Emulators

REW
Our emulator of choice in the early 2000s was REW. It was fairly bare bones, but offered us the options to speed up the game play, use a Gameshark, and most importantly, save states on the fly. It was primarily played on Shirley's computer, although it is not entirely clear why we limited ourselves. We both had Gameboy Colors, however we were too young to actually afford games, or we wanted to play a game before it had released.

Notable Titles
There is a short list of notable titles that we used emulators for. The vast majority were for the Gameboy Color and Gameboy Advance. Gameboy games were so prevelant over others due to the technology at the time. Emulation was not as advanced as it was today, and our computers would not be able to handle emulating PS2, N64, or Gamecube games.
 * Pokemon TCG
 * Advance Wars
 * Final Fantasy Tactics
 * Pokemon Crystal
 * Pokemon Gold & Silver (Japanese pre US release)*
 * As non-Japanese speaking individuals, we roughly translated what we could to get through the game. Bear in mind that all of this was done pre-Google, so translations were performed using paper, pencil, and brute force.