After a few months of hiatus, I finally managed to train enough to take my team of Mismagius, Luxray, Lucario, Clefairy, Rapidash, and Shaymin to becoming the Champion of Sinnoh! Saw enough to transfer my Emerald posse forward, too - feels nice to finish another Pokémon game. ^.^ Hopefully I'll be able to buy Black or White sometime, too - I may be a couple generations behind, but I'd like to get through them all eventually.
Better then the last in some ways, and worse in others.