I haven't played Pokemon since gen I. I want to play some

play HG/SS, then come back

Emerald, Platnium, HGSS, and BW/BW2 are pretty universally considered to be the best pokemon games, so i'd play those. Emerald hasn't ageed quite as well as the others due to worse visuals and a lack of a physical special split for typings/moves (In gens 1-3, all attacks of a typing either use your special attack or attack stat, vs after then when it's on a per move basis, IE fire punch, despite being fire, will be physicla attack based since it's a punching move), which adds a lot more strategy and pokemon viability.

Gen 6 is pretty shat on for it's causlaization and dropping of features from gen 4 and 5 but they are so polished and have so many quality of life improvements I still recommend them as well, though ORAS is pretty much trading emerald's extra content for more polish/quality of life stuff/3d models. Since they are somewhat casualized they might be a better restart point as well.

What's the emulator of choice?

>>31810693
Play in this order:
Fire Red->Emerald->Platinum-Heart Gold->Black->Black2

>>31810693
Fuck off, your kind aren't welcome here.

>>31813478
This but put Crystal before Firered.

>>31813214
Drastic is the only acceptable choice

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In release order

Yellow, Crystal, Emerald, Platinum, BW, B2W2, XY, SM

>>31813511
Whoops, forgot about it, too. Might not care when playing HGSS anyway though

FRLG -> HGSS -> Emerald -> Platnium -> BW -> BW2
If you want to go further skip XY and ORAS and just go to SM.

As for spinoffs RB Rescue Team and Explorers of Sky are extremely good and you should definitely play them. Heard good things about Conquest but I've never played it.

>>31811412
>the "muh emrulds" meme

I'm sorry it had to be your first game.

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>>31810693

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>>31816156
>Platinum in hall of shame

>>31813517
Sorry, I mean what's the best ROM or whatever to plug into the emulator.

Last time I emulated a game it was on PC in like 2008.