pokemon fire red trouble

So this is my first time using emulators and roms so..

I am using Visualboy Advance.
The game starts up fine and goes through the opening movie thing. I press start on the main screen and it tells me "the 1m sub-circut board is not installed.

how can i fix this?

Go to Options>Emulator>Save Type>Flash 128k
Then restart the emulator.
If you're far into the game right now, I'm sorry to say that you may have to start over, because with that error message, you can't save the game, which spells no bonus features during aftergame which means none of the pokemon from islands 4-7 (no Heracross QQ).