What are the requirements needed to access Faraway/Birth Island in Emerald/FRLG?

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Some guy on Reddit is asking this:

I’m getting ready to hunt Deoxys across four Gen 3 games (FR/LG/E x2), as well as Mew in a Japanese copy of Emerald. Is there a certain point in each game’s story that I need to reach before I’m able to obtain the Key Items and go to Faraway/Birth Island?

I figured in Emerald you need access to Slateport but because I’m not an expert on Hoenn and know nothing about the Sevii Islands, I have no idea what the answer to his question is. Assume they have access to legitimate events via e-Reader or whatever, (again, not an expert.)

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Firstly (and most obviously) you need the S.S. Ticket that takes you between Lilycove, Slateport and Batle Frontier. This is given to you by Norman after you beat the Elite Four.Secondly (and second obviously) you need the tickets required to get Deoxys and Mew. These are the AuroraTicket and the OldSeaMap respectively. To get this, you needed to attend events long time ago. The latter specifically was only released in Japan and Taiwan (meaning any Mew caught on Faraway Island on any other copy would be flagged as illegal)However, here comes the hard bit. The game does an internal flag check which triggers the ‘The ferry for SLATEPORT is…’ dialogue which takes you to the event islands.These flags are only marked when you actually get the tickets through the Mystery Gift system and the green man on the second/first floor of the Pokemon Centre (another flag of its own)Unlike the Eon Tickets, as far as I am aware, you cannot transfer the tickets from another save file to this one through Record Mixing, and if you somehow cheat the tickets in, the flags will not be checked.Unless the person finds a way to get to the islands, either through legitimate or illegitimate methods, those are the requirements as far as I am aware of.

The AuroraTicket flags in Emerald:0x13A - FLAG_GOT_AURORA_TICKET0x1AD - FLAG_FOUGHT_DEOXYS0x8D5 - FLAG_ENABLE_SHIP_BIRTH_ISLAND