Crystal
It's more then just a little childish, but I've always taken a deep satisfaction from Poke'mon. Capturing, training, coming up with little stories in my head and the repetition and pattern of the games. Extremely enjoyable and something worth many smiles. Just the handheld ones, these games. (Red, Yellow, Gold, Crystal, Ruby, LeafGreen.) It's always been an aspiration, a dorky one, but one nonetheless, to have all of the poke'mon on any given game. I've never managed it. After being unable to trade with a friend's Sapphire version today (we're fairly sure it's her game), I though I would maybe try and trade up generations, and consolodate old game poke'mon to newer cartridges. In theory, if it were to work, you would have to jump versions in stairsteps, and LeafGreen may not be an adequate bridge between everything below Ruby and Ruby itself. I was going to attempt.
Plot point, with technical explanation. Every gameboy cartridge below Advanced (all the old ones and Color ones that maintain a square shape) have batteries that are about nickle shaped and sized, and located in the upper-right-hand corner of the game generally. These maintain clock functions/internal time passage, and saves. They aren't rechargable, and are surged right to the cartridge. To replace them, you would need a mini torch and the proper tools to not damage the rest of the chip. These batteries, not being infinite, eventually wear out and die, especially for the later games that deal with the whole internal time thing (passage of time, day and night, time of the year and week). I understand the newer games are also in danger of similar batteries dying, as they have more sophisticated internal time systems, but I don't know their lifespan.
I just found out for Crystal. I tried to use it, and while all of the other games work, Crystal's battery has died. You can play it, but you can't save it, and the old file is utterly gone. It's sort of similar to being told after the fact you've lost a limb to surgery. This sense of loss and a sort of gloomy, depressing cloud that settles around you. Most people don't care when this happens to them and their games, it seems, but I rather do. I love Poke'mon, love the games, and can distinctly remember everything and all of my plans and exploits of each game I've played. I remember what I had, and...I'm unhappy that it's gone. It was a lot of work lost, and I can't play the game again (it was arguably one of the better games, with it's day/night, it's radio shows and generally things that changed to keep it lively).
Yes, I had to journal about that. Not anything else that has happened this week has been as noteworthy, nor have I been near the computer. Have any of you ever had something so trivial just give you a good punch to the kidney? Or something small that you get a little obsessive or excited about? And it just go away?
So, Monday's gaming with Nic's crew was interesting, and I managed to both move the plot along and pull off some wicked combat moves. It was definitely worth it. Not so sure about the drama that goes on in all their lives, but I'll play and finish the game, and move on. And use Hachimitsu in some writing at some point, as she's too good to let go. Kind of wanting to write a Tenkai Arc (heaven, the skies, celestial sphere) for her, as it would be amusing. Titled either Tsukitosuppon (like the difference between heaven and hell -exp-) or Fugyoutenchi (looking up and down, from heaven to earth -having nothing to be ashamed of-).
Earlier in that day, I saw Kouryu and cheered her up a bit from the severe verbal berating I had given her a day and a half prior; the short of it was simply she wanted total honesty, and I let her have several years worth of comments that were both somewhat caustic and to the point about her life. She seems happier now, and some of it seemed to sink in for once. Pretty exciting.
I've been doing the stay up for nearly two straight days then sleep for a day thing again. I know, I need to be shot...Regardless, my sense of days are off. Wednesday I again saw Kouryu, and we all (her current catch) walked to the store and the lake, and generally it was a good day. I found myself later that evening to be pretty badly burned on the shoulder and side of the neck, but I'm trying to be careful and I apply solarcaine as needed. I know there were chores and sleep and zombies between the days I saw Kouryu, but I can't recall them well. Friday, saw Kouryu and T.S.J for a bit. Had homemade cookies, helped her knit, discovered the issue of our games not recognizing each other for no reason we could see....and that brings us back to Poke'mon. I'm dwelling.
Plot point, with technical explanation. Every gameboy cartridge below Advanced (all the old ones and Color ones that maintain a square shape) have batteries that are about nickle shaped and sized, and located in the upper-right-hand corner of the game generally. These maintain clock functions/internal time passage, and saves. They aren't rechargable, and are surged right to the cartridge. To replace them, you would need a mini torch and the proper tools to not damage the rest of the chip. These batteries, not being infinite, eventually wear out and die, especially for the later games that deal with the whole internal time thing (passage of time, day and night, time of the year and week). I understand the newer games are also in danger of similar batteries dying, as they have more sophisticated internal time systems, but I don't know their lifespan.
I just found out for Crystal. I tried to use it, and while all of the other games work, Crystal's battery has died. You can play it, but you can't save it, and the old file is utterly gone. It's sort of similar to being told after the fact you've lost a limb to surgery. This sense of loss and a sort of gloomy, depressing cloud that settles around you. Most people don't care when this happens to them and their games, it seems, but I rather do. I love Poke'mon, love the games, and can distinctly remember everything and all of my plans and exploits of each game I've played. I remember what I had, and...I'm unhappy that it's gone. It was a lot of work lost, and I can't play the game again (it was arguably one of the better games, with it's day/night, it's radio shows and generally things that changed to keep it lively).
Yes, I had to journal about that. Not anything else that has happened this week has been as noteworthy, nor have I been near the computer. Have any of you ever had something so trivial just give you a good punch to the kidney? Or something small that you get a little obsessive or excited about? And it just go away?
So, Monday's gaming with Nic's crew was interesting, and I managed to both move the plot along and pull off some wicked combat moves. It was definitely worth it. Not so sure about the drama that goes on in all their lives, but I'll play and finish the game, and move on. And use Hachimitsu in some writing at some point, as she's too good to let go. Kind of wanting to write a Tenkai Arc (heaven, the skies, celestial sphere) for her, as it would be amusing. Titled either Tsukitosuppon (like the difference between heaven and hell -exp-) or Fugyoutenchi (looking up and down, from heaven to earth -having nothing to be ashamed of-).
Earlier in that day, I saw Kouryu and cheered her up a bit from the severe verbal berating I had given her a day and a half prior; the short of it was simply she wanted total honesty, and I let her have several years worth of comments that were both somewhat caustic and to the point about her life. She seems happier now, and some of it seemed to sink in for once. Pretty exciting.
I've been doing the stay up for nearly two straight days then sleep for a day thing again. I know, I need to be shot...Regardless, my sense of days are off. Wednesday I again saw Kouryu, and we all (her current catch) walked to the store and the lake, and generally it was a good day. I found myself later that evening to be pretty badly burned on the shoulder and side of the neck, but I'm trying to be careful and I apply solarcaine as needed. I know there were chores and sleep and zombies between the days I saw Kouryu, but I can't recall them well. Friday, saw Kouryu and T.S.J for a bit. Had homemade cookies, helped her knit, discovered the issue of our games not recognizing each other for no reason we could see....and that brings us back to Poke'mon. I'm dwelling.