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[myth]

I was thinking of Ask MetaFiltering this, but I figured you folks could help me out with less snark. Here's the story.

A few weeks ago I traded my copy of Meteos on Zunafish for Tactics Ogre: Knight of Lodis. The exchange went off hitchless and I was satisfied by the experience. I received the game, plugged it in, got to the title screen, saw

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[rushnattack]

On NEOGAF and other gaming boards I've heard lots of chatter about pirate GBA games, one game specifically mentioned is Tactics Ogre... and they said that the pirate cart has a nasty tendency of deleting saved games. So yup, you've got a pirate... that sucks :(

[myth]

Yeah, I've read the same thing - unfortunately after I did the trade. But now I'm better informed. Now I'm a better man.

[myth]

There isn't anything specifically in Zunafish's policies about this kind of thing. I'm still waiting for a response from customer support.

My impression, though, is that they'll tell me to deal with the trader directly, which is where the problem comes in. Because I already left positive feedback, the only power I have is that of being a whiny dick. I'm not too eager to wield that particular power.

[chezmax]

Would I be able to open the cartridge and replace the battery and play the game normally?

Save memory on cartridges is flash memory; has been for many many years. So there's no battery to replace. Sounds like it's got shoddy or too small flash memory.

I'd work on getting it back.