I bought Pokemon FireRed for GBA, and I played it for 45 minutes, saving several times, but at one point it tried to save and came up with the message 'using the backup battery' or something, and then said, game saved, so I continued. I saved one more time then turned it off, but wasn't 100% satisfied that it worked, turned it back on and the game starts again (no option for new game or continue, it just starts a new game). Saved that game, restarted and apparently now 'the previous save file will be loaded'.
Ages ago I bought an GBA facsimile catridge that takes Mini-SD cards and can play Roms. Ideally, I'd like to extract my GBA rom, and put it on this SD cartridge, but I think I'd need a GBA cartidge reader, and it becomes quite complicated, so instead, I'm thinking of just getting a FireRed rom and playing that.
But, if I play that, and trade Pokemon all the way up to the latest Pokemon X, will they come up as hacked? They might even if I use my legitimate rom (if I extracted that from the real GBA catridge), I'm unsure though.
You know, when I first came here, 2 or 3 years ago, I started a thread about what I should do being away from my DVD collections and wanting to watch the content on my computer, but a downloaded version.
I feel this is a similar scenario, I've tried to do the right thing by buying the GBA game instead of just getting the Rom, but now that I have, its backfired, and I can't make a backup of my version, so can I use a backup of someone elses?
EDIT: The person I bought it from is sending me a replacement, but if that battery fails I'll be back where I am right now :/
Ages ago I bought an GBA facsimile catridge that takes Mini-SD cards and can play Roms. Ideally, I'd like to extract my GBA rom, and put it on this SD cartridge, but I think I'd need a GBA cartidge reader, and it becomes quite complicated, so instead, I'm thinking of just getting a FireRed rom and playing that.
But, if I play that, and trade Pokemon all the way up to the latest Pokemon X, will they come up as hacked? They might even if I use my legitimate rom (if I extracted that from the real GBA catridge), I'm unsure though.
You know, when I first came here, 2 or 3 years ago, I started a thread about what I should do being away from my DVD collections and wanting to watch the content on my computer, but a downloaded version.
I feel this is a similar scenario, I've tried to do the right thing by buying the GBA game instead of just getting the Rom, but now that I have, its backfired, and I can't make a backup of my version, so can I use a backup of someone elses?
EDIT: The person I bought it from is sending me a replacement, but if that battery fails I'll be back where I am right now :/