Pokemon Emerald: Temporary fix for missing items (#3162)

worlds/pokemon_emerald/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 ### Fixes
 
 - Changed "Ho-oh" to "Ho-Oh" in options
+- Temporary fix to alleviate problems with sometimes not receiving certain items just after connecting if `remote_items`
+is `true`.
 - Temporarily disable a possible location for Marine Cave to spawn, as its causes an overflow
 
 # 2.0.0

worlds/pokemon_emerald/client.py

@@ -199,6 +199,13 @@ class PokemonEmeraldClient(BizHawkClient):
                 "items_handling": ctx.items_handling
             }]))
 
+            # Need to make sure items handling updates and we get the correct list of received items
+            # before continuing. Otherwise we might give some duplicate items and skip others.
+            # Should patch remote_items option value into the ROM in the future to guarantee we get the
+            # right item list before entering this part of the code
+            await asyncio.sleep(0.75)
+            return
+
         try:
             guards: Dict[str, Tuple[int, bytes, str]] = {}