I lost all of my Pokemon AGAIN?
Today has been a horrible day. I've been sick for half of the day, to the point where I had to cancel my fun plans, I have cramps, and painkillers are only kind of helping. And now I am having a hard time eating because my jaw is hurting whenever I open my mouth. Yeah, it's one of those days. To top it all off I discovered that all of my save data on Pokemon Crystal (and Gold and Silver) has been erased. ALL OF IT.
The cause: the internal batteries died, which causes all the save data to be erased, and makes saving impossible until the battery is replaced. The worst part is that I knew this would happen eventually. I could have sworn I moved all my Pokemon over to Stadium/Stadium 2 as a preventative measure, but apparently I forgot. There goes my entire Pokedex--all 250 Pokemon except Celebi--and somewhere around fifty level 100 Pokemon that I raised the hard way, without Rare Candies. I know that GSC-era Pokemon are worthless in terms of battling, since you can't move them to the newer generations, but those Pokemon had a lot of sentimental value.
The three Pokemon I'm most upset about losing are my shiny Noctowl, Pidgeot, and Crobat, because those are the ones I can't ever replace. Everything else I could catch again eventually if I put enough time into it.
I don't even have my Pokemon from Red, Blue, and Yellow because I moved everything over to Crystal before I found out that the internal battery dying was a common problem with the gen2 games.
Believe it or not, this is not the first time I've lost everything on Crystal. The first time it happened was in 2002. I was transferring some Pokemon to Stadium 2 and suddenly it said there was a connection error and it corrupted all my data. I had a complete Pokedex and around fourty level 100s at that time. And a Mew from an official Nintendo event. Saddest day of my 11-year-old life, I tell you. I am not ashamed to admit that I cried.
Right now I feel less like crying and more like doing this:
I'VE ALREADY REPLACED MY ENTIRE POKEDEX ONCE AFTER MY DATA WAS DELETED. AND NOW YOU'RE GOING TO MAKE ME DO IT AGAIN?
I can't even SELL my Gold, Silver, and Crystal games (the original reason I pulled them out was to see which of the three I wanted to sell) because no one wants to buy a game that can't save. I guess I'll try to replace the internal batteries myself and hope that I don't mess anything up.
In happier news, I have managed to complete a few goals. So... yay for this week not being 100% awful, I guess?
98. Sell off the remainder of my childhood toys that don't have any sentimental value.
Not everything has sold yet, but everything is either listed on ebay or will be listed on ebay within the next few days or is in boxes for our next garage sale/donations. The ebay auctions (even the TY plush and Beanie Babies) are selling fairly well, which is a nice surprise. I'm going to count this goal as completed since it's just a matter of time until everything is out of the house.
21. Sort through all my video games and sell the ones I am never going to play again.
I found my stash of childhood video games while I was at it. Mostly GBA games with a few GBC games thrown in. I'm selling: Spyro: Season of Ice, Hamtaro Ham-hams Unite, some Shaman King GBA game I got for free that is basically a Pokemon ripoff (but with spirits instead of Pokemon), Super Mario Advance, Quest for Camelot (the Gameboy game that elicits ALL MY RAGE because I have been stuck at the same spot for 10 years), Pokemon Red, and either Pokemon Gold or Silver, assuming I can find a way to fix the battery. None of them have sold yet, but they're all listed on half.com and ready to be shipped when someone buys them.
I also managed to find my copy of The World Ends With You and started playing that again. I bought it a few years ago, then lost it almost immediately. (Turns out that I forgot to take the game out of the case. The case was buried in a box in my closet.) I'm only on day 2 right now, but I already want to strangle Neku. Talk about rude! And it's not even the funny kind of rude like Luke's comments from TotA. Please tell me that he gets better. I'm not sure I can handle his attitude for the entire game.
The cause: the internal batteries died, which causes all the save data to be erased, and makes saving impossible until the battery is replaced. The worst part is that I knew this would happen eventually. I could have sworn I moved all my Pokemon over to Stadium/Stadium 2 as a preventative measure, but apparently I forgot. There goes my entire Pokedex--all 250 Pokemon except Celebi--and somewhere around fifty level 100 Pokemon that I raised the hard way, without Rare Candies. I know that GSC-era Pokemon are worthless in terms of battling, since you can't move them to the newer generations, but those Pokemon had a lot of sentimental value.
The three Pokemon I'm most upset about losing are my shiny Noctowl, Pidgeot, and Crobat, because those are the ones I can't ever replace. Everything else I could catch again eventually if I put enough time into it.
I don't even have my Pokemon from Red, Blue, and Yellow because I moved everything over to Crystal before I found out that the internal battery dying was a common problem with the gen2 games.
Believe it or not, this is not the first time I've lost everything on Crystal. The first time it happened was in 2002. I was transferring some Pokemon to Stadium 2 and suddenly it said there was a connection error and it corrupted all my data. I had a complete Pokedex and around fourty level 100s at that time. And a Mew from an official Nintendo event. Saddest day of my 11-year-old life, I tell you. I am not ashamed to admit that I cried.
Right now I feel less like crying and more like doing this:
I'VE ALREADY REPLACED MY ENTIRE POKEDEX ONCE AFTER MY DATA WAS DELETED. AND NOW YOU'RE GOING TO MAKE ME DO IT AGAIN?
I can't even SELL my Gold, Silver, and Crystal games (the original reason I pulled them out was to see which of the three I wanted to sell) because no one wants to buy a game that can't save. I guess I'll try to replace the internal batteries myself and hope that I don't mess anything up.
In happier news, I have managed to complete a few goals. So... yay for this week not being 100% awful, I guess?
98. Sell off the remainder of my childhood toys that don't have any sentimental value.
Not everything has sold yet, but everything is either listed on ebay or will be listed on ebay within the next few days or is in boxes for our next garage sale/donations. The ebay auctions (even the TY plush and Beanie Babies) are selling fairly well, which is a nice surprise. I'm going to count this goal as completed since it's just a matter of time until everything is out of the house.
21. Sort through all my video games and sell the ones I am never going to play again.
I found my stash of childhood video games while I was at it. Mostly GBA games with a few GBC games thrown in. I'm selling: Spyro: Season of Ice, Hamtaro Ham-hams Unite, some Shaman King GBA game I got for free that is basically a Pokemon ripoff (but with spirits instead of Pokemon), Super Mario Advance, Quest for Camelot (the Gameboy game that elicits ALL MY RAGE because I have been stuck at the same spot for 10 years), Pokemon Red, and either Pokemon Gold or Silver, assuming I can find a way to fix the battery. None of them have sold yet, but they're all listed on half.com and ready to be shipped when someone buys them.
I also managed to find my copy of The World Ends With You and started playing that again. I bought it a few years ago, then lost it almost immediately. (Turns out that I forgot to take the game out of the case. The case was buried in a box in my closet.) I'm only on day 2 right now, but I already want to strangle Neku. Talk about rude! And it's not even the funny kind of rude like Luke's comments from TotA. Please tell me that he gets better. I'm not sure I can handle his attitude for the entire game.