18th April 2004, 6:51 PM
I would've caught all the Pokémon (at least, the original 151) a long time ago if my save files didn't always disappear for no apparent reason. I guess that's what I get for using a Gameshark. (Hey, it's not like I have anyone to trade with, and the chances of me winning a Mew in one of Nintendo Power's contests are one in a million.) I remember my file on Chrono Trigger once went corrupt. After beating the game (thank God I at least got to do that), when I returned to the save file, my party was standing in the middle of the blackness outside the little gate at the End of Time. They could do walking/running motions if I tried to move them, but they only ran in place. There was nothing I could do to get anywhere. I tried everything humanly possible, including Zelda: Ocarina of Time's legendary crooked cartridge trick (some of you may've heard of it, some of you may've not). The crooked cartridge trick didn't work too well (c.c I didn't think it woudl anyway, but I was going crazy and used it as a last resort) and it ended up completely erasing that game file. It doesn't bother me though, since I've beaten the entire game from beginning to end several times thereafter anyway.