27 May 2007, 11:58 PM
Lynk Former Wrote:Look at what I didn't get!I think they put it back on the shelf/in the cabnet if you got it in town
Pokemon FireRed
I went to buy a second hand copy today, walked out of the store with it and put it into my GBmicro... it wouldn't start up. Took it out, checked the connectors, everything was perfectly clean. Tapped it a little to get any unseen dirt out and put it back in. Started it up, wouldn't load. Turned it off and then back on and then it finally started. Everything was looking fine, I looked through the save file left on the cart and it froze. Turned it off, turned it back on, it froze at the GBA start up screen with the word "Nintendo" glitched out.
That confirmed it right there, the bastard who had the game had taken a gameshark to it. The problem with Pokemon games, especially the new ones is that it's easy to corrupt the data on them with a gameshark. It's purposely made like that cause GameFreaks don't want you to cheat. The thing is, you can't garantee that the glitches won't continue even if you start a new game file.
10 minutes after buying it, I took it back and got a refund.