I had bought two pokemon Emerald version games off of ebay some months ago, from different people; one I gave to my sister, which she began playing, and the other, I lent to my friend to entertain himself on the long car ride back to where he lives in another city. I only just got that one back to play for myself.
Now, about a month ago my sister said that her game's save file corrupted and she had to start over. I thought this was odd, but figured she must have turned it off while saving or somesuch. Now, just yesterday I picked up my copy of the game and began a new save file. I've now had to start over three times because the save game file sems to corrupt every other time I save. Is this known to happen with Emerald version? Perhaps the cartridge was damaged in the shipping process (from Hong Kong, I think it was?) Maybe I just got faulty copies someone else was trying to resell to get their money back off of?
If this isn't known to happen frequently with Emerald, then I'll just go out and buy two new copies off the shelf locally, but if it is, then I don't really see the point in buying it again just to have the files deleted later :/
Now, about a month ago my sister said that her game's save file corrupted and she had to start over. I thought this was odd, but figured she must have turned it off while saving or somesuch. Now, just yesterday I picked up my copy of the game and began a new save file. I've now had to start over three times because the save game file sems to corrupt every other time I save. Is this known to happen with Emerald version? Perhaps the cartridge was damaged in the shipping process (from Hong Kong, I think it was?) Maybe I just got faulty copies someone else was trying to resell to get their money back off of?
If this isn't known to happen frequently with Emerald, then I'll just go out and buy two new copies off the shelf locally, but if it is, then I don't really see the point in buying it again just to have the files deleted later :/