Newbie: Mac Emulator/Rom help.

Hello, I understand that this is my first post, I just have an issue I need help with.

I am completely new to this whole emulator thing, and I understand almost nothing about it.

I own a Mac(Aluminum unibody 10.5.6) and just downloaded Visual Boy Advance(1.7.4) for Mac to my computer.

While messing with it, I learned that Rom's are the games. I set out to find a pokemon game since that's all I really want to play on it.

For some reason, when I go to open the rom, it says:




I tried Silver as well.



After I click it, it asks me to choose an application to open it with, but I don't know what to pick since Visual Boy Advance is grayed out.

I noticed that there's usually issues with pokemon games while I was browsing the forums, but this looks to me like it's just my stupidity


Heh... Some help would really be appreciated. If there's anyone willing to walk me through the process, I'll be on MSN messenger and AIM messenger. My handles are in my profile.

 

I apologize if double posting is a terrible offense here, but i figured this update deserved to make it's way into the new posts section.

I posted this message on another forum. Someone told me that in the first screen shot I was trying to open a file that hadn't been unarchived yet.

Here's the post and my response:

 

http://www.brothersoft.com/winrar-for-mac-125813.html
Download that file (I haven't checked it, I hope it's what I think it is.) The site claims it's a program called WinRaR, a program that can open files that end in .rar, .zip, and .7zip. After using that program on your .rar file, there will be a .rom file inside of it, as well as probably a .txt file. Run the emulator and open the .rom file in it and BAM you're playing Pokemon FireRed