Ironmon-Tracker VS visualboyadvance-m

Looks a lot like the FireRed Ironmon tracker maybe with some customisations for their stream.

They're playing an IronMon run, which as far as I'm aware is just vanilla randomized firered but with insane rules. They use this tracker for the UI thing, but it's not actually anything in-game.

Sorry if this has been asked a million times already, but I can't figure out how to get trading to work on my laptop with the VBA-M. I looked at a bunch of videos, but those have only been VBA or gen3 and beyond. I found this link https://github.com/visualboyadvance-m/visualboyadvance-m/issues/604 where the exact issue I am having occurs.

I always recommend mGBA these days, and it has "Partial support" for the link cable: https://mgba.io/faq.html . If not I know for a fact I got it working on VBA-m before: https://github.com/visualboyadvance-m/visualboyadvance-m/releases/tag/v2.1.5

Sure thing. MyBoy emulator actually supports link cable emulation between two instances of the emulator on two phones, and so do other gba emulators on PC, like vba-m: https://github.com/visualboyadvance-m/visualboyadvance-m

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to reproduce your problem. I downloaded visualboyadvance-m-Win-64bit.zip, loaded Pokemon FireRed (with default settings), and was able to save with no issue.

Definitely recommend VBA-M

Well, there is still VBA-M (https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/VisualBoy_Advance#VBA-M, https://github.com/visualboyadvance-m/visualboyadvance-m ) which is a fork of VBA that is still seems to be maintained with recent commits (though last release appears to be back in 2019).

last version here: https://github.com/visualboyadvance-m/visualboyadvance-m/releases

How long ago were you a developer though, out of curiosity? We're talking about an emulator with a repo updated as recently as seven hours ago, after all. It's not like it's unmaintained.