounding with EXP. All as well.
Thanks, I'll try this out.
The save isn't stored in the same place or manner as the real ones, so anything that looks for it (they don't work with XD and Colosseum either) can't find it and thinks there isn't one. And despite them editing the rom to handle it (some even also removing the anti-cheat code as well) they didn't bother to include a way for other things to find it.
Only real way around it is to trade Pokemon to a real copy and migrate them. Not the most helpful or convenient fix but it's something I've done on several occasions (I've a fake Emerald and FireRed cart and can confirm numerous Pokemon from both are currently alive and well in later generations)
Bulbapedia has a list of all the instances of ID numbers for both cases, just not counted by species.
I don't think it's different, here's someone who had difficulty catching it.
I forget whether its tongue specifically had any special relevance but the Adventures manga made a plot point of Koga's Golbat being smaller than usual and having a weird mouth which he used like a magic mirror. It was a really wacky detail that as far as I know has no basis on Golbat's listed abilities.
I looked though Bulbapedia's images for Golbat and it's tongue pretty much vanish as this Dr. Lava post says:
Is there a similar list for TMs and TRs?
The closest thing is SciresM's Home personal data dumps from February 2020 which are currently the most recent ones on his pastebin page. I don't know if anything changed since then but this is where things like High Horsepower Azumarill came from.
