20th November 2006, 4:34 PM
So I blew on the contacts of my Zelda: Oracle of Seasons cart again, seeing if it would continue to be as broken as it's been for the past year in my GBA, and... it worked... save files intact.
Huh? That stupid cart broke (took physical damage -- one of the small sides of the bottom of the cart (where the contacts are) was just gone one day when I looked at the cart... not the side with the contacts, one of the ends, and only the bottom part of the cart (not the whole side), but still...) and stopped working over a year ago, at the same time that Super Mario Bros. Deluxe broke (to this day, the most I've ever gotten out of it is a garbled bootup screen that crashes) and I'd never thought it would work again... this summer I tried taping over the end of the cart to see if that'd help, but it didn't. Then I noticed that it seemed to be booting in my GBC (which, remember, has a dead screen, so all I could do was hear it and the music seemed to be playing)... and then today? It just decided to work in the GBA again. Bizarre.
(also at the time when I checked my GB games and found those two problems I also found Mole Mania and Zelda: Oracle of Ages had lost their saves... but save files put on both carts afterwards are still there, so I'm not sure if it was a dying battery, given that those files have been there for a while now...)
Since then I had some other GB games end up wiped, but I'm pretty sure that those ones really are dying batteries. Well, maybe not Kirby Pinball (despite it being one of my older games, it only wiped when I accidentally turned the system on and off a bunch of times quickly, and the highscore I put on the system a few months ago is still there...), but the others with problems. GB games have smaller batteries than major system carts, so it'd make sense that they wouldn't all last as long...
Anyway though, it's interesting to see my original Oracle of Seasons file. I played OoA first and OoS second that time, but I have 14 hearts and 100 deaths... in my second OoS-first one I only got through the first three dungeons, but have 25 deaths already... :)
Of course with a dead dpad I can't actually play it in my GBA, but the GB Player should run the thing...
Huh? That stupid cart broke (took physical damage -- one of the small sides of the bottom of the cart (where the contacts are) was just gone one day when I looked at the cart... not the side with the contacts, one of the ends, and only the bottom part of the cart (not the whole side), but still...) and stopped working over a year ago, at the same time that Super Mario Bros. Deluxe broke (to this day, the most I've ever gotten out of it is a garbled bootup screen that crashes) and I'd never thought it would work again... this summer I tried taping over the end of the cart to see if that'd help, but it didn't. Then I noticed that it seemed to be booting in my GBC (which, remember, has a dead screen, so all I could do was hear it and the music seemed to be playing)... and then today? It just decided to work in the GBA again. Bizarre.
(also at the time when I checked my GB games and found those two problems I also found Mole Mania and Zelda: Oracle of Ages had lost their saves... but save files put on both carts afterwards are still there, so I'm not sure if it was a dying battery, given that those files have been there for a while now...)
Since then I had some other GB games end up wiped, but I'm pretty sure that those ones really are dying batteries. Well, maybe not Kirby Pinball (despite it being one of my older games, it only wiped when I accidentally turned the system on and off a bunch of times quickly, and the highscore I put on the system a few months ago is still there...), but the others with problems. GB games have smaller batteries than major system carts, so it'd make sense that they wouldn't all last as long...
Anyway though, it's interesting to see my original Oracle of Seasons file. I played OoA first and OoS second that time, but I have 14 hearts and 100 deaths... in my second OoS-first one I only got through the first three dungeons, but have 25 deaths already... :)
Of course with a dead dpad I can't actually play it in my GBA, but the GB Player should run the thing...