I do have a gameboy advance but not the cartridge so for the gameboy games I usually just use a visual boy emulator and download roms from the net. A curious thing is that you can save any point, (be it in a fight, conversationg etc) from the emu (short for emulator...duh lol) and you can also save in the pokemon game, like press start save etc. My habit is just pressing shift + f1 (hotkey for saving spot one on the emu, there are 10 spots) and whenever I got past a hard spot, I would overwrite that, or when I see a rare pokemon I would overwrite it. So if I failed to catch it, I can just load the save file again and try again. It is very convenient because unlike in the real gameboy, you have to open and close open and close and so on. Here I can just press f1, and it loads instantly. How happy I was.
Later on I came to a spot in emerald, where I have 7 gym badges (Swampert is the man yo), I woke up Rayquaza to stop Groudon and Kyogre in Sootopolis. I did so, finished off the 8th gym, and then went back to the sky pillar to catch Rayquaza (my favorite pokemon). I did so, and then instead of going to the elite 4, I thought of capturing the Regis just to have some extra firepower for the elite 4. I realized I needed a Relicanth and a Wailord to unlock the three gates where the three regi are hed respectively.
And then the worst thing imaginable happened D: I saved (shift + f1) last night at a point where I stopped, and then went to sleep. I woke up today, and by habit over a period of 4 days, just when the game loaded (I usually wait 1 second when the screen shows to press f1) I instead of pressing f1, pressed shift + f1, so I overwrote my awesome save file with a starting screen!!
After all this while, my pokemon, I am so angry at myself. So frustrated. I will always from now on do the save from the pokemon game instead of from the emu. Gonna get myself a tony hawk emu or legend of zelda and then come back to play this game again -.-
Meh.
To all of the people who did and didn't understand this, either way thank you for reading.
Edit: What makes it even worse is that my team included a lvl 70 rayquaza (master ball ftw)
oh man...i understand your frustration. i accidentally popped the cartridge out of my DS one time and I hadn't saved in ~10 hours of playing PK black while the DS was closed but not turned off. 10 hours is a lot when you don't have the space bar frame speed on the emulators XD
I bought Pokemon White previous week (secondhand) and didn't delete the already existing save before starting my own. 5 hours later, where I didn't save once, I was unable to use the function, since I had to delete the original first. Then at some point the game also bugged (in a dual battle both my pokemon died in the same turn) and that was another several hours of gameplay gone.
Something like what you had, but worse also happened to me, except it wasn't my fault. My brother was playing a pokemon game with the same emulator, maybe 6-7 years ago, but to spite me after an argument we had he deleted my save. I had already finished the game at that point.
You have to be mindful of such possibilities though, so it's always best to have a saving system with multiple back-ups.
I've done this before with a real pokemon cart, think I lost a shiny pokemon on the original gold... I think I started a new game on the cart with the shiny, for no reason I can remember, then saved before I turned off out of habit. Much anger ensued.
Also when I was young and naive, I bought Sapphire on eBay, played it through to the 2nd gym in one sitting because I was so excited, only to find out it was fake and that my save file was no more when I turned it on the next morning.
I then told the eBay guy I knew it was fake and wouldn't be sending it back and he immediately gave my money back when I threatened to report him to the police. I bought a real copy of emerald then :D
Well since it's an emulator you can just cheat to get where you were. I ended up using the infinite rare candy cheat because I got pretty bored with grinding. But still, that sucks. Use more than one save state next time.
That really does suck though I'm pretty sure I've done that once or twice (accidentally deleting or saving over my great saved file) on my N64 or Game Boy games. Totally the worst feeling ever.
before i was really good at pokemon (competitive battling and such) i had found like 3 shinys in my firered game. killed all 3 without saying "wow new pokes???" so... yeah...
On April 24 2011 23:50 FlaShFTW wrote: before i was really good at pokemon (competitive battling and such) i had found like 3 shinys in my firered game. killed all 3 without saying "wow new pokes???" so... yeah...
Did that to the very first shiny I ever saw.
Old school gold version. "Hey why is this Caterpie weirdly coloured? Meh." *runs*
I've nearly done the same thing before. What I'd usually do is use F1 for my main save file and F2 for "iffy" moments that I might regret later (ie. accuracy-cheating in battles, using master balls, what have you), so the worst that's happened to me is overwriting the main file and losing a couple hours' gameplay.
That'd suck hard to be in your position though . Maybe do a Nuzlocke run or something the second time around to maintain your interest.
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