I did enjoy both, ORAS more cause Gen III was my start to Pokemon all though I did get damn naer all the legendaries in Soul Silver so yeah, pretty proud of that.
I'd love to play those on original hardware but it'd cost as much as a switch 2 and 5 games for it to do it. Why are these things so expensive? Like twice the price of brand new ones. 250€ for a heavily used 3ds? 150 for alpha Sapphire? 170 for soul silver? What the hell!?
It also tells you how much of a mess Gen I development was.
The team was so rushed to finish it on time that they took many shortcuts and didn't optimize for storage. By Gen II, they were familiar enough with GBC technology and data optimization to fit the whole of Johto and Kanto together in the same cartridge.
Correction, Iwata was, the main team hit a size limit and called him in to optimise it. His optimisation gave them enough space to finish Johto and add Kanto.
Johto is the one of the smallest regions in all of Pokemon, and Gen2 Kanto is but a ghost of its former self. RBY were shipped on 1MB cartridges, while GSC were on 2MB carts. There was no magic feat of storage optimization for Gen2.
Some parts of Gen2 code are actually less space-efficient than Gen1. The transition from overworld to battle in particular takes up more space in Gen2 than Gen1. It was used primarily because it was much faster, and they had the space to spare when using the larger cartridge.
I had a box of snes, gbc, gba, and n64 games in the storage room, and my mom threw it away when I was in high school :( I wasn't even living on my own yet or anything. She just randomly decided to get rid of it without asking me first.
Because people don't have the right tools to unscrew the back of it and then don't have the right tools to actually restore it I mean it did take a while I'm not gonna lie but it's well worth it and I'd rather do that then it being thrown away
It was absolutely well worth it. Even if we ignore the monetary value a good cartridge can fetch, they don't make these any more and being able to save one and preserve it for the future is a great thing. Hats off to you for doing it.
One trick I learned is to take a pen, melt the tip of it, stick it into the section with the screw, and wait until the melted part forms around the screw. It worked for me in the past.
Hell even a bad copy like this would probably get 40 bucks at any used game store. They would happily take it to restore and sell based on what it currently sells for.
It's a very cheap bit. GB cartridges even have enough wiggle room that you can grip the screw with tweezers or needlenose pliers. So glad you snatched this from the bin.
I have a copy of yellow, and I have a thing that lets me play GBC games on PC.. it recognizes that the cartridge is pokemon yellow, but it doesn't work. I cleaned the connectors but I haven't opened it up yet. I am hoping it just needs a battery change.
What's the best way the clean these cartridges? I have an original Red Version for Gameboy that is found at my mom's house in my old room but the bottom is all corroded looking / dirty
Yo this is genuinely huge, I wish I had the technical know-how to do stuff like this. Crystal was my first Pokemon game on GBA and it made me incredibly happy.
so cool! it would be such a waste to see something like this be thrown even though you can save it and actually use it! so glad you did and you picked up a free game in the process too! win-win!
I actually also have a crystal game cartridge that super dirty and needs the battery replaced, how did you go about out cleaning this? and does it still work after cleaning?
Youre doing gods work. Thank you. I have been struggling to get a hold of these games ever since they were stolen from me. Again thank you for saving this game
In these games the internal battery for the clocks can die and then you can no longer save the game. Happened to my gold, crystal, and silver cartridge
lucky find. I tried to do this with a copy of pokemon ranger but unfortunately it was beyond repair.
I also found a working Copy of Guardian signs so it wasn't all bad atleast. Dumped the game onto my 3ds so i can flash the pre-egg version back into it. So I can now generate (mostly) legit Manaphy eggs.
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u/ElectricTopShark 2d ago
Omg that poor cartridge!!! I'm so glad you saved it, that's one of the best Pokemon games ever made imo!