Crazy Cyrstal Glitch

[Morgansmash]

I recently found my old Cyrstal Version. I dug out my trusty ole' GBA SP popped the game in.

I turned it on to find that my old save file had been deleted. No surprise there, the internal battery had obviously run out. So I started a new game and went through the whole Oak speech and was on my way.

Here's where it gets strange:
*Some of the attack images are missing. The animations are there but the sprites itself are totaly black.

*The map images is also gone and replaced by blackness.

*When I go up to the second floor of the pokecenter, if I talk to the guy at the first counter, he gives me random items. Usually its either Teru-sama(which can be sold for like 20k) or a TM (always the same one but I forget which). However, in Violet City, he gave me a squirt bottle(which is usuable) leading me to think that the items given may have something to do with the location of the Pokecenter

*The game spontaniously freezes for no apparent reason.


As you can see, my Crystal is quite uh, 'special'. I have never used any cheating devices so I have no idea why this has happened. Any ideas?

 

[The Booty Warrior]

Is it ever possible for index numbers to accidentally become scrambled whenever something externally endangering happens? Did anything happen to your Crystal before?

 

[Flame_]

nice crystal , sounds like it may have been damaged (hit,pounded, etc) it still sounds usable as long as you save very often.

 

[Morgansmash]

As far I know, nothing too bad has happened to it (other than the ocasional dropping).

I would like to play it to keep busy until HG and SS come out but it won't hold a save at all. I would just keep it on all the time with the SP plugged in but it just randomly freezes.