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Don't get conned like I was.
Jun. 27th, 2008 07:17 amLast night was Marie's Senior Prom night, but I don't really have much to say about that.
Anyway, I found out yesterday that my copies of Pokemon Ruby and Pokemon FireRed were both fake. I was trying to migrate a Squirtle from FireRed into Pearl, but the file just kept deleting itself. Upon doing research, I found a YouTube video pointing out what to look for on (and in) a game pak. (The one thing it didn't point out was the fact that fake copies are slightly harder to fit into a game slot.)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=DNsEpOnzjZY
This has also turned out to be the case with my first copy of Pokemon Sapphire, which I got off of Amazon.com. This explains why that game kept deleting itself after I played Emerald on my Game Boy Advance, and why the Nintendo repair service replaced it with a legitimate copy instead of fixing it up. Still, just to be safe, if I ever decide to do anything in my current copy of Sapphire, it will only be on my Nintendo DS, and the other games will only be played on the GBA. (Migrating Pokemon from those games or even just having them in the DS doesn't constitute "playing" them.)
So, after discovering Ruby and FireRed to be pretty much unplayable, the right thing to do is to discard them, not sell them back on Ebay. But instead of just discarding them, I decided to have a little fun with them by prying the game paks open and removing the chips.
Anyway, I found out yesterday that my copies of Pokemon Ruby and Pokemon FireRed were both fake. I was trying to migrate a Squirtle from FireRed into Pearl, but the file just kept deleting itself. Upon doing research, I found a YouTube video pointing out what to look for on (and in) a game pak. (The one thing it didn't point out was the fact that fake copies are slightly harder to fit into a game slot.)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=DNsEpOnzjZY
This has also turned out to be the case with my first copy of Pokemon Sapphire, which I got off of Amazon.com. This explains why that game kept deleting itself after I played Emerald on my Game Boy Advance, and why the Nintendo repair service replaced it with a legitimate copy instead of fixing it up. Still, just to be safe, if I ever decide to do anything in my current copy of Sapphire, it will only be on my Nintendo DS, and the other games will only be played on the GBA. (Migrating Pokemon from those games or even just having them in the DS doesn't constitute "playing" them.)
So, after discovering Ruby and FireRed to be pretty much unplayable, the right thing to do is to discard them, not sell them back on Ebay. But instead of just discarding them, I decided to have a little fun with them by prying the game paks open and removing the chips.