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Ayush_SCtoss
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
India3050 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-04-24 08:40:53
April 24 2011 08:38 GMT
#1
Hi there,

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)


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xxpack09
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States2160 Posts
April 24 2011 08:42 GMT
#2
This is why I always save to F1, F2, and F3 when playing something on Visual Boy Advance.

Hell, with ANY emulator I always make three identical savestates
Maliris
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Northern Ireland2557 Posts
April 24 2011 08:44 GMT
#3
this is why i always use the ingame save unless im doing something luck based, and never use hotkeys for save/load state
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tnt_titan
Profile Joined June 2007
Canada194 Posts
April 24 2011 09:00 GMT
#4
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
Shana
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Indonesia1814 Posts
April 24 2011 09:31 GMT
#5
Hmm

This makes me want to play Emerald again.
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Sarang
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Australia2363 Posts
April 24 2011 09:33 GMT
#6
Oh shit.

And I thought my "play pokemon while in bed, fall asleep, DS battery dies, lose 5 hours of gameplay" thing was bad.

That just sucks, man.
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Grumbels
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Netherlands7031 Posts
April 24 2011 10:46 GMT
#7
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.
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SgtCoDFish
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United Kingdom1520 Posts
April 24 2011 12:56 GMT
#8
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

It hurts when this shit happens, I feel you man
Nazza
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Australia1654 Posts
April 24 2011 13:25 GMT
#9
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.
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Profile Joined December 2008
Singapore6164 Posts
April 24 2011 13:40 GMT
#10
And thats why you should always use ingame saves, unless you're in the middle of a battle and you want to cheat.
DarkPlasmaBall
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States44205 Posts
April 24 2011 14:15 GMT
#11
You kids and your emulators and your save files.

Back in my day, we had this:

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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.
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WarChimp
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Australia943 Posts
April 24 2011 14:27 GMT
#12
Dude that sucks. I have done this many times with my Final Fantasy games and as you probably know, those games for bloody ages! It sucks.

@DarkPlasmaBall

My first gameboy was the gameboy black and white. So good, then I got the gameboy colour and with that my first game was Wario. Oh the good old days.
FlaShFTW
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States10141 Posts
April 24 2011 14:50 GMT
#13
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...
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Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States6046 Posts
April 24 2011 15:23 GMT
#14
reminds me of when i saved over my Final Fantasy Tactics Advanced save file with 250 hours of play time with a fresh save.
Sarang
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Australia2363 Posts
April 24 2011 16:45 GMT
#15
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*

"Killer helped me feel better before coming to the arena. He told me to say that." - Bomber
Kyuukyuu
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Canada6263 Posts
April 24 2011 19:01 GMT
#16
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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