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Pokémon is a Japanese media franchise consisting of video games, animated series and films, a trading card game, and other related media. The franchise takes place in a shared universe in which humans co-exist with creatures known as Pokémon, a large variety of species endowed with special powers. The franchise's primary target audience is children aged 5 to 12, but it is known to attract people of all ages.

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Building Pokémon Blue save games (feddit.uk)

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So..

...even though the battery light was a bright red, I saved the game and it crashed. Now the save is predictably in a broken format and can't be read (at least without extra hardware).

I was rather enjoying my 10hr game, just before the SS Anne and grinding my 'karp to a Gyarados, with a recently evolved Sandslash.

I can see that there are save editors for use, but does anyone know if there are save builders - that put you in a particular location at a particular level with progression flags automatically set to your point in the story?

I can't say I'm big in to Pokémon lore - my introduction to the series was with Go - so some of the intricacies are beyond me but I'll faff with editors if I need to and import them into an Android emulator if it comes to that.

Thanks in advance!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

What does crash mean in this case? Did it lock up during the save? Did it save normally and you turned back on to this? Is this fully original hardware including the cartridge?

If so, these old cartridges use batteries/ram for saves and likely won't work unless the battery has been replaced. Easy enough to do with a beefy soldering iron (big ground planes) and the right parts.

No suggestions on save editors as I haven't used them, sorry.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

It was ever so strange - during the save, the battery light flickered and the screed faded away, like the off switch was flipped - all during the save process.

The red light returned to a strong bright red light when it was switched back on. The hardware is likely to be original hardware - I bought the cartridge pre-owned so there is a possibility that it's a repro or a fake as I've not physically opened the cart.

My initial assumption was that the power draw on the battery was a bit too much during the save function and interrupted the power to the console, which is obviously suboptimal when the program is performing a write operation.

I suppose that's the risk one takes when playing a thirty year old game nearly, which is why I think I'd rather hack together a save at a rough point of where I was in the game, and emulate the rest!