problem is to test it involves deleting their save, not something many people will want to test hahaha. If that is the only way, I will totally delete my save- after backing up all my pokemon/items on a friends game of course lol I can't actually run the test myself as im still waiting on my gateway to arrive. If it doesnt work, I guess our only hope really is just running a rom, which from the sounds of it lacks online....
Question(cant be answered with a real test):
Once pokemon works from a rom would the save created for the rom allow the physical cart to load, since you'd now have a save for the game? I know this can't be tested yet since we cant run pokemon via rom, but in theory.